Waiting for your GIF 🥀 … Back in the early internet days, video was heavy, slow, and painful to load. Streaming wasn’t a thing yet. If you wanted to share an anime moment, a full clip was impossible. So people looped a few frames. Boom: the GIF. Anime was perfect for it. Big reactions. Clean motion. Iconic expressions. One second could say everything. Forums and early fan sites picked it up first. Then Tumblr turned anime GIFs into culture. Twitter finished the job. Suddenly, a looping eye blin