April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
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For some further information on what the bill does have a look at https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2586/
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superunknown101
MemberYou know, he's not wrong.
Generally WebM's are made to Improve quality, adapting from prior gif/flash versions.
I see no improvement here from the original gif post :/
Caninefucker
MemberSometimes webm versions are created due to people uploading overly long gifs
Recordplayer
MemberSometimes they're made just so you can pause.
Mairo
JanitorI'm kinda annoyed by this artist and similar artists where they post goddamn 30 MB GIF files and nothing else anywhere :V
These are one of the many reasons why so many services straight up convert all GIFs to WebM and/or MP4.
mylosen
MemberUploading the original low quality GIF with no alternative formats should be a crime against humanity. This webm is about 25% of the filesize of the original GIF with no discernible difference in quality. It's now quicker to download and view in a browser, easier to share online (assuming mankor is okay with that), and can be paused. mankor could have even kept the original edited source video in higher quality as a webm or mp4 with similar or smaller filesize as the GIF without the awful GIF compression.
GIFs work best for simple drawings or short animations. Longer animations, or images with lots of colors, should be using better formats. (webm/mp4 for video/animations, and jpg/png for still images. APNG is also allows for higher quality animations than GIF, but it's not well supported and may not be as good as a normal video format in some usecases.)
I respect an author's choice to upload files in whatever format they want, but from a technical perspective, he should have uploaded this as a video to begin with instead of an animated image for the reasons listed above.
bigoldergboi
MemberThis is really cute!
Lord Farquad
MemberWhat Anime is this from?
mylosen
Memberhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdwR9szAjiY
Milkweed420
MemberNever thought I'd truly simp but......... 🤤
orangephox
MemberY'know, even if this is porn I really appreciate the work behind this edits, they are so well implemented that you can't really tell if it's edited or if it's original
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