Maybe it’s just my brain, but I can’t stand animated avatars. Is it overly grouchy of me to reflexively mute anyone that shows up in my timeline with lots of flashing going on? I literally can’t read when something on my screen is wiggling or flashing. Maybe it’s some sort of cognitive disability.

@Devils_Rancher I get where you're coming from but I've just sort of leaned into it and now find the excessive garishness entertaining.

@suetanvil They’re cute for a second, in an old skool message board kind of way, but they seriously screw with my ability to focus on & comprehend text. Seems like it’s getting worse as I get older, but in the olden days, if you held down the scroll bar on a browser widow, the gifs would stop animating so I read a lot of websites with a finger mashed down on the mouse.