 The subject shifts. Thank you for being here. Thank you very much gifts is very general subject I tried to To to to take this title death of a medium and it's life afterwards. It's a little bit of provocation because actually Gifts are not dead and they're not half dead. So I formulated this Why are we so far? Okay. All right One moment, please. I try again I'm gonna tell you more While I'm trying to repair something I Inadvertently destroyed so death of a medium is a provocation, but of course, I'm not meaning it's already dead But that it's been said to be dead many times at many times from for various reasons it was At some point even wished for for its death. No, I have solved the problem so again How many deaths of a medium And in the last days, I realized there is an other subtitle a Statistical sad dance I wanted to make a statistic about the use of gifts in web and I had a few Not too pleasant things. I'm gonna talk to you about it later, but I'm gonna warn you there There won't be too much statistics. I'm gonna give you some story and hint and background I'm gonna go through the difference and now death announcements of chips I'm not gonna say it happened three times, but the three most important first burn all gifts It was in the 90s and There were license problems with chips computer who had this format didn't think about it that the algorithm To encode the gifts and to decode them I'm sorry to compile them that there was a patent on it and somebody wanted to claim it so all the programs using gifts or Displaying gives had to play to pay license. So the internet was not too happy about that And later They it went so far that there was a lot of protest but burn all gifts. It was a protest action with this nice model Gifts is over and the alternative is png. It was 95 94 and png You probably know it all it's a graphical format. It's very similar to give but it's just better and it's free software Burn all gifts Here is the address from Bergen gives the the fun part is That's png png to it took png 18 years to override the jiff This is a message from 2013 Well, it's it's a little bit far-fetched more popular because it just says I'm gonna show the statistics about it. It just tells that more more websites use png than jiffs and the comment from Thomas butel says Is he's the the main developer of png and is happy that after 18 years png is trying thing Here is the statistic of the use of jiff and png The source of this this data is double w3 rex textcom The percent You can also watch this on the website itself I asked if we can have older data from from to this is from 2012. This was in their press data. I Ask Well, no, we cannot help you They started 2012 It would have been interesting to see the development The first tile of the statistical sad dance no statistical data Well, the next problem there was that when png was made they didn't incorporate Animations into it because animation when the thing that thing and Then they found out you could add animations it and not many brothers could do it But I was slowly added to it even though it was never planned Later on another project tried to edit mng and a pg where There once That was 2001 and 2007 I'll show that to you later But They couldn't compete with gif gif already Was the the only format back then that could show animation and had enough time to take over ready And they just gave up on APNG because they couldn't fight gif They just said it will never come back Challenge accepted when I read that I thought all right that sounds like a challenge This is a new dawn. My offer to use me a png. So that's why I'm saying use my png. It's free and open source It's of better quality you have much more ways to configure and it's still a Picture format here is a time series of the development of a png from 1994 to 2014 a war raged on between gif and png first on in 1990 they had these license problem and Then in 2004 a png Was invented Begon mit der mng-entwicklung das heißt Motion in 2006 99 All gives All right in 99 there was a burn all gives campaign to get rid of them and then in 2001 mng was finally released And after actually animation were already poppy on the net with gifs Format also mng was independent So they thought they should add it to png so a png was founded in 2004 Which stands for animated powerful network graphics? But they weren't really able to do it So in 2006 all of the gif patterns ran out. So all of a sudden there was no need for another free format And then nothing happened for a few years And then in 2012 the real hype started two years ago At the 25 year When when just were in use for 25 years this hype opened up in in shang animated gifs It gives them over all png it's probably only on the stunk So if you actually look at the statistics The statistics that says well png is more famous than gif this must only incorporate like non animated ones because it's clearly that all animation on that just Safari the browser by ios 8 and joseph mite the a png in stützung Understützung eingeschaltet wurde all the sudden after now this After was clear that just was more popular now all the sudden safari and ios Now finally supports a png which is even more confusing APNG is the development of motilla and of course that's why it's it's part of the firefox And you should try it has a better Quality Second that's my space Well, it's not a technical death. It's more an aesthetic death a statistical death There is a very very nice gallery from all your linear who said The talk I refer to previously they have a nice gallery in in internet where they compare Animated gifts from the 90s from the glitter gifts from my space on the left side the dancing woman and and a similar animation of A glitter gif on the other side. What's the problem with that? There is no problem. I would say but There is just a different way of dealing with gif just to a new a new genre of gifs You probably all remember what you can do with gifs so what you can make glitter Everybody had a decorated their my space side Or you could also have under under construction shields that move around World maps It was the 90s It was back then animation because something moved with the glitter it was just two three frames with a few white lights You can see this differently Maybe you just think it's just aesthetically not very Interesting, but this glitzer glyph are just a lower level. They're easier to to adapt for For another public they are very good to decorate websites It has pros and cons But you can you can say this is the rise and fall of a gif culture It's the second death of Gif it's not a real death. It's more like a Aesthetical this let's talk about the third toes video kill the gif. It's the actual development Maybe you've heard about it that the format web m gfcad and Gif V Whatever you want to call it they they arrived on the on the scene and They are a challenge for gif Well, it is something to observe Let's make a little X course porn I just wanted to have a slide where porn worse where there's the world porn on it. I admit it So if you've been in the deeper deepest parts of the web You probably know there are not only dancing hamsters and funny films in but also a lot of porn like adult entertainment gifts in Have a lot of tradition as an animated Something like some cinema You probably know this Where there is a hole in in slides and you can turn it with your thumb Modoscope They they were a lot of these systems But one image you probably all know it's the galloping horse from Edward Muybridge it was Somebody who made chrono photography. He didn't do this animation. He just do the photo series for this and just put The images one after the other just to check if the horse Leaves the ground while galloping if it was the first animation As animation dargestellt werden konnten durch mechanische aberrate eben One of the first animations that existed so these serian photography From this my bridge he really liked the motives of naked people and also prostitutes They asked them if he could take pictures of them. So it wasn't porn. It was erotic Pictures of naked people. Let's see an example and a naked man work doing some woodwork Very classical scene So so that's the way tables are done. I left explicit scenes outside. Maybe there are children here, but they also Had a scene of a naked woman climbing a stairs just with the rationale to see how they move But they were just naked So now how can I come back from porn? How can I come back to jiff? I have a very interesting thought. Maybe you know this legend VHS Managed to overcome beta because of the porn who knows VHS. Well, it used to be the future But it used to be the porn only were available on footage as although beta had the best quality Well still even though beta was much superior the Legend is that VHS actually was able to beat better because porn actually used it to distribute their movies. So The actual truth behind it is that VHS also offered longer play time So there's actually much more to this than just the simple porn industry But still since there's this legend. I was wondering Maybe we should also use this kind of criteria to see why jiff actually is Used so that's why I looked at how jiff and weapon is used for porn So I went on to fortune The butt of the Internet Because they have a really practical way of doing stuff have Forums for like all kinds of topics One column is just related to porn And one of the boards they have is I'd have many boards for just one of them is just And it's full of porn it's pretty much Full of porn So they have a porn and a non porn jiff imaging board, so it's really nice to observe these And Now weapon comes in because It's now supported by fortune since 2014 so So that's makes everything really really interesting for us because you essentially have videos now you could have videos that are Infinity long or even have sound So what they they added the rule that there's not allowed to be sound and you're not allowed to Have a certain file size or bigger than certain filesize and All videos will be looped So I thought I should take a look at it and collect some statistics One of the problems I encountered was that everything is deleted after a while, so I Had to use archives I had to go even deeper into the Internet looking for these archives There are different archives for different forums And I had to find the ones for the porn and the non porn gifts and Used them So I sent them an email and asked them if they could just send me the statistics So they told me well, there's no function to collect these So I just had to do it myself using Python And I created the ugly but functional script to create the statistics This is just for what they gave so the non porn form It's it takes about two years 2013 to 2014 So the last time I did this is 14 so The blue bars Start in April They show the amount of that and videos and the Like line is the sum of all images on the forum And you can see that the number of gifts declined over time Since I've am is supported Well in the beginning there was a peak because everyone wanted to try it But you can't really say statistically that the decline of Jeff is related to web So that's interesting to see that there's a decline It's probably just an end of a hype That's one of two boards of fortune the second one I wanted to do this and careful the statistic look very different now So it's shorter and much higher So you're laughing because you can interpret this But unfortunately, they're just much less data in the archive this very small bars it's when it started when the Archive started the backup and after that there is a full backup for each month So it's not very reliable data, but I didn't have more data to use So this has to be observed in the future, but I think it's a very relevant and the porno board gifs Are And there are much more web m's What's the reason? Well, they have a better picture quality they can be longer and you can you want to see something and In general, there are just much more pictures in the porn board than the general one There is an archive from 4chan That's hosted by University of Stanford. I try to unpack it. It was three gigabyte file and I just unpacked it And it was one and a half million data files. I had a look at it and I realized I It's totally useless It's just a The gift board is is not in the archive Well to the question what is the relationship between gifs and web m in the porno only for 4chan It's it's very good to to compare it because they have two different boards And but otherwise it's there can be similarly analyzed Give my daughter. I'm a gebrauch from web m as VSG. So that's a work safe gift board On the web channel gifs is much more the gift board The porn board is Uses images much more than the none that the safer work board Let's let's sum up gifs versus png. Png is a free alternative to gifs that was developed only 18 years later. It could Be on top the animated APNG they have no chance they they couldn't Override they were they were not for a ship's shitstorm The second gift just were ship shitstorm victims, but they're now a cult medium From Geo cities mice base there. There was an evolutions from various platforms Some some types of gifts are dead, but in general there are much more Types of gifts than before it's more the the culture the gif's culture is rich or not From art to porn from self-made to automatically made everything is there a Lot of choice So at the end there's it's a lot of text. Maybe you can have a look at it later You can read the slide after I just thought already These are just Comparison of the advantages The most important point I'm gonna reduce it because of the time it's just web m Or give me They are just they are just more aware of the gif culture Yes the animation They react of the needs of the users the users want a high definition porn. This is not possible with stiff It's not possible with spawn some say there will be a format available To have highest definition as possible. There is a trend of high quality gifts of reddit The possibilities of gifts are being really Used to the maximum extent there and like little films. It's a new sort of gifts. They are they can be really big and Imager the most Component to post for for images on reddit said all right We're gonna develop gifs V. What's just mp4 is just to be able to cope with this loading time smaller files better quality So what's the moral of the story we have a software that's that's That's past but it has a cold status. We want to have a better software It's png or a png or The problem is free software is not automatically convincing and even the better quality. I Really find it nice that pg wasn't developed I have Linux it wouldn't work but From the broad majority of user It's not really recognized that there is a free alternative to a proprietary software even the better quality cannot convince people Because png and a png offer a better quality. What's the solution? So what's the solution porn almost it's it's much It's important to get a common sense Or some sense about what the users need so for mainstream and for Groups of borderline groups Therefore Therefore as you can see web and mg for much more popular and much more widely used than the Informatic or computer scientific better a png You've seen the statistics and it's rather incomplete But I'll try to update it and And I'll do some research on fortune Next project I'll try to also do it on reddit it's it's a much larger platform and it's an big endeavor but That's important and They have to be researched If you're interested in it, and I'm open to and I'm looking for help So if you want to talk to me or if you have some ideas just come by and I'll I'll try it and also last but not least use a png Thanks a lot for your attention I Because I just ran through it, I Apologize if you have any questions, please ask me now Or just go to my blog leave a comment I'm a cultural scientist, and I'm using this for cultural science if you have any questions just ask me now Thanks, Felix Two more minutes for questions if you have a question, please go to one of the microphones and Can't see anyone but the signal angel is asking the question. Yeah Okay I have a question somebody wants to know if If you think that the browser png did the browser didn't implement png properly Yes, of course, that's one of the main problem of a png just like I said Mozilla had it By default Could you please be quiet? Thanks That's the main problem and That's why I said a all that's what it said if the reason that's a reason behind a png and Png not so popular, but now these days Safari and is also supported So it's it's weird that a png gave up after only eight years even though Give also took 18 years to be more quiet as you go out because there are other questions General question is it G for give Okay Wait, wait, wait, wait, I didn't I on purpose and say anything to it and it's a big discussion the English speaking community and I think Normally as a German it's weird to say jiff because it does doesn't go well with the floor so I think everybody should just go ahead and pronounce it however he wants and Even though the official developer complained that it should be so called jiff, but I think it should be up to you There was a really interesting Idea that was sent in by someone on YouTube or someone else So the file should be good the file from it should be called jiff and the culture should be called gif I think that's a great idea, but in We have another question from the internet Then Mike fear Hello First a little bit remark the first question was that Png format it took a long time until all the brothers could integrate it It also hold me back from Not using jiff so I said something effective to that that's completely correct The funny thing with the gifs it was just about the same the problem was about the same While jiff was supported in all by all brothers the animation in jiff also needed a sign My question is I find it weird that you said the animation in jiff's word were discovered Wasn't it a specification? Was it a mistake that it's worked? Yeah, of course there was a fire specification and it on a contained Some information or some specifications for animation, but it mostly said well, there could be animation But we didn't build it for it. So the browsers just agree to a common way to do it and It was discovered in 94 by someone and He just wanted to show Them and he found jiff to be a valuable solution. So he pretty much just covered it and he then told it to people and If you're interested in it just go on to my blog and read up on it. I actually wrote a little article about it