Why does the quality of GIFs, pics deteriorate with each repost?
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If you simply copied the link to the original gif it would be fine. If you downloaded the original file and uploaded it to a service that doesn’t apply any postprocessing it will be fine.
But what typically happens is, when you upload the image to a hosting service, that service decides to process the image to make it smaller or faster or a different file type.
Then someone downloads that processed image, reuploads it again to a new host that also applies processing to the image, reducing the quality of the file **again**.
Image hosts don’t want huge lossless super high res gifs because it costs bandwidth and that costs money. So they mostly try to cut corners by resizing or shrinking the file.
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