Schrade
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The original is 14MB, how is this 600k?
[url ]http://zippy.gfycat.com/DangerousGrotesqueCur.webm[/url]
It's possible because VP8/VP9 (and h.264) are video codecs.
GIFs are sequences of images. Video codecs provide far, FAR better compression.
The only revolution here is that people made some awesome video embedding scripts and extensions.
It's like people have never seen h.264 encoded videos before. They can be absolutely tiny.