Twitter abuses all media file uploads, each type in its own way. If we want to upload a good looking animation loop from some low-color, high-detail generative art, we have to game their system's mechanisms.
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don't upload a video file, they will re-encode it into absolute 💩
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create a GIF, which they will auto-convert into a video file 😱
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The frames of the GIF will be resized to an even-sized width using an extremely naive algorithm. Your GIF should be an even size (1000, 2000,