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I convert gifs where the conversion results in saved space and there's no noticable degredation in the content. This isn't most gifs, but I've encouotered more than enough to make this worthwhile, to me.

By and large, those who have bothered to convert videos to gifs don't seem to have considered any sort of size vs quality notion; Its done moreso because whatever forum/site they uploaded to would embed gifs and not video files. Gif is efficient enough that this usually doesn't matter, but sometimes...