User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/The Success and Future of Modernization/@comment-31623969-20180125224652

I'd like to post video snippets on wikia but it isn't handled that way.

In order to post a video, you have to host it somewhere else and that makes the wikia site dependent on a third party and an external account. The wikia site has little direct control over changes to the video content

The alternative would be to post a GIF but those are huge in file size and have low quality. Not to mention they're silent. They take forever to load but they're the best option when you want short inline animation. They're easier to use than 3rd-party hosting and, aside from the file size, they're frictionless/intuitive. As an image file, they're capped at 10MB.

What would be terrific is if GIFs were allowed to be larger but they were also cached then transmitted as video files the same way Twitter and other social media sites handle GIFs. An additional benefit of swapping out GIFs with MP4s is that viewers could pause and rewind midway as is what happens on social media site implementations.