Originally Posted by
Djoron
The file size of that gif (and several other animal gifs you've linked lately) is really big for a gif, in this case ~6.6MB (iirc), which takes a bit to load even with normal internet, and even more so with a phone or bad internet, which breaks the entire site and / or browser while it's loading, or at least heavily slows it down.
If you link the image instead it won't be loaded until you click it (duh) which means you can just close it if it's big / not open a gif on mobile to begin with.
If you use FF you can rightclick the image and go to "view image info" to see it's filesize before posting. ^^