Why gravatar?

A lot of people find animated avatars obnoxious. Their gimmicky allure is kind of neat for the first 2 minutes then they get really irritating due to their limited infinite animated loop.

Hmmm....it's true that some animated avatars are obnoxious, but not all of them.

Here is what I would like to post as my avatar:

As animated avatars go, it's pretty nice.

But yeah, that would annoy me pretty quickly. It's been annoying me since about the first word of this sentence. In fact I'm making mistakes now because I can't wait to go ahead and post this and be gone!

So, yeah.

I believe it's a matter of opinion. I personally DON'T find it annoying. Also, in my opinion, I find some avatars of some users very obnoxious and they are not even animated. So, it goes both ways. I just think it would be nice if we had the choice of choosing.

http://able2know.org/topic/121252-1#post-3367680

Please don't. Vomit city, no kidding. Do that on your own website if you want to.

Region's link goes to the owner of the site's opinion. In this case, I think most of us agree with him, but it is up to him what he goes with for this site.
He's had some wonderful avatars of his own in the past, but has made this choice.

People used to have animated avatars on a2k. What changed?

I finally found something really cool that I could use as my avatar, but it really only works if it's animated: