Why would you post this article here, in this community?

Did you cross-post your blog to the wrong place?

In a technical context, yes, a GIF refers to a specific image format. However, plenty of people now use “gif” to mean any short soundless video loop, regardless of how that video is stored.

It’s silly, but I can see how it happened.

Those caps are meant to affect the way you read it.

In this post, the capital letters (plus the “How To”) suggest a title, like a book or something.