hitstun

For years, mine was this gif I saw on UsVsTh3m in 2013. It had no context, and the only hint to its origin was the barely legible “29. 暑〜い!” overlay. I had a guess that this was from a Japanese TV talent show. I wanted to find the original video, but the trail went cold.

Years later, I don’t know how, I heard of a series of Japanese TV specials called Kesou Taishou, known overseas as Masquerade. UsVsTh3m got bought by the Mirror and their post was taken down, but I still had the gif. My Google Translate research skills had improved, so I looked up Masquerade on Japanese Wikipedia and searched all the episode guides for 暑〜い!, and in the shows from 2007, I found it! It was entry 29 in the 78th special, and it won third place there.

I try not to post things that don’t have a legal source, so I quietly updated my blog post and didn’t mention it anywhere else. Until…

Three months ago, my partner started getting YouTube recommendations for this show. I checked, and the show’s new official YouTube channel had just uploaded this performance a few days earlier. I made a better gif of it and posted it to !gifs@lemmy.world , and they liked it!

Holy crap, that sucks! Why can’t those scrapers just scrape each other? I’m sorry, I didn’t want to pressure you to open up to that kind of abuse. I want to think of ways to help this situation, but you’re probably 10 steps ahead of me. Thank you for trying so hard.

5.71MB is plenty generous. I’d give up 5MB of that if we could have anonymous browsing again. I can’t recommend Mbin to people if they have to log in to see anything. Would converting all uploads to WebP lighten the load?

I’m on @jerry@infosec.exchange 's cursed Mbin instance, and I can upload GIFs as images. The upload filesize limit here is 6,000,000 bytes with the drawback that I can’t upload in better formats like MP4 or WebP.