FYI, not necessarily to the person I'm responding to: if you've installed the browser plugin AdBlockPlus (or similar), and there's an annoying animation which is distracting your ability to read elsewhere: right-click the annoyance, "Block Element" (or similar); verify it looks correct and then "Add" (or submit, or whatever other plugins use), and then the flickering distraction disappears and you can breathe again.
SERENITY NOW!!! :)
Are applying you don't want GIFS on your page? If so, that's all you had to say... But being the nonignorant person I am I would GLADLY delete the gifs.
SERENITY NOW😊