Captain America :: Marvel :: shield :: gif (gif animation, animated pictures) :: fandoms

Yeah, that just means the later parts of the animated gif (not actually a video) are not finished loading yet. I see that a lot with the longer ones, especially on this site where there may be 7 other moving gifs on the same page.

Basically the gif is playing through faster than it is loading. You may also notice that each time it cycles through, it plays a bit longer before restarting. When it is completely finished loading, the distortion effect will be gone.

You can just wait, but there's a more efficient way (particularly if you'd like to keep surfing while the memory-hogging beast finishes loading):

If you mouse over the top-right corner of the page, a hotlink called "Link to the gif" becomes visible. right-click on that and select "Open link in a new tab". You now have a new "page" that is not trying to load anything else but that one moving give. When the busy icon stops spinning, it's ready to watch. ;)

Before the last large update, all GIFS was worked fine - sometimes I've even better GIFS and I can't upload them due this problem :\