People have been doing this of late

Same here. They seem to have gone away for now.

You have no idea how hard this was to get this on here. I had to downsize the video to fit on the gif maker, downsize the gif 3 times to fit it on here, and now the quality is so crappy you can't even really see my face

For a homemade gif, it's pretty good. Also, I know that feel. Granted, in my case it's mostly deserved.