[magneticnorth]

This looks very cute! Is there a way to disable the little dancing unicorn jelly at the bottom of the page? I have such a hard time reading text if there is motion so close to what I'm trying to read

[pavon]

It is an animated gif. You used to be able to just press escape to pause them, but Firefox and Chrome have both removed that behavior. Instead you can install a plugin, or in Firefox you can set `image.animation_mode` to:

`once` - play once on load then stop.

`none` - do not play on load

`normal` - loop forever if the gif says to

With the popularity of animated "emoji" on some forums these days, I couldn't function without some way to globally disable animated gifs.

[gwern]

An idea the website could borrow from video games is removing elements after a while, like _n_ page views. (You can store the state in cookies, LocalStorage, or perhaps track server-side by IP+useragent.) The reader enjoys the dancing jelly for a few pages, and then as it gets old, it goes away automatically.

(On Gwern.net, we call this 'demo mode', and we use it to hide some UI elements after a certain number of interactions or page-views, under the theory that if you've, say, uncollapsed a collapse region a few times, you've gotten the idea, and you no longer need a big obtrusive text label saying 'click or hover to uncollapse'.)

[rcxdude]

I'll warn that it quickly becomes not very cute. But a very good webcomic nonetheless!

[TapamN]

Ad blockers typically have an option to select something to disable, like a single image URL.

[thetopher]

I just resized my browser window, so the bottom of the window is above the GIF, but below the NEXT button.

[Lammy]

This uBlock Origin rule will do it for you:

  ||unicornjelly.com/images/unianil.gif