Flashing profile images must violate some universal law.
#opinion

At last streams lets site admins choose whether to permit animated profile images on your site. For other platforms you're probably on your own.

You probably don't remember or even know about the whole mybloglog fiasco, where you would open your browser to find live action porn on over 90% of the site pages; all because they allowed animated images, and there was no way to turn them off. Those who don't know history...