Someone could ask the same but backward,why waste a good article with childish animated gifs.

If you work in a conservative shop, this is a real concern – there are still IT shops which have formal dress codes, etc. and managers who frown on anything like this as a sign of unproductive. Yes, that's pointless and wrong but that doesn't mean that there aren't people who have to worry about it.

It doesn't mean that aphyr was wrong to include them – if you do the hard work you can style it however you like – but it wouldn't surprise me to learn that some people do something like run it through instapaper before circulating it to the button-down set.

I work in a large, conservative bank. I've already shared this article with the team. If information from this article was to be messaged upwards, that's where it gets placed into a standard branded PowerPoint and all personality/"fun" is removed.

I don't, except to note that bad presentation is way more annoying when paired with high-quality content. If it was just about anyone else, I'd have closed the tab.

If enough people complain this time, maybe I won't have to waste a couple minutes clicking "Inspect Element -> display: none" on all the animated junk before reading the next article.