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I saw it too. The odd thing is that 4chan's equivalent doesn't show any such loading indicator. Also, looping a video in HTML5 doesn't require Javascript.

I saw it everytime the video looped. Left a distinct impression with me that the real GIF version is better.

Yeah, I see it too. Very annoying.

Also annoying to have to allow javascript to see what is supposed to be an image.

I noticed it once, and then I kept watching and couldn't see it again so I thought I was just imagining it.

Weird, could be the way that embedly embeds the video. I don't see the same thing with gfycat.

If you right-click on that, is it a Flash player? Are you on Firefox?

Nope, it's an HTML video element. I'm on Chrome 35.