GIF is obsolete and it needs to die. It’s 2026, and we’re still stuck with bloated 256-color files that look like trash and eat traffic for no reason. Stop pretending GIF is acceptable. Animated JPEG XL is the obvious replacement: it supports lossless and lossy modes, HDR, wide color gamut, and alpha, and it can be dramatically smaller than APNG. WebP is a half-measure — no HDR, no 10-bit color. Telegram already uses TGS and WebM for stickers, so adding animated JXL as regular chat media is the logical next step — not as a sticker format. Autoplay it like GIFs, or at least provide a tap-to-play preview. I doubt anyone at Telegram will actually read this, let alone act on it, but ignoring it won’t make GIF any less dead. Kill GIF. Add animated JPEG XL.