I made this garish, hue-adjusted, clone-stamped animation for a friend (a GIFt, I suppose); the source image is from a photo of her childhood sticker album, specifically of a phalanx of five Troll doll stickers that appear to be of the rainbow-puffy variety. And here's a bonus phalanx of five versions of a Street Fighter character (I think it's Ryu, but I'm not certain).Maybe making a psychotronic GIF with Troll dolls and sticker albums appropriately flipped my nostalgia switch, but the completed animation reminds me of an unholy mix of the Care Bear Stare (0:45) and the Ninja Magic superpower (0:13) you could activate in the original Shinobi arcade game.
That having been said, there have been conversations at dump.fm (which is a kind of digital sticker album) about how/if the site (and/or animated GIFs in general) can be "monetized." I'm not sure if they're technically using GIFs, but I've noticed that the animations on most all video slot machines employ repetitive, cycling, GIF-like graphics. You can see many rogue cellphone videos of people playing these kinds of slots on YouTube (you're not supposed to take pictures/videos in casinos), but here's a sample from the Shinobi video slot machine (funny that video game companies have moved into the casino business... and that they're using their games as themes).
Here's a mirror match of the spastic ninja GIF accompanying this post.
