still animation
An animated post that renders as a still image when played. The animation may contain only a single frame, or multiple frames that are all identical.
Popularized in use among Twitter artists in late 2025 after the site added the ability to directly edit a post with Grok's generative AI, one which did not include on-site .gifs (which were rendered as .mp4s).
The animated tag is automatically added to all posts whose files are in animation file formats, so this tag allows finding such posts that effectively are still images.
See also
The following tags are aliased to this tag: single_frame (learn more).
