#saw this crossing my dash so i thought i'd reblog it with proper credit

[seamayweed]

The gifs in OP's post are resposted gifs from the following gifsets:

The reposted gifs, due to whatever process they've been put through, are significantly grainier and lower in quality, not to mention that some of them have been cropped a little too, but the coloring, brightness, contrast etc. are exactly the same, which is why I was able to immediately recognize the first one as luni's @dramastream @rotblut, the next three as wish's @trendingdrama, and the last one as haley's @leedongwook. Instead of immediately sharing this post full of uncredited and reposted gifs in the Asian drama networks I'm in, which would most likely result in OP getting blocked by many gifmakers, I'll give OP the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are either new to Tumblr or do not know how to properly embed gifs and credit gifmakers via the Tumblr gif search function (which is the only proper way to credit them). I just tried it myself and it's a bit finicky, but still takes considerably less time and effort than the hours of work that gifmakers pour into making their gifs. Here is the tutorial I followed.

Some of you may have trouble seeing the amount of editing and work that were put into these gifs and think, "Well, there's no great art to using screencapping software and then posting those screencapped clips and calling them gifs!" (I'm not joking, I recently saw this kind of rude comment in the HOTD fandom, resulting in some very amazing gifmakers going on hiatus out of indignation and protest and solidarity). And so, for better comparison, I made screenshots of the original scenes:

As you can see, the original footage tends to be very dark and gray and dull, while the edited gifs are much brighter, more contrastive, colorful and vibrant, and crisp/sharp.

Hope this explanation was illustrative. Now go and support your local gifmakers!! (And don't forget to give them proper credit if you do use/share their gifs in your posts!!!)

Me recommending my best friend to watch a new kdrama together, because I saw the cute bromance clips:

Us watching 8 episodes in misery like fools: