"Whoa! That picture just moved!" "Picgifs"

... have them move to get their attention.

An example would be a "still shot" of a pretty girl that winks after a few seconds.

Seems so simple that it's impossible that it's never been done before, but as far as I know it hasn't. A moving gif is a moving gif and a picture is a picture despite the fact that the only way to tell them apart is, well, one moves. Gifs and pics are often put on the same page but the gifs are always loaded to show movement right away, that's the point right? Having the only movement be at the end so it appears to be a pic would really get your attention. The first 70 or 80% of the frames are the same pic, all movement frames being at the end 20%.

Of course the downside is this would be a great way to resurrect the thankfully out of fashion "screamers" of old, where a video would lull you into a state of boredom and they flash a scary picture on the screen, attended by a scream usually, to make you jump out of your skin.

I don't think this has ever been done, but if it has please post links, I'd like to see it.

Ok, been baked, but not much, so I'll leave this up and say the original idea is to call them "Picgifs"