🚫 Low quality cartoon, compression artifacts

Community Evaluation
Phase 1: Image Quality
Judging Criteria

Read this post for information about Community Evaluation.

In this phase, we're only evaluating video quality:
✅ = video quality is acceptable
🚫 = video quality is too low

It’s not important whether you like the video, whether it is expressive or related to any emotion at all – that will be covered in the next phase.

Before you begin, study the examples above.

Good quality reaction videos:

1. Have crisp, high image quality. No visible compression artifacts, no pixelation, etc.
✅ Good Examples (cartoons), 🚫 Bad Examples (cartoons)

2. Have good contrast and color balance. Not too dark – unless darkness is fundamental for the depicted scene.
✅ Good Example, 🚫 Bad Examples

3. Fit their frame perfectly – without black bars and without squishing or stretching the image.
🚫 Bad Examples

4. May have barely noticeable lines on the borders.
✅ Good Examples, 🚫 Bad Example

5. Do not include irrelevant or random frames that cause a blinking effect.
🚫 Bad Examples

When you're ready, press 'Rate Gifs’ below and use the buttons.

If you see the same video twice or recognize a video from round 1, press the ‘👀x2’ button before rating it. This is optional, we will use algorithms to remove duplicates before the final results are announced.

GIF Contest, Round 2: Controversial Gifs

During the first task, we identified a few gifs that may have caused some confusion.

We will clarify any remaining doubts with a series of examples.

🚫 Poor quality examples 👇👇

🚫 Low image quality, artifacts in both foreground and background.

The potential lack of higher quality versions of an iconic cartoon is not a relevant factor, the task was to submit high-quality videos. If no good quality fragments exist, the source material is not fit for the contest.

🚫 Low image quality

🚫 Artifacts in the background

🚫 Characters out of frame, saturation issues

🚫 Unneeded distortion effects which cause artifacts on the hair

🚫 Pixelation in the background

🚫 Overexposed

🚫 Heavy pixelation and artifacts on the skin

🚫 Freezes for a full second on the last frame

🚫 Contrast issues, very noticeable greenscreen effect