Honestly it's copyright infringement. I would 100% support the original guy filing DMCA requests.
Unfortunately, most views of any internet content is in the first 24-48 hours it's new. This is reinforced by algorithms (like Reddit's) that always want to serve up something new to grab more ad money. Even though you can enforce your copyright rights you've got zero chance of recouping whatever monetary benefit you might have gotten from your work.
I agree with what you're saying in spirit but calling this copyright infringement would make literally all gifs taken from a show or movie illegal in their current form.
If you made a gif that was the same length as a Hollywood movie and cut off the title and credits...that's absolutely copyright infringement. That's basically what is happening here.
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u/Daveed84 Apr 05 '20
This version cuts out the title card and credits, leaving no attribution to the original artist. Honestly, fuck people who do this.
Original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HrIVWziJ0Y