GIFs
Gifs (Graphics Interchange Format) are hundreds of different frames taken and saved into a file; with a relapse of the same shoots in a continuous loop. Usually they are relatively short, but there is no play or pause button they just re-lapse over and over. We can find and see GIFs all over social media platforms.
Stop motion animation can be used as a filming technique using successive positions between objects.
The difference between GIFs and stop motion animation is, an animated GIF is a group of images within a sequence.