Edit to add: found it.

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

Edit to add: found it. In IceCubes settings, Display Settings, turned off the checkbox for animated avatars.
Suddenly I'm seeing some animated profile pictures. I already have turned off "Auto-play animated GIFs" in settings. How to turn off all animations including profile pictures?
#AskFedi

[mikal@sfba.social]

@dillyd

Yeah, folks, animated GIFs in profile pictures are super irritating for some of us. Just pointlessly distracting.

[stephaniepixie@fandom.garden]

@dillyd Do you use the Mastodon site/app? Or something else. Settings vary depending on what you log in with and maybe there’s been some updates that reset things.

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

@stephaniepixie
Seeing animations in both the IceCubes app, and Firefox on my phone.

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

@stephaniepixie oh wait, I spoke wrong. I'm not seeing animations in Firefox, so maybe an IceCubes issue?

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

I could've sworn I had it turned off before. Not sure how they got turned on.

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@dillyd @stephaniepixie If @IceCubesApp is like the other apps I use, there are individual setting in the app to turn off animated profiles.

[hopeward@sunny.garden]

@dillyd A piece of software may have glitched an incorrect setting on or off? I have experienced that hundreds of times, really.

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@dillyd @stephaniepixie Something like "Disable GIF avatars"

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

@hopeward
Must have been. It's the kind of setting that I always turn off. I don't need extraneous things moving on my screen.

[hopeward@sunny.garden]

@dillyd I know what you mean!

[stepheneb@ruby.social]

@dillyd

I disabled this setting in IceCubes and no longer see animations in user names.

I haven’t seen accounts that use animated gifs in profile pictures. Can you send me an example.

I might be able to fix that. I’ve been making a few very simple changes to IceCubes and contributing them.

@stephaniepixie

[dillyd@turtleisland.social]

@stepheneb
I found it, thanks. It must turned on through some glitch, but I turned it back off. But I didn't know you were contributing to IceCubes. Thanks for your service! It's my favorite app.
@stephaniepixie

[mezzodrinker@social.mezzo.moe]

@dillyd From my experience, the Mastodon web interface has (had?) trouble disabling animations for .webm images. I have that setting turned off as well, and so far, I've only seen .webm images be animated without me hovering over them. Haven't seen this happen with profile pictures yet, but it would be a plausible explanation at least