1 Why are title repositioned? It has something with truncation before final form?

2 I don't know what you're talking about. It's supposed to be on the second line, on the right hand side. When it's loaded for the top display, the top line on the right side says "Anims".

3

Like this:

4 Love number two.  IIRC, someone crashed?

5 Re #2: the other candidate for the Aries Presidency was knocked off the top of his campaign truck by a roundhouse kick by Tomoe, and fell down and hit the pavement. Haruka and Chie are watching him fall.

6 I got my first one just now; the 4th of these.

Works well.  I expected it to be more distracting.  I have animated gifs and Flash turned off globally, and just whitelisted for certain sites (like this one), since I find animated bits too eye-catching when I'm trying to read non-animated things.

Maybe there's something different about a large block rather than a thin banner?  Or maybe the smoother animation here is less eye-catching than your standard two-frame visual-klaxon ad...