Very cool, never thought of that! "way smaller" is almost an understatement, when it's 50kb :P Neat that it loads in GitHub READMEs as well, which is probably a large reason people use .gif today.

How can you do it? I don't see an SVG output from ascii-gif.

I used a different project, https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

it might be this: https://github.com/mrmarble/termsvg