But news stories are not usually presented like this. That's really the thing being commented on is that the imgur style of presentation was an excellent match for this content, which usually is much more text.

I have used Imgur plenty especially r/diy but I don't remember seeing an album comprised solely of animated GIFs. It's typically albums with captioned static images.

As a matter of fact I actually posted an album today on r/diy as a result of seeing this today. The captioned GIFs inspired me https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/5xdaqn/i_completely_de...