Putting animated GIFs into your documentation or blog articles, negatively impacts legibility. The constant movement diverts attention and makes people skip that section so they can just scroll the annoyance out of view. If you MUST include animated guidance for whatever reason, use videos that have playback controls and are paused by default.
Seeing this in an article on how to improve documentation makes me question any message you might try to get across.
Seeing this in an article on how to improve documentation makes me question any message you might try to get across.