An animated gif is too convenient. You need to make a throwback to dial-up days where these low resolution pictures slowly fill in top down, rather than instantly appear.
I miss the era of being hard, getting a little soft waiting for a picture to load, again getting hard once it did, wash, rinse, repeat. My stamina really benefitted from dial-up, now I am lucky if I even make it past the commercial at the start of the video.