UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Try to read a page with continuously animating GIF, e.g. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/code-dependencies-are-the-devil-35ed28b556d 
2. Struggle with the constant distraction
3. Decide to log a bug, because it's 2018 and this should be supported in Chrome by now!

Related use case: Try at work to read a serious text article which has a NSFW static image in it.

What is the expected behavior?
Propose adding a new menu item for the image, so the context menu would look like:
   Open image in new tab
   Save image as...
   Copy image
   Copy image address
   Pause animation

Once the animation is in paused state, that final menu item would be "Resume animation". The image might display a small "Paused" overlay, and a click on the paused image might trigger the animation to resume.

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ALTERNATE PROPOSAL (also addresses the NSFW static image use case)
Add a new menu item for hiding the image, so the context menu would look like:
   Open image in new tab
   Save image as...
   Copy image
   Copy image address
   Hide image

Hide image might turn the image into a light gray box. Once the image is hidden, that final menu item would be "Show image". The hidden image box might display a small "Image hidden" overlay, and a click might re-show the image.

What went wrong?
I simply can't read the page while that animation is looping -- I need to pull tricks to cover it with other windows or scroll so the image is off screen. It'd be nice to have more control here.

Similarly, I often want to read political news at work, but avoid it due to large politically charged images. Again, the ability to hide the images would be very helpful.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 65.0.3325.181  Channel: n/a
OS Version: OS X 10.13.3
Flash Version: