“Don’t romanticize images of the struggle, it’s actually really dangerous and activists may suffer and die at the hands of state violence.”

We know. The people sharing these images and putting them on posters and stickers are very often the people in the struggle, who know that danger very well. They are not ignoring the danger at all, they are celebrating the fact that we struggle on in spite of it.

Stop being such a judgy cynic and let your comrades make their riot gifs.