IIRC Vine and Coub made it mainstream more than 12 years ago, it's not something new. Gifs are basically a prequel of the format.
If people wouldn't like it, it wouldn't survive this long, and wouldn't be copied by every other company and requested in threads like this. It's alright if you don't like them but please let other people have fun. You don't have to "learn" from everything, it's just jokes and light entertainment.
You can set that up separately, override
LC_TIME
: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale It's Arch wiki but this is usually the same for any other distro