My buddy is pretty computer savvy, so I just liked him the streamable links and told him he can view them as loops there, and then also save them as .mp4. That way he can see them as intended, but still save the videos long term, even though they wont be looping.

Not sure how streamable works. Will those links be there for a long time, or are you hosting them on your profile or something?

I don't have an account at streamable but if I go there, it shows videos I uploaded. It used to be like that at vid.me where you could upload videos with no account. I noticed a manager page at vid.me where even though I had no account it would show the videos I uploaded. They changed that site in recent seasons and you need an account now. If you didn't have an account your uploaded videos all got deleted.

At least streamable it's mp4 and loops properly. Can't get it to loop properly at imgur. So you probably did the logical thing by mentioning the streamable to him and if he wants to save the mp4 can do that. Good job. haha.