That's gonna make a less earning for developers and mods. If they set it up this way, there's not other choice but to pay it, that way it will keep the business going.
since some imgflip users are complaining that about some pro stuff not being free; i'll make some suggestions, make the gif sound feature free but anything longer than 5 seconds, audio quality becomes worse same as like the gif framerate when you make a gif above 5 seconds.