Is there a animated gif search anywhere that excludes results that don't actually give you a damn gif when you follow the link? Giphy and friends have made it impossible to find actual gifs.

Sorry for the late response. You can try Google advanced image search to find image files of a particular format. I have used it in the past to find SVGs.

To exclude giphy and friends, you can just type:

  -giphy ...

at the end of the search query.