Yeah- Regardless of whether this is truly a cache issue, it's definitely not fixing itself by the looks of it.
Yep, my gifs don't load and we begin our first marketing campaign in a few days. I sincerely hope the devs fix the issue soon.
In the meantime, you can host your GIFs on another site and embed them in your project description using the img tag, and that will get you some GIF action on your page at least.