While initially popular, <blink> became much maligned because of overuse; many people found it annoying. More importantly, it degrades readability and can be particularly problematic for users with visual impairments or cognitive disorders such as epilepsy or ADHD. It can be disorienting or, in the worst cases, even trigger seizures.
<marquee>suck on these tokens</marquee>The day the blink tag was removed from the rendering engine was the day we lost our way.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/blink_element
tbf it’s a valid reason to drop its support
Oh come on. Nobody used it since we have animated gifs as replacement.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Geocities pages suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
<blink/>
Nope. That element never existed. It was <blink>text</blink>
Besides a selfclosing <blink/> would make no sense.