# Can you post a GIF in a comment?

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**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-post-a-gif-in-a-comment/938614 "2021-03-24T21:05:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-post-a-gif-in-a-comment/938614/9 "2021-03-25T14:13:36Z")

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Animated gifs do actually display here like any other graphics, but NOT inside spoilers or hidden text for some reason.

Your link above also wasn’t directly to the gif itself. It should have been to:

```
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Rotating_earth_%28large%29.gif

```

I don’t think they should be allowed, though.

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