# Help Finding Thread About Imbedding Youtube Videos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2026, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473 "2026-04-22T03:28:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473/1 "2026-04-22T03:28:54Z")
I can’t find a thread I posted in that explained how to imbed videos. The only way that worked consistently for me involved ctrl + c and then something like ctrl + shift + v? Does anyone remember the thread? Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473/2 "2026-04-22T03:46:11Z")
[How To Avoid the YouTube Posting Bug](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-avoid-the-youtube-posting-bug/1007499), I believe. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473/3 "2026-04-22T03:50:12Z")
I thought that was it too, but it’s either not the right thread or some posts got deleted. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473/4 "2026-04-22T03:52:57Z")
There must be another thread, because I believe I successfully posted Three Dog Night’s “Shambala” with the way I described in my op here. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473/5 "2026-04-22T09:34:41Z")
What you’ve described, Ctrl-Shift-V, is how you embed any graphic url that you want to display inline, or any url that you want Discourse to generate a preview box for. That command inserts the raw url you copied from [wherever], rather than the usual url format that displays pretty clickable title words instead of `https://blah.blah.blah` If you put that resulting url on a line by itself, Discourse will display the image inline, or create a preview box for the page if it is able to do so. Some sources don’t cooperate and that’s not Discourse’s fault. For the specific case of YouTube vids, and only YouTube vids, that _ought_ to work, but doesn’t due to a different bug about embedding videos. The thread you were directed to is how to work around that bug. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473/6 "2026-04-22T12:43:36Z")
Here it is … > [@How to insert a link to Youtube video, with preview image shown](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-insert-a-link-to-youtube-video-with-preview-image-shown/1002471/51): > > [image] ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473/7 "2026-04-22T17:29:17Z")
@Dr.Strangelove laid it out here: > [@Have links to YouTube been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/170): > > I’ve seen a few links to this thread from other threads, but the information is a bit scattershot, so I think it’s worth summarizing. The bug occurs because Discourse now sees a YouTube preview–that is, the inline video as compared to a bare link–as a “media item”. We don’t allow media items on this site for cost reasons, but in this case it’s a bug because the video is hosted elsewhere. And this is new behavior. Discourse takes a few seconds to convert a bare link into a preview. That is t… ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473/8 "2026-04-22T19:52:46Z")
Thank you everyone! Thank you pjd for finding the thread I couldn’t find. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0-x1nZqhoHs/maxresdefault.jpg "Young MC - Bust A Move") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-x1nZqhoHs) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-thread-about-imbedding-youtube-videos/1029473/9 "2026-04-22T19:54:05Z")
YAY! I thought I did that yesterday. I don’t know why the image didn’t show up then.