How to get YouTube thumbnail link

I looked at the FAQ.
I tried the search.
I got a bee in my bonnet and wanna post a link to a YouTube vid, and I want it to show as a thumbnail/video not blue words.
Help my dumbass please. Show me what to click.

The board doesn’t allow inline images either.

I’m sorry but I don’t follow.

I want to link to a YouTube video, and I want the little video window in the thread, not a text link.
I thought I had seen that done here, but I could be TOTALLY wrong.

You’re TOTALLY wrong.

Sweet! I thought I was losing my mind. :smack:

Blue text it is, hazah

No he is not. He is totally right that he will get such a thing on Tapatalk.

Yep. Tapatalk will have the clip in the post, where you can click to watch

Thanks guys, the thread is up, here
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=848018

Very cool of everyone to help at oh shit o’clock in the AM.:smiley:

I work third shift. Oh shit o’clock is nothing to me

You can do a little better than that, though. You can have blue text containing descriptive words of your choice, rather than just blue text showing the URL.

That is, instead of:

You could have:
YouTube video of BobBitchin’ jammin’

ETA: And with a bit of extra effort, you can also make a link to a
somewhat enlarged view of the thumbnail pic.

Thanx I like those options. I was better ( not great) at this stuff when I had a desktop. I hate using a phone for internet.

I’ll study up and my next post will be a bit prettier.:smiley:

Second shift but I’m old and have no life. So basically the same but I didn’t look at ATMB last night.

I’ve always been a night owl. I have a theory a bunch of us are this way ,because we were born at night. Can y’all verify that?.
I’ve always hated that saying “nothing good happens after XXX o’clock”

Maybe " nothing virtuous" but if you say" nothing good" I say you didn’t party at my house.:cool::smiley: