# How to insert a link to Youtube video, with preview image shown

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That’s certainly possible, I can’t say when exactly I learned the workaround of closing the preview pane, but I remember the discussion in the “Site Feedback” thread where your method of quickly posting after inserting the link came up some time before someone proposed the other method. I can’t remember when that was (at least half a year ago, I estimate), and if that info was new when I read that thread.

For reference, here’s the thread:

> [@Have links to YouTube been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958):
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> I just tried posting a couple of YouTube links in and got the message An error occurred: Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post. What’s going on?

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