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

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**Created:** [June 4, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-insert-a-link-to-youtube-video-with-preview-image-shown/1002471 "2024-06-04T08:06:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 4, 2024, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-insert-a-link-to-youtube-video-with-preview-image-shown/1002471/2 "2024-06-04T09:18:25Z")

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(replying to my own thread)  
Never mind…the problem corrected itself (well, almost).  
While I was typing the post, it showed the link as all text, but when I hit the final send, the link magically turned into an image.  
But by mistake, I inserted the link’s address twice, so two identical images appear in my [  
post.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-a-crash-course-in-canadianness/1002418/75)  
And here’s the weird part: when I saw the mistake, I immediately tried to edit my own post, but Discourse wouldn’t let me erase either one of the links.

Discourse displayed both links and their images, but when I tried to erase one of the links, it gave me an error message that I can’t embed links.  
Even though both links were already embedded.

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