# “Sorry, you can’t embed media items in a post”

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-you-can-t-embed-media-items-in-a-post/981964>\
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**Created:** [April 1, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-you-can-t-embed-media-items-in-a-post/981964 "2023-04-01T05:46:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-you-can-t-embed-media-items-in-a-post/981964/1 "2023-04-01T05:46:27Z")

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I’m just trying to link to a YouTube video. I’ve done it a bunch of times before.

Has something changed? Is there a bug? Or am I just being stupid?

(I’m on an iPhone if that matters.)

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**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-you-can-t-embed-media-items-in-a-post/981964/2 "2023-04-01T05:53:05Z")

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> [@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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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-you-can-t-embed-media-items-in-a-post/981964/3 "2023-04-01T05:58:02Z")

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Whoops, I looked for an existing thread but overlooked it. Mods, feel free to kill or merge this one.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-you-can-t-embed-media-items-in-a-post/981964/4 "2023-04-01T06:17:30Z")

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I’ll just close this one and direct anyone who is interested in the subject to go to the Site Feedback thread that @wolfpup linked to.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-you-can-t-embed-media-items-in-a-post/981964/5 "2023-04-01T06:17:35Z")

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