[Two pictures. Top picture shows a screencap of a youtube video titled “how to drink water” with a 1.7m views. The picture below is a drawn figure (gintoki from gintama) not opening his mouth as he is pouring water on his face. Text on image says “1.7m people before this video”]

  • idegenszavakEnglish
    18·
    6 days ago

    You will learn today how to embed gifs in comments:

    1. Try to find the url of the image. Usually you can rightclick/longtap on the image and a “copy image location” or something similar option should exist.
    2. On Lemmy add the following template in your comment: ![]()
    3. Paste the image link between the curved brackets. You should get something like this:
    ![](https://c.tenor.com/ajsgAzTtSIwAAAAd/tenor.gif)
    1. Most clients and frontends have a preview button, so you can doublechek if you found the correct url, or you used the 2 kinds of brackets in the correct order, you should already see your gif there:

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      To me embedded gifs are alright if they are in comments by themselves because I can hide them, but if it’s the start of a longer comment chain it’s harder to read the comments under it without being distracted by the moving images so a regular link I can open in a different tab seems better