# Animated Avatar

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-avatar/220445>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** experimental\
**Created:** [March 8, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-avatar/220445 "2022-03-08T18:24:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 10:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-avatar/220445/42 "2024-03-07T10:15:57Z")

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@Firepup650 can you describe the issues you’re seing in more detail? I took it for a spin locally and it seems to work ok.

![Kapture 2024-03-07 at 10.16.45](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/c/6/ec649f4c85fced5234f604b560025aeb513ec51d.gif)

It’s worth noting this section from the OP. By default the animation only happens when a particular post is moused over. But you can toggle the ‘always animate’ site setting to make it happen unconditionally:

> [@featheredtoast](#):
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> By default, this pauses animation when not focused. Within topics, animation will pause when post is not hovered or selected.
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> `animated_avatars_always_animate`: overrides the above pausing, forces avatars to always animate.

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