# Animated GIFs in User Cards

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-gifs-in-user-cards/187686>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-gifs-in-user-cards/187686 "2021-04-21T22:48:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 7:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-gifs-in-user-cards/187686/2 "2021-04-22T07:07:43Z")

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I do not think this is supported anymore

> [@Animated GIF avatars no longer supported by default](https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-gif-avatars-no-longer-supported-by-default/167224):
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> In order to simplify the Discourse codebase, support for animated GIF avatars will no longer be included in Discourse by default as of the current 2.6 beta. [[image] ](https://media.tenor.com/images/8cf675c4eb56287c439749c1b2878ba1/tenor.gif) Note that animated GIFs in posts will continue to work (of course!), we are specifically and ONLY referring to avatars here. It is possible that a future plugin may re-enable animated GIF avatar support for sites that require it, but we don’t have a timeline for this plugin at the current moment. …

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