# Animated gifs: Make it stop!

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-gifs-make-it-stop/187607>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-gifs-make-it-stop/187607 "2021-04-21T11:30:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-gifs-make-it-stop/187607/33 "2021-05-28T02:34:28Z")

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Fun indeed! One way to fix this would be to disable lightboxes and pausing animated images inside the spoiler element. It’s very easy to do this with just CSS:

```scss
.spoiled {
  img.animated,
  .lightbox {
    pointer-events: none;
  }
}

```

We could also have lightboxing and pausing animations apply only when the contents is unblurred, but that can’t work with the spoiler being a toggle. But if we decide to switch the spoiler behaviour to be one way (unblur on click and that’s it), this could work too.

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