# Embedded Youtube videos sometimes need to be clicked twice to start playing

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedded-youtube-videos-sometimes-need-to-be-clicked-twice-to-start-playing/244984>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** video\
**Created:** [November 9, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedded-youtube-videos-sometimes-need-to-be-clicked-twice-to-start-playing/244984 "2022-11-09T12:19:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Don](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/don/32/228726_2.png) [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedded-youtube-videos-sometimes-need-to-be-clicked-twice-to-start-playing/244984/3 "2022-11-09T23:06:22Z")

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Hello,

This is not a bug. This is a plugin called lazyYT (lazy load) it creates a thumbnail for the YouTube videos to load only when clicking on it. 🙂

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