# Emojis from animated gif are shown uglily

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/emojis-from-animated-gif-are-shown-uglily/25562>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** emoji\
**Created:** [Février 23, 2015, 10:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emojis-from-animated-gif-are-shown-uglily/25562 "2015-02-23T10:08:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [Février 24, 2015, 4:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emojis-from-animated-gif-are-shown-uglily/25562/8 "2015-02-24T16:19:29Z")

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So, having `-layers optimize` at the end does the optimization without butchering the GIF?

> [@sigurdur](#):
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> So, my recommendation is to add the \> flag on the thumbnail option.

I’m already doing it 😉

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/models/optimized_image.rb#L113>

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