# About linking youtube videos on my observations

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/about-linking-youtube-videos-on-my-observations/60090>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 4, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/about-linking-youtube-videos-on-my-observations/60090 "2025-01-04T22:27:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![cthawley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cthawley/32/1445_2.png) [@cthawley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cthawley)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/about-linking-youtube-videos-on-my-observations/60090/9 "2025-01-05T13:52:56Z")

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This recent thread may be of some use/interest:  
[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/platform-to-add-video-type-observations/59947](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/platform-to-add-video-type-observations/59947)

It’s also good to note that staff have suggested that support for animated gifs will likely end at some point (the ability to add them is more of a loophole than a feature) so I wouldn’t recommend creating gif or especially gif only observations.

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