Young Writers Society

I see people with gif avatars.
I know it can be done.
Please, teach me your ways, every time I try to upload a gif as my avatar it says “image file type mismatch.”
Is there a secret that I am missing out on???

Well if it's image file type mismatch, then make sure to check what kinda file your gif is in. Is it in .gif?

I finally figured it out!
I don’t know how I did it or how I’ll do it again but something you said helped so thanks!

Alrighty! I'm glad I helped!! If you have any other questions, please let me know by tagging me here.

Also, I'm not sure if you wanted your current avatar to be a gif, but it's just a picture for me.

Gosh darn it… guess I don’t understand technology after all.

Hmm...could you upload it as an attachment?

It could be an issue with the gif itself. It does show up as a gif as far as file type is concerned, but the file size is 1.2kb which is really low so it looks like maybe only one frame of the gif ended up being uploaded.

@WrenZorya can you post the gif here? I would be able to help better that way.

I can try…

Here is a resized version:



Right click and save it, then try it as your new avatar and let me know if it works ^^

Wow you’re amazing thank you!!