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Gif's suddenly not animating

A topic by Phantom Cooper created Sep 30, 2025 Views: 12,880 Replies: 110
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Having a strange issue where any Gif I try to post isn't being properly animated. I've tried to upload them on 2 diffirent browsers and on multiple of my asset-pages, but nothing seems to be working.

I thought the new .gif files I was trying to upload were the problem, but even why I try to post older .gif's that are already on my page, they appear as static images, while the ones that are already on there are working just fine.

^^ Can you guys let me know if these are animated for you? Is this just an issue on my end?

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Not animating from where I'm at.

Have the same issue posting gifs myself.

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I have the same issue. My GIFs are not animating (even those which were working yesterday).

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Same

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Same here, I think this is most likely a bug from itch's side or something.

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Gif's appear to work if you upload them in the screenshots section, but not on the page layout. I hope this get resolved soon 

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The gif I have set as my store banner stopped animating today. Nice to know I'm not alone.

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Same here! I've been trying to replace a cover image with a gif but it's not working.

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Not only that but I’ve also noticed that if the games you’ve displayed on your account have a .gif thumbnail, instead of the gif playing when the user hovers over them, the gif now just plays constantly and freezes once the user is hovering on it. I really hope they fix this soon as it kind of ruins my whole idea I had going for my account

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Exactly this has been happening to me, but only for one of my projects. The rest also have GIF cover images, but they aren’t animating at all.

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I am having this issue as well with some of the animated thumbnails for a handful of my games. Notably, the cover image for a game I released a few months ago animates correctly (https://turboshook.itch.io/tomb-of-the-underking), but every other animated cover image is broken.

I hope we get some clarity around whether this is a technical issue or if there are new size restrictions for gifs (or something along those lines).

after some experimenting it seems to be a size limit thing. 

My gifs are all less than 20kb

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They must have changed how a new page is templated then, these work , from 3 months ago https://beatscribe.itch.io/gbbbs95 these from last week , do not https://beatscribe.itch.io/ultimate-lofi-game-boy, if you click them you’ll see they are animated gifs 

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Same. the background of my game page was animating but it stop recently...

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same here with my game screenshots

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Same issue. Can't upload any form of animated gifs to my project pages or devlogs; Itch simply posts the first frame. Fortunately, gifs uploaded prior to this issue's appearance aren't affected retroactively.

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Same issue...

Even some gifs uploaded a long time ago are not working. Some do, some don't, not sure why. 

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I'm having the same problem .gif banners stopped working. And any new .gif I try to upload anywhere on the page, regardless of size, doesn't work :(

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Seeing the same thing with my gif thumbnails :c 

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Yeah noticed this on my side too!

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Same issue over here. The gif banner for my game is also not animating correctly.

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That's not cool !  I just released my tool for quickly creating GIFs from images and modifying   them using 90+ shaders.Maybe the  itch developers won't need to worry about this anymore :(( Will itch.io ever fix GIF support?"
https://cofdins.itch.io/shader-swap-shaders-editor-online

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I found a solution:

  1. Load gif to Tenor.com or Giphy.com
  2. Сopy image / Copy link —> paste image to your game page
  3. Profit.
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Thanks for this :)

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I wouldn't recommend using Tenor or Giphy unless you want your gifs to be used in every social media application and become public domain.
There are other file hosts you can use. (Though be warned that Imgur is blocked in the UK)

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Good to know, thank you!

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My solution is to put them in a public GitHub repo and link the raw content URL.

Here’s an example:

This works for GIFs in project page and devlog bodies, but it doesn’t work for banners or background images, since those have to be uploaded via the theme editor.

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Giphy Not Working, I didn't try the other. Raw Github link works

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This is terrible advice because both of these sites are used for training ai models. So unless you want to risk you art being stolen to train more slop that will eventually flood the front page of this site. I'd avoid these options

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Don't worry, AI will steal your art one way or another.

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