Animated video thumbnail for Discord guide for dummies

This short guide will teach you how to give your Discord videos an animated thumbnail!

Requirements:

A text editor/IDE
Access to a webhosting service

Step 1. Creating the "video"

Techincally, you aren't creating a video. Instead, you'll be creating an html file that will trick Discord into displaying an animated gif file as the thumbnail for the video.

Create a .html file. Open it with your text editor/IDE of choice, and copy/paste this line of code:

    
    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head> 
        <meta property="og:image" content="INSERT GIF HERE">
        <meta property="og:type" content="video.other">
        <meta property="og:video:url" content="INSERT VIDEO HERE">
        <meta property="og:video:height" content="180">
        <meta property="og:video:width" content="320">
    </head>
</html>