How do you post gifs on Tumblr?

How do I upload gifs onto tumblr?

• Im trying to upload a gif to tumblr but don't know whats going wrong. I've saved all these gifs and I've been copying and pasting them onto the post, but when I click 'post' they come up as a little gray square thingy that you have to click to see. Nobody wants to click it to see it. Also, how do you know if they're under 500KB?

• Answer:

  gifts can only show up on the dashboard if they are Tumblr hosted. To tumblr host, 1. just open a text post like you're going to publish something 2. on the top right corner of the there is something that says "+ Upload Photo" 3. Click that and upload your gif. 4. When uploaded, the image will show up on the post box. Right Click over the gif. and hit "copy image URL" 4.1. the url should look something like this: http://media.tumblr.com/blahblahblahthispartdoesntmatter.gif 5. now go have fun inserting your gif using that URL in any tumblr post feeling confident that it will not show up as a grey polaroid. :D hope this helps.