Why are my GIFs showing up as links instead of displaying?

Hey everyone, I could really use some help here—I'm trying to set this image as my avatar http://avatarmaker.net/free-avatars/...0x90_65439.gif

The thing is, when I upload it, it just stays completely still. Does anyone know what I need to do to actually get the animation to play?

That GIF is way too huge for an avatar.
The limit is 75x75, but yours is sitting at 90x90, which just won't work.
I guess I'll go ahead and shrink it down for you.

I get that, but what kind of software do people actually use for this? I tried messing around with MS Paint, but it didn't really work out...

🤷

Maybe it just vanished for a bit—honestly, this kind of thing has happened before, where it disappears only to pop back up again in a few days.

Can someone walk me through how to actually shrink an image so it works as an animation?

EDIT: Never mind—I figured it out! This site is honestly a lifesaver for dropping image resolution.👍

http://ezgif.com/

My bad, I totally spaced on that.
If you’re looking for something to run locally on your computer, there's this decent little program called 🙂
Adobe Photoshop that gets the job done if you really want it installed.

No worries at all, it’s all good—thanks anyway! 😍