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GIFs in Maps

I haven't seen this topic discussed in a few years, but I just saw a video of someone uploading a working GIF into a roll20 map but I can't seem to be able to recreate it myself.  Here's the link to their video of them doing it.  Viewscreen overlay elements - How to - YouTube Roll20 allows me to upload the gif, it moves when I hover over it in my library, but not when I drop it.  What am I missing here? How did this person do it?
I was able to make it work, but not I believe, as intended.  I couldn't pull any gif I saved in a folder in my library and have it work. The gif would be frozen and blurry. I was able to drag and drop a gif from the Recent Uploads section. It works just fine if I drag it from there. Its a relatively minor inconvenience, as it means I'm unable to use gifs I've previously organized. I have to go looking for it in a jumbled mess of things I've uploaded.
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Animating Gifs work in Roll20, and have done so for a few years now. You just need to activate the animation by selecting it and pressing the two bars symbol to unpause it.
For some reason the GIFs will run if I drag them over from the "Recent Download" part of the page, but won't work if I drag it over from my organized library of images. 
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