I swear, one of these days, we need to have everyone watch a video tutorial on how to post these images before they do
Oof. That was embarassing, but I managed to figure it out. You uploaded a video, which isn't an image extension. What you have to do is covert that video into .gif, and when obtaining the direct link, you change the .gifv to .gif. Tl;dr, just don't bother with gifs tbh.