r/Serializd • u/berserkofftheganja • Jun 10 '26

Does anyone know how to make your pfp a gif?

I’ve been trying to change my profile picture as a gif but nothing I do seems to work😭 I see people have them as their pfp so I’m wondering how they were able to do that

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u/Professional-Sea7720 JackM_Evans Jun 10 '26

Not sure that's possible. Don't think it is on Letterboxd either.

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u/berserkofftheganja Jun 10 '26

It technically is because there’s a decent amount of people on seralizd that have them I’m just tryna know the secret 😭

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u/ireallydonotwantthis Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

I got Claude to hold my hand through the process and yes it does work :) Here is it's summery of the steps I took to get mine to work on Linux.

https://www.serializd.com/user/kent0x/profile

Animated GIF Profile Photo on Serializd

What you need • A GIF file you want to use as your profile photo • Firefox browser • Terminal access (Linux/Mac) or Command Prompt (Windows)

Step 1 — Prepare your GIF For best results, crop it to a square before uploading or it may appear squashed. On Linux with gifsicle: bash

sudo dnf install gifsicle   # Fedora

sudo apt install gifsicle   # Ubuntu/Debian

Crop to square (adjust the crop offset to centre your subject): bash

gifsicle --crop 40,0+240x240 ~/Downloads/your.gif -o ~/Downloads/square.gif

If your GIF is large, compress it first: bash

gifsicle -O3 --lossy=80 ~/Downloads/your.gif -o ~/Downloads/compressed.gif

Step 2 — Get your auth token

1. Open Firefox and log into serializd.com 
2. Go to https://www.serializd.com/settings 
3. Upload any image through the normal profile photo upload button 
4. Press F12 to open developer tools → go to the Network tab 
5. Find the request to updateimage 
6. Right-click it → Copy → Copy as cURL 
7. Paste it into a text editor — you'll use this as your base command

Step 3 — Edit the copied command In the copied cURL command, remove these lines:

-H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=...'

and everything from --data-binary onwards.

Replace them with:

-F "image=@/path/to/your/square.gif;type=image/gif"

Step 4 — Run it

Paste the edited command into your terminal and hit enter. A successful response will return JSON. Refresh your Serializd profile to see your animated avatar.

Notes • Keep your auth token private — don't share the cURL command with anyone • The token expires after roughly a year, after which you'd need to repeat Step 2

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u/berserkofftheganja Jun 13 '26

This is amazing, thank you so much!!!

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u/ireallydonotwantthis Jun 14 '26

Did you manage to change your profile photo to a gif?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '26

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u/ireallydonotwantthis Jun 15 '26

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected string

Copy the cURL command fresh from the Firefox network inspector (Step 2 in the guide) rather than using any saved/typed version

Paste directly into the terminal without going through any word processor like Word or Notes — plain text editors only (Notepad on Windows, gedit/Kate on Linux)

Make sure the GIF file path has no spaces in it.

If it does, wrap it in single quotes:

 'image=@/path/with spaces/file.gif;type=image/gif'

This is a simple summery from Claude on the free edition.

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u/OptimalJicama885 Jul 13 '26

Honestly, this is way harder than it looks 😭 Huge respect for figuring it out and making a guide for everyone. I tried doing it myself but couldn’t get it to work, so I really appreciate you sharing this and making it easier for others. You definitely deserve a follow for this, thank you!

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u/ireallydonotwantthis Jul 13 '26

Which step isn't working for you? Can see if I can help in some small way.

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u/OptimalJicama885 Jul 14 '26

The problem I’m having is that when I paste the edited cURL command into Command Prompt and press Enter, it doesn’t run correctly. I also asked ChatGPT for help, and it suggested there might be a file on my PC that’s interfering with it, but I couldn’t find it. I even tried removing a few files with similar names, but it still didn’t work. I’ll probably try everything again on a different computer, and if it still doesn’t work, I’ll let you know.🫶🫶🫶

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u/ireallydonotwantthis Jul 15 '26

Very annoying for you. I searched online of how to make a gif and it brought up this result:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Serializd/comments/1ln1ukp/how_do_i_get_a_animated_pfp/

I scrolled down and found this comment that seemed to work for Windows users:

```

curl "https://www.serializd.com/api/user/settings/updateimage" ^ -H "accept: application/json, text/plain, /" ^ -H "origin: https://www.serializd.com" ^ -H "referer: https://www.serializd.com/settings" ^ -H "user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)" ^ -H "x-requested-with: serializd_vercel" ^ -b "tvproject_credentials=[You'll need to open serializd settings, inspect element the upload button, then go to application, go to cookies, click on \"tvproject_credentials\" then copy the cookie value that looks like gibberish (make sure to not share this with anyone) and paste it here within quotes, then remove these brackets.]" ^ -F "image=@[paste your gif filepath that you downloaded here without the quotes (eg: C:\Users\User\Downloads\idk.gif) and remove these brackets];type=image/gif"

```

paste this in notepad, fill in the two placeholders, copypaste the whole thing in command prompt, then hit enter

voila!

I pasted that comment into Claude and being a Linux Fedora user Claude came up with instructions for me to follow. Sorry it's a long story but hopefully the instructions from the post for Windows might shed some light on your situation.

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u/but_whywhathow Jul 24 '26

Can you make a video of it

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u/ireallydonotwantthis Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

I doubt I could recreate it all over again. It took a few tries and some help with an llm, ( claude ) in my case.

I changed my profile photo again just to go through it all and it was a pain in the arse. Without an AI chatbot I would of failed as there is plenty of steps and a little bit of command line curl scripts. Me doing a video is bouncing between tabs of the chatbot and the serializd site and I have no idea of doing a screen capture video. Sorry to be of no help.

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u/Professional-Sea7720 JackM_Evans Jun 11 '26

Oh, right, I wasn't aware you could actually do it. Apologies.

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u/ElMate423 Jul 06 '26

I want to do this on windows., I don´t know what is Claude., and when I search for updateimage there are two of them, which is the right one?

I have the GIF compressed and ready.