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Some Twitter users are expressing major disbelief — after discovering the social network no longer allows them to upload animated GIFs as their personal avatars.

Previously, users had been forced to use workarounds to post animated avatars because of Twitter’s profile photo policy. Those tactics appear to have stopped working.

Illustrator Chris Torres, who introduced Nyan Cat to the masses in 2011 and now has a Twitter account with an animated avatar of the meme (see below), experimented unsuccessfully Thursday after hearing the news.

“Oh wow, I just tried to upload an animated avatar on an unused alt account and it didn’t animate,” Torres told _Mashable_. “That’s scary! But it�…
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