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For whatever reason the majority of images, GIF's and videos I try to post to comments do not load properly and show that black and white X. I am doing the !(Image URL)! format, but 75% of the time it doesn't work. Help?

Have you tried looking on another internet browser? Another computer? That might be revealing. Oh, and this is a rare thing, but make sure the image URL doesn't contain an exclamation point.

Make sure you are doing a direct link to the image you want to post, not a general link (so http://i.imgur.com/ZYbd5o7.png would work, but not http://imgur.com/ZYbd5o7).

Also for videos you need to embed them, which you can see more about in the Guide to Textile.

Make sure you are doing a direct link to the image you want to post, not a general link (so http://i.imgur.com/ZYbd5o7.png would work, but not http://imgur.com/ZYbd5o7).

I looked through your comments and this is indeed your problem.
For KYM images specifically, instead of typing a link to the image page, (for example !https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/823850-super-smash-brothers!), just click on the image and it'll open a direct link. Copy/paste that instead. (Like so: !https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/823/850/292.jpg!)

You can also just right click an image and hit 'copy image URL' or 'copy image location'

An a general rule, your image URL must end with extensions such as .jpg .png or .gif

Sometimes you can get images that don't have that such as Google search cached images. Those ones wont work either.

Lastly keep in mind that some websites don't let you share their images anywhere else.

You can freely post images that are from KYM, Photobucket, Imgur etc. But some websites like Funnyjunk and Fanpop don't allow their images to be posted outside their sites. So they can appear broken on KYM even if you post it right.