The only real work around at this time - is to download from wherever you are viewing your favorite .gifs - to your own workstation/laptop/notebook - as a .gif file into specific folder on one of your machine's drive units.
Log onto your Lush account.
Upload those .gif images to your Lush gallery - from where you've downloaded them to previously.
I've been able to upload 128 .gifs to my gallery, which I can then display - and copy the valid URL - to then post the entire URL into the chatroom, where it will display.
Any attempt to upload .gif number 129 - the LushStories system turns it into a static .jpg file, stripping the other 20 to 30 frames from the original .gif file.
The URL will look roughly something like this when you go to copy it from your LushStories gallery --
I've added spaces and removed a pair of forward slashes so this wouldn't attempt to activate upon posting this message. After the last forward slash - is the unique .jpg name which a LushStories server assigns to your uploaded .gif file.
http s : media 2 . lushstories.com / attachments /
Takes a bit of work on your part, but it works. I don't really know what will happen if you delete an uploaded .gif file from your gallery (in the future)...my guess is that any instance mentioning the formerly good URL - will cause that instance to 'break' and quit displaying the image correctly.
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.