diff --git a/files/routes/posts.py b/files/routes/posts.py
index 0da6a729e..8f8469e3e 100644
--- a/files/routes/posts.py
+++ b/files/routes/posts.py
@@ -474,6 +474,119 @@ def check_processing_thread(v, post, link, db):
 			print("retard. aborting thread")
 			break
 
+def thumbs(new_post):
+	pid = new_post.id
+	post = get_post(pid, graceful=True, session=g.db)
+	if not post:
+		# account for possible follower lag
+		time.sleep(60)
+		post = get_post(pid, session=g.db)
+
+	fetch_url=post.url
+
+	#get the content
+
+	#mimic chrome browser agent
+	headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.72 Safari/537.36"}
+
+	try:
+		x=requests.get(fetch_url, headers=headers)
+	except:
+		return False, "Unable to connect to source"
+
+	if x.status_code != 200:
+		return False, f"Source returned status {x.status_code}."
+
+	#if content is image, stick with that. Otherwise, parse html.
+
+	if x.headers.get("Content-Type","").startswith("text/html"):
+		#parse html, find image, load image
+		soup=BeautifulSoup(x.content, 'html.parser')
+		#parse html
+
+		#create list of urls to check
+		thumb_candidate_urls=[]
+
+		#iterate through desired meta tags
+		meta_tags = [
+			"twitter:image",
+			"og:image",
+			"thumbnail"
+			]
+
+		for tag_name in meta_tags:
+			
+
+
+			tag = soup.find(
+				'meta', 
+				attrs={
+					"name": tag_name, 
+					"content": True
+					}
+				)
+			if not tag:
+				tag = soup.find(
+					'meta',
+					attrs={
+						'property': tag_name,
+						'content': True
+						}
+					)
+			if tag:
+				thumb_candidate_urls.append(expand_url(post.url, tag['content']))
+
+		#parse html doc for <img> elements
+		for tag in soup.find_all("img", attrs={'src':True}):
+			thumb_candidate_urls.append(expand_url(post.url, tag['src']))
+
+
+		#now we have a list of candidate urls to try
+		for url in thumb_candidate_urls:
+
+			try:
+				image_req=requests.get(url, headers=headers)
+			except:
+				continue
+
+			if image_req.status_code >= 400:
+				continue
+
+			if not image_req.headers.get("Content-Type","").startswith("image/"):
+				continue
+
+			if image_req.headers.get("Content-Type","").startswith("image/svg"):
+				continue
+
+			image = PILimage.open(BytesIO(image_req.content))
+			if image.width < 30 or image.height < 30:
+				continue
+
+			break
+
+		else:
+			#getting here means we are out of candidate urls (or there never were any)
+			return False, "No usable images"
+
+
+
+
+	elif x.headers.get("Content-Type","").startswith("image/"):
+		#image is originally loaded fetch_url
+		image_req=x
+		image = PILimage.open(BytesIO(x.content))
+
+	else:
+		print(f'Unknown content type {x.headers.get("Content-Type")}')
+		return False, f'Unknown content type {x.headers.get("Content-Type")} for submitted content'
+
+	with open("image.webp", "wb") as file:
+		for chunk in image_req.iter_content(1024):
+			file.write(chunk)
+	post.thumburl = upload_ibb(resize=True)
+
+	g.db.add(post)
+
 
 @app.post("/submit")
 @limiter.limit("6/minute")
@@ -837,118 +950,7 @@ def submit_post(v):
 
 
 	# thumbnail generation
-
-
-
-
-
-	if (new_post.url or request.files.get('file')) and (v.is_activated or request.headers.get('cf-ipcountry')!="T1"):
-
-		#get the content
-
-		#mimic chrome browser agent
-		headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.72 Safari/537.36"}
-
-		try:
-			x=requests.get(new_post.url, headers=headers)
-		except:
-			return False, "Unable to connect to source"
-
-		if x.status_code != 200:
-			return False, f"Source returned status {x.status_code}."
-
-		#if content is image, stick with that. Otherwise, parse html.
-
-		if x.headers.get("Content-Type","").startswith("text/html"):
-			#parse html, find image, load image
-			soup=BeautifulSoup(x.content, 'html.parser')
-			#parse html
-
-			#create list of urls to check
-			thumb_candidate_urls=[]
-
-			#iterate through desired meta tags
-			meta_tags = [
-				"twitter:image",
-				"og:image",
-				"thumbnail"
-				]
-
-			for tag_name in meta_tags:
-				
-
-
-				tag = soup.find(
-					'meta', 
-					attrs={
-						"name": tag_name, 
-						"content": True
-						}
-					)
-				if not tag:
-					tag = soup.find(
-						'meta',
-						attrs={
-							'property': tag_name,
-							'content': True
-							}
-						)
-				if tag:
-					thumb_candidate_urls.append(expand_url(new_post.url, tag['content']))
-
-			#parse html doc for <img> elements
-			for tag in soup.find_all("img", attrs={'src':True}):
-				thumb_candidate_urls.append(expand_url(new_post.url, tag['src']))
-
-
-			#now we have a list of candidate urls to try
-			for url in thumb_candidate_urls:
-
-				try:
-					image_req=requests.get(url, headers=headers)
-				except:
-					continue
-
-				if image_req.status_code >= 400:
-					continue
-
-				if not image_req.headers.get("Content-Type","").startswith("image/"):
-					continue
-
-				if image_req.headers.get("Content-Type","").startswith("image/svg"):
-					continue
-
-				image = PILimage.open(BytesIO(image_req.content))
-				if image.width < 30 or image.height < 30:
-					continue
-
-				break
-
-			else:
-				#getting here means we are out of candidate urls (or there never were any)
-				return False, "No usable images"
-
-
-
-
-		elif x.headers.get("Content-Type","").startswith("image/"):
-			#image is originally loaded fetch_url
-			image_req=x
-			image = PILimage.open(BytesIO(x.content))
-
-		else:
-			print(f'Unknown content type {x.headers.get("Content-Type")}')
-			return False, f'Unknown content type {x.headers.get("Content-Type")} for submitted content'
-
-		with open("image.webp", "wb") as file:
-			for chunk in image_req.iter_content(1024):
-				file.write(chunk)
-		new_post.thumburl = upload_ibb(resize=True)
-
-
-
-
-
+	if (new_post.url or request.files.get('file')) and (v.is_activated or request.headers.get('cf-ipcountry')!="T1"): thumbs(new_post)
 
 	notify_users = set()