Disabling video autoplay on reddit for chrome mobile browser

For three days now, for no apparent reason, reddit has decided to play all videos when on my phone's browser whether I want to or not, pausing whatever music is playing and using up data.

Tried checking the option off on both new and old reddit yet neither work nor produce any change whatsoever, and what little else that has been suggested doesn't seem to work for me; so far the only thing that seems to work is enabling desktop mode on chrome. At this point, I'm kind of at a loss at how to stop it without using desktop mode.