Here are two examples, side-by-side.
<a href=“https://youtu.be/1Bg3U7_dabs”>Silent Striders are squeak toys</a> (your original text)
<a href="https://youtu.be/1Bg3U7_dabs">Silent Striders are squeak toys</a> (I copied/pasted your original text, and then replaced the quotation marks)
And here are the two hyperlinks again (but this time, outside of the <code> tags)
Silent Striders are squeak toys (yours)
Silent Striders are squeak toys (quotation marks adjusted)