Rio Olympics 2016 is garnering a lot of attention, not for the events but for its strange rules, which are proving to be annoying and absurd for all the netizens. The latest rules ban of GIFs, Vines and live streaming any content related to Olympics athletes and events. But rest assured, the social media reactions suggest that at least GIFs will come up somehow or the other.
The International Olympics Committee just dropped a bomb on the social media, and that will very well disappoint Olympics fans across the globe. Just as GIFs and Vines were placing its entertaining dominance on the internet sphere, and social media platforms started making it easier to implement them, the Olympics committee has banned these during the course of the event. The statement issued by the International Olympics Committee is a long list of rules to be applied during the Rio Olympics, and the most ‘hurtful’ ones were banning of GIFs, Vines and live streaming content.
The statement reads, “The use of Olympic Material transformed into graphic animated formats such as animated GIFs (i.e. GIFV), GFY, WebM, or short video formats such as Vines and others, is expressly prohibited.” So sadly, we cannot have any Usain Bolt GIFs with his lightning bolt, considering it’s his last Olympics. That’s not it, another rule states that live streaming of any Olympics match or event is strictly prohibited. This bars popular sites like Twitter’s Periscope or Facebook for that matter, to not live stream any Olympics content. Sports channel broadcasters can though heave a sigh of relief as their investment will be used to its full content.
Financial Review reports that this very committee had also banned the usage of certain Olympics-related words on social media. This prevents athletes as well as their sponsors to refrain from using any Olympics-related words like 2016, Rio/Rio de Janeiro, gold, silver, bronze, medal, effort, performance, challenge. Cited as ‘Rule 40’, the International Olympics Committee says that it was established “to preserve the unique nature of the Olympic Games by preventing over-commercialization.”
These rules, particularly the GIFs ban seem absurd and why not? The biggest global athletics and sports event cannot go on without a few GIFs popping out here and there on the social media sphere. And who’s to say that this is going to stop people from actually making GIFs. Here are some Twitter reactions which positively hint that there will be Olympics GIFs regardless the ban.
It’s cute that IOC thinks they can successfully ban gifs of the Olympics
— Amelia Gapin (@EntirelyAmelia) August 5, 2016
Apparently the @olympics think they can ban people from making #Rio2016 GIFs. Good luck with that one. haha https://t.co/Wpprnl6LjF
— John Morrison (@localcelebrity) August 4, 2016
The #Rio2016 Olympics has tried to ban gifs. Because that will TOTALLY work, amirite? https://t.co/ZhBZLZVtcf
— Patrick Wagstrom (@pridkett) August 4, 2016
Source: bgr.in
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