Readers disappointed in the small number of online voting opportunities on GIFs can rejoice. T.GIF, the 2014 GIF Tourney has launched. I’ve already cast my votes for the day, so I’m done, but I’ll be back tomorrow to make sure my candidates win. I’ve got a few favorites, and this piece above by Sara Ludy is surely a standout. First round ends today, so now’s the time to make your vote count.
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While ArtFCity supports the neoliberal model of GIFs as mano-a-mano, “fuck your buddy” capitalist competition, complete with a ladder of winners and losers and hokey flames in the background, tommoody.us, a kinder, gentler website, announces “Operation GIF Rescue,” where the “losers” of these dogfights will be given deserving homes: http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2014/03/23/announcing-operation-gif-rescue/
I support “Operation GIF rescue”. I see the tourney as a way to get people engaged and have some fun, and pulling good gifs off the site and talking about them critically helps that cause.
Please note that the name and post title has been changed to GIF Rescue Service: http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2014/03/23/announcing-gif-rescue-service/
Competition is not fun but rescue warms the hearts of millions.
I’ve taken the comment out of moderation, but it seems be registered as a “guest” and I don’t know how to change that. No idea why disqus decided to moderate it in the first place. Weird.
isnt that ‘sara’ ludy
Yup. Fixed. Thanks!
As of March 27, five GIFs have been rescued from this ill-considered competition and given loving homes. If my comment announcing the GIF Rescue Service could be taken out of moderation it would be much appreciated (it probably happened when I edited to change the URL). –Tom
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