The Winter Olympics offer us a great lesson in GIFs–specifically, the power of a well-made GIF to condense much longer-form content into its highest-impact few seconds. Where you’ve got weeks of serious content and coverage, the GIF has to focus on what brings you the most oomph. Wipeouts.
4chan’s worksafe GIF section has been collecting the best of the wipeouts from the 2014 Winter Olympics for the last week. It’s an impressive thread. Not only is it emotionally wrenching to see these athletes try so hard and fail, but the wipeouts highlight the magnitude of what they’re trying to do. One big crash puts all the perfect runs and tenths-of-a-second into perspective. Here are some of my favorites.
Winter Olympics wipeouts thread – 4chan.org
Update: How did I miss this gem!?
