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London 2012 Olympics Logo

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Because there are lots of Pink Swastikas floating around!

The £400,000 craptastrophe

The superior logo that made its way to the BBC.

Look at it.

Oh god.

It all began Last Thursday when officials revealed the new hip London 2012 Olympics logo to the public. This new logo was supposed to be urban, active and extreme, however it turned out to be one of the most ghastly sights since Janet Jacksons nipple piercing. The cost of the campaign to British taxpayers was apparently a whopping £400,000 (about $790,000); yes it cost that much for someone to make 2 abstract lines with 2 highlighters.

The publics reaction was nothing short of outrage, and there were mentions of it looking like "a broken swastika" [1][2]. It's amazing how the campaign was so bad that it has brought back nightmares of World War 2 and the holocaust. In fact, if you look at the design closely, it looks like two people having buttsecks. You see it now!

[edit] Fan Created Designs

Due to increasing outrage over this logo, there have been many different fan versions of the logo submitted to the main site and others. Most of them were equally shitty and full of fail, however there was one design that stood out among the others:

Yes, someone was smart enough to employ the iconic Goatse design to their submission, creating one of the greatest and lulzworthy logos ever made. ~~This design even made it on to live television.~~(link broken) Youtube had the broadcast video, but it was quickly removed. The person who submitted this was a poster on the British imageboard B3ta, where goatse is a meme.

[edit] Animated Epilepsy Version

Now if the standard logo wasn't bad enough, the official website had a flash animation of the logo in action. Turns out that the animated version involving a diver flashed so rapidly that it caused epileptic fits across Britain, just like what pokemon did to Japan and the Church of Scientology did to the Epilepsy Foundation. The site removed the offending animation because they are a bunch of pussies, but we at ED have backed up a segment of the animation for those still interested in what it feels like to have a seizure.