Onscreen text turns Olympic diving into unintentional porn
Olympic viewers must have sex on the brain something awful. It could be a side effect from watching all those well-toned, muscular athletes, many of them wearing form-fitting uniforms. Whatever the cause, it didn’t take long for the world to reduce even this noblest of competitions to the level of absolute smut. First, the internet lost its damned collective mind when two German field hockey players named Florian Fuchs and Linus Butt were photographed standing next to each other. Very immature, that. Then, a young American diver from Indiana captured the public’s filthy imagination, just because he happened to be named Steele Johnson, a perfectly innocent moniker that coincidentally sounds like the name of a well-hung, mustachioed porn star from the 1980s. And now, sadly, Johnson’s entire sport has become the subject of salacious snickering. Over at BuzzFeed, staffers Matt Stopera and Lauren Yapalater have assembled a series of screencaps in which various captions, chyrons, and graphics appear directly over the groins of male divers, making the athletes appear nude. It’s really quite distasteful—not the competition itself, but the way that viewers at home can’t keep their minds out of the gutter for a moment.