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The image features a photograph of real professional British middle-distance runner Keely Hodgkinson on an athletics track, wearing her competition uniform and holding her event name tag, with a skeptical, unimpressed expression as she looks off to the side. Overlaid white text makes a satirical claim that all camera angles are banned in women's athletics to stop the sexualization of female athletes. The joke comes from the pairing of the athlete's annoyed expression with the seemingly absurd, overreaching proposed rule, poking fun at recent conversations around perceived excessive restrictions on sports media coverage of female athletes.
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ALL CAMERA ANGLES NOW BANNED IN WOMEN'S ATHLETICS TO CRACKDOWN ON 'SEXUALISING' FEMALE ATHLETES

Overview

The image features a photograph of real professional British middle-distance runner Keely Hodgkinson on an athletics track, wearing her competition uniform and holding her event name tag, with a skeptical, unimpressed expression as she looks off to the side. Overlaid white text makes a satirical claim that all camera angles are banned in women's athletics to stop the sexualization of female athletes. The joke comes from the pairing of the athlete's annoyed expression with the seemingly absurd, overreaching proposed rule, poking fun at recent conversations around perceived excessive restrictions on sports media coverage of female athletes.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the platform 9Gag, where it was published under the original title "Go sports!". It edits a real, unaltered photograph of Keely Hodgkinson taken at a professional athletics event, adding satirical overlaid text to create a humorous joke about ongoing discourse around the sexualization of female athletes in sports media.

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