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In 2010, an electronic dance music promotions company, Insomniac Events, banned gloving from all its events citing drug connotations and safety issues.
This sentence gets the timing wrong. Credible reports place Insomniac’s all-events LED glove ban in early 2011, not 2010.
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Multiple published accounts date Insomniac’s ban on LED gloves/gloving to early 2011.
- A 2016 VICE/THUMP feature says: "In January 2011, Insomniac Events ... announced on Facebook that LED gloves would be prohibited from all of their events."
- An earlier 2013 VICE profile says: "In early 2011, the country's largest EDM event production company, Insomniac, issued a statement banning LED lights from their events permanently."
- A January 25, 2011 blog post also documented the announcement at the time, noting that Insomniac was "no longer allowing LED Gloves" at its events.
Those sources are consistent that the ban announcement happened in 2011. The article’s wording that this happened "In 2010" is therefore factually incorrect by about one year.
3 sources
- Is Gloving an Art Form Or a Drug Accessory? We Investigated the Crackdown on LED Gloves at EDM Festivals
"In January 2011, Insomniac Events, the US-based promoter behind EDC, announced on Facebook that LED gloves would be prohibited from all of their events."
- I Met Gummy, the Gloving Champion of the Entire World
"In early 2011, the country's largest EDM event production company, Insomniac, issued a statement banning LED lights from their events permanently."
- =>An Influx Of Culture<=: January 2011
"Tuesday, January 25, 2011 ... Insomniac Events new press release on LED Gloves ... Insomniac Events has stated that they are no longer allowing LED Gloves... into any of there events."