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{{Infobox Event
|name = Gilbert's Colours
|image = [[File:Gilbert's Colours.png|300px]]
|release = [[8 June]] [[2017]]
|update = Pest Control & Open Weekend
|removal = [[22 June]] [[2017]]
|removalupdate = Mining Guild Expansion
|reward = [[Rainbow scarf]]
|preceded = 
|succeeded = [[2022 Pride event]]
}}
[[File:Rainbow.png|left|120px|One of the rainbows a player may find while searching for [[Rainbow strand]]s.]]
'''Gilbert's Colours''' was an event that took place in ''[[Old School RuneScape]]'' as a promotion of {{WP|LGBT}} inclusivity.

Players started the event by speaking to [[Gilbert (Gilbert's Colours)|Gilbert]], a leprechaun found in the [[Lumbridge Castle]] courtyard. Gilbert asked the player to gather six [[Rainbow strand|strands of colours]] from rainbows found throughout Gielinor. Each colour represents a specific meaning based on the {{wp|Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)|rainbow flag}} in real-life.

Once the player gave Gilbert all six strands, he rewarded players with the [[rainbow scarf]].

==Locations==
Each of the clues refers to the meaning of one of the stripes on the rainbow flag.

{| class="wikitable lighttable"
! colspan="2" |Colour
!Riddle
!Location
!Colour meaning
|-
|{{plinkt|Red rainbow strand|txt=Red}}
|''"South of my magical location, I see life! New adventurers and baldness rife."''
|South of the [[Wizards' Tower]].
|Life
|-
|{{plinkt|Orange rainbow strand|txt=Orange}}
|''"Beside me now, a person of healing. Those who test their luck, find this place appealing."''
|East of the [[Duel Arena]] bank.
|Healing
|-
|{{plinkt|Yellow rainbow strand|txt=Yellow}}
|''"On my face; shining sunlight. South of a dwarf whom redberries delight."''
|The southern point of [[Mudskipper Point]].
|Sunlight
|-
|{{plinkt|Green rainbow strand|txt=Green}}
|''"Lush natures and trees are to the east. The Green strand... no orange! No, blue! No, red! Green! Argh! There's so much bickering in this area it's hard to pinpoint its location..."''
|The entrance of the [[Goblin Village]].
|Nature
|-
|{{plinkt|Blue rainbow strand|txt=Blue}}
|''"In this area, there's a silent and artistic harmony... Ironically, north-west, wizards kill newcomers effortlessly."''
|In the [[ram]]s' pen, south of [[Varrock]].
|Serenity
|-
|{{plinkt|Purple rainbow strand|txt=Purple}}
|''"The knights in this area, are full of Saradomin's spirit. On the top of this fortress, when I yell - all hear it!"''
|On the top floor of the [[White Knights' Castle]], just upstairs of [[Sir Amik Varze]].
|Spirit
|}

==Controversy==
Gilbert's Colours was an extremely controversial event which received mixed opinions from the ''Old School RuneScape'' community. Criticism from dissenting players claimed it was too overtly political and thus out of place and "irrelevant" to the world of ''Old School RuneScape''.{{CiteGeneral|url=https://www.mic.com/articles/179183/old-school-runescape-players-rage-against-political-in-game-lgbtq-pride-event|title='Old School RuneScape' players rage against "political" in-game LGBTQ pride event|date=6 June 2017|accessdate=2022-02-19}} Upon announcement of the event on [[Mod Wolf]]'s personal Twitter account,{{CiteTwitter|author=Mod Wolf|url=https://twitter.com/Jay_Wilton/status/871773754497650688|date=5 June 2017|archiveurl=https://archive.ph/neNqD|archivedate=9 April 2022}} it received significant backlash, culminating in offensive and inflammatory in-game protests (dubbed "riots") against the event which received outside media coverage.{{CiteGeneral|url=https://medium.com/@slimelia/how-a-pixelated-rainbow-spurred-a-virtual-riot-in-runescape-bd7193ee01d|title=How a Pixelated Rainbow Spurred a Virtual Riot in RuneScape|date=8 June 2017|publisher=medium.com|accessdate=2022-02-19|archiveurl=https://archive.is/joJJZ|archivedate=20 February 2022}}

In a 2020 interview, [[Mod Mat K]], a former Senior Product Manager, described the backlash as "horrific", stating that an investigation by Jagex afterwards concluded that the majority of the protestors were not active players, but instead came from anti-LGBT communities across the Internet who joined ''Old School'' solely to protest the event. [[Mod Wolf]], the developer of ''Gilbert's Colours'', was the target of death threats and severe harassment as a result, causing him great personal distress.{{CiteVideo|author=Shauny|title=In the Games Industry - An interview with (ex-Mod) Mat K!|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX7vdMqcqsE&t=11090s|timestamp=3:04:50|date=18 January 2020|site=|notes=}} In February 2022, Mod Wolf (who had also departed Jagex by that time) stated that his only regret regarding the event was that Jagex did not continue to do Pride events yearly because of the backlash,{{CiteTwitter|author=Mod Wolf|url=https://twitter.com/Jay_Wilton/status/1489970428437491713|date=5 February 2022|archiveurl=https://archive.is/z2Jex|archivedate=30 January 2024|quote=4 months from now will mark the 5 year anniversary I received a torrent of death threats for adding 6 tiny rainbows in @OldSchoolRS for Pride. My only regret is that we didn't continue it yearly - caving into pressure, fear and hate 🌈}} a sentiment [[Mod Sween]] agreed with.{{CiteTwitter|author=Mod Sween|date=5 February 2022|url=https://twitter.com/Alec_Sween/status/1489971804932354060|archiveurl=https://archive.is/AXE0X|archivedate=30 January 2024|quote=Was on a UKIE Pride panel in my last few months at Jagex to talk about Gilbert and the vitriol from some players. I expressed a similar regret, that we reacted the way we did}}

As a result of the 2017 community backlash, there was no new Pride event until [[2022 Pride event|2022]]. Numerous countermeasures were put in place to prevent anti-LGBT protests in 2022, including the disabling of [[Dwarf multicannons]], [[Hunter]] [[Trap|traps]], [[mithril seeds]], and [[Fire|fires]] in the area surrounding the event and the muting and banning of protesting players specifically for disruption of the event.

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