They weren't banned, as they were never one of Fanpop's new updates. It was a glitch that allowed people to 上传 gifs as icons, but it's been solved now.
It was a glitch 潮流粉丝俱乐部 made thinking people were able to use GIF's as there icons, but almost two days 以前 was when the administrators stopped people from using them. This was never a new feature, it was an accident that they did.