Thread 213561757

Was this really the first wave of mass internet virtue signaling? For about a week everyone was obsessed with this shit. Then that guy had a naked meltdown and it was over. What a weird time.

>>213561819
>Was this really the first wave of mass internet virtue signaling?
No, that would probably be post-9/11 "support our troops" shit.
It was the first time the media tried to manufacture consent using the internet to justify American intervention in obscure countries though.
Apparently Russia is hunting him now last I heard.

>>213561757 (OP)
2012 was 49 years ago

>>213562005
>No, that would probably be post-9/11 "support our troops" shit.
That wasn’t strictly on the internet or even originating from it

2012 already came and went, he has been at full power for almost a decade. Kony is unstoppable.

>>213562005
People genuinely wanted our soldiers to slaughter towelheads after 9/11. It was completely natural and in 2001 the internet sucked, slow as shit and annoying to use with dial up

>>213561819
yes, it was a dress rehearsal to see if social media could be used to catapult complete random shit no one ever heard of or cared about into the biggest issue ever at the drop of the hat, and now it's 30 second clips instead of a 30 minute video

>>213561757 (OP)
I voted for Kony for the last 12 years.

>>213561757 (OP)
you can't stop me

>>213561819
yes. internet slacktivism propaganda started right there

IS HE THE BAD GUY FROM THE STAR WARS?

I checked under my couch, he's not there.

PVRE Baizuo clobert-era champaign socialist peak. Rallying around stopping a random African jungle man to save a mudhut town

I never actually looked into Kony when it was happening, what actually was it all? Something involving child soliders, right?

>>213561819
I remember seeing posters put up everywhere in my city. I blame this for everything that's happening now.

>>213561757 (OP)

https://youtu.be/k1FKS1SHSsc?si=JKSomQ6K7zyrdIJW

>>213561819
yes and even then it was openly debunked by several people immediately

also the guy who made it got butt-naked in front of San Diego traffic and started pounding his dong. the original gooner. he was a pioneer

>>213562871
send us your moneys to get rid of an african warlord. did nothing. CIA psyop test program

>>213563179
>the guy who made it got butt-naked in front of San Diego traffic and started pounding his dong
Was that the inspiration for this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKwW8PNZpOQ

>>213561757 (OP)
>"Man-Bun" kino

and not short enough it was, etc.

>>213562005
It has already been said but no. If you were around or at the very least able to form memories at the time you’d understand it was most certainly not just some obscure out-of-nowhere viral internet phenomenon that was blown out of proportion.

>>213563179
ha, i remember that, he was buck nekkid and screaming "I'M THE KONY PONY, THE KOOONY POOOOONY YASSSSSS" god what a fucking manbun faggot

Reminder that this dude, Jason Russel, the main theater kid fag in this video who started the whole Kony2012 thing had a full on mental breakdown like a year after this and was running around naked in the streets of San Diego chasing people kek
https://youtu.be/kg5-_Rib9S4

>>213563388
When we speak of "100% pure, gay, uncut faggot millennial energy," it's this kind of shit we're referring to.

>>213561757 (OP)
This feels like it should've been a big turning point online but no one brings it up anymore. It's like a bad memory, so much shit has happened since then it feels weirdly quaint

>>213561757 (OP)
I saw one poster because I had work at 8am the morning after they were supposed to put up those posters. think it was a Saturday. just one poster on a pole by a stoplight. kinda a weak response. maybe it was bigger in blue shitboles like nyc

Imagine in a different timeline it came out while Greta thunberg was active and it sidetracked her into going into the Congo to arrest kony (#noclimatejusticewithoutkonyjustice) And it ends up like Green Inferno

My parents browbeat me into going as Joseph Kony to school for Halloween that year lol. I was 11. A teacher got super offended and filed a complaint but it didn’t end up going anywhere. At least it made my dad laugh his ass off.

I’ll see if I can find some photos. I was a scrawny awkward white kid, and I mean, I still kind of am.

And to preempt the question, no, I wasn’t wearing black face.

>>213561757 (OP)
>KONY was a BLM test run
>normies will support any cause as long as it's promoted by celebrities and social channels
They were fully on board with lockdowns and vaxxinations, while ignoring the pogrom of Palestine currently happening

>>213563252
>did nothing
He got naked and jacked off in public in San Diego, that has to count for something.

>>213561819
I'M GONNA GO OUT JACKIN IT IN SAN DIEGO

>>213561757 (OP)
>>213561819

I got banned awhile ago for posting about this.
asking the same thing.
What gives?

>>213562208
>in 2001 the internet sucked, slow as shit and annoying to use with dial up
Maybe in your shack in West Virginia. The internet was incredible and not-ruined in 2001 and it's better the further back you go.

CIA PSYOP TESTING GROUNDS OPERATION

>>213561757 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=422593uyYmc

Man, this video brought back memories

I forget - was this Kony or Boko Haram?
At any rate picrelated had a big swinging dick he wasn't afraid to wield for social media clout.

>>213564117
>Boko Haram
the latter

>>213562839
based

>>213563482
Him and the Grizzly Man guy were so gay

>>213564117

Boko haram, who were unironically a much bigger threat than Kony ever was. Even back in 2012, kony was a nobody dime a dozen warlord in the bush that would fuck up a village very now and then. Boko Haram was sort of a proto ISIS, and now they look to be on the verge of starting up a new ISIS state in the sahara.

>>213563729
Kino

This was one of first times I realized I wasn't a brainless NPC, almost everyone at my school pretended to care about this shit for 2 weeks and I was just like wow you are all dumb

>>213563258
yeah i think it's funny that everyone has forgotten about that, the only mainstream breadcrumbs are in South Park

>>213564826
Likewise, I now realize I'm not a brainless NPC because now nobody cares about this and I'm the only one who does.

>>213564912
God I hated these faggots

>>213565239
I did too at the time, now i'm kinda ok with them...their two big songs are catchy af.

>>213565239
Everyone could tell everywhere you went that you were seething while everyone else enjoyed the rampant sex and fun that happened constantly from 2010-14

>>213562011
HE
MUST
PAY
DENPBPTS

>>213565388
Its was a chill half decade...basically i had the best time of my teens around 2008 to 2015...it was a great run, now its all over...

>>213565388
2008 to 2014 kind of just felt like one really long year

>>213565673
>"dude that obama era was just so fly dawg"

get out

What was the plan anyway?
Raise money to hire mercenaries to fight Kony and his child soldier army?

I miss this era of activism. Shame absolutely NOTHING came from this because it was one big scam.

>>213561757 (OP)
Kony was a beta test for all the fake social movements of the 10s
BLM
feminist
trans

anything to get focus off banks running the government and the retarded masses bought right into it I think the Pepsi protest commercial was them just rubbing it in peoples faces.

>>213564826
>>213564906
If Kony2012 was the actual final Turing test that made you realize you’re not a completely retarded mindless bot, consider yourself lucky. You will probably never have any idea how close you were to never even being remotely sentient to begin with, you dudes barely escaped existing with somewhere around the brain capacity of a Pomeranian.

>>213561757 (OP)
MKultra trial

>>213565719
it was if you didn't have to work

>>213565758
We have to save the kids by fighting the kids and killing the kids, what part of that do you not understand

>>213565403
>>213562011
Kek i miss bald travolta era

did we ever get that Kony guy elected?
>>213565673
2008 to 2014 was my undergrad and masters, best times of my life.. take me back bros

>>213565758
No
The plan was to keep putting posters up in completely different continents to shame Kony into changing his ways

>>213565956
But that would hurt Kony feelings :(

I remember some shit lib teacher organized a bunch of buses to take high school kids to DC 20 hours away for the "protest" or something without official approval at my school

>>213564906
>now nobody cares about this and I'm the only one who does.
don't think of it like that the fact we do still think back on how retarded it was is because we could tell at the time it was completely forced and gay it was.

>>213565719
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhJ7NmU6lJI

Kony? More like Baloney.

>>213562005
No it wasn't. Obviously weren't alive or functioning

>>213562839
I thought it was real and I guess it sort of was just kony was already dead or gone. But I also knew there was 100 other warlords just like him active at any time in Africa and it wasn't my problem.

Pissed a lot of people off saying that flyers and money isn't going to do shit. You actually have to go and make a change, but a 18 year old liberal would turn their head at that

>>213564040
Shitty mods got exposed

>>213561757 (OP)
This shit was the beginning of the end

>>213564912
I've literally never even heard one of their songs, not knowingly anyway. I've only ever seen them memed here. In the early 2010s I was stealing drinks at bars and asking girls to bum cigarettes from other dudes for me. It's a neat trick

>>213561819
It was definitely one of the first Internet psyops

>>213566481
>In the early 2010s I was stealing drinks at bars
Then you definitely would have heard Shots, Sorry For Party Rocking, Party Rock Anthem, or Sexy And I Know It by proxy lmao

>>213562005
Zoomers are so fucking stupid lmfao

>>213563482
wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Russell
>born October 12, 1978
Lmfao another zoomer L

>>213561757 (OP)
Westerners caring about downtrodden niggerinos in other countries will never not be cringe. Stick to being out of touch taxpayer goyim.

>>213561757 (OP)
the film maker was in uganda in 05 and 06 during kony's peak

>>213566627
>zoomer L
The guy you replide to was likely Gen-X

>>213561757 (OP)
I'm still looking

>>213561819
yes

>>213561757 (OP)
>>213561819
>>213563484
Without a doubt, Kony 2012 was the testing ground by glowniggers to see how easy it would be to manipulate public opinion on social media to generate some fake consensus and outrage over some made up issue. Everything about it feels like it was replicated later on with BLM, and the lockdown/vax shit.

I still remember hearing about this shit back in Uni. The day is the exact point clown world began because after that day, I never heard about Occupy ever again despite still being a thing in early 2012, but I suddenly saw feminism and racial issues become a big deal after it.

>>213561757 (OP)
Did he win the election? Everyone voted for him.

>>213569074
He won it in our hearts