This video has been spreading like wild fire over the last couple of days, I'm surprised no-one's mentioned it yet. In two days it's gotten 7.3million views, with over half a million likes.
That video scares me cuz it sounds to me like a big hoax. I was talking to another guy on another gaming forum (I won't reign on all my fb friends' parade) and his answer is just in case this is a hoax he is not donating to this guy either. I mean by hoax is I see what this video is doing and it's bobbing and weaving and gaining support through the internet just like Kony is gaining support in a physical medium! Only Kony is taking the kids without consent but w/e. Anyway this could easily be a scam to fund Kony's defense against the war on terror. But I like this solution put forth, spread the word, pay for the posters or just post stuff on the internet on your own dime! Who knows where this is really going! The issues here are well documented, I don't doubt it. But like the first part of that damned virul thing (spam) says, the internet is a VAST wilderness, VERY full of potential, nobody can contain it, it confounds folks in traditional thought. I'm sure it's just fine... I just hope everybody has their bases covered. Looks to me like this is bait for the naive I just hope it's not.
H That's about the reaction expected from you. So you're not at all concerned that this man leads a group of rebels that are responsible for the kidnap of over 30,000 children in the last 25 years? With the young girls being kept as sex slaves and the young boys given guns and forced to kill people. Joseph Kony will be famous world wide very soon and people will have to start taking action against this guerrilla terrorist dictator bastard. Yesterday the video had 7 millions views, this morning it's got 15 million.
The bit where he says the next “The next 27 minutes are an experiment, but in order for it to work, you have to pay attention." just made me lose interest. After a bit of snooping, it looks like only 30% of the donations are used for aid and they aren't externally audited so it looks like they're skimming a lot off the top.
Yeah a lot of people are making a big deal about that but if you watched the video you would have seen that the donations aren't the main reason for the campaign, it's the awareness, that's what the experiment is. The US government sent troops over there after seeing how many people cared/knew about this problem. Now they're considering pulling the soldiers out because the problem isn't mainstream enough to warrant it. The whole campaign is about awareness and whether you agree with them taking a huge chunk (no doubt to fund the campaign) they are indeed spreading the awareness at an insane speed. The video was uploaded 2 days ago and it's gotten over 19 million views. The video stated that the US government has never deployed troops to another country without an immediate threat being posed, until now. The idea of the campaign is to get the politicians to realise that this is a serious problem and something must be done to bring one of the worst criminals in history to justice, because it's the right thing to do.
The US sent Advisors, not soldiers. The worst thing they could do is send soldiers over there, did we learn nothing from Iraq? I think public interest will last a week at most, because likes on facebook = contributing to a good cause. Armchair political activism at its best.
@armadeadn I never got that far. The intro was lame and didn't tell me what the video was about. And as Chi said, this is just armchair activism. I see the interest in this lasting a few days at most. Africa is a really screwed up continent in a lot of ways, and the rest of the world doesn't seem to care much. Much worse things have happened there while the rest of the world looked the other way, like the Rwandan Genocide, where 1 million people were killed in a couple of months and 300,000 women were raped.
If I was in Europe I'd actually be spooked out of my mind lol cuz you know that'd be the first place he's goin to
That sounds like something I'd say lol. I was just curious to see what everyone's thoughts were on the subject.
I have this problem with other videos I make. What's so hard about watching a 5 minute video (or at least a couple minutes into a longer one) seriously? Does you seat hurt your ass that much? overactive bladder or something? At least listen to it and open the tab back up when it gets to it's point. Admittedly it did take a bit to get to it's point. It's no oscar winner. But neither is Human Centipede and supposedly you watched that.
the problem is that if you don't get your viewers attention within the first 60 sec of your video, then you have failed. even worse, an informational video like this, if the viewer has no idea what the subject matter is about in the first minute, you have really failed. this is why commercials are short.
To be fair I think 90% of the people who watched this video knew what it was about since a lot of big youtubers have been helping spread the word.
90%? I don't think so. The Rwanda incident was made into several movies, and a lot people didn't know what it was about beforehand and that was quite an atrocity. This video made its rounds on facebook with people throwing it up as their status update or just linked from twitter. Personally, I didn't know about this Kony guy at all. The video turned me off in the first few minutes and just closed it and went straight to wikipedia instead.