Soo Friday was supposed to be the night when all of
the millions of supporters of Kony2012 ran through the streets of major cities
to cover it posters of Kony and make him famous but… THAT FAILED.
Waking up on Saturday morning and walking through
town (Leicester) I saw absolutely NOTHING! Not one poster or sticker was about,
so the question was what happened?
The campaign aimed to plaster
‘every city, on every block’ around the world with posters, stickers and murals
of Kony to pressure governments into hunting down the leader however it seems
that the campaigns phenomenal success in mustering young people’s support
online, following the launch of their documentary video which went viral last
month, flopped in trying to turn that support into real life actions.
Now it could have been that it
was just Leicester that didn’t take off, but no. News report state that globally there was just no real
support for the campaigns movement. It seems that in the UK alone journalists
were having doubts on the day as to whether this event would take off.
Journalist Peter Walker said
‘While almost 10,000 people have used a UK Kony 2012 Facebook event page to say they will
take part, the site, along with many other social media pages devoted to the
protest, is also filled with debate about the efficacy of Invisible Children's
campaign.’
Personally it seems to me that
either people just forgot or they had lost confidence in the campaign following
Jason Russell’s breakdown on March 19, all the speculation that it was scam and
the entire backlash that their documentary video received.
Or it could just be that
everyone had moved on and the Invisible Children is just that…Invisible.
I have written about this as well trying to figure out whether the hype died due to lose of interest or because people then became aware that the Kony campaign itself was exxagerated in some manners to make for a more dramatic case. Or whether it is also now due to Jason the director having what was called a mental breakdown. It's not a new thing for people on social networks, especially teens to get caught up in a hype and feel so fueled for it one minute, yet the next lose interest and move on to the new latest hype. As i said in my blog, my Twitter page literally went into a frenzy with Konys name mentiioned everywhere in the hope of bringing as much awareness to him as possible, however if you were to look on Twitter now, not a trace of even his name being mentioned recently is about. It saddens me that the need to help for many people has died because regardless of the hype for the Kony campaign havig died, it doesn't mean the suffering that some children went through and some possibly still going through now in Uganda due to this man has died aswel.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about this too. The first few days after the campaign became public there were a lot of people who were for the cause who were determined to find kony.Then days just after that people started coming out with conspiracies and different myths and reasons as to why the campaign may be fake. With all the confusion in the air i think people decided not to involve themselves and just left it. Also in the video the Ugandan government weren't involved or shown asking for help just a random white guy no offence. As a viewer i kind of felt patronised with his little boy in the video because of how he explained what was going to happen. With all of that in the air i just decided to not get involved and really wanted to just sit back and see what others were going to do , but is seemed like we were all thinking the same thing.
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