The "plot" about Angelina Jolie flying off to Uganda and luring Kony to a trap sounds like something straight from South Park. Good god, how can anyone come up with that and be serious about it?
Your first time hearing about the typical behaviour of people who work for the UN I take it? Just wait till you get to the time they covered up live human organ harvesting for a cut of the profits
I love how down to earth Jason is about the whole issue. "Were you on drugs at the time?" "Zero drugs, that being said I would've thought I was on drugs too" "Were you also masturbating at the time?" "No, I mean I'm naked, so it's not that far of an extension if imagination but..."
Psychosis is no joke, there was a very real risk that Jason could have caused DEADLY harm to himself, and the people around him. I appreciate the fact that Internet Historian did not mock this life-threatening medical emergency
I still have my Kony 2012 poster from my dorm room for meme reasons. My entire campus was covered in "Kony 2012" stuff. Chalk on the sidewalk, posters, etc.
In case you're wondering, Joseph Kony is still free today. His army has shrunk to an estimated 100 members and both Uganda and the US consider him a non threat. No one is looking for him anymore, so basically he got away with 30 years of child torture and war crimes.
This kinda reminds me of that man eating, mass murdering warlord from Angola who now claims the word of Jesus has made him the the wrongness of his past. He now goes around "asking" ppl to forgive him. You better not decline thought.
@@walli6388 general buttnaked who would go around towns completely naked with an army of naked children with ak47s, killing, raping, cannibalizing and having the kids eat the hearts of innocent children? i also remember an incident where he awkardly tries to apologize to a traumatized victim of his whom he shot in the legs, locked in a room for a week, got hospitalized but his legs were too far gone for them to function anymore. Buttnaked kept saying "you have to forgive me man" keep in mind he only became a "holyman" when he started losing the war
TMZ has zero morals. We've known this for years, but only recently are they finally getting the pushback they deserve for always wanting to film or publicize mental breakdowns. For whatever faults that man had, he didn't deserve his lowest moment to be made public like that. I hope he's doing better now.
"pushback" today means a couple of dunces on twitter complains for a day or two, meida circulates the story to each other out of laziness, and then everyone forgets it in like 3 days.
Seriously I hate TMZ so much and immediately get a low opinion of anyone that watches it. Every person in that studio deserves a firm backhand to the face.
"Everyone were up for pretty much anything to stop Kony as long as long as it didn't involve any practical action" This applies so well on so many of these "movements" these days
I blame the internet; it’s causing people to do things by barely moving a muscle. For example, you can now order food on the internet, and I don’t mean just pizza.
If they really wanted to end systemic racism(if it exists), one pretty easy way to do it is to ABOLISH THE CREDIT SCORE But the same people who "help" them don't wan to lose all that sweet wealth they are sitting on
The small scale campaigns Invisible Children is still doing are actually pretty effective on the ground. Their Early Warning Radio Network unites local communities, the fliers and local radio broadcasts and defection programs in the region keep Kony (and his son) from being able to exert influence over his commanders, which keeps the group splintered and unable to regroup. Chances are high Kony never saw the video himself, and quite possibly he never heard of Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt (though he & the LRA were apparently Rambo fans), but he and his commanders definitely heard & hear local radio broadcasts & find fliers in the bush, enabling child soldiers to escape. It also seems to have motivated several mass defections, one in 2012 and one (I think) last year, each of which significantly reduced the kidnapped women and children held by the remaining group. One of the larger remaining splinter groups is even reportedly in discussions of surrender. It worked, crazy as it was, at the local level. Whatever folks in Kampala or Montreal thought.
Credit where it's due; Jason did a full interview with Oprah and TED Talk after being filmed naked on a street corner in San Diego. I feel like the average person would just give up and hide from the world at that point.
Yeah, I guess you're right. Hell, the dude is still out there trying to do the right thing. I would definitely suggest a more educated/active style of working toward a goal that relies on reaching milestones instead of getting immediate success. =Y
I remember at the time where people were saying that he did that so he could plea insanity if the police ever tried arresting him for stealing / misusing the donation money. I was pretty sure back then, and to this day I am still convinced that all of Kony2012 stuff was just a scam from the start. I think he got caught / called out that the whole thing was a scam so he just had to double down after the fact to avoid going to jail.
@@armybear2 Why would he bother to actually go to Uganda then? He was doing shit for over a decade anyway; that's a hell of a long time to run a scam, and his breakdown wouldn't make fraud illegal. I see credible evidence that it was actually a scam.
the handbag that says "I heart Kony" is either a galaxy brain counterculture play or someone getting wooshed so hard that they somehow managed to miss what the people who missed the point thought the point was. Absolutely fascinating stuff.
I don't really get what's going with this betterhelp thing other than Shane Dawson sponsors it. Can someone fill me in? That would be very much appreciated
@@Ian-oe9wp it's not really about that, though. The main point is that betterhelp isn't providing the service they're promising, and they don't give a single shit about their customers.
Honestly I don’t think he expected it to blow up as much as it did. Like the video mentions the guy had a few campaigns before that that kind didn’t do so well. So when this one exploded in popularity he probably wasn’t prepared. Handled it as best as he could tho given the circumstances imo
I think the guy was just a passionate filmmaker who wanted to do something good but all he really could do was “spread awareness” in hopes that some people in power will notice it and develop a strategy to fix it. He never promised to fix it himself but that’s how it came across to many.
I guess the issue is that yeah maybe he is a passionate filmmaker. Thats a big red flag. If you're out there to find a story to make a film about then your priority in the first place was the film not the cause. It's essentially using these African kids as a stepping stone for his career. I'm pretty sure if there wasn't a glamourous story to tell then he wouldn't be making a big deal of the Kony campaign and would've found a different scoop. That doesn't read to me as a good person. Honestly comes off a narcissist. But it's just speculation. Still the quote stands "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".
@@slayer12234 Dude you're still going with that narcissist shit, where in that video has he ever given the impression of being a narcissist who's only purpose is exposure, he's been working for fucking years in Uganda, it makes no sense. Your speculations are so baseless it's incredible
@@valentin5960 Narcissism is to make yourself the center of attention. Its not off base to believe this. Hes clearly put his face across the whole movement, with all the media attention and even a musical loool. If I remember correctly the video did mention he specifically went to the country searching for a story for a film. As I said before if filmmaking is the priority then theres major issues there. Also him standing by the issue for a long time doesn't mean he can't be a narcissist. He can truly believe the issue has legs and believe that it would make a good film with the cause being secondary. These are assumptions that neither of us can prove. Another thing is after all if we do assume that he is pure in intention it still doesn't change the issue. He caused a load of shit because he didn't bother to plan things properly. Good intentions alone dont save people. You have a tendency to say absolutely nothing other than “haha you're wrong”. I actually hope you can think more critically than that.
What I love about Internet Historian is how they present such memeable people but instead of simply dunking on them, end up being more fair than the media about these individuals. It's a nice touch of humanity. This is the 2nd time that I have had my impression of a subject changed by Internet Historian...the first one being the epic tale of Balloon Boy naturally. Anyhow...great work!!!!
I worked at a digital banking software company called "Kony" and when telling people "I work for Kony" they laughed around 60-70% of the time thinking I was making a joke. It was also a real SOB for SEO.
Isaiah Stoy What do you expect them to do? Travel to Uganda and fight the rebels themselves? They were spreading awareness so governments can take action to stop him
I really feel for the guy. Sure he was misguided but he spends 10 entire years of his life trying to make a positive change and then gets branded as a greedy money hogging egomaniac. I hope he's doing alright.
It’s actually not too irregular. UN members will use their funding in weird ways to fulfill their own ambitions. In this case, the guy wanted to meet the two celebrities.
@@48917032 This guy is/was a literal fucking warlord who makes children eat their parents. I hate the two candidates as much as the next guy, but that statement just *REEKS* of edgelord cringe.
That was literally the point of the ad campaign. It was an election year and they wanted to use the buzz to get people to rally together on a bipartisan campaign of making Kony as recognizable as Obama, basically.
I was part of the invisible children’s club at my high school when this happened. We were so excited that other people were finally starting to take notice and care, and then everything imploded. Thank you for this balanced and nuanced explanation! I have so much sympathy for Jason and everything he went through. They never anticipated the campaign would blow up the way it did.
Oh God I'm cringing so hard just thinking about 16 year old me proudly showing the Kony video to my teacher and classmates back in 2012...I actually thought I was doing something good...
You were. You raised awareness for genuine children in crisis who needed help. Even if the specific organisation being supported had poor planning and leadership there was still an issue that needed funding for employment of Ugandan people to fight the issue and protect those children. Shits hard, but I don’t think bringing attention to this was a bad thing.
2012 was really the year virtue signaling became a mainstream thing. I remember posters being hungup all around my high-school but if you actually stopped and asked someone who Kony was or why we need to stop him you would get a blank stare or maybe a "Well he's a bad man in Africa" response. No one cared beyond the surface level of fitting in and feeling good about themselves.
"Happily" is a bit of an overstatement. Man's got a fractured army barely numbering in the triple-digits with next to no source of recruits to supplement their dwindling numbers, with barely any form of foundational support, and he can never go near any law enforced civilization again for the rest of his life.
So BASICALLY: Dude tries to help a country in his own strange way, backlash happens (along with some mangled execution), he's driven mad to the point that he goes into an Emperor Lemon tirade downward spiral, and nothing happens. 2012 was an odd time and I feel nothing but sympathy for Jason.
Off topic, but I've been smoking almost daily for 13 years, but somehow I've never been high on 4/20. Something always comes up like I wind up stuck without a car to go get bud, my backpack got stolen with my whole stash in it, and 2 years I was in the hospital on that day. Idk how that's happened all my life.
If I was a Ugandan warlord and just found out a firstworld country was gonna want to kill me with dancing and celebreties, I'd probably just move on with my day and do more warlord things
There's really no way to win when it comes to social causes. If you do nothing, then you're complacent. If you try something, then for every piece of support you get, there's someone trying to get in your way and tear you down. "Why aren't you doing anything?" Or "why haven't you solved everything yet?" I honestly understand why people just put their heads down and try to go on. That's what makes the people who actually try something so impressive to me. Douglass, Tubman, Truth, and many others all tried their hardest to work against slavery in the US. They had won, they could have stayed safe in their freedom. They had no reason to believe they would succeed in changing anything. And society at large didn't even really want them to succeed. But they did it anyway. I hope I have that kind of fortitude someday.
'No good deed goes unpunished' isn't commonphrase for nothing. I don't say that to be or think it's as nihilist as it comes off either, just saying REAL change is tough and you have to be tough to make that change.
This is why his comment "as long as it didn't involve any practical action" made me roll my eyes. Why criticise peope doing something over people doing nothing?
@@lockeforeer they were criticized BECAUSE they were doing nothing. since they were all talk, it made it seem like 1. a scam and 2. a holier-than-thou scheme.
I remember this, he came to our high school. Sure enough it was a lot of hype with no actual solution. I vaguely remember they wanted to fundraise and if you raised the most and enough you would get sent on a paid trip to Uganda. My only thought was, "Wait, you want to send us to the war zone you're talking about?"
Considering how much time and effort he spent on this I want to say that he genuinely wanted to help, but had no real plan past raising awareness. Plus it being the first big social media campaign o think that nobody actually knew what to expect and everyone came down on the guy. Like obviously the guy wasn’t going to buy a rifle and go shoot Kony, but I think things got really built up and when nothing actually happened nobody knew who to blame so they went after the one guy they could. Jason seems like one of those people who is genuinely motivated to solve a problem, but also doesn’t really have any idea how to necessarily deal with it.
Exactly. Given that he functionally stumbled upon the problem in some backwater African village, wanting to raise awareness isn't necessarily a bad idea, because as far as he can tell, nobody knows and so nobody cares and so nothing happens. He spends 10 years trying (badly) to raise awareness. It doesn't work. This only convinces him that he needs to do One Big Thing to get attention to stop the problem. His impulse isn't a BAD one. But it needs to be partnered with somebody who knows wtf they are doing so that all that emotion and enthusiasm and dedication is channeled somewhere that is ultimately productive.
@@fumothfan9 Bad plan, the "other african warlords" would likely take the money and never do the job anyway. Why risking my army when I can just say "yes I can kill Kony" and then use the money to buy a mansion?
@@VladiSSius oh you have one of thoswe issues the u.s. had with osama bin laden when sadam hussein was in power. it's actually common for someone/country to use a person to get another dictator out of power, but so far it backfires because then the guy they hire turns into another (possibly worse) dictator
@@tinseltina I was replying to the context of this fundraising money is used to pay mercenary group/another warlord - which is not that many and the warlord in question would probably not doing anything worthy of the pay either. When US pours money, that's different question, and also different context tho.
I genuinely hope he's doing okay. He just wanted to bring awareness to a serious issue, but they thought he was going to mobilize an army (or I guess Brad Pitt and Co). Dude just cracked from all the attention. I don't pity him. I genuinely feel bad for him.
same here, he was trying his hardest and the media was basically spitting in his face the whole way. all the man wanted was to bring awareness so the us or any government might do something. the celeberty thing isnt even that bad of an idea, its defenitly weird but its been done before i just dont think hed really know the celeberties though lmao. its just whack because he wanted to spread awarenes and peope put all the responsibility on him.
"Invisible Children was hogging the limelight for other charities." That honestly says more about the modern charity industry being a cash grab than about Invisible Children per se. Edit: Now, the same media that criticized Invisible Children for "slacktivism" actively encourage it via hashtags, black squares on Instagram, etc.
@@Pumkin932 And there you have it folks, make up some bullshit about charities being corrupt - which most of them aren't - and deem them unworthwhile for no valid reason, then Frosty The Sociopath here doesn't have to donate money any more. Problem solved. Well, Frosty The Sociopath's problem is solved - he has convinced himself he's not a greedy fucking asshole - but the problem of dying children isn't solved. Bummer for them...
I remember being in like middle school during the Kony stuff and we all thought he was running for president. I wonder how many people actually put "Kony" on the ballot.
Yeah, i second that. Kony2012 was well meaning, but ultimately didn't really help anyone. People know who he is now, but that didn't help to have him arrested or save any kids.
It was a get rich quick scam, it was not a well meaning campaign for good. Kony wasn't even in Uganda, not even when they first went to Uganda and saw the kids sleeping outside.
@@jbain4750 Thirty dollars for a pin, t-shirt, and poster. Hundreds of thousands of gullible people spent money on one of those Kony kits. The money didn't help anyone either, since it was never meant to help anyone. Did you pay attention to anything you've just seen?
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important But that didn't go to him directly. Profits went towards the film and publicity (3.8m), travel to and from (1.7m), and 3.3 m went to various programs in Central Africa. While useless, the man's organization is in word and deed a nonprofit.
You gotta feel bad for Jason. He wanted to raise awareness but no where near the level he reached. That kinda pressure and attention gets to you. He seems very nice and like he doesn't take himself to seriously
Man got fame and money and didn't do anything to help. Imagine walking into a surgery and being like yeah I don't know anything but lemme help out and kill someone. Hey, good intentions right? If he cared he would've done his homework. He's just using those African children as a stepping stone for himself. Comes off a narcissist, seems to enjoy the attention.
@@slayer12234 After the invisible children thing the guy is out there doing activism and helping out others according go the video. Thats more work than any of our assas combined so stfu.
It's easy to laugh at him until you've experienced actual psychosis, and it's fucking terrifying. It's like blacking out, but when you come to it's like sitting in the passenger seat of a car watching out the windscreen as the driver races into oncoming traffic.
A lot of people underestimate these kind of things. I've never experienced psychosis, but there's a similar level of downplay when it comes to sleep paralysis. I've met a few people who were eager to experience sleep paralysis because they liked horror movies and thought it would be a spooky old time. I experienced sleep paralysis last year, and it made me afraid to go to sleep for weeks. Imagine seeing, hearing and even feeling a hallucination of a person with no face that speaks to you in the voice of your grandmother while being unable to move. That's when I realized that all those people I knew were idiots.
@@michaelturner5093 Never had sleep paralysis or psychosis, but I remember having some visions when I was a kid. I remember one was of me belonging to different parents, they where very old, but I was absolutely convinced they where my parents. I didn't even question it and immediately asked my mother when I was going to meet my real parents, it felt so fucking real. Despite me looking very like my mother, I sometimes get the feeling I'm adopted to this day. No one ever told me visions felt that real.
@@sweetenlemons8659 I used to have these memories of a childhood in a snowy place, even tho I grew up in California and have only even seen snow twice in my life
Even if I were thirty kay richer I'm not sure I'd be able to live with myself knowing that I deliberately gave TMZ footage that would inevitably turn them a profit.
I attended an Invisible Children event as a teenager in 2009 in which me and a couple hundred other kids marched a mile or so down the street (on the sidewalk) (to symbolize how the child soldiers have to walk a lot), attended a concert, and then camped out in a field. It was very fun but I had been wondering ever since what it accomplished.
🤠howdy. I hear you guys have tumbleweed and it gets so bad that it blocks you from leaving your house. I'll get myself some gatorade in Amazon and lock myself indoors to symbolise your struggle. See you later cowboy Edit: it's okay, we all do weird things off good intentions just make sure you don't get used as a part of a march for freelance photographers to make money off the photos, UN/UNICEF FOOD style
I remember Invisible Children having a charity event at my high school circa 2006 or 2007. It seemed to be student lead and a bunch of purple t-shirts were sold that said "Invisible Children" on the front. I'm pretty sure I bought one at the time. Somehow the Kony 2012 flew under my radar in 2012. It wasn't until years later that I found out that the Kony fiasco and Invisible Children were connected.
mostly to raise money and awareness. I can guarantee that if you find 10000 Americans who want to help a foreign cause to travel to a warzone and help, you will only get a single-digit number of people who would agree to those conditions. If this all-or-nothing method was used no charity would be able to help developing countries.
I was in high school and I even remember back then not giving a fuck and thinking everyone was a slacktavist even before I even knew what that word was.
I was 15 when this went down.. in my high school caf they were playing that video back to back all day every day for at least a week. There were assemblies about it and they were trying to get us to buy the kits and do the 4/20 night event as well. There were posters everywhere and then a week passed and no one cared anymore lol
Never heard of this back in 2012. Probably because I was still in elementary school and was hyped for the Lego DC Superheroes theme which was new at the time.
@Gabe Davis I'm just trying to empathise lol. He could be a peddler or whatever you old folks call it, but I'm just saying, psychotic breaks aren't a joke and I'd like to believe at least a sliver of him actually was trying to do a decent thing, which spiralled out.
@@shellyredding6727 Yeah man fuck people for having human empathy. Let’s all go down to the mental health hospital and LAUGH at everyone with mental issues! We’re the good guys.
When I first saw it in high school, I was confused and wondered if he was some sort of third party candidate that high schoolers really liked. I later did research and found out about him.
Back then I saw a shitload of youtube comments just saying KONY 2012 and I heard he was a bad guy from Africa who should be stopped for some reason. This is all new to me
He actually came to talk at my high school in like 2010. I was in the amnesty international club and we helped organize it. I feel bad for him because he really was passionate about helping those kids.
@@s2korpionic yeah stopping African sex slavery doesn't seem to fit the agenda of what we are pushing as racism in America today. Wonder if his 'breakdown' was cause by something other than stress
@@thatkidwiththehoodie If by "insecure" you mean they genuinely just disike musicals, then sure go ahead and spite them. I'm sure that won't say more about you than them.
I seem to remember that the US deployed a small team to help look for him. I can't say this thing was a scam because raising awareness is great (though I'm going to watch that second video about the funds before doubling down on the scam part, lol) and change only happens when enough people care. For that, kudos to the guy. For simplifying HOW they were going to resolve the issue, that's where things fall apart.
@pingpong1138, In this specific instance No. Donating and Protesting does absolutely nothing to stop the use of child soldiers because people who use child soldiers don't give a fuck.
@alfred milner Its all about the convenience of morality to leverage for a purpose and a cause to support. Leaders in all levels are corrupted, but they divide the masses with superfluous issues and many people remain unaware.
Surprisingly not uncommon, same thing happened to my mate because he was accidentally caught singing “go your own way“. Not sure if he actually enjoys dick or not, point is it doesn’t matter. He sang the gay tings 🤷♂️
This Jason dude looked super annoying on that dance vid with that long-haired hairstyle, BUT he clearly had a reason to want to wake the West up to what is happening in Africa. Kony was a real threat and this dude had the passion to do something about it. The reason why nothing happened to Kony is because the world's elite (aka vampire-like scum) need murdering warlords like Kony to protect their mining interests in Africa. This is probably why the mainstream media attacked him so aggressively. If they didn't destroy his sanity, he would have taken his highlighted case to Congress and Congress would have been forced to take this Kony guy out. Nobody at the top wanted this to happen.
I kinda feel bad for russel, maybe he was full of shit, but he clearly had a psychotic episode, now everybody thinks he just ran outside and jerked off (which he didn’t lol)...
The way Jason orchastrated this might not have been way to do it, but you can clearly see that he is a genuinly good person with his heart in the right place.
CNN got angry about simplifying a complex issue into a 30 minute emotionally driven summary because they were jealous that when they do the same thing, they have to cut to a commercial break in the middle and ask what Twitter thinks of the issue.
I'm surprised CNN is still running. I'm all for freedom of the press and everything, but when they're giving their opinions publicly, and stating it as fact, that's a problem.
@N Fels because you don’t have to be an conservative to see that cnn and most “news” is all lies, and it’s people like you who are blind, you basically don’t want to see it, you would rather live in la la land then understand these people are liars, and before you claim I am a Republican I am not, I don’t belong to any political party because Dems and Reps are evil and shake hands together and if more people like you would get that maybe we could make america better.
@N Fels I would rather be called a “trumpist” because if that’s all you can come up with than rather tell me facts on why I am wrong you all ready lost dumbass, I bet you think Biden’s actually doing a good job, like gtfo and don’t even respond anymore because that was the weakest comeback I’ve seen yet and I’ve seen some dumb responses.
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That Q&A I promised 2 months ago: th-cam.com/video/rXAeb7Pmzjs/w-d-xo.html
where is my dad
Yo, plz do a video on the scientology stuff from 2008
It's 2 months late because you knew we would have forgotten about it and needed to rewatch this to remember who Kony was.
So soon?
Cool
Kony sought refuge in Wakanda which is why we cant find him
Cody commenting on Internet Historians channel? CODY ALT-RIGHT CONFIRMED IS!!!
Wakanda is recruiting warlords for attack all the other african countries to keep them poor because they want to be the only with SPACE PIRAMEEEDZ
Woke as fuck there Cody.
Don't worry cody I will get him with mayans.
he killed captain alex, even wakanda cannot stop the baddest assest special forces in uganda
The "plot" about Angelina Jolie flying off to Uganda and luring Kony to a trap sounds like something straight from South Park. Good god, how can anyone come up with that and be serious about it?
It would probably make a good Cohen brothers flick.
You have now glimpsed into the world of UN intelligence
Your first time hearing about the typical behaviour of people who work for the UN I take it?
Just wait till you get to the time they covered up live human organ harvesting for a cut of the profits
With that talk sir, you are going to end jacking in San Diego.
It worked with El Chapo so idk
2012 was a wild time
CreepsMcPasta really was man really was
Oh hello there
Creepypasta man bahahahah, what you doin here boi?
didnt the world end back then
Gangnam style, kony2012, amanda todd, megaupload, end of the world... probably more but I can't think of anymore, but besides that yeah.
I love how down to earth Jason is about the whole issue.
"Were you on drugs at the time?"
"Zero drugs, that being said I would've thought I was on drugs too"
"Were you also masturbating at the time?"
"No, I mean I'm naked, so it's not that far of an extension if imagination but..."
Really shows he’s a mature and upstanding guy
"You're probably watching this video 7 years later because of a vague memory about Kony"
Yeah pretty much
You don't know me.
Aww fuck... you got me.
Same. Kony pony 2012
i've actually never heard of kony and just clicked on this vid cause it's one of his videos
Mine was seeing a Call of duty commentary video on kony 2012.
I saw a guy wearing a Kony 2012 shirt a month or two ago. I guess he ran out of clean shirts.
LMAO
Nah he probably ran out of wearable shirts
I'd wear one ironically
Probably homeless lol
those things are collectible now
“People were up to pretty much anything to stop Kony, as long as it didn’t involve any practical action”
Yup, that sounds like the internet I know
Seems like this Kony thing is the first example of modern activism.
Solid Snake if you think leftists don’t like practical action, I’d advise you learn about labor laws and revolutions
the internet: can track down the secret location of a stone slab of memes, but can't be arsed to go there and wreck it.
Same old 'all talks, no act'
What the fuck are they supposed to do? Go into uganda to find Kony themselves?
Psychosis is no joke, there was a very real risk that Jason could have caused DEADLY harm to himself, and the people around him. I appreciate the fact that Internet Historian did not mock this life-threatening medical emergency
he should have gone postal, he would have gone down a legend
@@AmalekIsComing NOOOOOOO
@@AmalekIsComingnice avatar
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I mean, Jason doesn’t seem like a bad guy, he just got in WAY over his head
I still have my Kony 2012 poster from my dorm room for meme reasons. My entire campus was covered in "Kony 2012" stuff. Chalk on the sidewalk, posters, etc.
Later!
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My Twitter still says it
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@anarchore LOL wut
"... as long as it didn't involve any practical action."
Yeah ... social media in a nutshell.
Jun123 It was also a classic example of virtue signalling.
They thought they can solve the world's issue just by watching TH-cam videos and liking posts.
I don't know about you buddy but the French flag watermark on my display picture saved 200 child soldiers this week.
What are YOU doing?
That's the modern American activists
Reddit "killing" companies and games
In case you're wondering, Joseph Kony is still free today. His army has shrunk to an estimated 100 members and both Uganda and the US consider him a non threat. No one is looking for him anymore, so basically he got away with 30 years of child torture and war crimes.
This kinda reminds me of that man eating, mass murdering warlord from Angola who now claims the word of Jesus has made him the the wrongness of his past. He now goes around "asking" ppl to forgive him. You better not decline thought.
@@walli6388 general buttnaked who would go around towns completely naked with an army of naked children with ak47s, killing, raping, cannibalizing and having the kids eat the hearts of innocent children?
i also remember an incident where he awkardly tries to apologize to a traumatized victim of his whom he shot in the legs, locked in a room for a week, got hospitalized but his legs were too far gone for them to function anymore. Buttnaked kept saying "you have to forgive me man"
keep in mind he only became a "holyman" when he started losing the war
Buttnaked born in Liberia, he served during the Liberian Civil War. Not Angola
@@walli6388 this sent me down an interesting rabbit hole...
The world we live in today, lads
TMZ has zero morals. We've known this for years, but only recently are they finally getting the pushback they deserve for always wanting to film or publicize mental breakdowns. For whatever faults that man had, he didn't deserve his lowest moment to be made public like that. I hope he's doing better now.
"pushback" today means a couple of dunces on twitter complains for a day or two, meida circulates the story to each other out of laziness, and then everyone forgets it in like 3 days.
Seriously I hate TMZ so much and immediately get a low opinion of anyone that watches it. Every person in that studio deserves a firm backhand to the face.
@@witherblaze and then those who received said pushback cry for years about being “cancelled” and their freedom of speech being taken away
@@Rosiewithfootprints "WhAt dO yOU mEaN i canT bE racISt anYMOre?" MUH FREEZE PEACH
All of these comments are Weird Al's song "TMZ"
"Everyone were up for pretty much anything to stop Kony as long as long as it didn't involve any practical action" This applies so well on so many of these "movements" these days
It's called "Slactivism"
1 like = 1 saved child 🙏🏼
*cough* metoo movement *cough*
I blame the internet; it’s causing people to do things by barely moving a muscle. For example, you can now order food on the internet, and I don’t mean just pizza.
@@yunabean Children are starving because we waste food, so you need to finish your plate so that doesn't happen!
“People were up for anything as long as it didn’t involve practical action.”
Hm... not much has changed
It's gotten worse because there isn't any critical analysis of current virtue signaling lol
If they really wanted to end systemic racism(if it exists), one pretty easy way to do it is to ABOLISH THE CREDIT SCORE
But the same people who "help" them don't wan to lose all that sweet wealth they are sitting on
Didn’t Greta say something along the lines of “our movement is to voice complaint, not provide solutions” lol.
@@NewNicator yeah, it's not her job to provide a solution, she raises awarness, which in itself is good enough
As long as we can crash another human being we will be there. But help another shit leave that to the christians
"My GOD you're greasy..."
That caught me off guard. Too damn funny
I read this as homer said it.....
toodamnfilthy
That shit almost made me choke on my food lmao. Shit got me good!
I’ve been saying this for years lmao
The small scale campaigns Invisible Children is still doing are actually pretty effective on the ground. Their Early Warning Radio Network unites local communities, the fliers and local radio broadcasts and defection programs in the region keep Kony (and his son) from being able to exert influence over his commanders, which keeps the group splintered and unable to regroup. Chances are high Kony never saw the video himself, and quite possibly he never heard of Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt (though he & the LRA were apparently Rambo fans), but he and his commanders definitely heard & hear local radio broadcasts & find fliers in the bush, enabling child soldiers to escape. It also seems to have motivated several mass defections, one in 2012 and one (I think) last year, each of which significantly reduced the kidnapped women and children held by the remaining group. One of the larger remaining splinter groups is even reportedly in discussions of surrender. It worked, crazy as it was, at the local level. Whatever folks in Kampala or Montreal thought.
That’s how these things generally work. Keep the pressure on the warlord’s supply of manpower and they’ll dwindle away.
Isn't practical action something?
Credit where it's due; Jason did a full interview with Oprah and TED Talk after being filmed naked on a street corner in San Diego. I feel like the average person would just give up and hide from the world at that point.
Yeah, I guess you're right. Hell, the dude is still out there trying to do the right thing. I would definitely suggest a more educated/active style of working toward a goal that relies on reaching milestones instead of getting immediate success. =Y
I remember at the time where people were saying that he did that so he could plea insanity if the police ever tried arresting him for stealing / misusing the donation money. I was pretty sure back then, and to this day I am still convinced that all of Kony2012 stuff was just a scam from the start. I think he got caught / called out that the whole thing was a scam so he just had to double down after the fact to avoid going to jail.
@@armybear2 idk I've seen a crazy guy before and that looked spot on
@@Sashrunner a cc
@@armybear2 Why would he bother to actually go to Uganda then? He was doing shit for over a decade anyway; that's a hell of a long time to run a scam, and his breakdown wouldn't make fraud illegal. I see credible evidence that it was actually a scam.
The fact that he broke while watching the Lorax is hilarious to me.
I speak for the Ugandan trees.
Didn’t we all
He needed a fuckin thneed when he was having a naked breakdown lmao.
the movie was that shit lmao
The Lorax broke his knees
theres STILL a kony2012 sticker on a road sign i pass every day. got good glue on those things.
What the hell did they put on stickers back then? Now a days they fall off if you look at them wrong.
@@vanguardRailgun924 They probably glossed a lighter over it so the glue sticks stronger.
@@largelatte7320 or just use super glue on the whole backside
Weird
@@vanguardRailgun924 Flex Seal!
the handbag that says "I heart Kony" is either a galaxy brain counterculture play or someone getting wooshed so hard that they somehow managed to miss what the people who missed the point thought the point was. Absolutely fascinating stuff.
missed the queen of spade symbol in k♠️ny?
yeah whats up with that
What would be galaxy brained about it?
At 11:32
"naturally, questions were raised about his sexual orientation." Is just a nice way to say that 4chan called him gay.
lmao
Well he does sound gay
Hes most likely gay
Well I mean, he did have a kid
so ye
Having children automatically makes you not gay. Everyone knows there’s no gays in heterosexual marriages ..ever.
Never have I wanted to see a movie about Brad Pitt arresting an African warlord until now
I'm more interested in George Clooney's spy satalite
That does sound like a cool idea
MPHJackson7 why not both ?
Oceans 11 Style
Who killed captain alex
Ok lets talk about betterhelp
I don't really get what's going with this betterhelp thing other than Shane Dawson sponsors it. Can someone fill me in? That would be very much appreciated
@@azuredesuuu8252 they basically sponsor every youtuber, pewdiepie made a video about it
Thank you my friend. You make a very important point. 6 years on and we have learned nothing.
@@Ian-oe9wp it's not really about that, though. The main point is that betterhelp isn't providing the service they're promising, and they don't give a single shit about their customers.
@@re_i_gn nope.Its mainly about better help Terms of Condition as per which they take no accountability.
I still feel bad for the guy. He clearly had good intentions, but had way too much pressure put on him.
Yeah kony really got a bad rep tbh. He was trying his best
Exactly. People always asked, "Where is Kony". But nobody ever asked, "How is Kony" 🥺
@@CherokeeMaxx Lmao
Agreed, apparently he's still out in the jungle somewhere.
Honestly I don’t think he expected it to blow up as much as it did. Like the video mentions the guy had a few campaigns before that that kind didn’t do so well.
So when this one exploded in popularity he probably wasn’t prepared. Handled it as best as he could tho given the circumstances imo
I think the guy was just a passionate filmmaker who wanted to do something good but all he really could do was “spread awareness” in hopes that some people in power will notice it and develop a strategy to fix it. He never promised to fix it himself but that’s how it came across to many.
I guess the issue is that yeah maybe he is a passionate filmmaker.
Thats a big red flag. If you're out there to find a story to make a film about then your priority in the first place was the film not the cause.
It's essentially using these African kids as a stepping stone for his career.
I'm pretty sure if there wasn't a glamourous story to tell then he wouldn't be making a big deal of the Kony campaign and would've found a different scoop.
That doesn't read to me as a good person. Honestly comes off a narcissist.
But it's just speculation. Still the quote stands "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".
@@slayer12234 Dude you're still going with that narcissist shit, where in that video has he ever given the impression of being a narcissist who's only purpose is exposure, he's been working for fucking years in Uganda, it makes no sense.
Your speculations are so baseless it's incredible
Kony actually died of covid recently
@@valentin5960 Narcissism is to make yourself the center of attention. Its not off base to believe this. Hes clearly put his face across the whole movement, with all the media attention and even a musical loool.
If I remember correctly the video did mention he specifically went to the country searching for a story for a film. As I said before if filmmaking is the priority then theres major issues there.
Also him standing by the issue for a long time doesn't mean he can't be a narcissist. He can truly believe the issue has legs and believe that it would make a good film with the cause being secondary. These are assumptions that neither of us can prove.
Another thing is after all if we do assume that he is pure in intention it still doesn't change the issue. He caused a load of shit because he didn't bother to plan things properly. Good intentions alone dont save people.
You have a tendency to say absolutely nothing other than “haha you're wrong”. I actually hope you can think more critically than that.
@Grunchlik this comment is such a mess lmao, the shit some people believe continues to amaze
Thank god for internet historian, because I was 11 when this happened, and completely missed it. Thanks for the recap.
I was also 11. I remember it going on, but I didn’t entirely follow along with the deeper aspects of it
Sane
I was 10 and I found out about it in 2012.... didn't realize the controversy about it at the time though
I was nine, so I didn't know this happened until this video.
cat ayyy 6 at the time gang
What I love about Internet Historian is how they present such memeable people but instead of simply dunking on them, end up being more fair than the media about these individuals. It's a nice touch of humanity. This is the 2nd time that I have had my impression of a subject changed by Internet Historian...the first one being the epic tale of Balloon Boy naturally.
Anyhow...great work!!!!
I worked at a digital banking software company called "Kony" and when telling people "I work for Kony" they laughed around 60-70% of the time thinking I was making a joke.
It was also a real SOB for SEO.
"People were up for just about anything to stop Kony...... As long as it wasn't practical action." That's humanity for ya.
Isaiah Stoy What do you expect them to do? Travel to Uganda and fight the rebels themselves? They were spreading awareness so governments can take action to stop him
Thought and prayers my guy, thoughts and prayers
@@ia6619 except y'know the turn out rate was terrible
Humanity is rife with people going to war to stop a variety of things from happening.
Lazy activism is very new.
I did my part by liking this comment
I really feel for the guy. Sure he was misguided but he spends 10 entire years of his life trying to make a positive change and then gets branded as a greedy money hogging egomaniac. I hope he's doing alright.
Well his army is very small nowadays but they still haven't caught him, so he got that going for him.
There were a lot of people with a lot to loose if the narrative got out of hand. Write him off as crazy and back to business as usual.
Because he fucking is.
You people have no ability for critical thought.
Wow, crystal meth handing out judgement from her ivory tower. Seems legit.
That Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt plan sounds like a Family Guy cutaway.
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It’s actually not too irregular. UN members will use their funding in weird ways to fulfill their own ambitions. In this case, the guy wanted to meet the two celebrities.
I wonder if it succeeded with el Chapo though, he met up with Sean Penn shortly before his arrest. Might have been a similar scheme.
That reminds me of the time when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie lured an African warlord into a trap and had him arrested
*Cutaway sounds*
family guy sucks .. you mean south park
I finally understand the “make bullying off itself” episode of South Park when Kyle said to Stan “don’t blame me if your jacking it in San Diego”
LMAO WOW I NEVER WOULD HAVE MADE THAT CONNECTION 😆 🤣 😂 that's too good
*kids eat parents*
*ITS KIND OF A BUMMER*
Not if you add some salt and pepper.
In myths it's usually the other way around.
Just a slight inconvenience
*t a s t e s l i k e c h i c k e n*
orlando norman
John lennon just passed away
paul: it’s a drag
it's always nice to see Internet Historian: Incognito Mode second channel to upload more videos.
So true it hurts.
This poor man had a stress induced psychotic episode and was humiliated on tv while someone else made $30,000 off his hardship
Sounds like typical America
Ah TMZ, cancel culture before it was popular.
Nope. He dodged jail time doing that.
Bet anyone would give that stuff after being offerd 30k just like that.
lmao he took an L
A lot can change in 10 years. It clearly did. This poor guy was really trying to make a change. glad hes doing better.
Imagine having a mental breakdown while watching lorax
Seems like the appropriate time to have it to me... You ever watch that shit show of a film? Felt like mental anguish to me
how can you not
I laughed hysterically at a wall for 5 minutes yesterday while watching it so I'd say it's relatively easy
"I speak for the trees" probably reminded him too much watching those trees get chopped probably broke his mind
That seems like a normal response
Calling it "Kony 2012" makes it sound like a presidential campaign...
Just imagine him running for the presidency, that will be hilarious
He would STILL be the lesser evil
@@48917032 This guy is/was a literal fucking warlord who makes children eat their parents.
I hate the two candidates as much as the next guy, but that statement just *REEKS* of edgelord cringe.
I heard of it when I was young, and for the LONGEST time I thought it was a presidential campaign.
That was literally the point of the ad campaign. It was an election year and they wanted to use the buzz to get people to rally together on a bipartisan campaign of making Kony as recognizable as Obama, basically.
Ok there I watched it. You win, algorithm. For weeks I have been pursued by this video. I admit defeat.
Zippoman252 damn same
We all give in eventually. It’s only a matter of time.
😂
Got me too
you know you can click the three dots and select "not interested" and it'll disappear, right?
I was part of the invisible children’s club at my high school when this happened. We were so excited that other people were finally starting to take notice and care, and then everything imploded. Thank you for this balanced and nuanced explanation! I have so much sympathy for Jason and everything he went through. They never anticipated the campaign would blow up the way it did.
“Why are you gay?”
-Joseph “Kony” 2012, I think
@Seraphi Grimaldi
"You are gay, you are transgender"
- Richard Nixon
i like the implication that his name is joseph 2012
"No u"
-J.F.K
my mom said it so it must be true
"Show me da way" -Pasta Martin Sempa
Oh God I'm cringing so hard just thinking about 16 year old me proudly showing the Kony video to my teacher and classmates back in 2012...I actually thought I was doing something good...
It's okay, as long as you donate to the LRA and balance out the bad you did, all will be fine
In times like these Im glad for my social apathy and never falling for this kind of stuff or paying attention to charities.
Hahahahahahahah!!!!!!!
You were. You raised awareness for genuine children in crisis who needed help. Even if the specific organisation being supported had poor planning and leadership there was still an issue that needed funding for employment of Ugandan people to fight the issue and protect those children. Shits hard, but I don’t think bringing attention to this was a bad thing.
2012 was really the year virtue signaling became a mainstream thing. I remember posters being hungup all around my high-school but if you actually stopped and asked someone who Kony was or why we need to stop him you would get a blank stare or maybe a "Well he's a bad man in Africa" response. No one cared beyond the surface level of fitting in and feeling good about themselves.
What a time to be alive in 2012.. Catch kony drama, London olympics, 2012 doomsday theories floating about. Shit was lit
It was truly a better time
Messi scored 91 goals that year
No wasn't a good time to be alive
Best year
You god damn right it was
It’s 2022, a decade later, and Joseph Kony is still happily roaming the jungles of Africa.
God bless that man. may he live a long life.
@@rydz656 💀
"Happily" is a bit of an overstatement. Man's got a fractured army barely numbering in the triple-digits with next to no source of recruits to supplement their dwindling numbers, with barely any form of foundational support, and he can never go near any law enforced civilization again for the rest of his life.
@@rydz656 wtf dude hes a horrible person!!
Well not exactly happily. Apparently the guy is pretty sickly.
they should’ve hired captain alex
ur gf thinks im fly agreed
Tygah warriah
EVERYONE IN UGANDA KNOWS KUNG-FU!
COMMANDOS
COMMANDOS
MOVIE MOVIE MOVIE!
So BASICALLY: Dude tries to help a country in his own strange way, backlash happens (along with some mangled execution), he's driven mad to the point that he goes into an Emperor Lemon tirade downward spiral, and nothing happens.
2012 was an odd time and I feel nothing but sympathy for Jason.
AtrocityEquine well it kinda did work. In the end Kony’a group did pretty much splinter and he did pretty much get screwed in the end
@@Rock-my2ko ok, but is it because of this campaign?
Dicky Arya idk all I’m saying is if I was in his army I’d be pretty damn embarrassed seeing all the
Meme about him
I feel so bad for the poor dude. He just wanted to help make a difference and end suffering, and everyone ridiculed him for it.
Sympathy's a strong word for it.
I think "pity" is a more apt term for it.
I was 13 at the time so I thought this whole thing was an off brand Sony company making a strong movement
I LOVE YOUR VIDS!
Wow, you're exactly as old as me, yet I haven't done anything with my life
I thought it was a festival
you were pretty fucking dumb for a 13 year old
coney island 2012
16:14
Internet Historian in 2018: "I don't want this video to be an hour long or take two more months to make"
Internet Historian in 2022:
I can't believe they managed to catch him by using the Angelina Jolie + Brad Pitt-trap!!!
RIP Kony 😔😔😔
May Kony be peaceful in the afterlife RIP great guy 😞
ABSOLUTE MADLADS!!!!!!!
Ikr! How did he fall for the classic Brangelina trap, it's the oldest trick in the book.
They picked 4/20 for night of action? No wonder everyone slacked off
Off topic, but I've been smoking almost daily for 13 years, but somehow I've never been high on 4/20. Something always comes up like I wind up stuck without a car to go get bud, my backpack got stolen with my whole stash in it, and 2 years I was in the hospital on that day. Idk how that's happened all my life.
Yeah Hitler’s birthday
james liang musta been a hell of a party
@Ooohbopbopboppadoohwah That explains a lot.
Fucking methheads
If I was a Ugandan warlord and just found out a firstworld country was gonna want to kill me with dancing and celebreties, I'd probably just move on with my day and do more warlord things
#JustWarlordThings
9 months to late buddy
@A Genuine Umbrella He got lost, he did not know de wae.
@me ne frego **pukes**
It is NEVER too late to use the puppeted corpse of a dead meme to deliberately make people groan for one’s own amusement.
There's really no way to win when it comes to social causes. If you do nothing, then you're complacent. If you try something, then for every piece of support you get, there's someone trying to get in your way and tear you down. "Why aren't you doing anything?" Or "why haven't you solved everything yet?" I honestly understand why people just put their heads down and try to go on. That's what makes the people who actually try something so impressive to me.
Douglass, Tubman, Truth, and many others all tried their hardest to work against slavery in the US. They had won, they could have stayed safe in their freedom. They had no reason to believe they would succeed in changing anything. And society at large didn't even really want them to succeed. But they did it anyway. I hope I have that kind of fortitude someday.
'No good deed goes unpunished' isn't commonphrase for nothing. I don't say that to be or think it's as nihilist as it comes off either, just saying REAL change is tough and you have to be tough to make that change.
This is why his comment "as long as it didn't involve any practical action" made me roll my eyes. Why criticise peope doing something over people doing nothing?
@@lockeforeer people will bitch and moan about anything.
@@lockeforeer
they were criticized BECAUSE they were doing nothing.
since they were all talk, it made it seem like 1. a scam and 2. a holier-than-thou scheme.
I remember this, he came to our high school. Sure enough it was a lot of hype with no actual solution. I vaguely remember they wanted to fundraise and if you raised the most and enough you would get sent on a paid trip to Uganda. My only thought was, "Wait, you want to send us to the war zone you're talking about?"
Don't worry; they would have armed you.
Please tell me he danced for your school.
Kony came to your high school and you didn't capture him wtf now he's still on the loose
Marco Cruz gg
+PeanutButterZombie00 Armed them with posters, flyers, and their own delusional incompetence, that is.
@@PeanutButterZombie00 haha no just showed a really inspirational video and asked us to fundraise.
Considering how much time and effort he spent on this I want to say that he genuinely wanted to help, but had no real plan past raising awareness. Plus it being the first big social media campaign o think that nobody actually knew what to expect and everyone came down on the guy. Like obviously the guy wasn’t going to buy a rifle and go shoot Kony, but I think things got really built up and when nothing actually happened nobody knew who to blame so they went after the one guy they could.
Jason seems like one of those people who is genuinely motivated to solve a problem, but also doesn’t really have any idea how to necessarily deal with it.
Exactly.
Given that he functionally stumbled upon the problem in some backwater African village, wanting to raise awareness isn't necessarily a bad idea, because as far as he can tell, nobody knows and so nobody cares and so nothing happens.
He spends 10 years trying (badly) to raise awareness. It doesn't work. This only convinces him that he needs to do One Big Thing to get attention to stop the problem.
His impulse isn't a BAD one. But it needs to be partnered with somebody who knows wtf they are doing so that all that emotion and enthusiasm and dedication is channeled somewhere that is ultimately productive.
Tbh with all that money he probably could've hired other african warlords to kill him off
@@fumothfan9 Bad plan, the "other african warlords" would likely take the money and never do the job anyway. Why risking my army when I can just say "yes I can kill Kony" and then use the money to buy a mansion?
@@VladiSSius oh you have one of thoswe issues the u.s. had with osama bin laden when sadam hussein was in power. it's actually common for someone/country to use a person to get another dictator out of power, but so far it backfires because then the guy they hire turns into another (possibly worse) dictator
@@tinseltina I was replying to the context of this fundraising money is used to pay mercenary group/another warlord - which is not that many and the warlord in question would probably not doing anything worthy of the pay either. When US pours money, that's different question, and also different context tho.
Easy.
Just tell 4chan that he put up the ,,He will not divide us” flag at his location!
*DID SOMEONE SAY A HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US FLAG IS THERE GIVE ME TICKET NOW*
CMON GUYS! SPEEDRUN TIME!
maybe 12
5. I give it 5 Hours Tops.
Brilliant idea! We could even send a /k/ommando special forces unit to do the job.
I genuinely hope he's doing okay. He just wanted to bring awareness to a serious issue, but they thought he was going to mobilize an army (or I guess Brad Pitt and Co). Dude just cracked from all the attention.
I don't pity him. I genuinely feel bad for him.
same here, he was trying his hardest and the media was basically spitting in his face the whole way. all the man wanted was to bring awareness so the us or any government might do something. the celeberty thing isnt even that bad of an idea, its defenitly weird but its been done before i just dont think hed really know the celeberties though lmao. its just whack because he wanted to spread awarenes and peope put all the responsibility on him.
"Invisible Children was hogging the limelight for other charities."
That honestly says more about the modern charity industry being a cash grab than about Invisible Children per se.
Edit: Now, the same media that criticized Invisible Children for "slacktivism" actively encourage it via hashtags, black squares on Instagram, etc.
Yeah, charities are a joke. Their directors have nice cars, though!
That's why I don't donate
@@Pumkin932 And there you have it folks, make up some bullshit about charities being corrupt - which most of them aren't - and deem them unworthwhile for no valid reason, then Frosty The Sociopath here doesn't have to donate money any more. Problem solved. Well, Frosty The Sociopath's problem is solved - he has convinced himself he's not a greedy fucking asshole - but the problem of dying children isn't solved. Bummer for them...
@John Williamson u ever tried to cure cancer and end world hunger? Its pretty tough ngl.
@John Williamson They've been doing it since at least the 50's.
Woman: Sees man having a panic attack/insane breakdown
Also woman: Sues for giving her PTSD
It was his fault for daring to have a mental episode on that day. How inconsiderate of him!
Well she obviously saw the opportunity and went for the lawsuit. Some people are desperate enough to do that, even if it doesn’t pull through.
R/thathappened oh wait it’d be reddit nvm
@@meee110 What the fuck is "the article"? Is there any actual evidence of this?
@@meee110 where's the fucking article then, huh?
"We'll end the war without a gun!"
Press X to Doubt
Big Boss can assure you it doesn't work like that
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I only press x to Jason buddy
I remember being in like middle school during the Kony stuff and we all thought he was running for president. I wonder how many people actually put "Kony" on the ballot.
The child soldiers are a bit excessive but he got some great opinions on tax reforms.
Kinda feel bad for the guy. Ultimately seemed to have his heart in the right place and now is known for a mental breakdown
Yeah, i second that. Kony2012 was well meaning, but ultimately didn't really help anyone. People know who he is now, but that didn't help to have him arrested or save any kids.
It was a get rich quick scam, it was not a well meaning campaign for good. Kony wasn't even in Uganda, not even when they first went to Uganda and saw the kids sleeping outside.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important
How was it a get rich quick scheme? Who paid him for it?
@@jbain4750 Thirty dollars for a pin, t-shirt, and poster. Hundreds of thousands of gullible people spent money on one of those Kony kits. The money didn't help anyone either, since it was never meant to help anyone. Did you pay attention to anything you've just seen?
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important
But that didn't go to him directly. Profits went towards the film and publicity (3.8m), travel to and from (1.7m), and 3.3 m went to various programs in Central Africa. While useless, the man's organization is in word and deed a nonprofit.
The dance scene looks like something out of Zoolander
QrangeJuice Or South Park
Omg I think it’s based off high school musical
This dude is literally a South Park episode
They even made a song about him. Look up jacking it in San Diego
@@Lumen_571 Come. Take a load off!
@@Lumen_571 omg I never made that connection. That's amazing
Accuser Of the Brethren I mean, the whole US is now a South Park episode
@@presidentofchina1496 Your name is really long. More than I can say about my...
I love how the media outlets were mad that people didn't know what they were supporting. And that's their main hustle now.
You gotta feel bad for Jason. He wanted to raise awareness but no where near the level he reached. That kinda pressure and attention gets to you. He seems very nice and like he doesn't take himself to seriously
Man got fame and money and didn't do anything to help.
Imagine walking into a surgery and being like yeah I don't know anything but lemme help out and kill someone. Hey, good intentions right?
If he cared he would've done his homework. He's just using those African children as a stepping stone for himself.
Comes off a narcissist, seems to enjoy the attention.
@@slayer12234 I think you have problems dude, stop making the same comment over and over again.
@@hoodedman6579 Report it as spam lmao he's a troll.
He's just a typical White savior type.
@@slayer12234 After the invisible children thing the guy is out there doing activism and helping out others according go the video. Thats more work than any of our assas combined so stfu.
He should have recruited 4chan and he would have tracked down Kony in 28 hours and had a drone drop a bomb on him within 32 hours.
No lulz to gain from this so 4chan won't do it. They'd probably just troll Jason instead.
Under rated comment
They Actually made a drone strike to a terrorist base
@@neeltheother2342 So My Comment says they could do it
@@catinamask5019 pretty much
This all sounds like an episode of South Park...
9:59 So _that's_ where South Park made the "Jacking it in San Diego" song for!
Foxo Commando it does when you put it that way
True. Especially that part about brad pit and Angelina Jolie
Stan m'kay?
In Saaaan Diego
The winner is the person who sold their video to TMZ for $30,000.
It's easy to laugh at him until you've experienced actual psychosis, and it's fucking terrifying.
It's like blacking out, but when you come to it's like sitting in the passenger seat of a car watching out the windscreen as the driver races into oncoming traffic.
A lot of people underestimate these kind of things. I've never experienced psychosis, but there's a similar level of downplay when it comes to sleep paralysis. I've met a few people who were eager to experience sleep paralysis because they liked horror movies and thought it would be a spooky old time. I experienced sleep paralysis last year, and it made me afraid to go to sleep for weeks. Imagine seeing, hearing and even feeling a hallucination of a person with no face that speaks to you in the voice of your grandmother while being unable to move. That's when I realized that all those people I knew were idiots.
@@michaelturner5093 Never had sleep paralysis or psychosis, but I remember having some visions when I was a kid.
I remember one was of me belonging to different parents, they where very old, but I was absolutely convinced they where my parents. I didn't even question it and immediately asked my mother when I was going to meet my real parents, it felt so fucking real.
Despite me looking very like my mother, I sometimes get the feeling I'm adopted to this day. No one ever told me visions felt that real.
@@sweetenlemons8659 past life?
@@johnLennon255 now that I think about it, that could've been it.
@@sweetenlemons8659 I used to have these memories of a childhood in a snowy place, even tho I grew up in California and have only even seen snow twice in my life
He looks like that one actor that you see in all those movies but can’t put your finger on what his name is when he is dancing
A young Steve Zahn.
That's cause hes a generic white dude.
Tom Cruise
Owen Wilson perhaps?
Patrick Swasey
“Can you think of anything worse than being naked on TMZ?”
...Yes. Being a child soldier.
Well, he also got to jack it in San Diego. Not Kony. But Jason. Yee haw!!
Lmao I live in San Diego and I fuckin saw that dude outside shaking his dick. I was dying 💀
@@tupacshakur5308 Yes, I too saw him shaking his dick from my mansion that was on top of my UFO. And I, too, was dying.
He didn’t mean literally- don’t minimize his experience dude
@@tupacshakur5308 i once visited san diego and i saw him too.
Man. I miss 2010's internet.
what internet historian has taught me:
never underestimate the absolute power of the internet to alter culture irreparably
The EU realized this and passed Article 13.
No fun allowed in the EU.
golgo 13 what he’s taught me is never get on the bad side of 4chan
I literally thought it was a presidential campaign
OH MY GOD, I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!
Same lol
So did I.
MASSIVE BRAIN
Me too
The real winner of this story is the guy who got 30k from TMZ for that video.
Even if I were thirty kay richer I'm not sure I'd be able to live with myself knowing that I deliberately gave TMZ footage that would inevitably turn them a profit.
@@-snek.
Eh 30k is 30k snek. You know how many McChickens you can order off the dollar menu with 30,000 dollars? Like a hundred fifty or something.
Well ... Yeah, you right.
@@jbain4750 Nah man, those figures are way off. You could get at least 500 mchickens, maybe more if you haggle
@@joshuaburnett7643
It'd be McCrazy that's for sure hahahahaha
I remember being so upset that my parents wouldn’t buy me the $100 kony box kit…I was like I need to help 😂
i feel bad for the guy. He was a moron, but had good intentions.
I mean, if you're going to build up a resistance army, you gotta start them young...
oh
hahahah plot twist
@@ryancasey4038 whooosh
Rebels barely fight for anything these days
all he wanted was to christianize lel
I attended an Invisible Children event as a teenager in 2009 in which me and a couple hundred other kids marched a mile or so down the street (on the sidewalk) (to symbolize how the child soldiers have to walk a lot), attended a concert, and then camped out in a field. It was very fun but I had been wondering ever since what it accomplished.
🤠howdy. I hear you guys have tumbleweed and it gets so bad that it blocks you from leaving your house. I'll get myself some gatorade in Amazon and lock myself indoors to symbolise your struggle.
See you later cowboy
Edit: it's okay, we all do weird things off good intentions just make sure you don't get used as a part of a march for freelance photographers to make money off the photos, UN/UNICEF FOOD style
I remember Invisible Children having a charity event at my high school circa 2006 or 2007. It seemed to be student lead and a bunch of purple t-shirts were sold that said "Invisible Children" on the front. I'm pretty sure I bought one at the time. Somehow the Kony 2012 flew under my radar in 2012. It wasn't until years later that I found out that the Kony fiasco and Invisible Children were connected.
mostly to raise money and awareness. I can guarantee that if you find 10000 Americans who want to help a foreign cause to travel to a warzone and help, you will only get a single-digit number of people who would agree to those conditions. If this all-or-nothing method was used no charity would be able to help developing countries.
Imagine having to walk a lot 😭
I was in high school and I even remember back then not giving a fuck and thinking everyone was a slacktavist even before I even knew what that word was.
I was 15 when this went down.. in my high school caf they were playing that video back to back all day every day for at least a week. There were assemblies about it and they were trying to get us to buy the kits and do the 4/20 night event as well. There were posters everywhere and then a week passed and no one cared anymore lol
Baby, you got a stew goin'.
甘い my high school too lmao. We were interested in something else on 4/20😂
I don't think anyone at my high school did anything like that, we were like "eh, it's a meme"
All I remember is some guys mentioning it in my sex ed class. Aside from that nothing else really came of it
Never heard of this back in 2012. Probably because I was still in elementary school and was hyped for the Lego DC Superheroes theme which was new at the time.
I genuinely feel so bad for him. He's a decent human being who had a mental breakdown overwhelmed by trying to bring about some change.
HAHAHAHA are you serious?!!
@Gabe Davis I'm just trying to empathise lol. He could be a peddler or whatever you old folks call it, but I'm just saying, psychotic breaks aren't a joke and I'd like to believe at least a sliver of him actually was trying to do a decent thing, which spiralled out.
@Gabe Davis kid what, you probably aren't older than 25
@@shellyredding6727 What are you laughing at? Yourself? Cause you're the only joke here.
@@shellyredding6727 Yeah man fuck people for having human empathy. Let’s all go down to the mental health hospital and LAUGH at everyone with mental issues! We’re the good guys.
Kony2012 sounds like they want him elected.
Yes! That was what I thought when I saw the title! That it was a homeless guy they wanted to elect president
When I first saw it in high school, I was confused and wondered if he was some sort of third party candidate that high schoolers really liked. I later did research and found out about him.
Covid19? no Kony 2012
I never really did understand the whole Joseph Kony thing until I watched this video.
The Eastside Show talk about a cognitive hazard .
Idea: Kony is really an scp. I mean think about it
Damn you're late as fuck boi
Me neither, from what I remember my teacher told me it was just to save children.
Back then I saw a shitload of youtube comments just saying KONY 2012 and I heard he was a bad guy from Africa who should be stopped for some reason. This is all new to me
Can't believe it's been 10 years since Kony2012.
Now 11 years
Now 12…
@@RBToys_ytNow 12 years
He actually came to talk at my high school in like 2010. I was in the amnesty international club and we helped organize it. I feel bad for him because he really was passionate about helping those kids.
Well he was a dumbass. Then again the public at large was even more of a fool.
@@s2korpionic yeah stopping African sex slavery doesn't seem to fit the agenda of what we are pushing as racism in America today. Wonder if his 'breakdown' was cause by something other than stress
They came to mine too
If he felt so bad for the kids he should have flicked them some of that $20m. Just an ‘awareness’ campaign though
@@chardibinx go tell that to blm though lol
"men can enjoy musicals, it's current year." what a prescient statement, so timeless
I'm a dude who loves Little Shop of Horrors! Gotta respect something with a song about being rewarded for killing douchebags!
As long as straight dudes are weirdly insecure about quote-unquote “girly” media, it will continue to be relevant.
@@thatkidwiththehoodie If by "insecure" you mean they genuinely just disike musicals, then sure go ahead and spite them. I'm sure that won't say more about you than them.
@@Anon1gh3 some of them do. Many of them don’t.
“It is the current year” hmm yes the floor here is made out of floor
They should’ve gotten Captain Alex to help defeat Kony.
Captain Alex died
isnt captain alex dead? i mean, the title literally is Who Killed Captain Alex? i've seen the movie, but did not make much sense out of it :D
Kony killed Captain Alex.
DreamspiderX Captain Alex doesn’t die he simply goes missing in action.
They needed Ugandan Bruce Lee
It was 6 years between Kony 2012 and this video. It has been 6 more years between this video and now...
"People were up to anything to stop Joseph Kony, as long as it didn't involve any practical action" HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I seem to remember that the US deployed a small team to help look for him. I can't say this thing was a scam because raising awareness is great (though I'm going to watch that second video about the funds before doubling down on the scam part, lol) and change only happens when enough people care. For that, kudos to the guy. For simplifying HOW they were going to resolve the issue, that's where things fall apart.
Sounds like Italy's plan in ww2
pingpong1138 Isn’t... donating... and going outside for protests... doing...
@pingpong1138, In this specific instance No. Donating and Protesting does absolutely nothing to stop the use of child soldiers because people who use child soldiers don't give a fuck.
@alfred milner Its all about the convenience of morality to leverage for a purpose and a cause to support. Leaders in all levels are corrupted, but they divide the masses with superfluous issues and many people remain unaware.
Come back internet historian
I miss you
He just has an inanely slow upload rate. There IS alot of time & effort put into those videos.
He came through
Imagine mastering a high school musical so well that everyone questions your sexuality.
lol
Surprisingly not uncommon, same thing happened to my mate because he was accidentally caught singing “go your own way“.
Not sure if he actually enjoys dick or not, point is it doesn’t matter. He sang the gay tings 🤷♂️
@@SquoangleProductions they think your friends gay for singing a ... Fleetwood mac song? Wtf lmao
@@basedsouljah
I guess so. I’m only BIsexual - so I didn’t even know Fleetwood Mac was in HSM 🤷♂️
Why else would I be in a musical
Wait, this wasn’t an election campaign?! 😳
The plan to catch Kony sounds like a South Park episode
Williams Chesternut hahahahaahhahbahahahba it does doesnt it jahsvendj
The 9/11 one.
"HEY THAT GUYS JACKIN It!"
Williams Chesternut finally found out what Jacken it in San Diego means.
On my gad, they killed kony
"can you think of anything else that's worse than running around naked on TMZ?"
kids getting kidnapped by an african warlord?
Your comment is so underrated
chose bine underrated comment tbh
well played
Tee Emm Thee*
@@mikahtran5283 r/notunderrated
This shit is like an episode from South Park
Erik Astrom Because Russell jacked it in San Diego.
Southpark literally made an episode based on this
This Jason dude looked super annoying on that dance vid with that long-haired hairstyle, BUT he clearly had a reason to want to wake the West up to what is happening in Africa. Kony was a real threat and this dude had the passion to do something about it. The reason why nothing happened to Kony is because the world's elite (aka vampire-like scum) need murdering warlords like Kony to protect their mining interests in Africa. This is probably why the mainstream media attacked him so aggressively. If they didn't destroy his sanity, he would have taken his highlighted case to Congress and Congress would have been forced to take this Kony guy out. Nobody at the top wanted this to happen.
JACKIN FOR THE LORD!
I kinda feel bad for russel, maybe he was full of shit, but he clearly had a psychotic episode, now everybody thinks he just ran outside and jerked off (which he didn’t lol)...
The way Jason orchastrated this might not have been way to do it, but you can clearly see that he is a genuinly good person with his heart in the right place.
CNN got angry about simplifying a complex issue into a 30 minute emotionally driven summary because they were jealous that when they do the same thing, they have to cut to a commercial break in the middle and ask what Twitter thinks of the issue.
Typical shit
If this happened in 2021 instead of 2012 then CNN would be angry that a white man was raising money to kill a black man
I'm surprised CNN is still running. I'm all for freedom of the press and everything, but when they're giving their opinions publicly, and stating it as fact, that's a problem.
@N Fels because you don’t have to be an conservative to see that cnn and most “news” is all lies, and it’s people like you who are blind, you basically don’t want to see it, you would rather live in la la land then understand these people are liars, and before you claim I am a Republican I am not, I don’t belong to any political party because Dems and Reps are evil and shake hands together and if more people like you would get that maybe we could make america better.
@N Fels I would rather be called a “trumpist” because if that’s all you can come up with than rather tell me facts on why I am wrong you all ready lost dumbass, I bet you think Biden’s actually doing a good job, like gtfo and don’t even respond anymore because that was the weakest comeback I’ve seen yet and I’ve seen some dumb responses.
To catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause.
Ooohh my god
This is basically Far Cry 3 but if Jason tried to use awareness to kill Vaas.
Jackin' it in San Diego as DLC?
Xander Sedillo more like far cry 2
Far cry 2 my man. It really painted a realistic image of African civil wars.
Where’s the part where you slaughter your friends for a religion you don’t even understand because you skipped all the cutscenes?