The Story of Kony2012
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ต.ค. 2018
- Someone should really stop this Kony fella.
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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
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
"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 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
he should have gone postal, he would have gone down a legend
@@AmalekIsComing NOOOOOOO
@@AmalekIsComingnice avatar
Pfp
I mean, Jason doesn’t seem like a bad guy, he just got in WAY over his head
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.
"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.
I'm ashamed to admit that before watching this video I had just assumed Kony2012 was someone running for President.
same
I thought it was another festival gone wrong video.
I mean he kinda is
Yeah you should be ashamed. Not only could you not identify a huge move member or even be bothered to do the smallest google search to look it up, you also showed just how much you don’t know about politics. No wonder we’re in our current state - with critical thinkers like you being the norm, we’re absolutely doomed.
@@Rufert That's a false equivalency. That's like saying "the election of the leader of my country isn't something I keep up with."
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?
“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
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.
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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
*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
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
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.
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
“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?
That Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt plan sounds like a Family Guy cutaway.
Sean Laffey under rated comment
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
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:
The winner is the person who sold their video to TMZ for $30,000.
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?
Hey guys, Kony was dead the whole time, some teenager on TH-cam’s Mom said so
Oh ok
dedpacito
@@jimcracketowens5319 Haha Haha funny joke hahahaha
There were protests in Uganda over Kony 2012 because they believed him to be dead as well.
He had Jaundice in 2006 so theres a very small chance he could have survived to 2012
Not saying the country didnt need help, its just the help was misdirected in a way that could be harmful, i.e. military intervention.
@OutAtSea wow you fucking delusional stupid fuck ass holy shit people are dumb.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
A lot can change in 10 years. It clearly did. This poor guy was really trying to make a change. glad hes doing better.
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
"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!
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.
I feel for this man, I’ve gone through psychosis and it’s scary and uncontrollable
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
"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
Can't believe it's been 10 years since Kony2012.
Now 11 years
Man. I miss 2010's internet.
“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
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
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 love how the media outlets were mad that people didn't know what they were supporting. And that's their main hustle now.
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
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.
@@vanguardtrainer924 They probably glossed a lighter over it so the glue sticks stronger.
@@largelatte7320 or just use super glue on the whole backside
Weird
@@vanguardtrainer924 Flex Seal!
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.
While his mental breakdown was hilarious from the sidelines, the man really did try to make a difference, he truly cared and that i would say drove him to madness.
His buddies pocketed a lot of money
Stop with this crap. His "good intentions" ended with his own fame and fortune.
He was rich, and this made him rich and famous. Save your sympathy for the less fortunate please and thank you.
"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.
"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
Not trying to say your old content was better by any means, but damn you had some lightning in a bottle. You've actually done an amazing job, keeping up with current events while not being canceled. Although I can imagine there are a dozen half finished projects you shelved out of caution that you would have released without hesitation 4 years ago. I've seen this video 50 times but it still felt good to watch it again and reminisce.
Wait, this wasn’t an election campaign?! 😳
“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.
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.
10 years ago on this night, I was sleeping on a friends couch, and I heard some rando outside yell, "Kony 2012!" Like some mad banshee.
More than 10 years on… i hate social media still. Tik tok is now kony 2012 levels of hype in seconds of video.
"... 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
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.
14:36 R.I.P. Carl Weathers
He made the best Kony possible, he shall rest in eternal peace
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.
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
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.
I've watched this numerous times and unironically singing along to the musical at this point
For months I thought that Kony was a US presidential candidate running for the 2012 elections. Took me a while to learn he's an African warlord employing children and that there were no elections in 2012. And that's all the information I caught about the topic. I knew nothing else that was brought up in this video. Not even that South Park's fabulous Jackin' It scene was related to it this ordeal.
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...
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.
The article says he charged at her at threatened to fuck her face. That's legally pretty different from just having to witness a breakdown.
R/thathappened oh wait it’d be reddit nvm
@@meee110 What the fuck is "the article"? Is there any actual evidence of this?
Tooting the horn about Kony enough could concievably have gotten certain governments riled up enough to make him a kill priority. Either Uganda and DR.Congo in who's territory he was operating in, mainly to end an international embarrasment, or a forreign government wanting to get the cred for having iced him. When that didn't pan out... what do you do next? That's a real question. They had enough money to kill Kony themselves but i think there are laws that prohibit a charity from becoming a PMC and i doubt Jason Russel is an Evgeny Prigozhin type of man anyway.
I remember telling my mom it was a scam, when she bought an action kit, and then it never even showed up
"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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X
I only press x to Jason buddy
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.
Slacktivism at it's finest. As long as they don't have to actually do anything other than post a comment and change their profile page, they're all in to 'help'.
I remember this. And how insanely fervent some of my former friends got in supporting this cause they somehow instantly became brainwashed into believing this and throwing money at it
Well I mean it wasn’t a hoax or anything
i mean its something that really happened it wasnt like exaggerated or anything. He brutalized thousands of children.
@@coreythepeanut Other than making the founder rich and accomplishing nothing, it was totally not a hoax. I'm sure everyone who gave money knew they weren't going to help anyone but the founder.
But it wasn’t fake 😂 the only hoax was every single main stream media source saying the guy was a fraud.
"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
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
You adding the Hell March at 11:34 made my day
Holy smokes. This brings me way back.
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 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
I remember hearing about Kony in 2012, doing some research and realising it wasn't all as easy as people thought it would be and that some of the reactions were a bit cringe. But honestly the people who smugly slammed it while doing nothing but harassing this dude were way worse than some naive but well meaning youths.
I do remember Kony 2012 and recognized it instantly for the fad it is.
Facebook at the time was saturated with everyone changing their profile images to show support. All I could hear was Baaaaaaaaa!
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
uganda want to erase that gay dancing video from your memory forever
@Matt Peck and cuz they know when a meme is dead
You can't tell me what to do!
The naked dancing on the street or ...?
the moment the lyrics started it felt like brainwashing material.
Do you mean ricardo?
"vandalize your town with awareness" LOL
2012 was the end of the internet
Sure buddy
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
BREAKING NEWS: Good old boy Billy McFarland, the organizer of the incredible Fyre Festival was just sentenced to 6 years in prison for fraud, AND he has to forfeit over 26 million dollars.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we got 'em!
Haha we got them woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!
*bass drop*
Can't wait till he organizes Prysyn Festival!
_I THOUGHT I HAD IT ALL TOGETHER_
BUT I WAS LED ASTRAY
So this is where South Park got the Jackin it in San Diego thing from
That entire episode was a response to kony 2012.
When I was in college, my foreign roommate got a box of Kony merchandise in the mail one week. There was no explaining it to him, so I just shook my head and walked away.
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.
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 live in a fairly large city in the U.K and watched this video when it came out when I was in school.
I never remember seeing any of those posters. Not one.
Thanks Soup for the reminder of this
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)...
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
I remember when this was going on someone in my health class convinced the teacher to put the video on over the board. I think some people donated in class too
I just realized that the south park "jackin it in san diego" could have easily been a reference to this.
It wasn't just a reference, it was literally about Kony bro. How did you just realize?
@@olivergillespie3574 that's what reference means, lmao
@cocaineinmyvein yes but your "could have easily been" is what I was criticizing
@@olivergillespie3574 well considering I hadn't looked it up, I didn't want to say I was positive where it came from.
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
Ayyyy. It's you
@anarchore LOL wut
this is just a real version of "i just found out about racism"
@Ben Turner dafuq?
@Ben Turner thanks ben turner, for your input
just found out about child soldiers. that shit sucks man
@Ben Turner ok racist
@@CoolBird420 to be fair, there is a lot of fucked off things that people are aware that can exist, or are aware that it does exist, but just can get to care because it's not part of their lives.
Jason went to Uganda, he was there and the suffering that Kony was inflicting. It became part of his life experience and then he took the choice of trying to help the people of that country by making people taking notice of this guy. I mean, what else he was going to do? Arm himself with his travel partners and pursue Kony a lo Rambo?
Just stumbled across this creator today and wow, what an entertaining creator.