Also op true as heck. The fact that Jony, Rebecca Black’s Friday, Lady Gaga, & MW2 we’re all the most popular things then (as well as everything else inSANE that happened then) proves 12 was a fever dream
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.
@Cxarhom’ell I'm a Christian and I agree with you. Glad to find someone else who believes that we are worshipping the same God. Yet some refuse to acknowledge it despite the glaring similarities between the religions. Good on you👍
Kony 2012 pretty much foreshadowed all social justice events for the next decade. Someone actually wants to make a change in the world, it becomes a trend, people start spreading the word but not actually helping and then it just never gets solved. This happens again and again.
@Max Dowis Just thought it’d be funny since Joseph Kony and president Joe (Joseph) Biden have the same first name, to have a Biden shirt where Biden is replaced with kony.
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.
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.
Hahahaha.....I know right? That's literally ALL CNN now does 😂😂😂 . It's pretty much standard operating procedure for mainstream media now with complex issues happening in other parts of the world..
There’s reasons Fox is unaccredited and embraced entertainment as opposed to news, sure they mostly did it in an attempt to avoid lawsuits. They also have incredibly low confidence in the intelligence of their viewers. Simpsons did an animated ‘fox news’ style interview with Krusty the Clown. Matt Groening was told they couldn’t do that again as it might confuse Fox News viewers. Basically saying they don’t think the average Fox News viewer can tell the difference between animation and reality. CNN really isn’t any better though I just think the Simpsons Fox thing is hilariously insulting to people that blindly listen to them. Fox News, fair and balanced ROFL
@Ryn McKin count your blessings, when I was growing up, the floor was made of lava and we couldn't get up off the couch until it was time to eat or go to bed
@[georgianhorse] 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.
@Videre Vero yea slowing dying of diabetes (? I think) and having to forever live in fear is no way to live. But maybe that’s wishful thinking on my part
“Hey some Americans on the internet, which basically doesn’t exist in this part of Uganda, don’t like what we’re doing. Guess it’s time to reevaluate our morals because people on the internet are going to do, uhhhh, something if we don’t stop. The Ugandan military is facing difficulties stopping us and we don’t mind conscripting literal children to help fight them off, but God forbid it if people on the internet don’t approve of our actions. We wouldn’t want them to raise awareness of our actions that the Ugandan people, military, and government, having experienced it first hand, are very much already aware of!” -Joseph Kony Stark
@tjitjo How instagram throws a temper tantrum once they get accurately called out for barely contributing to society with how they think shit gets solved.
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.
Honestly I dont think the guy that started Kony 2012 did anything wrong, he tried to raise awareness for a horrible atrocity, having people know is the first step to having governments take action. He got a lot more money and fame than he anticipated and didnt know what to do with it, but he achieved his goal and single-handedly made the entire world take the first step to stop the issue.
@asuhdude It is very "20th century thinking" to underestimate the power of communication, mass media, and information. The world has changed, information is now the most powerful weapon and tool (just look at Trump or Russia), you can feel better about yourself by criticising "slacktivisits" without doing anything either, but the Kony guy spread awareness that pushes people to complain and politicians/companies to act.
@BlownMacTruck I'm sorry if me not keeping up with every season of America is negatively impacting it. It just isn't interesting or even remotely relevant to me.
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.
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.
Woo boy, Jason pretty much losing his mind is hilarious when you are just seeing a video of it, but is terrifying when you yourself experience it. I used to have a pretty shitty life and the only person I cared about was my grandmother, who raised me since I was born, so when she died when I was 16 I just kinda snapped. I honestly dont remember what exactly happened, just I blinked and suddenly my bedroom was totally wrecked, tons of holes punched in the walls, pretty much every bone in my left hand was broken.
@Derpsider Sorry ≠ Apologize Sorry definition 1. feeling distress, especially through sympathy with someone else's misfortune. "I was sorry to hear about what happened to your family"
This is one of those things where you can kind of tell he just wanted to help a cause he really believed in people but the whole thing ballooned beyond his control. Like he really had a psychotic break that wasn't someone who just started acting crazy so people would back off it genuinely seemed like he lost himself
@o k From what I've seen the bulk of the money spent was used on the campaign its self to keep up the momentum. Sadly, like with many relief efforts involving warlords any aid that is spent the warlords get their hands on and just goes into fueling their war effort.
LOL I can just kind of tell that he wanted desperately to be famous and get "clout" before clout was a thing, and had no scruples about serving as a conduit for CIA/Pentagon propaganda if that's what it took. Too bad (/s) that he ended up getting dosed with LSD or whatever they did to him. He kinda deserved it.
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.
I remember at the height of this, my dad took me on a fishing trip. We went to this super remote town in Australia because it had a really good lake for fishing. About twenty minutes out from this town we stopped the car so I could take a leak on the side of the road and I saw on the nearby electricity pole a big Kony 2012 poster.
Matt L Well, that was mainly the conservatives and politicians trying to do damage control after some firearm tragedy. The kind of activism this whole thread are tired off is an offensive move. Thoughts and prayers are defensive. Other than that, they’re the same.
@Jeramy Steve more to harm third parties/innocent people than actually solve the issues, the massive looting/riots of these days is a good example of that, geez I saw BLM protestors having more concerns about lgbtq rights than stop police brutality, at the end it's more about elections and Trump than anything else, meanwhile even kids has been killed by "protestors" with rifles during the Chaz phase.
I remember so many hardcore and punk shows having Invisible Children merch for sale but it all had zero context and most of the people who ran the booths couldn’t even fully explain what it was all about. Most people thought it was a band lol.
My friends and I used to have intense Nerf gun battles, and one day one of the guys was like “alright, team, let’s prioritize stealth this time. We’ll be the Invisible Children! Team Joseph Kony!” And we proceeded to call ourselves team Kony for the rest of the evening.
All this stuff in the video is fantastic, but I think it's really heartwarming and sweet that he married his best friend that he's known since he was 7.
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.
@Bjorick it is not. It's more like when you are clearly sick and a friend, who isn't a professional, is telling you that you are sick and so you ask them:", What's the cure then? If you can make such a diagnosis, you must also know how to fix this" Your point doesn't make any sense. The girl isn't a professional, she's a worried person. The facts she uses are scientifically proven and available to the public, but honestly, I don't know what she has been doing this last year. But hey, I guess that a random teenager should be able to fix climate change by themselves just because they know it's happening.
If you weren't on Facebook it was easy to miss actually. I only knew about it because some of my friends changed their profile pictures and I saw their conversations for how serious it was through them.
The only thing i remember about this incident was my 7th grade english teacher making us write personal letters to the leader of some African country to call to an end to the violence and I was so weirded out by the whole thing
Jesus Christ. When I was in the 7th grade, they had the Jonestown Massacre. We thanfully didn't have to write letters, but we did have to listen to a bunch of bullshit.
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
@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.
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
Yep I remember this. I followed it like everyone else, posted a Kony 2012 picture on my Facebook, then I heard all the criticism and felt almost duped. My friend at school who was from Uganda (who left as a toddler) also said that she called her aunt who still lived there to ask about her it. Her aunt explained that Kony hadn’t really been a threat to safety in Uganda for years and he was assumed to just be hiding somewhere in the forest in one of Uganda’s neighbouring countries. I know I was 16-17 at the time but I still feel stupid for falling for such patronising obvious white saviour bullshit.
I remember seeing a video of an English reporter finding and interviewing Kony and it basically destroyed the entire hype for me. I’m surprised you didn’t bring it up in the video
I clicked on this because I was scared to death by the kony2012 video when I was in 5th grade. Your channel is a beautiful mix of knowledge, showmanship, and comedy. Incredible job
I was in college when this was going on. All I remember about was it went viral and then everyone said it was a scam. Now these “scams for a cause” are a dime a dozen.
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?
@Thomas Wolosik considering similar plans were successfully carried out before that movie why not? People in power that get away with things like this get arrogant and think they’re invincible
I just recently finished a move and actually found my Kony2012 kit while packing. It still had everything inside. My school did schedule a night out for the thing but I guess I must have not went since it still had everything including the candy the school threw in to entice people to do it, I found out near ten year old starbursts aren’t edible.
I vaguely remember this. I actually wondered about what happened to Koni just recently lol. Anyway I dont think raising awareness for such a crisis is wrong. It just shows us how powerful media can be without ever doing anything good with it.
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.
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
I was 11 when the Kony 2012 video came out and remember being so upset about what was happening to those kids that I was seriously grieving, even as a kid. Then to see the truth come out, and the aftermath of it all, it really taught me a HUGE lesson to not listen to everything I read online…
I will never forget my art teacher in middle school giving us a brief story about this and asking us to ask our parents to donate. Crazy when I heard the truth about it all.
I remember being in school when this happened, and the teachers who explained this described it basically as the Me Too Movement... something about sexism in Hollywood and this proved that so wrong
Always felt bad for this guy. He had a topic he was passionate about and wanted to raise awareness and it went completely fucking insane. His heart was in the right place.
“People were up for pretty much anything to stop this monster as long as it didn’t involve any practical action.” That quote is simultaneously hilarious and sad
"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
@Ahren Scholz "they already have equal rights" ya...in the west. Iran, Nigeria, India, china, Qatar...do u want me to keep going? the west is literally only a small part of the world.
Probably because humans are meant to be in small communities. If we don't know someone irl, we can't care THAT much. We have our own lives to worry about already
Kony2012 is the perfect example of the 6 second (do we have to start over) attention span of internet activism. I remember when this stuff came out and I was like, yeah guys, they made that movie in 2006 with Leo...
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 was fucking blown away by the Captain EO parody about Kony2012, but what's more mind-boggling is that it's official, meaning the guy who started Kony2012 (already a compelling figure in his own right) has heard of Captain EO.
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.
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 do admire Jason's dedication to a just and noble cause and while I was not there in Uganda with him, or had a car being shot at infront of me I will say this. Ideals are peaceful, but history is often very violent and even if one were to wave a magic wand and erase Kony from existance itself that does not solve the underlaying issue of by cutting one head off from the Hydra 2 more will sprout up. Ineveitably the vaccume of Konys death/ dissaperence will just motivate someone else perhaps even worse than Kony himself to take the blood soaked reigns of his work. One day I would like to think that Uganda will have a more peaceful and stable future, where children do not have to sleep in the middle of a town square just to be safe from kidnapping - but before that happens alot more people got to die. So as I say ideals are indeed peaceful but history is violent.
Kony’s probably dead now, there isn’t much of a vacuum he left being filled, imagine if in world war 2 the Allies didn’t do anything and said that destroying hitler would just create worse tyrants
The evil of this world relies on stupid people to attack those that are trying to stop them… it put this guy in a mental hospital. When you see someone fighting for what’s right… give them your support and try to remember that they are only human.
They told us about Kony and showed a graphic documentary at my MIDDLE school. Because 11 to 13 year olds are at the right age to learn about horrible treatment of kids their age but with no way to help. Donations meant getting a t-shirt or poster in exchange.
I remember when this happened. I was a freshman in college and we put up signs all over campus. I changed my profile pic as well. At the time I just remember being so overwhelmed when I found out about his existence. Call me ignorant but I just didn’t know he existed. Being a humanitarian, it pulled right at my heart strings. Of course I felt quite ignorant and naive after I did some research. Anyway I had no clue that happened to that guy. I feel badly.
I feel bad for him. Imagine if in your job people started blaming you for horrific war crimes and million of people turned against you while you ran around the country doing interviews every second. He meant well, and unfortunately there was just too much stress involved
as a 25 year old who just remembered this highscool, thank you for this aboslute top tier lore on what happened to me. its still wild that this reached schools lmao because i rememberd that little box you got from them
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That Q&A I promised 2 months ago: kzclip.org/video/rXAeb7Pmzjs/бейне.html
I'll be waiting for you to make a video about BLM movement in the future.
I wouldn't call 20 million in donated funds "no practical action".
Ti amo perché ci sta sempre l'italiano come lingua tradotta❤
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Hold on. Look this up for real. US Military employed PSYOP to quote: "End the war without firing a single shot"
2012 was a wild time
yeah when you were chatting up kids
Also op true as heck.
The fact that Jony, Rebecca Black’s Friday, Lady Gaga, & MW2 we’re all the most popular things then (as well as everything else inSANE that happened then) proves 12 was a fever dream
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.
Based
Wow
But what about Invicible Children group? Is it still active?
@Heidegaff What's that got do with anything?
Well done guys, great team work there 🤡
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.
Yeah I know, cant Kony just do what he wants in peace
@Cxarhom’ell I'm a Christian and I agree with you. Glad to find someone else who believes that we are worshipping the same God. Yet some refuse to acknowledge it despite the glaring similarities between the religions. Good on you👍
Who Kony?
Kony 2012 pretty much foreshadowed all social justice events for the next decade. Someone actually wants to make a change in the world, it becomes a trend, people start spreading the word but not actually helping and then it just never gets solved. This happens again and again.
Ukraine
Yep, great team work guys 🤡
Virtue signal but don't actually help anyone
The fact that "Kony 2012" sounds like an election slogan makes me want a t-shirt that says "Don't blame me, I voted for Joseph Kony."
@Tag533 same i just now found out it wasn’t people making fun of the elections. I thought it was like how ppl said Kanye 2020 and shit like that😂
@Max Dowis Just thought it’d be funny since Joseph Kony and president Joe (Joseph) Biden have the same first name, to have a Biden shirt where Biden is replaced with kony.
@Condor there are too many elections being discussed in this comment thread to identify what you're talking about. Can you explain?
deadass I didn't know who Kony was or what the situation was, I just knew it involved saving kids. For years I did think it was some kind of campaign
A Joseph R Biden but Biden is crossed out and replaced with Kony
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.
lmfao
All I can say is... Nice ...
Dorm room?
Haha lol
What happen to Kony anyway?
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.
@MyNameBeRamen lol do you just believe everything that is told to you
Lol cope
@Sercer25 it's no satire. Trump got people's cognitive dissonance in such a twist that they dredge him up anytime, all the time, everytime.
Hahahaha.....I know right? That's literally ALL CNN now does 😂😂😂 . It's pretty much standard operating procedure for mainstream media now with complex issues happening in other parts of the world..
There’s reasons Fox is unaccredited and embraced entertainment as opposed to news, sure they mostly did it in an attempt to avoid lawsuits. They also have incredibly low confidence in the intelligence of their viewers.
Simpsons did an animated ‘fox news’ style interview with Krusty the Clown. Matt Groening was told they couldn’t do that again as it might confuse Fox News viewers. Basically saying they don’t think the average Fox News viewer can tell the difference between animation and reality.
CNN really isn’t any better though I just think the Simpsons Fox thing is hilariously insulting to people that blindly listen to them. Fox News, fair and balanced ROFL
"men can enjoy musicals, it's current year." what a prescient statement, so timeless
@Escher_Sprite I think they are insecure about other people liking what they don't like. God forbid I genuinely enjoy Audrey II's diss track.
@Ryn McKin count your blessings, when I was growing up, the floor was made of lava and we couldn't get up off the couch until it was time to eat or go to bed
“It is the current year” hmm yes the floor here is made out of floor
@Escher_Sprite some of them do. Many of them don’t.
@[georgianhorse] 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.
It’s 2022, a decade later, and Joseph Kony is still happily roaming the jungles of Africa.
You've seen him in person? You know Kony so well why ain't you stop him?
@James Court it was a joke
@Videre Vero yea slowing dying of diabetes (? I think) and having to forever live in fear is no way to live. But maybe that’s wishful thinking on my part
Well not exactly happily. Apparently the guy is pretty sickly.
@Rydz wtf dude hes a horrible person!!
Kony in Uganda be like "oh shit that vid went viral, I better stop being evil"
Kony be like i’m turning over a new leaf
@I'm not the Walrus Haha
“Hey some Americans on the internet, which basically doesn’t exist in this part of Uganda, don’t like what we’re doing. Guess it’s time to reevaluate our morals because people on the internet are going to do, uhhhh, something if we don’t stop. The Ugandan military is facing difficulties stopping us and we don’t mind conscripting literal children to help fight them off, but God forbid it if people on the internet don’t approve of our actions. We wouldn’t want them to raise awareness of our actions that the Ugandan people, military, and government, having experienced it first hand, are very much already aware of!”
-Joseph Kony Stark
@I'm not the Walrus accurate
@tjitjo How instagram throws a temper tantrum once they get accurately called out for barely contributing to society with how they think shit gets solved.
Was so funny how everyone got up in arms about this for social credits then didn't give a solitary shit 6 months later
And years later, nothing has changed. I hear next to nothing about SUPPORT UKRAINE now.
6 hours for most people
6 days
It was a preview of Black Lives Matter in 2020
@wustachemax What's so bad about supporting Ukraine?
Kony sought refuge in Wakanda which is why we cant find him
I knew it
wakanda load of BS is that
Alt history video ?
Cody…. I love you for this comment
For a second I thought that this post was serious and now I want die
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.
It accomplished absolutely nothing.
@asuhdude Nothing says "slactivism" quite like the Yellow Ribbon Brigades of the Forever War
LOL
@Stephen Padlock oh the irony in your statement
@Stephen Padlock And yet, they're the pathetic one here?
Honestly I dont think the guy that started Kony 2012 did anything wrong, he tried to raise awareness for a horrible atrocity, having people know is the first step to having governments take action. He got a lot more money and fame than he anticipated and didnt know what to do with it, but he achieved his goal and single-handedly made the entire world take the first step to stop the issue.
@asuhdude It is very "20th century thinking" to underestimate the power of communication, mass media, and information. The world has changed, information is now the most powerful weapon and tool (just look at Trump or Russia), you can feel better about yourself by criticising "slacktivisits" without doing anything either, but the Kony guy spread awareness that pushes people to complain and politicians/companies to act.
He was a closet case. He had other issues.
LOL He did exactly what his CIA handlers told him to do. If he went crazy, that's on him. LOL
I'm ashamed to admit that before watching this video I had just assumed Kony2012 was someone running for President.
@Rufert You seem to think this was a movement confined to a single country, despite that being a giant point of the video you're commenting on.
@BlownMacTruck Doubling down on the assumption that it's my country I see.
@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."
@BlownMacTruck I'm sorry if me not keeping up with every season of America is negatively impacting it. It just isn't interesting or even remotely relevant to me.
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 think it's time for a Kony comeback tour in 2022
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.
@lockeforeer Because activism is supposed to help
@lockeforeer Because the year is 2023 and the lra Is still a thing kony is alive absolutely nothing has changed
@lockeforeer He could have donated the money to the military which would have actually made a change
@Luca Mckenn Because it radiates off I'm such a good person energy
This poor man had a stress induced psychotic episode and was humiliated on tv while someone else made $30,000 off his hardship
It's a weird world we live in where a man can profit off a man having a mental breakdown.
@lasarousi lmfao whatever helps you cope with unwillingness to work 🤣
Still better than Mormon romney and obama Hussein
Good he’s a grifter who made us all think kony was running for president
Woo boy, Jason pretty much losing his mind is hilarious when you are just seeing a video of it, but is terrifying when you yourself experience it.
I used to have a pretty shitty life and the only person I cared about was my grandmother, who raised me since I was born, so when she died when I was 16 I just kinda snapped.
I honestly dont remember what exactly happened, just I blinked and suddenly my bedroom was totally wrecked, tons of holes punched in the walls, pretty much every bone in my left hand was broken.
@Oreosmilkshake See, I too am a firm believer in this. I'm glad someone else gets it.
It's crazy that your brain can just... Snap y'know
@Derpsider I'm sorry you feel that way.
@Derpsider
Sorry ≠ Apologize
Sorry definition
1. feeling distress, especially through sympathy with someone else's misfortune.
"I was sorry to hear about what happened to your family"
This is one of those things where you can kind of tell he just wanted to help a cause he really believed in people but the whole thing ballooned beyond his control. Like he really had a psychotic break that wasn't someone who just started acting crazy so people would back off it genuinely seemed like he lost himself
@o k From what I've seen the bulk of the money spent was used on the campaign its self to keep up the momentum. Sadly, like with many relief efforts involving warlords any aid that is spent the warlords get their hands on and just goes into fueling their war effort.
LOL I can just kind of tell that he wanted desperately to be famous and get "clout" before clout was a thing, and had no scruples about serving as a conduit for CIA/Pentagon propaganda if that's what it took. Too bad (/s) that he ended up getting dosed with LSD or whatever they did to him. He kinda deserved it.
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.
11:34
“If you talkin’ about Kony I feel bad for you son
(Troll face)
He snatched 99 kids and your poster saved none”
That’s a good one.
We HERE their cries
Lol
I remember at the height of this, my dad took me on a fishing trip. We went to this super remote town in Australia because it had a really good lake for fishing. About twenty minutes out from this town we stopped the car so I could take a leak on the side of the road and I saw on the nearby electricity pole a big Kony 2012 poster.
“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
@Dereenaldo Ambun Could you please not..?
Matt L Well, that was mainly the conservatives and politicians trying to do damage control after some firearm tragedy.
The kind of activism this whole thread are tired off is an offensive move. Thoughts and prayers are defensive. Other than that, they’re the same.
Big Boss not just leftist. Ever hear of “thoughts and prayers”
@Jeramy Steve more to harm third parties/innocent people than actually solve the issues, the massive looting/riots of these days is a good example of that, geez I saw BLM protestors having more concerns about lgbtq rights than stop police brutality, at the end it's more about elections and Trump than anything else, meanwhile even kids has been killed by "protestors" with rifles during the Chaz phase.
More like real life activists. The people on the internet are far more capable than you think.
This story should be taught in psych classes when learning about savior complexes and where it could lead
I remember so many hardcore and punk shows having Invisible Children merch for sale but it all had zero context and most of the people who ran the booths couldn’t even fully explain what it was all about. Most people thought it was a band lol.
My friends and I used to have intense Nerf gun battles, and one day one of the guys was like “alright, team, let’s prioritize stealth this time. We’ll be the Invisible Children! Team Joseph Kony!” And we proceeded to call ourselves team Kony for the rest of the evening.
All this stuff in the video is fantastic, but I think it's really heartwarming and sweet that he married his best friend that he's known since he was 7.
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.
“People were up for anything as long as it didn’t involve practical action.”
Hm... not much has changed
@Bjorick it is not. It's more like when you are clearly sick and a friend, who isn't a professional, is telling you that you are sick and so you ask them:", What's the cure then? If you can make such a diagnosis, you must also know how to fix this"
Your point doesn't make any sense. The girl isn't a professional, she's a worried person. The facts she uses are scientifically proven and available to the public, but honestly, I don't know what she has been doing this last year.
But hey, I guess that a random teenager should be able to fix climate change by themselves just because they know it's happening.
That’s how humans work my guy. Actual work or impact on their lives are never gone through with unless it actually effects them. Human nature.
@Sascha Benjamin Music What were they fighting? Having less TVs than what they wanted?
11:34 "if you talking about kony, I feel so bad for you son. He snatched 99 kids and your poster saved none"
Damn
I don't understand how I used the internet in 2012 and managed to never hear of this until almost 10 years later 😂
If you were active on YT the comments were full of KONY 2012 comments all over
Oh if you were in college you knew
I was 11 and knew a little bit of it through moviestarplanet lmao
If you weren't on Facebook it was easy to miss actually. I only knew about it because some of my friends changed their profile pictures and I saw their conversations for how serious it was through them.
The only thing i remember about this incident was my 7th grade english teacher making us write personal letters to the leader of some African country to call to an end to the violence and I was so weirded out by the whole thing
Bro that’s gold comedy
@Meme Memeson silly meme
@Meme Memeson 50?
Jesus Christ. When I was in the 7th grade, they had the Jonestown Massacre. We thanfully didn't have to write letters, but we did have to listen to a bunch of bullshit.
oh my god this is so 2012
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
@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.
Well I mean it wasn’t a hoax or anything
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 can't believe they managed to catch him by using the Angelina Jolie + Brad Pitt-trap!!!
RIP Kony 😔😔😔
Ikr! How did he fall for the classic Brangelina trap, it's the oldest trick in the book.
ABSOLUTE MADLADS!!!!!!!
May Kony be peaceful in the afterlife RIP great guy 😞
I remember in High School convincing several teachers to watch the entire video during class. It was a productive week.
Yep I remember this. I followed it like everyone else, posted a Kony 2012 picture on my Facebook, then I heard all the criticism and felt almost duped. My friend at school who was from Uganda (who left as a toddler) also said that she called her aunt who still lived there to ask about her it. Her aunt explained that Kony hadn’t really been a threat to safety in Uganda for years and he was assumed to just be hiding somewhere in the forest in one of Uganda’s neighbouring countries. I know I was 16-17 at the time but I still feel stupid for falling for such patronising obvious white saviour bullshit.
This is actually an interesting social experiment. Make people believe their fighting for a cause.
The fact kony will never be aware any of this happened is hilarious.
@Al Fall Doot He sent a note to the government, apparently.
He's actually aware of it and even commented on it, apparently having sent a note to governors and saying the video is a "mass trickery."
@Lord Grumbot How did they interview an African warlord
he definitely did he had interviews
No good deed goes unpunished.
Imagine mastering a high school musical so well that everyone questions your sexuality.
Triple G energy
Gurlboss Gaslight Gatekeeping energy!
Yeah. Imagine.
My gaydar is giving me a *raging* positive on this guy. I mean, we were all thinking it and he knew it. Fucking hilarious.
I feel for this man, I’ve gone through psychosis and it’s scary and uncontrollable
I remember seeing a video of an English reporter finding and interviewing Kony and it basically destroyed the entire hype for me. I’m surprised you didn’t bring it up in the video
Link?
I clicked on this because I was scared to death by the kony2012 video when I was in 5th grade. Your channel is a beautiful mix of knowledge, showmanship, and comedy. Incredible job
A lot can change in 10 years. It clearly did. This poor guy was really trying to make a change. glad hes doing better.
I was in college when this was going on. All I remember about was it went viral and then everyone said it was a scam. Now these “scams for a cause” are a dime a dozen.
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?
Because it would be an entertaining movie, I don’t get what would be bad about it
@Eoin McDonnell WHICH EPISODE
@Thomas Wolosik considering similar plans were successfully carried out before that movie why not? People in power that get away with things like this get arrogant and think they’re invincible
We basically did a similar thing to catch El Chapo. Sean Penn interviewed him and that helped reveal his hideout.
I just recently finished a move and actually found my Kony2012 kit while packing. It still had everything inside. My school did schedule a night out for the thing but I guess I must have not went since it still had everything including the candy the school threw in to entice people to do it, I found out near ten year old starbursts aren’t edible.
I vaguely remember this. I actually wondered about what happened to Koni just recently lol.
Anyway I dont think raising awareness for such a crisis is wrong. It just shows us how powerful media can be without ever doing anything good with it.
In 2018 it was reported that kony had type 2 diabetes, which out their is a death sentence. It has into been confirmed but he’s probably dead by now
I remember my school going all in on this in 2012, and after the nudity incident they dropped it and acted like it never happened.
Man, real life is really crazier than the movies.
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.
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
Imagine if Kony had a sniper kill Pitt and Jolie
SP Tony tf they gonna do? spam the comments with “OMG U R SO BAD!!”
The worst thing that could possibly happen is the IG account getting banned
Yippee Yeah that’s why everyone made fun of and jumped on Kony 2012. Feel bad for the guy that went crazy though.
All this hunt against Kony. He must actually be a good guy. I'd hang out with dim and get to know da wae
I was 11 when the Kony 2012 video came out and remember being so upset about what was happening to those kids that I was seriously grieving, even as a kid.
Then to see the truth come out, and the aftermath of it all, it really taught me a HUGE lesson to not listen to everything I read online…
i was 10 when all this was happening and today is when i finally find out wtf ‘Kony 2012’ even meant 😅
Can't believe it's been 10 years since Kony2012.
Now 11 years
I will never forget my art teacher in middle school giving us a brief story about this and asking us to ask our parents to donate. Crazy when I heard the truth about it all.
The truth is that there was literally nothing wrong with it
I remember how insane this was... for like several months lol
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.
Facts
4chan ain't like what it used to be during the days of all these hunts, its just unmoderated reddit now
I remember being in school when this happened, and the teachers who explained this described it basically as the Me Too Movement... something about sexism in Hollywood and this proved that so wrong
Always felt bad for this guy. He had a topic he was passionate about and wanted to raise awareness and it went completely fucking insane. His heart was in the right place.
I lost it at the massive "we *here* their cries" sign at 11:36.
“People were up for pretty much anything to stop this monster as long as it didn’t involve any practical action.”
That quote is simultaneously hilarious and sad
Koney is a new millennium, African chic bad boy🥰 I want to grow up to be just like him ✅✅✅
"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
@Ahren Scholz "they already have equal rights" ya...in the west. Iran, Nigeria, India, china, Qatar...do u want me to keep going? the west is literally only a small part of the world.
Probably because humans are meant to be in small communities. If we don't know someone irl, we can't care THAT much. We have our own lives to worry about already
That's what I hate about these times
Kony2012 is the perfect example of the 6 second (do we have to start over) attention span of internet activism. I remember when this stuff came out and I was like, yeah guys, they made that movie in 2006 with Leo...
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 remember when one of the Kony guys drank his own pee because people were trolling him online😂
I was fucking blown away by the Captain EO parody about Kony2012, but what's more mind-boggling is that it's official, meaning the guy who started Kony2012 (already a compelling figure in his own right) has heard of Captain EO.
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.
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 think he was a scammer. Where'd the money go?
@Randy Bobandy is true, do a google
@Dirty Doctor Dan right.....
His team did a nice scam tho, even if he wasn’t trying to do that
@Dirty Doctor Dan Based COVID
I do admire Jason's dedication to a just and noble cause and while I was not there in Uganda with him, or had a car being shot at infront of me I will say this. Ideals are peaceful, but history is often very violent and even if one were to wave a magic wand and erase Kony from existance itself that does not solve the underlaying issue of by cutting one head off from the Hydra 2 more will sprout up. Ineveitably the vaccume of Konys death/ dissaperence will just motivate someone else perhaps even worse than Kony himself to take the blood soaked reigns of his work. One day I would like to think that Uganda will have a more peaceful and stable future, where children do not have to sleep in the middle of a town square just to be safe from kidnapping - but before that happens alot more people got to die. So as I say ideals are indeed peaceful but history is violent.
Kony’s probably dead now, there isn’t much of a vacuum he left being filled, imagine if in world war 2 the Allies didn’t do anything and said that destroying hitler would just create worse tyrants
The evil of this world relies on stupid people to attack those that are trying to stop them… it put this guy in a mental hospital. When you see someone fighting for what’s right… give them your support and try to remember that they are only human.
I'm still holding out hope for Kony 2022.
That guy has to win election someday!
God I remember being in elementary school when all this went down I forgot how crazy 2012 was
Holy smokes. This brings me way back.
"... as long as it didn't involve any practical action."
Yeah ... social media in a nutshell.
Would you quit your job to go to war?
Pinterest and Tumblr users in a nutshell
@Devon Are you sure about that?
Contagious Gloom
Yep, they should raise child soldiers and wage war against them
Bizzr At least the area 51 "raiders" showed up lol
This story gets more batshit insane every second
I love how they announced their secret plan on the news.
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:
They told us about Kony and showed a graphic documentary at my MIDDLE school. Because 11 to 13 year olds are at the right age to learn about horrible treatment of kids their age but with no way to help.
Donations meant getting a t-shirt or poster in exchange.
This is an example of how lies can spread halfway around the world even before the truth can put its pants on!
"You're probably watching this video 7 years later because of a vague memory about Kony"
Yeah pretty much
Yep
Nope just now heard of it
I didnt know about it just because i moved to the U.S in 2014
What a time in 2020
Get out of my head!
Damn I feel bad for Jason hope he is ok now
I remember when this happened. I was a freshman in college and we put up signs all over campus. I changed my profile pic as well. At the time I just remember being so overwhelmed when I found out about his existence. Call me ignorant but I just didn’t know he existed. Being a humanitarian, it pulled right at my heart strings. Of course I felt quite ignorant and naive after I did some research.
Anyway I had no clue that happened to that guy. I feel badly.
I remember this well and everyone watched the video but felt like there was no real plan of action except raising awareness.
God that musical with the kids is just a meme in itself. Although with modern TikTok dance trends maybe this guy was just ahead of his time…
This time 10 years ago, Kony 2012 was all over KZclip comment sections. 10 years! Seems like just a few months ago. Time flies.
"naturally, questions were raised about his sexual orientation." Is just a nice way to say that 4chan called him gay.
@LedosKell Not really. His voice is more like a generic white American guy voice.
@Amadeo Dante That's just the cali accent i think
@LedosKell Anyone who uses a bean as a insult has no T , get a life
I feel bad for him. Imagine if in your job people started blaming you for horrific war crimes and million of people turned against you while you ran around the country doing interviews every second. He meant well, and unfortunately there was just too much stress involved
I wish Jason and his family the best, they deserve it.
I remember being in 7th grade when this came out and EVERYONE was putting up posters around the school and town.
as a 25 year old who just remembered this highscool, thank you for this aboslute top tier lore on what happened to me. its still wild that this reached schools lmao because i rememberd that little box you got from them
I was in high school when this happened and I’d forgotten all about it until now. Oh jeez.
Thank god for internet historian, because I was 11 when this happened, and completely missed it. Thanks for the recap.
I was 5 so I don’t think I knew what Uganda even was back then
i was 27 and missed it
I couldn’t sleep after I watched this
This was the precursor to the “must be outraged over current thing” stuff going on every week now.
I was 2
I remember they showed this to me in middle school, and everyone believed it and I think donated money. Gotta love the American education system.
Just stumbled across this creator today and wow, what an entertaining creator.