SOME STUPID CONCEPTS

advertising and campaigning are getting to be even stupider than the people they're aiming to catch. here are my thoughts.

the 'it gets better' videos? oh wow, how great! celebrities are teaming up to make videos encouraging gay youths not to kill themselves because when you're not a gay teenager, you're a gay adult. how sweet. weirdly enough though, i haven't seen any saying ' don't worry, by the time you're too old to get bullied in school, you'll be an adult unable to serve in your own military force, get married, or adopt! it gets better!' well done america, really covered yourself there. i'll be fair though, 'it gets worse' isn't really a catchy slogan.
also on the american side is the silence campaign where celebrities are deleting their twitter accounts for charity or some shit. i can't somehow imagine the idea that deleting your twitter account could ever benefit anyone ever. that's the best effort you can make? why not just give some money you tight bastards, you're all loaded! and usher's broken his stupid promise before the campaign's even over. he's risking a serious amount of chris brown treatment from people.
but the worst one of all: changing your facebook profile picture to one of your favourite childhood cartoon character to protest against child abuse.

what
the
fuck.

i mean, seriously. what the actual fuck. does anyone actually think it'll make an iota of difference what their profile picture is of? do they actually hold such massive importance to facebook that they think it'll stop child abuse? do people think that rapey uncle roger will log on to facebook, see a picture of scooby doo and think 'you know, enough is enough. i'm done with raping children!' no. that's not going to happen. it doesn't even occur to people to DONATE MONEY. which might actually make a speck of difference. instead they call attention to a cause, and then do nothing about it. they should actually feel guilty for 'caring' enough to change their profile picture and then do fuck all valuable about something they obviously feel 'so seriously' about. boy is my face red for putting my opinion on facebook though, since it's been received so well. you'd think i was actually advocating child abuse rather than commenting on the complete stupidity of the whole idea. it's just another fake way for people to pretend they have principles but then make no effort to change anything.

i hate people sometimes.