Question of the Day, September 30, 2010

[Doth]

What is the Russian government doing?
Are they going to tolerate this shit?
Pfft, and here I thought that they had these liberals/hippies under control.

OT: To me this campaign just highlights how insane these kinds of activists are.

 

[SonicWaffle]

I can't be the only person who still seems WWF and thinks of wrestling, can I?

OT: I don't really see the point. It's victimizing those who have only a tenuous connection to those the activists are actually angry with. If they want to make a point they should target the poachers, not people buying t-shirts.

 

[Kapol]

I don't think this is too far, but it might not be fair to the people involved. After all, who knows if those people even had bought or planned to buy furs? Or for that matter, who's to say they weren't already for the cause, which would be why they were buying the T-shirt? It's an interesting method, but it should be worked out a bit better instead of scaring the shit out of people.

I suppose you can tell some one the stove is hot or you can just hold their hand on it.

The problem is, most people wouldn't listen to the message unless you really got their attention, like by... I dunno, making them think they've been shot? You can say things like this that are true, and most people would just ignore you.

 

[The Escapist Staff]

I got a good laugh out of that video. "People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy."
I don't see anyone can consider that going too far.

Have they been hitting people with steel chairs, or talking trash on their in-ring skills? Oh wait, wrong WWF...

Who says they can't use steel chairs?
http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/6489/wwfr.jpg

 

[Micah Weil]

...since when did the WWF start resorting to underhanded PETA tactics?
Seriously. WWF. You guys are far more respectable than that.

 

[dibblywibbles]

so I guess if you don't shoot tigers, you'll get shot. that's an awesome message. but seriously don't shoot tigers.

 

[Sir-jackington]

i wanna do something like that with all mirrors

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

This reminds me of the safety ads my province has where a worker is mortally injured on the job and their partner screams in terror, announcing there was a terrible accident. Then the injured one somehow rises (with very realistic wounds) and explains how it wasn't an accident, and what measures should have been taken to prevent it. It's deliberately disturbing to get people to pay attention to it.

 

[Frequen-Z]

It'd piss me right off if it was me. If I gave half a shit about animal extinction, then chances are I'd already know about what they're preaching.

You don't bring it to peoples attention by scaring the piss out of them.

I mean god damnit, when I'm buying clothes, I do not want to hear anything that isn't "Here's your change".

 

[Proteus214]

A mirror shows bloody wounds on me, therefore I should feel bad about poaching? I do agree poaching is bad, but I think this kind of silly activist logic accomplishes nothing. I seriously hope the WWF isn't trying to take the PETA route.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

I can't be the only person who still seems WWF and thinks of wrestling, can I?

Nope, that's what I thought this question of the day was about until I clicked into it - I see those letters and I instantly think "wrestling", not "environmental activism".

The description of this stunt leaves out how the practical effects worked - I could honestly care less about their campaign but I'm curious how they did it in the first place.

 

[Nunny]

Alot better then getting blood thrown on you.

 

[tendo82]

What they should've done with the ad was make it about an undercover poaching officer who gets involved with a radical group of Russian Terrorists, who decide to shoot up people with furs. Their true intent being, not to take revenge on poachers, but to blame the shooting on United States environmentalists and thus start WWIII. And shortly before the rampage begins in a Russian Mall, to make sure the ruse is complete they say, "Remember, no Russian".

 

[joshuaayt]

Gets the point across, but disturbing.
Oh, don't get me wrong- it gets the point across BECAUSE it's disturbing, and I hold no feelings of antipathy to the one(s) who devised the campaign- but I know even I would probably feel a little miffed, before I realised just how cool it was. I would not blame someone for complaining.
EDIT: They got the girl at 0:15 but good. Not sure why a whole line of shocked expressions amuses me so, but there it is.

 

[SonicWaffle]

What they should've done with the ad was make it about an undercover poaching officer who gets involved with a radical group of Russian Terrorists, who decide to shoot up people with furs. Their true intent being, not to take revenge on poachers, but to blame the shooting on United States environmentalists and thus start WWIII. And shortly before the rampage begins in a Russian Mall, to make sure the ruse is complete they say, "Remember, no Russian".

But what will Fox News say?!

Also, why is it that so many video game villains want to start WWIII? They seem incapable of finding a history book, checking the death toll from the WWI and WWII: War Harder and thinking "Hang on, this didn't turn out well for anyone last time. Maybe we ought to give it a miss and have a pint instead."

Nope, that's what I thought this question of the day was about until I clicked into it - I see those letters and I instantly think "wrestling", not "environmental activism".

You know what would be really effective? If they combined both versions of the WWF. Instead of daft stunts like this, people buying fur coats would be picked up by a huge, muscly man in very tight spandex shorts and have their faces slammed into the ground before being dumped in a bin and dropkicked. I guarantee, sales of fur would drop faster than a fat man dropping an elbow off a steel cage.

 

[Zhukov]

I wish all advertising was that neat.

 

[Jamash]

None of the poll options are suitable for my view on the issue.

I don't think it goes too far, but I don't think it's a clever way to bring attention to the poaching situation, nor do I think it gets the point across well.

That doesn't mean I don't care either way, I do care about the plight of the Siberian Tiger, but I think that it's a waste of money and resources that could have been better spent on a less trendy and more proactive way of protecting the Tigers and raising awareness.

Really, how many people wouldn't understand the concept of poaching and gunshots until they actually saw an augmented reality gunshot on their own body?

I think this entire campaign is rather lame, not the cause, just the methods, but then again the WWF are quite renown for wasting millions of their donations on pointless things rather than use that money to directly help wildlife.

 

[Digikid]

Don't care. Not a fan of FAKE sports.

You want to play sports? GO OUTSIDE.

 

[Wintermoot]

for fucks sake THEY ARE BECOMING ALMOST AS BAD A FUCKING PETA!!!! there is nothing wrong with hating poaching but this is to far the WWF was one of the few nature organizations I didnt hate

 

[Casual Shinji]

All I could hear was that stupid narrator.

I'm sorry WWF, your clever awareness campaign is lost on me due to that annoying voice.