Monday, August 18, 2014

The Ice Bucket Challenge

Okay, recently there's been a viral social media phenomenon occurring known as the Ice Bucket Challenge. Everyone's been tagging their friends on FaceBook and everyone's opting to do the "challenge." No one's been bragging about how they donated $100 instead. Oh look! Let's brag about NOT donating to charity but instead dumping water on yourselves. Good job everywun!!!



You know who's the man? Charlie fucking #winning Sheen.

Okay but seriously, these fads are really silly in my opinion. The world has such a short term memory, this will be forgotten after a month. Remember these?






Yeah I didn't think so.

Kony 2012 was a film made to make people aware of this terrorist African military leader and to stop him. The video on Youtube has near 100 million views! The end result? Kony is still at large, two years later. Well played folks, I also wondered what happened to all the money that was donated towards the "cause" went.


What about the African terrorist group known as Boko Haram? These guys kidnapped 260 girls and they were never found. #BringBackOurGirls was a big thing a while ago. Did they catch these terrorists? Did they return the 260 girls they kidnapped? Nope. The Nigerian government is a joke, they won't risk lives fighting Boko Haram. The rest of the world didn't do much either. Oh... and the Nigerian government even declared that they have given up on the whole situation. But who cares, not like anyone has remembered about what happened two months ago.


What I'm trying to say is, don't follow the masses just because everyone's doing it. You need to make your own choices in life. I honestly don't think any of my friends will "nominate" me for this stupid viral thing, I don't think anyone who has done it actually knows what ALS actually is anyway. But if they do, I will refer them to this opinionated article.