Let's see where this goes

Thanks writing it all out instead of making us watch the video.

When a company CEO logs into their Slack and sees 10,000 Clippy's

Software engineers will do anything but unionize

People whenever something like this (particularly protests that aren't violent uprisings) happens: "It's not a sole and immediate solution, so it's pointless. Also I'm not going to provide a realistic sole and immediate solution that I'm personally willing to act on or lead. Might as well shut up and go quietly."

I get that it's frustrating, but stop trying to slam the door on people trying to build up an environment of resistance, solidarity, and hope. If you can encourage that energy into a more effective direction, then by all means: lead the way. Trying to appear like some savvy intellectual superior and just telling people they're wasting their time isn't the way to do that.

"When a company CEO logs into their Slack and sees 10,000 Clippy's looking back at them, what I hope occurs is that they intuitively understand that they no longer live in a world where they can get away with fucking over the consumer."

No they won't, they will understand that they need to make sure they're improving the PR for their shitty practices and have robust RnD in place to make sure their long-term shitty practice plans are evolving

Uhhhh, that'll show them..?

Probably the biggest problem with this is that you need to read an absolute wall of text or watch a YouTube video to actually understand what's going on, something that the target audiences are unlikely to do, not to mention other issues like how ignorable it all is.

"When a company CEO logs into their Slack and sees 10,000 Clippy's looking back at them, what I hope occurs is that they intuitively understand that they no longer live in a world where they can get away with fucking over the consumer."

Ahh yes. The CEO sees the slactivists' avatars sand sighs loudly before turning their thoughts back to their yacht and upcoming golf vacation.

I don’t know if the answer is silent protest profile pics. I think a better solution is more people getting into self hosting and ditching big tech reliance.

Don't make me post pregnant clippy art.

This reminds me of old “solidarity” profile picture filters that came out after the Arab Spring and later for France. Solidarity was cool but 2 clicks and a picture that doesn’t amount in any significant action or real participation and is VERY ignorable by people above the line. News media will easily spin it into whatever narrative they want as well

This comment section is full of god damn losers who enjoy losing, and want to use any given opportunity to help a little bit to instead sing the praises of their enemies.

Maybe it's not just the evil maga cunts and the spineless democrats alone who made this mess. Maybe it's you defeatist whining pussies in this comment section, too.

The correct energy is "fuck yeah, what other ideas and movements can this fit into, support, and help". Get on board with that, whether you Clippy or not.

I just… no thanks. Zero point to doing this as far as im concerned. Wish all participants the best of luck, however!

If the Apicalypse of Reddit was any lesson...

They will first think "Yo, that's trademarked!" and then "Lool, a little strawfire, this'll quickly burn out".

You can not expect human empathy or even ability to reflect on self from their kind. They are broken by human standards.

YouTubers doing YouTubers thing.

Were these people too young in the early 2000s to recognize Clippy for what it was? It was never benign—ChatGPT is exactly what Microsoft always wanted to make, but Clippy was as close as it could get at the time. They are part and parcel of the same thing.

This is like protesting Trump with pictures of George W. Bush.

I'm not doing the profile picture thing, sorry. It's stupid and forces me to commit to one issue at a time.

Instead, I'll put a clippy in the replies when relevant.

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