awwwwwwwz, lookit teh dawgy, iz sooooo cuuuute!
The Cuteness. Must. Fight. It.
Ahem.
As silly as LOLDoggeh is, he (she?) comes bearing an important message today: think outside the box, veg*ns!
In this vein, tonight’s Everyday Activism tip is a fun one that I picked up from Mark Hawthorne’s Striking at the Roots. It’s so simple and so cute that I was really quite surprised that I’d never thought of it.
Here’s Mark:
Many activists create a special signature at the end of their emails, appended automatically each time they hit the send button, asking readers to take a specific action for animals or including a link to a video.
Thanks to email, digital media has the ability to go viral. Viral marketing is word of mouth for the twenty-first century, but rather than telling one person at a time, you can spread the word (or photo or video or Web link) to thousands of people, all over the world. The emails with the most viral potential are those you can’t wait to share with your friends – the “you’ve got to see this” email that can take on a life of its own. [...]
You can create your own viral email with an animal-rights angle. Site like www.cuteoverload.com feature countless images and video clips of animals. Pick any of them [...] and blast it out with a brief note explaining that this is just one example of the sentience of animals, and direct readers to a link with more information.”
People love the fuzzy wuzzies, and that goes double for fuzzy wuzzies spouting lolspeak. Sites such as Cute Overload not only post pics of super-cute animals, they also often encourage readers to pay the cuteness forward. Many have a built-in email function, wherein readers can email the pic to their friends, along with a brief message. So find a cute photo, attach a relevant animal rights message or link, and get viral! This can be anything: a link to a news story, fact sheet, video, or website; a personal message; an eloquent animal rights quote – you get the idea. If you’ve got extra time to burn, search around for a photo with an explicitly animal rights message – you might be pleasantly surprised at what you find.
For example, I posted this photo a few weeks back (the lolz, we needs ‘em):
It’s just crying out for a link to www.torturedbytyson.com or www.goveg.com/ui_chickens.asp, dontcha think?
If you’d like to give it a try, here are some of my daily fixes:
icanhascheezburger.com
ihasahotdog.com
www.stuffonmycat.com
www.cuteoverload.com
lolcats.com is another popular one, but they don’t seem to have an email option (oh noes!). www.macrocats.com, on the other paw, allows for email but doesn’t have a field for personal messages.
Got a favorite site? Share your lolz in the comments!
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Tagged: animals animal rights animal welfare action alerts everyday activism viral viral email email cute lol lolz lolcats loldogs mark hawthorne striking at the roots armchair activism cute overload activism
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