# So I just saw a Kony poster **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519 "2012-04-21T18:20:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/1 "2012-04-21T18:20:18Z")
It took me a second to even figure out what it was and then I remembered that 420 was the day we were all supposed to wake up to find our cities absolutely covered from top to bottom with Kony propaganda (anti-Kony I guess). I had a feeling nothing would become of it. It got too big, too fast and he started waaaay to early. When I watched the video I remember thinking that he should have picked a date about 2-3 weeks off, not, what, 2 months away. I wonder how many people bought those packages and have them sitting around their houses. Also, 420 was an odd day to pick. Some people, especially college kids, had better things to do then run around putting up posters. Out of curiosity, did anyone else see any signs yesterday? Facebook postings (none for me)? Anything at all? I can say that the single poster I saw on April 21st was the only thing I’ve seen about Kony in a few weeks. Nothing on facebook, no IRL posters, not even much on the news. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/2 "2012-04-21T18:29:05Z")
The story kind of fell apart. First there was the nitpicking by journalists who were jealous that some amateurs got all this attention when they couldn’t convince their bosses to run the story. Then there was the guys admitting they had no real follow-up plans. Then the one guy went nuts. And it’s an internet viral cause, how long did you expect it to last anyway? There’s a couple of dumb girls singing badly that’s a much bigger story now. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/3 "2012-04-21T18:36:52Z")
I agree with everything tripolar said except the last sentence. Just as an example, reddit absolutely blew up with Kony. In certain subreddits, the frontpage was nothing but Kony related links. The hot girl problems song has reached nowhere near that sort of internet attention. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/4 "2012-04-21T19:57:39Z")
Oh, so that’s why there are posters all over downtown all of a sudden? (And yes, it definitely seems to be a Thing around here.) ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/5 "2012-04-21T22:40:20Z")
Ahh. That explains the homemade signs I saw plastered all over the Target and the Old Navy today. I was all like “wasn’t all that crap a few months ago or something? Someone is a little late to the party!” Now it makes sense. I do have to say, reading this, I feel pretty happy that they WERE homemade signs, and not the “buy our promotional slick posters and marketing crap” sales-kit thingie that the Kony people were selling. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/6 "2012-04-21T22:46:09Z")
I saw a bunch of posters on a NH state highway today, red, blue and black, with Kony in the foreground, and Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler behind him. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/7 "2012-04-21T23:17:15Z")
Saw lots of posters, chalk on the sidewalk, etc. around DC. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/8 "2012-04-22T00:03:18Z")
Oh! I saw a handmade sign tonight posted on a lightpole and wondered what the heck it was doing there. Thanks for the OP! ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/9 "2012-04-22T00:05:06Z")
I saw two different ones in Placerville today. I wondered what was going on. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/10 "2012-04-22T00:24:15Z")
One of my fiance’s friends (who we both regard as rather dimwitted) went to a big “Cover the night” Kony gathering in our state’s capitol last night. I do give them credit for having good intentions, but it’s sad to see so much wasted effort on such a questionable organization. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/11 "2012-04-22T01:08:11Z")
Like others, I saw some the other day and thought “Wasn’t that last month’s _cause du jour_? Did someone’s posters get delayed in the mail or something?” Then I felt bad for being so cynical about the idea that issues are only relevant for as long as they’re trendy, but that’s a different thread in itself. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/12 "2012-04-22T02:52:12Z")
Huh, that’s what that’s all about. I’m in Calgary, Alberta, by the way. Noticed them everywhere today. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/13 "2012-04-22T04:37:30Z")
And these dimwits defaced a memorial to the Boston massacre victims with their pointless slogan: [![](https://i.imgur.com/f3CLL.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/f3CLL.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/14 "2012-04-22T15:02:51Z")
There’s a bridge over our beltway that has a huge chain link fence on it. Someone stuck red Solo cups into the fence, spelling out “Kony 2012”. The perfect juxtaposition of memes. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/15 "2012-04-22T23:35:00Z")
I was wondering why I saw “Kony” spelled out in styrofoam cups in the chain-link fence at the local middle school. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/16 "2012-04-23T02:02:58Z")
I saw a bunch of Kony 2012 campaign posters hung up while walking around yesterday. It looked like he was running for office in 2012. They didn`t say “STOP” Kony 2012 or anything that would have made it at all clear that he was a bad person. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/17 "2012-04-23T10:54:05Z")
I saw the posters but didn’t realize that there was a day there were supposed to be displayed. And like **Fuzzy Dunlop** said, they looked like campaign posters. Nothing on them except Kony 2012. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/18 "2012-04-23T13:18:14Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](#): > > I saw a bunch of Kony 2012 campaign posters hung up while walking around yesterday. It looked like he was running for office in 2012. They didn`t say “STOP” Kony 2012 or anything that would have made it at all clear that he was a bad person. Yep, I saw some of those this morning, too, and thought, “Nope, I’m voting for Obama–Kony would make a \*terrible \*President.” ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/19 "2012-04-23T13:38:39Z")
I saw one Kony poster at a bus stop. I don’t remember what else was on the poster beside the name, but recall that it was a colorful design of some kind. I hadn’t heard of Kony and wondered what it was about. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519/20 "2012-04-23T19:48:07Z")
I saw the posters plastered all over downtown Tacoma and the U-District of Seattle this weekend. By far the most common poster was the entertwining donkey and elephant to form a dove. My first assumption was that it was some “alternative marketing” or indie art project. It wasn’t until I saw a poster with a picture that I had any idea what they were talking about. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-i-just-saw-a-kony-poster/619519.md?page=2)