Operation: Silent Presence

The think tanks been working on this for a while... figure it's time to bump this up onto CP.

The Goal: Eerie, viral advertising on an epic scale.

One appealing idea as far as the viral stuff goes is something along the lines of "random media presence"

Picture this:

It's morning television time. You flip to the Today show... who's that standing in front of the window? That man in the suit with the Fawkes mask... he's just standing there, silently, eerily, mysteriously.
You flip to a celebrity event... some plastic-surgeried face in front of a crowd of fans... who's that in the background? Another mysterious man in a suit and mask
Thoroughly creeped out now, you flip to a ball game... there announcing the list of people with birthdays... WHAT THE HELL!!! They're all people with suits and masks on!
You flee to the news, Johnnie Onthescene is interviewing someone at a race for charity... JESUS CHRIST! THERE'S ONE RIGHT BEHIND---



Well, you get the idea...

We go for MASSIVE media presence, we have an anon or two standing outside talk show studios every morning (ie Today Show), we get a couple dozen anons cheap seats at a ball game and tell the park guys that each of them has a birthday (jumbo-screen camera goes to each of them), we comb for events of every kind: anything that might make even a short spot on the local news... and we put an anon in every one:


Each time they're seen, it's the same, identical scenario: No signs, no motions, no action of any kind... hundreds of anonymous people appearing on shows 24/7... just...

Standing there...


... silently...


... motionless...


A week of this sort of thing (if done REALLY heavy) would be enough to have a LOT of media and viewing public shitting themselves, and most importantly asking questions.


Besides... can you imagine the lulz to be had!
Imagine Meredith Vieira of the Today Show when after 3 days of having a masked man standing silently behind her she finally freaks and bolts off stage!


If we got a lot of anons working together on this... picked a good time, more shows and events than you can shake a mudkip at... this could be win on an EPIC scale.

We already have a lot of people coming up with ideas from standing in public events, to leaving anon photos in photo booths, to riding subways. Keep adding to the ideas but most importantly, DO IT if you can.

Oh, and of course get pics :D

I was thinking about this earlier. What if we didn't just do public events? Maybe if we got a group of Anons (in masks, of course) to meet up in a park or at the beach, just to have a laugh and listen to music or whatever. When people see us and they ask why we wear the masks, the moment they hear 'cult' and 'protest' they seem to switch off, labelling us as a cult of our own, with a sting in our ass about something or other. But if people were to see us in public, seeing for themselves that we are all over the place, and that we can have a good time rather than running off morbid tales of the crimes and whatnot that a cult did, they might start to see us in a different light. I don't mean they're suddenly going to love us because I know full well that that's not what we're about, but you never really know.
If they were to see us having a laugh and decided to ask us what the masks are about, if we said something like "We're Anonymous. We're united as one and divided by zero. We are legion. We are everyone and everywhere." and then whipped out a business card with some links on it, they might be more likely to remember us. I mean sure, the Guy Fawkes masks catch a lot of attention on protests, but passers-by might not be as interested as they seem. But seeing a bunch of people in masks running around a park or field, or having a drink on the beach or something (maybe singing a little Rick :P) it might earn us some favour with the public, and even if they don't join our protests, extra support is never a bad thing, right?

Danilov, could you make a list of what locations the Think Tank thread brainstormed?

Originally Posted by AnonymousIsLegion

I was thinking about this earlier. What if we didn't just do public events? Maybe if we got a group of Anons (in masks, of course) to meet up in a park or at the beach, just to have a laugh and listen to music or whatever.
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If they were to see us having a laugh and decided to ask us what the masks are about, if we said something like "We're Anonymous. We're united as one and divided by zero. We are legion. We are everyone and everywhere." and then whipped out a business card with some links on it, they might be more likely to remember us.

This is a great idea; even if people don't come up to you, you'll still be having fun, so it's win-win!

Sporting events (if you go to a game, tell them your name is _____ Fawkes and it's your birthday... instant jumbotron in front of a few thousand people)
In the crowd of any morning tv show (they almost all have windows and people outside)
Participating in or being in the crowds of any newsworthy event (I hear a couple anons actually participated in a cancer relay)
In a phone booth
In a subway/bus (make sure you don your mask post-boarding)
Bus/subway station
Canada has something called 'Speaker's Corners'
Photo booths (buy 4 shots and leave em)
Someone suggested taking a group and a couple bucks and hogging the massage chairs at a mall (therapeutic propaganda?)
Music concerts/festivals
Charity events
College games of every kind (see sporting events above)
Tourist attractions, landmarks.


That's the gist of what the think tank's got so far.

I think one of the big keys is continuity: Suit+Mask should be the standard for anyone doing this... minor changes like different ties, hat/no hat, etc aren't a big deal, but I think having the near identical anon appearing everywhere will have a much bigger impact than just people running around in V masks.


Also, someone suggested that anons in public areas should carry a stack of youfoundthecard or whyweprotest cards with them to hand to any inquirers.

Great idea! I can't wait to see it on the tele. I just don't think anyone should do this alone. Bring friends.

I'm getting a shipment of masks for some local anons this week, I'm gonna see if I can convince them to all sit on a bus or something :D (pictures 6 anons just sitting calmly on a city bus)

I used to know of someone who would run the New York Marathon every time in stormtrooper "armor" (go figure).

That shit's hot as hell. If that's manageable, a suit and mask are nothing. Time to start signing up for every (insert cause here) walk known to Man.

*pictures a solid row of suitanons in a city marathon*

lol

outside of local media affiliates. eventually, newsies come out and ask about us.

*my two cents*
In my country (with only a few public TV channels and 3 6pm news shows), all of the news shows have reporters in the capital city that report on all political news. All political & government news pieces are filmed with the reporter standing outside the main parliament building. It would be very easy for an anon to head to parliament one day and get in all news reports.

down side:
Would piss off reporters (unless they support anon)... and pissing off the biggest propaganda distributors in the country isn't really a good thing.

The rogue anon who stole the flag from the westborofags is a good example of how to be randomly in the news.

I think that's a fantastic idea acc, and really while it might piss off the reporters, any way you slice it we'd be getting the anon image out there. Who knows, it might even get them to ask questions about anon.

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^^^ DOING IT RIGHT

I really like the photo booth idea and the suggestion of travelling round on public transport.

I agree we need to up our presence everywhere and anywhere (and not just on this planet) especially while we are already in the news (a lot in the UK). People are beginning to know what the V mask, red tie, suit stands for - we should be using this to our advantage everywhere.

Even Anons in masks doing really mundane stuff/just walking down the street or cycling around town would add to sightings of us by the public.

I like this idea.

Not just news events; any "event", even small ones, are worth the time.

The mundane thing is a good idea...

Can you imagine people's response if they went to the park one day, say anons sitting on benches, anons playing chess, anons with frisbees, anons having picnics...

I suggest STRONGLY AGAINST this.

Having Anon everywhere:

Does it further the out cause of spreading information? No.

Is it full of lulz and win? No.

I am against this because this could turn out to be a huge back-lash against us. The thought of Anon being everywhere, in addition to not being useful or lulzy, could easily turn out to be incredibly annoying. It would become a classic case of Cold-Heat, we would attempt to foster love, only to generate hate.

We want to generate lulz by pissing off the scilon's, not the general public, and the best place to do that is on the scilon's door-step.

This is my opinion on this matter. For the Lulz!