Ideas for making Op: [FairGameStop] lulzy

Skeptic's suggestion makes sense, but some of them risk making this seriously facepalm.jpg

The global protests have been a massive success, but to me it seems as though it's time to move on to a new phase. I did have a very bad go at explaining my reasoning yesterday, so I know most people don't seem to agree, (I was knackered when I tried to explain to be fair). But at any rate, that's as it is.

Everyone seems to acknowledge the importance of making humour more central, but it will be bad news if we end up "adding it on" for it's own sake, and there's a big risk of that ITT. We can have our cake and eat it...

Examples:

(1) Set up a fake "Scientology.org" webpage. This would be a giggle to create, and would help us get OUR message out in a wry and amusing manner. As soon as Co$ tries to force the site down, the media's handed a great story, and the publicity'd cause people to flock to the site. (All of the fairuse/copyright/name issues can be bypassed with a bit of creativity/legal nous).

(2) Creating a flyer that looks as though it's a page torn from a magazine. On it, print up the article THAT WE'D LIKE TO SEE, about why for the last 30 years, the media's not felt able to write about Scientology. Instead of flyering, 9000+ would slip this into real magazines, so it looks as though it's a genuine torn page...
This should also capture the press' imagination, and it'd be funny as shit every step of the way. (Even covert filming of ourselves trying to get them into mags, etc. etc. would all add to the buzz)

Done right, this kind of stuff will help attract smart, talented people from all walks of life to the cause. Dressing up as care bears and dancing around at protests, will make those same people run away.

I know I'll probably get flamed the crap out of for writing this, but I'm not trying to be divisive. I just think we're losing some of the creativity that was here in the beginning, and a bit more irreverence and biting wit would go a long way towards addressing it.

Is this topical?

Originally Posted by anon2487

(1) Set up a fake "Scientology.org" webpage. This would be a giggle to create, and would help us get OUR message out in a wry and amusing manner. As soon as Co$ tries to force the site down, the media's handed a great story, and the publicity'd cause people to flock to the site. (All of the fairuse/copyright/name issues can be bypassed with a bit of creativity/legal nous).

(2) Creating a flyer that looks as though it's a page torn from a magazine. On it, print up the article THAT WE'D LIKE TO SEE, about why for the last 30 years, the media's not felt able to write about Scientology. Instead of flyering, 9000+ would slip this into real magazines, so it looks as though it's a real torn page...
This should also capture the press' imagination, and it'd be funny as shit every step of the way. (Even covert filming of ourselves trying to get them into mags, etc. etc. would all add to the buzz)

Done right, this kind of stuff will help attract smart, talented people from all walks of life to the cause. Dressing up as care bears and dancing around at protests, will make those same people run away.

Listen to this man, for he speaks the truth.

How about Bullbait or Fair Game Bingo? We could have a list of ways scientologists try to intimidate us and have their minions follow us around. It doesn't need to happen to the person playing bingo, they just need to spot it (for example, seeing a Scilon holding up a sign with someone's name). First 20 or so people to get bingos get prizes. These can be handed out to passers-by so they know what tactics Scientologists use.

I agree in part with anon2487. I've always been a quiet anon. I post flyers in the middle of the night, I will drop cards or bookmarks at my local bookstore. So I am glad to see something for us who do this sort of thing.

I'm seeing some good ideas all around.

Originally Posted by Anon32167

Is this topical?

I love that... I would love to see this sign scrolling xenu.net and whyaretheydead.net and I love mudkips and "do a barrel-roll!" or, "Remember Lisa McPherson." Is there a way to make that happen? That would truly be lulz-worthy!

How about a game of "Spot the Scilon"?

This would mostly be an ad-lib'd performance on the part of Megaphone Anon, asking different areas of the crowd to point out their friendly neighborhood photographer and bringing them to the attention of the rest of the protest.

Potentially both functional and lulzy.

Originally Posted by anon2487

(2) Creating a flyer that looks as though it's a page torn from a magazine. On it, print up the article THAT WE'D LIKE TO SEE, about why for the last 30 years, the media's not felt able to write about Scientology. Instead of flyering, 9000+ would slip this into real magazines, so it looks as though it's a real torn page...
This should also capture the press' imagination, and it'd be funny as shit every step of the way. (Even covert filming of ourselves trying to get them into mags, etc. etc. would all add to the buzz)

Done right, this kind of stuff will help attract smart, talented people from all walks of life to the cause. Dressing up as care bears and dancing around at protests, will make those same people run away.

I really like this idea, or this sort of idea. I'm quiet shy anon but I'm all for doing stuff like this.

Originally Posted by anon2487

Examples:

(1) Set up a fake "Scientology.org" webpage. This would be a giggle to create, and would help us get OUR message out in a wry and amusing manner. As soon as Co$ tries to force the site down, the media's handed a great story, and the publicity'd cause people to flock to the site. (All of the fairuse/copyright/name issues can be bypassed with a bit of creativity/legal nous).

(2) Creating a flyer that looks as though it's a page torn from a magazine. On it, print up the article THAT WE'D LIKE TO SEE, about why for the last 30 years, the media's not felt able to write about Scientology. Instead of flyering, 9000+ would slip this into real magazines, so it looks as though it's a real torn page...
This should also capture the press' imagination, and it'd be funny as shit every step of the way. (Even covert filming of ourselves trying to get them into mags, etc. etc. would all add to the buzz)

These are great ideas. I don't know how, but if its possible, our fake Scilon page would have links to all the free tech and dox hosted by wikileaks, a "video channel" of the best anti-CoS videos selected from Youtube, bitingly honest biographies of LRH, David Miscavige etc

I like the covert flyering of magazines, I hope I'm game enough to try it, it is full of win. I don't know abut legality but it really isn't damaging anything, and we aren't trying to sell anything so its not like stuffing junk mail everywhere, its just free educational material. I'll be happy to have a go writing some stuff when I have time. We could tailor articles to particular publications - use the TomKat angle for women's mags, tax exemption for the finance/srs business stuff, news type articles for your newspapers etc

anon2487 I suggest you start some threads in the projects section of enturb. If enough anons bite, we could do this.

The first person who posts a picture of a SP Declare or Fair Game PL cake wins a lot of prizes

Have to be honest and say I havent got a clue what Battletoads is. Alot of people here seem to think its great, so cool.

Lulz are great, but if it means turning the protests into some sort of netfag esoteric Pokemon fanfest then alot of people will be turned off (including myself).

The problem here is that in attempting to win back chans, you look for lulz that they'd be into. Chan humour wont appeal to the vast majority of humankind Im afraid to say. So you either restrict protestfags to those that understand from top-to-bottom everything about the whole chanfag, anonoymous, /b/ stuff - or you widen its appeal to those that have/can be persuaded by protestors to join in and protest.

If someone is protesting for the first time and they turn up and find people laughing and playing around to get lulz from something that goes straight over their heads, Im not sure how long they stick around.

But this is one of the IRL problems with Anonymous.

Not sure how feasable or logistically possible or if even worth any one looking at but stealing a bit from PAX

YouTube - Epic Guitar Hero 2 tournament at PAX07

and in this:

YouTube - Guitar Hero: Never Gonna Give You Up

Probably a shitty idea but an idea non the less.

scifags often have these "free stress test" shit. so why not set up a fake one of those for the public with a fake e meter and information. could draw a crowd and we cud call it " free guillability test".
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YouTube - Scientology VS Chaser's Free...

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scifags often have these "free stress test" shit. so why not set up a fake one of those for the public with a fake e meter and information. could draw a crowd and we cud call it " free guillability test".
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Goddammit!

I had that idea. I wanted to do that.

- Print out a leaflets with pictures of the PIs on them that frequent your area. Hand them to the public and tell them they get a prize (candy) once they've spotted at least 3?4?X? of the PIs currently watching the protest.

What if that person lies that they've seen them? They're just driven by the free candy. >;[