Remember when the Kony 2012 guy had his brain so broken by social media he was found naked on the street doing weird sex stuff and vandalizing everything within reach? What if 13 years later we made the whole government out of that guy
Remember when the Kony 2012 guy had his brain so broken by social media he was found naked on the street doing weird sex stuff and vandalizing everything within reach? What if 13 years later we made the whole government out of that guy
I remember that guy and I think you’re right — definitely lines up
Looks like people did. 🤬
No. But I remember the video of the crazy bath salt 2004 guy in FL who ate the face off a homeless dude. Simpler times.
CORRECTION: 2012
Florida but a guy who's a dictator and also he's a pedophile
Sounds like he's perfect for the job
Did we ever stop kony
*We* did! edition.cnn.com/2025/09/09/a...
well shit, there go my plans for the Kony Island theme park
The hering is in absentia, because Joseph Kony is still at large.
(I had no idea about this until I googled it fifteen seconds ago)
Well better late than never i suppose
It's been a relentless 13 year manhunt. interrupted only by a 12.9 year period of everyone forgetting about him
... A hearing in absentia.. so no he wasn't caught.
I refer to my prior statement bsky.app/profile/busi...
well, if you read the article they don't actually have him, they're doing a sort-of trial in absentia. he's apparently still at large in CAR albeit substantially weakened.
If Kony can curse a guy in San Diego with witch magic we can put him in jail for human rights violations without having him in custody
We'll long for the stable days of President Rock.
I think about that guy often.
He was just dehydrated
It certainly raised awareness...
You can take the “What if” out of this statement!
Pretty tame. Should have chained himself to the door of twitter
then i guess we'd be fighting an entire nations' worth of despair
To clarify for people new to this: The director of Kony 2012 had the breakdown, not Kony.
Unfortunately
The administration already is!
Why? Is he available?
Ah, simpler times.
Gave us this banger, though. youtu.be/LKwW8PNZpOQ?...
Ha. I was going to post that. It was the first thing I thought of. GMTA!
there's no better place for jackin' it than... Saaaaaan Diego 🎶
JACKIN FOR THE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORD
Thank you, I came to the comments for this.
YouTube recommendation algorithm for the previously unknown pop culture moments win… youtu.be/sgElKGDkmE4
Jacking it in San Diego guy?
He was found cranking his hog outside of sea world… what did he know?!
He suffers from a romantic abnormality, so unbelievable, that it must be hidden from the public at all costs
"Gay? I wish!"
I have taught high school thru so many terrible brain-melting internet moments. I believe this has aged me worse than Long Covid. From Kony to Kanye 2020 to The Dress to Harambe & everything in between. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
Bespoke masks: The craziest lesson from a pandemic is that it was so collectively scarring, absolutely no one wants to talk about how it was 5 years ago, because if we did we would be talking about the bespoke masks out in public. Then how they got CRAZY sophisticated. imgur.com/gallery/74tI...
I do remember this. I had a baby at the time & was like well what do I do w this guy?
Awwwww I'm going to presume it all worked out :-)
Haha I wish! I have has debilitating LC for 5 years & will have to retire on disability while parenting a young child. My son is fine tho so that is a blessing. I used the rain cover for his stroller as a “mask” when he was a baby, but he had to be in daycare when I had to RTW as a teacher in 2020
That better be the Sub-header of your autobiography(/manifesto?): "Times the Internet Broke the Fourth Wall and Society's Brain: From Kony to Kanye, The Dress to Harambe"
Haha saved
THE DRESS 😭😭😭
I hate The Dress, and hope that somebody burnt it.
Like a cursed doll
Teachers should make a million dollars a year for having to teach through this brain melting internet age.
in reality they’re cutting funding and laying off as many teachers as possible and cramming 45 kids in a room at once to save money
But how could we afford tax cuts for the wealthy if we didn't cut education funding? Won't someone think of the rich! They need to afford private school tuition! They can't be sending their kids to a public school with an underpaid teacher, a 45:1 classroom ratio, and asbestos in the walls!
South Park was heavily involved in both cases
Kony 2012 provided us with so fucking much god damn insight it's INSANE! We should have been less neoliberal and more *gulps* *digest incoming reality* *gulps*
OMFG I was LITERALLY THINKING THIS EXACT FUCKING THIS LAST WEEK
... go on
We believe he is in the running to replace David Zaslav.
You've done it! It all makes sense now.
No kidding 😵💫🤦🏻♀️
on the other hand, completely losing your mind is probably the sanest reaction to massive unearned overnight fame, it's the ones who manage to keep stuff going that are suspect
"On the other hand... his penis." /s
It was hardly unearned
“On a new season of Sex House…”
...only in this scenario, he's buddies with Kony and sends him political prisoners to imprison.
And somehow STILL ends up running around on a busy street in his undies and then nude and jacking it.
Probably still be better than this government.
the cabinet is there. the court is gone and the the powerbrokers are disassembling the globe. good luck!
Trend analysis of Republican candidates indicates he’ll battle Ted Nugent and Laura Loomer for the 2028 presidential nomination.
He has some good traction during the primaries but Kony woulda never made it in the general election.
Let's not forget the presence of Invisible Children and Liberty University, providing the evangelical connection, the financial impropriety because, of course, and the white saviorism, that enveloped everything. Just saying...
OMG. I haven’t thought about Kony Guy since 2012…. But I could sketch you a picture right now of him buck naked getting busy with that hedge. Funny how memory works. 🫣
Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it) there's a large sign near my home that, on the backside, facing the road to the grocery store, has said "KONY2012" since 2012. So I never got to forget.
😆 Wow. You could have had a Banksy, but you got a KONY2012. 🤣
(I assume it's been there since 2012, anyway)
BTW…yours was my favorite post today. So random. I’m secretly hoping someone in like 2022 went ‘Damn. I need to remind this neighborhood about KONY2012.’ 🎨
That would be hilarious.
😂😂
Now that I think about it, there's been a rash of "BUSH/CHENEY '04" graffiti around town lately. As in, NEW graffiti, not simply old stuff that's been uncovered.
I think it's just folks doing stuff that they know will force a double-take. Because the alternative is either someone just got out of a very long coma, or a Young Republican from 2004 stole a time traveler's time machine and doesn't know how to use it.
Waking from a coma to find there’s a regime even more evil than Bush/Cheney. Yikes!
Was Kony even real? Did that lay the groundwork for Qanon and child sex trafficking?
Pillows and pedophile party
I never got back my ten euro from that
And we never did make Kony famous.
“Chat should I bomb Iran or Venezuela mash those hearts and donate down below” - Pete Hegseth drunk screaming as he pisses himself and falls up his entryway stairs at 4am on a Tuesday
What if we get them all straight jackets and lock them up?
I lived in San Diego at the time and it was wild. Buckass naked in Ocean Beach.
it was the last thing Joseph Kony would expect!
Narsccism doesn't change. It's why a two thousand year old book describes trump very well.
No, uh, I do not remember that, actually
Lol me neither
guess what, it happened! he went on oprah about it!
(k)O(ny)prah 2012
I still don’t understand what caused him to go crazy? He was campaigning to catch Kony and people like “yeah” and then he freaked out? Was there a groundswell of support for Kony? Was it just too many: “well actually were still doing two wars over here”’s?
what was up with that dude? All I remember was like "i think warlords are bad" --> jerking off in car?
it was jerking off on street corner but basically
WHY?? there are bugs outside. it's the worst place to jerk off!!
Clarification; guy wasn't seeking, he was running around naked though, psychotic break. youtu.be/Q7MCh19igW4?...
Yeah! Bugs don't want to see that crap!
he had a temporary psychotic break from the negative social media attention he garnered because at first it was "this guy is saving africa?!!!" which inflated his ego, then everything crashed down way worse then it would normally and he couldnt take it (understandable outcome)
I will never understand letting social media clout go to your head. the numbers aren't real!!!
to be fair he was getting millions to solve a problem in a country and people irl were telling him he would 100% be able to do it for sure!" then social media flipped on him when as it turns out the world is not that simple (also he was more of a like lobbying group rather then a directly save kids)
Not everyone was saying he could do it. The people he was trying to help, their government basically criticized him as they were handling it, and they did. Similarly his sincerity was also undercut by a couple of lies about his life and story.
You're basically bang on though with what I remember. He was obsessive towards saving Africa or whatever but he did grandiose promises while undermining himself which fed into his collapse. I think he's fine now, as of a YouTube documentary I watched like 2 years ago and he's staying out of public
Yeah we probably saw the same one I was going off memory and forgot the government of the country smacking him down
He never actually jerked off
What do you mean "what if?"
and at least he was a good guy who just had a horrible breakdown after his nonprofit started getting shit on 24/7 at the beginning of internet virality. Invisible Children did a lot of really good work in Uganda and the DRC. He didn’t deserve that level of backlash
What? No, I don't. 😳
Omg. I had forgotten about this. Yeah, he lost his marbles.
I think its coming with the felon in charge
The weird sex stuff was unconfirmed but he did have a grand public freakout doing naked jumping jacks and pushups on the street corner
Tim, if you’re gonna do parody, you hafta learn to EXAGGERATE.
I think we did🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
Nonsense. That man at least wanted to free children.
Would explain a thing or two
An apt comparison considering the entire kony 2012 thing was just a christian outreach hype thing
Shit! Are you watching me?
Jackin’ it in San Diego
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Entire society, really
"Imagine, no more!"
The meta has changed and going insane from using the internet is so normalized we're surrounded by people like him but they just get to host podcasts now instead of being institutionalized.
He's too mainstream. Let's just make the whole government about pizza rat.
sorry, that was me
omg
And everyone said, “What WONDERFUL clothes you are wearing your highness!”
And so the MAGAts did.
Jason Russell, who’s Wikipedia article lists it as “Brief Psychosis Incident” under personal life. Brother in law or Ryan Hanson, who played Dick Casablanca on the greatest 2000s TV show ever Veronica Mars.
I'd hazard a guess that there was some chemical assistance involved in that psychotic break. Russell was running himself too ragged for too long to handle it, and finally lost himself briefly.
Perhaps, but San Diego will also do that to you
I don’t think Kony would have done all that
Umm ... pretty sure Kony used his witch doctor powers to curse him?
I really don't remember that, and it feels like I should.
It was a whole thing for a bit there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKwW...
bath salts guy?
Jason Russell.... didn't he have a thing with kirstin bell?
Kony 2012 was an election campaign
Ready for a deep dive? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ny...
Done!
Trump is more like the Florida cannibal bridge guy. He’s eating the US Constitution and civil society from inside out.
Well, lad, do I have some exciting news for you.....
That guy had his heart in the right place at the outset, though, which is more than you can say for the whole government.
He actually didn't.
He actually did. IC did a lot of good in Uganda & DRC. Their programs on the ground helped bring home and rehabilitate a lot of kids taken by the LRA and do a lot of community reconciliation work. The stateside work was goofy at times but it did its job in raising money for solid programs
White saviour...
not saying there aren’t critiques to be made. But the on the ground programs in central Africa were run by 90% local hires. So I guess if your issue is that some white guys from California helped build a network to push money to Ugandans and people in the DRC then sure. Kids still got saved.
It uh, was not what it appeared. He was an early grifter who also believed his own bullshit.
Fair. I still think he would be the most sympathetic member of today’s Republican government.
Russell wouldn't that person if he were in the Republican government of today, though. He'd be a lot slimier, and hateful.
This is what Kony wants you to believe
Too late, Tim Onion, too late. It's already done.
except now they are trying to kill african kids instead of helping them
Didn't we?
This is how we will defeat warlords
I remember finding out that the people going after Kony also used child soldiers
The precursor to the “Sound of Freedom” guy who was charged with human trafficking.
Accusations of declarations of intent.
I just read the the Pro Publica Social Security story, and it kinda feels like we did make the whole government out of that guy?
I remember the awesome South Park sketch. Jacking’ it in San Diego
Would you believe that Kony was in the news today? news.sky.com/story/joseph...
😬
That was a weird case of mob justice IMO. The dude made a viral PSA pressuring Washington to intervene in some foreign conflict, and everyone called him a fraud because he lacked the commitment to raise his own private army.
What could go wrong
He did have a mental break down, but he wasn't doing sex stuff, that was fake news.
☝🏻☝🏻
What IF??……………
JFC I was offline for one hour now I gotta catch up
Better that guy than the ones currently in charge. At least that guy was a helf-decent man before his brain got broken.
I'm fortunate inasmuch as I don't remember that at all.
Hey now! Who *hasn't* been jackin it in San Diego before?
Kinda feels like that’s exactly what we did!
RFK Jr but the Jr stands for Jorker
Jorkin' it, jorkin' it, jorkety-jork (I think I finally killed my autocorrect with this)
(RFK Jr. voice) I’m jacking off my dick to porno
I'm genuinely convinced lead poisoning has made the majority of our representatives as insane as they are.
It's a fact that the average iq is 10 points lower than it would have been without the influence of lead products on the population.
don't forget the guy on the NOLA on ramp, during Katrina,..that was eating that guy's face..after smoking "Bath Salts". Pretty sure he's running something at HHS now. or, He's Florida's medical director.
Sounds tame compared to what we have, ngl.
I do. He was one of the first big “influencers” having made a short film about trafficked African children which went viral. Had a psychotic break. He was in the street of San Diego buck-naked screaming at people. He disappeared overnight.
I won't link the longer video, which is still somehow available. But yes, this is Uncle Sam atm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxaD...
Feels like we did that already tho
Except racist.
America would be in a much better place.
i worked with that guy at a different startup lol it was not talked about
bath salts for everyone!
Whew, that's a throwback. They actually showed that entire documentary to my high school graduating class. It was also the first time I heard of "slacktivism" which quickly became one of my favorite words lol
Wait! We didn't?
Great idea.
*fade in to Sam Altman in front of a zoo exhibit of deranged 55 year old men screaming about the computer god* “this is what fuels us at OpenAI to build the future”
The future is wild, man.
Never forget: youtu.be/kg5-_Rib9S4?...
What on earth is that?
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Kony 2012