Originally posted by Candy Borowski:

why is everyone on youtube having a paperclip for a pfp.
is the paperclip a new trend?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkL9vzW7nY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgghxUw4kc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVHfu-5n7Uw

I guess they don't have a mind on their own.

follow the leader like a sheep. baaa, baaaaaa.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2181610/Heretics_Fork/ has a lot of that if you're into paper clip stuff.

Originally posted by _:

I guess they don't have a mind on their own.

Would you sign up for this or the Facebook experiment thing it's based off of that he mentions by 14 seconds into the video? :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfAchfFXghc

Originally posted by Bassturd:

follow the leader like a sheep. baaa, baaaaaa.

That's what the clippy movement is against.

• If you're against the right to own what you bought and paid for,
  
• If you're against the right to repair your own devices,
  
• If you're against the ability to modify your own property as you see fit,
  
• If you're against being able to opt-out of subscriptions as easily as you were able to opt-in,
  
• If you're against the right to privacy,

...if you're against those things (which are what the clippy movement is about)

then you're one of the sheep.

• If you're you're in favor of companies changing EULAs and other agreements to hold ransom or steal your personal data from the cloud (like Adobe did when they decided to one day lock their customers out of their own projects until they agreed to allow their creations be fed into A.I. training data-sets),
  
• If you're in favor of companies updating firmware to brick your devices until you pay a subscription fee to use hardware that was working perfectly fine before the firmware update,

...if you're in favor of those things (which are what the clippy movement is against)

then you're one of the sheep.

It's because people just accept orwellian surveillance and draconian laws and terms of service, clicking agree, maybe complaining a little, but continuing to give the same companies that are effing them over their money, that people are "sheep", not because people strategically coordinate rebellion together; sheep don't strategically coordinate.

idk... I saw some video form gammers nexus about it and since they've recently been censored by meta I can only assume everyone is jumping on that?

unless someone can tell me a better reason that's what I'm going with...

also did you hear meta are pirates?! :P

I believe in the goal of the movement, to raise awareness. However I'm keeping my profile pic.
In the case that someone does ask me about the opinion I'll respond with quite an earful.
We shouldn't need these special club masks just so somebody out there can recognize there is a movement. Hit 'em hard in the not purchasing their nonsense department and make them wonder why, perhaps to investigate on their own rather than us shouting them down and looking hostile.

Man, things are bad for Microsoft when people miss the gosh dang Clippy days. People hated how that lil' paperclip incessantly interjected its operating tips every time you opened up Microsoft Word. It was arguably the start of the descent...

Regardless of that, Clippy is a pretty bad candidate for this sort of protest. They might mistake it for a compliment. this logo[commons.wikimedia.org] would probably actually have Microsoft sweating for what it represents...

Originally posted by Bassturd:

follow the leader like a sheep. baaa, baaaaaa.

Originally posted by Ｋiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏:

If you're you're in favor of companies changing EULAs and other agreements to hold ransom or steal your personal data from the cloud (like Adobe did when they decided to one day lock their customers out of their own projects until they agreed to allow their creations be fed into A.I. training data-sets),

...if you're in favor of those things (which are what the clippy movement is against)

then you're one of the sheep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxMCm941WA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cayIOCg24bE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAUR04zJtdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr0xIvHx5J8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN5jTVaxCYE

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

I believe in the goal of the movement, to raise awareness. However I'm keeping my profile pic.
In the case that someone does ask me about the opinion I'll respond with quite an earful.
We shouldn't need these special club masks just so somebody out there can recognize there is a movement. Hit 'em hard in the not purchasing their nonsense department and make them wonder why, perhaps to investigate on their own rather than us shouting them down and looking hostile.

awareness of what? I'm aware of clippy... it's like the jarjar binks of microsoft.

Originally posted by kingjames488:

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

I believe in the goal of the movement, to raise awareness. However I'm keeping my profile pic.
In the case that someone does ask me about the opinion I'll respond with quite an earful.
We shouldn't need these special club masks just so somebody out there can recognize there is a movement. Hit 'em hard in the not purchasing their nonsense department and make them wonder why, perhaps to investigate on their own rather than us shouting them down and looking hostile.

awareness of what? I'm aware of clippy... it's like the jarjar binks of microsoft.

Refer to the first reply. Specifically the "I'm not kidding" video.

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

Originally posted by kingjames488:

awareness of what? I'm aware of clippy... it's like the jarjar binks of microsoft.

Refer to the first reply. Specifically the "I'm not kidding" video.

if I clicked on it they'd get my precious views...

Originally posted by kingjames488:

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

Refer to the first reply. Specifically the "I'm not kidding" video.

if I clicked on it they'd get my precious views...

I guess you'll never know then.
Perhaps the answer is actually written out in a different reply on this thread.
Or you could google it.

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

Originally posted by kingjames488:

if I clicked on it they'd get my precious views...

I guess you'll never know then.
Perhaps the answer is actually written out in a different reply on this thread.
Or you could google it.

I know! I can just ask the AI! it knows everything that people are jerks and can't be bothered to tell me!

Originally posted by Tonepoet:

Man, things are bad for Microsoft when people miss the gosh dang Clippy days. People hated how that lil' paperclip incessantly interjected its operating tips every time you opened up Microsoft Word. It was arguably the start of the descent...

Regardless of that, Clippy is a pretty bad candidate for this sort of protest. They might mistake it for a compliment. this logo[commons.wikimedia.org] would probably actually have Microsoft sweating for what it represents...

Microsoft is barely a drop in the bucket, a grain of sand on the beach, in regards to what this movement is about.

The Clippy symbol is working to unite people and even has the symbol of linked paperclips.
Many are saying :
📎 : Weak
🖇️ : Strong
Clippies together: 💪 Strong

It's a simple and fast visual symbol that's easy to remix to match your own personality (unlike that GNU ram) and quickly shows others who believe in this sort of thing how many people stand beside you.

And I also find it deeply amusing because Louis Rossmann got people to quite metaphorically turn themselves into paper clips, which is a funny and probably unintentional allusion to The Paperclip Maximizer[www.google.com] parable in A.I. safety - which is very similar to the Story of Turry, and The Stamp Collector, all of which are semi-plausible situations where unregulated capitalism and corporate greed gets so out of control that it leads to the extinction of all life on Earth -- the end-point of what will happen if we just keep accepting things which help corporations profit at the expense of human well-being and environmentalism.

Relevant : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dx76lD8Scc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncOdBhTI2t8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdVC4e6EV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxVXvFOPIyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA