Go PETA!!!

[JanMichael]

With a simple, probably inexpensive cartoon, you have over 300 comments on a political website!

Congratulations! Best ad campaign I have seen in a long time!

[lostincalifornia]

1. Depends

[Wait Wut]

2. You could probably get over 300 comments...

...talking about chicken and corn flakes, pit bulls, breastfeeding, hangover cures, or recipes for pot brownies.

[JanMichael]

3. note how many people have

viewed it.

If I have something important I want to share on DU, I am going to either write "PETA" or "Pit Bull and toddler" or some such shit. At least people will look at it.

[Wait Wut]

9. You do know...

...that someone is going to get pissed off because you've misled them. Your banning WILL be celebrated.

[NightWatcher]

4. Pittbulls breastfeeding their circumsized pups at Olive Garden because Chick Fil A hates gays

[JanMichael]

5. somehow

you need to add smoking to that-

[Wait Wut]

6. Pfft...

...Everyone already knows that all pit bulls smoke.

[JanMichael]

7. Well, I don't know about that, but I do know

from reading DU that their owners eat cornflake encrusted fried chicken....which they would do more often, except it's not served at chain restaurants

[Wait Wut]

10. That's a lie!!

When I had my pittie I never ONCE ate corn flake encrusted chicken! I swear this place is just full of...sumthin'.

[petronius]

8. Impressive, isn't it? I'm guessing the total effort on PETA's part amounted

to about one intern plus a box of donuts, and they got a level of online attention that big-$$$ firms would envy. I'm still not sure if they ever even constructed one of those bus-shelter posters...

[longship]

11. Everybody knows the big train wreck is the lead story on the news.

If you want to support animal rights there are all sorts of awesome organizations who aren't barking mad and which will do some actual good. Many of them are small and hard pressed to do real actual good with meager resources. Many are local. None of them use their resources for douche-baggery. Sadly, that's not true of PETA.

Fuck PETA!

[Liberal Veteran]

12. Kudzu did even better in the Lounge.

[JanMichael]

13. over

5000 views now.

Even more impressive.

[The Straight Story]

14. Yep, and they convinced me even more not to take their message seriously

[Deep13]

15. ...accomplishing nothing. nt

[The Straight Story]

16. But hey, they will be getting press tonight on my show:

http://bearonlineradio.wix.com/bearradio

We go live at 7pm, and this is one of the stories we will cover. So I am sure it is going to help their cause

[justiceischeap]

17. Let me give you the skinny on PETA and marketing

I used to work at PETA (it was my first full-time web design gig). They have several methods of operation... this being one of their more common ones.

Here are the steps:

1. Create an ad that is totally outrageous
2. Claim you are going to post it somewhere or even put it up in one place.
3. Send out a press release about said outrageousness...
4. Everyone starts talking about the ad and PETA.
5. Mission accomplished for very little $$ or effort.

There have been some really outrageous ads created by PETA that have never been displayed anywhere but in a news article--and that's the point of that ad. PETA wants people talking... they don't care if it's good or bad, as long as a conversation is being had. If you're hating on PETA, in some way you're still thinking about the animals. If you're loving PETA, you're still thinking about the animals. I'd say this most recent ad has accomplished their goals. Want to shut down PETA, don't talk about them.

[JanMichael]

21. Ha!

Please post this as an OP.

Brilliant.

Of course...then PETA will get more than 10 thousand views on GD, but it's kind of funny

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Folks, pace yourselves.

Thanksgiving is still a few weeks away. Don't burn out early.

[petronius]

19. Good point - and Christmas comes pretty soon after that

Gotta save some energy for the big battles of the war...

[Warren DeMontague]

20. I'm going to update the calendar in time for 2014. I promise