FCKH8: All Gay Suffering Now To End

'Jennifer Lawrence's powerful words on gay rights' - Common Gay Boy.

PS FCKH8 exploits the LGBTQ community and steals things to make money on t-shirts. These people are idiots, crooks and scum, basically.

How To Go Viral: Joining The Dots

The third thing that we've learned about viral content is that people are more likely to share something if they have a strong, positive emotional response to it. A 2010 study of the New York Times "most emailed" list found the articles that made the list tended to fall into one of four categories: awe-inspiring, emotional, positive or surprising. And the lesson from this isn't so much that people like to feel feelings when they engage with a piece of content, it is that when it works – when the thing actually makes them cry or exclaim or feel inspired or shocked or happy – they want to share that experience with others...

How To Make Something Go Viral - Tips from Buzzfeed, Guardian Online, Generation Y Takeover.

The site [Upworthy] has recently started making a big deal out of its fact-checking controls. A blog from its copy chief stresses that "credibility is perhaps the most important trait of great curation".

This attitude is far from universal. Other viral content originators are known for spreading unverifiable information. Perhaps the most famous is FCKH8, a pro-gay rights online clothing vendor (with mixed reviews at best), which has a habit of finding heartwarming or shocking anonymous letters from parents to their closeted children, or from people to theirbigoted family members. Efforts to find the writers of such letters generally fail. FCKH8's explanation – that they wish to stay anonymous... *

James Ball on Guardian Online, Generation Y Takeover, on Upworthy; 'Viral content about stuff that matters'. 

A sentimental gay hoax will go viral before the the truth has turned its tablet on.

This is where Fagburn is going wrong, basically.

Must run more baseless *Boo hoo squish squish sad face* stories in the future.

* It's not just FCKH8, of course. The problem is general to LGBT groups and media, and a credulous clicktivist virtual world.

FCKH8: American Idiots

FCKH8, the pro-equality T-shirt purveyor, is flouting Russia’s controversial anti-gay propaganda law by doing exactly what it forbids: presenting a “distorted image of equality of traditional and non-traditional sexual relationships.” And that image can be colored in with an array of crayons.

The law is meant to protect children from harmful “gay propaganda” so in the spirit of fucking hate, FCKH8 is mailing 10,000 copies of its children’s coloring book, Misha & His Moms Go to the Olympics, to Russian kids –just in time for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, or, the holidays!

You can download your own coloring book here.

Queerty.

This is probably just a publicity stunt* - wouldn't be the first time we've seen a gay business making a buck out of pretending to care about Russian queers - but even if they won't actually do it, this can only do great damage.

The exploitation of homophobia by the likes of Russian politicians like Putin is based mainly on propagating two myths.

First, Putin et al are ultra-nationalists who claim tolerance of homosexuality is something the West is trying to impose on Russia. Thus any outside pressure risks allowing them to present themselves as proud macho defenders of the motherland.

They also argue that their anti-gay laws are there primarily to protect children from gay propaganda. Cause those queers are after your kids, right?

The above "campaign" conforms to both of these and so could only provide ammunition for them - it's just record-breakingly stupid and would be completely counter-productive.

But it seems a perfect example of the arrogance, selfishness and wrong-headedness of much that is done by Westerners supposedly in the name of LGBT Russians.

"But we must do something!"

But whatever you do, don't consider the consequences.

Idiots!

* As several Queerty posters said, I can’t see how they could get the addresses of 10,000 children in Russia anyhow…

Oh, and those nice people at FCHK8 also rip off other queers' work - but hey, they're doing it all for the gays, guys! Scum. Thanks to Mark @yokelbear x

FCKH8: It Doesn't Get Better...

For homophobes.
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