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User talk:Oaky Elk

2025-08-14T22:59:29Z

Oaky Elk: /* Clippy submission */ Reply

==Clippy submission==

Please do NOT publish content like that clippy to the wiki again. [[User:JamesTDG|JamesTDG]] ([[User talk:JamesTDG|talk]]) 20:02, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

:I am sincerely sorry if the image was deemed inappropriate, I will not publish anything of the sort again [[User:Oaky Elk|Oaky Elk]] ([[User talk:Oaky Elk|talk]]) 22:59, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

Clippy Campaign

2025-08-13T23:46:02Z

Oaky Elk: added material to the "impacts" section

The '''Clippy Campaign''' (''Author's Note: tentatively named, there seems to be no agreed upon name for this concept yet'') is a [[wikipedia:Solidarity|solidarity]] visibility campaign where individuals change their profile image to "a Clippy" (officially, the 'Clippit' avatar of [[wikipedia:Office_Assistant|Office Assistant]] as seen in Microsoft Office 2000 through 2003).

The campaign was started by Louis Rossmann in his video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious] and further explained in his video [https://youtu.be/SkL9vzW7nY0 You Changed Your Profile to Clippy: Now What? 📎📎📎]

==How it works==
Individuals supporting [[Right to repair|Right to Repair]] or generally supporting resistance to anti-ownership activities show their size as a group and solidarity with each other by changing their profile images to a Clippy.

==Why==

===Clippy As a Symbol of Escalating Overreach===
As explained by Rossman in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious] Clippy, while widely mocked and viewed as an annoyance at the time of its introduction, the level of annoyance, privacy invasion and user hostility pales in comparison to modern practices by corporations, especially Big Tech, that are continually implemented and escalated without resistance.
[https://youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ?t=68 Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious 1:08]<blockquote>Whether or not you like Clippy, [...] the one thing that you could say, unlike Facebook who is trying to profit off of young girls that feel suicidal, Clippy simply wanted to help.
He might have been annoying, but he just wanted to help.

There were no ulterior motives.
If you told Clippy you were having a bad day, he wasn't going to use that information to try and figure out which advertiser to sell you to. Nor was he trying to steal your personal data to get you to purchase other Microsoft products.
He had no ulterior motives, he was simply there to help.

[...]

Clippy wouldn't even read the contents of your letter.</blockquote>

===The Impact of Clippy Avatars===
Rossman hopes that the group awareness created by the campaign will allow people to take action more quickly, due to already knowing that others around them are in alignment. Already it has been seen that many users on YouTube and other social media sites have taken part in the campaign. Some are even taking action to further spread word of the movement in hopes it will eventually get the attention of legislation, tech companies, etc.

[https://youtu.be/SkL9vzW7nY0?t=265 You Changed Your Profile to Clippy: Now What? 📎📎📎 4:25]<blockquote>But if all of them know at the same time that we're on the same page:

We are tired of living in an anti-ownership society, check.

We are tired of living in a society where we subscribe to everything and we own nothing, check.

We are tired of being told it cost $8,000 to fix a f[---]ing power button, check.

[...]

If every single one of these people were not only on the same page, but knew they were on the same page, maybe each one in the chain would speak up when they otherwise wouldn't.

And when they're all moving together and all working together, what happens?

They choose a different vendor.</blockquote>

==Example Clippy Images==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
![[File:Clippy-new.jpg|thumb]]
![[File:Pregnant clippy meme.jpg|thumb]][[File:Clippy-blue.jpg|thumb]]
![[File:Clippy-og.png|thumb]]
|}

==References==
<references />https://youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ?si=JyAYBVTGXkaywvQv

https://youtu.be/SkL9vzW7nY0?si=VTCoxjnGAaIOXgv5

https://youtu.be/hKhRUB8AwnA?si=Kh93gqcyxcbnHCkT

https://youtu.be/joIQKaErNKc?si=YguOCsnOoNvlOleO

https://youtu.be/0xAGUrkDsj4?si=vmrOjoW1ubtawbR4
[[Category:Common terms]]

Clippy Campaign

2025-08-13T23:37:23Z

Oaky Elk: /* Example Clippy Images */

The '''Clippy Campaign''' (''Author's Note: tentatively named, there seems to be no agreed upon name for this concept yet'') is a [[wikipedia:Solidarity|solidarity]] visibility campaign where individuals change their profile image to "a Clippy" (officially, the 'Clippit' avatar of [[wikipedia:Office_Assistant|Office Assistant]] as seen in Microsoft Office 2000 through 2003).

The campaign was started by Louis Rossmann in his video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious] and further explained in his video [https://youtu.be/SkL9vzW7nY0 You Changed Your Profile to Clippy: Now What? 📎📎📎]

==How it works==
Individuals supporting [[Right to repair|Right to Repair]] or generally supporting resistance to anti-ownership activities show their size as a group and solidarity with each other by changing their profile images to a Clippy.

==Why==

===Clippy As a Symbol of Escalating Overreach===
As explained by Rossman in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious] Clippy, while widely mocked and viewed as an annoyance at the time of its introduction, the level of annoyance, privacy invasion and user hostility pales in comparison to modern practices by corporations, especially Big Tech, that are continually implemented and escalated without resistance.
[https://youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ?t=68 Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious 1:08]<blockquote>Whether or not you like Clippy, [...] the one thing that you could say, unlike Facebook who is trying to profit off of young girls that feel suicidal, Clippy simply wanted to help.
He might have been annoying, but he just wanted to help.

There were no ulterior motives.
If you told Clippy you were having a bad day, he wasn't going to use that information to try and figure out which advertiser to sell you to. Nor was he trying to steal your personal data to get you to purchase other Microsoft products.
He had no ulterior motives, he was simply there to help.

[...]

Clippy wouldn't even read the contents of your letter.</blockquote>

===The Impact of Clippy Avatars===
Rossman hopes that the group awareness created by the campaign will allow people to take action more quickly, due to already knowing that others around them are in alignment.

[https://youtu.be/SkL9vzW7nY0?t=265 You Changed Your Profile to Clippy: Now What? 📎📎📎 4:25]<blockquote>But if all of them know at the same time that we're on the same page:

We are tired of living in an anti-ownership society, check.

We are tired of living in a society where we subscribe to everything and we own nothing, check.

We are tired of being told it cost $8,000 to fix a f[---]ing power button, check.

[...]

If every single one of these people were not only on the same page, but knew they were on the same page, maybe each one in the chain would speak up when they otherwise wouldn't.

And when they're all moving together and all working together, what happens?

They choose a different vendor.</blockquote>

==Example Clippy Images==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
![[File:Clippy-new.jpg|thumb]]
![[File:Pregnant clippy meme.jpg|thumb]][[File:Clippy-blue.jpg|thumb]]
![[File:Clippy-og.png|thumb]]
|}

==References==
<references />https://youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ?si=JyAYBVTGXkaywvQv

https://youtu.be/SkL9vzW7nY0?si=VTCoxjnGAaIOXgv5

https://youtu.be/hKhRUB8AwnA?si=Kh93gqcyxcbnHCkT

https://youtu.be/joIQKaErNKc?si=YguOCsnOoNvlOleO

https://youtu.be/0xAGUrkDsj4?si=vmrOjoW1ubtawbR4
[[Category:Common terms]]

Clippy Campaign

2025-08-13T13:51:27Z

Oaky Elk: /* Example Clippy Images */

The '''Clippy Campaign''' (''Author's Note: tentatively named, there seems to be no agreed upon name for this concept yet'') is a [[wikipedia:Solidarity|solidarity]] visibility campaign where individuals change their profile image to "a Clippy" (officially, the 'Clippit' avatar of [[wikipedia:Office_Assistant|Office Assistant]] as seen in Microsoft Office 2000 through 2003).

The campaign was started by Louis Rossmann in his video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious] and further explained in his video [https://youtu.be/SkL9vzW7nY0 You Changed Your Profile to Clippy: Now What? 📎📎📎]

==How it works==
Individuals supporting [[Right to repair|Right to Repair]] or generally supporting resistance to anti-ownership activities show their size as a group and solidarity with each other by changing their profile images to a Clippy.

==Why==

===Clippy As a Symbol of Escalating Overreach===
As explained by Rossman in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious] Clippy, while widely mocked and viewed as an annoyance at the time of its introduction, the level of annoyance, privacy invasion and user hostility pales in comparison to modern practices by corporations, especially Big Tech, that are continually implemented and escalated without resistance.
[https://youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ?t=68 Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious 1:08]<blockquote>Whether or not you like Clippy, [...] the one thing that you could say, unlike Facebook who is trying to profit off of young girls that feel suicidal, Clippy simply wanted to help.
He might have been annoying, but he just wanted to help.

There were no ulterior motives.
If you told Clippy you were having a bad day, he wasn't going to use that information to try and figure out which advertiser to sell you to. Nor was he trying to steal your personal data to get you to purchase other Microsoft products.
He had no ulterior motives, he was simply there to help.

[...]

Clippy wouldn't even read the contents of your letter.</blockquote>

===The Impact of Clippy Avatars===
Rossman hopes that the group awareness created by the campaign will allow people to take action more quickly, due to already knowing that others around them are in alignment.

[https://youtu.be/SkL9vzW7nY0?t=265 You Changed Your Profile to Clippy: Now What? 📎📎📎 4:25]<blockquote>But if all of them know at the same time that we're on the same page:

We are tired of living in an anti-ownership society, check.

We are tired of living in a society where we subscribe to everything and we own nothing, check.

We are tired of being told it cost $8,000 to fix a f[---]ing power button, check.

[...]

If every single one of these people were not only on the same page, but knew they were on the same page, maybe each one in the chain would speak up when they otherwise wouldn't.

And when they're all moving together and all working together, what happens?

They choose a different vendor.</blockquote>

==Example Clippy Images==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
![[File:Clippy-new.jpg|thumb]]
![[File:Pregnant clippy meme.jpg|thumb|Pregnant Clippy Meme]][[File:Clippy-blue.jpg|thumb]]
![[File:Clippy-og.png|thumb]]
|}

==References==
<references />https://youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ?si=JyAYBVTGXkaywvQv

https://youtu.be/SkL9vzW7nY0?si=VTCoxjnGAaIOXgv5

https://youtu.be/hKhRUB8AwnA?si=Kh93gqcyxcbnHCkT

https://youtu.be/joIQKaErNKc?si=YguOCsnOoNvlOleO

https://youtu.be/0xAGUrkDsj4?si=vmrOjoW1ubtawbR4
[[Category:Common terms]]