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In August 2025, YouTuber {{Wplink|Louis Rossmann}} started a grassroots {{Wplink|solidarity}} visibility campaign (tentatively named the '''Clippy Campaign'''), wherein participants changed their profile pictures on social media platforms in protest of unethical practices by corporations across industries. Users changed their profile pictures to a "Clippy", referring to an image of the "Clippit" avatar of [[wikipedia:Office_Assistant|Office Assistant]] as seen in Microsoft Office from | In August 2025, YouTuber {{Wplink|Louis Rossmann}} started a grassroots {{Wplink|solidarity}} visibility campaign (tentatively named the '''Clippy Campaign'''), wherein participants changed their profile pictures on social media platforms in protest of unethical practices by corporations across industries. Users changed their profile pictures to a "Clippy", referring to an image of the "Clippit" avatar of [[wikipedia:Office_Assistant|Office Assistant]] as seen in Microsoft Office from 1997 to 2003. | ||
==Campaign== | ==Campaign== | ||
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*The comments sections of many YouTube channels frequently contain malicious comments that normalize sex trafficking, posted by bot accounts. | *The comments sections of many YouTube channels frequently contain malicious comments that normalize sex trafficking, posted by bot accounts. | ||
*Companies can deny a user's right to repair something damaged in transit (i.e., not by the user), even when the user is willing to purchase needed parts from them, and then threaten legal action for asking them about the decision. | *Companies can deny a user's right to repair something damaged in transit (i.e., not by the user), even when the user is willing to purchase needed parts from them, and then threaten legal action for asking them about the decision. | ||
*Companies can conduct psychological experiments on their customers without | *Companies can conduct psychological experiments on their customers without informed consent, often without legal repercussions. | ||
===Developments=== | ===Developments=== | ||
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Rossmann uploaded a follow-up video four days later, on 16 August 2025, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgghxUw4kc Progress of clippy movement one week in]", in which he remarked on the rapid growth of the movement and thanked participants for actively working and making a difference, and not simply changing their profile pictures without doing anything else.<ref name="third rossmann clippy video">{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgghxUw4kc |title=Progress of clippy movement one week in |date=16 Aug 2025}}</ref> | Rossmann uploaded a follow-up video four days later, on 16 August 2025, titled "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgghxUw4kc Progress of clippy movement one week in]", in which he remarked on the rapid growth of the movement and thanked participants for actively working and making a difference, and not simply changing their profile pictures without doing anything else.<ref name="third rossmann clippy video">{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgghxUw4kc |title=Progress of clippy movement one week in |date=16 Aug 2025}}</ref> | ||
On 1 September 2025 a third video under the title "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcLvXBKE80 THIS is what it means to be a clippy]", was posted by Rossmann. It questioned his followers and gave examples on how individuals could show integrity and push back and against new age anti-ownership practices in their own lives and what the effects of that decision might be.<ref name="fourth Rossmann clippy video">{{Cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcLvXBKE80 | title=THIS is what it means to be a clippy | date=2 Sep 2025}}</ref> | |||
==Why Clippy== | ==Why Clippy== | ||
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==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:PicoCADClippy.png| | File:PicoCADClippy.png|A CC-0 (public domain) 3D model based on Clippy | ||
File:Clippy-og.png|The original Clippy render | File:Clippy-og.png|The original Clippy render | ||
File:Clippy-new.jpg|Someone's custom Clippy render | File:Clippy-new.jpg|Someone's custom Clippy render | ||
File:Clippy-blue.jpg|Clippy render against a blue background | File:Clippy-blue.jpg|Clippy render against a blue background | ||
File:A cute clippy.svg|Look a cute clippy who accidentally broke pencil sharpener and is now trying to hide evidence! | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||