Clippy Campaign: Difference between revisions

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Rossmann concludes the video by stating that if Microsoft does not reverse its course by the 16th, then he would hold on the 18th a public event on behalf of the FULU Foundation, where users can get their computers upgraded, learn how to install free software, and try out Linux (a free operating system) for themselves.<ref name="second Rossmann silhouette">{{Cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NVtg1tkgSQ | title=Microsoft went too far | date=10 Oct 2025}}</ref> Rossmann stated that the goal was to encourage people to help other members of their community, learn new ways of keeping their technology safe from viruses, and prevent computers from populating landfills (because many people have to throw out their old computers which are unable to run Windows 11, but replacing Windows with Linux prevents this).

==Emergence out in the world==

A notable example Rossmann featured of the Clippy movement outside of the Internet comes from a discussion about Vidor, Texas and its city council meeting. Rossmann starts out a video published on 10 October 2025 by recounting the background behind the movement's progress in Vidor and uses it as an example of members uniting together and doing real work. Vidor's city council is presented as not being proactive or willing to investigate for themselves. The video also offers an excellent anecdote about the growing culture associated with the movement as word spreads online.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOUZsp5KhGs Vidor, Texas says no to Flock AI surveillance traffic cameras 0:11]

<blockquote>Somebody reached out to me [...] saying, "I watched your video on what you did at Austin and I wanted to see if they had these cameras in my city." So, she looked it up, and what do you know? They were on the next city council meeting. They didn't get back to her, so she showed up and gave them a piece of her mind. She did a really good job and I wanted to play you that [...] and everything that everybody else said. [...] I'm really proud of it. As I said with what we're trying to do with the Clippy movement: it's not about just changing your profile picture to let people know you're not happy. It's about pushing back everywhere that you can in your own corner of the world in everyday life. Did they get it removed for good? No. But they got it tabled. Their town is not spending $60,000 to put up cameras with AI that surveilled them everywhere they go and save the information on somebody else's server. I think that's a great step forward. Screw [[Flock]]. I don't want that stuff in my city, and I also don't want it in yours. And if you want to help try to get out of your city, I will help you as much as humanly possible.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgghxUw4kc&t=183s ''3:03''] ''The aforementioned woman speaks to Rossmann, accompanied by her husband.''] My city council is not going to pay attention unless they have hard facts in front of them. I specifically emailed everybody of the city council and I received no response. So that—

ROSSMANN: Wait, so your city council sounds like ''our'' city council.

WIFE: Mhm, which is why I am now forcing my husband—we are moving in town, and the next opportunity I have after research, I am going to be running for city council because I am tired—

ROSSMANN: No way!

WIFE: —of the efficiency of it.

HUSBAND: Also, for your journeys, 'cause one thing I could not find online was a... a version of Clippy that you could actually cut out of vinyl, so I had to figure out how to make an SVG, and I got twenty of them. I cut them for you.

ROSSMANN: No way!

HUSBAND: Yes.

ROSSMANN: Thank you.

HUSBAND: Yes!

ROSSMANN: Thank you so much. This makes me happy.

HUSBAND: And that, directly, is inspired by the post from Denton. The "Clippy is watching."? I was like, I got to do that. I got to make it.

WIFE: He put the vinyl on my car. The back... the back window.

HUSBAND: Eighty inches of vinyl.</blockquote>

==Impact==

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 Rossmann concludes the video by stating that if Microsoft does not reverse its course by the 16th, then he would hold on the 18th a public event on behalf of the FULU Foundation, where users can get their computers upgraded, learn how to install free software, and try out Linux (a free operating system) for themselves.<ref name="second Rossmann silhouette">{{Cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NVtg1tkgSQ | title=Microsoft went too far | date=10 Oct 2025}}</ref> Rossmann stated that the goal was to encourage people to help other members of their community, learn new ways of keeping their technology safe from viruses, and prevent computers from populating landfills (because many people have to throw out their old computers which are unable to run Windows 11, but replacing Windows with Linux prevents this).
+==Emergence out in the world==
+A notable example Rossmann featured of the Clippy movement outside of the Internet comes from a discussion about Vidor, Texas and its city council meeting. Rossmann starts out a video published on 10 October 2025 by recounting the background behind the movement's progress in Vidor and uses it as an example of members uniting together and doing real work. Vidor's city council is presented as not being proactive or willing to investigate for themselves. The video also offers an excellent anecdote about the growing culture associated with the movement as word spreads online.
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOUZsp5KhGs Vidor, Texas says no to Flock AI surveillance traffic cameras 0:11]
+<blockquote>Somebody reached out to me [...] saying, "I watched your video on what you did at Austin and I wanted to see if they had these cameras in my city." So, she looked it up, and what do you know? They were on the next city council meeting. They didn't get back to her, so she showed up and gave them a piece of her mind. She did a really good job and I wanted to play you that [...] and everything that everybody else said. [...] I'm really proud of it. As I said with what we're trying to do with the Clippy movement: it's not about just changing your profile picture to let people know you're not happy. It's about pushing back everywhere that you can in your own corner of the world in everyday life. Did they get it removed for good? No. But they got it tabled. Their town is not spending $60,000 to put up cameras with AI that surveilled them everywhere they go and save the information on somebody else's server. I think that's a great step forward. Screw [[Flock]]. I don't want that stuff in my city, and I also don't want it in yours. And if you want to help try to get out of your city, I will help you as much as humanly possible.
+&#91;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgghxUw4kc&t=183s ''3:03''] ''The aforementioned woman speaks to Rossmann, accompanied by her husband.''&#93; My city council is not going to pay attention unless they have hard facts in front of them. I specifically emailed everybody of the city council and I received no response. So that—
+ROSSMANN: Wait, so your city council sounds like ''our'' city council.
+WIFE: Mhm, which is why I am now forcing my husband—we are moving in town, and the next opportunity I have after research, I am going to be running for city council because I am tired—
+ROSSMANN: No way!
+WIFE: —of the efficiency of it.
+HUSBAND: Also, for your journeys, 'cause one thing I could not find online was a... a version of Clippy that you could actually cut out of vinyl, so I had to figure out how to make an SVG, and I got twenty of them. I cut them for you.
+ROSSMANN: No way!
+HUSBAND: Yes.
+ROSSMANN: Thank you.
+HUSBAND: Yes!
+ROSSMANN: Thank you so much. This makes me happy.
+HUSBAND: And that, directly, is inspired by the post from Denton. The "Clippy is watching."? I was like, I got to do that. I got to make it.
+WIFE: He put the vinyl on my car. The back... the back window.
+HUSBAND: Eighty inches of vinyl.</blockquote>
 ==Impact==