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[...T]here's going to be a point in your life where if every single person were on the same page, you could do something that otherwise wouldn't have worked, and change can get created. When everybody's on the same page, and everybody is in agreement as to what the problem is, things just naturally move smoother. I've noticed this in my business, I've noticed this in my nonprofit, and I've noticed this with general activism, and I'm trying to get a little bit of that going.</blockquote> | [...T]here's going to be a point in your life where if every single person were on the same page, you could do something that otherwise wouldn't have worked, and change can get created. When everybody's on the same page, and everybody is in agreement as to what the problem is, things just naturally move smoother. I've noticed this in my business, I've noticed this in my nonprofit, and I've noticed this with general activism, and I'm trying to get a little bit of that going.</blockquote> | ||
===Early reflections=== | |||
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> | ||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgghxUw4kc&t=32s Progress of clippy movement one week in 0:32] | |||
<blockquote>And I have been very happy, humbled, and honored to see the change that's occurred over the past week. My new nonprofit has a website, [[Main_Page|consumerrights.wiki]]. This website is a database of companies that take part in these anti-ownership, anti-consumer practices. It makes it much easier to speak to senators and congresspeople about these issues, as well as to members of the media and be taken seriously when I have a properly, well-cited, referenced, and sourced document that looks like an encyclopedia. | |||
[...] The wiki has had an absolute explosion in the past week since doing that Clippy video of people really taking part in all of this, [...] doing the very, very difficult, annoying, pain-in-the-ass work of logging everything [... and making] it infinitely better as a resource. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAgghxUw4kc&t=183s|''3:03'']] And the edits genuinely show how much has changed. Thank you. Thank you so much. You didn't just change your profile picture. You changed your profile picture and you immediately got to work, taking the steps that you can, in your personal life, doing what you can do to try and move towards a world where ownership matters. And it shows.</blockquote> | |||
On 1 September 2025 a fourth 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. An important point raised in the video was that users don't have to sacrifice anything to be a part of something bigger, because any small actions, when performed all together by many people, add up to significant results.<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> | On 1 September 2025 a fourth 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. An important point raised in the video was that users don't have to sacrifice anything to be a part of something bigger, because any small actions, when performed all together by many people, add up to significant results.<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> | ||