I got the ad pictured in frame 2 today and it made me sad, so I made this meme. So many levels of sad:

  • Sponsored ad for a charity, plausible but seems fishy.
  • The needy children are positioned as “earning” the food and education they will get by your donation by writing back to you. Just way too overtly transactional.
  • The advertising tactic seems to prey on the lonely.
  • America@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    “And here is where I hang my poverty porn. Ooh, Miguel just sent me a spicy drawing of a sun with a sad face and several bisected corpses littered across a hill. I don’t know what 'mih fumilya” means but this is going right on the fridge!"