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 No.207

Recently, I have established a minor subversive element within a particular socio-political movement. Essentially, I have created a product/brand, have begun to establish networks within the target audience, and hope to eventually make a decent cash flow from the product via the target audience. It has come at no cost to me, using entirely free sites such as Society6, Twitter, and Tumblr. The product is a series of shirts with slogans and associated artwork.

My intentions being: To take the revenue from the product which will derive from Group A, and give a great deal of the profits to charities which benefit Group B.

My secondary objective with this product, is to take the "memes" of Group A, and to amplify them as close to absurdity as possible.

To summarize:
-I belong to Group B
-My target audience is Group A
-I take in revenue from Group A, posing as a member of Group A
-I then give percentage of profit to Group B via charity.
-Simultaneously, given nature of the medium, I am in a position to amplify the slogans of Group A to points of absurdity, there-by minimizing the effect of Group A on larger society.

It's a drop in the bucket, but still something which affects the physical world.

I assume most of us on here probably hold similar political end-goals. Besides doing something drastic, and going all Lee Harvey Oswald, I can think of no better way to influence current society than by monetary attrition.

I apologize for the general terms, but /32/ is a board for psychopolitics, not politics.

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Let this thread be one for discussion of our real world methods of subversion? Keep it a-political, this is /32/ after all.

To get the discussion started, I was wondering if anyone has any good material as far as social media marketing is concerned? Marketing is perhaps my weakest point.
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 No.209

>>207
I'm not sure I would qualify what you are doing as subversion, as you are not altering the internal power structure of Group A, you are discrediting its image for outside observers.

Nonetheless, It's great to have some real-life case studies in the board.

I'm afraid I don't have any marketing material, but if you would like to tell us about your punctual problems and limitations in that regard it would be a pleasure to participate in the brainstorming.
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 No.211

>>209

I suppose not huh?

Well, I suppose my greatest problem right now lies with gathering a large audience in a timely manner. I've managed to gather some sort of an audience with my personal social networks, but that took years of constant participation in discussion, etc.

Since the product is clothing, among the other kitschy things society6 offers, I'm not sure if my networking sites of choice are the optimal choices for promotion.

The only thing I can possibly think of, is to write blog posts concerning GROUP A's interests. Meaningful, insightful blogs always garner good, interactive audiences.
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 No.212

>>211

The blog posts could be another tool to stretch the groups interests into absurdity as well.
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 No.213

>>211
Writing long, meaningful posts is pointless if no one is going to read them. If you already have an audience, be my guest, but it usually makes more sense to do things when people are already paying attention to you.

My advice would be to associate yourself with highly visible individuals, events and occurrences.

If you can, take a picture with one of their idols/leaders while wearing one of your shirts. But before you take the picture, give the person a free shirt, he will appreciate the gesture and seem genuinely happy to pose with you (resulting in a good picture that will get more exposure). Perhaps that person will later be seen wearing said shirt, but of course this will only matter if your product is easily recognizable and found for purchase.

For events, try to take part in the organization of conferences or meet-ups, and offer some of your shirts as gifts for speakers or prizes for whatever.

There are also polarizing occurrences, which are good situations to write those posts you mentioned. When a subject that has a lot to do with the groups ideology comes up, be the first to post something relevant. It would be especially advantageous if it was a negative situation for the group, in which case you can claim how outraged you are. I think open letters are "in" right now, so that's a thought. Try creating a hashtag or associating yourself with an existing one as soon as possible after the occurrence.

Naturally, you should try to apply all of these techniques simultaneously.
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 No.216

>>212
That's what I was thinking. This could be a combination of making Group A look absurd to outsiders and also what was discussed here https://8chan.co/32/res/172.html
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 No.218

>>213

Those are all very good ideas. I'm a little hindered on certain aspects (I'm posing as my opposite gender, if that does not totally give away what I'm doing). But otherwise, great ideas. They're certainly geared towards immediacy.

>>216

Ah, yes, which reminds me, I worded my initial post wrong. Let this thread be about the actual practice of subversion as it occurs, where-as that thread will concern the theory of subversion.
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 No.229

>>218
That does present you with some limitations.

How about starting a rumor? You'll need at least two identities, but you can spread the information that you are having a relationship with a prominent leader in the movement. Even better if said leader is married or dating someone else.
Of course, you don't want to be known as a home-wrecker, so at some point make a public statement saying that you are not and never was in a relationship with him. Carefully balance waiting for the story to pick up steam and for it to become fact.
Perhaps a picture of said leader with an unidentified female would help. You them explain (after a few days) that it's not you in the picture. Of course, now the leader must explain who the female in the (supposedly suggestive) picture is, creating doubts about his fidelity but keeping you out of harm's way. You might need a female accomplice in order to prove that you aren't the woman in the picture. This is in accordance with Nelson's "Subversion of Social Movements by Adversarial Agents", discussed in another thread.

Also, does anyone else's buttons show in some asian language?
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 No.231

>>229
Mine did briefly but after I made a post it changed back to English
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 No.429

>>213
in regards to your first sentence, this is why twitter, against my expectations years ago, became so influential; it allows people with no audience to become influential IF they manage to jam the conveyance of a complex thought into 140 characcters that dont even require that they necessarily be read in full since everyone has an endless stream of many people's dissociated thoughts to scroll through. in many cases i might even call the "electronic celebrities" that flowered as a result victims of popular culture because they have managed to hum the song of the zeitgeist without ever knowing how to actually read music. as a result, they CANNOT disengage without losing relevance as well as w hatever validation they had come to expect
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 No.1765

So I assume you're basically doing what the MRAs who sold 'male tear' mugs to feminists are doing? Donate the profits to MRA organizations?

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 No.1799

>>1765

Did they really do that? I can't find a reliable source on that.

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