The excellent creator of our videos "United Russia — the Party of Crooks and Thieves" (677,000 views) and "Let’s Remind the Crooks and Thieves of Their 2002 Manifesto" (more than 2 million views) has released a new video. Please help spread it.
http://youtu.be/6jKloyzf6WA All in all, this video idea can be considered a success. Not long ago, a video with ten thousand views was a hit. Now people worry when it gets fewer than a hundred thousand. It’s still too early to talk about competing on equal terms with the zomboyashchik (slang for state TV, literally “zombie box”), but it is entirely possible to get information about the Crooks and Thieves to residents of major cities. Even so, we’re still making weak use of the opportunities we already have. There aren’t enough videos, and the quality is lacking. Let’s run an experiment. There are 50,000 rubles (about $1,600 at the time) left from the competition prize fund. One of the winners refused the prize in protest over the fact that I extended the deadline for announcing the results. We need to spend this money in a way that makes Obeshchalkin suffer. 25,000 rubles will go to whoever makes the best video based on the post "On Putin’s fierce struggle against utility tariffs". I’d like to point out that the comments there (and in the comments on my post)) contain lots of background information, calculations, and other material that could be useful for making an excellent, persuasive video about Obeshchalkin. 25,000 rubles will go to whoever makes the best video calling on people to become election observers and catch vote-riggers in the March 4 election. There’s a huge amount of information on this everywhere. Go to LiveJournal user ki**reev’s j**ournal — any post there about the recent State Duma elections is excellent campaigning for why observers are needed. You have complete creative freedom. Do it however you think best. The winner will be determined by a vote on Democratia2 There, each vote is verified by SMS (free of charge), which makes this online vote far more honest than any existing ones, and avoids the usual plague of bots and vote manipulation. We’ll vote on January 26, one week from now. To take part in the contest, you need to make a video before the voting begins, upload it to YouTube, and immediately send the link to obeshalkin at gmail.com After you send the link, you can promote and post your video wherever you like. If this experiment produces something worthwhile, we can turn it into a regular system: a) decide the video topic by vote b) collect money for the prize fund in a Yandex wallet. No more than 500 rubles (about $16 at the time) per person. Raising 25,000 rubles this way will be easy. c) decide by vote on Democratia2 who gets the cash prize. And only those who contributed money get to vote (I haven’t figured out how to do that yet, but I will). d) launch a furious, all-out push to spread the winning video. e) caviar will stop tasting good to Obeshchalkin, and the billions in Swiss banks will no longer bring him joy. Everyone who’s creative and knows how to use a video editor, join in. PS Please don’t forget to help spread the new video. Social networks, forums, Skype, ICQ, emails, SMS.