Flickr Buys Donuts for 20,000 Anti-Protesters
Last week uber-photo-site Flickr launched a new service enabling subscribers to post videos to the site. Users can now list their moving pictures in galleries right next to their still ones. Most Flickr members accepted this new feature with open arms, but some Luddites organized a protest to have the video feature removed. The fear was that the addition would result in an influx of jokers who would degrade the overall community.
It seems there were already plenty of jokers on the site, however, who organized themselves into an anti-protest group. That members of that group didn't want the removal of the video feature, they just wanted pastries.
The group called itself We Demand Donuts and demanded just that, stating that it wanted Flickr to buy all of its protesters pastries if it reached 20,000 members. The group hit that number, and Flickr held up its end of the bargain at San Francisco's Bob's Donut and Pastry Shop, where it bought one delicious-looking confectionery treat for every member of the group who showed up.
Based on the photos from that event (and the other meet-ups that this triggered worldwide), it looks like it was quite a success. [Source: Flickr, via geeksugar]
Filed under: Audio/Video, Cameras, Computers
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Eric Franklin @ Apr 17th 2008 11:04AM
It's worth noting that the group's existence pre-dates Flickr Video by quite a bit. The group wasn't founded to protest video.
paul @ Apr 17th 2008 12:06PM
i want one!!
namtastic @ Apr 17th 2008 1:40PM
But are there any videos of the event?
Jake @ Apr 18th 2008 5:50PM
It was a huge success! Plenty of videos, including some short films and documentary footage of the protest in Phoenix. Fun was had by all.