Why all the nostalgia in your Facebook feed this morning? Why it’s all a part of the “Change your profile picture to a cartoon character campaign,” of course. It’s the latest meme sweeping across the social network, but this one is–at least in theory–for a good cause.
Here’s the mission statement of the campaign,
Change your profile picture to a cartoon character from your childhood andinvite [sic] your friends to do the same. Until Monday (Dec 6) there shouldbe [sic] no human faces on facebook, but an invasion of memories. This is acampaign [sic] to stop violence against children.
The “campaign” has gained steam fairly quickly, with the main page nabbing a little over 9,000 followers in a number of days–there are any number of copycat pages to be found, as well, by searching for the above phrase.
How the group actually plans on ending violence against children is beyond us, but at least the idea is nice…
A quick survey of trending topics on Google is an interesting study in demographics, with “cartoons from the 90s,” “80s cartoons,” and “1990 cartoons” all trending. “Bobby’s World,” “Ahhh Real Monsters,” “Little Bear,” “Doug,” “Rocko’s Modern Life,” “Angry Beavers,” Strawberry Shortcake,” and “Recess” are all having surprisingly good days on Google, as well.
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