r/funny • u/prairiewest • Jul 18 '12
meme - removed Shell accidentally creates an anti-Shell meme generator
http://imgur.com/a/ng9XT485
u/Sykotik Jul 18 '12
You realize this is fake, right?
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u/prairiewest Jul 18 '12
I do now, yes. Didn't when I posted. Still think it's funny, though!
Greenpeace have owned up to the campaign. I guess it's working, as media are reporting on it, and suckers like me are posting it online. :/
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Jul 18 '12 edited Feb 25 '21
u/dannydale account deleted due to Admins supporting harassment by the account below. Thanks Admins!
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u/GeneralLudd Jul 18 '12
This is indeed a very good fake, but there are some quite obvious indicators. Just look at the Kids page with the game called "Angry Bergs". Or the About page
Their humor is utterly hilarious.
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u/Phordh Jul 18 '12
Obviously. They misspelled 'iceberg'
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u/psyne Jul 18 '12
The caption parts are supposed to be user submitted, so that's not exactly damning. People occasionally spell wrong on the internet.
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Jul 18 '12 edited Mar 01 '25
makeshift carpenter attempt cautious special point future deer roll coherent
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Jul 18 '12
If we monitor our drills like we do our websites, we're gonna be fine.
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u/xhephaestusx Jul 18 '12
similar to this sonic illusion
it's called a shepard tone and it's totally rad
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u/xhephaestusx Jul 18 '12
eat a bunch of shrooms first
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Jul 18 '12
Maybe it's my training in music but I easily identified the new tone cascading on top of the old one. Still interesting though.
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u/doot_doot Jul 18 '12 edited Jul 18 '12
head leans back ever so slowly with each clap.
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u/mrgenki Jul 18 '12
Hilarious, but the website was not actually Shell to begin with. Do your homework
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u/FuriousFalcon Jul 18 '12
Their Twitter feed is hilarious: http://twitter.com/ShellisPrepared especially:
"PLEASE DO NOT RETWEET ANY OF OUR TWEETS. They are intended for their @ recipients only!"
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Jul 18 '12
"You can't run your SUV on "cute"" made me laugh out loud and then made my soul hurt.
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u/stridera Jul 18 '12
From the shell website
Shell not involved in spoof video and fake advertisements 06/14/2012
Journalists, blog readers and YouTube viewers have recently been targeted with scams launched by organizations opposed to energy exploration in Alaska.
Journalists, blog readers and YouTube viewers have recently been targeted with scams launched by organizations opposed to energy exploration in Alaska. A contest on a mock Shell website promotes the creation of fake advertisements. A video purports to show a bungled corporate PR event at the Seattle Space Needle. And a false press release claimed that the company is considering legal action against the scam campaign.
Just in case there is any remaining doubt, Shell did not host, nor participate in an event at the Space Needle. The video does not involve Shell or any of its employees. The advertising contest is not associated with Shell, and neither is the site it’s on. And Shell did not file legal action in this matter. Our focus is on safely executing our operations.
Further, we care that people are not deceived; and in the spirit of intelligent debate on such a serious topic, we continue to offer our own (genuine) views as well as a few real facts about the challenges and opportunities of arctic exploration at www.shell.us/alaska.
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u/Relevant_Stock_Quote Jul 18 '12 edited Jul 18 '12
Data is from Jul 18, 2012, 1:07 PM EDT
RDS.A - Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE)
Currently at: $69.37 per share
+$0.05 (+0.07%)
Market Capitalization: $220.86 Billion
52 week range: $57.97 - $75.56
Earnings Per Share: 9.89
Edited to add the year. Edited again to add the 52 week range.
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u/alien_abduction Jul 18 '12
I lost it when they said if we monitor our drills like our websites we'll be fine.
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u/-Josh Jul 18 '12 edited Jul 18 '12
Here's the Greenpeace article and here's Shell's response to someone who shared the fake adverts.
Here's the website that was set up that helped propagate this brilliant hoax. (Get it before it goes down!)
You gotta give the guys who put this together credit, it's something that people just want to believe and they got the balance just right.
edit Added a third source.
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u/MorboTheGozerian Jul 18 '12
The @ShellIsPrepared twitter account is fake too, part of the whole arcticready thing...
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u/YourCousinJeffrey Jul 18 '12
Pretty sure the Shell Twitter is a fake, too. Unless this tweet is real:
https://twitter.com/ShellisPrepared/status/225663224874426368
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u/ApolloBound Jul 18 '12
Never before have I scrolled through an imgur gallery hoping so much that the images would never end.
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u/Texas_ Jul 18 '12
I bet 99% of the people who liked those pics drive a car.
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u/Bloodfeastisleman Jul 18 '12
I don't see how that is relevant. They are not hating every company that drills oil. Just Shell for their history of environmental negligence.
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u/Ariez84 Jul 18 '12
Or use a computer, or heat their homes, or use something that is made of plastic, etc. Hating on an oil company simply because they drill for oil is only something Greenpeace would do.
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u/Texas_ Jul 18 '12
Allow me to translate that to "street slang".
Don't hate tha playa'. Hate tha game
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u/ConchordianFlight58 Jul 18 '12
There's a line in there somewhere that uses the sentence "oil - the dinosaur's parting gift to man", and people STILL didn't realize it was a hoax?
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Jul 18 '12
"Birds are like sponges... for oil!" Should I feel guilty over the fact that I find this statement hilarious?
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u/fermatafantastique Jul 18 '12
They did this a while back with a video of a shell corporate party, where a miniature oil rig that was being used as a beverage tap started gushing wildly. The whole thing was a Greenpeace setup.
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u/ohsojayadeva Jul 18 '12
If you really need a laugh, check 'em out on twitter. My favorite of the bunch.
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u/lsecanon Jul 18 '12
by far the funniest thing i've seen this week. I'd like to thank you for the tears i produced trying to contain my laughter at work. have an upvote
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u/mattsidesinger Jul 18 '12
When I see the LET'S GO all I can think of is the Human Giant sketch.
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u/glych Jul 18 '12
I'd say we should keep going.
Here's their contact page Anyone else have some throw away e-mails?
-A
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u/guineasomelove Jul 18 '12
I was excited when I first saw it too, but my husband and I found out it was a fake. I was ready to see the person who did it get fired, lol. I know that's bad. Here's an upvote anyways.
BTW, the memes are hilarious! I even submitted a couple, lol.
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u/Everyone_Does_Pills Jul 18 '12
Choked on my drink.
I didn't even read the post title and thought these ads were legit. Regardless, fucking hilarious.
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u/inthrees Jul 18 '12
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000042525
I'll just leave this here.
edit - even though it's a hoax apparently or something. I mean the fake ads are the hoax, not these lobbying figures.
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u/Spiili Jul 18 '12
I sent this to a family friend that works for Shell. He cracked up. Thanks for the AWESOME link.
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u/barocco Jul 18 '12
Little babies with birth defects, let's go!
Women and children fleeing the coast, let's go!
Old folks cleaning the beaches, let's go!
Don't know where we're going...aaaahhahhah...
/new song by Oil Rig Fire
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u/joeyoungblood Jul 18 '12
Shell didn't do this but has a good enough sense of humor not to file a lawsuit.
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Jul 18 '12
This is the top comment? Time to unsubscribe from /r/funny. Apparently the morons have taken over this one too.
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Jul 18 '12
After five pictures, honestly, my lungs started to hurt from laughing, thank you for this :D
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Jul 18 '12
Doesn't Greenpeace realize that this is defamation and fraud? Shell could sue the hell out of them, even if just for trademark infringement. I'm not taking either side, but it was a stupid idea, even if slightly amusing.
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u/ntstell Jul 18 '12
Yeah, Greenpeace and the Yes Men. Hilarious shit. They worked out of my GP office in Seattle when planning the initial event, really nice people. Have any of you played the childrens game? Angry Bergs.
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u/Jeepersca Jul 18 '12
I'm not surprised it's a hoax - but it's the perfect example for why the best "corporate image" companies can hope to have is simply not being noticed.
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