Friday, March 9, 2012

Download KONY 2012 Video from YouTube

KONY 2012 poster
Have you watched the YouTube video "KONY 2012"? If you haven't watched it yet, now let me introduce some information about the video to you. "KONY 2012" is the most popular video on YouTube this week. In less than a week, it has attracted 57 million hits on the video-sharing website. It's not a music video or a dog tease video. Okay, let's see the introduction of video on YouTube:
KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.
You might want to watch the video first. To download KONY 2012 video from YouTube, you can check these two software: YouTubeGet (for PC) or AllMyTube for Mac. You can use Any Video Converter to convert the video for mobile devices. Here is the 29-minute video, please be patient to watch the full video:


The video, from Invisible Children, Inc., a nonprofit organization, was posted to Vimeo and YouTube on Mar 5, 2012. Right now it has 57 million views on YouTube and 15 million plays on Vimeo. It's a very moving short movie.

However, some of the viewers said that it's a SCAM. Part of the haters of "KONY 2012" believe that the video was a SCAM to get donation. The other haters of the video think that it's a trick played by US government to send army to Uganda and control Uganda's oil production. The video below considers "KONY 2012" to be misleading:


I don't think "KONY 2012" is a scam. News about Joseph Kony has been flooding all major newspapers, News broadcasting, Twitter and Facebook. Posters can be seen all around streets. Wikipedia has created pages for the news, such as Kony 2012, Invisible Children, Inc. and Joseph Kony. Also, Rihanna has tweeted about the video and the organization. How can't it be true? I'll support "KONY 2012" video and the campaign.

You can also go to kony2012.com to see the full list of the culturemakers and the policymakers and show your support for the campaign.

No comments:

Post a Comment