mega64 did the ice bucket challenge

[Comatose]

I thought this was kind of distasteful.

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[Foxscotch]

Do you not understand the challenge? From what I know, if you pour ice cold water on your self, you have to donate $10 or how ever much you feel like donating. It's not an alternative, it's to raise awareness for it and to get people to donate more to ALS.

no, it is an alternative. the choice is supposed to be either donating $100 and not accepting the "challenge" or donating $10 and pouring ice water on yourself
and naturally, due to the way people seem to work, everyone ends up donating $10 (if anything)

[eboyblue10]

oh baby a triple

[Camel]

no, it is an alternative. the choice is supposed to be either donating $100 and not accepting the "challenge" or donating $10 and pouring ice water on yourself
and naturally, due to the way people seem to work, everyone ends up donating $10 (if anything)

the point of the video is that people are, rather than donating 10 dollars, just pouring ice water on their heads to "raise awareness".

[Benjamin Lopez]

no, it is an alternative. the choice is supposed to be either donating $100 and not accepting the "challenge" or donating $10 and pouring ice water on yourself
and naturally, due to the way people seem to work, everyone ends up donating $10 (if anything)

It's not an alternative because either way, people end up donating money and if the choose to do the ice bucket challenge they raise awareness. Before this even happened awareness for ALS was limited. Sure, donating $100, not making a video of you pouring ice water on your head is okay thing to do, but it's not actually doing anything to get more people to donate money. The ALS Association has raised $41.8 million in donations from July 29 to August 21. That's more than double the donations they have gotten last year ($19.4 million). If people hadn't donated $10 dollars, poured a bucket of water on their heads and then challenged 3 people, that would not happen.

the point of the video is that people are, rather than donating 10 dollars, just pouring ice water on their heads to "raise awareness".

Well, that isn't how the challenge is suppose to work, but of course some people just want to get their 15 minutes of fame.

[F3d323]

they're making donating viral and fun by adding a challenge to it
i think thats pretty clever

[Foxscotch]

It's not an alternative because either way

it is an alternative. you pour water on yourself so that you have to donate less money/no money
regardless of how much money the foundation has actually gotten does not change that the challenge itself is a way to get out of donating some amount of money

[Benjamin Lopez]

they're making donating viral and fun by adding a challenge to it
i think thats pretty clever

the only problem with this is that after it stops being the "flavor of the month" people completely forget about ALS.

[Zeblote]

its a giant pyramid scheme

[Camel]

exactly- people are just following the trend to look like they are charitable, when on reality most people are totally unaware of the 10 dollar prerequisite

this video isn't anti-als, it'd anti-dumb people

[Muzzles56]

this video isn't anti-als, it'd anti-dumb people

shouldnt everybody be anti-als? thats the whole point of this ice bucket thing
Yes I know what you mean, dont take this seriously, people

[Camel]

shouldnt everybody be anti-als? thats the whole point of this ice bucket thing
Yes I know what you mean, dont take this seriously, people

MUZZLEE I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU REPORTED AND UNSUBSCRIBED

[Harm94]

exactly- people are just following the trend to look like they are charitable, when on reality most people are totally unaware of the 10 dollar prerequisite

this video isn't anti-als, it'd anti-dumb people

Exactly, people are just doing the challenge as a fad for fame instead of charity.

[ShadowsfeaR]

it is an alternative. you pour water on yourself so that you have to donate less money/no money
regardless of how much money the foundation has actually gotten does not change that the challenge itself is a way to get out of donating some amount of money

Most videos I've seen people have done both. Evike (airsoft retailer) did the challenge AND donated $2000. Not only that, many people with ALS find the ice bucket challenges very heart warming and touching.

[mus]

inb4 people don't get the satire of this video

camel predicted it