Trends and Events from the Decade That You Completely Forgot About

Kony 2012

Kony 2012. If you weren’t tweeting #STOPKONY, were you even online? The non-profit group went viral after releasing a documentary on Youtube about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and his many crimes and abuses of children. It got 100 million hits overnight, but lost traction after the head of the company was arrested. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.