The 5-point anatomy of a Hillary youth flyer gone VERY wrong

American Irony ^ | 7-27-2015 | The Looking Spoon

[The Looking Spoon]

Found this beauty via The American Mirror.

Not counting the desire to elect Hillary to be president, there are 5 things wrong with this flyer:

1. Is this a political campaign in 2016 or 2000? No part of this flyer shows that it was created in the 21st century. No social media accounts, none, in a flyer espousing youth. That's a little odd, but...
2. the "take me" tags are a nice touch (even though they look untouched) for young people who still don't know how to add events to the calendar on their phones, or about cameras on their phones, or how to use their phones (oh wait, that's their parents grandparents). At least there's an email address, email was still sort of new when I was this kid's age so that's young-ish.
3. If you're going to market "youth" it's bad enough that your "product" is a grandmother, but that shouldn't prevent you from showing a current photo of that grandmother. Maybe she's hanging out with young people, that wouldn't be awkward, but don't show a picture of her that's at least 40 years old and REMINDS young people just how OLD she is. (Hey my grandmother still wears those pants!)
4. In addition to the anachronism that is Hillary's photo in the first place, is that the pose we're really going with? It looks like even she is wondering why you would want to attend.
5. Speaking of 40 years old, what was used to print this flyer? The first Xerox machine? ABC, always be color. Even if it's just the logo. I know liberals tend to be all about ironic humor, but they take their politics way to seriously for this to be a case of that. Even if you don't have the $50 bucks to spring for a color printer you could have it done at a FedEx Office type of place for a fraction of that...or are color copies the realm of those rich country club Republican-types?

In fairness to the kid putting this on, regardless of the fact he wants to be part of the problem at least he's being civic-minded, he does deserve a (fool's) gold star for effort there.

[dfwgator]

Email was not is widespread use when Hillary was that young. Few people used computers at that time. PCs didn't come out until the 80s.

Joe Biden said that when the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the Internet and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’, you could watch his speech on YouTube.

[Charles Martel]

I’m 24 and I can assure you that no one my age made this flyer. No one my age would know how to make something this lame.

This looks like something done in the 1980s (when the "take me tags" really caught on). Maybe an old volunteer from the Carter or Mondale campaigns is "back in the game". ;-)

[Bigg Red]

Well, I am old enough to be Megan’s grandmother, and my poster would have been much more hip than that.

[GingisK]

...This looks like something done in the 1980s...

Yeah, 5X7 dot matrix fonts and all.

[The Looking Spoon]

I can’t speak for other phones, but you don’t even need to unlock your iPhone to access the camera, and you do it on one fast swipe. From there you can use it to share with friends in a variety of ways that would make more sense than offering a finite number of tags on a flyer.

You could even frame the whole thing as being environmentally conscious, which is BS, but still.

The point is, there are more effective (and less analog) ways to capture a youth audience and hold their attention. The fact there are these shreds of paper kids can and will lose for one event and no Facebook or Instagram profile for them to follow the entire movement shows a tone deafness that makes the age of the organizer irrelevant.

[Vinnie]

Those pants!! Can’t make up my mind if they remind me of an insect or snake.

[trisham]

Did anyone use email when Hillary was in college? She’s no spring chicken.

[EternalVigilance]

She’s just a victim of circus pants.

Hard to believe that a real supporter of hers would actually use that infamous picture.

Of course, to be a real supporter of hers you would have to be a stark raving lunatic, so....

[Lonely Bull]

I can’t speak for other phones, but you don’t even need to unlock your iPhone to access the camera, and you do it on one fast swipe. From there you can use it to share with friends in a variety of ways that would make more sense than offering a finite number of tags on a flyer.

All that is part of why I wrote "can be faster" instead of "is faster." In any case, what I've seen recently hints to me that these tags are still relevant enough to be used, even in places where seemingly every normal young student has a working smart phone and not a few students involve themselves in political activism. If there's enough room at the bottom of the paper, I don't see the use of tags per se as a general problem, such as in terms of perception.

You could even frame the whole thing as being environmentally conscious, which is BS, but still.

That reminds me:

Although the two things don't exactly match, I see the use of paper tags as something akin to the use of paper flyers themselves. I even think of the use of paper in offices today, years after the "paperless office" was first promised.

Of course, few people would like to return to an all-paper office--

The point is, there are more effective (and less analog) ways to capture a youth audience and hold their attention. The fact there are these shreds of paper kids can and will lose for one event and no Facebook or Instagram profile for them to follow the entire movement shows a tone deafness that makes the age of the organizer irrelevant.

I do agree that now there are more effective ways. I just don't think that paper tags are ineffective just yet, even in areas where most interested passers-by will have something digital handy.

I also agree that the lack of anything newer than e-mail will be a problem. As lots of people reading this have probably seen online and on paper--I'm not revealing secrets to Hillary supporters--it's not hard to provide a pretty good deal of information about social media in a relatively small space.

[right way right]

If the tags dissapeared it would indicate how huge her support is. The tags are probably still all there.

[Lonely Bull]

If the tags dissapeared it would indicate how huge her support is. The tags are probably still all there.

I can imagine (though the fact would still say more to me about the size of her support than about the effectiveness of using tags). I've been wondering how the party went. Were there, indeed, lots of the promised young people? Even old people?

[left that other site]

I noticed that too! :-)

I had a blues band back in the early 70’s and my fliers looked a LOT better than that laughable piece of ....well, you know.

[Lee N. Field]

"Hillary Youth"?

My, that's a scary thought.

[GingisK]

Did anyone use email when Hillary was in college?

I think email MAY have been use within DOD and between DOD and university contractors during her time in college. I never saw it until the mid 80s. Direct telephone modem connections to "bulletin boards" were used through the 80s. I think that AOL appeared in the late 80s; and, that was when I saw the first public email accounts.

Email is a UNIX artifact from Bell Labs, which they used internally starting in 1972. Gee. I don't think email was available to the public until the late 1980s, long after Hillary's time in college.

[RobinOfKingston]

There’s a poisonous snake with body marking just like those leggin’s she’s wearing.

[Heart-Rest]

Hillary's new logo:

[NorthMountain]

So ... that’s three generations worth of FReepers who know more about making a poster than this idiot ....

[NorthMountain]

You don’t suppose this poster is some sort of false-flag thing ...

That has to be the worst Hildebeeste picture ever.