r/me_irl 🌹 Jun 09 '17

We raised $6,193 for RAINN!

That's 409 donations for a total of $6,193. We didn't make it to the 500 donations to ban upvote memes so they're safe... for now.

If you still want to support RAINN and all the good work that they do, you can head to their website and set up a monthly donation. If you send us a screenshot of your email receipt you can post anything you want and we'll sticky it! (requires mod approval of course lol)

Thank you to everyone who donated and shared the drive! This went way better than we expected and y'all are super great!

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '17 edited Jul 10 '21

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u/sdk345 very good, haha yes Jun 09 '17

Upvote if you agree

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u/_isacrificetoyboxes really likes this image Jun 10 '17

I disagree but I upvoted just to be sure

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '17

Oh yes.

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u/LukeR511 sosig Jun 09 '17

While we're on the subject, I'm going to shamelessly plug r/upvotememes

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '17

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '17 edited May 07 '18

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '17

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u/DarkContagion non-survivalist attitude Jun 09 '17

Damn, this sub got its shit together and did something for the benefit of society for once...

I mean, me too thanks.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '17

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '17

It's not too late all we have to do is stop upvoting them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '17

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u/kick_muncher Jun 09 '17

Each me_irl subscriber donated $0.009 on average.

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u/Tupptupp_XD loves frog memes Jun 09 '17

The median subscriber donated $0

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u/tadabutcha hates posting Jun 09 '17 edited Nov 14 '23

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u/OmegaPiggi Jun 09 '17

boneless wings are just chicken nuggets

Ok, that's too far

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u/RSmeep13 non-survivalist attitude Jun 09 '17

who drowns their chicken nuggets in so much sauce that there in anyway similar to boneless wings me too thanks

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u/WasteOfLife Jun 10 '17

Nuggies are for Chaddy Daddies anyways.

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u/DickkSmithers Jun 10 '17

Im witnessing the prequel to a bamboozle!

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u/ALL_CATS_ARE_GOOD 👌 Jun 09 '17

dat boi sucks, upvote if you agree

wow holy shit dude remove this bad post

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '17

...many, many paragraphs of that were oddly supportive

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u/0x52and1x52 nah Jun 09 '17

Please do it earlier. Also, there was no need to write that many paragraphs about a meme bro. It's not that deep.

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u/Spentworth BAN upvote memes Jun 09 '17

Wow. I hope you get hugged.

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u/cp5 Jun 10 '17

i'm still due u/cp5 gold after his medical diagnosis

eh...yeah well im waiting?

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u/ManicScumCat really likes this image Jun 09 '17

You too no thanks

no need to say that man that's just offensive

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u/Laikue loves frog memes Jun 09 '17

Thats... actually a pretty pathetic sum for how much it was advertised. Really disappointing.

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u/devtesla2 🌹 Jun 09 '17

lol you're jaded as fuck

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u/Laikue loves frog memes Jun 09 '17

I dunno, it's just that it was on every single post with many posts getting to the front page, as well as that string of memes that were literally advertising the fundraiser... I dunno, it just seems short to me.

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u/devtesla2 🌹 Jun 09 '17 edited Jun 09 '17

Reddit statistics aren't super detailed but I can see that the two posts about the drive got combined views of 48k. If we assumed that every view = one user (this is absolutely not the case) than that means 1% of the people who knew about the drive donated. It's probably more like 5%.

I don't know if you know anything about online advertising but that's really good, particularly when you conciser:

  1. I did absolutely no targeting. No one is coming to me irl looking to donate to charity, and I didn't choose a charity based around me irl's audience.

  2. I targeted small donations without realizing that the site we were using didn't have Paypal and small donations will often result in false positives for fraud detection systems.

  3. Reddit doesn't give mods good promotion tools by design. I'm pretty sure most folks just completely glazed over the fact that this was happening.

I threw this thing together in about fifteen minutes and I've probably spent maybe an hour in and half total running it. 5% of that time was writing this comment. And we made $6k! I'm really happy.

edit: probably the hardest thing we did for the drive was making that fucking Seinfeld logo

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u/Verpous hates /u/lordtuts Jun 09 '17

It sucks but I see his point. Yesterday /r/videos managed to raise $16k for a single kid because his late dad got him a guitar for his birthday. All this in a single day and in a single thread where all the donating started from the comments, so you wouldn't know it was an option if you only watched the video. It didn't even get that many upvotes on /r/bestof.

Meantime, we managed to raise 6k for an organization that fights sexual assault and we had a stickied thread for over a week, plus incentives to donate, plus a stickied comment on every post for the whole week.

So yeah, any amount of money is a good thing and it's not like we should be bummed that we donated 6k. But I can see why the sum looks disappointing.

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u/devtesla2 🌹 Jun 10 '17

I mean, that's targeting. No one was reading that thread who didn't want to buy that kid guitar lessons. Also it's pay pal. Also we don't know how many people donated, they were probably a few big ones.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '17

according to RAINN's estimates $6k is enough to facilitate about 600 people getting help through the hotline and other services they provide. that's a massive difference being made even though the sum isn't gargantuan.

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u/Skorqion loves frog memes Jun 09 '17

I always thought , his was some kind of weird copypasta/joke ,I mean this is a subreddit for memes......

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u/churrosandchill Jun 09 '17

🙏 thank god, I'll donate to celebrate with the financial help upvoting money cat gave me

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u/qatest2 Jun 09 '17

I'm reporting you to the admins my dad owns reddit

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u/Aaronisblunt Jun 09 '17

What about our boys in blue?

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u/Phasechange Jun 09 '17

Neat.

Uh, I meant, me too thanks.

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u/TheFatKidOutranMe team waterguy12 Jun 09 '17

F R I C K

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '17

Yay every post ever is safe

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u/Dyslxeian sleep tight pupper Jun 09 '17

Me too thanks

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '17

wait, are upvote memes banned?

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u/Yousif_man Jun 09 '17

If this comment gets 50 upvotes, upvotes posts will be banned from me_irl. mod approved