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Remember back in March when the whole country went nuts because Indiana passed a “religious freedom” law that gave businesses more power to discriminate against customers or employees because of their sexuality? Well right in the middle of that shit-storm a non-profit, pro-business group named Downtown Indy decided they should do some damage control and let the country know that Indianapolis didn’t really support the state’s new Religious Freedom Act. So just days after the governor signed the bill into law, the group launched the Indy Welcomes All video contest. The press release that announced the contest asked Indianapolisites (?) to submit short videos that celebrated the “vibrancy, inclusiveness and energy of our welcoming Downtown” and that told the story of the city’s “diversity and the welcoming atmosphere.”
Apparently the sponsors wanted to finish the contest while the RFA story was still hot so the submission period was only scheduled to last about 10 days. But even though the grand prize was $5,000 they had to push the deadline an extra week. Even with the extension, 2 or 3 weeks isn’t enough time for a video contest and most of the entries were sort of a mess. And to make matters worse, the judges used youtube likes to determine the winner. So of course a bunch of jerks made crappy videos and then (probably) bought tons of fake likes via Fiverr.com so that they could win the prize money.
Fortunately the the video that got the most likes was actually ok and not a total embarrassment. Here it is:
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I kind of wish that the video that came in 2nd had won becuause it’s a bit of a mind-fuck. I recommend you take the day off work, drop some acid and watch this video on repeat for 3 hours.
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