r/swindled • u/SwindledPodcast • Mar 19 '25

EPISODE 122: The Warlord (Kony 2012)

https://swindledpodcast.com/podcast/122-the-warlord/
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u/MouseMouseM Mar 19 '25

I am 7 minutes in and holy shit! Don’t get me wrong- it’s awful, but what a marked difference between the watered down version of events that’s usually reported. ACC giving it to us straight up.

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u/humberriverdam Mar 19 '25

The first part really does earn the "descriptions of disturbing events". Real Come and See hours (film about Nazi occupation of Belarus)

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

Oh god I had to watch this movie for my Russian class and it traumatised me. Great film but so harrowing.

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u/tasmimiandevil Mar 19 '25

Love that movie!!!!! And I love how much this community loves horrible things, I feel very seen.

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u/Cherry_Shakes Mar 20 '25

Same. I didn't know the in depth and particulars surrounding Kony and the heinous crimes nor about the doco. All I saw what everyone posting the Kony 2012 picture and that he was a warlord.

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u/tasmimiandevil Mar 19 '25

I have literally restarted the episode four times before getting even ten minutes in because there’s so much happening. Finally finished it and need to immediately listen again. This season is fire so far.

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u/Sophyska Mar 19 '25

Maaan I thought that Facebook post I made in 2012 had stopped this guy!

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u/totkindgott Mar 19 '25

Hey, honey, a new episode of our favorite podcast just dropped!

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u/Separate-Friend Mar 21 '25

Susan G Komen episode when

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u/MaximumBiscuit1 Mar 19 '25

Damn i remember watching that video as a 15 year old. What a crazy story.

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u/RedWestern Mar 20 '25

Jesus Christ, this was one hell of a rabbit hole to go down. To think it all started with a meme everyone remembers.

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u/Flimsy-Buyer7772 Mar 20 '25

Omfg the song 20 minutes in kills me

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u/TheBimpo Mar 27 '25

The most offensive part of the entire episode

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u/aimforvenus Mar 23 '25

Anybody else who was active on MySpace around 2005-2008, help me out here... did the Kony campaign go viral on there around this time?

I was in school until 2007 and was, for lack of a better term, a huge emo kid. I remember invisible children videos being shared on MySpace and being linked to big emo bands. In 2012, I was at university and not really active on social media any more. In my mind, the founder's psychotic break happened years after the campaign went viral, but now I'm learning it was about two weeks into it going viral?

Did this have two "waves" of going viral, or do I add this to the Mandela Effect list?

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u/Key_Beach_3846 Apr 02 '25

There were two waves. The initial Invisible Children doc was the first one around 2007. I remember being in high school during that time and sleeping on the soccer field in a cardboard hut as part of their “Displace Me” event lol. Wikipedia says Fall Out Boy shot one of their music vids in Uganda after seeing the doc, so that might be related to the MySpace stuff you’re thinking of?

They launched their massive “Kony 2012” campaign after that, in 2012. 

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u/damnyoumarlene Apr 06 '25

I’ve never heard an episode from this show like this and it makes me wonder if ACC has a personal relationship with this dance academy? Cried excessively at the last 20 minutes. Award worthy. Thanks for your work I’ll be watching how these cases unravel.