Sort of a critical moment for written public comments as a thing. Indiscriminate clicktivism was bad enough, but slop is going to kill them off once and for all.
A California agency received 20k AI-generated comments opposing heat pump rules. Staff called a sample to verify—several said they never sent comments. Raises serious questions about the opposition campaign that helped kill the clean air standards, that would've prevented 1000s of premature deaths.
Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.
www.latimes.com
February 23, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Sort of a critical moment for written public comments as a thing. Indiscriminate clicktivism was bad enough, but slop is going to kill them off once and for all.
Beste Definition von Clicktivism und Tweetivism und Skeetivism ever!
„Jede Geste des Widerstandes, die ohne Risiko oder Wirkung ist, ist bloß ein Schrei nach Aufmerksamkeit.“
Stefan Zweig.
Stefan Zweig.
November 28, 2023 at 8:35 PM
Beste Definition von Clicktivism und Tweetivism und Skeetivism ever!
2. More to the point, references to “resistance liberals” in today’s Very Online Discourse are often meant as to be dismissive, suggesting original anti-Trump “resistance” rhetoric was mostly just hucksters and clicktivism.
I find this to be a curious, largely revisionist look at recent history.
I find this to be a curious, largely revisionist look at recent history.
December 30, 2024 at 10:53 PM
2. More to the point, references to “resistance liberals” in today’s Very Online Discourse are often meant as to be dismissive, suggesting original anti-Trump “resistance” rhetoric was mostly just hucksters and clicktivism.
I find this to be a curious, largely revisionist look at recent history.
I find this to be a curious, largely revisionist look at recent history.
They're more interested in clicktivism than actual activism and advocacy.
July 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
They're more interested in clicktivism than actual activism and advocacy.
Hey, if you are in Tamaki Makaurau and want do do more than clicktivism, this is where you need to be on Sunday
Last weekend, Destiny Church escalated its attacks against the queer community. Destiny wants to drive queer New Zealanders back into the closet.
PAPA won't let this happen. We stood for queer liberation as No Pride in Prisons and we stand for it now.
PAPA won't let this happen. We stood for queer liberation as No Pride in Prisons and we stand for it now.
February 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Hey, if you are in Tamaki Makaurau and want do do more than clicktivism, this is where you need to be on Sunday
Do not obey in advance.
Do not believe the fascist propaganda machine.
Challenge this regime.
Resist this regime.
Organize.
Not just online.
In person.
Activism beyond clicktivism often has risks
Activism beyond clicktivism
often requires sacrifice.
Look out for your people.
Take care.
Be safe.
Do not believe the fascist propaganda machine.
Challenge this regime.
Resist this regime.
Organize.
Not just online.
In person.
Activism beyond clicktivism often has risks
Activism beyond clicktivism
often requires sacrifice.
Look out for your people.
Take care.
Be safe.
August 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Do not obey in advance.
Do not believe the fascist propaganda machine.
Challenge this regime.
Resist this regime.
Organize.
Not just online.
In person.
Activism beyond clicktivism often has risks
Activism beyond clicktivism
often requires sacrifice.
Look out for your people.
Take care.
Be safe.
Do not believe the fascist propaganda machine.
Challenge this regime.
Resist this regime.
Organize.
Not just online.
In person.
Activism beyond clicktivism often has risks
Activism beyond clicktivism
often requires sacrifice.
Look out for your people.
Take care.
Be safe.
Using AI for your clicktivism is several kinds of wrong.
August 1, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Using AI for your clicktivism is several kinds of wrong.
Most wildlife content on YouTube expresses appreciation without a call to action. How can we shift “clicktivism” into real advocacy?
https://faunalytics.org/do-wild-animal-videos-drive-meaningful-conservation-action/
https://faunalytics.org/do-wild-animal-videos-drive-meaningful-conservation-action/
Do Wild Animal Videos Drive Meaningful Conservation Action? - Faunalytics
Most wildlife content on YouTube expresses appreciation without a call to action. How can we shift “clicktivism” into real advocacy?
faunalytics.org
September 23, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Most wildlife content on YouTube expresses appreciation without a call to action. How can we shift “clicktivism” into real advocacy?
https://faunalytics.org/do-wild-animal-videos-drive-meaningful-conservation-action/
https://faunalytics.org/do-wild-animal-videos-drive-meaningful-conservation-action/
3. It’s not that there wasn’t/isn’t “resistance” hucksterism and clicktivism (there def is), but it’s not, to my eye, any more prevalent *proportionally* compared to any other political or protest movement.
As for it being anemic: that’s only feasibly true if you retroactively redefine what it was.
As for it being anemic: that’s only feasibly true if you retroactively redefine what it was.
December 30, 2024 at 10:53 PM
3. It’s not that there wasn’t/isn’t “resistance” hucksterism and clicktivism (there def is), but it’s not, to my eye, any more prevalent *proportionally* compared to any other political or protest movement.
As for it being anemic: that’s only feasibly true if you retroactively redefine what it was.
As for it being anemic: that’s only feasibly true if you retroactively redefine what it was.
Aber gut, das Prinzip von Clicktivism is jetz auch schon gut 20 Jahre alt...
December 28, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Aber gut, das Prinzip von Clicktivism is jetz auch schon gut 20 Jahre alt...
My half-arsed* theory is it’s the same affliction as clicktivism. A few one-liners on twitter and the right memes leads people to think they’re changing the world.
May 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
My half-arsed* theory is it’s the same affliction as clicktivism. A few one-liners on twitter and the right memes leads people to think they’re changing the world.
You’re making them look bad, by actually being out in the streets.
It makes their hollow clicktivism look like the empty, pathetic grandstanding it is, and that makes them insecure about themselves.
So they have to attack you, because going out to participate in genuine activism is too much work.
It makes their hollow clicktivism look like the empty, pathetic grandstanding it is, and that makes them insecure about themselves.
So they have to attack you, because going out to participate in genuine activism is too much work.
January 18, 2026 at 4:12 PM
You’re making them look bad, by actually being out in the streets.
It makes their hollow clicktivism look like the empty, pathetic grandstanding it is, and that makes them insecure about themselves.
So they have to attack you, because going out to participate in genuine activism is too much work.
It makes their hollow clicktivism look like the empty, pathetic grandstanding it is, and that makes them insecure about themselves.
So they have to attack you, because going out to participate in genuine activism is too much work.
What are you doing for Sam, Patty? Clicktivism isn't going to sort it. Nor are angry meme's.
March 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
What are you doing for Sam, Patty? Clicktivism isn't going to sort it. Nor are angry meme's.
It's funny how your posting is just ineffective clicktivism but nevertheless you have to have the right line because if your pointless posting is ideologically incorrect you're also somehow materially damaging the cause.
October 14, 2023 at 9:42 AM
It's funny how your posting is just ineffective clicktivism but nevertheless you have to have the right line because if your pointless posting is ideologically incorrect you're also somehow materially damaging the cause.
doing only clicktivism. shame on me.
March 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
doing only clicktivism. shame on me.
Bullshitting an unsourced claim about “successful data center resistance” so you can drive traffic to a partner who also doesn’t make or source that claim isn’t resisting the tech industry or the far right. It is giving people a comforting illusion of having participated in clicktivism.
January 20, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Bullshitting an unsourced claim about “successful data center resistance” so you can drive traffic to a partner who also doesn’t make or source that claim isn’t resisting the tech industry or the far right. It is giving people a comforting illusion of having participated in clicktivism.
#PersistenceOfVision is requisite for 3revolution and #evolution in any society. Clicktivism doesn't cut it.
August 31, 2026 at 3:53 PM
#PersistenceOfVision is requisite for 3revolution and #evolution in any society. Clicktivism doesn't cut it.
Writing and clicktivism won't stop physical action.
Physical action will. #ToTheStreets
www.404media.co/you-...
Physical action will. #ToTheStreets
www.404media.co/you-...
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Writing and clicktivism won't stop physical action.
Physical action will. #ToTheStreets
www.404media.co/you-...
Physical action will. #ToTheStreets
www.404media.co/you-...
Why wasn't there a massive protest wherever they landed to welcome them? As I saw before in another post: "I've come to the realization that Americans are too damn lazy to save their ass". I see and incredible amount of clicktivism and absolutely NO actual physical opposition to this. Apathy = loss
May 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Why wasn't there a massive protest wherever they landed to welcome them? As I saw before in another post: "I've come to the realization that Americans are too damn lazy to save their ass". I see and incredible amount of clicktivism and absolutely NO actual physical opposition to this. Apathy = loss
I think believing that clicktivism trumps geopolitics is the essential mechanism of that self-soothing.
October 14, 2024 at 11:07 AM
I think believing that clicktivism trumps geopolitics is the essential mechanism of that self-soothing.
Am Sonntag bitte einmal wichtigen Clicktivism betreiben und diese Petition unterschreiben, um das totale Polizeiversagen in einem furchtbaren Berliner Vergewaltigungsfall aufzuklären und politische & institutionelle Konsequenzen zu fordern! 👏🤞 weact.campact.de/petitions/po...
July 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Am Sonntag bitte einmal wichtigen Clicktivism betreiben und diese Petition unterschreiben, um das totale Polizeiversagen in einem furchtbaren Berliner Vergewaltigungsfall aufzuklären und politische & institutionelle Konsequenzen zu fordern! 👏🤞 weact.campact.de/petitions/po...
piling on a musician, whose act has long been apolitical, for choosing to remain apolitical, is peak vapid clicktivism.
September 18, 2026 at 6:28 AM
piling on a musician, whose act has long been apolitical, for choosing to remain apolitical, is peak vapid clicktivism.
Clicktivism in a nutshell.
July 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Clicktivism in a nutshell.
People really want their hobbies, or in this case, their diversions to have significant moral value
Which is funny, because people have been making fun of what was once clicktivism on efficacy grounds for about the past fifteen years
Which is funny, because people have been making fun of what was once clicktivism on efficacy grounds for about the past fifteen years
August 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
People really want their hobbies, or in this case, their diversions to have significant moral value
Which is funny, because people have been making fun of what was once clicktivism on efficacy grounds for about the past fifteen years
Which is funny, because people have been making fun of what was once clicktivism on efficacy grounds for about the past fifteen years
Not sure what I can do in terms of practical help commitments I can make being chronically ill.
But what meager clicktivism skills I have are at your disposal.
But what meager clicktivism skills I have are at your disposal.
April 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Not sure what I can do in terms of practical help commitments I can make being chronically ill.
But what meager clicktivism skills I have are at your disposal.
But what meager clicktivism skills I have are at your disposal.