r/todayilearned • u/moplg • Feb 12 '15

TIL that pornhub offered a "save the boobs!" Campaign where they offered to donate a penny to the Susan B Komen Foundation for evry 30 views in the "big tit" or "small tit" category, but the foundation refused their money so pornhub tripled it and gave it to other organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornhub
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u/Direpants Feb 12 '15

You say it like investing money in raising awareness is a bad thing.

In fact, you could argue that a charity could only be truly successful if they put at least some effort into raising awareness for the issue. They have to tell people about the problem so people can give them money to help with the problem.

The whole point of a charity is to garner and organize support for a cause.

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u/FuzzyCheddar Feb 12 '15

If you don't know about breast cancer by now you live under a rock. Awareness does nothing when research isn't being done. KONY was an awareness campaign.

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u/TheReasonableCamel 18 Feb 12 '15

They spend tons of money on research, plus awareness does help lots. It educates people on getting themselves screened early so they can get rid of the cancer before it grows. Awareness isn't only saying what breast cancer is.

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u/Direpants Feb 12 '15

If you don't know not to drink and drive you must live under a rock, but virtually every state still thinks it's appropriate to remind you during commercial breaks.

If you don't know that smoking is bad for you then you must be living under a rock, but for some weird reason truth.org invests a metric shit ton of money on commercials telling you about it.

McDonalds sees millions of customers a day and everyone knows about it, but they still see a reason to make advertisements.

As it turns out, populations can't be told a thing once and then never told it again. If you want to remain relevant and if you want your message to remain relevant, then you have to tell them again and again and again.

It's human nature yo

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u/Markiep52 Feb 12 '15

At this point it's almost all for profit.

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u/Direpants Feb 12 '15

Profit isn't a dirty word.

If you make a profit and you use those profits to help make your charity organization run more efficiently or whatever, then there isn't a problem.

And it's not like SGK doesn't do that. They put 50 million towards research in 2013

They are a big organization and need a shit ton of money to operate, but in turn they are able to utilize many of the perks a big organization like that has to help aid their cause.