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Kind of a silly one, but for me it was some reddit meme thread. It was a joke about arch linux, and a person jokes "if somebody uses arch and is vegan, which will they say first?" and then somebody mentioned that "I'm vegan btw" is a common joke on r/vegancirclejerk. I went to that subreddit and started reading, it was hilarious, but I also felt my cognitive dissonance grow with every post. Took me like a week or two and I decided that I am a fucking hypocrite and need to make a change, because what I am participating in is seriously wrong and I can't continue like this.
I asked my partner if she would be cool if we tried out veganism, and turns out she has also been thinking about it lately, due to a vegan coworker that inspired her. So we then went vegan at the same time and it's been almost 4 years of that now.
Also similarly to hamid, all the vegan marketing felt super off to us which made us do the additional plunge into WFPB with none of the weird substitutes.
I'm glad the memes work!
They absolutely did and I hate anybody who says that abrasive activism doesn't work
It's funny because I'm having a similar experience with arch Linux meme. after seeing it so much i started reading about why it's so great and i have considered using it when i switch my main pc over to Linux. right now just my servers run on Linux so I'm not unfamiliar with it, but haven't switched my daily driver yet.