I don’t have money nor health. I want to do good, help other people in need, make the world a better place, I also want to get a videogame. I had to be creative.

Peter Parker is a socially awkward poor teenager that uses his powers to do good.

I’m a teenager, marketing aficionado, with a hard born and raised in the internet, that doesn’t have superpowers, is socially awkward and every bit as poor as Peter is, using his creativity to do GOOD and help charities, all starting off the fact I can’t even get his new game due to mental health expenses so I had to come up with a solution.

Two goals with one scheme

Let me explain. I’m using animal pictures, skeleton dancing gifs, memes and so on to get the new Spider-Man videogame because I thought “If a guy could get 55,492 dollars in funding by users of Kickstarter to make a potato salad, I can get a celebrity to impulsively buy me Marvel’s Spider-Man by using the power of animal pictures, Spider-Man memes, and skeleton dancing gifs, which proportionate to their earnings must be what 5 cents would be to me after all”.

And with the randomness and selfishness of that plan, I had an idea. An idea bigger than myself and just getting a videogame: What I’m doing, if it works, if it evolves in the correct way, could help fund charities. Out of selfishness and randomness,a good thing may be able to come out of the internet.

I want to use my creativity to get the video game I want, kicking off the first step of a larger plan to help charities get the attention they deserve in the internet age.

I’m commited and I believe I can do it.

I’m writing this article due to how convinced I am of my idea.

Let’s first examine some concepts of the internet.

Think about memes for a second, think about the things that get viral in the internet, the things people share the most: A lot of them are weird, funny things, stories, random stuff, celebrity related stuff, controversial stuff, cynical stuff, so on. They are also things that can be replicated, shared and manipulated. If a meme is too repetitive, it grows old and dies. The ALS challenge, for example, was a meme. A meme that kicked off a 220 million campaign that enhanced the researched for that disease. Another more recent, but not any less heartwarming example of a meme holding the power to make people show the best sides of themseves, is LazyTown’s Stefan Karl’s GoFundMe Campaign for his medical treatment, which due to the “We are Number One” meme, helped him and his family complete the funding necessary for the treatment.

What these stories prove us is that memes can be used for good, and in today’s social media, where Wendy’s gets more followers each day because of their responses of people in Twitter, memes may be the most powerful marketing tool of all. And a marketing tool, in some ways, is the most dangerous weapon, you can use it to promote good, or to promote bad. I choose to believe they can be used to promote good.

Social media has helped good causes.

But any good meme must come from a place of randomness, humour and just a simple basic internet desire. Otherwise it comes across as “hip” or “cringy”.

Let’s go back to my Spider-Man plan.

Let’s say I do it, let’s say I do get my videogame and it’s bought by a celebrity. “A celebrity bought a guy a videogame because of his animal pictures” would be quite the random stupid thing that’d get viral on the internet. in the internet, it’s the stupid, random things that get viral. Think of the challenges and all.

That makes people talk, creates attention. And to guarantee the longevity and viral state of the story, it’d be easy to turn it into an even more ridiculous scenario. Let’s say it happens on Twitter, a celebrity responds to the original tweet saying they’re gonna buy the guy the videogame, then another celebrity hops in and says “I’m perusaded too. I’m gonna buy you either the game or some other thing, a console”, then another hops in, “ a TV”, then another one “Oh. I’LL BUY YOU 5 COPIES. HOW’S THAT?” and another one “10 COPIES.”, and not only celebrities, companies hop in, Playstation “THE PS4 PRO SPIDERMAN THEMED”, SONY “OUR NEW 4K TV!!” (yeah you knew someone had to advertise something that’s directly a product somewhere, still, it’d do Sony wonders just a simple tweet like this. Different industries but just look at Wendy’s) a random bakery shop “A SPIDERMAN CAKE”, a book store “AN SPIDER BOOK”… Amazon?“A SPIDERMAN BASED HANDKERCHIEF”.

The story then becomes so ridiculous it’s impossible to ignore as I get a alot more than I bargained for, including a lot of things I don’t need and that are practically useless because there’s nothing I could do with those extra copies, a handkerchief, a spider themed book and a cake (not kidding about the cake, stomach problems are bad! Well, maybe I could use the PS4, having overheating issues is not nice, folks, remeber cleaning those fans!). It’s impossible for it not to get viral. How long explaining the ridiculous story would even allow it to work as a copypasta which is a sort of meme that never really dies.

It creates all the more attention because of how slim my chances of making this plan work were, the fact that for a lot of people it’s a funny story, and for other people it may serve as a perfect example of late capitalism strangeness (which is part of what also makes it cynically funny)

The story gets shared, the story becomes a meme. A powerful weapon for marketing.

Then, those celebrities can use that attention to say “If I could buy the Spider-Man PS4 game to a random guy impulsively, you can impulsively donate one dollar to x charity”, let’s also say that the celebrity puts it next to a picture as cute or random as the pictures I’m sending them (a dinosaur riding a horse, a cat, a penguin, whatever). In that moment, the audience becomes the celebrity that’s being asked to impulsively help with a small amount to a cause, and the celebrity becomes me, the one that’s using strange tactics to get something, only this time it’s for a productive cause.

It’s also a subtle critique of the “first world problems” concept, while still maintaining a light hearted spirit and an understanding that we all have desires for entertainment and fun stuff.

That’d get people’s attention, get viral, and get people to donate to good causes.

And why stop there? It can be made into a contest/lottery/challenge of sorts, make it so that every person that finds a witty, viral way to ask for something they want and also donates to that charity, has a chance to get something bought to them by their favorite celebrity. Once the public figure selects its lucky fan, then they challenge another public figure to play the game with their fandom be it for the same charity or for another.

Freshness is key for the life of a meme

By pure human nature, the things people would start asking for would become crazier, the witty requests even more strange and meme worthy, which would keep this trend alive. The best thing? EVERYONE on the internet can participate, which keeps the influx of new things and new ways to keep this fresh. Who wouldn’t like the chance to get something bought for them by their favorite celebrity?

Anyone can join, anyone can donate, any good cause can get donations and support. The trend would not be easy to kill.

What do you think of when you think of suffering? Maybe animals dying, maybe children in poverty, maybe the abuse of women or LGBTQ+ people, the lack of funding for some medical institutions. All the charities that help stop that suffering from happening can get more recognition and funding, many people can be helped if this plan goes through, many lives can be saved, all thanks to the power of good memes and marketing.

At the end of the day, in the internet world that is as unpredictable as the world of atoms, it’s from the most unexpected places (like me, just a guy that wants to play the Marvel’s Spider-Man PS4 videogame and uses animal pictures and weird gifs to get it), that life-changing causes can get the recognition their deserve.

So I urge you, celebrities around the world, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan Reynolds, Chris Evans, Amber Heard, Zachary Levi, Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Ariana Grande, Elon Musk (probably the best person out there to make this entire thing happen because of his recent Twitter behavior) so on, to help make the world a better place. The first step? Buy me a videogame. (Elon, you check that link out)