This is in preparation for participating meme pages to post a simultaneous, prewritten call to action at 2pm CT on Friday, Aug. 12. It reads in part:

“You already know that Facebook has been deleting a number of pages for arbitrary reasons and since there’s virtually no other social media platform to jump ship to the pages that are still operational have decided to take action and hit back before we inevitably get unpublished. “This page and many others are simultaneously posting this message in order to rally fans to file FTC (Federal Trade Commission) complaints against Facebook for ‘fraudulent’ content review policies and a misleading community guidelines. The FTC is a governmental entity that regulates private companies and protects consumers against fraud and monopoly, so let’s give zucc a taste of his own medicine.”

The petition goes onto enumerate the grievances outlined earlier in this article: that “Facebook claims that content has been reviewed when it clearly isn’t”; that “[v]erified pages appear to operate under a different set of standards,” contrary to the corporate line; and, ultimately, that “Facebook’s statements are fraudulent and meant to pacify consumers.”

Readers are then encouraged to write individual complaints and send them directly to the FTC, though there is a final caveat to the post:

“This may not make a difference, and it sounds a bit cringey, but consider it a symbolic gesture and show of solidarity among dozens of meme pages and the ironic meme community as a whole. So as much a longshot as this is you can be a part it, and honestly we need as many people as possible to participate.”

Thomas told the Daily Dot that a number of meme pages with significant audiences plan to participate in this effort, including:

Nihilist Memes (1 million)

The Best of Starter Pack Memes (618K)

Sad Screenshots Taken Out Of Context (550K)



Unusual Horror (398K)



Deadpool (291K)



Sasuke Uchiha (278K)



Squatting Slavs In Tracksuits (239K)



Spongecave Manbob (235K)



Donald Trump Memes (206K)



I don’t like shit I don’t go outside (204K)



Cigarettes In Unusual Places (191K)

Young Thugga La Meme (186K)

フレッドYOLO (179K)



Internet By Night (140K)



Gohan (139K)



All Things Pokemon (138K)



Ｎｉｇｈｔｃａｌｌ夜 (124K)



B A D ならぬ (120K)



Amphetameme pt. II (118K)



M a n k o マンコ (118K)



Everything Michael Cera (117K)



The Sad Pad (112K)



Difficulty II (110K)



I play KORN to my DMT plants, smoke blunts all day & do sex stuff

Colorful Memes (104K)

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ＳＩＣＫ- 病気の – مريض‎ (98K)



I Only Post Memes Ironically (95K)



N e w A g e S m o k e r s X 爱与和平 (95K)



memeboy genius (90K)

Ayy De La Lmao III (89K)



Knock Knock It’s Me, The Memeboy Genius (88K)



Political Memes (85K)



Sad Comics (77K)



The Best Of Porn Comments (76K)



Club Penguin Bans (74K)



ＳＰＬＡＳＨ ＣＬＵＢ ７(68K)

A I R S H I P 我吸 (65K)



Shitpost Factory (62K)



Tamato Memes (62K) (Unconfirmed)

Chair Memes (60K)



Everything Is A Social Construct (59K)



The Meme Master (57K)



I want to live inside a MEME (56K)



B O N ボン (55K)

Surface Reality Memes (55K)

The SAD Bible (52K)

Woof Woof Like This Page Lol (51K)



Spicy Saddam Memes (49K)

Your Memes 貴方のミーム (47K)



Afr4id 恐れ (47K)



Real Alcoholic Memes (44K)



General Stinky Balls (44K)



Cheese Memes (41K)



Ｉｓｏｌａｔｅｄ ｖｏｉｄ 余波 (44K)



DJ Khaled Cured My Depression (38K)



End My Life (36K)



ＥＴＨＥＲ 飛べない翼 (36K)



The Best Of Twitter (35K)



Pokémans (35K)



Ｓｅｃｏｎｄ Ｓｉｇｈｔ 幽玄 (33K)



Pepe The Frog (32K)



Guts The Black Swordsman (30K)

Kevin 3 (28K)

Tasteful上品な (28K)



Stannis Baratheon, The New Chuck Norris (28K)



まっすぐ地球からp l a s t i c n i g h t m a r e 金持ち白人 (27K)



The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race (26K)

EmoDad666 (25K)

Where’s My Shrimp (23K)



Antisocial Lads With A Desire To Get Laid (23K)



ʙ ᴏ ᴛ ᴀ ɴ ɪ ᴄ ᴀ ʟ (20K)



One Meme A Day Keeps Anime Away V (20K)



The Epic Department (18K)



ᴀɴᴇᴤᴛʜᴇᴛɪᴄ (18K)



Ｓｌｅｅｐｙ Ｍｅｍｅ (17K)



D E E P • S I D E • 明晰夢 (17K)

Best Of Arthur Memes (16K)

Sad fish (13K)

Hot Dogs In Unusual Places (12K)



Ｄｅｃｅｓｓｕｓ / / 終 わ り -17 (12K)

Banana Memes (8K)

Overwatch Memes (7K)

Thot Patrol (7K)



Orange Ocelot (6K)



Stolen Memes And Broken Dreams (6K)



Bertie Botts Every Flavor Memes (6K)

ＨＤＭＩ叡 (3K)



Crystal水晶Surge (3K)



Grain of Meme (3K)



Digiannantonio Aesthetic (3K)

痴 Ｅｌｅｍｅｎｔ薬 (1K)

Fitzsimmons’ cheeky memes (200)

Asked about how this plan had been organized, Thomas said it simply snowballed after he filed an FTC protest on Tuesday, then told admins at Everything Is a Social Construct. They liked the idea, and in fact, some likeminded folks had taken similar steps to lodge grievances, so he told other pages’ admins about it, and, well—you know how things go viral.

But Thomas doesn’t own or operate any page himself, he said: “I’m sort of a man without a country right now, after my last two pages I created, Creepy Old Dudes of Mattybraps (dedicated to exposing rampant pedophilia on teen music pages) and Mark Zuckerbergs Dead Kid Picture Stash (calling out Facebook’s community standards hypocrisy) were nuked by Facebook.”

“Ultimately I don’t think the FTC would take action […] but this shows a lot of unity among the meme community that has had their content stolen, reported, deleted, etc.,” he added. “FB has engaged in a meme page genocide, and we’re finally going to fight back. It’s mostly symbolic, but brings attention to a problem encountered by admins of every page.”

That sense of persecution, justified or not, accounts for the number of admins linking to “backup” clones of their original pages. In 2016, getting shut down by Facebook is seen as the inevitable, rather than possible, price of indulging in dank, edgy, twisted, or otherwise satirical memes.