'Reality slap' photo puts first lady's hashtag activism in brutal perspective [pic]

Michelle Obama’s contribution to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign came weeks after a Nigerian activist launched the hashtag that helped interest journalists in the terrorist kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls. The teenybopper administration might believe in “the promise of hashtag,” but the first lady’s frowny-faced photo has been widely criticized as late-to-the-table, impotent slacktivist feelgoodery.

Here’s the response from Jack of Ranger Up that Blackfive says “sums up my feelings about pouty Twits believing that social media works better than action.”

#RangerUp #Hashtag http://t.co/NdABQY8aYW

— Nick Palmisciano (@Ranger_Up) May 9, 2014

@Ranger_Up's got a point y'know… #BringBackOurGirls #HashtagsDontDoShit pic.twitter.com/k3PHeuyhhA

— Mad Doge Mattis (@NA1776) May 9, 2014

https://twitter.com/Inspector_P/status/464858006316797952

In case you needed another reason to love the guys and gals at @Ranger_Up … #hashtag #RealitySlap pic.twitter.com/TnAcDaBNSW

— Matt Phinney (@matt_phinney) May 9, 2014

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