History of the Floofy Dogger campaign (2020)

## **The Beginnings**

During the summer of 2020, Captain Yolo Waffle and the owner of the Floofy Dogger started to talk about making the Floofy Dogger run for president of the United States as a joke. By August, plans were already formulating and campaign signs were being made.

When online school started in September, the campaigning started on a much larger scale with people joining the campaign team everyday. Posters were spammed in the chats and there were speeches like no others hyping up the masses for Floofy Dogger. Everyone was going to vote for Floofy Dogger, but she wasn’t on the ballot, and none of us could vote so that plan failed

## **Merchandise**

Like all campaigns, this one needed merch for it, everything from campaign signs, to buttons. other than that, there were
also stickers, pillowcases, and socks.

### Campaign signs

The owner of the Floofy Dogger paid some company to make 3 professionally made campaign signs that said “elect Floofy Dogger for president 2020” costing him $26.95. Captain Yolo Waffle made 2 homemade campaign signs and also got one from the Floofy Dogger owner. He placed them on his lawn and they were seen by many people throughout the following months. campaign sign featured below

### Cool Buttons

Captain Yolo Waffle bought 100 buttons for the campaign, 50 with that said Floofy Dogger 2020 and 50 that had a picture of the Floofy Dogger on it. He bought them for $50 and sold them to people to help raise awareness about the campaign.

## **Social media recognition**

On October 7th, 2020, Twitter user Sled Press posted an image of a Floofy Dogger campaign sign with the caption "The Floofy Dogger campaign is heating up in the nearby hood" and someone else replied "He's got my vote!" She also posted images of 2 other Floofy Dogger campaign signs on the same lawn.

Another instance of the campaign getting some traction on social media and whatnot was on October 17th, 2020, Facebook user Butters Page posted images of the same campaign signs. They also said "Why oh why did I vote so early? #FloofyDogger lives in my neighborhood and now I cant vote for him" Technically though, the Floofy Dogger does not live in their neighborhood and it's a she, not a he.

Besides these 2 posts, there wasn't much social media attention for the Floofy Dogger, although many people were spotted taking pictures of the campaign signs so maybe we just haven't found these posts.

### YouTube videos

During the campaign season, the Floofy Dogger YouTube channel uploaded 2 campaign videos. The first one was a 14 second clip of the dogger walking up a hill to one of the campaign signs the owner made. The second one uploaded to the channel was a 48 second long video talking about what the Floofy Dogger was running for.

* Protecting Nature
* Couches for all
* Squirrel defense systems
* Dog voting rights

## **Evolution of the election**

With November 3rd nearing, there was becoming less and less time to get the Floofy Dogger campaign out there so we decided the campaign was now going to focus on making Floofy Dogger the mascot of the class. We changed campaign signs and spread the word to everyone that Floofy Dogger was now running for mascot of the classroom.

## **Opponents**

With every action comes an equal, opposite reaction, so of course opponents of the Floofy Dogger stepped up. The biggest and main threat was the FatCat, which was the cat of one of the kids who went to my school. Another, less major threat was Squirrel who also challenged the Floofy Dogger.

### The FatCat

The FatCat a black and white owned by Silas, AKA DarkShockXYZ (some of you might recognize him as he is one of the mods on the dogger discord) and was one of the first to start campaigning against Floofy Dogger. It used fear mongering tactics, scaring voters into thinking that the Floofy Dogger would burn the school to the ground. They releases videos talking about how insane the Floofy Dogger was.

The tactics didn't work in the end and Floofy Dogger still won because she is the best and will always prevail. Also because she had a much larger campaign team backing her election efforts.

### 3rd party candidates

* Squirrel was the equivalent of a 3rd party candidate in the election and was actually a troll candidate created by a campaign team member as a joke referencing how dogs hate squirrels or something like that. When the class mascot election actually did happen, the squirrel somehow got votes, idiots.

* Billy the Sheep was another candidate in the election but only started to run in the few days before the election and wasn't even featured the ballots (google form) so he never got any votes. Even if it was on the ballot, it likely wouldn't have gotten any votes.

## **Ending**

It was now November 4th, it would have happened the day before, but we didn't have school that day. We were using a google form as the polling station but we made one fatal flaw that ruined the first election, we forgot to make it so people could only vote once. The campaign team was watching the election results as they came in but something was wrong, Squirrel was winning by a lot, suspiciously a lot. We closed the form quickly but it was ruined, Squirrel had 35 votes or 51% of the vote!

It was all wrong so we held a second election and this time we remembered to allow people to only vote once. When the election was over, the Floofy Dogger won, obviously, and FatCat came in second place, they’re still salty about that. Squirrel did actually get a few votes, but not enough to make any impact at all. So that’s it, Floofy Dogger is now the mascot of one singular class instead of president of the United States, but it's fine, we still won something

**election results**

## Important links

Sled press Twitter post: https://twitter.com/sledpress/status/1313978789748248580

Butter Pages Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/570168253022224/posts/why-oh-why-did-i-vote-so-early-floofydogger-lives-in-my-neighborhood-and-now-i-c/3507996765906010/

Floofy Dogger campaign video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oINIy7Ak5I&list=PL\_99p\_3PBRbGiMnE9\_gWMEs\_w\_bcop60L&index=2

Elect Floofy Dogger 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLnyf27cb64&list=PL\_99p\_3PBRbGiMnE9\_gWMEs\_w\_bcop60L