7 Compelling Reasons To Not To Participate in Banana Program

in bananaboycott •  6 years ago  (edited)

Last week someone called @stellabelle initiated a new Steem project called Banana Program. In case you're thinking to participate in it, let me warn you that it's a crazy, stupid program and can harm your personality in more ways than you may think of. Let me list out some of the criticisms against the program here in detail:

Awful: It projects you as a bored person


Are you really a bored person or wanna like to be called one? This program categorically terms you as a "bored human" and declares this in its post-title itself as:

BANANA PROGRAM: New Steem Project Designed For Bored Humans

So be careful of your personal image while participating in it.

Mindless: Needs downloading an app every week


To participate every week, you will need to download Partiko app as your first task. But since you already downloaded it last week, it becomes 2 tasks as you first need to uninstall and then download it again. And if you do that, you will feel like a stupid yourself.

Deceptive: More tasks than initial committment


Since there are only 3 syllables in the word banana, it was declared that there will be only 3 tasks each week. But this week, it had more tasks:

  • Uninstall Partiko App
  • Download Partiko App
  • Welcome New Steemians
  • Make your own phone ...and take a selfie with it
  • Make a video ...and upload it

So these are at least 5 tasks i.e. there needs to be 5 vowels in banana. This is going to stretch and disfigure the word banana into banananana (speak it loud and feel the difference).

Intrusive: Intrudes your privacy


The recent task of this program needs you to make your private affair public. You will need to make a video of yourself calling a long lost friend and upload it here for everyone to view that. Can you share your intimate moments with your best friend here?

I know some people come to blockchain for anonymity but what's that?

Disruptive: Adversely impact banana economy


Many people are going to buy bananas to participate in this program. This will lead to its scarcity, resulting in steep increase in its market price. This is the only fruit accessible to poor man like me. If it too goes beyond my affordability, I may starve to death. Who will be responsible for my death? Yes, this silly Banana Program and YOU!

Discriminative: It's racist


At first glance, this Banana Program looks interesting, probably because we all love bananas. Initially, I too was keen to take part in it. But since it requires some dapp to be downloaded, you will need a smart phone for it. I didn't had one. So I went to buy one. The salesman told me I can't buy it as it's a SMART phone. I told him its fine. I ain't interested in any smart phone if he could download this app in a stupid phone. But he denied!!!

It was very insulting to me.

Devilish: Winners are devoured


It's not all. If you still participated and somehow your entry is declared a winner, you may be humiliated, undressed, packaged in a banana peel and devoured. Check the last available image of the recent winner:


Find more details here

Banana Boycott: The way ahead


To all you sensible and wonderful people, who have decided not to participate in Banana Program, I invite you to join me for #bananaboycott. Below are some tasks which you would need to perform to join #bananaboycott:

  1. Crush a banana with your fist with intense anger on your face and take a selfie.
  2. Go to a banana vendor and explain him / her why you won't buy a banana from him / her today. Capture this on a video.
  3. Make a poster to warn others from participating in the Banana Program and post it on your blog.

Complete this 3 tasks for the week-1 boycott and you will feel blessed for doing some good to others.

The unofficial sponsor for #bananaboycott is none other than the Steem celebrity and an amazing person @stellabelle. "Sponsor" because every program is an orphan without one and "unofficial" because it's something more than official ...2 characters more! So if official sponsor upvotes an entry, unofficial sponsor may do something more (2 characters more than upvote). So as an added bonus, she may downvote your #bananaboycott post too. That's where the fun begins.

Let's unite to boycott this Banana Program. Please use #bananaboycott tag for all your posts so that they can be discovered and appropriately treated by our unofficial sponsors.

Thank you for your support and all the good you gonna do to make this world better!

Yours truly
stupid

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Hey @stupid (nice to say this without feeling as if I'm insulting you lol), I started off by disregarding the Universal Hint inherent in your handle, and simply following your stated task list, especially step 1 coz I fancied a crushed banana-soya shake (minus the anger vibes of course). However, when I arrived at the shop with the intention of buying a banana, I remembered step two and froze in confused panic. No banana, but I came away with a split lip and no video either coz the irate grocer smashed my STUPID phone. He said he had had enough of folk either wanting to buy all his bananas, or else not wanting to buy any at all - he said that as a result he was very highly strung and just longed for the good old days when things were normal. What to do eh? I let him off. So umm, it seems as if your task list is flawed too, as it does not contain two crucial steps namely (1) provision for banana soya-shake urge (2) instructions on how to avoid consequences of the traumatising effect of the disruption in banana supplies on the global shopkeeper population. Personally speaking, I like to take responsibility for my life and don't want to blame people for misleading or misdirecting me, for getting me to participate in their wars and battles, for drenching me with propaganda and generally attempting to turn me into a zombie. Yeah, perhaps, after all, I'm the stupid one, barging into situations without first thinking them through. #fuckingbananas, wanting to take over the world!

And what about Plantains? I don't hear anyone mention them....seriously W T F?

And my soya-shake :(
bananas.jpg

Lol

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hay @stupid you are soooo..intelligent!!! Here is my selfie!!

face-mask-with-banana-peach.jpg

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Lol

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Prepare to be defeated:

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Best horror movie I've watched this year!

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Lol

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Can you see the video link! I can’t!

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Yes I can

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I do not understand your point on it being disruptive to the banana economy, and then as part of your boycott you tell people not just to go and get a banana (causing even higher demand for bananas) but then squish the banana into a sticky mess, thus wasting the nutritional value of said banana, meaning you have to buy yet another banana if you want to eat.

It seems by your own attempt to disrupt the Banana Program and the start of the banana wars, the only winner here is going to be the banana vendors who can gleefully inflate the price of each banana to the point at which not even a whale can afford bananas.

My next post will illustrate my efforts to mitigate the damages that the Banana war could have on the Banana economy.

Thank you @stupid for giving me a new calling in life! The insurance of a stable banana economy!

I’m readying my philosophical war white paper as well. @stupid has messed with the wrong beehive!

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I am here to read the comments

Lol

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Funny to see these 'wars' when steemit is almost dead 🔥🔥🔥

Good luck to everyone! 😂

The most important time to post is when everything is about to sink.

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I now declare the start of the BANANA WARS

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Why so serious about @stupid? Take it easy!

Because I wanted to.

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Racist? No. Phonist? Yes. You have to either have a smartphone or be smart enough to figure out how to use the crafty software that mimics a smartphone on your PC. I resent you mis-labeling my program as racist. Please fix it.

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Btw man, I believe banana program is fun even if I don t have time for it at the moment.

Every interaction on steemit between people looks good to me.

Pls stop using bidbots, do everything manually, we need to make steemit great again

Anything that’s interactive is good... it ness all the help right now

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Your just going to encourage it more!

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Exactly

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🤦‍♂️ as my grand papa always said, “to smart for my own good” 😅

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You’re tempting me:

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I could really go for a banana right now too

Don't fall into the temptation trap! That's how you get suckered in. One banana, then two, then three.... All the sudden you are devouring bananas by the bunch!

The absurdity of this newly waged Banana War is maybe exactly why I started the Banana Program in the first place......who is @stupid anyway?

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I thought it was a pretty funny tongue in cheek type post, not sure yet who will be the first to slip over the finish line on a banana peel.

Since crushing bananas might give me anaphylaxis, can I just glare at them menacingly instead?

you need to use an emulator! install, uninstall
Kernel Error
damage grub
boot
HDD
*.apk

solving differents kind of problems can stress
Softwares with incompability.
Mental problems!
a banana with potasium a medicine?

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For the record, the Banana Collective is categorically opposed to the smashing of bananas!