The lack of "mass" is going to be a real problem. If you add up the visible numbers of people following their social sites, it is hovering under 25,000 with about 20,000 of that number coming from their subreddit. It would be fine if this was pitched as an ongoing, building movement like OWS or the Tea Party, but the focus is all on a one day protest that currently looks to be ill attended. This could quickly turn into a prototypical slactivism joke.
Its hard to build a large protest using just reddit. You really need large organizations to get behind you, MoveOn, Unions, A.N.S.W.E.R, but all of these groups are of course very quiet because its a democrat in the white house doing this.
If Romney or Bush were in charge, I think the protests would be much greater.
Yeah, the last one[0] really had a crappy turnout. We only got enough people together here to fill two buses and travel ~800 miles one way to attend.
It wasn't just Reddit, of course, and obviously it had a couple of fairly well-known media personalities promoting it but the majority of the organizing and attendees I saw was because of Reddit.
Yes the initial idea may have started on reddit, but then comedy central, moveon, afl-cio, and other large democratic groups started promoting it and thats when it got big.
If those groups don't hop on, your just not going to have a big in-person protest.
And the eff is the only group I have seen promoting this
Also, the interactive map on http://www.restorethefourth.net/ is completely broken. Clicking on any of the locations for more information leads you straight to a 404.
Judging from the comments on the subreddit, it's not something I want to get my family involved with anyway. There's an unfortunte lack of serious effort here.
