Comm 310 Instagram Persuasion

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by Ainsley Gossett3 views·Updated Sep 2, 2021
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  1. Hi. So for this project on the topic I chose
  2. was um orcas in captivity and I chose this topic
  3. because it's always been something that I followed and been
  4. very passionate about.
  5. I watched the blackfish documentary when I was in middle
  6. school and it really, really stuck with me and I
  7. have, you know, just kind of followed what's going on
  8. with this situation ever since then.
  9. And I picked this for this project specifically because I'm
  10. just a couple of days ago, another worker whale died
  11. in captivity.
  12. Her name was a mayan.
  13. She was only six years old, which is super, super
  14. young um for an orca to just die.
  15. Um they live to be like 50 or 60 in
  16. a while.
  17. So that's why I just kinda wanted to bring a
  18. little bit of attention to this for right now.
  19. So this is my instagram post as you can see,
  20. it's a picture of two orcas playing in the wild,
  21. you know, having fun, just living a really a really
  22. happy normal life they were meant to live.
  23. And then the caption I chose for this is the
  24. ocean is their home.
  25. And I wanted to go with a white fog to
  26. kind of match the wheels and keep a nice kind
  27. of cohesive calm aesthetic.
  28. I wanted it to be like a quieter picture and
  29. I chose to italicize the word home just to really
  30. bring emphasis to it um, to kind of drive the
  31. point that the aquariums and stuff are not the right
  32. homes for them without the ocean is.
  33. And so the attention getter here is the picture of
  34. the veils themselves.
  35. Um in my opinion, if you're scrolling through and you
  36. see a picture like this, you kind of want to
  37. stop and take a look at it.
  38. And then the problem here is um obviously the issue
  39. of whales like this still being captivity, you know, these
  40. are not the kind of animals that can thrive or
  41. even really survive clearly in this kind of lifestyle.
  42. And then my solution here is um you know, back
  43. in the caption is that the ocean is their home
  44. and just kind of driving the point home that they
  45. should not be in captivity, that they should be in
  46. The option here is my instagram story.
  47. My call to action as you can see here.
  48. Um it says boycott Seaworld SAn Diego, which is specifically
  49. where the scale of Maya was.
  50. You can see at the bottom of the memory of
  51. Maya. Um so my call to action here is obviously
  52. to boycott these um you know, institutions, these organizations that
  53. are perpetrating this violence against animals and this neglect and
  54. mistreatment. Um as you can kind of see from the
  55. illustration in the middle, you know, the whales being pulled
  56. down by the weight because it can't live its life.
  57. You see the flopped over fin just um, you know,
  58. a visual for people to see that um boycotting things
  59. like Seaworld SAn Diego is um you know, taking a
  60. stand and showing that we don't support this kind of
  61. thing. So that is why I chose to these.
  62. Thank you.