Overview
Operation Kinder is an online contest to vote on the choice of an image of a child to be displayed on the boxes of Kinder chocolate bars in the country of Kazakhstan. The Russian website poll was subsequently raided by a by 4chan users, flooding the poll with votes for an image of a smirking child thought to be named ‘Victor’.
Background
On November 11th, 2012, an anonymous 4chan [1] user submitted a post calling for others to vote for ‘Victor’ using a chart with a step-by-step procedure and description on how to vote for ‘Victor’ in the poll, due to it being in Russian, with the hopes of getting him ranked #1 with over 8000 votes and subsequently put on the box.
The image of ‘Victor’ has previously been associated with an image macro series called ‘Death Child’ [3], using a similar style to macros like PSTD Clarinet Boy and Vengeance Dad.
On the same day, a link to the the procedural image was submitted to the /r/4chan [2] subreddit titled “Operation Kinder. It has already reached 25th place by the time this post was created.”. Hours later, a follow up link was submitted [5] titled “Operation Kinder Success” displaying the achievement of over 8000 votes and first place for the image.
Notable Developments
Still developing
External References
[1]4Chan Archive – we can do this b and Operation Kinder
[2]Reddit – Operation Kinder. It has already reached 25th place by the time this post was created.
[3]MemeGenerator – Death-Child
[4]Kinder Chocolate – vote page
[5]Reddit – Operation Kinder Success