LOS ANGELES—Former adult star Bree Olson, inspired by the viral Kony 2012 video, has put together a clip of her own to help bring awareness to the plight of Uganda under the tyrant, Joseph Kony.
The video, already with more than 161,000 hits on YouTube, shows Olson posing provacatively on the beach in a red bikini, and walking down Los Angeles’ Skid Row in a tube top and booty shorts—interspersed with images of Kony and his victims.
While it’s a strange juxtaposition of images, the video does grab the viewers’ attention—if only to see the scantilly clad blond bombshell.
"I put the two [images] together because I know a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down," she said in the video, adding that "the Kony 2012 documentary runs by the same principle. It's nice packaging on something that wouldn't be an inherently fascinating topic to that many people otherwise."
Funny enough, Olson isn’t the only one in the whole Kony 2012 millieu to have made a name for herself by getting naked. In a bizarre twist, the video’s creator and Invisible Children co-founder, Jason Russell, was detained last Friday by San Diego police for masturbating in public. Olson’s video came out shortly after news of Russell’s incident broke.
“No stranger to backlash myself, I will contribute this much to the conversation: if you're against learning more about the world around you, even if that education comes from a video made by a charity that's flashier than most, you're missing the point,” Olson said in the video.
