To get millennials to turn their attention to the refugee crisis facing Europe’s borders, one satirist tries to explain the situation using technology they can’t turn away from for long: Google and its apps.
The site tricks them into trying out a “fortune-telling” Google app, but as people start typing, a computer finishes their sentences with the kind of queries they should be making, such as questions about where these individuals will be relocated and whether they will be united with their families. Then this screen appears, directing people to donate to charities and spread the word to people they know:
See How Syrian Refugees Journey From Serbia to Hungary
Subotica, Serbia. August 11, 2015. Three young Afghans trying to reach Germany stand near an abandoned brick factory in Subotica at the Serbian-Hungarian border. Serbia is the last country that stands between them and a European Union member state, Hungary.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Vasariste, Serbia. August 12, 2015.
Syrian families, mostly from Aleppo, are placed in a refugee camp in Vasariste near the Serbian-Hungarian border. After a day to recover, they will walk and attempt to cross the Serbian-Hungarian border.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Vasariste, Serbia. August 12, 2015. Syrian families, mostly from Aleppo, in a refugee camp in Vasariste, near the Serbian-Hungarian border. Jerome Sessini—Magnum Vasariste, Serbia. August 12, 2015. A prosthetic leg in a refugee camp near the Serbian-Hungarian border.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Vasariste, Serbia. August 12, 2015.
A child in a refugee camp near the Serbian-Hungarian border.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Vasariste, Serbia. August 12, 2015. A child in a refugee camp near the Serbian-Hungarian border.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Vasariste, Serbia. August 12, 2015. A Yazidi family from Iraq near the Serbian-Hungarian border.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Subotica, Serbia. August 11, 2015. The "Jungle" where migrants live, near the town of Subotica at the Serbian Hungarian border.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Subotica, Serbia. August 11, 2015. Migrants live in an abandoned brick factory near the town of Subotica at the Serbian-Hungarian border.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Vasariste, Serbia. August 12, 2015. Syrian families, mostly from Aleppo, are placed in a refugee camp in Vasariste near the Serbian-Hungarian border.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Vasariste, Serbia. August 12, 2015.
Syrian families, mostly from Aleppo, are placed in a refugee camp in Vasariste near the Serbian-Hungarian border.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Vasariste, Serbia. August 12, 2015.
Syrian families, mostly from Aleppo, are placed in a refugee camp in Vasariste near the Serbian-Hungarian border.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Horgos, Serbia. August 12, 2015. Syrian families walk at night toward the border to attempt to cross it.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Horgos, Serbia. August 12, 2015.
Syrian families walk at night toward the border to attempt to cross it. A woman gives medicine to young children exhausted by days and weeks of walking.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Horgos, Serbia. August 12, 2015. Syrian families walk at night toward the border to attempt to cross it.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Horgos, Serbia. August 12, 2015. Syrian families wait for nightfall to walk toward the border to attempt to cross it.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Horgos, Serbia. August 12, 2015. Syrian families wait for nightfall to walk toward the border to attempt to cross it.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Horgos, Serbia. August 12, 2015. Syrian families wait for nightfall to walk toward the border to attempt to cross it.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Horgos, Serbia. August 12, 2015. Syrian families wait for nightfall to walk toward the border to attempt to cross it.Jerome Sessini—Magnum Horgos, Serbia. August 12, 2015. Syrian families wait for nightfall to walk toward the border to attempt to cross it.Jerome Sessini—Magnum