Online movement for VFX

After the Oscars on Sunday, an online movement has started to bring to light what is happening in a certain part of the movie industry, the visual effects departments. Most movies nowadays outsource their visual effects to outside studios, but those studios only make about 5% of the overall profits from the movie (not very much for how much work they do). With several big studios filing for bankruptcy recently, there was a protest outside of the Oscars which got no publicity from the media. One of the major firms that filed bankruptcy recently was Rhythm and Hues, who worked on the Movie Life of Pi. The movie won the Oscar for best visual effects, but during the acceptance speech the visual effects supervisor for the studio tried to bring up the studio, the orchestra attempted to play him off early. When he kept going, right before he got to the good part they completely cut off his microphone. This upset many people in the industry and started the movement over social media sites. This movement was brought to my attention by a friend of mine who is in the VFX industry who changed his facebook profile picture to a green square. He explained the situation, about how the industry is failing itself and that he changed his picture to a green box to represent the green screens they use as a filler for shooting so they can add in the effects later on. They're trying to get the attention of the movie studios so they can see what's going on. The movement has been being shared throughout networks on facebook even outside of the VFX industry and their friends. Many pages have been sharing photos of before and afters of movies before the VFX studios got their hands on the films. I'm not sure if the movement will actually change anything, but I do know they are getting the word out quite well. If enough people see it hopefully it will be brought up to some of the big movie studios and it can change something.