Missing Nigerian girls: what have celebrities who backed #BringBackOurGirls done since?

Today is the three month anniversary of Boko Haram’s kidnapping of over 200 girls in Nigeria. No longer trending on Twitter, replaced with World
Cup mania, #BringBackOurGirls has died down. The rise and fall of similar Twitter campaigns, and their effectiveness, has always sparked heated debate between their staunch defenders and persistent critics.

#BringBackOurGirls, often credited to Michelle Obama but actually coined by a female Nigerian lawyer in Nigeria, only truly took flight when the First Lady stamped it with her seal of approval.

So what did all the chatter actually do, and what have all those people who posted photos done since then?

Ellen Degeneres was quick to jump on the bandwagon. Her original tweet, captioned ‘It can’t happen soon enough’, was retweeted 25,500 times.

It can’t happen soon enough. #BringBackOurGirls pic.twitter.com/Jf97fQUd7N

GOD HELP US.