{"id":1735190,"date":"2022-11-11T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735190"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:33:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:33:13","slug":"the-office-actor-rainn-wilson-alters-his-name-on-social-media-to-help-save-planet-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-office-actor-rainn-wilson-alters-his-name-on-social-media-to-help-save-planet-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Office\u2019 Actor Rainn Wilson Alters His Name On Social Media \u2018To Help Save Planet Earth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-office-actor-rainn-wilson-alters-his-name-on-social-media-to-help-save-planet-earth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735190&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Rainn Wilson<\/a> is hoping to spread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/climate-change\">climate change<\/a> awareness by changing his name on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old actor is best known for playing Dwight Schrute on the hit NBC comedy \u201cThe Office.\u201d Now he\u2019s using his platform to bring attention to a cause he finds important.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wilson posted a video to Twitter this week, calling his name change \u201ca cheap little stunt to help save planet Earth.\u201d His new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rainnwilson\/?hl=en\">display name<\/a> is \u201cRainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson\u201d though his Instagram handle did not change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve changed my name on Twitter, Instagram and even on my fancy writing paper,\u201d the actor shared with fans. The video\u2019s caption said, \u201cThe Arctic is melting at Millions of Liters per second, yet this problem can\u2019t seem to make a name for itself, so we\u2019ll make a name for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI changed my name \u2026 to help tell the world leaders and influencers that we need to act now,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join me @ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArcticBasecamp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ArcticBasecamp<\/a> in bringing attention to the melting issue. We need world leaders to take action at COP 27!<br \/>The Arctic is melting at Millions of Liters per second, yet this problem can\u2019t seem to make a name for itself, so we\u2019ll make a name for it.<br \/>Go to link in bio \u2b06\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TgEG84fOmQ\">pic.twitter.com\/TgEG84fOmQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainnwilson\/status\/1590425448227704833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s name didn\u2019t actually change on Twitter, which he blamed on the social media platform\u2019s new owner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPS They won\u2019t let me change my name because, Elon!\u201d he shared in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian made a few other suggestions for celebrities to change their names for the same cause. Some of Wilson\u2019s suggestions included \u201cCardi The Arctic B Melting,\u201d \u201cAmy Poehler Bears Are Endangered,\u201d \u201cHarrison Why Not Drive An Electric Ford,\u201d and \u201cLeonardo Di-Polar Ice Caprio Are Melting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilson is a board member of Arctic Basecamp, which he says is an organization with the goal of raising awareness about the risks of Arctic weather changes. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticbasecamp.org\/about-us\/\">website<\/a> describes them as, \u201ca team of Arctic experts and scientists who, for the last five years, have brought the Arctic to the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting at Davos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides suggesting new names for celebrities, Wilson also suggested his followers should change their names as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo to link in bio and create a name that will bring attention to this problem,\u201d he shared in a follow-up tweet. \u201cThen \u2013 and this is the important part \u2013 change your social media profile or display name to match your new ArcticRisk name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if enough of us do this, then maybe @cop27_egypt will be where our world leaders sit up and notice Arctic risks and introduce a solution,\u201d the actor continued. \u201cMake Arctic Name Changer a Game Changer!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Rainn Wilson is hoping to spread climate change awareness by changing his name on social media. The 56-year-old actor is best known for playing Dwight Schrute on the hit NBC comedy \u201cThe Office.\u201d Now he\u2019s using his platform to bring attention to a cause he finds important.\u00a0 Wilson posted a video to Twitter this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1735193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}