38 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

I just tried fapping to it and...nothing

That's because you're clearly an anti-chocolate, brown food hating FLAVORIST!!!

SHAME!!  SHAME!!  SHAME!!

5 minutes ago, PoconoDon said:

That's because you're clearly an anti-chocolate, brown food hating FLAVORIST!!!

SHAME!!  SHAME!!  SHAME!!

I tried!  I tried my best!

I'm with Tucker on this one, if I don't at least entertain the idea that I might be sexually attracted to a chocolate bar, then I don't want to eat it.

1 minute ago, Toty said:

Yeah that's just dumb... but the question remains, what were the real reasons behind the casting choice?

I'm sure she's a perfectly capable actress, fit the role, etc. but were they sitting around a boardroom one day saying, "we need POC's in at least X prominent roles"? Are they doing it to expand their marketing reach (which makes sense) or just to meet a metric handed to them by a DEI consulting firm?

I dunno. Maybe they just wanted to modernize and do something different with the role because it's been done before, multiple times. Or maybe she fit the filmmakers vision of what they wanted the character to be.  She played the part fine. And again, it's a character where the ethnicity just doesn't matter.

48 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

I just tried fapping to it and...nothing

Really? I whacked it twice to that since you posted it. The shoes are sexy IMO, and my favorite color is green.

3 hours ago, VanHammersly said:

I tried!  I tried my best!

I'm with Tucker on this one, if I don't at least entertain the idea that I might be sexually attracted to a chocolate bar, then I don't want to eat it.

I’m sure you’re being facetious, but the point of the story is that they had to smash the patriarchy by changing the shoes on two female cartoon characters, and then blather about it to show just how woke the company is. 

1 minute ago, Outlaw said:

I’m sure you’re being facetious, but the point of the story is that they had to smash the patriarchy by changing the shoes on two female cartoon characters, and then blather about it to show just how woke the company is. 

So F'ing what already. This whole ish is getting tiresome. If you are for capitalism then none of this should be a problem to any of you. Mars or Hershey or whoever owns M&Ms is only doing any of this because they think they may sell more product. They don't give two ishes about anything "woke". Same with the rice and the pancake syrup. 

I predict tv providers are going to wake up to the dangers of right wing propaganda being spread by channels such as OANN, Newsmax and perhaps Foxnews and cancel them from their channels offered. 
 

They will do this because their monetary benefits would disappear in a authoritarian government where tv would be run by the government.

1 hour ago, Boogyman said:

So F'ing what already. This whole ish is getting tiresome. If you are for capitalism then none of this should be a problem to any of you. Mars or Hershey or whoever owns M&Ms is only doing any of this because they think they may sell more product. They don't give two ishes about anything "woke". Same with the rice and the pancake syrup. 

Exactly why it’s worth pointing out and laughing at. 

2 hours ago, Outlaw said:

I’m sure you’re being facetious, but the point of the story is that they had to smash the patriarchy by changing the shoes on two female cartoon characters, and then blather about it to show just how woke the company is. 

I’ve already pointed this out on here about this story once but the point of the M&M campaign is to get people to talk about M&Ms.  I can promise you that they don’t mind if you mock them or get outraged at them, as long as your reminding people that they exist. They’re getting a lot more distance out of outrage and mockery than they are from support and they were well aware of that going into this.  They’re not woke, they’re just good at marketing (or I should say, the firm that pitched the idea to them is). 

35 minutes ago, VanHammersly said:

I’ve already pointed this out on here about this story once but the point of the M&M campaign is to get people to talk about M&Ms.  I can promise you that they don’t mind if you mock them or get outraged at them, as long as your reminding people that they exist. They’re getting a lot more distance out of outrage and mockery than they are from support and they were well aware of that going into this.  They’re not woke, they’re just good at marketing (or I should say, the firm that pitched the idea to them is). 

100%

1 hour ago, Outlaw said:

Exactly why it’s worth pointing out and laughing at. 

Yeah laughing at it. People got angry when they changed the bottle of high fructose corn syrup last year though.

31 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

Yeah laughing at it. People got angry when they changed the bottle of high fructose corn syrup last year though.

Probably more so that people felt they were being told they were racist for having pancakes or rice the last 50 years.

9 hours ago, Boogyman said:

So F'ing what already. This whole ish is getting tiresome. If you are for capitalism then none of this should be a problem to any of you. Mars or Hershey or whoever owns M&Ms is only doing any of this because they think they may sell more product. They don't give two ishes about anything "woke". Same with the rice and the pancake syrup. 

Since when did we stop pointing out when companies do stupid things to sell their products?

5 hours ago, DrPhilly said:

Since when did we stop pointing out when companies do stupid things to sell their products?

They didn't do a stupid thing.  They did a smart thing.  They risked nothing (I mean, we're talking about changing the clothes on a cartoon character) and gained countless hours of free advertising, initially from the right wing media raging against it or mocking it and then from the liberal media, mocking the right wing media for raging against it.

An M&M identifies as a Reese’s Pieces.

1 hour ago, VanHammersly said:

They didn't do a stupid thing.  They did a smart thing.  They risked nothing (I mean, we're talking about changing the clothes on a cartoon character) and gained countless hours of free advertising, initially from the right wing media raging against it or mocking it and then from the liberal media, mocking the right wing media for raging against it.

NOBODY "raged" against it.

7 hours ago, DrPhilly said:

Since when did we stop pointing out when companies do stupid things to sell their products?

Is it still stupid if sales increase? 

15 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

NOBODY "raged" against it.

People definitely did over the rice and fake pancake syrup though.

1 minute ago, Boogyman said:

Is it srill stupid if sales increase? 

People definitely did over the rice and fake pancake syrup though.

Dey took er Unkle Bennnnzzzz!

3 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

Dey took er Unkle Bennnnzzzz!

Oddest thing ever to get triggered over lol

10 minutes ago, Outlaw said:

NOBODY "raged" against it.

Again, mockery, raging, it doesn't matter.  The only way the strategy M&M employed works is if the right wing media ecosphere uses it as an example of everything going woke.  Without that initial push from them, there's no joke for the liberal media to make about the right wing media and the message doesn't spread. The right wing media is the most essential component of any brands "woke" ad strategy.

2 hours ago, VanHammersly said:

They didn't do a stupid thing.  They did a smart thing.  They risked nothing (I mean, we're talking about changing the clothes on a cartoon character) and gained countless hours of free advertising, initially from the right wing media raging against it or mocking it and then from the liberal media, mocking the right wing media for raging against it.

 

42 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

Is it srill stupid if sales increase? 

Did Trump do stupid things that helped him get elected?

"the right" definitely didn't rage against "woke cancel culture". no way, man. 

2 hours ago, VanHammersly said:

They didn't do a stupid thing.  They did a smart thing.  They risked nothing (I mean, we're talking about changing the clothes on a cartoon character) and gained countless hours of free advertising, initially from the right wing media raging against it or mocking it and then from the liberal media, mocking the right wing media for raging against it.

Yeah but for a company that’s gone along so long and so long w/o using social/political gimmicks you would think this is below them. 

3 minutes ago, SNOORDA said:

Yeah but for a company that’s gone along so long and so long w/o using social/political gimmicks you would think this is below them. 

Trying to make more money?