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Ok thanks if you want to remove this thread you can.

You can just use the "Post preview" feature to preview a post for picture looks and sizing.

Ok thanks. I will.

AnnoyedZebra wrote:

Maraxous wrote:

He should give that pepsi can to a cop

Sorry for the political question, but how is that commercial offensive?!

We need Mike to answer that question.

Ah, right, my apologies. Straight to HR with me then!

DJ Squidley wrote:

AnnoyedZebra wrote:

Maraxous wrote:

He should give that pepsi can to a cop

Sorry for the political question, but how is that commercial offensive?!

Because it "makes light of serious current events" (somebody thought it made the cops vs BLM matter look trivial or some dumb shit like that).

Why do people even think it's BLM against the police, in the commercial, the police aren't even wearing riot gear.

The meaningless celebrity cameo, the everyone being white at what is clearly meant to be a black lives matter protest, the "cops are your friends" narrative...

Y'know, I've found that If you look for offense, you'll find it. Some people have nothing better to do in their miserable lives than be so self-centered as to imagine the world is out to get them, and everything else is wrong. I've said this before, but they ain't out to get you, because they don't care.

Steel_Valkyrie wrote:Y'know, I've found that If you look for offense, you'll find it. Some people have nothing better to do in their miserable lives than be so self-centered as to imagine the world is out to get them, and everything else is wrong. I've said this before, but they ain't out to get you, because they don't care.

I love you.

If everyone else is just trying to get offended then how come you're the one complaining that people dislike an advert?

Steel_Valkyrie wrote:Y'know, I've found that If you look for offense, you'll find it. Some people have nothing better to do in their miserable lives than be so self-centered as to imagine the world is out to get them, and everything else is wrong. I've said this before, but they ain't out to get you, because they don't care.

Actually very true but i can't seem to stop laughing from your rank

DJ Squidley wrote:Sorry for the political question, but how is that commercial offensive?!

The commercial is tone-deaf more than offensive. Pepsi was trying to connect with the cultural zeitgeist, but by trivializing it (hey, you didn't have to get beaten / arrested / tear-gassed / murdered if only you'd given cops a pepsi!) they did the exact opposite, alienating their target market by treating their struggles as a sunny happy glamorous joke.

There are plenty of funny articles and videos online taking this commercial apart if you want to look for them. I don't really have much to say other than that it's the same kind of PR and marketing fuckup that Pepsi always does.