This Buds for you

This shit is fucking hilarious. You guys are so fired up. This wasn't some huge decision the company was making. It wasn't like there were meetings and they were like, "This is the direction we are going." Companies do these deals with social media "influencers" all the time. It only became a big story because it became a big story. The idea is, "We pay X,Y,Z to post about our product." I can promise you you they never intended America would lose it's collective mind over it. They weren't shoving it down anyone's throat. Their intended target were people who already follow said I influencer. There was no planned national campaign or anything like that. People just like to love to be outraged though. It turns into a national story. The rest is history.

@BIGDTITLE

 And calling people gay for drinking Bud light was ne being facetious. A beer drinker is gonna drink an available beer. I mean, it's a rarity that there is only one beer available at an event. By rarity I mean, there is never an instance when one beer is available at an event but that's neither here nor there. I have no issue with a person making the decision to boycott a product for any reason the choose. Like I said, those same people should've boycotted it a long time ago for being horrible. My issue is with the media making is such a huge part of the news cycle. Everybody saying, "Well, they're shoving it in people's faces!" They weren't shoving shit in people's faces. The whole idea with these social media "partnerships" is that it is targeted marketing. The people it reaches are the people in that particular influencers sphere of influence. It just blew up. And it won't go away. I find it all ridiculous. Stop drinking a beer for whichever you choose but the people who post about it all over social media, the people who report on it on cable news, the politicians using it as a political football, are all just virtue signaling just like the ad exec(s) at AB InBev were. And I detest this form of virtue signaling in any form.

@quandeldingle

 Let me ask you this. Are you being hit over the head? Or are people just existing. Living their lives out of the shadows. People have the right to exist. The whole, "I just don't wanna see it" stance doesn't jibe. This is a free country.

You guys are all good bros. D knows he's my bro. I just think you guys are old and don't understand this form of marketing.

@StumpTownStu

 I don't think anyone here is fired up about it. It became a big story because it was such a stupid move by a large, publicly traded company. Even if it was just a couple of execs, they still represent the company. And the fact that these execs in high leadership positions didn't have the ability to understand the potential consequences of a deal they make with a controversial figure makes the whole situation worse for the company.   BTW, these execs weren't fired, they were put on paid leave. They are negotiating a severance package as we speak that will guarantee their silence. The last thing Bud wants is for these morons to start singing about how rotten their current corporate structure is. 

@StumpTownStu

 I’m 42.  Prolly same age as you or close. I know exactly what I’m doing.  

Addidas is the next major corporation to self sabotage.

No, you've got to be kidding. Please be kidding.

I don't think I can click. The dude in the thumbnail is creeping me out.

Directly or indirectly, it's political.   People go to sporting events to watch sports, concerts to listen to music, comedy shows to listen to jokes..to escape for a few hours..not to hear their political, social viewpoints,  there are websites , platforms for all that.  Leave this crap at the gate.

https://en.as.com/latest_news/budweiser-boycott-drop-in-sales-forces-the-company-to-make-management-changes-n/

@scooby-doos

You're right, it directly political to normalize the feminization of men & obese women,,,both having the same agenda to drastically reduce. population reproduction rates.

Imagine being from Nebraska with this type of behaviour becoming normalized:

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Free extra topping pizza @ Fluties pizza party for anyone who watched the entire video 

Free dipping sauce for anyone who started singing "We are the champions" once she brought out the beat with her hand drums 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12108311/Anheuser-Busch-loses-100-LGBTQ-rating-Bud-Light-debacle.html

This is one question that had me thinking earlier. Who were they targeting?

I have to lean slightly with all of those that said that this was a politically driven move by bud. Or just the ultimate marketing blunder of all time. Either way, it has been a dumpster fire.

Kids just don't walk, talk, etc... they are taught.   It's either mental or bad parenting... kids can't drive , vote. drink but they are allowed to mess with nature?  This stuff is getting out of control.   Liberalism is a mental disorder..

Kids do kinda just walk, talk. You don't really teach them. They learn on their own. It's nature. They learn the words you say around them but it's not do much you teaching them as them picking them up. The walking part, they'll first start pulling themselves up on stuff. Then standing up on their own. Then they'll start walking along stuff, the couch, etc. Then they'll start to take steps. There's no, "c.mon. Left foot, right foot."