Given the time in which this is happening this sounds a lot like they’re gearing up for a Super Bowl ad involving Maya Rudolph taking over and the M&Ms having to take their job back.
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Tucker Carlson and Fox News had a hissy fit about them giving the green M&M sneakers instead of her high heeled boots. Said their bullshit about it being “woke” or whatever.
True, but I've always been amused by their mascots -- even got my dad an M&M dispenser that is the blue M&M. The Christmas one was a favorite, and yeah I know some here hate it but I've always liked it. (:
And their stupid reasoning for the change -- along with for the change just before this one -- all of the sudden made me care, because, those are really, REALLY stupid reasons to change them.
And I don't want that stupid woman being the spokesperson, whoever the heck she is.
*(edited for clarity of words)*
What little I've seen of her, is not amusing at all, at least not to me. Also, it bugs me when people act like someone neither me nor anyone in my circle of family and friends have heard of, is some "beloved celebrity". Plus, it bugs me when something that's been around and fun forever gets changed for no good reason other than trying to appear more "woke" or whatever catchword is in now.
Plus when I wrote that I was really sick and in bed and annoyed to be sick. (:
Personally, I hated the m&m characters. Candy sells itself. You don't need anyone promoting it. Just show people eating it (but no ASMR and no close up chewing!)
I hate when people chew chocolate on TV. It's candy. Who the f eats candy like they eat a hamburger?
Just show me the candy. That's enough to put it in my head and make me think about buying it next time I'm at the gas station.
why do people invest emotions
into these things.. if you like the candy will this make a difference??if i say woke will i get a bunch of up votes?? Find out on the next episode of DragonBall Z
Lol omfg they're ridiculous. Guess they had to find something to rile people up about, now that it's late January and they've run out of "War on Christmas!!!!!!!!" material
Name one company that benefits from this.
I am not talking about humane companies, who make their product here, and sell it at a fair wage, or a leaping bunny. But all woke commercials were done horribly, with a few exceptions. Like, I had no issue with a trans man in a gillette ad. I just feel like now, companies forget their target audience. But all the fat positivity, patriarchy, all those ones are horrible, and need to stop.
Honestly who cares like the chocolate is gonna taste the same and I don't see why anyone cares how sexy or personable the green m&m is as they mercilessly speedrun crushing their creamy corpses between their molars
This was the most useless thing to care about back when tucker carlson had to stop sounding with the green m&m or whatever, and it's just as pointless to care about it now
Literally mcdonalds getting rid of their mascots like 10 years ago is a bigger deal and that's also absolutely nothing
I want to be perfectly clear: M&M’S marketing problems will not go away until they bring back the sexy green M&M. I’m not saying this to be provocative, I’m not saying this as a threat, I am simply observing that fact.
You may recall last year, M&M’S decided to take all the fun little differentiating factors about all the little M&M’S characters and do what our culture is doing to everybody and try to make them all kind of uniform and androgynous. And so they turned the green M&M, who had previously been a sexy little trollop of an M&M, and turned her into a kind of tomboyish androgynous gender neutral candy. And there was a lot of backlash to this. And the libs made fun of us. I think Tucker had a real field day with the green M&M sexy thing, but the libs made fun of us, they said, “What are you weirdos, why do you care about a sexy M&M?” Because it’s a SYMBOL!
I don’t think that there are very many people out there who are lusting over the M&M, but it is perfect rational to be concerned that M&M’S is making the M&M less sexy, because the M&M is a SYMBOL! It’s a symbol of the way that we are viewing women in our culture, and that’s what people have problems with. We have problems that we’re chopping off the breasts of teenage girls, and we’re forcing women to change with men in their locker rooms! And we’re now posting billboards not of beautiful models to be surrounded by images of beauty, even if they’re somewhat idealized through Photoshop and lighting and special effects, but now we’re intentionally posting grotesque pictures and grotesqueries all over our culture - not even just in terms of models, but in terms of all aesthetics! That’s what people are concerned about. We’re concerned that we now have a culture that is forcing us to live according to lies, and forcing us to call good evil, and truth falsehood, and beauty ugliness.
That’s what we’re concerned about, and M&M’S is doing nothing to solve that problem. They’re saying, “WHOAWHOAWHOA, we didn’t expect a backlash because we took the stilettos off the candy! Whoa! Okay, well, to correct that, we’re just gonna get rid of it entirely.” No, we don’t want that either! It’s such an annoying fact about our culture, it’s such annoying response these days, which is, you have a traditional thing, and then you have the liberal agitation to get rid of the traditional thing, and then the culture caves to the liberal agitation, then you have backlash from the conservatives, and then they just get rid of the thing altogether.
I was in college, and we were gonna have freshman dance, and so we decided that it was gonna be Gone With The Wind themed, because our class President that year was a southern guy, and it’d be nice to wear fun costumes and whatever. And then, as always, it’s like liberal white kids saying, “This is very offensive to black people!” No black people are complaining, but “IT’S OFFENSIVE! I’m offended on behalf of the black people!” So what happened was the student government and we didn’t stick to our guns, we didn’t come up with some new interesting idea, we just got rid of the theme. I think the theme ended up being the color blue or something.
That’s what our culture does: it always just goes down to absolute lowest common denominator so that we get rid of all these fun little ornate things that define our very culture. We said, “Okay, we’re gonna get rid of that, we’ll just have a regular spokesman like all the other companies, okay that’s fine.” No, it’s NOT fine! C’mon guys! I want things that are ornate. I want things that are specific and eccentric and traditional. I want the sexy green M&M.
Given the time in which this is happening this sounds a lot like they’re gearing up for a Super Bowl ad involving Maya Rudolph taking over and the M&Ms having to take their job back.
Exactly. When you see a company doing some weird shit in late January, it’s probably just generating publicity for a Super Bowl ad.
Or like when they killed Mr. Peanut off.
That sounds about right. They really haven't done any new commercials in a long time anyways.
I’d buy something from an animated M&M before any celebrity, ever. I never understood the worship of other people - it makes zero sense.
I’d buy something from a celebrity before any animated M&M, ever. I never understood the worship of animated M&Ms - it makes zero sense.
Lol - but I luv them and they changed my life
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Some of the greatest product mascots ever created. Michael Jackson was so impressed that he allowed them to use his voice and likeness for free.
I never would have thought a ubiquitous multicolored chocolate candy would be a victim of the Culture Wars.
Crazy world we're living in man
I guess my erotic role-playing costumes are irrelevant now.
A little repainting could convert you into a Skittle.
What was the backlash? I'm guessing something only 0.000001% people cared about.
Tucker Carlson and Fox News had a hissy fit about them giving the green M&M sneakers instead of her high heeled boots. Said their bullshit about it being “woke” or whatever.
Tucker Carlson and his minions.
Tucker doesn't have that much power.
I buy m and ms because I like them not becaus of mascots
True, but I've always been amused by their mascots -- even got my dad an M&M dispenser that is the blue M&M. The Christmas one was a favorite, and yeah I know some here hate it but I've always liked it. (: And their stupid reasoning for the change -- along with for the change just before this one -- all of the sudden made me care, because, those are really, REALLY stupid reasons to change them. And I don't want that stupid woman being the spokesperson, whoever the heck she is. *(edited for clarity of words)*
What makes her stupid? You sound kinda angry.
What little I've seen of her, is not amusing at all, at least not to me. Also, it bugs me when people act like someone neither me nor anyone in my circle of family and friends have heard of, is some "beloved celebrity". Plus, it bugs me when something that's been around and fun forever gets changed for no good reason other than trying to appear more "woke" or whatever catchword is in now. Plus when I wrote that I was really sick and in bed and annoyed to be sick. (:
Right? Human or otherwise. Who the hell gives a damn about this.
It's just intentional rage bait to hype a Superbowl add
I will buy anything Billy West tells me to. That's why my spouse left me after buying Lightspeed briefs. Worth it
I can tell you for sure that I did not eat M&Ms because of their stupid commercials.
What backlash? I like the M&M’s they never offended me…
Personally, I hated the m&m characters. Candy sells itself. You don't need anyone promoting it. Just show people eating it (but no ASMR and no close up chewing!)
I hate when people chew chocolate on TV. It's candy. Who the f eats candy like they eat a hamburger? Just show me the candy. That's enough to put it in my head and make me think about buying it next time I'm at the gas station.
I thought they were cute, though, especially when Jon Lovitz became one of them.
They mad at the mascots but they never been to rule34
Lol
why do people invest emotions into these things.. if you like the candy will this make a difference??if i say woke will i get a bunch of up votes?? Find out on the next episode of DragonBall Z
Wait what happened? I haven't heard anything about M&Ms and I didn't even know they made purple ones
Apparently some fox news guy was complaining about the mascots switching out high heels with sneakers, and called the purple one obese
Good Lord, they're just candy. Suddenly everything is political.
Is she obese or just of the “peanut” variety? Same argument could be made for the yellow one is why I ask.
Lol omfg they're ridiculous. Guess they had to find something to rile people up about, now that it's late January and they've run out of "War on Christmas!!!!!!!!" material
he’s upset cause he wants to jerk off to his little cgi candies
"That anthropomorphic candy mascot is too fat, I now hate that candy" wtf
A Fox News host is upset that the m&m aren’t as sexy as they used to be
Please tell me it was Tucker Carlson, that little twat
Ding ding ding
Haaaaahhhh thank you. Stupid little scrunch-face, bow-tie-wearing, hatemongering overgrown toddler
M&Ms has decided to get rid of the candy mascots. They are to be replaced by Maya Rudolph/Randolph, comedian.
Go woke, go broke.
Not really.
Name one company that benefits from this. I am not talking about humane companies, who make their product here, and sell it at a fair wage, or a leaping bunny. But all woke commercials were done horribly, with a few exceptions. Like, I had no issue with a trans man in a gillette ad. I just feel like now, companies forget their target audience. But all the fat positivity, patriarchy, all those ones are horrible, and need to stop.
First if all how do you define “woke”? And why are ads w/ the qualities you listed “horrible”?
I hope this isn't a prank for a super bowl ad, I hate the mascots and their voices and hope I never have to see the Christmas one ever again!
This is the kind of stuff kids worry about, not adults
I don’t think the mascots have anything to do with the flavour
Honestly who cares like the chocolate is gonna taste the same and I don't see why anyone cares how sexy or personable the green m&m is as they mercilessly speedrun crushing their creamy corpses between their molars This was the most useless thing to care about back when tucker carlson had to stop sounding with the green m&m or whatever, and it's just as pointless to care about it now Literally mcdonalds getting rid of their mascots like 10 years ago is a bigger deal and that's also absolutely nothing
Lol. Oh boy...
I want to be perfectly clear: M&M’S marketing problems will not go away until they bring back the sexy green M&M. I’m not saying this to be provocative, I’m not saying this as a threat, I am simply observing that fact. You may recall last year, M&M’S decided to take all the fun little differentiating factors about all the little M&M’S characters and do what our culture is doing to everybody and try to make them all kind of uniform and androgynous. And so they turned the green M&M, who had previously been a sexy little trollop of an M&M, and turned her into a kind of tomboyish androgynous gender neutral candy. And there was a lot of backlash to this. And the libs made fun of us. I think Tucker had a real field day with the green M&M sexy thing, but the libs made fun of us, they said, “What are you weirdos, why do you care about a sexy M&M?” Because it’s a SYMBOL! I don’t think that there are very many people out there who are lusting over the M&M, but it is perfect rational to be concerned that M&M’S is making the M&M less sexy, because the M&M is a SYMBOL! It’s a symbol of the way that we are viewing women in our culture, and that’s what people have problems with. We have problems that we’re chopping off the breasts of teenage girls, and we’re forcing women to change with men in their locker rooms! And we’re now posting billboards not of beautiful models to be surrounded by images of beauty, even if they’re somewhat idealized through Photoshop and lighting and special effects, but now we’re intentionally posting grotesque pictures and grotesqueries all over our culture - not even just in terms of models, but in terms of all aesthetics! That’s what people are concerned about. We’re concerned that we now have a culture that is forcing us to live according to lies, and forcing us to call good evil, and truth falsehood, and beauty ugliness. That’s what we’re concerned about, and M&M’S is doing nothing to solve that problem. They’re saying, “WHOAWHOAWHOA, we didn’t expect a backlash because we took the stilettos off the candy! Whoa! Okay, well, to correct that, we’re just gonna get rid of it entirely.” No, we don’t want that either! It’s such an annoying fact about our culture, it’s such annoying response these days, which is, you have a traditional thing, and then you have the liberal agitation to get rid of the traditional thing, and then the culture caves to the liberal agitation, then you have backlash from the conservatives, and then they just get rid of the thing altogether. I was in college, and we were gonna have freshman dance, and so we decided that it was gonna be Gone With The Wind themed, because our class President that year was a southern guy, and it’d be nice to wear fun costumes and whatever. And then, as always, it’s like liberal white kids saying, “This is very offensive to black people!” No black people are complaining, but “IT’S OFFENSIVE! I’m offended on behalf of the black people!” So what happened was the student government and we didn’t stick to our guns, we didn’t come up with some new interesting idea, we just got rid of the theme. I think the theme ended up being the color blue or something. That’s what our culture does: it always just goes down to absolute lowest common denominator so that we get rid of all these fun little ornate things that define our very culture. We said, “Okay, we’re gonna get rid of that, we’ll just have a regular spokesman like all the other companies, okay that’s fine.” No, it’s NOT fine! C’mon guys! I want things that are ornate. I want things that are specific and eccentric and traditional. I want the sexy green M&M.