There are plenty of reasons why a company might use social media. Increasing brand awareness and website traffic, generating leads, and managing their reputation are just a few of them. But whatever its intentions are, a business uses Instagram, Facebook, and other platforms for its own gain. And people see right through it. So when nonsensical corporate BS appears on their feed, they often respond to it, reminding its authors that they're not fooling anyone.
Twitter account "Brands Getting Owned" is the place to go if you want to check out these savage roasts. It shares fan-submitted screenshots of exchanges companies wish to forget, and as its bio says, tries to dismantle capitalism one L at a time. Continue scrolling for the pics.
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Probably one of the biggest corporate social media fails we covered here at Bored Panda was the time Burger King said that "Women belong in the kitchen." Do you remember? They picked the best time for this phrase, too. The company tweeted it during International Women's Day when everyone was celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women across the globe.
Burger King's tweet caused quite a spectacle—it was described as a misogynistic and outdated remark towards women's role in society.
The company's social media team shortly followed the tweet with an explanation that their aim was to draw attention to the fact that only 20% of professional chefs in the UK are women and that they are under-represented in the culinary industry—they have decided to use International Women’s Day as an opportunity to advertise their culinary scholarship which offers financial assistance to women who work at Burger King and aspire to an academic degree in culinary arts.
But it was already too late. Eventually, the original “controversial” tweet was deleted and Burger King has issued an apology.
There are plenty of ways you can screw up on social media. Nasty comments, rude tweets, a timeline full of misspellings and other faux pas; the possibilities are endless. And they're usually easy enough to fix or delete without it seeming like the end of the world. If you're a regular person.
Not so much for those big business accounts. Of course, corporations are people too—but they're people under constant scrutiny by the jury of the Internet. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
This is deflection from the fact that a small number of corporations are the major polluters by trying to make it seem like it's a personal responsibility issue
Also, human rights abuses notwithstanding, can we address the bit about "193%"?
I would presume from the context that Asher is transgender (FtM), and after undergoing the top-part of the gender reassignment surgery (removal of superfluous breast tissue) some content moderator for Tumblr decided that the aftermath of the surgery wasn't 'male enough' yet for their terms of service.
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Discord be like: dontlookdontlookdontlook, this is just one of many homophobic places.
Tumblr! Stop being evil and start becoming funny haha meme site again!
Should we also point out wat youtube and twitter have done to the LGBT+ community too or...?
YouTube and twitter are queer central man, what the heck do you mean?
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Oddly enough you can care about more than one thing at the same time.
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Remember a few years ago when Kroger sold off a bunch of their convenience stores that they couldn't maintain but said it was to "focus on their grocery stores" ??? How's that working out Kroger?
Better even than telling them to go to hell, just don't use their service. If they're unethical but you use them anyway your just encouraging the behavior.
$15 per hour is more than we get in Britain for minimum wage. But then we do have a Health Service which from what I have read on here is worth so damn much, a lot more than a couple of dollars
I would have preferred a little less capital letters, still: He/she nailed it!
SO many people are already parroting this line from right wing politicians, it’s so frustrating.
Vermont is in the top ten highest minimum wages in the country. It was an ignorant move to attack Sanders over this. 'Just Amazon being terrified of organized labor (aka unions).
yeah this could be bad , he worked on AI and had to shut it down after it created it's own language to communicate with other AI, not sure if they ever worked out what it said ,https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/facebook-researchers-shut-down-ai-bots-that-started-speaking-in-a-language-unintelligible-to-humans-3876197.html#:~:text=Researchers%20from%20Facebook%20found%20that,were%20creating%20their%20own%20language.&text=This%20led%20Facebook%20researchers%20to,each%20other%20only%20in%20English.
That happens literally across the board. It’s the corporate version of an influencer/youtuber posting a video of them doing some sort of charity.
What's even more ironic is that Stadia is a product of Google. You know, the search engine that almost everyone uses...
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Brands really need to quit it with the social media. Almost as badly as certain politicians do.
unless its Wendy's ofc 😌 national roast day is the best
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BP is an aggregator site that doesn't pay a cent for any content, but makes millions from selling ads for the site. Capitalism at its finest!
AdGuard for mobile will fix that real quick.
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Amazon is lookin real shitty here.. will I still shop there? Yes, yes I will.
:-( I quit Amazon shopping. Conscience. And, yes, I miss Amazon shopping. :-(
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I hate the fact that higher wages mean higher costs. Higher costs mean even those wages can't pay for everything. Then the workers will demand even higher pay, leading to even higher costs. A Big Mac in 1995 cost 85 cents. Today it costs $4.50. In 2030 it will cost maybe $10.
Get a real job then if you can’t afford the higher costs.
Load More Replies... Brands really need to quit it with the social media. Almost as badly as certain politicians do.
unless its Wendy's ofc 😌 national roast day is the best
Load More Replies... BP is an aggregator site that doesn't pay a cent for any content, but makes millions from selling ads for the site. Capitalism at its finest!
AdGuard for mobile will fix that real quick.
Load More Replies... Amazon is lookin real shitty here.. will I still shop there? Yes, yes I will.
:-( I quit Amazon shopping. Conscience. And, yes, I miss Amazon shopping. :-(
Load More Replies... I hate the fact that higher wages mean higher costs. Higher costs mean even those wages can't pay for everything. Then the workers will demand even higher pay, leading to even higher costs. A Big Mac in 1995 cost 85 cents. Today it costs $4.50. In 2030 it will cost maybe $10.
Get a real job then if you can’t afford the higher costs.
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