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#503
BowlBrother85 said:
It was all over Twitter. I did not learn of it from Rolling Stone. I observed it while it was happening and posted it on here, as did @n_huffhines in the cancel culture thread. He told me to cool my tits. The idiots were the people who claimed to be Pink Floyd fans, and interpreted the prism on PF's commemorative tweet to be an endorsement of gay pride. Just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean that it didn't happen.
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It wasn’t all over Twitter…. I’m on Twitter and follow as many liberals as I do conservatives…. I haven’t seen a single person post about it nor is it showing up as trending when I looked. I’m sure I could search and find a few idiots arguing about it though.

Reminds me of a wal mart protest that Huff posted about making fun of conservatives…After looking at Twitter….. I could only find one random post mad at wal mart and over 2,000 posts making fun of some made up protest that wasn’t happening.
 
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#504
volbeast33 said:
It wasn’t all over Twitter…. I’m on Twitter and follow as many liberals as I do conservatives…. I haven’t seen a single person post about it nor is it showing up as trending when I looked. I’m sure I could search and find a few idiots arguing about it though.

Reminds me of a wal mart protest that Huff posted about making fun of conservatives…After looking at Twitter….. I could only find one random post mad at wal mart and over 2,000 posts making fun of some made up protest that wasn’t happening.
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It was from January ... I have bumped the link to it in the cancel culture thread. It was all over Twitter like I said. There were several articles written about it including one that I linked from Rolling Stone.
 
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#505
BowlBrother85 said:
It was from January ... I have bumped the link to it in the cancel culture thread. It was all over Twitter like I said. There were several articles written about it including one that I linked from Rolling Stone.
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I have looked all over Twitter…. Couldn’t find the actual Rolling Stone article on Twitter so I could see the comments below it…. I did find the article online from Rolling Stones…. It appears these articles were derived from very few comments about the subject…. There are 330,000,000 people in the US alone…. There are going to be a few idiot comments on any subject but it appears to be a huge stretch to say conservatives were upset/protesting Pink Floyd.

They are upset about Bud Light…. I don’t really blame them… that was ridiculous.
 
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#506
volbeast33 said:
I have looked all over Twitter…. Couldn’t find the actual Rolling Stone article on Twitter so I could see the comments below it…. I did find the article online from Rolling Stones…. It appears these articles were derived from very few comments about the subject…. There are 330,000,000 people in the US alone…. There are going to be a few idiot comments on any subject but it appears to be a huge stretch to say conservatives were upset/protesting Pink Floyd.

They are upset about Bud Light…. I don’t really blame them… that was ridiculous.
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That is wrong ... the Rolling Stone article only included a few comments. There were hundreds.
 
#510
#510
W.TN.Orange Blood said:
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We get the lame and immature "69" joke. However ....

Did Bud Light sales drop 50 percent? What we know

^^^ This fact-check was in response to a right-winger who had claimed that Bud Light sales had dropped by 50%.

According to the article in Newsweek, that is linked up above :

The most recently available data, from Brewbound, for the week ending April 8, 2023, reveals that dollar sales for Bud Light have declined by 7%, while dollar share declined by 3.7%, and volume declined by 10.7%.

These are indeed noteworthy declines. There should be no need to exaggerate the decline with such a ridiculous figure to make a point ... but that is what conservatives do, when reality isn't quite what they want it to be.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
We get the stupid and immature "69" joke ... and we get the fact that conservatives are exaggerating how much this controversy has hurt the sales of Bud Light.
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I have no idea what the 69 joke is. And don't care. All I know is that I drank my last BL. That's all I can control or care about. You do you.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
I have no idea what the 69 joke is. And don't care. All I know is that I drank my last BL. That's all I can control or care about. You do you.
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Never heard of the phrase :

"Wine me, dine me, 69 me" ???

A "69" is a sexual position where two people are simultaneously giving each other oral sex. It can obviously be performed in a heterosexual encounter as well ... but it's probably more commonly done by homosexuals.

Sex Ed. is now dismissed. LOL.
 
#515
#515
SpaceCoastVol said:
Come on man, even you have to admit it was a stupid hill for AB to die on.
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They didn't die on a hill. There's only one side of this argument that is going nuts over this.

They've lost about an aggregate 9% in sales. To paint it as "50%+" like tons of folks are is dumb as ****.

It wasn't a smart move by AB, but to point to it as disastrous (especially since the triggered demographic is literally dying off in the next 5-20 years) is a stretch.
 
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#518
I would like to know what their distributors think about this. That is a huge dent in their sales portfolio.
 
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#519
OL SMOKEY said:
I would like to know what their distributors think about this. That is a huge dent in their sales portfolio.
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Depends on your market and what accounts you have. I asked one of my rep buddies about it last week (AB is part of Knoxville's biggest beer distro), and he says it's been fairly negligible as most of his accounts are here in downtown. He says the county accounts saw a shift downward, but they are a fart in the wind compared to what the downtown venues purchase.
 
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#520
ClearwaterVol said:
I don’t really understand the uproar. The promotion involves one of hundreds of influencers hired by Bud. It doesn’t attempt to alienate Bud drinkers. It simply shows support for LBGTQ community.

Why does this so offend Bud drinkers?
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I think it is a combo of Mulvaney combined with what the VP said about its customer base which is in line with DEI rhetoric and action. So, that customer base said they'll buy another beer. Why is that a problem?
 
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#521
utvols88 said:
I think it is a combo of Mulvaney combined with what the VP said about its customer base which is in line with DEI rhetoric and action. So, that customer base said they'll buy another beer. Why is that a problem?
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What did she say about the customer base?
 
#522
#522
BowlBrother85 said:
Never heard of the phrase :

"Wine me, dine me, 69 me" ???

A "69" is a sexual position where two people are simultaneously giving each other oral sex. It can obviously be performed in a heterosexual encounter as well ... but it's probably more commonly done by homosexuals.

Sex Ed. is now dismissed. LOL.
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Of course BB85 finds it necessary to define 69.
 
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ClearwaterVol said:
What did she say about the customer base?
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"Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor, and it was really important that we had another approach"

That's attacking the customer base. The easiest thing to learn when getting a marketing degree was that PR was crucial. She could say something that includes a separate customer base, no problem. But to tag an approach in a negative light is poking a segment of the base and has potential to harm the brand.
 
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utvols88 said:
"Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor, and it was really important that we had another approach"

That's attacking the customer base. The easiest thing to learn when getting a marketing degree was that PR was crucial. She could say something that includes a separate customer base, no problem. But to tag an approach in a negative light is poking a segment of the base and has potential to harm the brand.
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She said that well prior to this.
 
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