Posted on 04/21/2015 10:42:04 PM PDT by Steelfish
Hard Rock Removes Ad After Accusations That a Guitar-Playing Orangutan Is Offensive
Inset: Hard Rock's offending ad
by KATHERINE TIMPF April 21, 2015
Ad was intended to promote new location in Malaysia. Hard Rock Cafe has ended a promotional campaign featuring a Photoshopped picture of an orangutan playing a guitar after facing accusations that the picture was outrageously offensive because the orangutan was playing a guitar.
The ad was intended to promote the chain’s new location in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of the state of Sabah in Malaysia and home to a famous wildlife refuge for the endangered animal. Seeing as Hard Rock Cafe’s symbol is a guitar, and Kota Kinabalu’s symbol is the orangutan, the marketing team probably didn’t think twice about combining the two. After all, they’ve done similar things before — like a raven-guitar combo for the Baltimore location and a bear-ukulele combo for Maui — without having any problems.
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DANG!
he looks like ROCKZILLA to me!
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