Posted on 08/11/2023 3:29:10 PM PDT by DFG
Candy brand Skittles is facing backlash after partnering with GLAAD and altering some of its packaging to include 'Black Trans Lives Matter' messaging.
Images of the packet on social media prompted an outpouring of criticism on Twitter today, with many likening the 'woke' marketing to Dylan Mulvaney being used in Bud Light advertising.
It's the fourth year Skittles has teamed up with GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) to 'support the LGBTQ+ community by amplifying and celebrating their stories', according to Skittles' official website.
In a series of limited edition Pride Packs, the candy company has ditched its staple color wheel and opted for a toned-down packet with an illustration.
In previous years, the packets were all-gray to 'represent the brand’s cemented efforts of support', however last year the concept was changed to include work from five LGBTQ+ artists.
They were asked to create original designs which represented how they “see the rainbow” every day.
One example says 'express urself', while another includes the text 'Black Trans Lives Matter'.
'Bruh anytime a company does this it seems in-genuine when their only goal is maximizing profit for shareholders,' another claimed.
'I didn’t want to have to do this skittles.. bye,' a disappointed customer added.
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MFers. I almost never eat candy, but when I did it was Skittles or Sweetarts.
Insanity. Just make the danm candy! Stop trying to change the world with your candy!
Great idea - let’s promote a racist criminal organization and put it all over our candy 🤪
Black Trans Otherwise-abled Blind, Dead and Dumb Lives Matter
“Taste the rainbow” has a whole new meaning now. No more skittles for me.
Morons R’ US
All these marketing people flunked Marketing 101 I guess.
They can shove their Skittles up their homosexual butts.
The skittles of yesteryear were evidently not what they are today.
https://www.ingredientinspector.org/rapid-reviews/whats-in-skittles
Don’t care. Never ate that crap anyway.
Tapioca Rainbow
Really have some “geniuses” in those front offices. Why do you hit yourself in the head with that hammer? I like the way it feels when I stop.
Goodness. I’m down to apple strudel from the bakery.
Visions of mutilated genitals...
...mmmmm hmmmm ?
Appetizing ?
Morons.
So have you checked what kind of shortening they use in their strudel? LOL
Lol, no!
Idiots. See ya.
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