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Title: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2015, 02:16:24 PM
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/09/technology/clorox-emoji-tweet/

(http://www.adweek.com/files/2015_Apr/clorox-1.jpg)

(http://www.adweek.com/files/2015_Apr/clorox-3.jpg)

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"You need to clean up your PR person. Put some bleach on your distasteful marketing ideas," tweeted @DriNicole. "Black emojis were added today. Saying this implies you'd rather the emojis be only white, by adding bleach."

(http://www.adweek.com/files/2015_Apr/clorox-2.jpg)
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist twitter comment
Post by: toku on April 10, 2015, 02:43:42 PM
This is how we live now.
Title: Mod Bot
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2015, 02:51:42 PM
Please do not mock outrage mock outrage mock outrage mock outrage mock outrage outrage.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 10, 2015, 03:04:45 PM
I'm just waiting for a corporation with balls to someday reply to the Twitter folk." Are you fucking kidding me?!"
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: CatsCatsCats on April 10, 2015, 03:05:47 PM
If you give a fuck about this, try drinking the bleach.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 10, 2015, 03:07:23 PM
wat
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2015, 03:07:24 PM
I'm just waiting for a corporation with balls to someday reply to the Twitter folk." Are you fucking kidding me?!"
Should just RT some of the crappiest ones and then tweet "black people smh"
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2015, 03:12:03 PM
Ethnic cleansing, fabric cleansing, tomato, tomatoe.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Positive Touch on April 10, 2015, 03:23:27 PM
maybe companies will finally realize that they all don't need a social media presence.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 10, 2015, 03:25:42 PM
maybe companies will finally realize that they all don't need a social media presence.

Yeah, who the heck follows CLOROX BLEACH on Twitter, anyway?  :mindblown
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2015, 03:26:34 PM
Just where the hell do you get your breaking Clorox brand products news from dog?!?
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 10, 2015, 03:27:47 PM
I don't use Clorox, I use Top Job.  :win
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Steve Contra on April 10, 2015, 03:28:51 PM
Imagine if you decided that the bleach company you work for somehow needed a social presence so you paid someone to do that and the result was this.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 10, 2015, 03:32:22 PM
My official black person response: who gives a fuck.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 10, 2015, 03:35:37 PM
$1 store bleach

i don't even know what the fuck it's called

i think it just has the word bleach on it

Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 10, 2015, 03:42:04 PM
If it's good enough for Beyonce, it's good enough for me.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on April 10, 2015, 03:45:18 PM
This seems like some misdirected social justice anger that was hand made for GAF.  They should be balls deep with outrage if they're not already.

 :drudge                     :drudge
Sound the alarms.  This looks like a 5 cry hanky alert.

Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Steve Contra on April 10, 2015, 03:46:27 PM
Also why would any public figure or company want to be on Twitter?  Is there any benefit?
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2015, 03:46:28 PM
If it's good enough for Beyonce, it's good enough for me.
But which brand?

Also why would any public figure or company want to be on Twitter?  Is there any benefit?
Uh, what do you do when customers want to follow you and you aren't there to follow? Set their house on fire? Murder their families? Because that's almost literally what it's practically like basically.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 10, 2015, 03:58:23 PM
Also why would any public figure or company want to be on Twitter?  Is there any benefit?

Taco Bell's twitter has deepened my appreciation for the quesarito.

(http://i.imgur.com/9D2uoK7.png)
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2015, 04:00:27 PM
http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/29/technology/social/taco-bell-emoji/

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"Why do pizza and hamburger lovers get an emoji but taco lovers don't?" Taco Bell asks.

With a Change.org petition combined with a furious social media campaign, Taco Bell is trying to make taco emojis a reality.

Nearly 27,000 people have signed Taco Bell's online petition, and the fast food chain unveiled "Taco Emoji" t-shirts on Thursday.

The taco emoji campaign might seem random, but it's actually based on a looming update to the emoji system. Unicode Consortium, a non-profit organization that regulates emojis among other computer text, announced in November that 37 candidates for new emoticons could be added as part of a code update scheduled for June.

The finalists include racially diverse emoji faces, a zipper-mouth face, prayer beads, a cricket bat and a taco.

Taco Bell's campaign began in November, but the company says it won't declare victory until the Unicode Consortium creates a taco emoji for the masses.

https://www.change.org/p/unicode-consortium-the-taco-emoji-needs-to-happen-2
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 10, 2015, 04:00:41 PM
Real talk, I don't remember the last time I've been this disappointed with white men as a race. At what point are you going to just put your foot down and kill this faux outrage shit. You have killed billions of brown people, enslaved continents, created Taco Bell...yet you can't stand firm against tumblr? This aggression shouldn't stand, white man. Come the fuck on.

Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: brob on April 10, 2015, 04:04:50 PM
maybe companies will finally realize that they all don't need a social media presence.

I hope they don't. The world would be deprived of perhaps the greatest window into lifeless existence.

Just look at this https://twitter.com/ipostparcels/status/577429467385196544
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: T234 on April 10, 2015, 04:05:38 PM
The level of butthurt is OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAANNND
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Brehvolution on April 10, 2015, 04:08:10 PM
Reply to corporate twitter, brehs.
(http://i.imgur.com/ENGHha0.png)
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2015, 04:08:41 PM
The level of butthurt is OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAANNND
Actually, if you'll read the tweets and all of twitter in general you'll see there was no actual out of order outrage, that people are not sitting at home screaming and crying about this and that the real victims are the people who are being accused of something they didn't do, which is get upset about a tweet by a bleach company.

Pretending outrage culture exists is like raping cows through cultural imperialism.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on April 10, 2015, 04:30:14 PM
They had to know what they were doing. It's just controversial enough to upset people and get retweeted like crazy while still allowing them the "oops, misunderstanding!" out.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2015, 04:38:05 PM
Taco Bell's Twitter is good people.

So is Lufthansa for entertaining my Interflug jokes.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: nachobro on April 10, 2015, 04:38:41 PM
so if we got multicultural emojis now does that all the old ones were all asian?
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 10, 2015, 04:38:45 PM
They had to know what they were doing. It's just controversial enough to upset people and get retweeted like crazy while still allowing them the "oops, misunderstanding!" out.

When you say 'they', do you mean the 20 year old interns that have to do it in-between delivering mail and coffee to cubicles?


Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on April 10, 2015, 04:44:01 PM
Maybe, maybe not. All I know is being cynical about marketing and advertising is fun.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: StealthFan on April 10, 2015, 06:11:58 PM
:hitler
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 10, 2015, 06:46:30 PM
I remember five years ago people couldn't stop jerking themselves off about how connected we all are now thanks to social media.  Now in 2015 we decide to let the internet equivalent of crazy cat ladies and hectoring schoolmarms run the show.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Sausage on April 10, 2015, 06:54:20 PM
This is peak internet.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 11, 2015, 12:27:11 AM
The real internet starts here.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 11, 2015, 01:38:04 AM
maybe companies will finally realize that they all don't need a social media presence.
That's what I keep telling them! 90% of the companies out there don't need it.
I remember one company employed 3 full time people plus a boss to maintain their twitter account and when I asked how much they had returned on their investment in twitter presence they said, "I don't know, but I'm sure it's a lot"

:comeon
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: benjipwns on April 11, 2015, 01:49:02 AM
Twitter hasn't made money off its own presence has it?
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 11, 2015, 10:19:35 AM
Twitter hasn't made money off its own presence has it?

Nah, they're making pretty good money.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 11, 2015, 12:48:23 PM
Twitter hasn't made money off its own presence has it?

Nah, they're making pretty good money.

Twitter's net income in 2014 was -$577.82 million.  They're not making good money at all.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 11, 2015, 12:58:31 PM
faux outrage is just like gay subtext; a way of playing with eachother over the internet.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 11, 2015, 01:20:12 PM
Twitter hasn't made money off its own presence has it?

Nah, they're making pretty good money.

Twitter's net income in 2014 was -$577.82 million.  They're not making good money at all.

In most cases that would be really bad, but Twitter likes to hand out lots of stock to its employees [about $650 million worth in 2014], which gets counted towards the GAAP net income line item even though that kind of transaction has nothing to do with the inflow/outflow of actual money.
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Kara on April 11, 2015, 01:46:31 PM
Impressive GR. :leon

I was expecting an EBITDA instead. :obama
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 11, 2015, 02:22:55 PM
Impressive GR. :leon

I was expecting an EBITDA instead. :obama

I still remember enough of my college accounting courses to read a balance sheet, at least. :lol
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: Rufus on April 11, 2015, 05:59:18 PM
So many accountants on this forum. :lol
Title: Re: KKKlorox apologizes for hateful virulent racist pro-ethnic-cleansing tweet
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 12, 2015, 01:44:22 AM
I used to love twitter back in the day, meaning last week, but having been really busy I somehow went a week without reading twitter and I already don't understand anything anymore?????????