Controversy
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Every year someone makes a commercial that is borderline racist or sexist or something that is straddling the line. The superbowl is especially known for these commercials as people actually look forward to see a new way they will sell a bag of doritos. But, most Suckers don’t recognize the angle of the game and they actually get mad. The company actually put these out there to make Suckers tell other Suckers that Pepsi put out a crappy commercial. So the Sucker actually helps to sell the product for the company way more than the blow back from a semi racist or sexist commercial. All attention is good attention especially when you are trying to sell a new product.
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I never saw this commercial on TV but now that I’m looking at it, I found it kinda funny.
I’m pretty sure it upset a lot of Black conscious women bloggers out there and I’m willing to bet the more they ran their mouth about this commercial, the more their own audience wanted to drink Pespi.
Well if you are sensitive you see all kinds of racist and/or sexist innuendo. But, I’m very confident Pepsi got a lot of people trying their product. Even if it’s 1 million people who try that’s way more money than it cost them to run the commercials. On the Sucker tip as soon as you make a stink about anything and put people on blast it has negative returns on the Sucker who brought it up. Just like you found it to be funny the Sucker who brought it up now looks like they are overly sensitive.
I didn’t know if anybody actually done their research but the lady actor play in a lot of lesbian/gay roles. I picked up on her gayness by the way she interacted with the man and did a little homework to confirm what I thought.