M&M's Fires Their 'Spokescandies' After Woke Characters Cause Huge Backlash

RNN ^ | 01-23-2023 | Brandon Morse

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What used to be arguably America’s most famous candy became infamous over the course of the last few years as it descended into woke culture as many corporations did, and just like these other corporations, it paid the price.

"Get woke, Go broke," as the saying goes.

M&M’s marketing team decided to take the beloved characters and begin changing up how they act and behave. While Red and Yellow were left alone, Green was defeminized so that she wasn’t so obviously a woman, which was offensive to the hard left for some reason.

Moreover, they began adding other colors for the various flavors coming out, but they were attached to "social messaging" to appeal to so-called “modern audiences.” They even produced a pricey "intro" video for the weird Purple, filled with LGBTQ side characters.

And they made Green and Brown a lesbian couple too

To be sure, the backlash was nothing short of immediate. People began vowing to distance themselves from, not just M&Ms, but the Mars candy company in general.

It hurt. Badly. Sales dropped, and polling reportedly told Mars execs why: customer hated the new woke characters.

[Magnum44]

[MHGinTN]

Degenerate minds have infiltrated too many board rooms.

[Quentin Quarantino]

Lez and Tranz M&Ms.

Not groovy.

[Berosus]

Did any company that “Got Woke,” actually go broke? As much as I’d like to see it, I can’t think of one that did.

[Tell It Right]

They should melt in the mouth, not on the glands.

[CatOwner]

"We weren't sure if anyone would even notice."

What a bunch of malarkey. They knew exactly what they were doing. They just figured most everyone would go along with it.

[Magnum44]

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Its bizarre that a candy thinks that it has to make a political statement of any kind as part of its marketing pitch. Put aside the “Woke” / Liberal angle. Why can’t a candy commercial just be fun and silly? Why does it need to include some type of current political issue? In the good old days, including politics and religion of any kind in an advertisement was the kiss of death.

[Political Junkie Too]

Bed, Bath and Beyond, after dropping MyPillow.

-PJ

[ConservativeInPA]

Too late, I can do without M&Ms and it’s going to stay that way. Go woke and there are consequences

[CatOwner]

Did any company that “Got Woke,” actually go broke? As much as I’d like to see it, I can’t think of one that did.

Not that I am aware of. Heck, the Red Hen Restaurant, the one that asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave, is apparently doing just fine.

[ClearCase_guy]

Sounds a bit like Coca-Cola trying to recover from their massive “New Coke” ad campaign — “We weren’t sure if anyone would even notice.”

[Verginius Rufus]

Once upon a time people bought M&M's because they liked them, and there were no cartoon "spokescandies" to tell them to. How long have the cartoon characters been around? Not nearly as long as the candies.

"Melts in your mouth, not in your hand."

[CatOwner]

Bed, Bath and Beyond, after dropping MyPillow.

BB&B was barely on life-support well before making the MyPillow decision.

[Vaquero]

I wish they’d reboot those disgusting eHarmony ads. Puke material as my Pop used to say.

[dfwgator]

LOL, that’s just soooooo wrong.

[dfwgator]

Yeah they didn’t notice Coke started using HFCS.

[Navy Patriot]

M&M's Fires Their 'Spokescandies' After Woke Characters Cause Huge Backlash

It's official, I can no longer keep up with all this Woke Leftist crap.

These wokesters are truly insane.