Posted on 04/29/2019 4:55:00 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Brands, may we remind you for the umpteenth time, that if you're trying to get #relatable on Twitter, you're opening yourself up to being completely and utterly owned.
People have a lot of strong feelings about when and where brands can interject their own witty repartee in online discourse. No matter how seemingly wholesome (woke soap, anyone?) or unbelievably tone deaf (Sunny D's faked mental health crisis), the response is usually a resounding SILENCE BRAND.
JPMorgan Chase was the latest brand to get shut down over a failed attempt at reaching the masses with a tweet that has since been deleted. However, the internet always keeps the receipts.
People agreed that Chase had gone too far, trying to reach into the sensitive territory of people's personal finances all for the sake of the meme.
Along with mentioning Chase's fees which can often take advantage of its struggling customers, many were quick to point out that the Federal Reserve had to bail out JPMorgan Chase in 2008 to the tune of $25 billion.
Maybe they should have made their coffee at home.
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Chase said in a later tweet that it would work "to get better at #MondayMotivation tweets."
"Thanks for the feedback Twitter world," the bank added.
Let the flame wars begin.
Funny how bankers who live in The Hamptons are telling everyone else to skip their morning coffee.
Twitter is a fetid swamp.
CHASE #MondayMotivation: We Luv Liberals
wasn’t chase the bank that shut down accounts of conservative authors?
My local Chase Branch has deposit and withdrawal slips printed in both English and Chinese.
Are Chase colluding with the Red Chinese?
Inquiring minds want to know....
Yes, Chase didn’t want to do business with ‘those kind of people’.
You’re right and Chase was right.
However, it was a good point about the late fees they impose on their credit cards.
Banks could go a ways to not cost so much for consumers either.
Bank account: Because we’re keeping 99.9% of the money we make off of your money. Here’s your $0.25 interest payment.
Think of the cost cutting banks have done over the years.
ATM eliminated tellers. They no longer send us our checks. They charge us to maintain minimum balances.
Yeah, I know, they're private businesses and they can do what they want and we're free to put our money in another bank.
Have your bank fees ever gone down? Do their cost cutting savings ever benefit us?
In the case of Chase, they helped the government out in a pinch during the 2008-9 crisis. They rescued Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, stepping forward with cash when other banks were going broke. The secret? No subprime loans.
Investment and commercial banking should be separated...by law.
And they are black-balling Trump supporters and acting as morality police.
Chase needs to face facts.
At the core of most of the American people is a feeling towards banks which ranges from distaste to white seething hatred. It has been that way for a long time. It’s how somebody as absurd as Lizzie Warren gets elected to anything. It’s why that Milburn Drysdale character clicked.
That being the case, if you are a bank you are just plain STOOOOOOPID to open the door to be thrashed about the head on social media by scads of people who don’t like you.
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