Well, maybe Pepsi needs to change their name to Pimp-si. As if parents didn't have enough to deal with, Pepsi seeks to help their teen boys find and seduce teen (or older) girls. No more "Pepsi...the pause that refreshes". Now, it's "Pepsi....sickening and sexist".
Pepsi Scrambling To Calm Outrage Over iPhone App "Amp Up Before You Score" Henry Blodget|Oct. 14, 2009
Some idiot at Pepsi had a brilliant idea: Since energy drinks are drunk by randy teenagers, make an iPhone app that offers suggestions about how to get laid! Not surprisingly, people are outraged: Pepsi's a family company! So now Pepsi's scrambling to figure out how it could possibly have been so boneheaded... Valerie Bauerlein and Suzanne Vranica, WSJ: The app, released last Friday, purports to help men pick up any one of 24 types of women, such as the "sorority girl," "cougar," "rebound girl" or "punk rock girl." Users can choose the type of woman they have their eye on, then get coached on facts that might be useful, such as computing a carbon footprint to impress "the treehugger." Suggested pick-up lines can be risqué. To pick up "the artist," the app recommends the following line: "You know the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. I wonder what else she shaves." The app then takes the coaching a step further, encouraging users who "score" to post details such as name, date and comments, for their pals via Facebook and Twitter... (rest of article at link below)
Pepsi is understandably holding emergency meetings to discuss whether to pull the app. But if you hurry you can still download it from the App Store.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. ~Susan B. Anthony
There goes Pepsico being idiotic again - do they really think only boys 12-17 will buy their product? Another one of their dumb ad campaigns that you'd expect from the same company that inspired Obama's logo. They're a shell of the company they were when Joan Crawford was on the Board.
The "Mommy Dearest" Joan Crawford?!! I never knew - if she's the one to whom you refer. OMG.
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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. ~Susan B. Anthony
Well, maybe Pepsi needs to change their name to Pimp-si. As if parents didn't have enough to deal with, Pepsi seeks to help their teen boys find and seduce teen (or older) girls. No more "Pepsi...the pause that refreshes". Now, it's "Pepsi....sickening and sexist".
Pepsi Scrambling To Calm Outrage Over iPhone App "Amp Up Before You Score" Henry Blodget|Oct. 14, 2009
Some idiot at Pepsi had a brilliant idea: Since energy drinks are drunk by randy teenagers, make an iPhone app that offers suggestions about how to get laid! Not surprisingly, people are outraged: Pepsi's a family company! So now Pepsi's scrambling to figure out how it could possibly have been so boneheaded... Valerie Bauerlein and Suzanne Vranica, WSJ: The app, released last Friday, purports to help men pick up any one of 24 types of women, such as the "sorority girl," "cougar," "rebound girl" or "punk rock girl." Users can choose the type of woman they have their eye on, then get coached on facts that might be useful, such as computing a carbon footprint to impress "the treehugger." Suggested pick-up lines can be risqué. To pick up "the artist," the app recommends the following line: "You know the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. I wonder what else she shaves." The app then takes the coaching a step further, encouraging users who "score" to post details such as name, date and comments, for their pals via Facebook and Twitter... (rest of article at link below)
Pepsi is understandably holding emergency meetings to discuss whether to pull the app. But if you hurry you can still download it from the App Store.
Oh my dear Lord! You know, we're seeing this over and over again these days. I can't believe what marketing companies that have been hired by these huge businesses come up with. And I can't believe that these huge businesses FALL for these disgusting campaigns.
I think part of it is the internet culture. People go online and can see ANYTHING, so they start to think that anything goes.
People have to take a stand not to pollute their minds, and stay the hell away from crap, as a strict rule. Kids aren't always able to make the best decisions, so more effort has to be extended to protect them.
I'm glad, AT LEAST, that Pepsi thinks there's a problem. Some companies just go "What?"
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Yes, I meant THAT Joan Crawford - she married the president of the company in 1955, and was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors a few years later. She was there for years.
But I really don't have much sympathy for the backlash Pepsi is undergoing for this retarded campaign - they tried to dismiss all the complaints with a lame tweeted apology. All that did was to start upm a #pepsifail one in response.
