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   Boycott Miller too to All   
   Re: Miller Lite downplays 'woke' ad foll   
   16 May 23 22:40:45   
   
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   From: fuck_woke@usa.com   
      
   On 03 Nov 2021, Rich Keebler  posted some   
   news:slv0fi$f8f$28@news.dns-netz.com:   
      
   > David Hartung wrote   
   >   
   >> If a company is on the ESG list, boycott them.   
      
   Miller Lite launched a marketing campaign for Women’s History Month in   
   March that railed against beer ads focused on bimbos in bikinis — but   
   appears to have made efforts to keep quiet about it following Bud Light’s   
   disastrous Dylan Mulvaney tie-up.   
      
   Miller Lite’s Women’s History Month campaign, titled “Bad $#!T to Good   
   $#!T,” was posted on March 7, pledging to clean up the brand’s past of   
   sexist ads objectifying women — instead supporting female brewers by   
   donating fertilizer they can use to “grow quality hops.”   
      
   But just two months after the campaign’s launch, the video is nowhere to   
   be found on Miller Lite’s Twitter or TikTok accounts.   
      
   Comments for Instagram posts on the campaign have been disabled, with no   
   previous comment publicly visible.   
      
   The video of the ad on YouTube, meanwhile, is “unlisted” and doesn’t   
   appear on the beer brand’s channel page, or in YouTube’s search results or   
   suggestions.   
      
   In the “Bad $#!T to Good $#!T” ad, actress and comedian Ilana Glazer   
   shares a “little-known fact” that “women were among the very first to brew   
   beer — ever.”   
      
   She continued: “Centuries later, how did the industry pay homage to the   
   founding mothers of beer? They put us in bikinis. Wow.”   
      
   As she walks through a room plastered with years-old Miller Lite ads   
   filled with women in tight-fitting or barely-there clothing, Glazer says   
   “it’s time beer made it up to women.”   
      
   As of Monday, however, the easiest way to view the ad was through the   
   social media posts of critics who were busy roasting it.   
      
   It’s unclear whether the Instagram comments section had been scrubbed, or   
   if the YouTube post was listed publicly before having its privacy settings   
   changed.   
      
   It also remains unknown if the campaign video was previously posted to   
   Twitter before being taken down. As of Monday, The Post could not find   
   “Bad $#!T to Good $#!T” on Miller Lite’s Twitter account.   
      
   Miller Lite maker Molson Coors defended the campaign in a statement to The   
   Post on Monday.   
      
   “This video was about two things: worm poop and saying women shouldn’t be   
   forced to mud wrestle in order to sell beer. Neither of these things   
   should be remotely controversial and we hope beer drinkers can appreciate   
   the humor (and ridiculousness) of this video from back in March,” a   
   company spokesperson said.   
      
   Miller Lite’s “Bad $#!T to Good $#!T” campaign was posted one month before   
   trans social media star Dylan Mulvaney shared a custom Bud Light can the   
   brand sent her with her photo on it.   
      
   The Bud Light can, which was never for public sale, was intended to   
   celebrate Mulvaney’s “365 Days of Girlhood,” but instead served as the   
   catalyst for Bud Light’s downward spiral, with nationwide sales down 23.4%   
   versus a year ago in the week of April 29.   
      
      
      
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