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   Charlie Glock <"Charlie to Boycott Miller too   
   Re: Miller Lite downplays 'woke' ad foll   
   16 May 23 23:58:27   
   
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   From: Glock"@localhost.com   
      
   On 2023-05-16, Boycott Miller too  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > bud-light-disaster/>   
      
   Bud light is a swill beer but Miller Lite takes swill to an entirely new low.   
   That beer rally sucks badly.   
      
      
   --   
   Charlie Glock   
   "To conquer a nation, first disarm it's citizens"   
   -- Adolf Hitler   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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