OT: Bud Light Commercial

It's business, corporations do what they gotta do to make money 

too many suckers out there with short memories

Unfortunately past decisions alienated them from their core consumer. 

Take em a long time to mend that fence.

@"rf54" said: too many suckers out there with short memories

If you drink beer you likley drink an anheuser busch product. 

I honestly don't give two shits, I've got Bud Light in my fridge right now. But this was an epic Marketing mistake on their part. Let's alienate the 'frat bros' that guzzle BL like its water all week against the transgender crowd that I highly doubt is drinking ANYWHERE near the amount the college bros are. Its just so dumb. Don't go woke over shit water beer that dudes end of slamming literally day long because its so low alcohol. And low calorie. Its the conceptual aspect that was so missing the mark. Consumption is the name of the game.

I saw that and just laughed. Like we know who you are now Bud Light, and for them to make a commercial like they are for the "everyday working man fan" is just laughable. I'd love nothing more than to see that company go out of business, and theor beer sucks anyways..

@"supafreak84" said: I saw that and just laughed. Like we know who you are now Bud Light, and for them to make a commercial like they are for the "everyday working man fan" is just laughable. I'd love nothing more than to see that company go out of business, and theor beer sucks anyways..

IT certainly doesnt smack of being authentic, does it?

I'll drop this and then I am out of this thread;

As the parent of a transgender young adult, the fact that this angered, frigtenened, alienated anyone is sad to me and my wife. 

Our kid would not hurt a fly, was kind as a child and she'd be the first to help a person/critter in need etc. There is NO recruitment of kids or forcing her lifestyle on anyone. 

 I wish the world could live and let live, but I also wish for peace in the middle east...

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"supafreak84" said: I saw that and just laughed. Like we know who you are now Bud Light, and for them to make a commercial like they are for the "everyday working man fan" is just laughable. I'd love nothing more than to see that company go out of business, and theor beer sucks anyways..

IT certainly doesnt smack of being authentic, does it?

I'll drop this and then I am out of this thread;

As the parent of a transgender young adult, the fact that this angered, frigtenened, alienated anyone is sad to me and my wife. 

Our kid would not hurt a fly, was kind as a child and she'd be the first to help a person/critter in need etc. There is NO recruitment of kids or forcing her lifestyle on anyone. 

 I wish the world could live and let live, but I also wish for peace in the middle east...

@"AGRforever" said:

@"rf54" said: too many suckers out there with short memories

If you drink beer you likley drink an anheuser busch product. 

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"rf54" said: too many suckers out there with short memories

If you drink beer you likley drink an anheuser busch product. 

Not necessarily,   Miller and Coors own a good share of the market,  even more since the BL marketing team shit the bed.

AB has a huge bar at the Sturgis rally and that place was a ghost town from all the reports I saw.  Half a million people and most are beer drinkers and are there to party and AB couldn't give away their products.

Huge advantage with a dvr.  I rarely watch programming live and skip over commercials when playing the file.  I'm not interested in commercials that promote political or social stances, period.  I know where I can find more information on the topic if desired.  I watch tv for enjoyment.  Commercials with political or social stances take away my enjoyment, thus banned.

@"IDVikingfan" said: Huge advantage with a dvr.  I rarely watch programming live and skip over commercials when playing the file.  I'm not interested in commercials that promote political or social stances, period.  I know where I can find more information on the topic if desired.  I watch tv for enjoyment.  Commercials with political or social stances take away my enjoyment, thus banned.

I don't watch commercials at all, but the NFL Network game I just left on and watched/did stuff and saw the BL commercial. 

I don't know why anyone would willingly drink that stuff

@"purplefaithful" said:

As the parent of a transgender young adult, the fact that this angered, frigtenened, alienated anyone is sad to me and my wife. 

Our kid would not hurt a fly, was kind as a child and she'd be the first to help a person/critter in need etc. There is NO recruitment of kids or forcing her lifestyle on anyone. 

This post is remarkably poignant.  

  Bravery by PF’s admission, and his child’s.

For me personally, live your life, just dont bring it to the streets, and scare the horses.

@"purplefaithful" said:

@"supafreak84" said: I saw that and just laughed. Like we know who you are now Bud Light, and for them to make a commercial like they are for the "everyday working man fan" is just laughable. I'd love nothing more than to see that company go out of business, and theor beer sucks anyways..

IT certainly doesnt smack of being authentic, does it?

I'll drop this and then I am out of this thread;

As the parent of a transgender young adult, the fact that this angered, frigtenened, alienated anyone is sad to me and my wife. 

Our kid would not hurt a fly, was kind as a child and she'd be the first to help a person/critter in need etc. There is NO recruitment of kids or forcing her lifestyle on anyone. 

 I wish the world could live and let live, but I also wish for peace in the middle east...

@"Vikergirl" said: It's business, corporations do what they gotta do to make money 

Hahaha.  Brilliant...   In wake of Dylan, they did what they could to lose money.   

@"AGRforever" said:

@"rf54" said: too many suckers out there with short memories

If you drink beer you likley drink an anheuser busch product. 

@"1VikesFan" said:

@"AGRforever" said:

@"rf54" said: too many suckers out there with short memories

If you drink beer you likley drink an anheuser busch product. 

I don't, can't stand the swill

So don't misunderstand me: I'm not digging on transgender people. I'm digging on the ridiculous notion that transgenders would drink anywhere near the level of Bud Light that 'frat bros' would and that's what the VP of Marketing was saying: she wanted to 'elevate' Bud Light from partying college bros. Being an elitist Coast resident, she hadn't the vaguest idea that this would instigate vitriol with the mouth breathers that guzzle the shit like water. Why do that? You do it because you're a myopic dumb shit that probably would never, ever drink not only Bud Light, but any Lite beer, and couldn't be farther personally removed from the demographic that does. 

@"StickyBun" said: So don't misunderstand me: I'm not digging on transgender people. I'm digging on the ridiculous notion that transgenders would drink anywhere near the level of Bud Light that 'frat bros' would and that's what the VP of Marketing was saying: she wanted to 'elevate' Bud Light from partying college bros. Being an elitist Coast resident, she hadn't the vaguest idea that this would instigate vitriol with the mouth breathers that guzzle the shit like water. Why do that? You do it because you're a myopic dumb shit that probably would never, ever drink not only Bud Light, but any Lite beer, and couldn't be farther personally removed from the demographic that does. 

degrees dont mean common sense,  and marketing is largely about common sense first and then applying that degree to fine tune the approach,  pretty obvious with this and so many other woke marketing decisions over the last few years that we are turning out people with college degrees that likely are incapable of actually understanding their jobs.  engineering is another one that is getting scary... they can do the math, but they really dont seem to understand the issue to correctly apply their math,  but dammit if they dont have the degree that says they are the experts to fix the problem.