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    [–]makesyoudownvote 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Me too. One bad marketing tactic shouldn't tank an entire brand like that... But I am split for two reasons.

    1. Budweiser has always sucked. I found it incredibly offensive when I went to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and the only beer you could buy was Budweiser... in GERMANY. Not only that but they were charging American stadium prices when in Germany you can usually get a world class beer for like $4.

    2. It seems to have shifted the tides of the woke apocalypse. It finally made a company go broke so blatantly and obviously as a result that just about every industry is taking heed. When it happened to a movie or a company they could obfuscate the financials under jargon and claims of trolls, but with Budweiser you simply can't hide the fact people wont buy it anymore. Blackrock finally stopped their ESG crusade and Hollywood is removing their forced diversity B.S.

    Budweiser doesn't deserve to be the scape goat, because honestly compared to the media on the whole and people like Larry Fink they basically did nothing.

    But they have been coasting on brand loyalty and the fact conservatives like dependability and domestic so much they are willing to take absolute swill just for it. It's the one demographic that actually drank budweiser and they pissed them off.

    [–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Ha ha ha Bud Light. Ha ha ha.

    [–]ExplodingToasterOven 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    When it comes to your megabrew gutter water that's being sold as beer, you do NOT rock the fucking boat. It's all about tradition.

    Granted, any drinker of light beer, you're gonna get some looks, but maybe you're just trying to cut down the carbs, and don't wanna go on to be just about whiteclaw junkie yet.. When that beer has a tranny as its poster child... Ahh fuck no!!! lol!

    And I don't care what brand or region of the country it is. You might have some pocket of Hamms drinkers, Pabst drinkers, Strohs drinker, on and on and on.. You don't fuck with the brand, even though the brand is decreasing, because the same three megabrews brew all the damned brands. Someone stops drinking bud light, they drink coors light, or busch light or some other shit.

    In a pinch, if they don't have your brand, you might drink something else. UNLESS its associated with some crazy shit, like trannies. Or if someone shot up a mini mall wearing some niche brand, because if they shot up a mini mall wearing Marlborough Action Wear, likely from the 90s and sourced from a thrift shop, nobody cares. Odds are they threw it on the morning before. Unless.. Said beer brand endorsed a streamer, who then shot up a mini mall. But if its FourLoco or Steel Reserve, that's par for the course. Any publicity is good publicity..

    [–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    So how did that transgender campaign work out for you InBev? Bet you won't make that mistake again.

    [–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Even alcoholics won't stoop that low.