M&Ms characters to be redesigned to be more "inclusive"

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M&Ms characters to be redesigned to be more "inclusive" Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:39:15 2022 No.17307443 [DELETED]

>"At Mars we believe that in the world we want tomorrow, society is inclusive," the company said in a statement Thursday. "And, as one of our most iconic brands, M&M’S is announcing a new global commitment to create a world where everyone feels they belong."
>The company added that the "refreshed M&M’S brand will include a more modern take on the looks of our beloved characters, as well as more nuanced personalities to underscore the importance of self-expression and power of community through storytelling."
>One of the changes being made, according to CBS News, involves the green M&M character swapping out her white heeled go-go boots for "cool, laid-back sneakers to reflect her effortless confidence."
>Additionally, the green and brown M&Ms will begin to foster a more friendly relationship to act as a "force supporting women."
>The red M&M will ditch his bullying tendencies and be kinder to other M&Ms and the orange M&M "embrace his true self, worries and all" in solidarity with the more "anxious" Gen Z generation.
>Mars will also begin to use imagery of different shapes and sizes rather than one body size and will no longer use prefixes from characters' names that assume gender.
Well I say it's about time!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:41:04 2022 No.17307449 YAASSSSSSSSSSS GENDER NONCONFORMING MONARCH SLAYYYYYYYYY

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:42:43 2022 No.17307455 File: 42 KB, 563x553, 1642736517773.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I hate incels Incels did this because they want sex

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:43:12 2022 No.17307460 >>17307443 I used to think they were insane, but Westboro Baptist was right all along, and I was the crazy one. Slippery slope isn't a fallacy, it's an understanding of human nature. I wish I had listened.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:50:02 2022 No.17307487 >>17307460 If there's one good thing about the slippery slope of degeneracy, it's that at the bottom of it lies the sweet spike pit of reactionary puritanism.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:51:32 2022 No.17307494 >>17307460 Really makes you think

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:52:49 2022 No.17307502

>>17307487
I don't want that either, but I guess that's the lesser evil at this point. Things were fine in the 90s, up until about 2005 or 2006. I just want a world where people are encouraged to mind their own business, busy bodies are told to shut the fuck up, and people still have enough sense to understand how ridiculous it would be to care about the pronouns of a fucking M&M. We had that once.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:53:25 2022 No.17307505 >>17307487 unironically where is the fucking bottom

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:53:37 2022 No.17307506 >>17307487 Thanks for the optimism

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 22:57:06 2022 No.17307514 >>17307487 >swapping gogo boots for tennis shoes is a slide into degeneracy

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:00:51 2022 No.17307527 Imagine being in a room with other corporate marketing folks.. or better yet in a virtual Microsoft Teams calls.. and talking about this shit.. and making $122k per year. fuckin a.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:01:14 2022 No.17307528 >>17307443 >Mars will also begin to use imagery of different shapes and sizes rather than one body size They're fucking normalizing those defective weird-shaped M&Ms now? Did their QA staff take on a few too many diversity hires?

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:03:20 2022 No.17307533

>>17307527
How do I get into a gig like this? For 120k a year work from home job I will be the biggest lefty in the world. Do they actually have to do laborious work or think hard? I could easily name a hundred ways to make fucking m&m’s more “inclusive”

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:03:21 2022 No.17307534 So they're basically just cutting production costs?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:05:36 2022 No.17307543 >>17307443 Well this is dark

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:06:27 2022 No.17307547 >>17307443 Corporations are going woke despite seemingly no financial motive because of ESG scores. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-31/how-blackrock-s-invisible-hand-helped-make-esg-a-hot-ticket

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:06:37 2022 No.17307550 >>17307533 Be black or a woman

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:07:33 2022 No.17307553

>>17307533
checked and get a 4 year psychology/marketing/humanities degree and start applying to jobs anon. I pulled 120k out of my ass but I would image mid-upper level marketing folks are making at least low six figs at a company like Mars. I swallowed the STEM pill and while I enjoy it, I work a lot. (though a lot of STEM folks, especially programmers, seem to hardly work at all).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:08:09 2022 No.17307558 >>17307550 I’m 1/2 Mexican, can get pretty dark in the summer. Maybe I’ll get some brownie points if I say I’m a trans queer whatever the fuck (they won’t force you to suck a dick or cut your dick off, you can say whatever)

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:09:06 2022 No.17307562

>>17307547
is there any relationship between high ESG scores and making more money? if not.. why would companies want to raise their ESG scores? for Public Relations purposes? that would tie back to making more money.. e.g. the better PR a company has, arguably the more money it could stand to make. e.g. if DuPont had better PR they might make more money?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:13:14 2022 No.17307570 File: 15 KB, 882x758, 400[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17307443 Not my hecking CANDIES. They have gone TOO FAR this time. This is hecking WHITE GENOCIDE.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:14:39 2022 No.17307574 >>17307562 PR is not about economics. It’s about psychology. Why did people give millions to the Church of Scientology? It’s not like that helps them.

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:18:38 2022 No.17307592

>>17307533
I work from home in IT, though only $108k a year. I work maybe three hours a week usually, and mostly just fill my outlook calendar with bullshit and play video games, jerk off, post here, etc. You'd think it wouldn't last for long, but its been working since before covid. I think the key is that most of everyone else is doing it too.

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:21:51 2022 No.17307600

>>17307562
>is there any relationship between high ESG scores and making more money?
Not directly.
It's basically a social credit. If your company is all about virtue signaling this stuff, then other big companies and governments will want to work with you because your company is less of a risk for their own public perception. It doesn't matter if the majority of consumers like this type of message or not, most people really don't care and will still buy your product, even if they hate your commercials. But there are a small number of people that are just waiting for a chance to sue or publicly accuse your company of being bad, or of willingly working with evil companies, which might cost you business in the future. This is all designed to keep all those people at bay.

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:25:23 2022 No.17307614

>>17307562
>is there any relationship between high ESG scores and making more money
Revenue, no, stock price, yes, there is an entire caste of SJW investor that is doing more to drive this kind of thing than all the redditors and facebook blacks in the world.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:25:54 2022 No.17307617 >>17307533 get a bullshit marketing degree and ask for a job from your college roommate whose dad is vice president at a fortune 500

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:31:03 2022 No.17307634 >>17307443 Wow, sounds bad. What should we do? Shall we round up all the gays and execute them in death camps? Hm

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:34:40 2022 No.17307643 >all these posts >no sauce >not one person asking for sauce

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:39:03 2022 No.17307657 >>17307643 It's retarded enough that it doesn't really matter if it's real or not.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:39:15 2022 No.17307660 >>17307643 Because the discussion isn't the story itself, its the world in which everything in the story is perfectly plausible. Is it true, is it bait? It doesn't matter, because it's authentic in spirit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:41:00 2022 No.17307666 >>17307443 This is satire, right? Nobody can write or say any of this and feel good doing it, right?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:45:15 2022 No.17307681 File: 120 KB, 966x606, 2022-01-20-204423_966x606_scrot.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17307643 yes it's fucking real i didn't even have to check because i've seen worse things passed off as "press releases"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:47:48 2022 No.17307689 File: 140 KB, 980x980, peewee_longway.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17307443

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:48:26 2022 No.17307693 Whatever happened to the blue one?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:49:34 2022 No.17307700 >>17307643 Sauce is in the OP. Learn to Google, retard. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/mars-inc-announces-mms-characters-resigned-more-inclusive-progressive-world

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:50:24 2022 No.17307707
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>>17307443
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mars-rebrands-female-m-ms-111304092.html
>they put sneakers on the green M&M
>the green and brown M&Ms will get some more screen time
WOAWWWW!!!!!
So basically all they did was pic related

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:50:51 2022 No.17307710 >>17307443 >different shapes and sizes NOOOO!!!! MUH PORTION CONTROL!!!!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:52:20 2022 No.17307716 tl;dr instead of universal personalities they're going to make everyone a nigger, spic, and/or chink

Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:53:24 2022 No.17307723

>>17307710
Yeah I'm hung up on that. The language implies the M&Ms characters need to be more representative of fat people so fat people feel included, like they've got a seat at the M&Ms table. Are there any fat people on earth who felt like M&Ms were excluding them? It's so fucking funny.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:53:34 2022 No.17307725 >>17307716 Actually the orange one has anxiety now That’s it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:55:05 2022 No.17307733 >>17307725 Orange has always been anxious, they're going to make him "accepting" of it somehow.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:55:49 2022 No.17307739 >it’s another speculation over the headline instead of discussion over the actual body of the article thread m00t was right la ilaha illm00t hiroshim00tdur rasulm00t

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 20 23:58:03 2022 No.17307746 >>17307689 jej

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 00:03:35 2022 No.17307772 >>17307739 Based schizo poster. The body of the article is (mostly) in the OP.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 00:03:48 2022 No.17307775 >>17307570 You laugh but this is how it starts

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 00:05:05 2022 No.17307778 >>17307775 When?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 00:15:47 2022 No.17307830 >>17307443 This just makes me want to start putting bodies in the ground. How much longer before we can just wholesale exterminate these unthinking societal parasites?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 00:20:36 2022 No.17307856 >>17307707 Yes, and it is absolute degeneracy. Bring back the wholesome nymphomaniac or I burn society to the ground.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 00:37:22 2022 No.17307910 >>17307830 remember to cite the m&ms as your main motivation in your manifesto

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 00:38:31 2022 No.17307915 >>17307443 kys you pathetic troll. crapitalism is rightwing bullshit. it is all your fault.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 00:43:58 2022 No.17307936 >>17307725 the crunchy m&m was always anxious because people were always trying to eat him

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 01:09:28 2022 No.17308054 >>17307443 They left Nascar for this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:02:04 2022 No.17308449 >>17307775 Just like how they were all going "its only happening on tumblr calm down". And now those tumblrites are in positions of power.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:04:35 2022 No.17308457 >>17307915 Explain how capitalism is right-wing. For muttmericans, the lines are so distorted that the "left" supports corporate profit based on identity politics and the "right" supports the government building infrastructure.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:05:41 2022 No.17308461 >>17307505 Child prostitutes and bestiality just like in Weimar Germany

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:10:02 2022 No.17308482 >>17308457 because the government used to build decent, racist infrastructure

Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:28:05 2022 No.17308537
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I am a STEM prof and we were having meeting after meeting over Zoom about George Floyd, white fragility, racialism in college, LGBTQ2 and more. It’s gotten ridiculous since Floyd.

One meeting a colleague beside me said “you know at some point we need to actually get work done” when everyone was brainstorming what the next woke workshop should be. Everyone stared at him and you could hear a pin drop it. There was a mix of horror, annoyance, a couple people with blank expressions and a couple others gently nodding. But mostly it was horror.

It was the funniest exchange and I joked to him afterwards that he’d be sent to the gulag soon. I wish I could have taken a picture of their faces from our side.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:28:41 2022 No.17308540 File: 29 KB, 1024x682, 1517603656035.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17307443 Welp, looks like I'm never buying M&Ms again. Probably better for my health this way. That was the intent, right? To lose customers?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:29:51 2022 No.17308544 >>17308540 Ok, 30+ year old single incels were never the target market. No loss.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:33:53 2022 No.17308549 >>17308544 Manchildren are the reliable sticky customers. Most children grow out of wanting sweets.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:41:33 2022 No.17308566 Yes this will surely get people to buy m&ms on days other than Halloween I’m sure of it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:44:41 2022 No.17308575 None of this matters, anyone getting bent up about branding/mascot shit is pathetic and so is every company that panders in bad faith for money.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:47:17 2022 No.17308582 >>17307443 >zoomers >effortless confidence they have meltdowns making eye contact with the gas station clerk buy m&ms lol

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:49:25 2022 No.17308591 File: 345 KB, 976x768, 1642726873662.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:50:02 2022 No.17308595 >>17307443 I can't even tell if it's real or parody anymore just by reading the OP.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 03:58:39 2022 No.17308620 wtf I'm buying smarties now

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 04:00:56 2022 No.17308626 gay marriage was a slippery slope and this shit will keep happening until we correct the mistake

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 04:09:19 2022 No.17308649 >>17308549 They target children year by year. That's why it feels like it's moving too fast.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 04:12:39 2022 No.17308663 File: 68 KB, 1374x435, HefanTR.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17308626

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 04:29:00 2022 No.17308688 >>17307830 Nobody wants to go first, and be left standing alone. We're all waiting on (you).

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 04:33:47 2022 No.17308699 >a group of characters of literally all different colors was not diverse enough

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 04:37:19 2022 No.17308706 >>17308663 Wow, the same dog fucking argument you guys have been making since the 80s. Must be embarrassing for you to see it still not transpire after 40 years.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 04:41:34 2022 No.17308709 >>17308706 Things take time you know. It's coming close to happening. Or worse, children will be first.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 04:43:04 2022 No.17308713 they made mike and ike gay now they want the red M&M to be nice? what the FUCK is happening to this country?

Anonymous Fri Jan 21 04:45:51 2022 No.17308717

>>17307443
This really shows how disconnected the boomers running these companies are. They're milinenial social media managers show them how strong pride is, despite the fact a small amount of people make up most of social media posts. Instead of doing actual test markets to see how this would all go, they approve. Unfortunately they have the power to not care. Because a majority of people don't care. They'll buy it anyway. Someone will claim they won't buy said item anymore, for someone else to say they'll buy twice as much now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 04:46:56 2022 No.17308718 >>17307443 what was the blue m&m's gimmick supposed to be? he's like a jock or a black person or something? i don't get it

Anonymous Fri Jan 21 05:36:39 2022 No.17308797

>>17307592
This is me. I work about the same. 125,000$k a year as a sysadmin. Agile methodology is based because it actually makes everyone more inefficient somehow. I have a family though so I usually don’t Jack off. Instead I’ve been putting some sweat equity on my house and renovating my basement.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 05:40:18 2022 No.17308804 >>17307443 Nooo not my sexy canderino

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 06:03:27 2022 No.17308846 >>17307514 >purposely being obtuse Thankfully, reactionary puritanism is usually accompanied by purges

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 06:49:24 2022 No.17308955 >>17307443 >trying to make you mentally feel good while eating junk food that is physically bad for you hmm

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 07:04:37 2022 No.17308999 >>17308663 whats wrong with just stopping in the middle? you have to fuck over these reasonable guys just because showing them any respect might give the wrong idea to fringe groups?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 21 07:10:17 2022 No.17309007 >>17308999 do you know how many people are employed in idpol industry? there is no end here

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