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Kellogg’s apologizes for lone brown corn pop on cereal box
- Thread starter Dalek
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Wow.. don't fuck up Corn Pops with racist crap Kellogg. Even more f'd up cause it's a kids cereal.
General Mills are confirmed as the superior cereal company. They upset people with cute adverts about mixed race families. Kelloggs pull this 'whoopsie!'.
Honest to god this is the funniest saddest thing to me cause around a month ago I did an interview with Kellogg's for an internship. Did a lot of reading on them to get ready and I memorized the "K values" and learnt a lot about their internal push for diversity. Sad to know that in the marketing section of Kellogg's the push is non existent.
Except he isn't and this is looking like another case where we outrage about something and then after thinking about it a little bit realize that isn't not what we first thought.
The custodian is NOT the only person in this image wearing clothes. Every single other character is dressed in yellow ninja attire that makes their bodies look like Corn Pops. It's a poorly executed drawing/idea but I actually think this time there may have been no ill intent from anyone. It would easily get through all the levels to print because they're looking at the art as "a bunch of ninjas are wreaking havoc at a mall" and they're probably a bunch of white guys and gals who are ignorant and privileged and wouldn't give it a second thought.
Oh SHit! You're correct, upon closer inspection all those are Ninjas in NInja suites... Yellow ones at that. My bad. doesn't help that the photo is in poor resolution and the colours and some lines even looked washed up .
that corn pop doing that job while hell is all around him is a saint. the quiet hero of our societies.
They are corn pops. Yet they appear to eat corn pops impaled on sticks.
Do they eat each other, and if so, how do they pick? Do they eat the stupid ones?
Do they eat each other, and if so, how do they pick? Do they eat the stupid ones?
The ironic thing is, I was intentionally picking Kellogg's cereals over General Mills because they were one of the first companies to publicly identify their ads ended up on Breitbart & wanted them taken off immediately.
This couldn't just be 1 person's fault, either. Multiple people saw, worked on, & approves this.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was caught, but then the artist brought up some explanation for it. I could not imagine what that would be, though. Kinda racked my brain for a few minutes trying to figure it out and I really couldn't.
It's so noticably, like boom it's right there. Did they really think they could get away with this?
I was expecting to not be outraged but after seeing that picture holy shit! Just make them all yellow!
What does faux-outrage even mean? And how in any context from the thread title would you first come to that conclusion?
I honestly expected it to be a silly complaint about someone getting an actual brown corn pop in their box, but that's racist as shit.
Yeah the idea as fine as far as cereal box games go I guess but the execution is suuuuper poor. The fact that the only character not wearing a ninja costume is dressed as a janitor and has brown skin is not a good look.
It could also be argued that having the *ninja* be *yellow* is a little uh poorly thought out as well.
I believe it means "people getting worked up over nothing" and the context is, people who have eaten Corn Pops before know there's always a few overcooked pieces in each bag. So before actually reading the story and seeing the art, one would think "it's just the artist being cute and putting some brown pieces into the art as a wink or nod to those crispy bits" but then when you actually see it it's like "oh ffs"
At first I rolled my eyes and thought this was only about someone making Kelloggs apologize for an actual corn pop that came out of different color. Then I saw the drawing and thre my arms up in the air. I did not expect that.
In general that sounds like a childish mentality to have. People of color, specifically brown people in this scenario, are constantly facing racism and dog whistles.
Why would someone fake an outrage?
Now if you read the title and thought the corn pop was within the cereal box then I understand confusion and skepticism, and this is the thought you are saying people could have had. Thanks for clearing that up.
It's so damn blatant that I can't help but laugh at it.
Holy hell, some people have some damn racist, ass issues.
Holy hell, some people have some damn racist, ass issues.
I love how the classic racism was completely outdone here by the 2017 on-the-nose racism.
olol wow, didn't even think of that one. Basically, an overall poorly thought-out image.
I took 'Faux outrage" not as someone actually intentionally faking an outrage, more so, not being able to see something for what it is and interpreting it offensive when it really isn;t upon closer inspection. Now, I cannot say the OP is a good example of "faux outrage" since it contains waaay too many questionable choices by the artist to just nod and give it a pass.
Well that's what I'm saying, they assumed it was people getting bent out of shape because an artist depicted brown Corn Pops which are a real thing, but some people like to get offended for others or for the sake of being offended hence thinking, from the thread title only, that it was faux outrage. But upon actually reading the story and looking at the artwork, the "outrage" is in fact warranted.
If you read my first post in the thread I felt the same way. I saw the title, and thought "Are people seriously complaining that an artist put some brown Corn Pops into their picture, those are real things get a grip people" and then I read the story and saw the picture and was like "ok what the fuck seriously?" and then showing it to a friend they pointed out the other characters are actually all wearing yellow ninja outfits. So it's been a rollercoaster really. I think most people, as evidenced by the comments in even just this thread, don't realize they are ninja and they just flip out and think that there's one brown guy and he's a janitor how dare how dare. The actual fact of the matter is that we don't know the races of the ninja because we can't see their faces, but that doesn't stop it from being a very very poorly executed idea for an image.
Yeah they could have done a lot of different takes to get the same idea across. They could have been in space suits that made them look like Corn Pops, for example. Ninja aren't even associated with yellow! They're typically black or dark blue! Why aren't they scuba divers?
He's actually not, it states very explicitly on the box that the Corn Pops are dressed as ninja. If anything they're showing even less skin than the janitor since all you can see are the ninjas' eyes.
FFS...I couldn't see that on my phone until I zoomed in. Awful.
Ok, so all corn pops but the janitor are in ninja outfits. Note that the mannequins in the clothes shop are the same color as the ninja outfit.
Even with all that, why is the janitor a brown corn pop? Why is literally the only visibly brown corn pop a janitor?
Whether or not it was intentional, seems pretty racist to me.
Even with all that, why is the janitor a brown corn pop? Why is literally the only visibly brown corn pop a janitor?
Whether or not it was intentional, seems pretty racist to me.
Yeah I had no idea either since I was looking at it on my phone too. Plus the printing is bad and the scan/photo is shitty so it's all just a clusterfuck hahahaha
This was so much worse than what I initially thought reading the thread title.
So much to think about from that. The one brown corn pop is the janitor. He's the only one wearing a full set of clothes, though for some reason there's a clothes shop on the second floor. I'm gonna guess it's not exactly a Fortune 500 company.
Also, the brown corn pop has different eyes from everyone else. Honestly he could come from a completely different concept image and they simply "forgot" to replace him with the all-yellow version.
So much to think about from that. The one brown corn pop is the janitor. He's the only one wearing a full set of clothes, though for some reason there's a clothes shop on the second floor. I'm gonna guess it's not exactly a Fortune 500 company.
Also, the brown corn pop has different eyes from everyone else. Honestly he could come from a completely different concept image and they simply "forgot" to replace him with the all-yellow version.
He's not the only one wearing clothes, all the other pops are in ninja costumes. That's also why their eyes are different, because on the ninja the only thing visible is their eyes. They're also lacking noses and ears which the janitor has, because they are covered by the ninja costumes.
The mannequin thing is legit weird too, those outfits wouldn't even fit on any of the pops pictured, they're like 2-3 times too big!
Yea, I could see that.. but it just means shit has to change. For that to happen they have to constantly get bit in the ass. Why keep losing money to push an agenda? No agenda? Then change your company or have someone filter through crap like this.
Some crap ass artist or kid that thought it was funny now that is now going to cost you.
Some crap ass artist or kid that thought it was funny now that is now going to cost you.
Or it could have been a minority artist that thought "The only character not wearing a ninja outfit and showing any skin is the janitor, I'm gonna use this opportunity to make him dark skinned like me" and it just went horribly, horribly wrong.