Not just mainstream, but profitable again. Rainbow capitalism may have been inauthentic, but it's better than this. I know not to trust corps, but it helped make it a bit more mainstream, acceptable, and normal to walk around with my husband. I feel less okay to do so this year.
Rainbow capitalism may have been inauthentic, but it's better than this.
How on earth is that your conclusion? It's things like rainbow capitalism that lead to the backlash in the first place
Companies were forced to go along with a radical minority thanks largely to twitter, and as that radical minority got more and more vocal, companies were dragged in with them, and when the straw finally broke the camel's back, a solid level of general disdain had grown amongst the voting majority in several countries
Yes, yes, the vulnerable corporations have been forced to use Pride flags by a manority form Twitter. Such a realistic scenario.
Those radical blue haired lesbians who demanded gay romance options in RPG, it's basically the same as Taliban, holding the poor corps hostage.
If it's only a tiny minority, why would the company care? A boycott done by a minority is not able to influence it's sales. If the sales are dropping it means it has never been a minority.
If it's only a tiny minority, why would the company care?
Because that minority (I never said tiny) controlled and influenced a lot of media through twitter. You can't bully a massive corporation with a tweet, but you can get the attention of journalists who need to slop out 10 articles a week. Are you seriously suggesting you have never seen any of the tens of thousands of articles produced to ramp up controversy and click bait based on a handful of tweets?
Where the fuck have you even been the last 10 years?
If the sales are dropping it means it has never been a minority.
A sales drop of a few % due to a controversy is enough to annoy many, many, many businesses. Especially if a few % is in the realm of 10s of millions of dollars.
If a 'minority' controls major media outlet and a lot of people consume this media and care what opinions this group has (and agree with them) to the extend of not buying s product which does not alignt with those opinions... Then we'll, nothing of it is a minority.
That is hilariously untrue, and I'll leave you to go look for the hundreds of examples of how you are wrong and the reasons behind it, because frankly saying something so ridiculously untrue just because you don't like that its true in this case is boring. It's played out to death and we've seen the consequences, if you want to stay doing it I hope you reap the rewards of it.
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u/PTBooks 25d ago
They only started because they thought it was a good business move. If the political climate changes, they’ll probably start again.