{"id":1821019,"date":"2023-01-23T18:49:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1821019"},"modified":"2023-01-23T18:50:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:50:29","slug":"mms-pulls-spokescandies-after-supposed-controversy-sales-dipped-after-going-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mms-pulls-spokescandies-after-supposed-controversy-sales-dipped-after-going-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"M&amp;M\u2019s Pulls \u2018Spokescandies\u2019 After Supposed Controversy : \u2018Sales Dipped After Going Woke\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmms-pulls-spokescandies-after-supposed-controversy-sales-dipped-after-going-woke%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1821019&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>M&#038;M\u2019s, the popular chocolate candy owned by Mars Wrigley, announced Monday that it was taking an \u201cindefinite pause\u201d You can use it! \u201cspokescandies\u201d Advertisements following criticisms by some media.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker Carlson, Fox News host, criticized candies in a segment about changes made by the company to the appearances on the spokescandies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cM&#038;M\u2019s will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous,\u201d Carlson stated. \u201cUntil the moment when you wouldn\u2019t want to have a drink with any one of them. That\u2019s the goal. When you\u2019re totally turned off, we\u2019ve achieved equity. They\u2019ve won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson declared that\u00a0\u201cwoke M&#038;M\u2019s have returned\u201d \u00a0the company introduced new spokescandies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe green M&#038;M\u2019s got her boots back but apparently is now a lesbian, maybe, and there is also a plus-sized, obese purple M&#038;M\u2019s,\u201d He stated. \u201cSo we\u2019re going to cover that, of course. Because that\u2019s what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M&#038;M\u2019s tweeted a statement on Monday saying that the company has paused their use of the spokescandies and had instead selected someone else to represent the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica, let\u2019s talk,\u201d According to the statement. \u201cIn the last year, we\u2019ve made some changes to our spokescandies. We weren\u2019t sure if anyone would even notice. And we definitely didn\u2019t think it would break the internet. But now we get it \u2014 even a candy\u2019s shoes can be polarizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, we have decided to take an indefinite pause from the spokescandies,\u201d The statement went on. \u201cIn their place, we are proud to introduce a spokesperson America can agree on: the beloved Maya Rudolph. We are confident Ms. Rudolph will champion the power of fun to create a world where everyone feels they belong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company was widely mocked online over the statement while others suggested that the supposed controversy was pointless and not worth people\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou mean, your sales dipped after going woke and you don\u2019t want to admit it outright?\u201d radio host Jason Rantz tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Tatjana Pasalic, a political commentator, tweeted \u201cI am once again begging @elonmusk to give us a parody or real button.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody cares about your spokescandies,\u201d Tweet by Ian Miles Cheong, journalist<\/p>\n<p>Grabien News founder Tom Elliott tweeted, \u201cJust do your shareholders a favor &#038; fire this entire department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skittles, a rival candy company, also tweeted in the fun. \u201cOur thoughts go out to the spokescandies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our thoughts are with the spokescandies <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ub8iPHCq5d\">https:\/\/t.co\/ub8iPHCq5d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SKITTLES (@Skittles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Skittles\/status\/1617581062603051008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2023<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M&amp;M\u2019s, the popular chocolate candy owned by Mars Wrigley, announced Monday that it was taking an \u201cindefinite pause\u201d from using its \u201cspokescandies\u201d in advertisements following criticisms from some in the media. Fox News host Tucker Carlson criticized the candies during a recent segment over changes that the company made to the appearances of the spokescandies. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1821022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[16184,6733,10505,16185,6757,5219,8993,5558],"class_list":["post-1821019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-spokescandies","tag-controversy","tag-dipped","tag-mms","tag-pulls","tag-sales","tag-supposed","tag-woke"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1821022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}