The Green M&M Controversy: No More Heels 👠👠👠
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- čas přidán 2. 05. 2024
- My reaction to the Green M&M controversy when they swapped her heels for sneakers to be more inclusive. Was this too woke? Was it too forced? Let's discuss this down below. Please don't forget to comment, like and subscribe. Thank You!!!
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Wow I never even realized that she got her shoes changed
Me either
On this controversy I am compelled to quote the words of the high priestesses in their work "keep it up with the Kardashians saying: "Kim theres people Dying"
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I was thinking that too.
In fact there is a film theorist video where they just talks about how society is now so personalised that people are becoming lonely.
And it turns out that one of the most popular themes in bringing people together is their political position.
So it makes sense that brands that are trying to sell themselves are turning to those themes to sort of create a certain loyalty with a certain demographic.
Fun fact.....Vanessa Williams was the voice back in the day 💚
Oooo who plays for her now?
Vanessa Williams was actually the Brown M&M. Green is voiced by Cree Summer, at least in the scenes Tony shared.
I'm a bit embarrassed for knowing that, lmao 😂
@@ryanc5572 omgggg I had no idea that one of my favorite voice actors played for the green m&m!
@@Reeana_Edits Same, haha. My favourite character she's played is First Citizen Joanne Lynette.
@@ryanc5572 cool 😎
I definitely noticed that I guess m&ms is too spicy for some folks
People actually made petitions to bring back her heels ‼😮
@@TonyTurner people are crazy sometimes
Oh, yeah, because there aren't women in real life that wear heels 🙄
Lol they thought too deeply about that
My personal headcanon is that the green m&m sinply got tired wearing heels and wanted to wear a different kind of shoes even if it's for a little while.
I honestly don't remember this being a thing and it might be because I live in another country, but the oversexualization of the green M&M is like advertising did everything with women at the time, sex sells and it's not because it's candy that anything female presenting in the 2000 was safe from being oversexualized to hell and back, the heels were the least of the issues.
This is truly ridiculous "some women don't wear heels" 🤨🤨🤨 OKAYYY well she does let her beeeee lol
Ok
I noticed and felt that they gave her some terrible basic canvas shoes. Didn't care dor for the boots but there was style and flare to it that gave characteristics to the character design. Purple lucked out.
Oh come on! I love those heels!
from sex sells to controversy sells
Idk why they changed it.. what was wrong with it? NOTHING.. 🤦♀️ also Tony we need more MJ videos when??
"The seductive M&M"
I ain't even gonna comment that but I get it
Chocolate M&M’s is my all time favorite candy ever since I was a kid. This was an interesting discussion. ❤❤❤❤
Thank You ‼
Imma be honest... What is so inclusive about having a woman switch from heels to sneakers???
Like... for inclusivitiy that is... a choice.
Nice video
Oh yeah , i remembered . I found the whole debacle was stupid(Like , we make a big deal just because a grean M&M want to change her shoes?🙄)
Inclusive?? What are they including?? Lol
I guess more wardrobe 😅😅😅
I think the green m&m thing was like. A cover up considering I'm pretty sure around the time this came out there was a child labour scandal with the m&m company
How will the world possibly go on if I’m not sexually attracted to the green m&m?!
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People are boo hooing over a fictional candy girl because she doesn’t wear heels anymore?
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It’s just weird they changed her footwear bc they were offended; people are way too offended by everything
@@oooh19 no one was offended
@@oooh19people got offended at her changing footwear as if it mattered 💀
I don’t really care all that much since I don’t eat m&ms, but I guess I wish that companies actually cared instead of going through the motions for more money :/
I feel like the shoe swap literally changed nothing. Like you said, she's literally just an animated chocolate candy mascot! 😂😂 If they wanted to, though I doubt they'll do it anymore, they could still advertise her in seductive ways...WITH the sneakers! I just find the whole thing to be a pretty funny non-issue. No one was looking at the M&M's company for their political takes to begin with, so this change really wasn't necessary IMO. Changing her shoes was the barest of bare minimum "wokeness" they did, if you could even call it that lol. Had they never advertised the green M&M the way they did, I don't think this ever would have occurred.
To be by changing the shoes, M&Ms are saying women shouldnt be sexy. Heck what is wrong with veing sexy? She used her looks to show how strong she was. By taking way her shoes and making "one of the boys" it took away her strengths. Having looks isnt a bad thing, it just means you different type of strengths, but you have to have smarts to uses it which was shown with Green. Green wasnt dumb.
I guess people don't like when you mess with their favorite characters such as their personality and especially their design right Disney.
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Hey Tony, in honor of Pride Month, can you do a video about LGBT characters in media in the 2000s and before? Good examples to talk about: the controversies behind Tinky Winky (Teletubbies) and Spongebob, a writer of Bert & Ernie admitting he wrote them like a gay couple and Sesame Street denying the fact, Nathan Lane saying that Timon and Pumbaa are like a gay couple in an interview during the Lion King's premiere, Cartoon Network cancelling a show called "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi" because the two female main characters acted too affectionate with each other and there was even going to be a kiss scene in one episode, an episode of Arthur spin-off "Postcards from Buster" being pulled because a character has two moms.
Note that all of this happened before Steven Universe, before Adventure Time, before Louder & Prouder etc...
Great idea ‼
Tucker Carlson actually got triggered over his candy waifu 😂
Of course he did, lmao. That guy gets triggered over the weather changing 😂
Made a whole Fox News segment on it 😅
Never noticed the shoe change. Thought it was a joke this whole time. Never thought too much of it. I buy candy if it tastes good and I feel like having it not because of how it’s advertised.
Is she even more woke?-
Also the other brands are they even more woke?-
Wow never knew a mascot could cause all this commotion when their is other serious matters that need our attention 🙄
👏🏾 IT’S 👏🏾 AN 👏🏾 M 👏🏾 & 👏🏾M 👏🏾 COMMERCIAL 👏🏾
What i find so funny is that if it was the other way around, everyone would go crazy because we would sexualise a piece of candy. So you cannot win.
the fact that people complain that "the green M&M isn sexy anymore" XD. if i was sexually attracted to a CGI chocolate made to sell junk food you would have to waterboard that information out of me,
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When the controversy dropped I thought it was hilarious it was a controversy at all. At first I thought the same thing but just didn't really care because its an M&M. "Controversy " aside I still prefer the boots, I think the sneakers just look kinda off, even if I think the old sexy ads are over the top. I mean its such a minute change to the design, when even before the change I think that they were reeling back on the "sexy" angle which is fine but I think the visual change was done purely to signal rather than because it was actually important for representation.
We are living in a post pandemic economy, we're all struggling to pay bills, get food, get on the housing market. Russia and Ukraine still at war, Israel and Gaza are still at war and China is poised to take Taiwan....Yet this is what people are concerned about?!
I remember someone doing a video on the Hershey campaign where they brought in different women and members of the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate them.
But the video also showed how during this campaign and its backlash, Hershey was hiding their crimes in the process. The bad press from being offensive over (let’s face it) anyone being different (and mainly the conservatives), this took people’s eyes off what was really going on. I hate that I forgot because all the crimes of big cooperations meld together.
I can see being more inclusive like what Bud Light did, but with this? This is over a fictional candy cartoon mascot omg
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Ads and politics have always been intertwined. All art is political, even “art” such as an animation of an m&m twirling around a pole I guess. What I mean is, ads sell by appealing to people, appealing to the current pulse of society. Ads have always paid attention to politics and culture because that’s how they appeal to people on a wider scale. Times are changing, and they always will. For one, it is kind of weird that the only girl of the chocolate candy troupe was the sexy one, but I don’t think just changing her shoes fixes anything. If anyone even cared about her shoes at all. Anyway, got off track, imo ads have always been political and people are only starting to notice now. Which is kind of weird.
People mad over the green M&M wearing sneakers are just ridiculous. Had it never occurred to them that she probably owns more than 1 pair of shoes and would definitely have a pair of sneakers somewhere in her closet? Also, she wasn't the only one that had new shoes. Every single M&M got new shoes. They didn't give her sneakers because it was "woke". They gave the green M&M sneakers because the brown M&M was already wearing heels, the purple M&M was already wearing boots, sandals were probably hard to draw on an M&M, and ballet flats would look too small on M&M feet.
WHAT THE SPARK?!
I personally did not care because I could not along with the advertisers take it seriously. I think they played it up in a way where it wasn’t a big deal.
Even the red m &m was played up with the dang “i would do anything for love (but not that)” commercial.
And with Vanessa Williams being the brown chocolate, they played up her “being in the nude” joke since she is just regular chocolate.
But I can see how it is just another example of objectifying women. But the heels were not the issue.
I’m not sure if I heard about them giving her sneakers before I heard about Tucker Carlson’s rant about it or if that’s how I learned about it, but my thoughts on the matter remain the same
That wokeness aside, sexualizing your otherwise inanimate product always seemed like a bizarre way to advertise it to me, especially when it’s food or anything else you’re meant to ingest.
And that if Carlson and others like him are honestly saying it’s a bad thing such anthropomorphic mascots are being made to not be particularly sexy anymore, that’s a you problem you ought to have looked at.
Like giving your product a personality is one thing, but when it starts putting on a sultry pout, that’s when I start asking “Why you gotta make it weird?”
As for the overall thing about politics and wokeness in advertising, I guess I would need a more extreme example.
I don't mind that brands want to change mistakes in their past. The idea of an M&M having a large sex appeal and that's how you sell them is strange considering M&Ms are food, and are for people of all ages. So I don't mind the toning down of sexiness. But, I don't think they needed to take away her heels. Most clothing is not inherently sexy, I wore heels two days ago, and I did it because I wanted to and it matched my outfit. Heels aren't associated with sex, but they are associated with feminity. Earlier feminism focused mainly on letting women do masculine stuff, but now feminism is also about not devaluing or demonizing feminity as well. So I don't think putting a character that typically wears heels into sneakers is woke (unless she felt pressured to wear heels, but she's an M&M so I'm going to say no), a woman isn't stronger for having more stereotypically masculine traits.
Despite the long paragraph I just wrote, I don't actually care that much, since it's just M&Ms.
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I know we’re not back to complaining over a cartoon mascot’s footwear.
Also I think you need to check yourself a bit cause you’re using ‘woke’ like it’s a dirty word, but us ‘woke’ people are the ones who also held r.Kelly responsible all these years. It’s the bigots and the ones pushing back on true social progress you should be finger pointing at
I feel the usage of "woke" depends on the context of why it's being used. The R Kelly case and the Green M&M shoes are so completely different to be compared