So the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is back yet again, and after years of bending over

backwards, desperately attempting to appease DEI standards, they have simply disappointed

everyone. What a surprise. And on top of that, they shot down a woman who would have actually

represented their customer base.

So in case you missed it, back in 2019, Victoria's Secret ended the Victoria's Secret fashion show and they canceled their famous Victoria's Secret Angels in order to appease left-wing

activists who were claiming that the brand and the fashion show was problematic in their

portrayal of women and women's bodies.

But after flop and flop and flop over the last six years or so, Victoria's Secret is trying

to crawl back to their primary audience. And they have proven, once again, why it is so

dangerous to try and cater to ever-changing political and cultural trends instead of just staying

true to your core message and your core audience. And we are going to talk about why. Back in

2021, this is a couple of years after they ended the fashion show, Victoria's Secret swapped out

their aspirational supermodels that were called the Victoria's Secret Angels for something that

they called the collective.

Collective.

I mean, like, I think of the word collective and nothing screams hot lingerie.

Nothing screams beautiful women, aspirational.

And you know what, guys, that was the point.

It's genderless female empowerment.

And I know that does not sound like it's something that is real.

It's not real, but that is what Victoria's Secret was basically trying to achieve with creating the collective. Here's an article from around that time, Victoria's Secret is getting rid of its

angels and launching the VS Collective. Now, at a Guardian article from 2021, the collective was

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