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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about Hershey's and what's happening....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about Hershey's and what's happening....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, let's bow again.

0:04.0

So today we are going to once again talk about candy.

0:09.4

We're going to talk about candy in the United States and how a certain subset of Americans is once again upset with a candy

0:17.0

company.

0:18.7

You might remember not too long ago there was a large subset of conservatives who were really mad at

0:28.1

M&M's due to branding changes and then M&M's put out a satirical press release that a lot of conservative thought leaders

0:39.7

did not understand was satire, and then they declared victory over the M&M's only to be really surprised

0:46.0

when the M&M's came back during the Super Bowl.

0:48.7

I made a video about it at the time talking about how it was satire and so on and so forth.

0:58.0

And at the end of it, I made a joke.

1:00.5

I held up a Hershey bar and said that if conservatives really wanted to stop

1:06.3

you know the woke agenda they would go after Hershey's because it's in their

1:11.7

name her and she and pronouns are bad and all of that stuff and it was a joke.

1:17.0

At least I thought it was.

1:20.0

So conservative thought leaders are now upset and asking their followers not to buy Hershey's, because

1:30.8

there are pronouns in her she.

1:35.0

To celebrate International Woman's Day,

1:38.0

Hershey put a picture of a woman on the wrapper with her and she kind of highlighted and that

1:47.5

has just sent them over the edge. I don't even know what to say to that. I understand that there going to be people that

1:57.4

say there's more to it, but there's really not. There's not. It's at the point now that conservative brands who have built themselves on manufacturing outrage

2:15.0

are running out of things to manufacture outrage about.

2:19.0

So they are going to battle with candy companies and losing generally.

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