Doesn’t look like this has been posted yet, so…

Another day, another instance of AB/Bud Light’s rudderless detachment leading them to trip over their own dicks yet again. Apparently, they disabled comments on the most recent
upload to the brand’s YouTube page. Now, I can understand not wanting the comments section to be bombarded with smug gloating and anti-troon sentiment, but it’s amazing that they couldn’t see how the step they took only inflames their current problems. It’s the Streisand Effect in action- the act
itself of not allowing comments only draws more negative attention. And at that point, the conversation becomes entirely about AB/Bud Light being spineless pansies afraid of simple ribbing and anti-troon wrongthink. It projects an image of fear and no-strength, and
that doesn’t exactly inspire the consumer. They’d be better off treating it like they would a schoolyard bully- just take your abuse without reacting/“giving the bully what he wants,” and eventually he’ll get bored and move on. I’m this case, disabling comments is tantamount to crying in the bully’s face, thereby encouraging him. Keep feeding the trolls, idiots.
There are countless normie comments on news articles saying things along the lines of “[x tactic] won’t work.
Only a sincere apology from Bud Light will fix this.” People who honestly believe that are unable to understand, that what would pass as a *sufficient* apology by their standards, is simply not doable for the company.
A sufficient apology (interpreted as such by their customer base) would have to include a mea culpa for the bilge they promoted. And there’s no way to do that without alluding that troons are bad for business/in general. We know that they’re too afraid to say anything that could be construed as remotely negative to Troon Inc. and its enablers. That means they obviously can’t apologize for using Dylan, because it comes off as “sorry we used a troon to try and sell our product,” which is essentially saying “TROONS BAD.” Hell, they can’t even address it with their famous brand of humor. A self-deprecating set of tweets cracking jokes about themselves with troon-centric punchlines might help somewhat, but it would still be too spicy for them. At this point, unless they start posting shit like “girls don’t have penises, mmkay?” they’re just wasting their time, money, and the consumer’s patience.
They’ll never issue that apology. AB is a megacorp with a neghole that was pozzed by globohomo and ESG a long time ago. They’d sooner let the entire company die than take their mouths off of the heckin’ valid female penises they’re sloppily deep-throating.
Also:

They still don’t get it. It’s
not the fact that it was “one can sent to an influencer” (in a soulless corporate attempt to expand market share) that people are pissed off about. The lesser availability of the can and the company’s intentions are not the issue here…
it’s the appearance that they were promoting troonism. Yes, the mere use of Dylan propagates this image. People are sick of troonism being shoved down their throats. And by using Dylan in any capacity, the optics make it appear as though they’re
endorsing and
promoting the degenerate troon lifestyle. THAT’S what is pissing people off. It’s the troon, stupid. And they’re petrified to admit that, so they never will.
People are also alluding that Harvard Heinerscheid’s snooty poo-poo’ing of the brand image and humor (and by extension, customers) as “fratty” and “out of touch” holds a lot of weight in the backlash. It surely didn’t help things. But it’s clear that’s only an aggravating factor, not the primary source of outrage.