uo111 5,282 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I feel like the tweets speak for themselves. https://twitter.com/scottatslee/status/509180196290039808/photo/1 https://twitter.com/DiGiornoPizza/status/509178151927173120DiGiorno Interrupts Serious Conversation About Domestic Violence To Sell Pizza Twitter is a place for complex debates about important topics. ( ) It's also a place for brands to shamelessly self-promote. On Monday, these two functions collided in a terrible way.DiGiorno Pizza, in a bafflingly tone-deaf tweet, used the hashtag "#WhyIStayed" to suggest that you might "stay" somewhere for pizza. Carelessly, it didn't notice that the hashtag is currently being used for people to hold a conversation about domestic violence and share stories of surviving abuse, in the wake of a new video showing NFL star Ray Rice's vicious attack on his then-fiancee Janay Palmer. The social-media team at DiGiorno apparently saw #WhyIStayed trending and figured it would be a good time to plug for frozen pizza, without checking the hashtag's meaning. Whoops. On Monday, writer Beverly Gooden created the hashtag #WhyIStayed to have a discussion about the complexities of domestic violence, after the video leak of Rice's brutal attack sparked a national conversation on the topic. One in four women in America will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. DiGiorno apologized for its error and immediately deleted the tweet, claiming total ignorance of the hashtag's meaning. "This tweet was a mistake, quickly realized as such and deleted seconds later," Roz O'Hearn, a spokeswoman for Nestle, which owns DiGiorno, said in a statement to The Huffington Post. "Our community manager -- and the entire DiGiorno team -- is truly sorry. The tweet does not reflect our values and we’ve been personally responding to everyone who has engaged with us on social media. We apologize." The brand is also apologizing to everybody it can on Twitter, offering personal apologies to users who tweeted their outrage at the pizza-maker. You can check out a compilation of insightful, brand-free tweets about #WhyIStayed here. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/09/digiornos-pizza-whyistayed-tweet_n_5790504.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sizzily 14,571 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Inside my head I have the best time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsTommyBitch 12,640 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 nnnnnnn I laughed 私自身もこの世の中も誰もかれもが, どんなに華やかな人生でも, どんなに悲惨な人生でも, いつかは変貌し, 破壊され、消滅してしまう. すべてがもともとこの世に存在しない一瞬の幻想なのだから Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByeBye49 161 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haroon 49,685 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Poor pizza company Simple mistake really, but I guess this teaches everyone to check the context behind the trend before hopping onto it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Computer 10,980 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Oh my god Took me a minute to understand what was happening here but just... 💚💛💕❣⭕💢💢 | ⓜⓔⓡⓡⓨ ©ⓗⓡⓘⓢⓣⓜⓐⓢ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azor Ahai 18,861 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 omg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOriginalOne 11,603 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I feel like a horrible person for laughing :toofunga: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMROD 117,055 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Well, frozen pizza can be used as weapon of domestic violence, too yes? #YouHadPizza (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ ᶠʳᵒⁿᵗ ᵗᵒʷᵃʳᵈ ᵉⁿᵉᵐʸ (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyro 8,438 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 OH GOD I'm Spyro the Dragon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIVA 666 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I wish they hadn't clarified it. I think it was the spirit of Joan Rivers speaking to the world through twitter. :P We're all Stronger Together! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria 0 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 :rip: :toofunny: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AddMeOnMYSPACE 2,097 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Get that promo! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaggedMonster 2 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 "Twitter is a place for complex debates about important topics."...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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