About those ads...
A big thanks to everyone who alerted us to the Burger King ads on the site; please be aware that we're working hard to get them off. If anyone is seeing them and can possibly send a screen shot of the page to us, it'd be greatly appreciated. (We need to get the ad code.) Thanks!
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I haven't seen the ads, so maybe they're offensive in some way, but what do you have against Burger King?
I can't remember what the ad said exactly, but the problem is definitely the offensiveness/sexism, not BK.
Burger King has had some very offensive ad campaigns lately. The "whopper virgin" ads for one and also offer of a the free burger coupon to anyone who "defriended" ten people on Facebook...except that BK then emailed the defriended people to TELL them they had been dropped for a free sandwich. Cultural insensitivity and deliberate cruelty is over the line...
Thanks so much, it can't be easy trying to take off all the offensive ads that can end up on this site.
And for those who didn't see the ads on here, it's for the Angry Whopper. Basically you have BK send an email of a talking angry burger to your friend about something they do that pisses you off. On one of the ads for this service, the ad says "Dear (woman's name, can't remember who it was), your leg hair is so long, you can braid it. - Pete".
I hate a lot of BK ads, especially the "I am Man" one from a couple of years ago.
I saw the ad. It said:
"Dear Jennifer, your leg hair is so long you could braid it."
I'm personally bothered by the Rachael Ray CBS diet ones.