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There are plenty of reasons why a company might use social media. Increasing brand awareness and website traffic, generating leads, and managing their reputation are just a few of them. But whatever its intentions are, a business uses Instagram, Facebook, and other platforms for its own gain. And people see right through it. So when nonsensical corporate BS appears on their feed, they often respond to it, reminding its authors that they're not fooling anyone.

Twitter account "Brands Getting Owned" is the place to go if you want to check out these savage roasts. It shares fan-submitted screenshots of exchanges companies wish to forget, and as its bio says, tries to dismantle capitalism one L at a time. Continue scrolling for the pics.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they paid less people to spy on the drivers' "missteps", they could pay the drivers more. Or, I don't know, even grant them toilet breaks.

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Probably one of the biggest corporate social media fails we covered here at Bored Panda was the time Burger King said that "Women belong in the kitchen." Do you remember? They picked the best time for this phrase, too. The company tweeted it during International Women's Day when everyone was celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women across the globe.

Burger King's tweet caused quite a spectacle—it was described as a misogynistic and outdated remark towards women's role in society.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least the person behind the brand social media account acknowledged their shortcomings - I appreciate that.

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The company's social media team shortly followed the tweet with an explanation that their aim was to draw attention to the fact that only 20% of professional chefs in the UK are women and that they are under-represented in the culinary industry—they have decided to use International Women’s Day as an opportunity to advertise their culinary scholarship which offers financial assistance to women who work at Burger King and aspire to an academic degree in culinary arts. 

But it was already too late. Eventually, the original “controversial” tweet was deleted and Burger King has issued an apology.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Assuming that's the hospital itself replying, what more do you need to learn, you charged the guy $39k

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There are plenty of ways you can screw up on social media. Nasty comments, rude tweets, a timeline full of misspellings and other faux pas; the possibilities are endless. And they're usually easy enough to fix or delete without it seeming like the end of the world. If you're a regular person.

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Not so much for those big business accounts. Of course, corporations are people too—but they're people under constant scrutiny by the jury of the Internet. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is deflection from the fact that a small number of corporations are the major polluters by trying to make it seem like it's a personal responsibility issue

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

people seem to think it's all kids at McD's but you can see the workers getting older , capitalism only works for the 1% , trickle down economics is a lie , ALL workers should be paid a living wage with benefits , power to the PEOPLE

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This man has a good hustle. Unfortunately, we will start getting ads with our food now that corporations have seen this. They will pay door dash/ uber eats to have their drivers/riders give us pamphlets with our food

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Remember a few years ago when Kroger sold off a bunch of their convenience stores that they couldn't maintain but said it was to "focus on their grocery stores" ??? How's that working out Kroger?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Better even than telling them to go to hell, just don't use their service. If they're unethical but you use them anyway your just encouraging the behavior.

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Suzanne Haigh
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

$15 per hour is more than we get in Britain for minimum wage. But then we do have a Health Service which from what I have read on here is worth so damn much, a lot more than a couple of dollars

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Burn! They should fire their marketing department or graphic designer who came up with this. Shamrockiraptor is spot on!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

SO many people are already parroting this line from right wing politicians, it’s so frustrating.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Vermont is in the top ten highest minimum wages in the country. It was an ignorant move to attack Sanders over this. 'Just Amazon being terrified of organized labor (aka unions).

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah this could be bad , he worked on AI and had to shut it down after it created it's own language to communicate with other AI, not sure if they ever worked out what it said ,https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/facebook-researchers-shut-down-ai-bots-that-started-speaking-in-a-language-unintelligible-to-humans-3876197.html#:~:text=Researchers%20from%20Facebook%20found%20that,were%20creating%20their%20own%20language.&text=This%20led%20Facebook%20researchers%20to,each%20other%20only%20in%20English.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That happens literally across the board. It’s the corporate version of an influencer/youtuber posting a video of them doing some sort of charity.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's even more ironic is that Stadia is a product of Google. You know, the search engine that almost everyone uses...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But Elmo *does* know his ABCs, he learnt it at Sesame Street!

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