Seriously, what was the thinking behind this stunt?
I’m seeing Him from Powerpuff Girls
I’m convinced at this point that PETA members just have an exhibitionism fetish, with all the nude/nearly nude stunts they do
Trapped in the 90s marketing adage that sex sells.
I don’t think you can boil this down to a 90’s adage… It’s an ancient and powerful primal drive in all living things.
Fear, food, or fucking are at some level behind virtually all marketing
I used to work IT for a moderately popular content creator, and once I had the notion to see how hard it is to build an audience and made a bunch of different Twitter handles and did the same things for them I was doing for my boss.
The one on which I slapped a banner image of Yoko from TTGL (big boobs, big gun) immediately started picking up thousands of followers a week with no posting at all.
Boss’s content was all about food. Started seeing a pattern.
PETA got all three in here.
You wouldn’t eat a lobster… if you could fuck it instead
You wouldn’t download a webpage… wait, no, hang on…
You wouldn’t take a photocopy,… no, wait,…
You wouldn’t hit a drum… no, I’ll get there,…
You wouldn’t steal a march,… no that’s not right…
You wouldn’t copy an AI’s proprietary output,… no something else, something else
You wouldn’t punch a ticket… nope
Oh I’m no good at this. The Federation of Arsey Copyright Tattletales won’t hire me.
The point is we saw it. Their stunts rarely get covered anymore. They had a message and we all got it albeit covered in nudity, red paint, and i imagine a lot of ghee.
There was too much coverage of them killing pets and being horrible. Now it’s just the grifter leadership and a bunch of “Save a cow, eat a furry” types who haven’t figured out a better group to be a part of. Plus being a vegetarian is easy and excepted these days.
I accept vegans, if they don’t push it on me, and don’t act more righteous than thou.
Too late, you are now lobstersexual.
Stay away from our women!
You’ve got claw fever, boy! Claw fever! Woop Woop Woop!
Stupid sexy Zoidberg!
I dont like lobster but i would make an exception for this one
Speaking as a vegan who has gotten legitimately emotional before because I love lobsters as creatures and they deserve better: who the fuck thought this was a good idea. Who thought this was going to tug at heartstrings instead of loins. Who thought this was going to unlock compassion instead of new fetishes. Who thought people weren’t going to want to fuck the lobster.
PETA’s marketing campaigns fucking baffle me.
Like I hate to say it mate but have you hung around any vegan spaces on the Internet? This kind of shit is honestly not that far off brand. It feels like every week there’s some new insane thing like trying to make captive, domesticated pets vegan, or deciding they don’t actually like bees, or unironically cheering on alpha gal syndrome.
A friend of mine fell down that rabbit hole and started feeding her cat a vegan diet. Poor thing died at like 5 years old because that’s not what they’re supposed to fucking eat.
Yeah, there are saner ways to make the case for veganism. Like, for example, the planet being on fire because of post-war government bailouts for beef and dairy conglomerates scamming an entire generation into thinking that milk was mandatory.
Their marketing campaign is literally to get attention and it works better than anything else to drive funding for animal rights. If they aren’t around people would literally forget animals get abused. They win by making you all argue. I’m not sure how you ever fix that.
You raise an interesting point. I tend to think of campaigns like this as kind of worthless because they don’t feel like they’re going to persuade anyone vs. ads that I would personally consider more persuasive, but you’re not wrong that this sort of thing is getting a million more views on the internet than something that might be more individually persuasive but only reach like 20 people. I guess that’s why they do it.
Okay but what is the point if they’re gonna blow the money on more baffling marketing campaigns?
Based on a PETA video I saw by someone I watch, PETA literally kills dogs (like wayyyy more dogs than normal animal shelters do)
Wasn’t this debunked before? Like, the numbers are correct but there are valid reasons for it?
Nah probably worse, they even accidentally killed a little girl’s lost dog
PETA forces people to become vegan from the start, and if someone doesn’t want to, they make it impossible for them to live. Their mentality is like a cult, and a lot of vegan supporters are only in it for attention.
I am convinced that peta is a psyop by the meat industry to trick people into thinking animal rights activists, vegans, and vegetarians are crazy and thus make people dismissive of their arguments.
Or is it a psyop to make us want to fuck lobsters?
Two things can be true lol
Was that not already confirmed? I very vaguely remember hearing about something along those lines from like a whistleblower or something like that.
Idk I could also just be hallucinating. I’m on like 4 hours of sleep 🥴
I’m pretty sure it was confirmed for some environmentalist stuff and oil companies. Like when some “activists” threw soup at a Van Gogh painting, I’m pretty sure that was actually an oil company trying to make environmentalists look stupid. But I am also too lazy to try and search for sources rn so obviously take that with a grain of salt.
I’ve definitely heard worse conspiracy theories.
someone wants to be covered in melted butter sauce.
I mean, there’s literally a huge jar of it right next to her
To see the victim behind the tradition
LOBSTER TAIL IS PEOPLE!!!
What’s the obvious thing i don’t get it
I thought I already spelled it out in the title but of course I can’t be 100% certain
I still don’t get it
Perhaps you’re sexually attracted to men
Nope, i just don’t get what the person in the image was going to write
Well, you might be autistic or asexual then (which is totally fine BTW, it just comes with certain limitations)
Why do you think so? I can tell that she’s attractive. I just don’t get what the person writing the caption was going to say
Same. Not sure why OP seems to feel attacked. Some people just don’t get your jokes, so what’s the problem explaining them to have more people laugh
Well, perhaps you should look up the original tweet then and contact to author to ask them.
That’s a thic lobster.
Achievement unlocked: you now have a weird fetish
Sigh unzips
Honestly can’t even blame you, she’s literally red hot (womp womp)
I didn’t jerk off a crab.
PETA is not known to make rational decisions. Especially with those kinds of stunts.
Was talking to this woman on tinder. She told me she was vegan, and I instantly stopped caring about meeting her.
Like, it’s just performative bullshit. And it’s hypocritical. The only reason you can even BE vegan, is because society has advanced to the stage that there is enough varied vegan foodstuffs available that you can passable survive off it. But that doesn’t mean it’s all simple, like grains and veggies. No, half the time they’re eating this super specialized, water-intensive crops and laboratory grown shit with energy-intensive production cycles that actively harm the environment. It’s not some ultra-enlightened approach to living, it’s just a thin veneer of ethical consumption based entirely upon other heavily industrialized processes.
It’s bullshit. and you’re better off just eating mostly vegetarian, with meat being a special occasion thing, like it’s been for the majority of our species time on this earth.
High quality ragebait. The amount of prejudice, strawman arguments and false accusations is astounding.
Nah cuz how can it make you this mad 😭😭😭
I mean… you’re not wrong, but I wouldn’t quite say it like that.
I’ve dated a girl who was very much into it, though she wasn’t a full vegan, just a fairly strict vegetarian, for the same reason you mentioned (i.e. some of their meat replacement products just being ultra high processed food science experiments), and the fact that you can easily eat vegan without eating health (French fries are technically vegan as long as they’re fried in veggie oil).
I’d basically consider it a nerd hobby at this point – I’ve had some very impressive vegan stunt food, like vegan McMuffins that tasted better than the ones from McDonald’s (albeit at 3x the price of course), so I can certainly can’t hate on their dedication to the cause, because that takes a lot of passion.
But yeah, from a practical point of view, most people are likely better off with your recommendation, because it’ll get you at least 90% of the way there without costing you half of your income, and it’ll probably still achieve most goals that vegans are after (better health, less pollution, and improved animal welfare).
And yeah, I get it, it can be quite annoying when you run into a fanatic vegan and they can’t stop chewing your ear off about the supposedly unlimited benefits, but it really isn’t much different than running into a hardcore Trekkie, a conservative Christian, or your average anime fan. Veganism is basically almost a religion, and some people tend to take a bit too far, but you know what? It could be worse, because at least they’re not going to eat you, because that would definitely not be vegan.
