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Transcript
8 panel comic
Panel 1: Yellow guy is working on a laptop in the background. In the foreground is a Brand Manager. Yellow Guy: “Sir, shall I put up our rainbow profile picture?”
Panel 2: Brand Manger snaps his head round and hisses “Cool your jets, Eugene. I’m checking the Profitometer”
Panel 3: Gonna do my best to explain this. We see The Profitometer. A huge machine that whirs and ticks. A digital display at the top of the machine reads “Supporting Pride equals”Beneath this display is a huge gauge with “Max Loss” on the left and “Max profit” on the right. There is a needle that is pointing exactly half way between the two extremes.
Panel 4: Close up on Brand Manager’s face. His teeth are gritted. Sweat trickles down his brow.
Panel 5: Close up on gauge. The needle remains exactly central
Panel 6: Close up on Brand Manager’s eyes. They are concentrating intensely. Also, more sweat.
Panel 7: Close up on the gauge. The needle clicks ONE DEGREE towards profit
Panel 8: Brand Manager screams like a football coach “GO GAY EUGENE”
This is one thing I wish people who either love or hate companies based on how they outwardly appear to support their pet causes would understand. With very few exceptions, they Really Don’t Care. Like, at all. Your passionate belief that Company X is on your side is probably just another tooth fairy, and so is the cozy feeling that you’re doing The Right Thing by buying toothpaste from them instead of the Evil toothpaste company.
Corporate virtue signalling is very much a flavour of the day kind of thing.
People who think organisations are genuine or caring or give a shit about them at all are deluded. The fanboys are the worst.
But it is hilarious to see people break their keurigs, flush their Gillette razors or burn their Nike’s when the do the most milquetoast progressive commercial. I wish we would get more of that
I think the same also goes for hating corps for not virtue signaling, but saying that on social media is like pissing on The Flag™.
Either way, it all boils down to expecting a Sociopath to genuinelly care about what’s good for anybody but themselves, rather than just claim they love whatever to get something out of others or don’t claim it because it’s not going to lead to them get anything from others.
They really don’t give a shit about you and your feelings unless they get something for themselves from making believe like they care.