Pepsi ad

In this weeks class, we went over memes and ads. After watching the pepsi ad for this weeks class, I've come to more of an understanding why there is so much controversy over it. This Pepsi ad brought so much negative attention and was very flawed. Watching this ad made us all wonder, how did no one pick up on the wrong messages the ad could be sending? For example, Kendall Jenner stars in the ad being the "peace maker". They send the wrong idea by having this protest seem very similar to a black lives matter protest. When kendall hands someone a pepsi and all of a sudden everything is ok, this made people angry because she's a white, rich girl. This sent the wrong message to people that she could fix everything because she is a very privileged white young girl. This ad went viral and hopefully the people who made this ad learned their lesson.

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