KFC Australia Fired Off A Semi-Funny Tweet So Of Course The Internet Freaked Out And They Deleted It

BI- KFC backtracked on its latest ad campaign less than one hour after it launched, according to Yahoo News. The racy tweet, from KFC Australia, (scroll down to see the probably NSFW screenshot below) showed a woman and a man on a sofa. The man’s crotch area is blurred out, while the woman appears to be reaching into it. The image came with the caption “Warning: #NSFW. Something hot and spicy is coming soon.” “NSFW” stands for “Not Safe For Work.” KFC is not known for its salacious advertising. However, in 2005 the fast-food giant produced a UK ad that showed people singing with their mouths full. The UK advertising regulator, the ASA, received of record number of more than 1,000 complaints about the commercial from people who were offended by the lack of table manners, making it the UK’s most complained-about ad of all time. The KFC Australia ad received more than 1,300 retweets before it was deleted. Many Twitter users had reacted negatively to the KFC tweet. KFC Australia later apologized for causing offense.

2016 in a nutshell. Large company sends out a semi-controversial tweet, a small-but-loud percentage of the human population gets super offended by it, large company deletes tweet and apologizes. Lather, rinse, repeat. People need to stop getting offended by tweets. They’re tweets, people. If you don’t like it, don’t look at it. If you’re the type of person who saw that KFC Australia tweet and thought, “I’m so mad about this that I’m gonna tweet at them and bully them until they delete it” then please get the fuck off my planet. You’re not welcome here. The tweet wasn’t racist. The tweet wasn’t sexist. I mean I’m sure someone somewhere will spin it into some sort of (blank)ist but that’s the world we live in. I thought the tweet was funny. It made me laugh. That was my takeaway. I chuckled and moved on. Is it kind of a weird move to make people think about dicks when you’re advertising edible chicken? Maybe a little bit but it’s still funny. People are the worst.