Mt Dew has public poll to name new soda and has to shut promotion down
 

Mt. Dew had a "Dub the Dew" campaign to let the Internet choose the name for a green-apple infused soft drink...awfully optimistic


But promoters forgot just what they were dealing with when soliciting the opinion of the masses ? these were, after all, the same people who exiled rapper Pitbull to a Walmart in Alaska. As could have been expected, the results of Dub the Dew were so offensive and useless that the entire promotion needed to be shut down.

?Hitler did nothing wrong,? ?Diabeetus,? and ?Gushing Granny? all topped the online rankings to name the new drink, which Mountain Dew describes as ?Classic Mtn Dew with green apple attitude.? Other high ranking suggestions included ?Soda? and ?Sierra Mist,? but the online shenanigans did not stop there.

In addition to simply bombarding the poll with hilariously unusable names, the pranksters even went so far as to hack into the site, adding a banner that read ?Mtn Dew salutes the Israeli Mossad for demolishing 3 towers on 9/11!? and a pop-up message that resulted in an unwanted RickRolling.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/14/...#ixzz23e5ApQ1M

Sounds like Grapesoda might have been behind all of this! ;-) j/k

Well duh , how dumb cant there marketing team be

*their

:1orglaugh

Free article on time.com though.

So who posted their promo link on 4chan?

I was seriously crying reading that.. thanks.. I needed that.

4chan.
haha

Fapple :1orglaugh

well, what can go wrong from letting the internet make this decision...

My thoughts, exactly. They walked right into that.

lmao :thumbsup:thumbsup

Epic.




8char

Gushing Granny :1orglaugh

And poilticians want to put our elections online :1orglaugh

they should have just gone for 'diabeetus'

Brilliant

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh kudos to them

Green Apple infused Mt. Dew sounds fucking disgusting.

Heh, great name!

Heh, just made me think of another name option they should have had - Rape Soda.

Paul Markham would have been a great name.

My grandmother was a fan of Mountian Dew way back in the late sixties. Now its cool.

Haha.

On a good note, Wilford Brimley is still alive if they go with Diabeetus, but I don't think he can drink it in a commercial.

that was their best choice of the lot...

:thumbsup

I would have to go with Slurm.

Although Fapple sounds like a winner.

Seems all of my hard work has paid off.

lol thats really funny, spend 2 minutes reading peoples comments on youtube and anyone can see what ideas the unwashed masses come up with..

those lying whores deserve everything we can throw at them. Lets do it :thumbsup

those morans

That's just awesome....just awesome