Pokimane reacts to controversial Burger King International Women\u2019s Day tweet YouTube: Pokimane TooBurger King went viral for all the wrong reasons on International Women\u2019s Day after posting a controversial tweet \u2014 and it\u2019s safe to say that Pokimane isn\u2019t here for what she called a flopped \u201cPR stunt.\u201d On March 8, International Women\u2019s Day, popular fast food chain Burger King became a hot topic of conversation a due to a certain tweet they published, which sparked outrage across social media. The tweet in question read as follows: \u201cWomen belong in the kitchen.\u201d Alone, that statement is certainly enough to offend quite a few people \u2014 but the company followed up with an unexpected explanation, claiming that their post was meant to draw awareness to the lack of female chefs in the restaurant business. \u201cIf they want to, of course,\u201d the chain replied. \u201cYet only 20% of chefs are women. We\u2019re on a mission to change the gender ratio in the restaurant industry by empowering female employees with the opportunity to pursue a culinary career.\u201d Despite their follow-up statement, much of the internet was not convinced of their cause, prompting the company to delete the divisive tweet a short time later due to the sheer amount of outrage they received. While plenty of high-profile personalities shared their reactions to the post, Twitch star Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys\u2019s is probably one of the more hilarious of the bunch, with the streamer uploading her take on the situation in a YouTube video a day later. We decided to delete the original tweet after our apology. It was brought to our attention that there were abusive comments in the thread and we don’t want to leave the space open for that. \u2014 Burger King (@BurgerKingUK) March 8, 2021 \u201cDude, what the mother**** is this?\u201d she asked, after giving the post a totally confused expression. \u201cWhat a **** PR stunt. \u2018I\u2019m gonna pretend to say something sexist, to actually not be sexist at all!\u2019 Like, I\u2019m not even mad, it\u2019s just lame!\u201d \u201cLike, they thought that they were doing something with this,\u201d she continued. \u201cBut you gotta remember, like, the first tweet is always the one that people really see. Let\u2019s be honest. \u2026not all PR is good PR! Period.\u201d All in all, it seems like Pokimane wasn\u2019t impressed with Burger King\u2019s attempted Women\u2019s Day empowerment move, and wasn\u2019t afraid to share her thoughts with viewers who disagreed with her, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane reacts to controversial Burger King International Women\u2019s Day tweet YouTube: Pokimane TooBurger King went viral for all the wrong reasons on International Women\u2019s Day after posting a controversial tweet \u2014 and it\u2019s safe to say that Pokimane isn\u2019t here for what she called a flopped \u201cPR stunt.\u201d On March 8, International Women\u2019s Day, popular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}