(26 Jun 2020, 2:29 pm)Storx wrote For me it's something different personally and it's all about companies that make a big deal out of it like they're passionate and it's just a big political stunt which they even profiteer off in some cases but this year they've diverted it towards the NHS using the actual pride rainbow (GNE doesn't for reference here). Just to name a few:That's just supermarkets.
- M&S (Profittered last year with those weird sandwiches, now profiteering using NHS by donating 10% - Ethical my arse - uses 6 pride rainbow)
- ASDA (Profittered with Gnomes)
- Morrisons (It's for key workers, no mention of pride until later, uses 6 pride flag)
- Iceland (NHS promotion, using 6 pride flag)
For those arguing over the rainbow flag:
The NHS flag / rainbow colours are: Red / Orange / Yellow / Green / Blue / Indigo / Violet <-- GNE uses this to be fair.
The Pride flag is: Red / Orange / Yellow / Green / Indigo / Violet
Anyone using the 2nd flag as their branding and mentioning Covid-19 / NHS or whatever else has blatently diverted their pride stuff to a cause with a 'bigger audience' and it's purely marketing especially if it involves profits.
The GNE one imo is just bad timing.
The ones above are the ones I'm talking about, purely a profiteering stunt and a real lack of interest in it. That's not every company don't worry - I know that.
That's the key thing right there, whether or not they have a real interest in it. The way I see it is if they put their logo on it, they've done it purely for the marketing. And to be totally honest, I'm fine with that.
It's when they half-arse it just to fit in I have an issue, whether it's adding a rainbow to the background of their Twitter, or changing their Avatar to a black square, or those identical statements everyone put out being saddened at the death of George Floyd (don't even get me started on that, I'd probably get banned)