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What do you bet they don't even do that anymore?
$5 says almost no company does even the most perfunctory rainbow capitalism avatar changes this year, because, well, that'd be DEI or woke or someshit.
The telltale will be what they do in other markets, like Europe.
Are they going to be so spineless as to change for Belgium but not for the US? Will the 51th state have a rainbow?
I'm wagering they don't do anything at all anywhere. The absolute most might be a 'happy pride!' page buried somewhere.
But, honestly, as a gay dude, I don't care. This was all performative nonsense anyways. It was, at the very best, just some virtue signalling bullshit marketing thought might sell another car or book or potato or whatever the fuck, and never ever actually meant support or willingness to stand on principles or even get fucking involved in anything - though, I'll admit, there were a very few exceptions to that.
There's lots of shit needed, but an avatar picture that's just fucking marketing from trillion dollar companies ain't it, boss.
Yeah, I agree. I'm not saying at all it matters, but a lot of people bought into that.