Critical Role Wendy’s sponsoring Critical Role?

[jgsugden]

I think Matt went out of his way to avoid criticizing (or even mentioning) Wendy's and even to avoid objecting directly to the toxicity of some of the criticism directed at CR. He focused on CR's experience of the whole thing, which is pretty much on-brand for him. Any implication about Wendy's is very indirect at best.

Everyone understood. Regardless of whether it was indirect, it was clear and Wendy's will not be pleased. Other potential sponsors will be aware of this situation.

 

[5ekyu]

ok how many of you who were troubled by the sponsorship are donating more than $10 to famer aid thingy?

Not me. I plan to eat Wendy's during CritRole on Thursdays.

 

[robus]

Everyone understood. Regardless of whether it was indirect, it was clear and Wendy's will not be pleased. Other potential sponsors will be aware of this situation.

It’s not like CR needs the money though...

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Ok to sum up from what I got from this thread. Wendy's created a quick and dirty RPG just for giggles and advertising. Wendy's paid CR to do an episode using the rules. CR said yes. The mob said Wendy's bad. And must have yelled at CR, "Wendy's bad". CR then said "Profits to the union".
Some people here yelled Wendy's bad, union good. I said ,"Hey you gripers how much have you donated to union? Or are you here just gripe?"

So, gibberish and obtuse refusal to understand what others are saying. Got it.

 

[MaximusArael020]

Hilariously, the people calling for CR to "do the right thing" in regards to Wendy's are writing out their messages on Twitter where the owner gave a platform to far right hate groups and conspiracy theorists, on phones and laptops made by slave labor in China, and watch the show every week on Twitch which is owned by Amazon, whose owner is so ungodly rich that the only way he can reasonably spend a significant chunk of his money is NOT by paying his employees fairly or allowing them a reasonable amount of time for restroom breaks, but instead by sending people into space.

Wendy's is not the problem. The entire SYSTEM is the problem. McDonalds and Burger King might be slightly better than Wendy's because they joined the Fair Food Program, but lets not kid ourselves here. Every major corporation has skeletons in their closet and are NOT doing everything they can for the people who work for them.

But I guess we got CR to donate money that could help keep their doors open, so.... go us?

 

[Tonguez]

Yeah they still weren't great, KFC does good chicken burgers.

Whopper with cheese or quarter pounder with bacon or even basic quarter pounder is better than anything I had at Wendy's.

KFC is just horrible all round here, the only fastfood joint approaching good is Wendys and thats just for the baked potatoes. I prefer to get Sushi or Pita Pockets and occasionally a Subway

 

[Zardnaar]

KFC is just horrible all round here, the only fastfood joint approaching good is Wendys and thats just for the baked potatoes. I prefer to get Sushi or Pita Pockets and occasionally a Subway

I don't generally eat any of them but I'll occasionally eat McDonalds.

I normally go for Arabic, Indian, Turkish it's about the same price.

KFC us fairly bad but the wraps here are decent along with the burgers. Haven't eaten it since Dec 2017.

Been a bad week this week with 3 dining out meals of which 2 were junk food.

 

[Mistwell]

Sorry man. I’m trying to parse these sentences, and I understand each word individually, but arranged in that order I’m struggling. “Shoot I evil enough”?

I think he just left off an apostrophe and a "m". Looked like he was saying, "Shoot, I'm evil enough..."

 

[Umbran]

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[Harzel]

Everyone understood. Regardless of whether it was indirect, it was clear and Wendy's will not be pleased.

"Wendy's" is not a single person who can be pleased or displeased. It's a bunch of people who I'm quite sure will have varying reactions. If you are saying that Wendy's as a company probably would refuse being a CR sponsor again in the foreseeable future, I'd say you are very likely correct. But I'm pretty sure CR feel the same way, so I'm not sure what this observation is salient to.

Other potential sponsors will be aware of this situation.

Well, that certainly sounds ominous (and, as far as it goes, obviously true), but "potential sponsors" are an even less homogeneous group than "Wendy's". You seem to be trying to imply, without saying it explicitly, that some (or maybe all?) potential sponsors will now be more reticent (or completely opposed?) to sponsoring CR. Ok, probably you could find some, but it's only interesting if some are sponsors that CR would want considering what they've learned from this little debacle. I'm not saying it's impossible, but to me it seems like it's going to be a corner case. Would you care to make an explicit assertion that we could actually discuss?