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Kendall Jenner better turn off her mentions on Twitter today, because the internet is not happy about her new Pepsi ad.
On Tuesday, the soda company released a commercial showing the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star ditching a photoshoot to join a generic-looking protest in the streets. It ends with the model giving a cop a can of Pepsi before their new tag line, "Live bolder, live louder, live for now."
The spot was accused of appropriating the Black Lives Matter movement to sell a few cans of soda, and critics have been extremely vocal all over social media.
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View StoryPepsi, meanwhile, has defended the "message" of the ad. "This is a global ad that reflects people from different walks of life coming together in a spirit of harmony, and we think that's an important message to convey," Pepsi said in a statement.
See 21 of the most savage tweets below, including one from Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, Bernice King:
If only Daddy would have known about the power of #Pepsi. pic.twitter.com/FA6JPrY72V
@BerniceKing
So we should just give Putin & Assad & Trump a can of Pepsi & everything will be fine?
@kumailn
The worst part of the Pepsi commercial is when Kendall decides to protest racism by making a black woman hold her wig. pic.twitter.com/NEfSwXqJvm
@seankent
"Now just wait one second officers.
@Phil_Lewis_
I have a Pepsi." pic.twitter.com/NW0sddKOOI
theory: that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad is actually a Coke ad
@chrisgayomali
who else is reminded of Dr Martin Luther King's famously resonant "I have a Pepsi" speech pic.twitter.com/xX5h3it3d1
@SenatorLudlam
When she thinks the can of Pepsi is going to stop you from pepper spraying the nearest person of color pic.twitter.com/XMDfg8s02G
@_Zeets
"Kendall please! Give him a Pepsi!" pic.twitter.com/IntFNmCpTr
@_Zeets
The inoffensive generic protest signs in Pepsi's woke Kendall Jenner ad are hilarious. pic.twitter.com/9t2h6YxCZL
@RonanFarrow
the only thing that's important is that everyone understands that kendall jenner is the new martin luther king jr now
@SheaSerrano
*kendall jenner hands cop a pepsi*
@BRANDONWARDELL
cop: im not racist anymore
Could you be any more blatant with the disrespect and appropriation of a movement, @pepsi? Is this a sick joke?! pic.twitter.com/8NS8ynJUdj
@_TARYNitUP
.@CocaCola watching this @Pepsi ad go up in flames pic.twitter.com/s4DW2GqpXq
@ByRyanBrooks
The Kendall Jenner Pepsi fiasco is a perfect example of what happens when there's no black people in the room when decisions are being made.
@Travon
"I've been to the mountaintop, there's a Pepsi machine" pic.twitter.com/40vV6HjeEF
@charles270
"Aye...tell Jesse to get a 6-pack of Pepsi and bring it to Selma. I'll explain later..." pic.twitter.com/5VElyQqC0W
@B_Effin_G
You should have seen the rejected Pepsi commercial. pic.twitter.com/1NR23KCuwk
@WallaceWylie
Coke execs tonight after watching kendall's pepsi ad pic.twitter.com/3u7Ti01bpi
@JMN
Make 👏🏼 Pepsi 👏🏼ads 👏🏼 about 👏🏼 Britney 👏🏼 time traveling 👏🏼 again
@PatchNavillus
In fairness to Pepsi, their ad did bring people together.
@jbarro
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