Comment on One day, Red Bull will be sued by someone who got high and thought Red Bull would literally give them wings

BBB_1980@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• NachBarcelona@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are you really sure about that? Image

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  • BBB_1980@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nope, I shouldn’t comment before my morning coffee. Because I just checked this and it was a class action lawsuit in New York:

    “The defendant’s prodigious advertising marketing and promotional spending has been used to mislead customers into believing that Red Bull is a superior product worthy of a premium price and has the ability to ‘give you wings’ and provide energy and vitality,”

    Red Bull settled at a max. USD 13 million payout.

    One thing is for sure, I haven’t seen the cartoon ads ever since in Europe, but I recount my claim and don’t make conclusions from my personal experience.

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  • markz@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They run those ads here too. Definitely not stopped.

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    • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s wiiiiiiings, not wings to get around it

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      • markz@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I don’t think that would hold in court

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• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well they’re still playing in Canada and I assume in the Untied States too cause I saw them on an American network

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