John Oliver encourages snack companies to make tie-in video games instead of more bad tweets
Let's imagine a better world where we get a Sunny D dungeon crawler instead of more depression tweets
Brand Twitter is a consistently terrible presence in modern life. Though ultimately harmless when compared to climate collapse, income inequality, highly contagious viruses, or any of the other existentially terrifying threats that haunt our every moment, there’s something uniquely soul-deadening about the background hum of days where Steak-umm uses a corporate PR account to write about crushing alienation and start internet fights or Sunny Delight tweeting in the voice of someone who’s suicidally depressed.
As John Oliver points out in a new video, it doesn’t have to be this way. The Brands can continue advertising themselves without clawing at our already dangerously brittle nerves in the process. They can get back to making tie-in video games instead.