Clorox tweets an emoji joke about bleach, stains own reputation

Clorox tweets an emoji joke about bleach, stains own reputation

In yet another twitter-incident that is sure to make clients even more wary of ever allowing anything to be said on social media without a few hundred focus groups & meetings watering down any semblance of an idea, Clorox managed somehow to come off as weirdly racist with their recent emoji tweet. Their now deleted tweet read: "New emojis are alright but where's the bleach." and attached was the above emoji-picture where a bottle of Clorox is made up from lipstick stains, pigs, sheep, water drops, paw prints, fish and babies - and curiously the numbers 7 8 9. I see what you did there, Clorox, you tried to latch on to the news about the iOS 8.3 Emoji update, which brings iPhone users a whole new range of emojis like the Vulcan salute, and makes all the human emojis in several different colours, as well as adding same sex couple emojis.
Thus people interpreted Clorox tweet as a comment on the new racially diverse emojis, since that's the biggest news about the emoji update. The responses were swift and annoyed, if not downright angry with Clorox.

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