M&M's drops 'spokescandies' following backlash



Comedian Maya Rudolph will be the next spokesperson for M&M after the company decided to put an “indefinite pause” on using its candy mascots after they provoked right-wing media outlets. NBC’s Zinhle Essamuah is joined by Vanity Fair writer Kenzie Bryant to take a closer look at why this outrage developed toward M&M’s.

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21 comments

  1. This is a Súper bowl commercial set up

  2. Tucker Carlson comes off as a chauvinistic, homophobic hysteric

  3. The little cowboy/girl ones are so cute dancing 🙂❤️

  4. THIS is the dumbest sh*t I have ever heard lol

  5. Because she didn’t like heals..??

  6. Forest Mars (the creator of M&M’s) is turning over in his grave because of this.

  7. next they're going to make the m&ms black and white because they offend blind people

  8. No matter what the color

  9. Get over it
    It's candy
    I love m and ms

  10. Why are people so stupid?

  11. When there’s so many conservatives that this can happen … it’s hard to believe so many votes go to the left …. hmmm

  12. You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all the people all the time!

  13. Girls 👧🏻 can wear sneakers 👟

  14. There was no outrage…. just mockery and shaming

  15. If you have 3 female M&Ms 2 are lesbian and 1 is obese how many straight normal female M&Ms do you have??? Repping the majority of women??? So much for inclusion when it includes normal people

  16. Im far less worried about far right anger than I am at the lefts
    notions men can get pregnant and introducing school kids to trans shows.