The skit that “missed the mark” occurred in a break in play during the second quarter of Charlotte’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday. The child was brought onto the court with Hugo, the Hornets’ mascot, dressed as Santa Claus. After a letter to Santa requesting a PS5 was read out loud, a cheerleader came out with a bag containing the video game console.
The young fan was visibly overjoyed as he received the pricy gift. However, according to an online acquaintance, he was less happy when the cameras turned off and a Hornets staffer took it away, replacing it with a jersey.
The skit that “missed the mark” . . .
Quit sucking up to corporate America, yahoo sports writer. The Hornets farked up a simple PR event in every way it was possible TO fark up. They baited and switched a PS5 with a t-shirt and thought no one would find out about it.
And they have so damn much money that giving him the PS5 would have been like you or me flicking a penny to the kid.
People suck sometimes, I swear.
Sometimes?
No offense, but that’s the wrong take here. “People” (as in The People, or the majority) didn’t do this, a giant 3 billion dollar organization did. Sure, it’s composed of people, but this is unregulated capitalism run amok…
Nah. There was a meeting of actual humans who got together and decided to trick a child hoping no one would notice. Said meeting likely cost more than the said console did in salaries, too.
Edited to clarify. Most people wouldn’t do this. Get a group of randos off the street and they wouldn’t do this to a child.
I just think we shouldn’t shield these evil people by pretending it’s “the business” doing it. It’s humans. Really really shitty humans, but they made the decision to do this to a kid, on camera, thinking it wouldn’t immediately backfire in this age of social media.
So not only are they assholes, but also fucking stupid.
One of the comments about why
How would this commenter know that?
I mean surely it could be a lie but they just took away a PS5 from a kid…
what? lies? on the internet? why would anyone do such a thing.
Now I feel like I’m back on Reddit.
tips le fedora
No, that’s Red Hat, not Reddit. Easy to get them confused.
I know, right? I’m human like you and totally not a dog
Ew, humans. snarls
Source: trust me bro
You want Lemmy adoption… you get folks with stature in the machine sharing mundane recon… you don’t believe anything.
Look, I’m just engaging in critical thinking here. I don’t believe everything I read on the Internet especially since people love just making up random crap just so they can have a story to tell.
That’s fair. I try to do the same. But we suspend belief all the time to survive the shit. Let some light in whether proven and your day might be better 🤷
Yikes.
Unfortunately, this applies to 99% of people in power I know of, if they think they’ll get away with it, they’ll do it.
You don’t usually get into places of power by being thoughtful and considerate.
I might suggest that the kid got a nicer present in the form of a reason to file suit against the team for the embarrassment and emotional distress. Using the kid for a BS publicity stunt is not acceptable.
Jfc… How much of a psychopathic piece of shit do you have to be, to hurt a kid’s feelings like that?! I fucking hate people.
It reminds me of the Santa mall scene in a Christmas Story
Corporate America…
I guess I’ll continue not watching basketball or football or whatever
“Did you see that ludicrous display last night?”
The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in!
Yeah. Fuck this noise. I’m boycotting the Hornets. You won’t catch me at a Hornets Football match!
I swear The Boys gets more and more blatant with how evil Corporate America is, but cmon, this episode is just completely ridiculous. Not even Homelander would be that ev…
Wait this happened in a REAL Sportsball game? This is not a bit? sugh
I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed
What fucking cheapskates.
Do they make their players turn out their pockets after each game in case they picked up some loose change off the ground too? Lol
It’d be nice if people stopped acting like fucking psychos.
$500 for good press or $0 for bad. Looks like Charlotte is as bad at math as they are at basketball.
I’m sure the Chinese made Jersey has some value.
I feel like this is so boneheaded that it has to be the case where the staff member in charge of this giveaway just wanted to keep the PS5 themselves and thought the kids wouldn’t complain about the ol’ switcheroo! This just even sounds like something Michael Scott would have done in The Office.
No, Michael Scott is a moron, not a jackass. He wouldn’t pull this shit. He’s tone deaf, he constantly thinks he’s doing the right thing without realizing why what he’s doing has the opposite of the intended effect even when it’s obvious to everyone else. Giving a kid something he wants and then taking it away when no one’s look is a move of calculated evil.
He’d imply heavily a PS5 then give the kid a Jersey, at no point would he actually have the thing in the kid’s hand and then take it back.
Maybe that’s just me, but I don’t see Michael Scott as a character that would knowingly choose to do something immoral. He’d do a bad deed, but without realizing it.
Mike Scott’s more the “We’re taking away free tampons on the women’s room, because we just don’t have the money for luxury goods.” type, who’s then baffled when he’s called sexist because he legitimately believed tampons were a luxury. Not the “Promote a woman? Are you insane? This is a man’s office sweetheart!” type.
I could totally see Dwight taking the PS5 for himself and mocking the kid over it though. Even then he’d do it out of Chaos, not Evil.
Top tier analysis. Thank you.
I’ve been playing as Michael Scott in that Funko Fusion game, I’ve been doing “The Thing” stages as him, because it’s the funniest thing I can imagine happening.
It has gotten me thinking a lot about the character and how he’d behave.
Ah so you are classically trained.
Season 1 Michael was a bit more of a jackass though. Maybe he could’ve done it.
Michael kidnapped a pizza delivery boy because he didn’t want to pay full prize. This fits right in.
I bet the price of that console was going to break their bank.
I mean I would get it if they had an empty box out on the court for the show, and then having to take away the empty show box… But they gave the kid a jersey instead? Wtf?
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Pretty sure they are saying use an empty box on the court (lighter, no risk of breaking), and then take away the empty box afterwards (implied to give them an actual, not-empty box afterwards).
Ooooh. I definitely didn’t get that implication and thought the same as the commenter above. Couldn’t figure out how that’d be understandable lol.
I think they meant like theyd still give em a ps5 it just wouldn’t have been in the box on camera.
Sorry yeah I’m missing a whole ass sentence there haha… As bork picked up, once off the court, take the empty box and replace with the full box.
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That’s fucked up.
Goddamn hornets, this is why everyone prefers bees
Speak for yourself. Bees are an invasive species given an unfair advantage through their alliance with humanity. If they aren’t native to an area, they are a pest that competes with local pollinators and drives them toward extinction
describes every domesticated animal
free roaming domesticated animals are a pest on the ecosystems, but we do european bees on a completely different scale
European bees wouldn’t be as big of a problem if people didn’t tear down native shrubs and import European plants. Plant native! Garden wild! Stop using pesticides!
Bees did nothing wrong
But why just speak for yourself when you could speak for everyone?
You’re welcome!
Stingy.
They’re Hornets. Being stingy bastards is in the name!
wait what? did they go back to the store and ask for a refund on the PS5, lol… someone was like “that is fine we will just apologize and save a couple hundred bucks!”
