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- A new Amazon ad featuring Terry Crews has popped up on social media.
- The ad features Crews cosplaying as an Amazon warehouse employee.
- Social media users were quick to drag the commercial for its tonedeafness.
Amazon has enlisted Terry Crews to star in an “Amazon employee for a day”-type advertisement and the clip is NOT going over well on social media.
The ad, which Amazon rolled out on their TikTok, sees Crews fulfilling the duties of a warehouse worker in a vaguely patronizing fashion — “Wait, I get to drive a forklift?!” Crews exclaim at one point. Twitter users were quick to drag the advert, pointing out how the company is using money they should be giving to their employees to instead hire Terry Crews for a ridiculous commercial.
In addition to Amazon themselves, Crews was particularly dragged for his willingness to participate in such an advertisement, with one Twitter user jokingly suggesting he would’ve done the same ad for slavery if the technology existed at the time. Regardless of you issues with Crews, though, this ad is ultimately a sign that we’re inching closer and closer to a full-blown dystopia with every passing hour.
This is Terry Crews cosplaying as a poor person to do an ad for union busting.
He's basically John Cena's character from Suicide Squad now. https://t.co/Inb5MBKFTk— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) November 10, 2021
If TV and the internet had existed in the 1700-1800 Terry Crews would’ve done an ad for slavery just like this. https://t.co/wHXDnMVtjL
— Public Enemies Podcast (@TheEnemiesPE3) November 10, 2021
Amazon: We can't afford to pay our workers more.
Also Amazon: We're going to pay Terry Crews a boatload of money to come roleplay as a poor person for a few hours. https://t.co/QflTqy5j7a
— Bob the Bot (@BuffaloBobZ) November 10, 2021
if terry crews convinced u to take an amazon warehouse job, u deserve whatever happens https://t.co/m5hSa2JqOB
— ellis (@sum1saiditinnit) November 10, 2021
Terry Crews would’ve snitched on Harriet Tubman
— Nicolas is happy (@niggaolas) November 10, 2021
terry crews (in amazon commercial, waving to another warehouse worker): hello stephanie!
me: damn i gotta work there
— Rajat Suresh (@rajat_suresh) November 10, 2021
when my order from amazon arrives crushed to shit bc terry crews didnt know wtf he was doing pic.twitter.com/9wFfpc5leq
— marty, (@martycomma) November 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/paradoomer/status/1458480749368184832
https://twitter.com/CTWritePretty/status/1458450805967757323
Terry Crews would’ve told Rosa Parks to get tf up.
— NUFF (@nuffsaidny) November 10, 2021
>ad shows amazon workers in a secret reunion to unionize
>suddenly, wall breaks
>its terry crews doing the pecs dance
>ITS ME
>proceeds to assasinate the workers
>UNIONS BAD
>legs turn into rockets, lift off pic.twitter.com/OI4JDGYYQi— exiled wooden man (@aaaaarran) November 10, 2021
This is actually the second horribly cringy Amazon moment in recent days, as a clip of Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend giving Leonardo DiCaprio the flirty puppy dog eyes went viral earlier this week. To make matters worse, Bezos then attempted to get in on the joke and sent a “warning” to Leo on Twitter. “Hahaha, Jeff Bezos is such a jokester! He’s just like one of us!” is how he probably imagined people reacting to this tweet. Just admit you’re trying to turn our reality into a combination of Black Mirror and Squid Game already, Jeff.
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Leo, come over here, I want to show you something… @LeoDiCaprio https://t.co/Gt2v9JZTNz pic.twitter.com/KqGLB839NI
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 8, 2021