Corporations, sports teams, and anyone else trying to sell a good or service have seized on Pride Month in a desperate attempt to prove they deserve the LGBT community’s money. Unfortunately, the need to go bigger and woke-r than ever before is leaving the general population confused.
Take the Brooklyn Nets basketball team, for example. They wanted to prove that they love everybody, so they posted a picture of what is either a printer color test or a collage of all the possible Pride flags known to man.
Spread love, it’s the Brooklyn way.
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️#Pride2022 pic.twitter.com/2dmlJRjV7a
— Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) June 1, 2022
It’s like a “Where’s Waldo” puzzle for different sexualities.
It didn’t take long for social media users to voice their confusion, or simply straight up mock the transparent pandering attempt:
This is not inclusive at all. Try to do better next time. Here is the truly progressive Pride flag of the future. @Vox_Oculi pic.twitter.com/DAn0s7ydSH
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) June 1, 2022
I already made this joke last year. https://t.co/bRuUxK3vCK
— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) June 1, 2022
Guys I was joking https://t.co/yzSrDOvsDy
— Sarasaurus⁷ ✡️🇺🇦 #FBPAZ (@saralikeclara) June 1, 2022
Holy shit it’s not a parody!
Ok, well let me introduce my submission as a pride flag:
Happy Pride month!
The [LOVE] will rise again! pic.twitter.com/cpjmA6skqO
— Zorro Rides Again (@ZorroRideAgain) June 1, 2022
LMAO. What on earth is this monstrosity?
— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) June 1, 2022
I’m not on trendy and on TikTok enough to know what the hell I’m looking at
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) June 2, 2022
Hahahhahahahhaha yo I heard you like flags so I put some flags next to some flags inside a flag to make a new flag
— Boston Strong (@LeGoombaa) June 1, 2022
— DenseAF (@dense_af) June 1, 2022
This is a hate crime against people who get migraines.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) June 1, 2022
Honey, the TV is stuck on the SMPTE color bar channel again pic.twitter.com/17P9fALm0z
— Katie Rose (@mochipopcat) June 1, 2022
This looks like some old retro game system had trouble loading a game.
— 🇨🇦 Cato Sinclair (@Catoclysmos) June 1, 2022
— Cincy Browncoat – You can’t take the sky from me (@cincy_browncoat) June 1, 2022
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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