Is the "Very Gay Raptor" a social media hoax or a real thg om Ford Motor Co.? Here's the unsettlg answer.
Contents:
- IS THE FORD 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK REAL?
- FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
- WATCH: FORD HAS ROLLED OUT AN LGBT ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ TCK
- FACT OR FICTN: 2023 RAPTOR OFFERED RABOW LOR THEME LLED VERY GAY RAPTOR?
- DID FORD REALLY MAKE A “VERY GAY RAPTOR” MERCIAL?
- CONSERVATIV ARE GOG AFTER FORD’S VERY OLD, VERY GAY RAPTOR
- FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ AD GO VIRAL: IS THE WOKE COMMERCIAL REAL?
- FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ SET TO REFE ‘TOUGH’ AT GOODWOOD
- FORD VERY GAY RANGER RAPTOR MAK COLORFUL DEBUT AT GOODWOOD
IS THE FORD 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK REAL?
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Ford created a tck lled the "Very Gay Raptor. ContextThe "Very Gay Raptor" is a real tck created by Ford 2021. The pany reportedly created the r rponse to a social media post that referred to the "Performance Blue" lor optn on Ranger Raptors as "very gay.
FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
A story gettg tractn on social media claims Ford's new 2023 Raptor is beg offered a rabow lor theme lled the Very Gay Raptor. * very gay raptor 2023 *
In May 2023, claims began to spread onle that Ford had buted a new tck lled the "Very Gay Raptor, " a vehicle pated gold dt and rabow graphics. " Attached to the tweet was a mercial claimg to show the "Very Gay Raptor" advertised by Ford.
WATCH: FORD HAS ROLLED OUT AN LGBT ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ TCK
“Very Gay Raptor”’ (VGR) and Next-Gen Ranger Raptor to appear at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed, reaffirmg Ford’s long-term mment to LGBTQ+ allyship * very gay raptor 2023 *
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It began as an attempt by our team Europe to turn a negative to a posive wh -kd rponse to a social ment 2021 assertg that a lor of the then-new Ranger Raptor tck was 'very gay' – somethg which offend lleagu and ctomers. In September 2021, ABC 10 News reported that Ford of Germany had created the r rponse to a social media post that referred to the "Performance Blue" lor optn on Ranger Raptors as "very gay. On June 21, 2022, nearly a year later, Ford News Europe posted a vio to s YouTube page tled, "Ford's Very Gay Raptor Ref 'Tough' for a New Generatn.
Ford lled out a homophobic rponse to a Ranger Raptor vio last year by creatg the real-life "Very Gay Raptor. In a 2022 prs release about the tck, Ford said the vio was meant to tease the appearance of the "Very Gay Raptor" as well as the Next-Gen Ranger Raptor at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed, an annual U.
FACT OR FICTN: 2023 RAPTOR OFFERED RABOW LOR THEME LLED VERY GAY RAPTOR?
Ford's Very Gay Raptor Ref 'Tough' for a New Generatn.,. "FORD'S 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' SET TO REDEFINE 'TOUGH' AT GOODWOOD. "Fact or Fictn: Ford Built a 'Very Gay' Raptor?
A spokperson for Ford said an email to Rters, “The vio is a year old and was created and ed by the Ford team Europe for a specific purpose – to make somethg posive out of a negative onle ment that a lor of our new Ranger Raptor pickup was ‘very gay. Ford did not release a new “Very Gay Raptor” ad mpaign 2023; the onle vio dat to article was produced by the Rters Fact Check team.
DID FORD REALLY MAKE A “VERY GAY RAPTOR” MERCIAL?
It looks like the Ford executiv who uld have stopped their brand om beg the “Bud Light of Tcks” had already done the ed a year ago, when they ran the “Very Gay Raptor” — y, that is s real name — at a major motorsports event. The ad featur the Worlds Strongt Men to nvce you how tough the new “Very Gay Raptor” really is!
The ad shared by London featur Rob Kearney, the first openly gay petor the World’s Strongt Man petn, talkg up the allyship he found the event. Others also recently posted promotnal vios of the “Very Gay Raptor, ” a rabow flag-becked versn of the $56, 000-pl tw-turbo performance tck:.
CONSERVATIV ARE GOG AFTER FORD’S VERY OLD, VERY GAY RAPTOR
The only thg that’s wrong about the statements is that the “Very Gay Raptor” isn’t somethg new. “Ford will ntue monstratg s allyship wh the LGBTQ+ muny at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed this week, brgg ‘Very Gay Raptor’ and the Next-Gen Ranger Raptor along for the ri, ” Ford said a news release last June, clarg that the tck would “refe ‘tough. “Created 2021, ‘Very Gay Raptor’ was born rponse to a negative ment on social media, wh Ford renrg s most bada** nameplate sparklg gold adorned wh rabow graphics, ” the news release said.
‘Very Gay’ was a pliment, right? ✨? #VeryGayRaptor.
Footage of the “Very Gay Raptor” also featur promently a rep of Ford’s numero petn rs and productn specials at Goodwood last year:.
FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ AD GO VIRAL: IS THE WOKE COMMERCIAL REAL?
Whereas prevly an ostentatly woke mpaign specifilly targetg nsumer products that are cidly unwoke would fly unr the radar for most people, the “Very Gay Raptor” sudnly seems like a “Very Bad Ia” — particularly for a pany stgglg other areas at prent that has to sell the Ford Ranger Raptor to a mostly male, generally nservative clientele that’s not nsirg a sendhand Nissan Leaf the Raptor’s stead. (Before Mulvaney), ’ll be cur to see what Ford do wh the “Very Gay Raptor” and what kd of publicy gets over the next few months. Advertisg, Automobile, Boytt, bs and pani, Culture, homosexual agenda, inty polics, LGBT, social media, transgenr, tweet, vio, wokens.
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FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ SET TO REFE ‘TOUGH’ AT GOODWOOD
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A story gettg tractn on social media claims Ford's new 2023 Raptor is beg offered a rabow lor theme lled the Very Gay Raptor. (KGTV) — A story gettg tractn on social media claims Ford's new 2023 Raptor is beg offered a rabow lor theme lled the Very Gay is fictn, based on a nugget of 2021, Ford of Germany created the r rponse to a social media troll who referred to the ‘Performance Blue’ lor optn on the Ranger Raptor as "very gay. "So Ford cid to create an actual Very Gay Raptor and buted as part of a pri of Germany has a long history of supportg the LGBTQ+ muny.
However, the Very Gay Ford Ranger Raptor was never for sale.
FORD VERY GAY RANGER RAPTOR MAK COLORFUL DEBUT AT GOODWOOD
The Ford Raptor is very gay. That’s not a middle school joke, ’s an actual vehicle offered by The Ford Motor Company, which created a special edn “very gay” versn of s Raptor pick-up tck two years ago, plete wh a rabow pat job.
Yet nobody even noticed until recently — which sort of mak the whole thg a lot more funny.On May 18, Robby Starbuck tweeted, “Did you know that Ford has a tck they ll their ‘Very Gay Raptor’? Check out their ad where the tck ‘ out’ of mud to reveal s trans/queer flag lors.” Did you know that Ford has a tck they ll their "Very Gay Raptor"?