Is the "Very Gay Raptor" a social media hoax or a real thg om Ford Motor Co.? Here's the unsettlg answer.
Contents:
- FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL
- FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
- FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL
- FORD RAPTOR COMMERCIAL – “ALL IN” ON GAY PRI
FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL
Ford Motor Company ran an ad featurg gay pri lors which has h social media the US settg on fire wh lls for a boytt. * ford's gay pride ad *
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.
FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
Ford celebrat Pri Month wh a 2022 Bron Wildtrak rated the same lor scheme as 2021's 'Very Gay' Raptor Ranger. * ford's gay pride ad *
Ford Motor Company has stepped over an ad that actually me out Europe ten months ago featurg gay pri lors, jt now htg social media the Uned Stat, settg on fire wh lls to boytt the r pany which now has a fe Bud Light vibe. ” It shows a rabow-lored tck racg the mud tryg to portray as macho while phg the gay theme. If I was gay, this would make me straight.
FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL
* ford's gay pride ad *
Ford News Europe tweeted out the same ad last June, referrg to the Pri-pated tck as the “Very Gay Raptor. The story behd the Ford ad is particularly funny, as the pany apparently went out of s way to trigger homophob after an onle menter referred to their new Ranger Raptor as “very gay, ” and meant that to mean “bad.
“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, '” a Ford spokperson told Rters. Bee everyday people are pretty damn acceptg and don’t by to homophobia and rabow palism y, but thk of what this says about the broar environment.
FORD RAPTOR COMMERCIAL – “ALL IN” ON GAY PRI
This year, 's a new Ford Bron Wildtrak 2-door and wears the same rabow and glter gold livery as last year's "Very Gay Raptor" built rponse to an ter troll.
-But that blue lor is very Gay!! In rponse, Ford created the rabow Ranger Raptor, postg on social media, "'Very Gay' was a pliment, right?
— But that blue lor is very Gay!!