Is the "Very Gay Raptor" a social media hoax or a real thg om Ford Motor Co.? Here's the unsettlg answer.
Contents:
- FORD RAPTOR COMMERCIAL – “ALL IN” ON GAY PRI
- DID FORD REALLY MAKE A “VERY GAY RAPTOR” MERCIAL?
- FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL
- FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
- FORD BRILLIANTLY CLAPPED BACK AT HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS BY CREATG AN EVEN GAYER TCK
- FORD DROPS ADS GAY-ORIENTED MAGAZ
FORD RAPTOR COMMERCIAL – “ALL IN” ON GAY PRI
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 gay commercial 2023 *
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.
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DID FORD REALLY MAKE A “VERY GAY RAPTOR” MERCIAL?
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This isn’t the first time Ford has walked a fe le of beg “Ford tough” but also embracg their ner gayns. Coupled wh this gay Raptor mercial, what exactly is Ford sayg about tradnal male rol society and culture? *Exaggeratn upg* No gay people buy the big tcks!
OK, maybe there is a soft, unllo hand-ful of gay men that drive pick-up tcks but not many.
Maybe Ford se the “tough” gay man (which is an obv oxymoron) as an untapped market. Maybe the real wners om this ad are pani like Nissan and Toyota… you know, the on who foc on tcks and not gayns.
FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL
Ford celebrat Pri Month wh a 2022 Bron Wildtrak rated the same lor scheme as 2021's 'Very Gay' Raptor Ranger. * ford gay commercial 2023 *
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FACT CHECK: HAS FORD ROLLED OUT AN LGBT 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' TCK?
You fd below:At that time, was a quick vio ma for social media to answer a er ment sayg: “the blue lor is very gay. ” It’s important to note that the statement was not tend as a homophobic attack but only as a joke.
— But that blue lor is very Gay!! ” What happened next was a masterclass shuttg down homophobic a vio released on Twter by Ford Europe, the tomaker revealed s new and improved “Very Gay Raptor” cked out rabows and gold glter. A 60-hour procs saw the vehicle draped rabow and gold glter Alpha foil, then topped wh rabow and heart isn’t even the first time that Ford has cked out a Gay Pri vehicle.
FORD BRILLIANTLY CLAPPED BACK AT HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS BY CREATG AN EVEN GAYER TCK
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:. 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.
FORD DROPS ADS GAY-ORIENTED MAGAZ
“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:.