Valuetainment - ＂What Were They Thinking？＂ – HelloFresh Faces Backlash Over Explicit Pride Campaign

00:00:00.000 There's a commercial that came out called HelloFresh.

00:00:01.560 Here we go.

00:00:02.400 You want to talk about Down on Bended Knees?

00:00:03.860 So tell us about this HelloFresh commercial

00:00:05.420 and what this company thought was a good idea to do.

00:00:07.620 They posted something on their Instagram.

00:00:09.780 Guys, by the way, this is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.

00:00:13.700 But, Vinny, kids, earmuffs, parents, kids can't watch in the next five minutes.

00:00:16.840 And I want people to pay attention.

00:00:18.180 For you guys to know HelloFresh, it's a food delivery service,

00:00:20.660 meals and all that type of stuff.

00:00:22.260 They put out a statement basically telling gay men how to prepare 1.00

00:00:26.220 an earmuff for the kids for anal sex. 1.00

00:00:28.300 They wrote, we know eating isn't always top priority this month. 1.00

00:00:32.800 Do you know what that means?

00:00:33.940 We know that you're not, if you're in that community,

00:00:36.620 you don't want to eat that much, Pat,

00:00:37.660 because you don't want that much food in your stomach

00:00:39.600 because you know what's going to happen.

00:00:40.520 They say, we respect that.

00:00:41.920 But for those of you who are dot, dot, dot prepping,

00:00:46.040 I'd have to look this up, Pat.

00:00:48.720 Do you guys know what priority prepping is?

00:00:51.180 No.

00:00:51.380 In context, prepping means cleaning out your bowels

00:00:54.560 before guys do their business with guys. 0.97

00:00:57.500 Stop it.

00:00:58.300 And that's why they're promoting.

00:00:59.780 Ready for the next line?

00:01:00.780 We have an extensive lineup.

00:01:02.580 Vinny, stop.

00:01:03.320 Pat, I'm going to show you something different.

00:01:06.220 Recipes available.

00:01:07.640 Happy Pride.

00:01:09.120 Okay?

00:01:09.680 Let's just, I'm not being, you should see, hear the comments and then go back to that.

00:01:13.440 So, Pat, ready for this?

00:01:14.500 Somebody put Bottoms Up as the Pride discount code.

00:01:18.540 HelloFresh's official account responded saying that.

00:01:22.040 Use Bottoms Up for a Pride Month discount.

00:01:24.540 Okay, so now it's.

00:01:25.540 So, okay, by the way, this is the same company, just FYI, if you guys don't remember, 2024, the Department of Labor investigated them for migrant children working at one of their package facilities.

00:01:34.880 Put that aside. 0.98

00:01:35.900 But this is HelloFresh, a food delivery company saying, hey, we know you guys aren't eating that much gay men this month because we know that you're having sex. 0.99

00:01:45.660 Okay? 0.99

00:01:46.200 So we respect you for that.

00:01:48.080 Well, let me ask this. 0.91

00:01:49.220 That is disgusting.

00:01:50.400 But here's the part that I may not have, and I don't, I've never heard of HelloFresh.

00:01:53.740 It may be a big company.

00:01:55.440 Is HelloFresh only a gay delivery company?

00:01:58.300 No, not at all.

00:02:00.800 You know that?

00:02:01.680 I know that for a fact, Pat.

00:02:02.960 The owner is a German guy, and there's two other people.

00:02:05.760 CEO, it's a public company now, but look up CEO of HelloFresh. 0.97

00:02:10.080 Maybe HelloFresh only delivers to gay people. 0.99

00:02:12.320 No, not at all. 0.97

00:02:13.320 German multinational. 1.00

00:02:14.440 Based on this, you better start boycotting them, and they're only going to have a gay client. 0.99

00:02:17.540 7.1 million active customers worldwide as of 2022. 1.00

00:02:21.160 and so areas served Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States, Western.

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00:02:56.200 No, no, no. This is not a gay... 1.00

00:02:57.980 Okay, so to go back to this campaign, was this a 19-year-old girl that's in college or fresh out of college, a 22-year-old girl that came up with this campaign that HelloFresh didn't support? 0.93

00:03:07.640 Or is this coming from the top? Like, have they made an apology statement?

00:03:10.600 No, go to their Instagram. If you can, Connor, go to their actual Instagram page and go to this post.

00:03:14.640 no no no pat they're not they were in the comments saying we love it like cook cook in the comments

00:03:21.080 okay and here's my thing while he's looking it up i don't care what they do in their personal life

00:03:25.740 it's that 13 year old or whatever go to their keep going look at this no they're doubling down

00:03:30.140 go up up up up i'm sorry go down to connor keep going keep going down hello fresh boom that's

00:03:35.640 their eating is not a priority blah blah and go into their comments go to go to the actual post

00:03:39.960 left uh no no right there right there right there right there yeah and then in the no their their

00:03:44.920 promo bombs up no no they're not anti any of this pat and then go to the other one that had the

00:03:49.220 comments on it connor it's the it's the next one uh they actually posted the photos on it

00:03:54.920 the one that i sent but here's the thing i don't care who owns hello fresh or whatever in their

00:04:00.980 personal life pat this is a meal kit company and you're turning marketing into a message about 0.98

00:04:06.340 again anal sex okay you're supposed to be selling chicken parmesan not promoting this type of sexual 0.96

00:04:13.680 act okay families buy your product kids see your social media kids are on social media path this 0.99

00:04:18.700 isn't edgy it's disgusting okay sell food and stop shoving sexualized marketing i wonder what

00:04:23.940 how the market reacts to this if they care or if they don't care that's what i that's what i see

00:04:29.840 well that's the sky i mean it's still disgusting the company has the right to do this it's this is

00:04:34.440 a weird campaign, and it's a reach

00:04:36.500 to go there. It's what Budweiser

00:04:38.500 did with the whole Dylan Mulvaney

00:04:40.600 and all this stuff, and they took a, how big of a

00:04:42.560 hit did they take from that? Or

00:04:44.380 Jaguar, that they didn't sell any of their cars.

00:04:46.760 The best commercial of Jaguar I saw

00:04:48.420 was you. It wasn't even

00:04:50.360 what they did. So, bad things

00:04:52.440 can happen to people when

00:04:54.360 they come up with terrible ideas.

00:04:57.340 Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch

00:04:58.360 lost billions because of Dylan Mulvaney.

00:05:00.800 So, they can fool around with this. I guess

00:05:02.460 HelloFresh still hasn't gotten their

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00:05:37.620 This is July 4th weekend.

00:05:38.920 Fourth of July.

00:05:40.080 So guess what we're doing for 4th of July.

00:05:42.620 We only are going to do this twice a year, okay?

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00:06:06.260 So let me tell you what we're doing for 4th of July.

00:06:08.500 First of all, if you can go to the website to show what we're doing special for 4th of July,

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00:06:19.580 It says Celebrate 250 Years.

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00:06:34.400 Here's what we're doing.

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00:06:46.560 They used to call them Yetis or coolers.

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Valuetainment - July 01, 2026

＂What Were They Thinking？＂ – HelloFresh Faces Backlash Over Explicit Pride Campaign

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