{"id":522,"date":"2015-09-25T15:44:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T15:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:24:27","slug":"doritos-troll-account-taunts-rainbow-chip-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/doritos-troll-account-taunts-rainbow-chip-haters\/","title":{"rendered":"Doritos Troll Account Taunts Rainbow Chip Haters"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man created a Doritos troll account in order to help tackle all of the negative comments from the anti-gay consumers outraged by Doritos Rainbows.<\/p>\n

Recently, Doritos started a campaign<\/a> to help raise funds for the \u2018It Gets Better Project<\/a>\u2019\u2013 a charity that was created in response to LGBT youth taking their own lives as a result of being bullied. \u2018It Gets Better\u2019 supports these young people in effort to show that it does get better.<\/p>\n

In order to raise funds, Doritos created a brand of chips called \u2018Rainbows\u2019 containing multicoloured Doritos. Whilst Doritos saw a lot of positive support (and even sold out all of their limited-edition Rainbow chips), there were quite a few anti-gay consumers who were outraged and went to Facebook to make their complaints.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where Mike Melgaard, the man behind the unofficial Facebook account \u2018Doritos ForHelp<\/a>\u2019 came\u00a0into play. He also did a similar thing last month in response to Target\u2019s gender neutral labeling, but found the anti-Doritos comments to much more hateful.<\/p>\n

Melgaard, posing as Doritos customer service, flawlessly replied to anti-gay comments left on the Doritos Facebook page.\u00a0Here are some of our favourites:<\/p>\n

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A man created a Doritos troll account in order to help tackle all of the negative comments from the anti-gay consumers outraged by Doritos Rainbows. Recently, Doritos started a campaign to help raise funds for the \u2018It Gets Better Project\u2019\u2013 a charity that was created in response to LGBT youth taking their own lives as a result of being bullied. \u2018It Gets Better\u2019 supports these young people in effort to show that it does get better. In order to raise funds, Doritos created a brand of chips called \u2018Rainbows\u2019 containing multicoloured Doritos. Whilst Doritos saw a lot of positive support <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}