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* In March 2021, Burger King tweeted, "Women belong in the kitchen." before adding another tweet saying, "If they want to, of course." and advertising their new scholarship fund to support underrepresented female chefs. Unfortunately, many people just read the ''first'' tweet and assumed Burger King was unironically telling women to StayInTheKitchen, and many accounts retweeted the first tweet without context to either praise or bash Burger King for supporting "traditional values." This led to backlash even from people who knew what Burger King was ''trying'' to do, but though the BaitAndSwitchComment was poorly executed.

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* In March 2021, Burger King tweeted, "Women belong in the kitchen." before adding another tweet saying, "If they want to, of course." and advertising their new scholarship fund to support underrepresented female chefs. Unfortunately, many people just read the ''first'' tweet and assumed Burger King was unironically telling women to StayInTheKitchen, and many accounts retweeted the first tweet without context to either praise or bash Burger King for supporting "traditional values." This led to backlash even from people who knew what Burger King was ''trying'' to do, but though thought the BaitAndSwitchComment was poorly executed.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLG2JP0P5JE The North American house hippo]] is the subject of a beloved Canadian PublicServiceAnnouncement ''Advertising/CompaniesCommittedToKids'', done in the style of a nature documentary explaining its habits, followed by a voice pointing out that although it seems "really... real", the house hippo obviously doesn't exist, and the same can be said about a lot of what's shown on TV. It was meant to teach kids critical thinking (and thus ''avoid'' being part of a MisaimedFandom) and to not blindly trust everything they see on television, but some younger viewers who were captivated by the fun "documentary" part stopped paying attention once it got to the boring part explaining the message, and completely missed the point of the PSA as a result. Many Canadian kids grew up actually believing house hippos were real because of this, with some of them even staying up late to look for them or leaving offerings of peanut butter toast and bits of string.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLG2JP0P5JE [[https://youtu.be/G9hJK4fCq4U The North American house hippo]] House Hippo]] from ''Advertising/CompaniesCommittedToKids'' is the subject of a beloved Canadian PublicServiceAnnouncement ''Advertising/CompaniesCommittedToKids'', PublicServiceAnnouncement, done in the style of a nature documentary explaining its habits, followed by a voice pointing out that although it seems "really... real", the house hippo obviously doesn't exist, and the same can be said about a lot of what's shown on TV. It was meant to teach kids critical thinking (and thus ''avoid'' being part of a MisaimedFandom) and to not blindly trust everything they see on television, but some younger viewers who were captivated by the fun "documentary" part stopped paying attention once it got to the boring part explaining the message, and completely missed the point of the PSA as a result. Many Canadian kids grew up actually believing house hippos were real because of this, with some of them even staying up late to look for them or leaving offerings of peanut butter toast and bits of string.

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