The shirt also sold like wildfire as a result of this meme. It reminds of the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt that I wrote about in “Flip the Funnel,” (noted in the actual Wikipedia entry) where people gave the shirt either one or five stars on based on whether wearing the T-shirt immediately made them irresistible to supermodels and gave them other superpowers. Please note my complete sarcasm in the word “whopping,” as it relates to a mere fraction of the total paid media devoted to the scandalous (again sarcasm) misrepresentation and downright false advertising. The total compensation is a whopping $13 million. ![]() ![]() Buffalo wings prepared in Red Bull, perhaps - but when it comes to providing real wings, that task is reserved for angels and not mere mortals like us (at least while we are alive).Īs a result, Red Bull has to pay anyone who has consumed the drink in the past 12 years either $10 cash or $15 in product. It was sued by customers who said they were misled by the famous slogan: “Red Bull gives you wings.”Īs it turns out (and this may be a shock to you), Red Bull does not (I repeat, not) give you literal wings. Volkswagen faced a potential $90 billion fine for violating the Clean Air Act, along with a severe reputation hit.Last week, Red Bull, iconic “media company” - and in its spare time, energy drink manufacturer - lost a landmark (and borderline insane) lawsuit. It was found that Volkswagen had been cheating on its emissions tests for more than seven years by engineering a software that allowed vehicles to detect when it was being tested and intentionally reduced harmful exhaust as a temporary measure to fool testers, reported Entrepreneur. In 2016, Volkswagen received a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for claiming that some of its vehicles burned clean, diesel fuel. In the settlement, L’Oréal USA was banned from making claims about anti-ageing, without “competent and reliable scientific evidence substantiating such claims. In 2014, L’Oréal advertisements claimed its Lancôme Génifique and L’Oréal Paris Youth Code skincare products were “clinically proven” to “boost genes” and give “visibly younger skin in just seven days.” These claims were found to be false and unsubstantiated. L’Oreal products aren’t clinically proven to boost genes Olay gives younger-looking skin through touch-upĪuto ABC 6. As a result, a class-action suit was filed against Walmart which agreed to pay $66,000 in fines. When customers asked about the difference, Walmart staff allegedly falsely claimed that New York has a ‘sugar tax’ which is making the product pricey. But in 117 stores across New York, the same product was being sold for $3.50. ![]() In June 2014, Walmart advertised a nationwide sale in the US wherein 12 packs of Coca-Cola were advertised for $3.00. ![]() Kraft Heinz Pasta doesn’t cook in 3.5 minsĪ woman in Florida, US, sued the pasta company, Kraft Heinz, for $5 million because their pasta doesn’t get cooked in 3.5 mins, as claimed in their advertisements. Post this, Red Bull changed its slogan to WIIINGS instead of wings. The company settled the case by agreeing to pay a maximum of $13 million including $10 to every US consumer who had bought the drink since 2002. In 2014, Red Bull was sued for its slogan “Red Bull gives you wings.” The class action suit claimed they didn’t get any wings even after drinking the energy drink for years.
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