Questioning the timing of Meghan Markle's product advert?

[OpalAmber]

We’ve literally just lost Dolly Parton - an actual icon, a legend, and a woman who did more for children's literacy and charity than most governments.

And what does Meghan Markle do exactly FOUR HOURS after the news breaks? She drops an ad for her new "spiced apple butter." under her As Ever brand

AIBU to think there is zero chance this was an accident? She just couldn't stand the global news cycle not being about her for five minutes. Any normal, decent PR team would immediately pull a condiment launch out of respect. Instead, she deliberately pushed it through to piggyback on the trending algorithms and steal the limelight.

It is absolutely vile. Dolly was a total class act, and Meghan is literally trying to sell overpriced jam over her grave. I am just so sickened by the sheer, unadulterated narcissism of it. Tell me I'm not the only one seeing exactly what she's doing here?

What is vile is even posting something like this, however such as the obsession and hatred of MM some people clearly cannot think straight.

And. Now I am desperate for some Aesthetic Toast. Sounds amazing

Maybe the OP is actually MM’s PR - drum up faux outrage and voila! free publicity for apple butter!

So you're saying that MM has launched her Apple Spice Butter now so as to turn world attention away from the loss of the global icon that was Dolly Parton and onto herself?
Really? It's a jar of jam. I'm no fan of MM but I believe she's more intelligent than that.

The whole world is online everyday! Certain sites may have had more hits on the day Dolly died, but none of them have anything to do with Meghan's butter! It's not called Jolene's Delicious Apple Butter or Islands in the Apple Butter Gutter.

Op what did she do to you personally? If nothing then kindly, please, get therapy. Asap.

Vile? Calm down. What's vile is throwing around dramatic words like that just because someone dares to criticize a PR stunt. If anyone is showing an obsessive inability to think straight, it’s the people on here who rush to white-knight for a millionaire and foam at the mouth the second someone points out bad timing.

Missing the forest for the trees a bit, aren't we? Nobody thinks the jam is named after her songs. The point is about basic situational awareness and taste, dropping a heavily promoted lifestyle product the very day everyone is mourning an icon just looks desperate for attention, scheduled queue or not.

TBF I think you said 'vile' first, OP. Just saying.

The only one foaming at the mouth on this thread is you.

This is the MOST ridiculous thing I’ve read online today 🍪 Give your head a wobble OP

See all you needed was the right food to motivate you, now you too can be a determined rat, determined to get a jar of Meghans butter - once a suitable grieving period has passed of course, perhaps the OP can let us know what the appropriate time between Dolly's death and eating aesthetic toast is,

Is everyone mourning?

I heard she had a glass of water the day of the Nepal/Tibet flood and she also murdered Tim Curry. Bitch.

I’m perfectly calm thank you, however you appear to be the only one foaming at the mouth who believes the absolute twoddle you’ve written 🤣.
Have a 🍪

Oh I think OP, knows that. OP thinks we think it is real, don't burst their bubble😊

The world isn't in mourning. The vast majority of people on hearing about Dolly Parton's death range from 'Who?' to 'Oh, how sad' and then they moved on with their lives

There were a number of new product launches yesterday, just as there are every day. Are you saying that all of them are distasteful attempts to capitalise on Dolly Parton's death? Surely you could say the same about every advertisement in the newspapers on the relevant day, including those appearing on newspaper websites.

Here you come again
Just when I've begun to get myself together
You waltz right in the door, just like you've done before
And wrap my heart around your jar of Apple Spice Butter.

Here you come again
Just when I'm about to make it work without you
You look into my eyes and light those dreamy eyes
And pretty soon you're making toast and jam for me and you.

All you gotta do is smile that smile
And there go all my defenses
Just leave it up to you and in a little while
You're messing up my kitchen and filling up my senses.
Here you come again...

Really? And the OP ignored it?

@OpalAmber why are you ignoring the Sussex's flagrant drinking of water when 1000s of people in Tibet and Nepal have died? Don't they matter?

Respectfully, you're nuts.

And you don't understand how algorithms work.

You should probably get out more, OP

I think your behaviour, rather than Meghan's, is the one that needs assessment. And people wonder why this couple feel they need protection 🙄

You’ve probably done more to promote the jam by starting this thread, certainly more than anything an algorithm could do to serve the niche Dolly fans who were in mourning whilst simultaneously searching online for jam…

YABU for asking AIBU in Chat.