Woman is SLAMMED for rant about Tide detergent featuring a lesbian couple and their black children in an ad - after she labeled it the 'genocide of her race' and claimed: 'Me and my family will deterge elsewhere'
Social media users including Chrissy Teigen have called out a woman as a 'Karen' and a 'white supremacist' after she ranted about a Tide commercial that features a white lesbian couple with two black children and promised to boycott the brand.
The woman, Raven Constantine, shared her all-caps diatribe on the social media network Gab, where she posts right-wing memes, clips, and rants about 100 times a day.
In this one, written Wednesday, she blasted detergent brand Tide for pushing her 'too far' with the commercial, saying that it 'doesn't represent her or her family' and accusing the brand of promoting 'the genocide of her race.'
While her own followers approved of her message, thousands of Twitter users are mocking her as 'psychotic narcissist' and calling her a racist who went 'full Karen' over a single ad.
Offended easily? Raven Constantine went viral for ranting about a Tide commercial that features a white lesbian couple with two black children and promised to boycott the brand
Snowflake: Raven called it 'disgusting,' saying it 'doesn't represent her or her family' and accusing the brand of promoting 'the genocide of her race'
Raven posted the rant on Wednesday afternoon, writing in most all-caps: 'Dear Tide detergent ; are you out there? [sic]'
She continued: 'After watching your disgusting commercial with the white lesbian couple and their two black kids, I feel it's safe to say you just pushed me [too] far.
'See, I'm a white woman with [a] white husband and white children.
'Your product doesn't represent me and my family so here's where were part ways, [I'm] sorry, but I feel a detergent should talk about what it does, what it costs, how it makes the clothes cleaner.
'I do not need to support a company [that] clearly cares so little about detergent and more about politics and the genocide of my race.
Posting all day: She shared her all-caps diatribe on the social media network Gab, where she posts right-wing memes, clips, and rants about 100 times a day
Called out: Good Pillow co-founder and CEO William LeGate later shared a screengrab and mocked the post
'Holy s*** lol george is gettin upset,' Chrissy Teigen chimed in, quoting Seinfeld
'Or did I take you meaning all wrong?' she asks rhetorically. 'Oh well, it's too late now I guess, that was the impression I got.
'Again, thank you, but no thank you. Me & my families will deterge [sic] elsewhere.'
Good Pillow co-founder and CEO William LeGate later shared a screengrab and mocked the post.
'Not gonna lie, I kinda like the verb “deterge," he wrote. 'Hate that I heard it first from this maniac. Also, this is the EDITED version… imagine her unedited drivel!'
Others chimed in too, with one tweeting: 'I am wildly allergic to Tide but this makes me want to buy a big bottle of it and deterge all the things.'
'Holy s*** lol george is gettin upset,' Chrissy Teigen chimed in, quoting Seinfeld.
While her own followers approved of her message, thousands of Twitter users are mocking her as 'psychotic narcissist' and calling her a racist who went 'full Karen' over a single ad
'For 75 years Tide ads depicted white wives doing the laundry for their white husbands and white kids. Someone else gets depicted in an ad once and this lady freaks out,' added another commenter.
'I thought laundry works the same way for everyone regardless of race and orientation but maybe I’m missing something?' wrote one more.
'I fear that there is no detergent out there that will remove hate stains from someone’s soul,' said yet another.
One wondered, 'How did she get from lesbians to genocide? Lol.'
Mockery: The woman has been called a racist and white supremacist and was mocked for using the made-up verb 'deterge'
'And this kids is what happens when you eat tide pods,' another Twitter user joked.
Several accused her of being a racist and w white supremacist, with one writing: 'Well I guess it’s up to Gain to get those white robes clean.'
'But TIDE is the best for getting stains out of WHITE ROBES and SHEETS! What’s she going to use now?!' echoed another.
'I didn't have 'white supremacist invents new verb' on my Bingo card today,' quipped one more.
'Translation: I’m a psychotic narcissist and if your detergent ad is not all about me, I’m going to go full Karen on you, Tide,' another commented.
