2019 Is the Year of Fake Suicide Scares by Brands on Twitter

It’s a really scary thing to be browsing social media and see something that looks like a cry for help from a friend or acquaintance who might be thinking about self-harm in some way. It’s a whole other thing when you get that sort of tweet from an orange juice company’s corporate Twitter account.

I can’t do this anymore

— SUNNYD (@sunnydelight) February 4, 2019

Are you fucking kidding me with this? Brands are pretending to have depression to connect with people on social media? And other brands are checking up on them?

What’s going on sunny

— MoonPie (@MoonPie) February 4, 2019

This is where we’re at as a society now.

The tweet became a bit of a meme, with the best reply being this one from Patton Oswalt.

It’s up to you now, Purple Stuff. https://t.co/DhmsTEj0H1

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) February 4, 2019

But then the Sunny D account started retweeting all the jokes about it. That’s what’s going on now, our fucking orange juice is pretending to be suicidal like your ex-girlfriend when you broke up with her in high school. Next time you got to a restaurant and say Pepsi is okay because they don’t have Coke, you’re going to get a text from Coke telling you it’s pregnant.

Also, most of the memes the Sunny D account retweeted were from other brands advertising their dumb s**t.

*looking at my laundry pile* https://t.co/NYi0cvK5QH

— MeUndies (@MeUndies) February 4, 2019

Me cooking: https://t.co/SdtLTHrO2l

— Grubhub (@Grubhub) February 4, 2019

My dog who was doing something cool, the second I take my phone out: https://t.co/7EcS67HHtl

— BarkBox (@barkbox) February 5, 2019

Retweet the Chapo hosts you cowards!

this is the most insane s**t I’ve seen from the precise haircut freaks who work in marketing. they seriously fucking coordinated their children’s junk food accounts to repeat s**t from a CW show about teens that kill themselves. lmao. ahahah. I think it rocks. good work! https://t.co/vM5dbEai4u

— Lead Actor from Pixar’s Sodas (@ByYourLogic) February 4, 2019

Sunny D go on Chapo!