35 Big-Time Brand Fails and Embarrassments

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35 Big-Time Brand Fails and Embarrassments

To all you up-and-coming business owners out there: Get back to work! 

Just kidding. If you’re going to be your own boss, you have to be a nice boss who lets yourself unwind with some fun facts. And hey, they’re business-related, so it’s pertinent information! You can learn about what not to do from these brand blunders, and you’ll walk away knowing that proper translations and hashtags are incredibly important.

When KFC first moved to China, it must have curbed appetites by accidentally promoting self-cannibalism. KFC the adidas REAL In an attempt to translate their signature catchphrase Finger- lickin' good, some misused Chinese characters had them saying, Eat your fingers off. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO Deli BLOCKBUSTER John Antioco's arrogance in September 2000 cost Blockbuster its future when he refused to consider the possibility of buying Netflix for $50 million, which could have saved the company from its eventual bankruptcy in 2014.

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CRACKED Weinerville -Netscape 5 x File Edit View Go Communicator Help My N Back Forward Reload Home Search Netscape Print Security Stop Bookmarks Location: http://www.geocities. s.com/Heartland/Meadows/7322/ Welcome to Wienerville Where dachshunds will walk all over your heart YAHOO! Yahoo purchased Geocities in 1999 for over $4 billion, but the acquisition was ultimately unsuccessful and the site was shut down in 2009.

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Eva Longoria's SHe was SHut down. In 2012, she opened SHe, a female-focused restaurant with smaller steaks and mirrors on the menu (to fix your makeup). SHe focused too much on the style and the South Nevada Health District shut it down for 21 health code violations in 2014. CRACKED

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CRACKED Burger King's #WTFF Promoting their new low fat french fry, ВК used the hashtag #WTFF for What The French Fry. That hashtag was already heavily used for What The F***ing F**k? and the fries got lost in the mix.

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GRACKED #pokemonmastersex Pokémon Masters EX did use capitals in their original #PokemonMastersEX, but that didn't stop immature (and hilarious) fans from using it without the caps, or switching up the caps to #PokemonMasterSex.

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CRACKED #RIMjobs BlackBerry maker Research In Motion advertised job vacancies on Twitter with #RIMJobs. No one opposed this in the boardroom? - RIM

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Ford held a promotional campaign in Belgium with the bold promise that each car would come with a free zombie. Ford The ad was meant to say, Every car has a high quality body, but it was carelessly mistranslated into Every car has a high-quality corpse. CRACKED.COM

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While expanding into China, Pepsi unknowingly made a creepy promise to consumers in the form of biblical miracles. TRADE PEPSI MARK The company's popular tag line, Come alive with the Pepsi Generation was interpreted as Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead. CRACKED.COM

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