Major Dr Pepper ad spurs religious kerfuffle

By bill Popken, NBC News factor Dr Pepper marched towards controversy a week ago when it launched its of Progress ad campaign. And the uproar has never abated. On september. 13, The soft drink maker posted to its Facebook wall an ad using the classic of Progress image tweaked to push the of flavor. The fancy ad showed a chimpanzee dragging his knuckles, Pursued by a semi-Erect hominid advertising for Start Your Own Home-based Affiliate Marketing Business With Super Affiliate Rosalind Gardner’s Expert Guidance! Topics Include Blogging, Market Research, Affiliate Programs, Web Design, Problem Avoidance And So Much More! Updated Regularly. Super Affiliate: How I Made 6,797 In One Year a Dr Pepper, As well as a fully upright man walking and gulping a Dr Pepper. The photographs are captioned Discovery, Combined with respectively. Sounds simple. Only banal. But for 7,000 comment or short and nearly 33,000 would like later, The ad is still provoking reaction by creationists who say it promotes the idea of evolution. Some are even intimidating to boycott Dr Pepper. That in turn has stoked evolutionists to make counter feed-back. Then there's folks jumping on the pig pile simply for laughs. On balance, We are dealing with a soda pop ad, good? At the beginning, Most of the on Facebook were lighthearted jokes about the image. A few comments from let down Christians began to crop up. Soon an development vs. Creationism debate dominated the transmission, Along with heaps of jeers at anyone bringing the issue seriously. We didn't arrive from apes, Written one user. Jesus pep end up being used blinded. If we begun apes why is there still apes [sic] Is showing the idea of men evolving from apes I have lost all respect for Dr Pepper, Wrote an additional, Who threatened to use his connections with some other colleges to get them to pull Dr Pepper from their schools. Comments that offer genuine prompted cries of over it! In addition to the, Day your faith is shaken by a Dr Pepper ad is the day you'll want to start reconsidering your faith. Argument also blew up on popular link-Conveying site Reddit, Whose users inundated the thread to mock the outrage and post parody comment, Further inflaming the debate and spreading the the discussion to their friend's Facebook newsfeeds. I'm surprised at how fast it escalated and how big the thread became, Reddit end customer undercoverrocker, Who first posted the style to Reddit, Imparted NBC News. The Redditer requested to remain anonymous shield his privacy. Within a few hours any semblance of a real debate had evaporated, Undercoverrocker told me, Increasingly being trolling trolls. The term and refers to comments posted online where individual doesn't advertise for free so much believe their substance as delight in the angry comments they provoke from others. Adfreak nailed that, work, "All over again, still, It proves how protests can spread like wildfire in social media, Where outrage and counteroutrage are just a disappear, Dr Pepper has posted over 450 images to its myspace wall since 2009. Previous images have asked for followers to identify a common Dr Pepper flavor, To identify which time of the day is the best for drinking Dr Pepper, And asking as long as they liked their Dr Pepper fizzy or not. Most received a few hundred comments. Messages available Dr Pepper Snapple Group seeking comment were not returned