Cinnabon makes tribute to Carrier Fisher; Internet gets pissed off

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/28/news/companies/cinnabon-carrie-fisher-apology/index.html

Do you find this offensive? How? I think it was a very well done tribute. The art was also very done. And so what if they sell a few more Cinnabons as a result of this? It's like they're saying, "Come in and buy some Cinnabons! Mention Carrier Fisher and get 25% off!"

Trying to profit off a persons death is disgusting.

I think it's alright.

Can you not shit post for 5 seconds?

So you never bought anything based off a dead person?

@JustPlainLucas: Not that i cant think of. I find it disgusting.

On the topic of profiting from her death, I have a question: is there ANY way that the company could have paid her tribute without it being an attempt to profit her death? I mean, one could easily argue that even mentioning her at all would be a shallow attempt by the company to garner favor with the public, so how exactly is an unrelated corporation supposed to address her death without looking like they're trying to profit?

People are just getting offended because that's what the new SJW's do this day and age.

This was respectful and done with good taste. People are just being bitches.

When is the internet not mad

NO THEY WEREN'T!!! They were paying tribute to A New Hope, since her hair style was like a cinnamon bun roll! Nothing wrong with a tribute to it!

Aw I think it's a good tribute. People reach for their pitch forks entirely too easily.

It's the everything offends me year ain't it.

Looks like they were advertising cinnamon rolls to me. A company isnt a person.

Exactly. No one would have a problem with this if it was Little Ol' Suzy Homemaker who made a cinnamon roll, but since this was generated by a corporation, that's what everyone automatically jumps to.

A company is made of people. You telling me there wasn't a single Star Wars loving person in a giant corporation like Cinnabon?

Atleast they refered to the hairstyle.

People are too sensitive

I couldnt tell buried under all that advertising.

That makes no sense and you know it! Leis's Cinnamon Rolls hair has always been an iconic to the character for decades, she was special with that hair ever since her grand appearance to the world of Star Wars. This was a tribute to Carrie Fisher and nothing more.

Gonna tell everyone this is just making money just because she's dead. Who you trying to kid here?

Yeah, you're just trolling now.

I have to admit, the cinnamon rolls fit very well. And im getting kinda hungry.

That happens all the time. TV shows doing a special on someone's death. Redditors racing to post about the death of a person or even creating a new post about it in a subreddit for karma (these are the equivalent of points on Reddit).

It just wasn't as direct as this but don't act like you haven't seen this before.

thats what all people, media, and companies do every time some one dies

Then go eat if your hungry.

Meh. I don't think that was offensive myself. I think that it's a cute little tribute to her.

lol ok this is a good troll.

@Serraph105:

Agreed, I think it is fine.

They are simply paying respects to Carrie Fisher, Cinnabon style.

Funny how everytime I read about Cinnabon I think of Saul Goodman.

I'm not clicking the link, but does the article mentions some of the profits going to Fisher's favorite charities (if she had them)

There is nothing wrong with this. If find this offensive there is something deeply wrong with you.

To be fair, I think it's very valid to say that the company very well MAY just be trying to profit from her death.

Here's the thing...if the way in which they are trying to profit from her death ALSO serves as an inoffensive tribute, then I don't really see the issue.

It's like when a rich celebrity shows up on TV doing some good deed like visiting sick kids in the hospital, and people complain that he's using sick kids in order to get good publicity. And like, well, yeah. Maybe he is. But if the ONLY thing offensive about it is that the guy benefits from it, then I don't really see the big deal. I mean, if the actual ACT of visiting sick kids in the hospital is generally a good thing, then I fail to see exactly why it becomes bad when some celebrity does the exact same thing.

Sort of the same deal here. I totally understand the argument that the company is trying to profit off of the woman's death, but so what? The way that they did it seems to be okay. I mean, if I had made this exact same thing in my kitchen and posted it to social media, I suspect that people would be saying that it's cute. Or, at the very least, I doubt they'd be getting angry about it. So I'm not entirely getting what's so bad about this. If the ONLY thing offensive about this is that Cinnabon is profiting by doing it, then by extension one could say the same thing if Cinnabon acknowledged Carrie Fisher's death AT ALL. The only real way for them to not "profit off of her death" would be to ignore her death entirely.

I mean, if some people make a movie about 9/11, and that movie makes money, are they profitting off of 9/11? Well, technically, YEAH. But that's not inherently a bad thing if the movie is actually tastefully and respectfully done.

Yup, so was 2015. And 2017 will be the same.