Burger King Burns Wendy’s By Promoting Customer Complaint Tweets About Spicy Nuggets
Shortly after trolling Wendy’s with the release of their new spicy nuggets, Burger King burned their fast food rival even further with some of the most subtle savagery we’ve witnessed in internet history.
BURGER KING PROMOTED THIS IM CRYING pic.twitter.com/KhlAbSKpUh
— juli ebg (@4clcks) October 13, 2017
The above tweet is a Wendy’s customer complaining about their spicy nuggets leaving the menu. If you look closely, though, you’ll see that the tweet is promoted by Burger King. That doesn’t mean that Burger King commissioned people to lament to Wendy’s via Twitter. Instead, they dug up a bunch of old tweets that were already online and paid to spread their reach even further. Here’s a few more hilarious and brutal examples:
wow burger king really promoted this tweet pic.twitter.com/DmCuJjiIr3
— ryan (@signiff) October 12, 2017
The best part is that it was promoted by Burger King… pic.twitter.com/oCKVlMDZRC
— Hannah Katherine (@hannahkcox) October 12, 2017
“promoted by burger king” i’m so confused pic.twitter.com/K97JxhK9XH
— 💐Heather Ash 💐 (@sylviablech) October 12, 2017
“Promoted by Burger King” wtf is up with brands on twitter lately. 2017 is awesome pic.twitter.com/mFKgwZ7hHJ
— Queeng Castihell (@SqueaMISH_Miner) October 10, 2017
Burger King is even sliding into the replies of the tweets they promote to let people know about their new spicy nuggets.
burger king deadass promoted this tweet calling out wendy’s & then tweeted that they have spicy nuggets now 😂💀 pic.twitter.com/rnP7EjrpuV
— eliza grey (@elizagrey19) October 11, 2017
Petty royalty: @BurgerKing capitalizes on the fact that @Wendys no longer sells spicy chicken nuggets with #savage promoted tweets 👑🐣🔥 pic.twitter.com/IiI1fjvGzY
— Adria Iraheta (@AdriaKFOX_CBS) October 10, 2017
As can be seen from the reactions of people sharing their screenshots of the promoted tweets, there’s definitely some mixed reactions about the Burger King burns. Some people feel that it’s absolutely hilarious, while others find it kind of annoying or weird. However you feel, though, you gotta admit that Burger King came up with a pretty clever strategy to troll Wendy’s with.
As the queen of fast food internet savagery, though, Wendy’s couldn’t stay quiet for too long. But their response leaves a little to be desired:
Smells like desperation up in here
— Wendy’s (@Wendys) October 13, 2017
Based on that not-so-fire response to a single tweet, Burger King is still clearly winning this fast food feud.
