Bud Light: The Claudine Gay of Beers

Happy Super Bowl Eve to all sports ball fans.

A graphic novel: The making of a mildly offensive meme.

Happy Super Bowl Eve to all sports ball fans.

It’s not hard to imagine that, after ending its relationship with diverse-person Dylan Mulvaney, Budweiser’s parent corporation might look for a new DEI spokes-being. And who better than Claudine Gay? Though not actually fired by Harvard, she now presumably has some time on her hands after her duties have been reduced. And she may need the income, as her salary has been cut to literally about a million dollars a year for teaching one class per week, or whatever she does there now, if anything.

Back in the day, when the Budweiser was famously, “the King of Beers”, Bud-drinking manly men deprecatingly called Michelob “the Queen of Beers”. (Now who is the joke on, manly men?

Answer: Claudine Gay. Because both the king of beers and the president of Harvard lost their positions due to a backlash against wokeness

Almost all jokes are, of course, in bad taste now. But then so are Budweiser’s products. Let’s apologize in advance.

If we say or do anything to offend anyone anywhere, we profoundly pretend to be extremely sorry.

Now, how to begin to create a meme-based ad-campaign for Bud Light?

We tried AI prompts, of course. But no joy.

 Apparently when these AI Large Language Models were trained, Claudine Gay was not very recognizable as a public figure.

And Microsoft’s Bing AI considered “Bud Light + Claudine Gay” to be inherently forbidden and threatened us with “automatic suspension of your access” if we ever tried it again.

So we searched Wikipedia’s archive images and found an image of the platform of Ms. Gay’s alleged antisemitism infamy. Fortunately, the image is in the public domain.

Then we did some upscaling, and in Photoshop replaced Dylan Mulvaney’s face. We added text in Adobe Illustrator. And voila.

And here is what our TV ad would look like if we put it on YouTube, as Budweiser does its Super Bowl ads.

We hereby place our meme/ad-campaign in the public domain. Please share our meme wherever memes are shared.