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Hornets apologize after pretending to give child PS5 and taking it away off camera - Yahoo Sports (sports.yahoo.com)

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The skit that "missed the mark" occurred in a break in play during the second quarter of Charlotte's game against the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday. The child was brought onto the court with Hugo, the Hornets' mascot, dressed as Santa Claus. After a letter to Santa requesting a PS5 was read out loud, a cheerleader came out with a bag containing the video game console.

The young fan was visibly overjoyed as he received the pricy gift. However, according to an online acquaintance, he was less happy when the cameras turned off and a Hornets staffer took it away, replacing it with a jersey.

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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 167 points 3 days ago

The skit that "missed the mark" . . .

Quit sucking up to corporate America, yahoo sports writer. The Hornets farked up a simple PR event in every way it was possible TO fark up. They baited and switched a PS5 with a t-shirt and thought no one would find out about it.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 105 points 3 days ago

And they have so damn much money that giving him the PS5 would have been like you or me flicking a penny to the kid.

People suck sometimes, I swear.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Sometimes?

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No offense, but that's the wrong take here. "People" (as in The People, or the majority) didn't do this, a giant 3 billion dollar organization did. Sure, it's composed of people, but this is unregulated capitalism run amok...

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

Nah. There was a meeting of actual humans who got together and decided to trick a child hoping no one would notice. Said meeting likely cost more than the said console did in salaries, too.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

Edited to clarify. Most people wouldn't do this. Get a group of randos off the street and they wouldn't do this to a child.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

I just think we shouldn't shield these evil people by pretending it's "the business" doing it. It's humans. Really really shitty humans, but they made the decision to do this to a kid, on camera, thinking it wouldn't immediately backfire in this age of social media.

So not only are they assholes, but also fucking stupid.

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