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Folks are skewering corporate Pride sponsors with this hilarious meme

Thanks, Shake Shack, I didn't know you cared.

It’s June and Pride is here! And we all know what that means. No, not parades, silly. Corporations cloaking themselves in rainbow flags and well-meaning (or completely tone-deaf) fumbling gestures of solidarity in the quest for those LGBTQ+ dollar dollar bills, y’all!

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For the next month (and certainly no longer, right?) social media will be choked with marketing campaigns seeking to embrace (or co-opt) the community and if past years are any indication, they’ll run the gamut from cheer-worthy to cringe-worthy. Remember that Bud Light poster that hit about the same note as Dick Cheney screaming “Yaaaas,Queen!” at you would?

This year, LGBTQ+ users are staging a series of preemptive strikes on the sure-to-happen facepalms that await throughout the month by cooking up their own “partnerships.” Which are really just partnerships with sass.

NPR’s Glen Weldon went for the jugular … or chest, actually, when he conjured up the chest-burster scene from 1979’s Alien. He actually made it a twofer with another tweet that combined Mego action figures and Amalgam comics (which asks the question of whom he confused more; straight people, or non-geeks).

Filmmaker Jessica Ellis fired shots not only at corporatism, but at the already- embattled Sweden.

Some folks just used the meme to let everyone know the struggle is indeed still real. With or without corporate influence.

https://twitter.com/orchidassassin/status/1532146396949893126

And some folks, of course, just went straight for the throat.

Happy Pride, y’all! And don’t forget, Pride didn’t start in a boardroom.

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