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Hell in a Handbasket: Budweiser Now Printing Labels Backwards, for Legibility in Selfies

Here are three rings of a Venn diagram:

- A company solving its own problems, not yours
- Dumb design
- Relying on end users’ vanity for free promotion

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*Right at the intersection of this:

“Budweiser’s new #SelfieBud, a special edition bottle featuring a backwards label, designed to be compatible with selfie mode on Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok and WeChat.”

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Then again, maybe the third ring could be retitled as below.

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Dammit, I might be the dummy here.

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https://www.core77.com/posts/93738/Hell-in-a-Handbasket-Budweiser-Now-Printing-Labels-Backwards-for-Legibility-in-Selfies