In late 2012, Mountain Dew held an online contest… ‘Dub The Dew’ They said “hey, internet… you choose the name of our new apple flavored drink, let’s put it to an online poll.” Rumor has it their marketing team was already set on a few names like… ‘Tempest’ or ‘Electric Apple’ or ‘Xtreme Apple’. However, 4chan soon found out about the contest, and they had their own recommendations. ‘Hitler did nothing wrong’ was the number one pick. and ‘Gushing Granny’ was a close second. Plenty of other creative names were put forward too, here’s a quick montage. But that wasn’t all… Mountain Dew’s online security was lacking, Exploitable flaws in their voting system allowed people to vote as many times as they pleased. It also turned out there was no input validation on their site. Soon, avid fans of the new ‘Hitler did nothing wrong’ beverage were changing elements of the webpage. They added ‘Mountain Dew salutes the Israeli Mossad for demolishing 3 towers on 9/11’. and made the Rick Roll video autoplay when people visited the homepage. If audience engagement was what they were looking for, the marketing team had run a great campaign. But…in the end, they also had final say over the name. ‘Apple Mountain Dew’ was the…chosen name. [sigh] After the competition, those who were unsatisfied with the name started a petition on change.org. It got 70 signatures and then it just died out. More cataloging to come.
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Shoulda called it mount-n- do me.
9GAG meme drink
FAPPLE
1:06
Damn
Apple mountain dew sounds delicious
1:07
literally anyone: online poll
4chan: quick-saving
Pepsi XD
I haven’t laughed at a video this hard in quite some time
Hear hear! After a long hard day’s work; is a man not entitled to an ice-cold refreshing glass of h*** did nothing wrong?
Soilent greeen hahabaha
This entire thing felt like a game of cards against humanity
I personally enjoyed mein fuhrer's fapjuice
Simple is Best
While reading the candidate names I stopped to take a closer look at "the game".
My favortie name is An Onion
im done, i would use half those names as a new steam tag
"Apple Mountand Dew you" wouldve been a good name
I prefer Apple-Quaeda
You mean to tell me Mt. Dew is apple flavored? Wouldn't have ever guessed that myself
WARNING!
A HUGE BATTLE SHIP
"FLAMINGO JOKE"
IS APPROACHING FAST!
"Dead puppies."
Must be the one drink they sell at the Dead Dog center.
An Onion.
🍏
FUCK.. I just lost the game
🅱️epsi
"Lets do another poll!"
Rick rolled
1:33 That name at the bottom of the screen numbered 13 is a good one.
“The game” ahhhhHhhhH
MMMonitized!!!! IMHO
THE GAME AAAAA
Lmao of all the content on This channel it's always the online naming campaigns that kill me. I cant stop laughing when I read the comments!
“How do you like them apples” would be great in reality
The only time the company won against 4chan
Any poll's a goal.
1:04 fuck u i lost
Soilent Green is surprisingly clever
What I would give to see Chase Elliott wearing a fire suit with Gushing Granny on same for his car
“The Game” I hate the internet
The game? What’s the ga-
O H S H I T
Moist nugget
apon seeing the name "dub the dew" I could see the regret before I clicked
0:50 mmm yes lets name the dew someone’s yahoo account
Apples make cider.
God damn it, I lost the game again..
>pepsi
Outside Xbox?
Honestly, I would’ve gone with How D’ya Like THEM Apples
I'm furious that no beverage is officially called 'Liquid Swag".
Wait hear me out
Applanche
This just made me lose The Game
am i the only one who thinks its fucking hillarious to have an email adress as a drink name?
I voted for Shrek Spit
Grandpa Historian's Apple
I just lost the game
"The Game"
Fuck you
Nazis: oh you mean dub the jew?
Out of all of the names, suggesting they call it "Pepsi" made me laugh the most
There were some legitimately good names here. 'gushing granny' is surprisingly good, 'how do you like DEM apples' is hilarious…
NASA decided to do this to name 20 new moons they found orbiting Saturn. I think we all know how that'll go.
Why didn’t anyone up with something that sounds similar to mountain dew, like ”Hunt the Jews” or something?
can the internet just be deleted now
Soilent Green by far was the best
I still think “Pepsi” was the funniest suggestion.
Anyone know where you can buy this flavor?
1:07
FAK
Can ya boi cop a shlop?
They could’ve at least gone with “How do you like THEM apples” that’s the most pc name the internet has ever come up with 😂
soda.
Food wishes music!
i have a feeling “poison” might’ve made it had it not been surrounded by the other memes
1:07 i lost the game
They changed the name from "Apple" to "Electric Apple" and can only be bought from Villa Pizza in America alongside Extreme pomegranate Mtn-Dew, but that was discontinued in 2015.
The Game
Business is professional, mountain dew is a business
What are you drinking?
“Pepsi”
Sooo, no body suggested"Mountain Jew"??
Moist nugget
granny mist lol
you're voice is gold
I'm learning a lot about 4Chan from this channel.
Gushing Granny is actually pretty good in my opinion.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Fuck I lost the game.
Soilent green was lowkey genious though
Why do people do online petitions like who the hell actually expects for anyone to take it seriously
E x t r e m e a p p l e
E L E C T R I C A P P L E
Dew marketing campaign had a GREAT idea
"4Chan found out" is the "Zeus was feeling horny" of the internet.
I'm gonna go buy a big bottle of I did nothing wrong flavored dew.
Gushing granny op
Ok cmon "how do you like them apples" is actually not a bad name 🤣
I am extremely impressed to say that the French closed captions for this video translated “fapple” as “masturpomme”
fuck you i lost the fucking game again because of you
Fap-or-mount-a-jew
Dub the Jew
poison seems accurate
Soylent Green is people…!
Just Sipping On Some Hittler Did Nothing Wrong. What About You?
You son of a bitch. I've had a harder time playing the game recently more than ever for some reason.
Anyone else hate that gushing granny was 2nd place to a sentence middleschoolers find funny?