Wendy’s has left a statement to People Magazine in the middle of the buzz around its anti-Katy Perry Post on X who asked if the singer can go back to space (aka get off the earth). Fast food chain went viral on April 14 when Perry joined Gayle King, Jeff Bezos Partner Lauren Sanchez and other women on a Blue origin travel to space. The account Pop Crave announced “Katy Perry has returned from space” after the assignment was completed, to which Wendy’s social mediaam replied: “Can we send her back.”
The fast food chain wrote Another post At X it was critical of the launch of Blue Origin Space by saying: “When we said that women in Stem is not what we meant.”
People are Run a story About how Wendy’s should apologize to Perry, with a source that told the magazine: “This was a brand that was a billion dollars that used its platform to publicly abolish a woman.” However, the company did not stop issuing an apology in its statement to the newspaper.
“We always bring a little spice to our social, but Wendy’s has lots of respect for Katy Perry and her out-of-this-World-talent,” Wendy’s said in an official statement.
Perry’s Blue Origin Space Flight triggered a lot of backlash online. Although its purpose was intended to pay attention to women in the airport, celebrities like Olivia Munn called “chills”, and adds: “There are so many other things that are so important in the world right now. What should you do in space?” Amy Schumer, Olivia Wilde and Emily Ratajkowski also shared posts that are critical of the space flight.
Gayle King defended the assignment in one Interview with ExtraTo say: “I think it’s good that we can really deal with it … because I was one of these people before I went on this flight and before I was trained.” Why do we spend so much money in space when there is so much to do on earth? “I was one of these people.”
King said that her mind changed when she looked at “what blue origin does”, which is “to figure out a way to use the waste here and put it in space to make the earth a better place … I wish people would do more due diligence. And then my question is, have you been in space? Go to space and go to the blue and see what they do and come back and go back “”
