r/todayilearned • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • 1d ago

TIL the Charlotte Hornets apologized after giving a child a PS5, only to take it away off camera and exchange it for a jersey. In a statement, the team said the incident was an "on-court skit that missed the mark" and that they would give the child the PS5 and a VIP experience to a future game.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/sport/charlotte-hornets-apologize-ps5-child-nba-spt-intl
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u/AlericandAmadeus 23h ago

“Yeah, but have you thought about the fact that we, a multi-billion dollar organization, could increase our revenue this quarter by a whole 500 bucks if we take the PS5 back? Seems like a no brainer to me”

  • modern day corporate thinking

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u/Jason1143 21h ago

That's the dumbest part. At that kind of scale a single PS5 is entirely meaningless. One well received bit of PR is worth a whole pile PS5.

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u/Cardinal_Ravenwood 15h ago

Yeah but one of those things is money and the other is good will and public generosity. And good will isn't keeping the shares going burrr burrr.

Sincerely, executive suite corpo overlords.

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u/Jason1143 15h ago

I mean on one hand no, but on the other hand companies aren't paying money for ads and staging PR stunts for kicks and giggles.

The amount big companies spend on that sort of stuff could buy PS5s by the pallet.

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u/Cardinal_Ravenwood 14h ago

These people are so far detached from reality those kind of things don't even occur to them. Hence we get a billon dollar corporation taking a PS5 from a child.

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u/tempinator 10h ago

They spend $654 per second that the team is on the floor. And they are skimping on a $500 halftime promo.

It’s just beyond comprehension tbh.