The company behind "healthier boba" is ... doing less than great right now

[therearewords]

Simu Liu Accuses Boba Brand of ‘Culture Appropriation’ in Viral Dragons' Den Clip - Then $1M Investment Is Pulled https://t.co/WTzbP51pvY
- People (@people) October 17, 2024

- In case you missed what this is the follow-up to- Bobba’s Instagram page posted a statement on Oct. 14 and apologized for the controversial business pitch. The six-part

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[benihime99]

D'Angelo had a post about it
People have been very weird about this whole mess.
It's one of the few instances where I think Simu was very much on point.

and tbf that whole thing was a scam, "we invented popping boba"... like sit down

[steffi_333]

The audacity on popping boba!

[silverstarry]

D'Angelo's YT video about this was really good!

[steffi_333]

Honestly he's generally great. Better than most pro journalists allied to news outlets

[bleuvelvet]

It's so frustrating how people keep trying to downplay this as Simu Liu gatekeeping when the issue was always about this company pushing itself as the better, healthier option to "ethnic" bubble tea.

[peddlestools]

this happens with asian cuisine in particular. like, there have been white people who opened chinese restaurants and claimed their food was better because it was without MSG or some shit

[lulufairybubble]

If somebody makes my takeout without MSG, I'm never returning.

[sassandthecity]

You've described every white person competing on a Food Network show cooking any sort of ethnic food.

[jearsinsears]

cultures are meant to be shared
Yeah Manjit there's a difference between sharing~ and appropriating, you stupid cow

[deerlike]

A complete lack of solidarity from a fellow Asian, I'm glad she was esp criticised harshly.

[my_moloko]

She's so fucking embarrassing and yes, I know we had this same conversation a few days ago lol.

[jearsinsears]

Lol she is! I can't get over it tbh
The horrible racist reaction then the completely disingenuous apology 🤡

[progression]

Lololol. Love this for them.

(Also, I’m sorry, but popping boba is The Worst™️. It makes me cringe just typing about it. 😩)

[silverstarry]

It's okay. You're allowed to hate popping boba!

[progression]

I didn’t know it was an option! Everyone else seems to like it. I just.. I can’t. But, I’m obsessed with regular boba, tho!

[therearewords]

It's always a weird surprise.

[kashiyaek]

besides the obvious racism behind this whole thing (simu liu was completely spot on with his takedown), i think all of this just highlights how ridiculous the current state of "limitless" "entrepreneurship" has gotten. i'm not really well-worded enough to explain this but in this case we have ultimately delusional people thinking they see a gap in the market - that doesn't exist - and desperately try to fill it with a misguided product that no one actually needs, but as long as we can consoom consoom consoom. and criticism can be waved away because "everyone should have the right to start a business" or whatever, and that it is somehow always meritocratic (which then feeds into the idea that people are poor by choice, but that's a different post altogether). the idea of entrepreneurship we have today is really a perfect tool for capitalists. you can come out with a lazy under-researched product and people will buy into it under the guise of it being "trendy". the bubble bursts and then the machine churns out something new anyways

[xtinkerbellax]

Its so frustrating that being an entrepreneur is seemingly the current American dream. I get the appeal I guess but so many people are just not capable of running their own business and so many dont even appear to educate themselves on how to run one idk, lots of delusions of grandeur, like it will just magically explode instead of focusing on providing a good product/service and starting small and growing naturally.

[theblackwidow]

Plus, many of the most successful 'entrepreneurs' started out ahead of the game, with familial money to fund their ventures. Elon Fuck, the Snapchat guy, Jeff Bezos, etc. It's so much harder to start out from nothing than it is to make something when you don't have risk and have access to resources!

I think this myth exists because making your average person think they're more likely to become a billionaire than homeless makes them less likely to question our preferential treatment of the super rich and lack of support for working folk.

[pseudonygma]

It's not only familial money but also familial connections. When you grow up THAT rich, your parents have a couple of lawyer friends and accountants on speed dial; the average Joe would not have any of that.