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This Shoe Company’s Instagram Ad With a Frat Is Pissing People Off

This Shoe Company’s Instagram Ad With a Frat Is Pissing People Off

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A popular national footwear brand recently published a collaborative Instagram post with a fraternity, despite two former members being recently accused of disseminating nonconsensual intimate images of a fellow college student. On September 25, HEYDUDE, a viral shoe brand that was acquired by Crocs in 2022, posted a photo on its Instagram account promoting shoes that appeared to be UF versions of the brand’s popular “Wally” loafer, a lightweight slip-on sneaker with a foam insert. “@heydude called, @thetachiflorida answered,” the caption read, alongside photos of Theta Chi members clowning around and wearing orange-and-blue sneakers. The brand also posted a video on its TikTok account outside of the Florida fraternity house with the caption “wtf is any shoe besides a HEYDUDE?” The post led to backlash in the comments section, with many questioning why the brand would choose to work with the fraternity. “#CancelHeyDude,” one person wrote. Another chimed in: “I would boycott if I wore fucking ugly shoes but I don’t so I can’t.” As WIRED previously reported, two former members of the UF chapter …

The Indie News Queen Who’s Not Done Pissing Off the Powerful

The Indie News Queen Who’s Not Done Pissing Off the Powerful

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In the opening scene of the new documentary Steal This Story, Please! reporter Amy Goodman chases down a senior Trump administration adviser. The camera follows as she weaves through a convention hall at a climate conference in Poland, shouting questions at energy expert P. Wells Griffith III right up until he shuts a door in her face. Undaunted, she waits outside. The door opens a crack. It’s some lackey, peeping out and shooing her away; right up until the door closes again, Goodman persists, trying to make contact. She’s out of breath when she finally turns back. Goodman, the indefatigable longtime host and cofounder of the independent journalism stalwart Democracy Now!, has spent the past 30 years asking her subjects tough questions, leading people like former US president Bill Clinton to describe her as “hostile and combative” and intimidating government officials so much that they flee on sight. Steal This Story, Please! traces Democracy Now!’s rise from an upstart airing on a few handfuls of public radio stations to … the exact same thing, just …