On the original episode there's a comment by someone who allegedly has work experience from Bath and Body Works, who claims this is just what the company does whenever they recall a product, so that no one else can use it, in case the product constitutes a liability for the company (like if it was contaminated with something... Doesn't seem to apply to this situation, but who knows?). They claimed that's why all the candles with this pattern on their containers were getting smashed. IDK.
Okay so my sister used to work at B&BW and the crazy part about smashing the candles is that it's what they also do with every returned candle they get regardless of if they're used or not. Their return policy is so wild.
That's insane. I love Wal-Mart's policy, if you know how to do it (online, every time!) they just tell you to keep or donate anything that can't be resold (for instance, I got a refund on a stock pot with a tiny dent... I gave it away, my OCD is pretty brutal otherwise I would have kept the free one, it was fine!) I hate returning stuff I know they can't/shouldn't resell. This is just the opposite. An unused candle is perfectly resale-ready. A lot of companies do this crap. When my mom was homeless she knew which businesses just threw out brand new goods. Employees don't always destroy things they are supposed to... If you have a conscience it's hard, if you know all you gotta do is SAY you destroyed it 🤷🏻♀️
I have worked at a beauty store and we destroy every returned or damaged product. We don't want people dumpster diving so cords? Cut. Liquids poured out unless they are a flammable hazard. Candles are a bit questionable bc I'd assume they'd just send them back to distribution or send the stores stickers, etc. But yes, I agree that this practice is not only on candles lol
@@aubreehallmark4219 There's a chance they could have changed the policy since then, it was almost 10 years ago so hopefully they've changed that since.
The smashing idea sounds like it was a panic response. Like, everything's on fire, people are running around screaming, no one knows what to do, and someone just randomly screams, "SMASH THEM!" and everyone immediately does so because they're freaking out and don't know what else to do. 😂😂😂
Someone shows up for their shift all smiles and then their smile drops when they walk in to people smashing candles, the manager rocking in the corner, and someone's on fire for some reason.
Honestly, as a designer, I can understand why they went the paper snowflake route. Trying to keep things fresh and new for a hyped up holiday that comes every year, I would also think paper snowflakes are different enough. It seems like they also tried to have a different take on what a paper snowflake looked like. And art wise, making an object large and cutting it off is a more dynamic choice that gets people to look at the design more. My first thought wasn't even the clan. I saw aliens. It was just a perfect storm that got way outta hand.
Honestly I view it as, if you don't generally think about race or racism, you might not even think twice about what it could be perceived as. Honestly I wouldn't have noticed anything negative about the design without someone trying to mention it and point it out specifically.
I saw it, but I also realize what it was supposed to be and it was just a funny unfortunate design. No one was trying to be offensive with it and the resemblance was 100% unintentional, so I don't really see the big deal and don't think it had to be recalled.
I saw a snowflake, but now I can't unsee the aliens after hearing it. However, it does not matter how hard I try try see it... I just can't see the KKK in this. And I'm actually trying.
my theory is that because the candles called “snowed in”, they wanted it to look like you’re inside doing paper crafts or something making paper snowflakes but it’s still bad execution
People who want to make their snowflakes look fancy? Duh. What, you expect every snowflake design to look the same? God help any soul managing a whole classroom of children making paper snowflakes then, can you imagine? “NO, Timothy, you’re not allowed to use hole punchers for paper snowflakes! That’s not the right way to do it, you might accidentally make a klan hood!”
@@midnightmorpher9066I bet you'd allow a kid to just push holes in a paper or just cut random shapes into it or just cut it apart because "there's no correct way, every snowflake is special". From the angle it seriously looks like a Halloween ghost or alien paper decoration than a Christmas decoration. Not calling it kkk but it doesn't look like the typical snowflake.
@@midnightmorpher9066And last time I checked, teachers are the ones that want the snowflakes to look all the same. Teachers show how to make the art project rather than letting kids do whatever with scissors and the hole puncher for creativity. That's inviting an accident to happen.
@@ClownHoundII There’s a big difference between “Let children run rampant with scissors and hole punchers” and “Micromanage the children into making the exact same snowflakes across the board”. There’s a thing called *supervision*, and teachers can and HAVE been doing that while allowing children to be creative with the base art project. Honestly, what’s the point of art if you can’t actually be creative with it?
People have conflated the ability to make something with it being recognizable. You could make a paper snowflake with black paper that is just a circle and call it a snowflake. That doesn’t mean anyone will look at it and know what it is.
@cyndiebirkner704 not everything terrible is ai, sometimes its just an office worker without a childhood, a sheet of A4, some scissors, and a hole puncher taken from someone elses desk. thats what it looks like to me
This reminds me of when i worked with content quality insurance and there was an illustration of four hands that looked a lot like a swastika, and when i pointed that out to the designers they complained saying "no one is gonna see it" cause it was not the image's intent, but if one single person can see it, surely more people will (also who's to say what the person who made the illustration intended when they made it?)
I could see how this would happen because my brain does not make faces out of things, so I didn't see the problem. However, at least one person in the design team must have at least seen the face problem if not the klan one.
@BlckSWANWhtRbbt well I see faces in eveything and I didnt see clan. I thought it was a flower. Maybe of the pointybparts were a but farther a way then I would. But yea, they shouldve done like a blue ombre instead of just white.
I think the reason they smashed them all is because they didn't want the freaks who would want a klandle to swarm their stores, snatch them up and make it some kind of collector's item. Even shipping them back to change the labels, you run the risk of anybody involved in that process getting their hands on them and taking them to ebay or something. They really wanted to do everything they could to make sure there was no chance of it breaking containment
That already happened regardless of the smashing. They got angy they were criticized so they destroyed them. Blank candles being donated doesn’t make for a good whiny revenge response from a corporation.
I’m gonna be honest, when I saw it in the thumbnail, I thought it was like a paper flower of some kind? Then I realized it was suppose to be a snowflake, THEN in the vid when they zoomed in and showed Jarvis and Jordan I was like, “oh… huh…”
It definitely does not succeed as a paper snowflake, which is a design that could have been cute. Even with the eye holes editted out, it doesnt look right. Product waste wasn't the solution though.
i unfortunately spent a decent chunk of my teen years working at b&bw and unfortunately whenever a used product is returned we genuinely had to destroy it to “damage it out” not just breaking candles but dumping out soap and lotions. they told us it was to stop people from dumpster diving which was also a stupid excuse but it was also 100% for tax write offs
My son's partner works (seasonally) at bath and body works. I've never even heard of the klan-can. 🤯🤯🤯 To me it looks like a weird fractal group of aliens of the little gray man type.
The only time I “experienced” trypophobia was when people photoshopped a poppy seed flower onto skin, made it bloody and said a hair conditioner did it and it spread like wild fire because it looked real. Just the thought of your skin potential doing that was horrifying.
If they had just showed the full snowflake it wouldn't have looked as bad. It really is just the presentation, but that does mean that someone made the conscious decision to frame it like that which uuuuhhhh
“We put arsenic on the food when we threw it out so that the poor have to understand that capitalism has demanded they die” GREAT THANKS. VERY NORMAL OF YOU
Every time I see the candle, I see the eyes/people first, and then I try to see something else, and I see a flower. Even knowing it's a snowflake, I still only see people/flower.
WTH? They mashed the candles? I work at Lowes and we had some santa displays come in and they Santa’s has one black hand and white hand. We didn’t destroy the Santa’s, we fixed the displays and gave them the right hands. That’s insane. When you write off the product, you only get the cost you paid, not the selling price. Makes no sense
I work retail and we do DIF (destroy in field). Which I hate when the products are completely safe to donate. So they may have just been told by corporate to DIF them. But posting a picture, if it's from the store, feels performative.
I'm convinced that several people saw it before it was released, but it was someone high up on the corporate hierarchy's pet project, so they weren't allowed to say anything about it.
The craziest thing to me is that’s it’s just one of those haha “poorly thought design” moments where we all say look at how this thing looks like this. BBBW could have just said sorry for the oversight we’ll redesign the new labels going forward. People would’ve RUSHED to by the Klandle and then now everyone’s talking about it. From a business perspective that’s so much PR for one scent. But instead they go scorched earth
If they did stickers, people could peel them off and then that would probably be a whole nother thing. Especially going into the holidays season, which I assume is a huge selling time for them. Can’t afford to have anything affect sales. I mean, it’s all still super dumb lol.
3:44 actually if you use flash paper near a candle, it’s safe. You see this kind of paper used in magic shows but you have to be very careful because it’s burns fast. But since it burns faster, I think it causes less smoke. Correct me if I’m wrong though
My friend works at BBW and they have to smash/destroy the returned or bad products. They do it to try to stop people from dumpster diving. I also worked next door to and my store shared a dumpster with BBW (on the other side was an Ulta) and at both stores in the dumpsters everything was always smashed and we still had people coming to dig through the dumpsters to find products. Some people did get hurt and tried to get BBW in trouble, but apparently the dumpster items are still their property and it was considered stealing!!
I highly doubt very many people were like… actually angry or offended or anything beyond just being amused at how unfortunate it is. I feel like they could have just made a statement (wouldn’t even have to be anything significant, literally just saying they’ve seen the posts and won’t print more of that label) and just sold the remaining existing candles and not printed more of that label (could even still keep producing the exact same candles, just all future ones have a different label). They didn’t need to destroy a bunch of their own product! People would have forgotten all about this within like… a few weeks. I doubt it would have cost them any significant amount of business, but this destruction might! It’s kinda off putting and, as was pointed out, wasteful.
it’s so…AI-generated looking? it’s very uh… troublesome that if it is entirely AI, how did this get through multiple rounds of approval and production. and no one says anything? wha-
I’d say smashing them is more about not having people take the candles out of the trash and getting them for free. You can’t burn a candle that’s in a pile of glass.
once again, companies need to hire teenagers aged from 17 to 13 show them their product design and ask if theres anything funny about it, they will absolutely find something wrong, if they even snicker at the design redo it!
i think the reason they didnt ship new labels out to the stores is because the cost of hiring a designer--possibly at a rush speed if they want to get them on the candles quickly--probably made the cost skyrocket. it isnt "just" printing new labels. its getting an entirely new one designed. some designers also get royalties for things that sell with their designs, so its entirely possible b&bw legally couldnt put a new label on the candle. not that i think them smashing the candles is okay. i just think they didnt consider this aspect when discussing the alternative options.
I work at bbw. They made us put the labels we took off and put them in a recycle bucket. Our district manager don’t allow us to smash candles anymore so we just threw them out 😅
I can see what they were going with the design. It’s supposed to be a paper snowflake but they did a really poor job at shaping it that way. Adding some more complex shapes and cuts into the snowflake would have gone a long way.
Look at their candle design for "frozen lake" That candle actually has a proper snowflake on it and it will show you what they were going for, clearly they failed on the "snowed in" candle.... But yeah I have a frozen lake candle and it's got the same concept, But actually executed properly.
I didn’t notice anything wrong with the design till it was pointed out and I think that’s just a sign of what a ridiculous stretch this is. Getting upset about a paper snowflake is exactly why repubs call us woke💀
I honestly didn’t see it until someone pointed it out. I think they should’ve used diamonds instead as that’s more common but I feel like both the internet and the B&BW company kinda overreacted. I don’t know, I feel like people are too soft these days. Bad design at the end of the day.
There’s two sides to that candle where on one hand I feel so bad that no one on the design team caught that, but at the same time it just shows there were no Black people on the design team.
Its just such poor design. When i first saw it, i thought it was supposed to be terrifying bird people (but im kinda afraid of birds) and my wife said it looked like a knife. Then our 2nd look we saw Grandwizards. So idk what they were thinking. It looks like everything but a snowflake.
Smashing every candle after getting criticized once is so funny
oh my god same energy as when you tell someone they hurt you and they start going i’m the worst ever etc
BPD ass brand strategy
On the original episode there's a comment by someone who allegedly has work experience from Bath and Body Works, who claims this is just what the company does whenever they recall a product, so that no one else can use it, in case the product constitutes a liability for the company (like if it was contaminated with something... Doesn't seem to apply to this situation, but who knows?).
They claimed that's why all the candles with this pattern on their containers were getting smashed. IDK.
I imagine B&B corporate ppl do it themselves, like a punishment and they're all pouty.
@@sholem_bondconsider that this is also deeply strange, wasteful, and petty (derogatory)
Bath & Bodyworks new metal band 'Smashing Klandles'
this is frying me ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
Okay so my sister used to work at B&BW and the crazy part about smashing the candles is that it's what they also do with every returned candle they get regardless of if they're used or not. Their return policy is so wild.
That's insane. I love Wal-Mart's policy, if you know how to do it (online, every time!) they just tell you to keep or donate anything that can't be resold (for instance, I got a refund on a stock pot with a tiny dent... I gave it away, my OCD is pretty brutal otherwise I would have kept the free one, it was fine!) I hate returning stuff I know they can't/shouldn't resell.
This is just the opposite. An unused candle is perfectly resale-ready. A lot of companies do this crap. When my mom was homeless she knew which businesses just threw out brand new goods. Employees don't always destroy things they are supposed to... If you have a conscience it's hard, if you know all you gotta do is SAY you destroyed it 🤷🏻♀️
I work there currently. This is not the policy at my store, we only damage out candles that are not in good/unused condition.
I have worked at a beauty store and we destroy every returned or damaged product. We don't want people dumpster diving so cords? Cut. Liquids poured out unless they are a flammable hazard. Candles are a bit questionable bc I'd assume they'd just send them back to distribution or send the stores stickers, etc. But yes, I agree that this practice is not only on candles lol
My sister also used to work at BBW and that was never something they did?
@@aubreehallmark4219 There's a chance they could have changed the policy since then, it was almost 10 years ago so hopefully they've changed that since.
girl not the klandle
but genuinely that doesnt look like a snowflake. thats just bad design
I see paper snowflake much more than like real snowflake, but yeah don’t know how this got through every single check and got released
It looks like either a bunch of people in Klan costumes or a bunch of ghosts, how is that a snowflake
It's a paper snowflake... Like you made in kindergarten
@@kuroneko334what snowflakes were you making with a hole punch??
@rowantwiggs ... If you know how they're made then that's not uncommon at all...
"uh oh"
"They're here!'
"Tis the season!!"
💀💀💀💀
The smashing idea sounds like it was a panic response. Like, everything's on fire, people are running around screaming, no one knows what to do, and someone just randomly screams, "SMASH THEM!" and everyone immediately does so because they're freaking out and don't know what else to do. 😂😂😂
this sounds like a scene out of community lmfaoooo
@@HollisRayor SpongeBob 😆
Someone shows up for their shift all smiles and then their smile drops when they walk in to people smashing candles, the manager rocking in the corner, and someone's on fire for some reason.
Honestly, as a designer, I can understand why they went the paper snowflake route. Trying to keep things fresh and new for a hyped up holiday that comes every year, I would also think paper snowflakes are different enough. It seems like they also tried to have a different take on what a paper snowflake looked like. And art wise, making an object large and cutting it off is a more dynamic choice that gets people to look at the design more. My first thought wasn't even the clan. I saw aliens. It was just a perfect storm that got way outta hand.
Honestly I view it as, if you don't generally think about race or racism, you might not even think twice about what it could be perceived as. Honestly I wouldn't have noticed anything negative about the design without someone trying to mention it and point it out specifically.
i also saw aliens at first, then i saw racist aliens
I saw it, but I also realize what it was supposed to be and it was just a funny unfortunate design. No one was trying to be offensive with it and the resemblance was 100% unintentional, so I don't really see the big deal and don't think it had to be recalled.
i feel like if the "eyes" were simply turned so that they were one on top of the other it wouldnt even look so bad then
I saw a snowflake, but now I can't unsee the aliens after hearing it. However, it does not matter how hard I try try see it... I just can't see the KKK in this. And I'm actually trying.
"Uh its the clan!" Is too good 😂
"wuh-oh, they're back!"
Smashing all the candles is such a cartoonishly evil thing to do 😭
A “klan-dle” is a wild concept
Didn't have that on my 2024 Bingo card!
even if they wanted so badly to do a paper snowflake for the packaging, they could of just done any other variation of a snowflake
Or shown the full snowflakes with a less zoomed in closeup. It still be a bad snowflake but look less kkk meets space alien vibes.
my theory is that because the candles called “snowed in”, they wanted it to look like you’re inside doing paper crafts or something making paper snowflakes but it’s still bad execution
It was supposed to be a paper snowflake??? I thought it was a flower. Snowflakes are hexagonal!
Your _mom's_ hexagonal..
Well to be fair it looks dodecagonal which snowflakes can also be
@@woodfur00 Then it was just poor design choices made by many people 😂
There are all kinds of snowflakes
@@ultraviolettas I don't remember making paper snowflakes that look like literal aliens in kindergarten, but sure bud. Alien snowflakes exist.
The holes are for the light to shine through as the candle burns down. Bad design, but that's probably why they added the "eyes"
they could've made them a different shape so they didn't look like that, but yeah probably just didn't think about it enough
I’m so confused by why they made it circles? who hole punches on paper snowflakes?
People who want to make their snowflakes look fancy? Duh.
What, you expect every snowflake design to look the same? God help any soul managing a whole classroom of children making paper snowflakes then, can you imagine?
“NO, Timothy, you’re not allowed to use hole punchers for paper snowflakes! That’s not the right way to do it, you might accidentally make a klan hood!”
@@midnightmorpher9066I bet you'd allow a kid to just push holes in a paper or just cut random shapes into it or just cut it apart because "there's no correct way, every snowflake is special". From the angle it seriously looks like a Halloween ghost or alien paper decoration than a Christmas decoration. Not calling it kkk but it doesn't look like the typical snowflake.
@@midnightmorpher9066And last time I checked, teachers are the ones that want the snowflakes to look all the same. Teachers show how to make the art project rather than letting kids do whatever with scissors and the hole puncher for creativity. That's inviting an accident to happen.
@@ClownHoundII There’s a big difference between “Let children run rampant with scissors and hole punchers” and “Micromanage the children into making the exact same snowflakes across the board”.
There’s a thing called *supervision*, and teachers can and HAVE been doing that while allowing children to be creative with the base art project.
Honestly, what’s the point of art if you can’t actually be creative with it?
People have conflated the ability to make something with it being recognizable. You could make a paper snowflake with black paper that is just a circle and call it a snowflake. That doesn’t mean anyone will look at it and know what it is.
Even more baffling, the barcode is on the bottom, you could sell them without a label even, or just marker the name on.
a paper snowflake designed by someone who has never made a paper snowflake oh my lord
Maybe an AI design?
@cyndiebirkner704 not everything terrible is ai, sometimes its just an office worker without a childhood, a sheet of A4, some scissors, and a hole puncher taken from someone elses desk. thats what it looks like to me
This reminds me of when i worked with content quality insurance and there was an illustration of four hands that looked a lot like a swastika, and when i pointed that out to the designers they complained saying "no one is gonna see it" cause it was not the image's intent, but if one single person can see it, surely more people will (also who's to say what the person who made the illustration intended when they made it?)
I could see how this would happen because my brain does not make faces out of things, so I didn't see the problem. However, at least one person in the design team must have at least seen the face problem if not the klan one.
@@BlckSWANWhtRbbtThey definitely did but like OP here, they were probably shot down or told “Ugh who cares”
@BlckSWANWhtRbbt well I see faces in eveything and I didnt see clan. I thought it was a flower. Maybe of the pointybparts were a but farther a way then I would. But yea, they shouldve done like a blue ombre instead of just white.
I think the reason they smashed them all is because they didn't want the freaks who would want a klandle to swarm their stores, snatch them up and make it some kind of collector's item. Even shipping them back to change the labels, you run the risk of anybody involved in that process getting their hands on them and taking them to ebay or something. They really wanted to do everything they could to make sure there was no chance of it breaking containment
That already happened regardless of the smashing. They got angy they were criticized so they destroyed them. Blank candles being donated doesn’t make for a good whiny revenge response from a corporation.
I’m gonna be honest, when I saw it in the thumbnail, I thought it was like a paper flower of some kind? Then I realized it was suppose to be a snowflake, THEN in the vid when they zoomed in and showed Jarvis and Jordan I was like, “oh… huh…”
also bath and body has always smashed excess candles to avoid dumpster divers
That wont stop me. Its the wax i want.
It definitely does not succeed as a paper snowflake, which is a design that could have been cute. Even with the eye holes editted out, it doesnt look right. Product waste wasn't the solution though.
Its just so round, which snowflakes aren't
i unfortunately spent a decent chunk of my teen years working at b&bw and unfortunately whenever a used product is returned we genuinely had to destroy it to “damage it out” not just breaking candles but dumping out soap and lotions. they told us it was to stop people from dumpster diving which was also a stupid excuse but it was also 100% for tax write offs
I'm more offended by them smashing the candles than I am abt the label on it
im not gonna lie i thought they were little alien freaks
My son's partner works (seasonally) at bath and body works. I've never even heard of the klan-can. 🤯🤯🤯
To me it looks like a weird fractal group of aliens of the little gray man type.
Yeah when I first saw it I thought they were aliens too. It didn’t even cross my mind that they looked like kkk members
The only time I “experienced” trypophobia was when people photoshopped a poppy seed flower onto skin, made it bloody and said a hair conditioner did it and it spread like wild fire because it looked real. Just the thought of your skin potential doing that was horrifying.
*cries in B&BW employee*
I recognized it as a paper snowflake immediately. It's an incredibly ugly one and they could have designed it way better but I see it 😅
If they had just showed the full snowflake it wouldn't have looked as bad. It really is just the presentation, but that does mean that someone made the conscious decision to frame it like that which uuuuhhhh
The smashing is so people don't dumpster dive! Makeup stores do similar things too.
Scum corporate boot licking behavior. If you have any morals just say you destroyed it and throw it away like normal.
“We put arsenic on the food when we threw it out so that the poor have to understand that capitalism has demanded they die” GREAT THANKS. VERY NORMAL OF YOU
@@jbmp1390calm down they’re just explaining it, they’re not saying they agree with the policy
@@taliaroses (I don't, I know this because I dumpster dive. 🙃)
@@jbmp1390 hey I don't agree, just explaining why it happens
The new set is so nostalgic for me, I had a lot of those Shonen Jump issues and I remember them fondly
I won't be able to stop saying K-K-K-Candle in the Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia voice now guys thanks!
so happy i can watch segments since theyre perfect on my breaks at work 😊
Every time I see the candle, I see the eyes/people first, and then I try to see something else, and I see a flower. Even knowing it's a snowflake, I still only see people/flower.
I mean, with the paper snowflake, it's a cute idea. A lot of people make paper snowflakes during the winter.
WTH? They mashed the candles? I work at Lowes and we had some santa displays come in and they Santa’s has one black hand and white hand. We didn’t destroy the Santa’s, we fixed the displays and gave them the right hands. That’s insane. When you write off the product, you only get the cost you paid, not the selling price. Makes no sense
Consider that corporations are lead by the most immature overreactive people on the planet
I work retail and we do DIF (destroy in field). Which I hate when the products are completely safe to donate. So they may have just been told by corporate to DIF them. But posting a picture, if it's from the store, feels performative.
I thought they were little ghouls 💀💀
the red background with gold accents too lmfao
I thought that was a ghost of a pikmin
I'm convinced that several people saw it before it was released, but it was someone high up on the corporate hierarchy's pet project, so they weren't allowed to say anything about it.
Snowed In - kids make paper snow flakes? But the rest of the story is wild
The craziest thing to me is that’s it’s just one of those haha “poorly thought design” moments where we all say look at how this thing looks like this. BBBW could have just said sorry for the oversight we’ll redesign the new labels going forward. People would’ve RUSHED to by the Klandle and then now everyone’s talking about it. From a business perspective that’s so much PR for one scent. But instead they go scorched earth
"this is really rare!" Uh huh, and it SHOULD be. 🤦♂️
the first thing you learn in graphic design is to avoid problematic symbols... like literal klansmen!
If they did stickers, people could peel them off and then that would probably be a whole nother thing. Especially going into the holidays season, which I assume is a huge selling time for them. Can’t afford to have anything affect sales. I mean, it’s all still super dumb lol.
3:44 actually if you use flash paper near a candle, it’s safe. You see this kind of paper used in magic shows but you have to be very careful because it’s burns fast. But since it burns faster, I think it causes less smoke. Correct me if I’m wrong though
It took me so long to remember that it’s a candle even when they said it multiple times, I kept thinking it was just a tin of paper snowflakes 😭💀
Something must be wrong with me because the first thing I saw was the Flatwoods Monster 😅
Braxie's my girl. I see it.
Flatwoods monster mentioned
My friend works at BBW and they have to smash/destroy the returned or bad products. They do it to try to stop people from dumpster diving. I also worked next door to and my store shared a dumpster with BBW (on the other side was an Ulta) and at both stores in the dumpsters everything was always smashed and we still had people coming to dig through the dumpsters to find products. Some people did get hurt and tried to get BBW in trouble, but apparently the dumpster items are still their property and it was considered stealing!!
Thought they were little winter wonderland creatures😭😭😭
I highly doubt very many people were like… actually angry or offended or anything beyond just being amused at how unfortunate it is. I feel like they could have just made a statement (wouldn’t even have to be anything significant, literally just saying they’ve seen the posts and won’t print more of that label) and just sold the remaining existing candles and not printed more of that label (could even still keep producing the exact same candles, just all future ones have a different label). They didn’t need to destroy a bunch of their own product! People would have forgotten all about this within like… a few weeks. I doubt it would have cost them any significant amount of business, but this destruction might! It’s kinda off putting and, as was pointed out, wasteful.
I bought a disconnected B&B works candle off of ebay before, but this is crazy.
it’s so…AI-generated looking? it’s very uh… troublesome that if it is entirely AI, how did this get through multiple rounds of approval and production. and no one says anything? wha-
People can make bad designs just as much as AI can 😂
What about it looks like AI?
I thought this was gonna be an overreaction then I saw the eyeholes
Still an overreaction.
@@midnightmorpher9066 yeah but it's a funny one instead of just a annoying ass one
@@midnightmorpher9066 like how your comment is an annoying ass one that adds fuck all
I’d say smashing them is more about not having people take the candles out of the trash and getting them for free. You can’t burn a candle that’s in a pile of glass.
"I'm gonna go home and burn it or- not burn it (is burning it bad?)" - Bo Burnham, Problematic
At least they didn’t name the candle “a white Christmas”
Very expensive lesson for the B&B design department lol
Ok, as horrible as this is, “Klandle” is such a funny fucking name
i'll be for real i did not think kkk seeing that but i did think it was some kind of flower rather than a snowflake
like i see it now. but it was not my first thought
they could’ve left the holes out and no one would’ve said anything lmao
6:56 bath and body works can't afford ads anymore. They're completely broke.
6:07 ain't no way anyone way staying overtime to smash candles. The employees were already there
A Klandle? What a scandal!
dude feel bad for the artist that designed this one 😬
Don't. It was more than likely designed by AI.
this looks exactly like an item from Little Inferno
THE KLANDLE-
not the klandle😬
once again, companies need to hire teenagers aged from 17 to 13 show them their product design and ask if theres anything funny about it, they will absolutely find something wrong, if they even snicker at the design redo it!
One wick for each K
I was thinking aliens or Flatwoods monster 😂
This is wild
I will buy your Tiger Rock, Lisa.
Like products are destroyed to make sure people dont have them and write off but this is so weird
Looks almost like an alien
i think the reason they didnt ship new labels out to the stores is because the cost of hiring a designer--possibly at a rush speed if they want to get them on the candles quickly--probably made the cost skyrocket. it isnt "just" printing new labels. its getting an entirely new one designed. some designers also get royalties for things that sell with their designs, so its entirely possible b&bw legally couldnt put a new label on the candle.
not that i think them smashing the candles is okay. i just think they didnt consider this aspect when discussing the alternative options.
Looks like a bunch of aliens
it looks like a bunch of pikmin to me
I thought they looked like a bunch of weird, white aliens lined up. Smashing them is crazy 😂
I work at bbw. They made us put the labels we took off and put them in a recycle bucket. Our district manager don’t allow us to smash candles anymore so we just threw them out 😅
My friend worked at B&B and they have the wrapping from the candle still because they wanted to scrapbook it 😭
I can see what they were going with the design. It’s supposed to be a paper snowflake but they did a really poor job at shaping it that way. Adding some more complex shapes and cuts into the snowflake would have gone a long way.
Look at their candle design for "frozen lake" That candle actually has a proper snowflake on it and it will show you what they were going for, clearly they failed on the "snowed in" candle.... But yeah I have a frozen lake candle and it's got the same concept, But actually executed properly.
I didn’t notice anything wrong with the design till it was pointed out and I think that’s just a sign of what a ridiculous stretch this is. Getting upset about a paper snowflake is exactly why repubs call us woke💀
They would’ve been fine if they just didn’t have the holes 😭
I honestly didn’t see it until someone pointed it out. I think they should’ve used diamonds instead as that’s more common but I feel like both the internet and the B&BW company kinda overreacted. I don’t know, I feel like people are too soft these days. Bad design at the end of the day.
Ok KKKandle is very funny. It feels like a TERRIBLE brand launch by the Kardashians.
I see aliens haha
u could peel a sticker off and just find the original which defeats the purpose of trying to cover up the controversy 😭
finally a candle for the maga voters
It looks more like a weird alien or Pikmin to me.
THE KLANDAL!?!?!
Seems like something the mob would do... I mean, if that was their response to the candle, what did they do to the person who okay'd the label?
“Reminds me of my ancestors”💀💀
There’s two sides to that candle where on one hand I feel so bad that no one on the design team caught that, but at the same time it just shows there were no Black people on the design team.
I must be stupid or something because I did not see anything offensive when I look at this candle
Its just such poor design. When i first saw it, i thought it was supposed to be terrifying bird people (but im kinda afraid of birds) and my wife said it looked like a knife. Then our 2nd look we saw Grandwizards. So idk what they were thinking. It looks like everything but a snowflake.
Time to go to their dumpster for some smashed class and candles :)