Alissa Heinersceid, VP of Marketing for Bud Light, shattered another glass ceiling. She became the first woman in the brand’s 40-year history to be forced out of her job after torpedoing the company's brand and insulting its fan base.

Alissa Heinerscheid, marketing VP for the brand since June 2022, has taken a leave of absence, the brewer confirmed, and will be replaced by Todd Allen, who was most recently global marketing VP for Budweiser.

"Leave of absence" is corporate talk for "you done f*cked up, but firing you would make US look bad." Heinerscheid became a lightning rod for controversy when she attacked the loyal fanbase Bud Light had built up over its 40-year history as "fratty" and "out of touch." And in the name of what she calls "inclusion," signed titface performer Dylan Mulvaney to a brand ambassadorship.

Though, there are some who say the decision was ackshually made by a low-level marketing staffer. Yes, a low-level marketing staffer greenlit a can design change. If that's true, it would explain this next bit.

The brewer has also streamlined its marketing function to reduce layers “so that our most senior marketers are more closely connected to every aspect of our brand’s activities,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.

The company noticed a problem after losing billion dollars in marketing cap and hearing from stadiums full of their now former customers. But where it reached critical mass is when they failed what I call the "Little League Test."

Those of us who drink from the firehose all day consuming political and cultural content have an assortment of issues and stories we find are important, offensive, concerning, or some combination of the three. Then we go to our kid's little league game, and none of the other parents know about any of it, let alone are talking about these things.

They were talking about Bud Light's f*ck up. And like normal people, couldn't make heads or tails on what a Dylan Mulvaney was supposed to be. Unlike the people on the internet who stan Dylan and who Bud Light's now former VP wanted to be her new client base, these are blue-collar, middle-class people who bought the product.

Or at least did.

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