Pic: John Cena -- The Fruity Pebble
by Geno Mrosko on Jan 27, 2012 1:40 PM EST
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This takes the cake, Cagesiders.
The folks at Foogos Art took the time to construct the above photo of John Cena using only Fruity Pebbles. The Rock started this madness by telling Cena in a promo that he "runs around here looking like a big fat bowl of Fruity Pebbles."
WWE and Post quickly hopped on board and cut a deal to have Cena appear on over three million boxes of the cereal everywhere. And now it's led to the photo above.
What do you think, everybody? Awesome? Or a waste of time?
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An identifiable likeness!
It even has the “OK” hands on the hat. Wow.
Umm
there are Cocoa Pebbles along the side. that’s cheating.
It won't get any new people to buy Fruity Pebbles, and people will likely hate Cena just as much as they do now, if not more than before.
But I understand why WWE was happy to take the money on it, I wouldn’t turn down that check either.
I think you underestimate the power of screaming children
They see Cena on th box, temper tantrums will be thrown until they get it. Plus ESPN.com had an article about the deal, so there’s the little extra exposure that comes with it
So go forth, my brethren, and proceed to mark the f*ck out
by C. J. Bradford on Jan 27, 2012 11:45 PM EST up reply actions
I guarentee that almost every kid who actually knows about wrestling prefeers Rocky.
Every time they see this box, they’re just going to be reminded of Rocky’s dig, and how much of a dork Cena is.
Remember, women and children don’t actually like Cena because he’s cool. Women like him because he’s good looking, and since most women are casual fans, they’ll generally cheer who they’re told to. Children like him because he’s muscular, wins all the time, and WWE goes out of their way to tell them to like him. Since Rocky decisively beats Cena in both those categories, further reminding them of this burn won’t sell Fruity Pebbles, and more importantly, will make Cena look like an even bigger dork than he’s already perceived to be.
As someone who knows Cena fans
I think you are over thinking this. They like him cause they like him. It sounds wicked simple, but they are children. Cena being a dork does not detract from his appeal. In fact, they relate to his dorkyness. The Rock is cooler, more popular, and is constantly getting the better of Cena. The kids relate to Cena, to being picked on and called a dork and a loser. The WWE has done a great job playing to those fans.
So go forth, my brethren, and proceed to mark the f*ck out
by C. J. Bradford on Jan 28, 2012 12:09 AM EST up reply actions
What are you talking about? Cena is a bully, he makes gay jokes about Cole and call Eddies widow fat.
by MVP Raiders on Jan 28, 2012 4:18 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
Cena's popular with the kids because he's big, muscular, and wins a lot.
That’s all it takes to make anybody popular with the kids. Granted, there have been guys who were small who got over with the kids, but they either had really awesome gimmicks that were still fresh (Scotty 2 Hotty, Spike Dudley), perform awesome aerial shit (Mysterio, Mistico), or were still muscular even if they weren’t big (Eddie Guerrero, Shawn Michaels).
And keep in mind, none of those guys got truly over unless they won a lot of matches, Scotty 2 Hotty and Spike Dudley never drew much interest from anyone beyond the Attitude Era, the last four became household names, guess what the difference between them was.
Question, how many Cena fans do you know?
It seems like you’re making a pretty wide assumption as a kid who loved Guerrero, I was a huge fan when he was going after the tag team titles. His run with the title followed my fandom, not before it. The same thing with Cena. Yes, his winning moves him into a bigger audience. But he already won, and already has the fans. He could stay away from the title for a long time and his fans would stay. They do not come and go like the wind. Again, I know these fans. They love Cena, and will always love him until they grow up.
So go forth, my brethren, and proceed to mark the f*ck out
by C. J. Bradford on Jan 28, 2012 12:03 PM EST up reply actions
I know kids better than you do.
You’re the one assuming that it isn’t ridiculously easy to manipulate kids in the first place.
It seems like you’re making a pretty wide assumption as a kid who loved Guerrero, I was a huge fan when he was going after the tag team titles. His run with the title followed my fandom, not before it.
This is just selective memory. Sure, you loved it at the time, and it translated into a bigger context as part of Eddie’s legend, but for every Eddie Guerrero that the kids root for, the same kids, including yourself and myself, were also fans of a bunch of other guys who just wound up as flash in the pans, but we fell in love with them because they had a cool physique, and won a lot of matches at the time. Eddie was the same way, he was built like an iron fortress, and was winning more often than he lost by the time he was really gaining momentum, not to mention he could fly, which kids always love.
If you have any doubt about this, think about all the times you see people talk about how awesome and over guys like Warrior, Goldberg, and Sid Vicious were back when they first got into wrestling despite the fact that all three guys sucked. They just happened to all be built like the NORAD compound, and were booked to win continuously. A similar principal applies to Kane.
The kids nowadays are just falling for the same thing that the kids of every era in the past fell for, but it doesn’t mean that they’re actually loyal. Pretending otherwise is ludicrous.
They love Cena, and will always love him until they grow up.
They’ll love Cena until WWE tells them to love someone else, and has said someone else win as much as Cena wins now.
Yes, but
Children don’t see the hypocrisy.
So go forth, my brethren, and proceed to mark the f*ck out
by C. J. Bradford on Jan 28, 2012 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
Considering
the range of Cena’s facial expressions last Monday on Raw perhaps a cereal co-promotion with Raisin Bran would’ve been more in order…
Who wants to save the world? That's what misers do...
by theloupgaroukid on Jan 28, 2012 5:14 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
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