{"id":148710,"date":"2023-10-18T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T21:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148710"},"modified":"2023-10-18T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T21:40:07","slug":"victorias-real-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148710","title":{"rendered":"Victoria&#8217;s Real Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148711 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/rapho.png?resize=300%2C239&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/rapho.png?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/rapho.png?resize=418%2C333&amp;ssl=1 418w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/rapho.png?resize=768%2C612&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/rapho.png?w=1074&amp;ssl=1 1074w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>No Sale<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Rapinoe\u2019s Secret: Victoria\u2019s Secret\u2019s Sales Tank After Hiring Megan Rapinoe as Brand Ambassador<\/h3>\n<p><strong>WARNER TODD HUSTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Women\u2019s lingerie chain Victoria\u2019s Secret is reportedly pulling back from its recent woke ad campaigns featuring obese models, transgenders, and anti-American gay soccer star Megan Rapinoe after sales plummeted.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the sexy underwear company moved away from what it called a \u201chyper-sexualized\u201d image and dove face-first into a woke remake of its brand. But apparently, the results of this rebranding was a steep loss of revenue, Fox News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The rebranding kicked off in July of 2021 when the company named Rapinoe and transgender model Valentina Sampaio its brand ambassadors.<br \/>\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\nBut despite all those moves to woke the company and please left-wing critics, Business of Fashion reporter Cathaleen Chen was shocked to report this week that all the \u201cfavorable reviews from online critics never translated into sales.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2023\/10\/18\/rapinoes-secret-victorias-secrets-sales-tank-after-hiring-megan-rapinoe-brand-ambassador\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been counseled about posting social\/political articles and have strived to keep my offerings in the realm of milblogs. &#8216;Sides, that&#8217;s what thebesig, Mason and David are for.<br \/>\n*grin*<br \/>\nI failed. I just couldn&#8217;t resist. Mea culpa. Seems Victoria&#8217;s secret is she likes to actually turn a profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Sale Rapinoe\u2019s Secret: Victoria\u2019s Secret\u2019s Sales Tank After Hiring Megan Rapinoe as Brand Ambassador WARNER TODD HUSTON Women\u2019s lingerie chain Victoria\u2019s Secret is reportedly pulling back from its recent woke ad campaigns featuring obese models, transgenders, and anti-American gay soccer star Megan Rapinoe after sales plummeted. In 2021, the sexy underwear company moved away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":148711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[598,650,188,638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-get-woke","category-points-and-laughs","category-reality-check","category-schadenfreude"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/rapho.png?fit=1074%2C856&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-CGy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}