As I’m sure most of you are aware, November marks the time that Starbucks brings out their red cups and half of the world’s population goes absolutely crazy because they can drink their coffee out of a red cup as opposed to a white one, which is perfectly understandable and reasonable.

However, you might not be aware that Starbucks is in deep shit this year after they decided to change the branding on their red cups. Normally, they’ll put some snowmen and snow flakes on them to get people in the mood for Christmas, but this time they’re just plain old red with a Starbucks logo on them. Oh no.

Presumably this was done not to offend people who didn’t like snow, but a Christian subset have taken it as a stand against Christ himself and Christmas and decided to fight back, by telling their baristas that their name is Merry Christmas and thus forcing them to add some Christmas cheer to their cups. Well played – I’m sure you all feel really smug and great when you add that picture up on your Instagram or Twitter of you and your cup don’t you? Probably even more smug than you were looking at the same time last year when you did it.

‘The cause’ (yes they’re really calling it ‘the cause’) was spearheaded by some moron named Joshua Feuerstein who describes himself as a ‘Facebook personality. Jesus lover. People person. Checkers and Yahtzee Master’, so certainly sounds like quite the character. He looks like Kevin James in a Fred Durst cap and he explains his motivations behind starting the movement in the video below:

Wow. The best part has got to be where he gets his gun out, right? This is the kind of person that created this stupid campaign. Unbelievably, this video has had almost 15 million views and I dread to think how many people in America’s south have actually done this already. Oh wait, you’ll be able to see a bunch them on the slideshow below.

In case you can’t tell, the whole red cups thing makes me sick because it’s so lame and pathetic, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Starbucks took the Christmas stuff off it in order to start some kind of movement like this to promote their stupid cups even more. I suppose I’m helping facilitate this by posting it, but whatever, I think it’s clear where my allegiance lies.

If you want to look at some pictures of twats with their stupid ‘Merry Christmas’ red cups then scroll thought the slideshow below. There are also some great Christian memes that have emerged because of this and some very interesting spellings of the phrase ‘Merry Christmas’:

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