EpicFail: Gamestop Employees Dress in Fat Suits; End Up Offending Humanity

G4TV.com's Dana Vinson reports: As if walking into your local GameStop and seeing people dressed in fat suits trying to selling you video games wouldn't be a total in-your-face reminder of your own physical failings, they sent out a press release to tell everyone about their little "initiative." It's almost as if GameStop thought this would be a good idea.

[Obama]

They surely don't want to offend pp and mart!

[Close_Second]

This is what can happen when someone in marketing (or a dream of being in marketing) has a great idea. Maybe MacDonalds should start using really obese people in their next line of commercials to help sell the MacFatty burger.

Marketing...is there any lower form of life on the planet.

[Exquisik]

Lawyers

and...

Fanboys

[Pebz]

One might say that fanboys act as both marketing and lawyers for their corporate gods, hyping and defending them regardless of whether they are obviously wrong or not.

At least they only succeed at destroying their own lives, unlike real lawyers and marketing.

[yog-sothot]

great post Pebz ! Bubbles for you ^_^

[Parapraxis]

Wow, EPIC FAIL indeed.
That is just pathetic, whoever came up with the idea should be fired (possibly out of a cannon).

[Parapraxis]

So the people disagreeing think that rediculing people with weight problems is a good thing?

[pippoppow]

Don't think most people would like to be called out on any faults they may have and be ridiculed on them. Only a child would do such a thing. Funny how most people who make fun of others aren't anywhere near perfect themselves. While some may not care, what about the ones that do. Why should they put up with that kind of nonsense. @3 -Those disagrees are most likely from insensitive morons who probably think because they look like Mclovin means they are in shape and therefore superior. HAH.

[Premonition]

I dont know but reading this just makes me laugh,lol i dont know why. That would be kinda strange just walking in your Gamestop and your just trying to pick up a game and some people are dressed as fat people, and your like wtf is going on in here.

[Rich1631]

Come on guys! Have a sense of humor. That is funny as hell!

[Timesplitter14]

I agree. The guy who wrote this is probably fat and can't handle the truth

[MasterOne]

I used to be a weight challenged person. It is funny how folks who have never had a weight problem are so cruel. I guess being on the cover of Muscle and Fitness every month is easy work.

[Timesplitter14]

dude, I'm fat and I totally support what they're doing.

People are WAY too sensitive. If you're fat, you're the only one responsible and you must live with the consequences. THat's why I decided to go to gym 4 hours per week

[f789790]

Tired of people blaming their weight problems on genetics and sitting there doing nothing.

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Unsurprisingly, the Gamestop employees in the picture look like deuschebags.

[Snow]

The title had me laughing my ass off..

Hell,i'm still giggling

[FantasyStar]

That's just funny. Like really "cool" funny.

[Sharpshell]

I'm not fat, and I play alot of videogames, agree with me if your the same way! If your fat feel free to disagree... but it fatness really that much more of a problem among gamers then say, Americans in general?

P.S. I also feel like this totaly exposes the BS "Healthiness" of the wii, AKA the business model of making money by selling to self concious soccer moms(a tried and true formula if ever there was one), I mean stop pretending that you invented the wii to change the world Nintendo, you thought it would be successful... at making money, and it is. Case closed.

[Premonition]

lol

[Timesplitter14]

I'm not a biased person. If Adolf Hitler said something that made sense, I'd say ''yes, it makes perfect sense, sir''.

Now, seeing this, I think the article writer is either extremely butthurt, biased and/or very sensitive. I don't like Gamestop. But they can't be blamed for that.

Oh look. They dress as fat people. If you are offended by that, serioulsy, get out of my lawn. You should at least write 9000 articles on war, pauverty, the abuses of religion, etc... before even considering writing an article about this.

I'm fat. And fat people who are offended by such things are weak and irresponsible. It's YOUR god damn fault. Live with it or try to go to the gym like me. I'm sick of this world full of people who are offended by such unimportant things. Some people are dying out there but we're busy criticizing people with costumes selling games.

seriously

[MasterOne]

This was a bad idea. The folks at Gamestop are out of touch. Do they realize how much they offended people with this ploy. Yet, coming from G4. This is like the pot calling the kettle black. The folks on AOTS constantly offend obese people on a daily basis. I am amazed that they get away with it. Karma is a great thing. What comes around goes around.

[KKanjiAnkh]

I was one of those people at this incident, but by penis was so big I could wrap it around me to imitate a fat suit, LOL jk. For those hounding the stores about Wii Fit, you know your just gonna slide that S*** under your beds, in 2 months, like this was the 80's, 20min workout tapes, w/ Jane Fonda. I could get a gym pass for the price of a Wii Fit, and be exposed to some real strength training. What Nintendo needs to do, is impliment the board into the next WWE game, so when you smash it over someones head, LOL.

Skinny/Fat just take of yourself

[SteveSmith]

About 3/4 of Gamestop customers are fat nerds. Good job ridiculing their own customers. Gamestop fails as usual.

[shawnsl65]

how are people getting fat??? It's like i have the opposite reaction or something.. I wanna gain weight but it's soooo dam hard.