Corporate brand banter meets historical accuracy.
Mountain Dew kicks it off with the classic "RIP [historical figure] you would have loved [modern product]" format — pairing Thomas Edison with their Voltage flavor because, well, electricity. Voltage. Lightbulb. You get it.
But Wendy’s reply is where the real joke lands: "He would’ve tried to patent it."
Because yeah — Edison absolutely would have. The man patented over 1,000 inventions in his lifetime. Some his own, some… let’s say "borrowed" from Nikola Tesla. The AC/DC war, the "War of Currents," the electric chair PR disaster — Edison’s legacy is as much about ruthless patent strategy as it is about invention.
So the joke works on two levels: the absurdity of a 19th-century inventor sipping a neon blue soda, AND the historically accurate dig at his business practices.
93 replies, 307 retweets, 3.2K likes. Corporate Twitter actually being funny? Rare, but when it hits, it hits.
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