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Oh how I wish today was April 1st. Instead, seems like this is real and we indeed live in a clown world.

What’s stopping me from having a “MTN DEW makes you obese” banner on my channel?

Crowd fund a popular "family vlogger" (maybe one who does more DIY type projects) to make an episode where they clean a bunch of motor oil, grease, and brake fluid off their driveway with MTN DEW. "Wow, it's so good at penetrating the cement and breaking down that toxic sludge!"

Nothing, but it says they have humans verifying the streams' content too, so presumably they would not choose to include you in the promotion.

..moooore like Pepsico lawyers would send you some nice fan mail with a C&D.

I'm pretty sure that such a banner would be squarely protected by the First Amendment as long as you didn't make it look like you were sponsored by Pepsi.

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