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The Copy Hostess Back Catalog: Collusion. Treachery. DESPERATE Pizza.

Originally published: August 28th.

Brit McGinnis
3 min readSep 18, 2018

CURRENT MOOD:

Papa John is losing his goddamn mind and it’s so funny.

Like I’m not someone who takes delight in people’s suffering. I truly don’t.

But I love it when stupid people make asses out of themselves.

The Papa John’s founder has gone full-blown conspiracy theorist and published a mini-site (complete with documents) about why his ousting from the board of his company is unfair. Never mind the fact that he used the n-word in a conference call.

It’s sad. I listen to stuff about cults and conspiracy theories practically every week. I never want to rule out anything genuinely being strange or not what it appears.

But this is just sad. Papa John got ousted because he messed up. And he was probably on people’s shit lists for a while, judging by how quickly it happened.

He didn’t even stick with going to the press. The site he built is based on appealing to.. franchise owners. Within the company.

This summer’s been weird. Let us not forget that last week, Facebook deleted 652 groups, accounts, and pages bent on sowing…

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Brit McGinnis
Brit McGinnis

Written by Brit McGinnis

Copyeditor. Copywriter. Community Manager. Your horror hostess. Writer of romance novels. Golden Rose Judge. Cited Cruella de Vil expert. Feeder of crows.

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