Moon Man - two cool mascots that can no longer be used, for unfortunate reasons

Photo of a KKK member trying to persuade a young white man to join the Klan. 2015, colorized.

"On January 30, 1989, Kenneth Lamar Noid, a mentally ill man who thought the ads were a personal attack on him, held two employees of an Atlanta Domino's restaurant hostage for over five hours. After forcing them to make him a special pizza and a salad and making demands for $100,000, getaway transportation, and a copy of The Widow's Son, Noid surrendered to the police. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Noid spent three months in a mental institution, but eventually committed suicide in 1995. This incident has been insinuated to have caused Domino's Pizza to discontinue advertising using the Noid as their mascot, though this has been refuted by the company and the advertisers."

"Moon Man refers to an alternate version of Mac Tonight in which the character is depicted as advocating for white supremacy, racism, anti-Semitism, Neo-Nazism, terrorism, race war and genocide. The character originated in 2007, when user "farkle" created a site on the internet community YTMND showing a video loop of Mac Tonight with the reggaeton song "Chacarron Macarron" by El Chombo in the background. Using a text-to-speech program by AT&T, more Moon Man pages were created, some of which included the program uttering “KKK” repeatedly in the background audio. Further videos were made portraying Moon Man as a racist."