The band plays just one song.Īlberta, Canada, 2013: ‘Until Nickelback Took the Stage’
Nearly 56,000 football fans sign a petition to prevent Nickelback from playing the halftime show between the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers. App goes completely viral, used by millions and spreads to Facebook. The event coincided with the DFS furniture ad.Īux Labs develops NickelBlock app to block all mentions of Nickelback from your internet experience. Nickelback gets pelted with rocks and bottles at a hard rock festival in Portgual, forcing the band to quit after two songs. Either way, it’s difficult to debate the absolute torrent of anti-Nickelback sentiment that soon followed.Īnd with that, here are some other major moments of ridicule against Nickelback. And it’s even possible that a separate, US-based spark occurred. For example, early skits on Comedy Central may have been the bigger reason. Just keep in mind those sofas aren’t as big as they seem. But hey, it’s hard to delete things off the internet sometimes (here’s the YouTube link). It was the proverbial lynchpin that sparked the unstoppable explosion.Īctually, the furniture ad itself was banned because the seller, DFS, exaggerated the size of its sofas.
Full-blown memes, non-stop jokes, and all-out protests soon became the norm. It was after this point, according to the report, that existing hate and ridicule exploded. This, according to the research finding, is widely regarded as the beginning of the band’s image collapse. In November of 2008, Nickelback licenses their song ‘Rockstar’ for use within a furniture ad in the UK. I have found a research about this question :
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