Nonsensically vague allegories and shoe replacement aside, the M&Ms rebrand is kinda weird to me (someone who knows way too much about M&M commercial lore) because they're trying to take the marketing in a more wholesome direction, which isn't a bad idea alone since that seems to be a trend lately after the meta snarkfest of the 2010s, but like... why keep the spokescandies? They're iconic, sure, but they were made for the dark comedy that was big in the late 90s - with the "dumb fat guy and smart snarky guy" dynamic - and not wholesome scenarios about someone's family accepting their full-body tattoos - whenever Red gets a snarky line in it feels out of place, a new candy cast would work a whole lot better.