Twitter can be brutal. We know this. You know this. If he didn’t know it before, Clint Dempsey now knows it, too, after he Tweeted out this:
Just because he might be the most accomplished American soccer player in history, the Internet did hold back in their criticisms of the ad.
There were, of course, some of his former teammates ribbing him over his breath:
Some who just seem confused:
Some were just being mean:
Naturally, the best responses came from our very own LikkitP:
In the Sounder at Heart Slack room (where the magic happens), there were those of us who thought maybe, just maybe, he was having a play on the good Dempsey/bad Dempsey meme.