Wanna Sprite Cranberry

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Wanna Sprite Cranberry refers to a line uttered by an animated depiction of LeBron James in a commercial for the soft drink Sprite Cranberry released in mid-November 2017. Online, the ad inspired the creation of various image macros and remix videos.

Origin

On November 16th, 2017, the Sprite YouTube channel uploaded a Christmas-themed animated advertisement for their Sprite Cranberry drink, featuring LeBron James providing a family with the soft drink during the holiday. Before being taken down, the video gained over 1.9 million views and 720 comments. (Reupload shown below)

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On November 21st, 2017, YouTuber The Good Morty uploaded an "Ear Rape" version of the commercial (shown below).

On December 9th, 2017, Twitter user @YaBoyGodot^[2] submitted a screenshot from the commercial along with the caption "viciously breaks into your house Wanna Sprite cranberry" (shown below).

*viciously breaks into your house Wanna Sprite cranberry on BJ

On December 17th, Instagram user @broucoffle^[1] posted a screenshot from the commercial with glowing eyes edited on to LeBron with the caption "Dear Sprite, We would deeply appreciate it if you release a full Sprite Cranberry song. Thank you" (shown below, left). The following day, Redditor Sloppyjoegillis^[3] submitted a photoshopped image featuring two kids holding a sign captioned with the YouTube title "Kids Describe God to an Illustrator" (shown below, right).

Cori Dear Sprite, We would deeply appreciate it if you release a full Sprite Cranberry song. Thank you.

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That day, a screencap from the commercial along with the message "Wanna Sprite Cranberry" was submitted to the /ck/ (food & cooking) board on 4chan (shown below).