X: PopeyesTwitch star Cinna addressed claims she now has a signature meal at Popeyes after a video with her and other streamers went viral.
Over the last few years, we’ve seen a number of high-profile content creators link up with different food and drink brands. Red Bull has released special edition cans for Ninja, Kai Cenat partnered with McDonald’s, and IShowSpeed even had an offer from KFC for his own meal.
Well, Popeyes has somewhat joined the mix, as well. To kick off their new Build Your Own Bundle deal, the Louisiana Chicken joint partnered with a number of top Twitch streamers to see what they’d go for.
That included Cinna, who built her own meal as Boneless Wings, 3 pieces of Signature Chicken, 3 pieces of tenders, and Mac and Cheese. However, the internet quickly took that to mean that you could go into a Popeyes store and order ‘a Cinna meal.’ However, that isn’t the case.
Cinna responds to viral Popeyes meal collab
After the collab went viral on social media, the Twitch streamer stepped in to address the ‘confusing’ posts circling online.
“Bro, people are going to Popeyes and trying to order this and DMing confused, please help LMAOOOOO,” she said on X, tagging the fast food brand in her post. “Some guy also just told me in the airport, ‘Congrats on the collab meal.’ He was gonna order it LMAOOOOOO I FEEL SO BAD AWWWWWW.”
Even Jimmy ‘MrBeast’ Donaldson was confused, as he, too, thought it was a real meal. “You’re telling me this isn’t real? I was just talking about it lol,” he asked.
“No but I’ll start working on it rn. I’ll get you that meal deal one way or another,” Cinna responded.
Popeyes’ own post has seen people comment asking if it is real, but have not cleared things up.
You can, of course, go and copy these meals yourself, but you’ll leave staff confused by trying to order the Cinna meal.
Cinna wasn’t the only one befuddled by the situation; FaZe Lacy also had an awkward moment when he went to Popeyes during a live stream and tried to order his own meal, only to be told it wasn’t an option.
“Yo, how come I just showed up to my local Popeyes and they told me my ‘Lacy Bundle’ wasn’t a meal?” he tagged the company on X.
As it turns out, the streamers who had signed a deal with Popeyes – which included Cinna, Lacy, DDG, ExtraEmily, Agent, Rakai, India Love, and CookingWithKya – signed away the rights to their images and likenesses to the brand to use in promotional materials at Streamer Prom in June.
Both Lacy and Cinna reacted to this information during their streams, with Cinna claiming that their agents are working to “mitigate” the situation with Popeyes.
“You guys got fleeced,” StableRonaldo told Cinna during their stream.
“Supposedly, it was the other agency that set that up, and there were no good comms,” Cinna clarified. “But it’s being mitigated.”
FaZe Lacy distraught over Popeye’s meal deal confusion
Lacy, on the other hand, was outraged. “I didn’t give them the rights to this image or any likeness of my face,” he argued before FaZe Adapt reminded him of the waiver he signed at Streamer Prom.
“So, I basically signed to Popeye’s for nothing,” a discouraged Lacy replied.
Overall, it appears there was a ton of confusion that resulted from Popeyes’ streamer collaboration. With so many celebrities getting their own meals at fast food chains, fans – and even the streamers, themselves – thought each streamer had their own meal that could be ordered off the menu.
Streamer Prom organizer clears up Popeyes meal confusion
This is not the case, as the streamers were simply used as a way to advertise the chain’s ‘Build your own’ meal deals. FunnyMike, the organizer behind Streamer Prom, took to X to share a statement clarifying Popeyes’ involvement in the event and why this happened.
He explained that he’d partnered with Popeye’s to “level the whole event up,” saying that the deal was “only for the prom and related content.”
“I wasn’t aware of the Popeyes ‘Streamer Meals’ post until it was live. To be clear, I’m not involved with or benefiting from this in any way,” he wrote.
“Popeyes has reassured me they’re committed to supporting our community and have removed the social posts. We’re also reaching to all creators involved to clear this all up.”
FunnyMike threatens legal action amid Popeyes meal kerfuffle
A day later, FunnyMike published another statement saying that he, nor any other streamers involved in the situation, had heard back from the company regarding the confusion surrounding their involvement in the Build Your Own Bundle promo.
As a result, he plans on pursuing legal action for the apparent miscommunication to hold the brand “accountable.”
“Because of their silence, I’ll be looking into ways to hold them accountable for the damage caused. Both to the creators whose images were used without proper approval, and to my own reputation,” he wrote.
“My main goal in speaking out is to make it crystal clear: I’m not involved with Streamer Meals, and I want to make sure everyone affected is made whole.”
Popeyes has not yet commented on the matter publicly.
