In what can only be described as another absurd episode of online woke outrage, fast food giant Wendy’s is under fire for committing the ultimate modern-day sin: making a harmless joke. The target? Pop star and liberal darling Katy Perry. The offense? A lighthearted comment following her recent ten-minute Blue Origin spaceflight with an all-female crew.

As the internet buzzed with news of the Blue Origin flight—which was more of a celebrity PR stunt than a scientific breakthrough—Wendy’s jumped into the fray with its signature sass. After news broke that the rocket had landed safely, the brand’s official X account chimed in with a cheeky quip: “Can we send her back?”

The tweet, which racked up over 64,000 likes, was clearly meant to be humorous. But in today’s hypersensitive, humorless landscape dominated by professional victims and virtue signalers, that was enough to spark a meltdown.

Cue the digital torches and pitchforks. Woke activists immediately demanded the chain be canceled, the employee fired, and the brand flogged in the court of public opinion. Apparently, suggesting Perry take a return trip to space is now “misogyny” and “bullying.”

But America wasn’t buying it. Conservatives and regular folks who still remember what a joke is fired back with support—and their wallets.

One commenter summed it up perfectly: “If there’s one thing I miss most from before the dark times, before the empire, it was the ability to actually make a harmless joke. She could have laughed about this, and gotten some really good press. Instead, she has to look pompous and alienate people.”

Another user didn’t just defend Wendy’s—they gave them their business. “I just had Wendy’s yesterday for the 1st time in years, and it was definitely because of their smack talking to Perry. That was funny, and they risked a lot of leftist hate to be funny, so they deserved my business.”

Wendy’s, for its part, issued a classy response that both kept its signature attitude and clarified its intent: “We always bring a little spice to our socials, but Wendy’s has a ton of respect for Katy Perry and her out-of-this-world-talent.”

But that wasn’t good enough for the outrage-industrial complex. A self-proclaimed “source close to the event” told *People* magazine that the joke was “blatantly inappropriate” and somehow symbolic of “bullying” and “dragging down women.”

Yes—according to these self-serious keyboard warriors, making a playful jab at a multimillionaire celebrity equals “contributing to a culture where women are punished for standing out.”

The irony? The face of Wendy’s is a woman, and yet this “source” argued that made the joke worse, not better. You can’t make this stuff up.

This ridiculous controversy highlights everything broken in woke culture. A billion-dollar brand cracked a joke, the mob lost its mind, and ordinary Americans once again rolled their eyes at the people who can’t take one. As always, the left proves that for all its talk of tolerance and empowerment, it’s allergic to humor and addicted to outrage.

Meanwhile, Wendy’s? They just sold a whole lot of spicy nuggets.