Chicken Licken distances itself from offensive Facebook account

AT FIRST glance it looks like the real thing.

But on closer inspection, one can tell it’s a fake account.

Under additional contact info it lists a Gmail email address and the branding looks kind of off kilter.

But that hasn’t stopped a fake Chicken Licken account from amassing 16k followers and 16.5k likes.

And then there are the posts – offensive, racist and in very bad taste (excuse the pun).

Its latest post went viral overnight after it used a derogatory stereotype while referring to coloured people.

Woke Twitter caught wind of the viral post and immediately demanded answers.

Local journalist and TV presenter Robin Adams was one of the first to call out the fake post.

“I don’t believe this for one moment. Fake news. Must be! Right @ChickenLickenSA?

“Mense (people) trying to drag your good name through the mud,” he tweeted.

Chicken Licken immediately responded, saying: “Hi Robin, thank you for bringing this to our attention.

“This is from a fake account and not our official Facebook account, we’ve reported the page and kindly request that you help us by reporting it too.”

The fake account has proven to be problematic.

Judging from their comments, some Facebook users are under the impression that it does belong to the chicken fast food franchise.

“Whoever does marketing needs to do a bit more sensitivity training. The posts are really awful and divisive,” commented one user.

“Degrading comment's about racial groups,” said another.