Wendy's wasted no time shading Katy Perry following her decent on Blue Origin's space flight.
On Monday (April 14), the 143 vocalist was joined by Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, and Kerianne Flynn on the NS-31, which launched out of West Texas. The all-female flight crew spent roughly eleven minutes in space before landing, but Wendy's seemed to want Perry to be in the outer atmosphere much longer.
After the space mission landing, Pop Crave confirmed on X, formerly Twitter, that Perry had "returned from space," to which Wendy's official account replied, "Can we send her back."
The fast food chain continued with jokes, parodying Perry's 2008 hit "I Kissed a Girl" with a caption about Perry kissing the ground upon the flight landing.
When another person asked if Perry was in space for ten minutes, Wendy's quipped, "Don't short change her it was 11 minutes."
Presumably, shading Perry by posting a picture of herself drinking from a Wendy's cup was Kesha. The pop artists were alleged to have tension after Perry's latest album was co-produced by Dr. Luke, who Kesha accused of rape. Their decades-long defamation lawsuits and countersuits concluded with a settlement in June 2023.
Criticizing the space mission was Emily Ratajkowski, who slammed it as being "paid for by a company that's single-handedly destroying the planet." Blue Origin's founder is billionaire Jeff Bezos, who also founded Amazon and SpaceX. Previously sharing Ratajkowski's sentiments was Olivia Munn, who called the trip "gluttonous."