I hate myself for knowing this, but there is such a thing as resistance marketing. In a sense, it is a way to get automatic contrarians, because some will go to

I hate myself for knowing this, but there is such a thing as resistance marketing. In a sense, it is a way to get automatic contrarians, because some will go to support whatever is forbidden or has the appearance of being so. I would not be that surprised if what you said was an actual marketing campaign depending on fake controversy.