Local personal care brand HYGR recently came under fire after members of the public found its advertisement decals on the Ampang-Sri Petaling LRT line to be racially insensitive.

The ad in question supposedly depicts an Indian man, and a Chinese man in cartoon form with sweaty armpits and bad odour denoted by squiggly lines, while two other figures in the background exclaim “busuknya…”.

Many thought that illustrating race in the ad was not necessary, especially when it is associating them with bad personal hygiene.