Kellogg's board advises poor families to make do with cereal. Many people are already comparing it to the sentence “Let them eat cake,” which Marie Antoinette is said to have said before her execution during the French Revolution.

One TikTok user mockingly referred to the multimillionaire's salary, which, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission as of September 2023, includes an annual base salary of $1 million and more than $4 million in bonuses.