I've been thinking about this for some time now. Slowly and maturely, PepsiCo is making Zero Sugar variations of some Mountain Dew flavors that we're noticing now. From this, I think that they should get their new wiki pages.
(2021) Recent Zero Sugar flavor lineup development[]
This year, we've seen a big chunk of flavors, Major Melon, Berry Monsoon, Spark, Frost Bite, and Code Red receiving their Zero Sugar counterparts sometime after. We know Diet isn't being quite as successful and developed compared to the new Zero Sugar introduced in 2020. Technically 2018 saw Zero Sugar with Baja Blast, but it didn't become a mainstream staple until 2020 for Original Dew.
(1970s - Now) Diet's "underdeveloped" flavor lineup development[]
Diet has been around since the 1970s for Original Dew. Compared to other flavors like Diet Code Red, that variation came out in 2002 after the success of Code Red that's been around for almost 20 years nowadays. After that, there's not a "development" of the Diet flavors for a few years.
After a few years, they've tried to make their diet flavors in the FanDEWmonium promotion in 2010 that seemed to work but quickly fell out as the winning flavor Diet Supernova got discontinued after its permanent release.
I think after that, they tried to make some flavors "half-diet" for all that we know, *cough cough* citrus cherry *cough cough* and we all know how that went. After that, we didn't see any development with Diet in recent years. They also reverted some "half-diet" changes like DEW-S-A and some other dew flavors. They realized that this "half-diet" plan fell off, and I think they realized their mistake by now.
(2018 - Now) A new path for Zero Sugar[]
With the "Zero-Sugar" trend getting popular in recent years, PepsiCo realized that Zero Sugar is the next step up.
In late 2018, they tried an experiment with Baja Blast Zero Sugar. For us Dew fans, we didn't expect PepsiCo to do this back then. As of right now, it made sense how PepsiCo did this. They were testing the waters to see how Baja Blast Zero Sugar would do. After that, if it would do good, then they'll start to invest in the Zero Sugar lineup for Original Dew and soon other potential flavors, which they did.
In late 2019, we've seen further developments with Zero Sugar, expanding it with a new fresh outlook and logo to match with Original Dew. They've released Mountain Dew Zero Sugar in early 2020, and people liked it because it tasted closer to the "real thing" than Diet did.
After a successful year, they are in the proper grove with Zero Sugar. They've released Major Melon in early 2021 alongside its Zero Sugar variant, and from that point onwards, they're starting to invest more into Zero Sugar than Diet. This development points to the recent introduction of Zero Sugar variations to some Dew flavors, and we'll know the rest.
Does the Zero Sugar flavors deserve their own Wiki pages?[]
I'd say yes because Zero Sugar flavors do deserve their wiki pages. After all, since they're doing further developments recently and years to come in the matter.
What do YOU think about this?[]
I wanted to hear other Dew fans' intake with their thoughts about this, and this blog post wouldn't be complete without their intake. So, is it a good idea or not? If so, what's your preference? Write your comment below this blog post!
Until then, I hope this sets this wiki in a good direction, Happy holidays!
-Duckieboy01 *quack*