TIL, all popular references are wrong tho
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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 month ago
wrong mascot. youre looking for whatever flavor-aid uses.
e. maybe kool aid man here is late to the party?
expatriado@lemmy.world 1 month ago
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 month ago
youre not alone. this is a common misconception because of the catchphrase created at the time 'drinking the kool-aid'
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
This is an example of it going poorly but advertisers to an extent do it on purpose. Kool-aid gets used to refer to powdered drink mixes like band-aid is used to refer to adhesive bandages and, in some regions, coke is used to refer to soda in general. The idea is to become so associated with the concept as to overshadow the competition.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
At the same time, lawyers also fight the phenomenon because if your product name becomes the concept itself it loses all trademark enforcement. There’s a chart posted on this site somewhere that shows words losing trademark status because of court rulings, but I guess I didn’t save it. The term is “genericized trademark”.
wjrii@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“While initially gleeful at the imminent damage to his competitors’ brand, Kool-Aid Man would soon be confronted with the irony inherent in his own vast advantage in consumer mind-share.”
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’d think Jim Jones would’ve been able to afford the good stuff, but I guess cult leaders don’t make as much as I would’ve thought.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yeah, I believe that straw would commit mass murder.
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n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
youtu.be/mqgiEQXGetI
troglodytis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think that’s too much
n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Nooe just the right amount of Grape
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Oh, that straw wouldn’t be doing that, just plain old mass murder.