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The Harbinger of the Dystopia
Submitted 8 months ago by Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Wouldn’t be allowed here. 30 minute limit on the dinibg rooms. With purchase.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I shudder to think what the 1908s and 1970s McDs ooked like in the US.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or worse, a McDonald’s in 1860s Mississippi.
Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Good thing they dont target children like in the past anymore tbh. The flag pole is dystopian af though
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Respectfully, I must disagree. I feel like children need a place where they can be free to unwind after their 16-hour factory shifts and maybe grab a beer.
Dystopian? The flag that waved over this?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It should have been replaced by a 20mm turret.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t like the sound of that. Can we call it a “freedom launcher?”
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
A new McDonald’s commercial has a burger stolen and the character shouts “it’s the hamburger thief”
Cultural erasure
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Al-Beefda
We transitioned from the war on crime to the war on terrorism.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Inside the top one, you can hear screams regularly going like this:
No, please no, I don’t wanna fucking die! No! Please no, you fucking fucking bastards! AAAAAH, IT HURTS, IT FUCKING HURTS! AAAAAAAAAHHH, MY ARMS, MY FUCKING ARMS, YOU FUCKING BASTARDS!
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Love your imagination. Tell me what the McDonald’s employees are doing to the customer’s arms.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Hold on there’s a McDonalds I remember going to, and I’m trying to think if it was in Scotland or England, but we stopped off there and the fucking place looked near enough like a villain’s lair.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have to know where this is. What resources do you require to find it?
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
idk and I’m raking my brains to find out where it is. All I remember is that it was in a service area/retail park somwhere in Scotland/Northwestern England, could literally be anywhere between Inverness and Lancaster.
atlien51@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The 2000s was perfect
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I prefer the 20s look
atlien51@lemm.ee 8 months ago
2020s looks like a crappy run down office sold & converted into a makeshift McDonald’s lol
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My generation was the best generation. I know a lot of people feel that way, but my generation was the only one that was correct.
frezik@midwest.social 8 months ago
Le right generation
atlien51@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Ofc
Jarix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s this a picture of kids growing older¿?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You may have a future in marketing.
Jarix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So mean dare you!
… But if you’re hiring I’m relatively cheap and hard working if somewhat stupid
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s the same thing that happened to the fair phone regarding the audio jack
The noisy minority wants it, they yell, write on forums and complain, but they are statically nonsignificant as people keep buying the phone
Same with colors. Why waste millions on cars and buildings dyed with colors no one might want instead of appealing to the broader consumer base?
They are also are influenced by and influencing fashion and trends in color choice as well, just look at minimalism and brutalism. It is also cheaper and more efficient on the design and manufacturing to offer things in less specialized coloration
Proof is that people keep buying stuff
Same as with furniture. There is a reason why Ikea is a whole thing
Going into the meta, imagine someone wants to buy a car. Inevitably, they will think as well on the day they will sell the car. What are you gonna buy? A car painted in a weird color? Or something that you know for sure no one will mind THAT much?
Ithat, or you can go with the theory of the Pixies finally doing their takeover
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 8 months ago
McDonald’s use to be a place for kids. They have since rebranded to let people know there’s stuff on the menu that’s for adults.
Much of marketing to Americans is treating everyone like a monkey and using colors to trick them into buying your stuff.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d like to change the order of the meme
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Me, too, but I wasn’t about to chop the original meme and stitch it back together in a better order. If you do it for me, you can have all my imaginary internet points, though.
pawnfuture@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It should be a hole underground.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s the 2040s after WWIII
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
The food is also going to be shit like bugs or lab-made pink paste.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
it’s an american business, it’ll be corn burgers with cornbread and slices of corn served with deep fried popcorn and a tall glass of corn syrup
Almacca@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I don’t know if that will be better or worse than what they currently serve up.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Soylent Green didn’t test well with consumers, so we fed it to bugs and made Soylent Pink.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thanks! I might get a print. Those are cool.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
The artbook is very cool too
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
More like hambinger
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Damn, I wish I’d thought of that.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
The harburgler of doom. Robble robble!
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The order needs to be reversed. People don’t really read from the bottom up.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re right. I just didn’t feel like chopping the original meme and stitching it back together. I just made my little addition to the top. I guess that did make the post a little…shitty.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, I can get not wanting to spend the time/effort. Though, there is a difference between a shit post and a shitpost. People always conflate the two.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Oh, it’s been harbinged. We’re in it.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I feel a little cheated. I was supposed to get a cool cyberpunk hacking machine. All I have is a Flipper Zero and a bunch of debt.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The soon one makes sense 'cause of global warming. We don’t be able to do it like the good old times.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wonder what will be in the filet-o-fish when we run out of fish.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
[deleted]volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Are you the ob/gyn that recommends pregnant people to swap chocolate for broccoli?
twice_hatch@midwest.social 8 months ago
Welcome to McDonald’s, the All-American Restaurant, papers please
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You laugh, but a cashless society means ID’ing oneself with every transaction.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I mean, I wouldn’t say no to a brutalist McDonald’s.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I would, but I’m rejecting the mc d’s part not the brutalist part.
brutalist architecture is fucking cool.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
brutalist state-owned fast food joint, everything’s cheap but not that cheap and perfectly middling quality, and there’s 4 things on the menu
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
That’s fair.
mrmule@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I for one welcome our new brutalist McDonald’s overlord 🍔
ryan213@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
$3.99 Big Mac combos 😭
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Those were the days. Don’t look at how the size changed over time. It’ll make you too sad.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Corpo interior designers should be hunted, and theblicenses should fund repairing damage they die.
frezik@midwest.social 8 months ago
Some of that is from white balance making the top picture look warmer, but even accounting for that, it’s a tragedy.
cobysev@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was born in the early '80s. The 2000s picture was what my McDonald’s always looked like throughout my childhood. I’ve never seen a McDonald’s that looked like the '90s pic.
The 2020 pic shows current McDonald’s, but they changed to that sometime in the mid-2010s.
terminhell@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Taco bell recycled, Pizza Hut recycled, peak kids life bottom.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
When I talk about how much I miss the 90s McDonalds, I’m mostly complaining about the loss of a third space. My parents would go to McDonalds so we had a safe, climate-controlled, indoor play space, and we could spend hours there for the price of something off the dollar menu.
I don’t know of anywhere comparable these days. Anything indoors is going to be expensive, you have to get the city to unlock the local hoops, the cops start asking questions if you just want to hang out with friends, and if you have too many friends they make you get a permit to use the public park.
rakete@feddit.org 8 months ago
Adapting to their growing customers
ch00f@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In addition to moving away from marketing directly to children, the reason a lot of fast foot restaurants are rebranding to look like grey cubes is to make the buildings more generic and therefore more valuable as commercial real estate.
We’ve all seen the local Mexican restaurant that definitely used to be a Pizza Hut. This is to avoid that.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ah yes. Because we all know that dystopia is when dull burger.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For me, it was just a silly metaphor, but you might be onto something:
“Fasting is eating. Refusing is ordering. Salad is burger.” ~ George Orwell
“I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we’re advanced in every way except in our burgers.” ~ Bryce Dallas Howard
“Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future burger might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future burger.” ~ Lauren Oliver
“Who controls the past controls the burger. Who controls the present controls the past.” ~ George Orwell