• EchEnglish
    15·
    15 hours ago

    Meme? That’s literally just an ad. Am I missing something?

        • goat@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          Yeah. Gen Z is the most propagandised generation. I blame the parents and the ego.

          Realising just how pervasive advertising is today really changes how you view the world.

          I always use that Sonic movie shit as an example. Everyone was all memeing and joking that sonic was ugly and awful, generating so much buzz that it made global headlines. Then take a step back and consider; ‘Would SEGA, who are amazingly protective of their IP and their mascot, really sign off on allowing an ugly model?’ No. They wouldn’t. Take another step and consider if it’s truly possible to replace the digital model, animations, lipsync, VFX and environment in just a few months? No, it’s not possible. No one would’ve bothered with a Sonic movie because it’s fucking Sonic, he’s a boring, uninteresting character. But now, because of that campaign, they can pump out more movies. ‘We did it guys, we saved sonic! We have such power when we’re a collective! Let’s all watch the movie so we can feel accomplished.’

          • EchEnglish
            1·
            5 hours ago

            I actually believe the same thing about that movie. It was all way too clean and quick. Most people give me weird looks when I mention it, though, hah.

  • Please_Do_NotEnglish
    19·
    16 hours ago

    First time I saw a meat content warning I thought it had to be making fun. But no, Grad be like:

    "cw:meat

    (also you should murder your landlord and their family painfully)."

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
      113·
      16 hours ago

      Tankie guerrillas running low on supplies. One makes a mad dash to fetch some tofu, trips immediately, breaks 17 different bones and calls for mum

  • goat@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    213·
    17 hours ago

    how are these people going to revolt and overthrow the system when a fucking burger is triggering? lmao

    i just can’t take them seriously

  • Kaity@leminal.spaceEnglish
    410·
    15 hours ago

    It’s wild that y’all get triggered by content warnings tbh. Not gonna say anything about the cw posted, but you never know what may be an actual trigger for someone and it doesn’t really hurt to post content with one to be considerate. Maybe this poster knows someone who experiences a severe revulsion to images of processed meat products and they take care to be sensitive to that.

    • goat@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      First, it’s a burger.

      Second, these people are tankies. They regularly celebrate massacres, genocides and terrorism, with many calls to enact more violence. They want to overthrow the system in a violent upheaval and kill everyone who disobeys.

      The funny thing is that they need trigger warnings for mundane things like meat. How will they revolt if they are so delicate and soft that meat triggers them?

      Do you see the point now?

      • Kaity@leminal.spaceEnglish
        22·
        5 hours ago

        I get it, but y’all are being weird. Why not focus your criticisms on their primary values instead of valid beliefs/displays of compassion and empathy like this. Your values and communication style is just as tribal and incendiary. Your faux armchair machismo comes off just as pathetically as theirs does.

        • goat@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
          3·
          2 hours ago

          You do not see the point–alright.

          Go and look at some of the top posts this past month or so. We cover plenty of their primary values, such as celebrating massacres and genocides and actively calling for the death of innocents en masse. Nor are they empathic, no one who celebrates murder has empathy. This ‘compassion’ is purely virtue signalling and a weakness of how pampered and high-class they are.

          Why aren’t you commenting about any of the above? It’s rather odd.