Consumption As Activism

[@tylercoon1791]

‘McBreeders’ Shinzo Abe’s legacy lives on. Marvelous.

[@lupisvolk2420]

They'll make anything to tell their population to breed, heck they made a cute anime to tell their otakus to breed.

[@rachelc.8143]

You can kill the man but not the idea!

[@Unapologeticweeb]

Also thanks to that line it's very easy to point out what kind of people are angry basically anti natalists the same people who had a hissy fit about PewDiePie for having a wife and kids

[@cro-magnoncarol4017]

Sounds like a corno...

[@Treblaine]

"Black trans women have a very simple message: stop killing us" I actually bellowed with laughter over that. What a contrast.

[@NINacide]

I went out on a date with a black trans woman once. Didn't kill her, tried to have fun but she was making the whole thing too weird. There wasn't a second date.

[@semanticalman7802]

Weird in what ways? Was she overly physical or sexual?

[@MrGrumblier]

Does she think McDonald's makes their burgers from black trans people? Or is she identifying as a cow?

[@senorpepper3405]

​@NINacide did he whip it out on you?

[@nubbyboah]

@@semanticalman7802 My guess is overly narcissistic and self centered on her part. Probably made the date about "her" rather than them both.

[@PvtMalarkey]

I love the idea of Japanese normies being confused about a random McDonalds add blowing up in the west.

[@remyllebeau77]

It must be nice to be so innocent and away from it all.

[@jimbothegymbro7086]

Japan is still traditional for the most part, none of our western progressive brain rot has gotten in there

[@ghoulbuster1]

If only they knew how bad things really are.

[@cptshelly]

Tbh I honestly feel like they can at least see how bad it is. I mean their not in our situation , but we're America we're loud as hell.

[@KingKrouch]

If twitter freaks move to japan, say game over to one of the last sane countries on earth.

[@Thomas-rv1wi]

I laughed my ass off at the goyslop consumption at the end.

[@jack.h99]

Mr Plinkett called, he wants his pizza rolls back

[@Jackstermax]

Naomi yelling at him was the icing on the cake

[@5h4ndt]

At first I thought he added a king assripper clip at the end....

[@Phlostonparadise2971]

I was wearing high quality headphones for listening to this video and they gave me waaay too much fidelity on the goyslop ASMR.

[@datachu]

​@@JackstermaxI lost it at that lmao

[@DjDeadpig]

Seeing commies cope over supporting capitalism by technicality never fails to make me laugh.

[@keylanoslokj1806]

That was why the bankers made communism in the first place. To perpetuate the system

[@gobgonson8053]

Honestly, western communists are among the most consumerist people out there, from what I've seen. I think they genuinely don't understand how their own lifestyle conflicts with their stated worldview, or at the very least they don't examine their own lives as critically as they do others'.

[@ghoulbuster1]

Communists need contradiction to work.

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

It makes me laugh, lol, lmao even.

[@multilad816]

I bet devoted Commies of the past would be rolling in their Graves if they see what their movement has become. While sheep clothing wearers like Stalin would be meh about it.

[@MrDj232]

"The reason was too sad." I love you Japan. Never change.

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

​@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116Wait, so we need to nuke California? Twice at least?

[@acutelilmint8035]

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116i mean.. complete devastation.. ya.. it’ll do that to you.. Japan has their own major problems right now.. but luckily this isn’t it cause they need babies. But woke is creeping.. japanese youtube started to feature more and more black people.. people are using lgbtq acronym and that is the one that is worrying.. same with hongkong and other places.. it means its being taught.

[@redline1916]

@@acutelilmint8035 The UN DID say they eventually wanted to flood in immigration and completely destroy these countries from the inside just as much as the west you know. It's just that it's much harder to do it to asia unless you strangle the hell out of them and tell them, "if you don't do it, I'll wreak havoc on your economy and kill your people too."

[@AJadedLizard]

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 I mean, they're not waging war of aggressive extermination against all their neighbors anymore. They're closer to what we were in the 50s; I think that's what so many Westerners, especially Americans, find some fascinating about them. They're downstream of us just like we're downstream of Europe.

[@Saint_Wolf_]

I said it once and I'll say it again: they hate the ad because they portray things that the people aren't allowed to long for, they can't want a family, kids, a spouse, friends, outdoor, offline hangouts, love, romantic or platonic from others. You must be angry, want activism, change the world. People are angry because the ad of a corporation they trust to promote misery, isn't doing that.

[@afuzzycreature8387]

bingo, they represent all that they want to forbid and destroy

[@ghoulbuster1]

The devil was jealous.

[@thegrimharvest]

Just once I'd like to see a Corp ad that's as dystopian and dysfunctional as the people in charge. Just be blunt. I'm talking like They Live, Dick Cheney Walmart greeter tier dystopian advertising "Consume our products and services. We hate you. Go #$%& yourself. Give us money. Go #$#%^ yourself. We still hate you. Consume our products and services." But with a nice fist on a rainbow flag flying in the background, so you know how progressive they are.

[@613-shadow9]

another generation of humans are not environmentally friendly

[@Potacintvervs]

@@ghoulbuster1 Exodus 20:5 " ...for I the Lord, your God, am a jealous god."

[@DigiThorn]

It will never not be funny (and depressing) watching activist claim their side doesn’t hate something, while both that person and their “side” actively hate on that exact thing

[@priapulida]

it's the leftoid cycle to achieve plausible deniability (real x was never tried) .. imagine traditional families were abolished, some of them would pop up the same day like "nobody ever said we should.."

[@Xplora213]

Gaslighting 101. I could accept Lance’s claim… but it would require him to admit that politics on Twitter is the mark of stupidity.

[@3869426384]

Remember "It's okay to be white"? Articles literally said "this is trolling", then said it was double reverse backflip trolling by white supremacists to imply there are people who hate white people. Why, said the articles, would someone say "it's okay to be white", except to imply there's anyone who thinks the opposite? It's like going "oh, a rake!" and then walking onto it anyway.

[@theguy3501]

Literally both the left and right are insane. The extreme left are hateful communists, and call everyone else Nazis. And the right are evangelical Christians who want to force religious law onto everyone like literal Christian nationalists. Like have you ever listened to anything Michael Knowles says? It is fucking disgusting on both sides. One says says their side isnt complaining while literally complaining and the other side does the same shit. They're two sides of the same fucking coin. Both parties think they're morally superior because they belief in certain shit. It's just constant cultish terrorism online.

[@urgadurga]

The Left are crazy with their gaslighting. I remember when I was still on the left a few years ago the narrative was "WHAT!?!? We want KIDS to transition??? That's made up right-winged propaganda to make us look insane. No one is saying KIDS should transition WTF!?!?" "Also if you don't think kids should transition, you're committing genocide against trans people and are personally responsible for their suicides." "WHAT??? You think I want KIDS to transition??? WTF????" It's fucking insane.

[@bvoyelr]

This is neither here nor there, but you got it backwards: the McDonalds ad isn't saying "eat McDonalds to earn a family!" It's saying, "bring your family here if you want to have this bonding experience with them." Same with Disney (though they muddied the message a bit in the ad you showed) -- it's not "find a family in Disney", it's "make memories so great you'll want to come here for the rest of your life and so will your children." And it's that message that made McDonalds/Disney so big they literally can't grow anymore, to the point they're having to stir up political controversy to try to squeeze another few pennies out of their stock price.

[@ElementZephyr]

I remember when that was actually what McDonalds USA advertised. I remember the *thing* was having your birthday party at McDonalds. I remember the play area. Now it's all corpo garbage. I enjoy the food, but I miss the experience. And that specifically makes me a Fascist!

[@Xplora213]

This entire comment is neither here nor there. The message is the message. The issue is that the virtue signal leftist ads don’t speak to the masses like this will. They figured out advertising decades ago… It’s just impossible to be in advertising and have leftist political views and the Long March is running out of road to travel, leading to absurd Gillette ads etc.

[@gobgonson8053]

@@ElementZephyrHonestly, I think the food got a lot worse too. I barely eat fast food at all these days, but when I ate it more often a couple years ago, I eventually just stopped going to McDonald's because the food was always so disappointing. Maybe it's just nostalgia at work, but I remember the food being good enough at one time that it was actually worth looking forward to.

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

@@ElementZephyr damn, you just made me remember when McDonalds would send me birthday greetings with a pack of vouchers for X food item for free or Y percentage off my next meal at McDicks. They even had a letter wishing me a happy birthday - obviously it was a standard letter where only my name was edited, but that kind of marketing isn't seen done today.

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

@@gobgonson8053 It's not nostalgia, it's fact that they changed how they make their food. The fries don't taste as good anymore because they don't fry them in beef tallow, among other changes. Justin Whang has a short video that goes over this in pretty huge swaths of information, but it's true.

[@lord_boneman]

“Everyone’s favorite Canadian communist- NO NOT ME!”

[@Levi_Manifesto]

Yeah ... the other one :)

[@HolyThunderKing]

Honestly I don't understand how people can unironically think that dev is a communist. Do you have to be like super far right or something? Because I have been called far right, many, many times (to be fair I'm not that bothered about being called far right. It's mainly alt-right and Nazi that upset me), but never did I think "Yeah Dev is just like Karl Marx"

[@hinether]

@@HolyThunderKing I feel most do it as a joke, but those who do unironically are probably Ancaps that happened to find Dev in some Archcast and just like far-left ppl say anyone is a nazi, they just go say that anyone is a commie...

[@-haclong2366]

​@@HolyThunderKingRightoids unironically believe anyone slightly left of them are literally Marx and Engels.

[@Not_actually_a_commie]

@@HolyThunderKingThere are a lot of rightoids who watch Dev who can’t understand the concept of centrism. Horseshoe theory, basically

[@ZontarDow]

I completely subscribe to the belief the Grimace Shake was originally going to be Pride Month promotional material but the Bud Light crisis made them change plan on the fly.

[@mrshmuga9]

I saw someone (Lo-Ping?) write a thread on that and I agree. Too much doesn’t add up.

[@maxwelljw8400]

@@mrshmuga9if you could post a link to that I’d appreciate it.

[@Xplora213]

So what? They abandoned overt leftist propaganda because it was hated instead of loved? I don’t think you realise you’re staining them with the same in they would use on you 💡 you have to be pleased when they do what you want. It’s just a burger and fries 💡

[@mrshmuga9]

@@maxwelljw8400 I don't think YT likes links, but search for "@PandasAndVidya" and their post is "1709773812433080575" (October 4th). I think it's either an alt account of Lo-Ping or a fan. I thought there was more but it was just the one post saying it makes no sense they're celebrating Grimace's 52nd birthday of all things. And while not mentioned by him, I think McD's hasn't really used their mascots outside of maybe Ronald/Hamburglar for like a decade+ now. So bringing Grimace out of the grave makes even less sense. Making a social media post for engagement? Sure, whatever. Putting out a product and branding for a (basically) discontinued character? That doesn't add up.

[@bluecoin3771]

Thank goodness they aborted that failed stratagem. You really think the lefties would be good sports about the Grimace Shake memes after all their whining over the past decade? Dear sweet criminy, an entire year of dealing with Leftist crybabies, how long did Besminov say it took to deprogram a society?

[@HeroSword_P]

You forgot an important aspect of the ad's appeal: Lots of people found it so wholesome and admit they want THAT. They love the idea of having a family and love the fact that a corporate ad supports their wish.

[@Johnnyupside]

If you replace the corporate ad with someone really anyone else, I'd agree with you

[@dudeistpreist5721]

Having a wholesome healthy family. It seems impossible and out of reach in America unless you convert.

[@angel_of_rust]

it's down bad when a corporation's ad has better desires than most of the modern American anti-natalist people

[@beta511ee4]

So New Guy all over again?

[@samfire3067]

​@@dudeistpreist5721to amish? Or to islam? Or to a death cult?

[@lostkin4910]

That's such a nice advert. The mannerisms of the little girl are super on point, the family is all happy, it's just good.

[@Phlostonparadise2971]

Can confirm. The same child that can be an obnoxious gremlin will be exactly as adorable as the commercial portrays with some of that sweet crackdonalds in their hands. It ain’t good in a lot of ways, but it’s definitely a core experience of a western child and it has been for a few decades at least.

[@theprofesionalist7927]

If consumption is a way of showing support for a style of advertising then should we all move to Japan to tell the corpos that we prefer Japan's way of advertising to us or do you think they still won't get the message?

[@ashwinrawat9622]

Children will become an image of parents

[@danielutriabrooks477]

​@@ashwinrawat9622And it seems like the little girl in the ad already did

[@viljamtheninja]

@@ashwinrawat9622 Often, far from always.

[@keithfilibeck2390]

regular families are political, in that, the people who oppose the concept say so

[@josvoi2854]

People suffering from main character syndrome, self-projection, and constant political framing can only see enemies the same way screws are simply wonky nails to a hammer.

[@Unapologeticweeb]

exactly its the anti natalism movement that get offended by this they litterally use the word breeder a slang for well people who reproduce in anti natalist circles

[@jimass13]

These people are such fucking weirdos. Imagine how deranged and bitter you have to be to want to separate children from their parents so that you can indoctrinate them to be your little pawns. Straight up anti-human. Ideology above all else.

[@Thatonedudeyouknowtheone]

well, the family is the basic political unit and the building block of society

[@TheLurker1647]

The left is right when they say that “the personal is political”. Eat the goyslop? That’s a political choice. Home cooking? A political choice. Everything from the point of you getting out of bed in the morning- including whether you get out of bed, or whether you sleep in a bed, is a political choice.

[@NoscoperLoaf]

"Capitalism is bad except for when we make all the money"

[@burgertime434]

“Everything is, and will always be bad, unless we have all the power”

[@kaizokujimbei143]

Go Woke Go Broke

[@BalaenicepsRex3]

​@@kaizokujimbei143 Unless you literally own half of your industry and can afford to get woke and flop multiple times and still not be anywhere near broke.

[@kaizokujimbei143]

@@BalaenicepsRex3 Except the industries have been going woke for a long while now and they've flopped way more than just a multiple times. Even if they owned the entirety of their industry, not the half of it that you suggested, but the whole of it, even then it wouldn't be enough to sustain them --they would still go broke. So how come the decades old wokeness has not resulted yet in every industry's implosion? Well the simple answer is that they've been receiving free funding from the Globalist elite based on how much ESG score they have.

[@riggityrooahh7665]

Some of the reactions I've seen to this ad on Twitter shows just how many of these people's parental figures left them at a young age, if it already wasn't obvious enough.

[@gobgonson8053]

Honestly, I'd wager at least half of them have parental figures that didn't abandon them, but instead were too permissive with them. In my experience people like that have complete pushovers for parents

[@LordSathar]

They were raised by the state, the parents were around but did no actual parenting.

[@danielutriabrooks477]

​@@LordSathar*raised by TV and college professors

[@ReturnOfHeresy]

@@gobgonson8053 Those are the "technically present" parents. Abandoned their children in a different way; it's less harmful, but "less" is not "none".

[@gobgonson8053]

@@ReturnOfHeresy You aren't wrong, but I was also thinking of parents who are present but also "overly pliable". Very attentive and affectionate, but afraid to say no.

[@6arag3]

I was in Japan when those McD ads dropped and man was it refreshing to see just plain old non-political advertising everywhere.

[@hazzardalsohazzard2624]

It's a shame things are so bad that adverts can make us happy.

[@stroodlepup]

The biggest irony here is that a complete nuclear family is an actual growing minority in Japan lmao

[@MightyElemental]

all the more reason to promote it

[@kazamaskeyblade7311]

😂 FR. The one time a piece of art from Japan goes viral that is not hentai or video-game or stereotypical anime tropes, and people STILL get outraged...kinda funny how that comes off.

[@martinmortyry7444]

Abe-Sama would be proud of this commercial. 😢

[@uhrwerk5505]

Does „growing minority“ mean there are fewer and fewer of them, or more and more of them? McFood for McThought

[@jamesflames6987]

Good to hear that it's growing.

[@widnyj5561]

Regarding hamas - it's peak humor when alt left literally became alt right regarding the jews. And lefties did make fun of horseshoe theory, how ironic

[@lunamaria8788]

Funny people do not realize both political sides in the West absolutely despise Jewish people, and for the same reasons. Just not with the same logic.

[@rogierb5945]

Yeah, seeing people who call their opponents nazis supporting hamas is just...wow. I cant imagine how these people function in real life.

[@danielutriabrooks477]

Same with "romanis" in a european context

[@danielutriabrooks477]

@@lunamaria8788 If they hated them so much they wouldn't be here

[@blackosprey2219]

Far left's the kind of group that can't decide if Jews are a protected Victim Class, or evil imperialists. It can give you whiplash.

[@notorious_Z.I.G.]

The culture war has really worn me down to the point where I don't care about any level of activism anymore. It isn't about helping people anymore it's all about rallying war funds to combat each other. In public I pretend to be a normie living under a rock so I don't have to engage with people about these political and "political" issues. I just let them talk and go "What? Damn that's crazy." And discard their fringe rants from memory. Left, Right, etc, Idc anymore I just do shit for me and my family now and who ever has a problem with it can seethe as they only receive the most baked brain comments in return. I just don't care, not even enough to hate back.

[@thegrimharvest]

bUt DoNt yOu kNow YoUrE LiTtEraLly cOmMiTinG TrAnS GeNocIdE bY eXiStInG ?!

[@simonpetrikov3992]

Honestly that’s where I am at right now

[@Isaac-lunar09]

Thank you Naomi for stopping Dev in his Nikacado episode 😂

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

If only Nikocado had had a partner who would yell "The fuck are you doing?!" at him

[@Isaac-lunar09]

@@ThinWhiteAxe I think he does. He just records it and adds it to his meltdown

[@willsoe]

It sounded like a top tier Mr plinkett impression

[@solanumlycopersicum5594]

The way that some people instantly call this pedophilic for no reason, is telling. In the minds of some people, everything is sexual first. This is the same thing that goes on in the shipping community, who seem to be allergic to the concept of friendship. (Edit: This is a theory. I am not quoting some psychological deficit that is official in any way... afaik...)

[@simonpetrikov3992]

That’s actually very sad and very weird

[@TheBoshman95]

I dunno, Dev... I ate McDonald's once and now I can't get the Halloween monsters out of my car.

[@thegrimharvest]

I ate McDonald's once. I think that's probably why my dad left to go get the cigarettes and milk 30 years ago.

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

I seen so many anti’s having mealtdowns over this, these people are just insufferable.

[@enclaveherewhyisntyourvide3089]

Anti’s?

[@yarlodek5842]

Anti loli society and its consequences

[@silverkingisley6438]

People who kvetch about lolis ... also one of the groups that has the "male feminist" problem of the people bitching the loudest tending to be abusers. @@enclaveherewhyisntyourvide3089

[@Unapologeticweeb]

@@enclaveherewhyisntyourvide3089 anti's tourists basically people pretending they like anime and japanese culture only to hate every part of it that makes it japanese

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

​@@enclaveherewhyisntyourvide3089 Anti-natalist perhaps?

[@asmkalrizion7078]

Ok, that disney park family ad was wholesome af, my heart hurts now

[@AJadedLizard]

It does a bit, but I remember the image Disney puts forth in Japan and the absolute force of evil at basically every level they are in the States. They're nothing more than villains with good publicity, so it just kind of made me sick.

[@asmkalrizion7078]

@@AJadedLizard yea the advertising part is cancerous af but the ad was wholesome af

[@selly-ssrb]

Hey, Dev - no way you're gonna see this, but anyway. Look in the bottom right corner of the first ad. You'll see some of the toys line up with the monsters in the third ad. I think these ads are meant to appeal to different target audiences - there's an adult ad (1st which gets a heart strings family slant), there's a teenage ad (2nd where they're hanging out together looking 'cool') and a kids' ad (3rd, which is probably showing off Happy Meal toys as imagined by a child). Each ad is meant to appeal to a different audience and as such appeals to what each target demographic would want.

[@AJadedLizard]

I saw the Halloween monsters in the first one too but didn't make the connection they were meant to be toys or targeted at specific demographics. Good catch.

[@americankid7782]

Dang that’s actually really neat.

[@dBsdecibels]

Took an advertising class in high school as well. One of the concepts that stuck with me is that advertising is a reflection of culture. It's dangerous for an ad to go against the culture of their target audience, or you risk alienating them. As my teacher put it, "you know a song is 'safe' when it shows up in a commercial. It's no longer edgy, risky, or vulgar." That's the scarier thing. Western ads are mirroring the culture we've slowly crept into.

[@АндрейНеугодников-м6е]

Against your will right?

[@RachelRichards]

The only negative emotion I feel when seeing that adorable Japanese McDonald's ad is envy. I want exactly what's going on in that picture. I want to sit around a table with my husband and young child while we eat tasty food. Who wouldn't want this life?!

[@commisaryarreck3974]

Ditto I actually couldn't even watch Spy x Family for a while because i felt...envy? Too much positivity in a loving family. Shit hit me like a brick wall Got a friend that actually can't stand it for a similar reason

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

@@commisaryarreck3974 That disney ad dev showed hit me there

[@trustmeits610pm2]

Who wouldn't indeed. Bitter, resentful people who believe in their hearts that they could never have such a thing. They tell themselves it's not real, that no one actually has it, in order to salve the misery of their empty lives. It is real though. Family's do love each other and have moments where everything is okay. These bitterhearts know it too... and the knowing is like acid to them.

[@danielutriabrooks477]

​@@commisaryarreck3974Such a sad reality for the average westerner

[@weebsharpie6975]

I mean think about it. Who would hate a family oriented ad? People with terriblr families. People that correlate family with their abusive parents and believe thats the only kind of family that exist. Thats why they hate the nuclear family and want to dismantle it, because they had a bad upbringing and believe abolishing the concept is what they need to do instead of sort their issues with therapy or something

[@dirt_dert_durt]

"It's okay if nuclear families are depicted happily" nearly made me shed a tear. The West is so jaded it's almost no longer cool to be happy with your own life

[@Pompadour_Pug]

A̶l̶m̶o̶s̶t̶

[@blairdurward4324]

It’s also ok, hell way more than ok, to be white, straight, male, Christian, not disable, healthy, happy, and probably a massive list besides. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.

[@bigmyke2008]

@@blairdurward4324it’s more than ok, it’s necessary. It’s good, those that say otherwise are evil and should be held accountable

[@Zetact_]

I actually find it interesting when you look at especially retro ads, like ones from the 50s or earlier. They tend to be VERY wordy and talk all about what specifically makes their product good. You have, like, breakfast cereal commercials where the mascot is saying, "It's got these vitamins, you can eat it with milk or just by itself, it has a great crunch," etc. and that same mentality applies to print ads. Then the, shall we say, "Bernaysian" style of advertisement where it basically is just, "Here's a luxurious lifestyle, we're associating it with our product" became chic somewhere along the line. And it's been mutating and progressing ever since. In the 2000s ads were surreal and less about selling it as "buy our product and you can have this desirable thing" but were more like trying to be a short entertainment to associate the product with something fun - they did still usually show the product (like say those "everything I touch turns into Skittles" ads) and now there are ads where they can be like a 2 minute video and only in the last 5 seconds do you even know what it's trying to sell. If you ever want to go down a rabbit hole, search "white men in commercials" and see just how ridiculous it can get.

[@priapulida]

Polaroid just made a great new 50s/60s animation style ad "color is weird"

[@anionleader]

*Gorilla drums to In The Air Tonight*

[@weebsharpie6975]

That Disneyland ad actually made me tear up. I really love modern japanese advertisements

[@bvoyelr]

Same, though it's more for the loss than the promise it made. I was that person -- I grew up with Disney and made a lot of good memories in Disney World. But those days are gone, and I'm not sure they'll ever come back.

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

@@bvoyelr Yeah, I would love to have so many happy memories that I associate with a place like that and share them with loved ones, but between Disney's constant political preaching, the massive price hikes and generally hostile behavior so many entertainment media have these days it's almost impossible to do.

[@queuedjar4578]

Even the corporations themselves are desperately trying to curb East Asia's plummeting birth rate.

[@compatriot852]

Tradition and family seems to be one thing that the East upholds even in business. Unfortunately this is something that the West has lost this positivity over the years

[@Xplora213]

The activist West doesn’t care about profits. The directors are violating their fiduciary duties to the shareholders but that’s their call.

[@altechelghanforever9906]

They do if you're not in North America or the UK. 😂

[@Unapologeticweeb]

I mean Japan might have another reason outside of that that being there plummiting birthrate

[@MicahWarren-h3r]

I blame writers the writers that made the west generally dislike tradition and blindly trust in anything new as ‘progress’. I feel like this is a big part of Marx and the progressives in general, they want to see history only as a straight line going forward. I also blame Rousseau along with Marx for this thought that family is bad; they both want to associate marriage and traditional family units with the evils of society and in particular slavery

[@keylanoslokj1806]

Yeah that's why Japan is literally dying of old age, and the cost of medical care for a birth is impossible to manage for 90% of the population 😊

[@glassworktrophic8465]

Ironically, their hatred of the nuclear family is precisely why the ideology will die. They don't reproduce in sufficient numbers to outpace competing ideologies. Long game, they lose. Just stay strong and have a family, also keep your kids faaaaar away from them. Conversion is all they've got.

[@blackosprey2219]

A lot of these types want "communal" families where everyone fucks eachother and kids are property of the collective, rather than no births at all. I might agree that integrating your family into a healthy community is very important, or that a kid can benefit from having more relatives in their daily life than just their parents and siblings. I don't think that's what these McDons whiners are saying tho

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

​@@blackosprey2219 They took the wrong lesson from "it takes a village to raise a child."

[@laurendearnley9595]

But that overlooks the fact they control school, higher education, and corporate culture. You hand your chidlren over to these people eight hours a day for most of their childhood, then you're shocked when they succumb to the messaging by college. And even those who manage to hold onto their own identity find it beaten out of them in the workforce just to keep their job.

[@blackosprey2219]

@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown that, plus the fact that these types think the solution to every problem is to throw more government at it. Their perfect public child program will erase all abuse, all racism, all wrongthink! Because it will be perfect, you see.

[@gladonos3384]

They are a literal virus that reproduces by hijacking other cells. They spread by brainwashing other peoples kids.

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

Also that Tokyo Disney ad is insanely heartwarming and uplifting, watching someone go from child to teen to adult, to elderly while making happy memories wit their family through the various generations is what everyone aspires to have. Yeah not having them at Disney World or anything, but the general message is loud and clear.

[@kazamaskeyblade7311]

That ad felt like a whole Ghibli movie in 30s. Real wholesome.

[@FilmFlam-8008]

The Japanese McDonald’s commercial actually made me smile. The animation and subtle movements felt like it was capturing a moment in a happy family’s day.

[@user-co7fo]

I really felt happiness watching the japanese ads, i just want to watch them again to feel the wholesomeness again.

[@Otharal]

I've also studied Marketing, and the Japanese add gives me more a message of "If you bring your family to McD, you'll all have a relaxed, happy time". Not that "You can get a nuclear family if you eat McD".

[@talkingtakotaco8611]

I believe the Japanese text that's included with the ad basically says something like, it's not special but it's a happy moment, or something like that.

[@MrPlainsflyer]

Ah the good old days when the corporation just sold sex and suburbia and didnt give a rats bass about "the message". Better times.

[@RidleyUwO]

“McBreeding” sounds like a loli doujin involving these characters.

[@taptiotrevizo9415]

The worst I 100% know that is in or already comeout

[@Stormfin]

I want to matter enough to a girl to take our kid to McDonald's.

[@chadisnotachad]

I think I can officially say that I'm not a part of the culture war, because when I saw the ad on Twitter, all I saw was a damn animated McDonald's ad. This crap has got to stop at some point.

[@altechelghanforever9906]

Yea I find the reactions from both the "left" and the "right" to be equally obnoxious. These blokes literally have nothing going on in their lives to the point they need to project their fantasies/rage on a fucking fast food advertisement. I know this a meme, but going outside, getting some Vitamin D from the sun, and touching grass is a good remedy from chronically online behavior.

[@simonpetrikov3992]

@@altechelghanforever9906true and there’s also some caveats to it like things you need to do on top of it like for most of the other radicals they also need to stop being a stick in the mud and try to enjoy the fruits of modernity and/or go to the doctor. Note: I had separate things for the left and right but it applies to both

[@altechelghanforever9906]

@@simonpetrikov3992 Absolutely. And tbh if some blokes on twitter are inspired by those Japanese ads then more power to them, but they shouldn't act like that's going to fix their life lmao.

[@simonpetrikov3992]

@@altechelghanforever9906 I had the whole stick in the mud thing for the right but it applies to the left. I also mentioned that doctor thing because for some touching grass and loosening up isn’t going to fix them but a trip to the shrink would help them a lot

[@Unapologeticweeb]

I mean I liked it because we'll the bleedingly obvious it's a japanese animation and I'm a massive weeb😂

[@Zephy_Sky]

I didnt think i could be jealous of an ad. That family looked so happy and wholesome. Reminds you sometimes its the little things that make life worth living.

[@masteroogway6660]

If "Dont ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products" was political theory instead of a meme

[@thegrimharvest]

Yet. Not a political theory yet. That we know of.

[@thegrimharvest]

Yet. Not a political theory yet. That we know of.

[@thegrimharvest]

Yet. Not a political theory yet. That we know of.

[@mikesmith542]

A normal family is so damn rare in media these days, especially in commercials, that seeing it becomes an abnormality and thus worthy of discussion. Fascinating times we live in.

[@-lollipopsunder-7044]

The reason the CEOs promote this messaging is not because they think it will net them more customers. They do it because they think it will provide them more career opportunities because they are promoting and appealing to the dominant corporate culture. The issue is on this front they are correct. If they dont care about the company itself and only care about their career it is the smartest option to promote this messaging instead of actually promoting their product.

[@MarxistMogger]

its also cause it appeals to liberals and like only them. Conservatives arent gonna buy shit because of the the ad because its 'woke' and socialists arent gonna buy shit from the ad because advertising is a capitalist tool to get you to buy shit you dont need. But any publicity is good publicity so pissing off a portion of the population while making another happy is way more lucrative.

[@hacim42]

Goyslop is one of the ugliest words I've genuinely ever encountered, just on that like Tolkien sense of having pleasant sounding phonemes. I couldn't create a more repulsive word if I tried.

[@AJadedLizard]

It manages to hit all the right wrong notes. It's racist, it's disgusting, and it just *feels* unpleasant on the tongue, doesn't it?

[@cryohazard6930]

1:42 the transition from fat child to Dev is seamless

[@Cowslippoetry]

"You're not gonna get a girlfriend just by going to Disneyworld, guys." Thanks for snapping us out of it, Dev. We almost got played. (edit was just to fix a typo)

[@gobgonson8053]

Yeah, if you want to meet ladies you gotta go to six flags instead

[@lienomzekon4763]

@@gobgonson8053 🤦‍♀

[@JJKane01]

Spot on Mr. Plinkett imitation, we all miss his reviews more than ever

[@limabarreto911]

Legit wondering if a RoS review will ever come out.

[@edwardweaver6869]

Yeah that advert class definitely sound heavily left slanted. I’ve always viewed good advertising as conveying a feeling or experience. Remember the old Rollercoaster commercials from back in the day? Those things almost perfectly conveyed what you were to experience should you visit the park and ride that attraction. I’m getting the same message here, come to McDonalds; we have a warm and welcoming atmosphere where you can create memories with friends and family. Which honestly does seem to be par for the course for Japanese eatery culturally

[@Z-Man7]

This. The ad is telling the person: "Hey, you and your family are welcome to come eat with us."

[@edwardweaver6869]

@@Z-Man7 We spend too much approaching these things from a western lens. We do need to consider their culture, and McDonalds competes with other dining establishments and eating and drinking with friends, family and co workers is encouraged socially to help bond. You can tell Micky Ds wants a piece of that pie.

[@odiespunkmeyer6016]

"Cant make a meme out of the obese Mcdonald Michelin baby" That sounds like a challenge im willing to undertake.

[@Potacintvervs]

Finally, another political video. I missed these high quality analyses. You love to see it.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

>hi quality

[@ApophisTw0Thousand6309]

@@ShortFatOtakuDon’t sell yourself short, Dev. These videos are your best stuff.

[@Yummomummo]

​@@ShortFatOtaku > I'm dad

[@yoruemiya9196]

@@ShortFatOtaku FAT

[@noblegalifreyan4551]

People want political videos because they either want to feel validated or rage at DEV because he said something they don't like.

[@adherentofladycolumbia725]

One add gives you an invitation, the other moral condemnation. Simple as

[@AJadedLizard]

One ad is for the product, the other is a lecture. If given the choice between getting a meal and being told I'm the worst thing to ever happen to the human race I know what I'd pick.

[@Supernova2464]

That art style is so good! I miss hand drawn animation so much

[@kaizokujimbei143]

It reminds me of Ghibli films.

[@hotrodmercury3941]

I think McDonald's should do like they've done before with a sorta real skew to who eats McDonald's. Similar to this ad, I saw one where it was a father getting ice cream with his daughter. Man that shot me back to when I was a kid. Excitedly digging into my Happy Meal while my grandfather drove us back from fishing in the Everglades. I lost my pole that day but we caught a whole catfish! Or the times I would go to the McDonald's that was a few blocks away with the other neighborhood kids. We would ride our bikes over to get a dollar burger and ask for a water cup for a drink. Usually we would share two large fries and since the small airport was right outside. We would watch the planes land and take off, taking about what we wanted to do with our lives. So when I see those ads, it brings back good memories with Mcdonalds. Those moments many of my generation have had because we never grew up in a time without it. It was always a happy occasion to get a Happy Meal as a kid. The best part of the day for some of us. I associate it with good memories made, the times I worked long shifts and it was payday so I decided to eat out. Those days after concerts or sports events or air shows where you are just so hungry and want anything cheap.. McDonald's has always been in the background for us, even if they are a mega corporation. You still get those good memories where you'll laugh and joke and it's not about the food or the cheapness of it or how unhealthy it is. It also shouldn't be about gays and trans and black people. I think McDonald's should really pull on those experiences.

[@robertstone9988]

In my experience the people pointing there finger and yelling pedophile the loudest tend to be the creepiest pedo type people. Lot of sketchy anime corn on that hard drive you know what I mean

[@thanatosdriver1938]

I don’t think you found one hard drive

[@randomduck8679]

They don't have anything anime on the hard drive

[@chasedavis9336]

"Here's everyone's favorite Communist Canadian...NO NOT ME!" That got me, your witty humor is amazing.

[@superspicysoysauce8231]

Asian McDonalds: positive vibe ads, better food variety, working soft serve machine. Kek

[@mawnkey]

Being a healthy, happy family is now a rebellious act. Fuck's sake I wish I could find a woman worth being rebellious with.

[@TJMLG]

"Behold, our newest ad, two guys kissing sloppily!" "Are you sure this will sell more burgers?" "Burgers?" "Behold, our newest ad, a family having a fun time in a burger!" "Are you sure this will promote identity politics and demoralization?" "What the heck?" Which way, western man?

[@Khrada]

"Everyone's favorite communist Canadian-NO, not me!" Almost had me fooled, Dev. People having problem with a healthy family is just sad.

[@doyourbest_uwu]

I remember that one McDonald's ad where Ronald hepled cheer up a little girl who had a storm-cloud above her head by turning that little cloud into a little sun. It was a very sweet ad and im sad haven't seen it in a while.

[@wavethewhite]

Dev really is the kinda guy to make his grand return to a time of war be about something that happened last week and is already forgotten about. Love it anyway.

[@wavethewhite]

@@tann_man Nah, the trucker video is the friends we made along the way.

[@bigbadseed7665]

"If you consume our product, you'll get the things you desire." Not true, but pleasant. "If you don't consume our product, you're a bad person." Also not true, and unpleasant.

[@SwedishSinologyNerd]

Jabba the Goyslop Slut at the end made me cry laugh on the bus Dev xD

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

Most people know these kinds of ad aren't telling you, that you'll have the life seen on screen. The point is to give you something uplifting to look at that while yes it does make you wanna buy the product also just makes you feel happy and associate it with good things like having a happy family. I hate that we can't have that now and every last act we do has to be for the betterment of some oppressed group.

[@brunopas1870]

Slow burning, genre defying, spine chilling, kino gem at the end

[@unimportantcommenter4356]

Swallowing 6 million liters of goyslop in 4 minutes moment

[@SouthernGothicYT]

the funniest version of this imo is when the ultra environmentalists types talk about water usage and trying to "take less" - I literally grew up on well water and HAD to be mindful of usage but they lived their whole lives on city water and never has to worry about it drying up

[@Scooterbeerrun]

cities in a certain state where water shortages happen often

[@e0jay]

The ended provided a terrifying insight into Nikacado's daily life. Thanks, I hate it.

[@DuneStone6816]

I am shocked at the number of leftoids who apparently don't understand the fact that Japanese artists don't racially code their characters the way we do.

[@AJadedLizard]

Or just the sheer number of people who don't understand red is a naturally occurring hair color in Japan and most Japanese dye their hair black at a young age because of conformity.

[@bencochrane6112]

Companies used to sell dreams, and now they sell shame.

[@blegher]

The big thing is that the ad actually reminded me of when I was a kid. Every once in a while, my parents took me to McDonald's to get breakfast or dinner and play on the park. It reminded me of a better time and reinforced that association I had between McDonald's and family fun. It made me happy to see the ad. If it showed up on KZbin, I'd watch the full thing, even if it were a 30-second loop. I don't want to be mad or sad or annoyed at the smarmy/smart ass actors shilling stuff, I want to be happy.

[@an-animal-lover]

You mean back when Mcdonald's had the family fun? Apparently they've done away with the playplaces? At least in Washington state

[@an-animal-lover]

But yeah I also have fond family memories of McDonald's. That Ad made me nostalgic🙂

[@Grymbaldknight]

Ads designed to encourage sales by presenting a positive view of the future may be fundamentally superficial and cynically motivated, but they produce a generally more friendly and upbeat culture than deliberately divisive or finger-wagging adverts designed to neg the viewer into buying their product. Carrots are more appealing than sticks. Who knew?

[@wingedhussar8552]

I was not expecting that ending. Gave me a good laugh.

[@Noccyboy]

That advertisement made me realize how many of those moments I’ve had with my family at the dinner-table, and how many of those moments I had with my parents at the dinner-table. It just made me feel good. And honestly, if McDonalds wasn’t like $35+ to feed my family I would have even considered getting McDonalds too! I’m not going to spend that much money on garbage. The trade off is supposed to be garbage for cheap, but when I can feed my family an entirely healthy meal and get full for $5-20, why would I spend more than $15 feeding my family junk and not even be full? /rant

[@vasudean]

Imagine being so triggered, that you freak out over an ad that doesn't try and guilt you into buying their products.

[@AJadedLizard]

Imagine hating white people so much you make an ad featuring ethnic Japanese people about white supremacy. *That's* the part that really got me. "Is the systemic racism in the room with us right now?"

[@Terszel]

Asking for representation is asking to be marketed to. Piccolo is a perfect example of how organic representation happens. I guarantee you more black people identify with DBZ characters than Static Shock or Green Lantern from JLU (not to knock either of those, DC animated universe is the 🐐)

[@AJadedLizard]

I've seen enough black comics fans bring up Static specifically (thanks to the cartoon in the 90s) as a character they jived with. Hell, *I* had a bit of a hard time relating to him, not because he's black, but because both his parents are in his life; there's a reason I vibed with Spider-Man more. I don't think Static is a bad character but I think a constant stream of bad characters have conditioned us to look at characters like him as "black super heroes" and not "super heroes who are black." That's the problem and why I just can't be motivated to give a fuck about race-swapped characters.

[@markm5927]

That ad is similar to the Don Draper quote about ads selling happiness - that whatever you want, whatever you're doing, is ok. Activist ads try to guilt you into feeling complicit in bad things around the world, and associate that feeling with their product, so that buying it is associated with 'educating yourself'. It's very offputting unless you're naive enough to buy into it.

[@commandcenter6354]

Well, just another Twitter dive to prove that I'm sound of mind. I see that ad and think "Aw thats cute, the daughter is so happy and the parents are enjoying seeing her happy more than the food." Meanwhile the usual crowd on Twitter somehow manages to construe that as pedophilia...

[@KingBuilder525]

"Oh God, please give me the 2000's back!" Exactly what I've been saying for almost a year now.

[@danielutriabrooks477]

Yeah bro, just move the clock back 20 years, it won't totally end up the same way

[@live4hockey2]

With a few exceptions I've pretty much refused to go see any new movies coming out over the last few years, but this year I made a conscious effort to go watch as many of the Studio Ghibli rereleases as I can. It's refreshing to be able to go see storytelling the way it was meant to be with beautiful hand drawn single cell animation. No politics, no DEI, no "representation". Even if the story has a deeper underlying message about war, environmentalism, etc., I don't feel like I'm being preached to or bashed over the head and made to feel bad about things outside my control. I can still enjoy watching it just as much as I did when I was a kid.

[@ElectricBarrier]

6:18 No really, what is this guy on about? What interracial couple? The characters are both japanese in that commercial. Wait, then comments after that are saying they're white? Oh my god. These people have never seen an anime in their life.

[@FrenchyMcToast]

This whole thing is really funny to me because I've been binging the EFAP backlog and I've rediscovered the MovieBob challenge.

[@TurtleChad1]

The thumbnail definitely made me hungry for something else.

[@alani.8784]

@just_a_turtle_chad Same. I'd quarter pound Grimace in a heart attac-. Heartbeat.

[@MGsven]

the wholesome adds in japan was something teat really stood out to me when i lived there, also the media trying to portray loving and supporting dads and trying to make that happen seems to be somewhat effective(the guys that do have a family) in addition some set time pieces make those super hardass abusive dads come across as a bad thing in the edo period shows. in many ways theyy did things right there, but the previous generation got screwed with salaryman idea and thats the main reason japan is in trouble, if they aplied the currect mindset like 20 years sooner, they would be booming now. the silent gen of japan wanted things to be like in the past, now they are slowly moving into the future

[@CocoHutzpah]

If anything, the ad makes me want a wife and daughter rather than a big mac.

[@erroldrommond9149]

I was waiting for that "what the fuck are you doing" by your gf

[@orboakin8074]

2:05 Yeah, this kind of advertising is pretty normal and common in Nigeria (my country) The only people who found the Japanese McDonalds ad weird are just woke westerners. Most of us in the rest of the world are not a mentally handicapped as these people😒😒Normalcy is not strange to us.

[@mrshmuga9]

9:21 Have you seen how many Disney adults (specifically women) there are? You probably could find a girlfriend going there… but would you _want_ a Disney adult girlfriend? Lol

[@thanatosdriver1938]

I have to ask why that’s a bad thing?

[@mrshmuga9]

@@thanatosdriver1938 Meat Canyon did a good (and funny!) video on them. They’re basically emotionally stunted children in adult bodies.

[@sol-hunter2332]

Man, those japaneae commercials really touch me. They are so wholesome and endearing and touches that part of me that wants to fall in love, get married, and have children, but ive always been a romantic. It is truely refreshing. Everything is political is meant to allow no rest, and you can feel it.

[@priapulida]

thing is, that's not what they're doing in Japan as well

[@Transfixed]

Your ending made me realize I'd rather watch even a Plinkett McDonald's advert than the woke ones 😄

[@michaelkindt3288]

I think that p#d#ph#l## allegations comes from the man's narrow eyes, they make it look as though he's squinting or has his eyes half closed, which they then interpret as bedroom eyes. I feel like this is an example where The lines between different types of loves and relationships are simultaneously being blurred, yet rigidly defined. Half closed eyes is something you give to a lover, never a child, and they cannot think of any other interpretation of half closed eyes other than l#st.

[@FaolanHart]

I saw that McDonald's ad on Twitter without any knowledge of the argument. I said there is no way you'd ever catch me eating that trash. But this is the most warming wholesome ad I've seen in years. I'm not a tradcon. Don't want kids & dubious about marriage. But that ad was just nice. We don't see people just existing & enjoying life anymore.

[@somerandomnesspoo8467]

If the left had left the family alone they'd probably win long term.

[@thanatosdriver1938]

Same sex marriage alone has been a massive rallying cry for the left that they lord over their voters to this day because it works and gets them more votes

[@Mzaleyao]

When seeing that ad I actually genuinely wanted some McDonalds after 10 years without. Weird how that works.

[@bewawolf19]

7:28 Don't put yourself down SFO, you will always be my favorite communist Canadian.

[@AJadedLizard]

"Communist Canadian," but you repeat yourself.

[@ifyoure555thenim666]

Jesus Christ I wasn't ready for the outro. Someone come get their "feeder" before another mukbang channel pops up.

[@256shadesofgrey]

I guess chris ray gun didn't do his research, considering you have the things he was searching for around 6:00.

[@mrshmuga9]

Unfortunately, he’s been out to lunch for a while. Even if Dev “both sides” to situations where one has a bigger influence, he usually tries to see both perspectives and responds amicably. Chris basically just gaslights people unless it’s too egregious to ignore or personally irritates him. Or just downplays it entirely. He tries to pose himself as centrist when he’s really just left-leaning with some centrist views.

[@slowlylosingitaaaaaa]

Based Shinzo Abe creating McDonald's ads from beyond the grave

[@dreadsleeper]

The ending broke me. Never record yourself eating ever again. Think of the children!

[@Cole-xq2tl]

9:34 this reminds me of how i used to hate minivans and small shitboxes like Cavaliers and Neons, but now that the roads are almost exclusively populated by formless, ugly hybrids and crossovers, they don't seem so bad in comparison