Depending on your age Mactonight are two completely different things. If your gen-x or millennial Mactonight is the weird fast food mascot you saw at McDonald's 20 years ago. If your a zoomer Mactonight is Moonman, the vaporwave, alt-right rapper who loves to say the n-word and kill minorities.

I remember my dad listening to Moonman songs.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

I’m an older millennial who’s fairly into vaporwave and I’ve never heard of this racist rapper version of mac tonight. The food mascot from the 80s (twenty years ago was 2004, btw) fits in with the 80s samples vaporwave uses, like this Saint Pepsi track:

https://youtu.be/_hI0qMtdfng

[–] Clbull 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Moon Man isn't really a vaporwave thing. It's a meme that originated from YTMND in the late 2000's which rebranded Mac Tonight as a white supremacist rapper, often accompanied with slur-filled text-to-speech parodies of various rap songs.

It's not the reason McDonalds ditched the mascot (that was due to an entirely unrelated trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Bobby Darin's son in 1989), but it is a big reason why they started actively pulling down Mac Tonight animatronics in their restaurants which were otherwise being left disused.

The most infamous Moon Man thing to exist is a controversial DOOM mod which replaces all the enemies with incredibly xenophobic depictions of minorities, and adds a roster of several playable characters including him, Hitler and Ben Garrison.

[–] captainlezbian 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What the actual fuck‽

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This is what happens when you let channers have modding tools.

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