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[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

half or most of GenZ humour is ads disguised as memes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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)."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Tankie crowd control method: showing them pictures of burgers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sir_pronoun 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Alright I chuckled at the video (and man, that meat warning is something else), but to be fair, quite a lot of people just can't handle noise neurologically. It's built into their brain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm aware, I'm one such person. But if you're going to be a revolutionary you gotta suck it up

[–] [email protected] -5 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 10 minutes 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Ok but like its a fucking burger. You wouldn't put a warning on a picture of lentils

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Brussels sprouts, sure, but not lentils.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Definitely for spinach. Seeing spinach brings back unpleasant memories.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 hours ago

we may have to with people that get so upset over silly stuff like this lmao, do y'all actually see yourselves?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The OP should have included a content warning about content warnings!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

honestly that may have to be the solution lol