🎵Ba da ba ba bah! It’s Brave New World.🎵
I’d like to change the order of the meme
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.
Thanks! I might get a print. Those are cool.
You have set me back financially by at least a month, but thank you.
That is long enough for our plan
We will collapse the human empire by convincing the peasants within it to purchase art from artists until the economy becomes untirely imaginary (as all art is at least somewhat imaginary) and collapses.
CAWCAWCAWCAWCAW
Long live the Crowvelution!
That’s SO Raven!
It’s this a picture of kids growing older¿?
You may have a future in marketing.
So mean how dare you!
… But if you’re hiring I’m relatively cheap and hard working if somewhat stupid
Lol
cheap
Oh you’re not selling this
hard working
Lol, cuck
somewhat stupid
You’re hired, starting at 300000k/yr.
🤣
Go to China. The real Harbinger is this
Wouldn’t be allowed here. 30 minute limit on the dinibg rooms. With purchase.
Good thing they dont target children like in the past anymore tbh. The flag pole is dystopian af though
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?
It should have been replaced by a 20mm turret.
I don’t like the sound of that. Can we call it a “freedom launcher?”
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.
I have to know where this is. What resources do you require to find it?
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.
UPDATE
I found it, I found it! It’s this one right here. It looked more menacing in my memory for some reason. We must’ve been going to Foyers (Loch Ness) at the time!
Still, that’s really cool! There’s something particularly funny about a McDonald’s in Scotland. It feels like a Taco Bell in Spain.
I mean, McDonald is a Scottish name, but McDonald’s doesn’t sell Scottish Food.
Yeah, that’s what I was trying to express. Taco Bell is vaguely Spanish, but doesn’t have anything to do with Spain (or Mexico, for that matter).
It would be like an O’Brien’s restaurant that primarily sells sushi.
The food is also going to be shit like bugs or lab-made pink paste. Possibly made with bugs.
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
I don’t know if that will be better or worse than what they currently serve up.
Soylent Green didn’t test well with consumers, so we fed it to bugs and made Soylent Pink.
A new McDonald’s commercial has a burger stolen and the character shouts “it’s the hamburger thief”
Cultural erasure
Al-Beefda
We transitioned from the war on crime to the war on terrorism.
The 2000s was perfect
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.
Le right generation
Ofc
I prefer the 20s look
2020s looks like a crappy run down office sold & converted into a makeshift McDonald’s lol
I don’t like the idea of publicly visible advertisements, I think it leads to distracted driving
The 2000s design is not distracting :)
The 2000s design is not distracting :)
Which is ridiculously fitting.
I shudder to think what the 1908s and 1970s McDs looked like in the US.
Or worse, a McDonald’s in 1860s Mississippi.
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!
Love your imagination. Tell me what the McDonald’s employees are doing to the customer’s arms.
It should be a hole underground.
That’s the 2040s after WWIII
Ah yes. Because we all know that dystopia is when dull burger.
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
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
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.
I’m actually going to say that I think designing a restaurant for disastrously unhealthy fast food in a way that makes it look and feel like a playground shouldn’t be legal, and I’m happy to see them look as dull and unappealing as possible to young children.
The ongoing health crisis is so severe in no small part because of things like that 1990s picture getting kids addicted to trash. This post feels like someone from the 1970s yearning for the days of Joe Camel. Plain packaging does work.
Edit: I thought Joe Camel was much older than it really is.
I recently watched a (german) video about the exact development of McDonalds depicted in the meme and it made me realize how much of the experience had been catered towards children and how I felt when I went there more often (or at all) when I was younger.
it’s not about mc d’s. almost every business is doing this. Everything fun, colorful, expressive and artistic MUST go. All must be replaced with homogeneous minimalism.
mc d’s is used as the example because they led the way with this shit.
I also read that cars turned less colorful since 1970s.
And a colleague told me that he read that skirts got longer on average since 1970, but idk about that one.
Also i noticed that most pop music these days are break-up songs.
Really shows you the mood of society.
Fair point! I entirely agree with that perspective in other areas. If we’re using this as an example, then I understand why, but I actually think this is one example where the change is a tangibly good thing.
That’s what makes using mc d’s as the example is a bad choice, but nobody consulted me about it.
Interesting take. Maybe they should be designed like an art gallery of various medical office styles. Kids would hate that.
Edit: I’m glad cigarettes are on their way out, but I used to love these when I was even stupider:
