• dkr567 [comrade/them, he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Aw yeah back to 2000s where everyone yells out the r-word and the f-word with zero consequences, AND burgers held by scantily clad women on TV ad. heterosexual hwhite men rejoice!

    “Pig country filled with pig people and pig culture” by liz-society really hits hard.

  • HarryLime [any]
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    1 month ago

    I have two thoughts about this.

    1. I thought these ads were so condescending as a kid. The fact that people are celebrating their return as a cultural victory is basically bragging that they’re idiots.

    2. The new ad is so lazy and low-effort compared to the old ads. Like, the old ads were terrible but at least they had Jessica Simpson doing a dance on the hood of a car. (edit: let me be clear that I find it extremely depressing that I’m now praising the old ads in any way. Extremely bleak development)

    • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]
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      391 month ago

      To number 1 it’s so weird to me… Like I just want to ask these people…

      you missed the bikini burger lady so much? You even noticed she was gone? Is your life so empty and hollow that watching a classicaly attractive women eat borgor is the best it has?

      You could be doing literally anything. Just going into your backyard and making mounds of mud would be a more interesting and engaging activity than caring about the borrrguer ads.

  • Sulv [he/him, undecided]
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    1 month ago

    Great example of how marketing (and companies in general) are incredibly duplicitous but also just stupid. The average Superbowl watcher never stopped wanting models eating cheeseburgers. Just because Trump got re-elected doesn’t mean the American electorate is suddenly a bunch of dumb hicks, they always were.

  • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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    431 month ago

    Two things

    1.) Just from those two still images it looks like director said “What if we tried to make it look like it was a AI developed commercial, but with humans.” I can’t quite articulate how/why but it looks like a human trying to make what they think a Generative AI tool would make if you said “Make a Carls Jr commercial with a hot babe in it”.

    2.) Carl’s Jr. has and always will be D-tier. Not once have i heard anyone say “Let’s go get Carl’s Jr”. It’s always “not there not much around, I guess there’s a Carl’s Jr. here?”

    • lurker_supreme [he/him]
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      371 month ago

      Back in the Jurassic age my local Carl’s Jr. sold fried chicken and biscuits. I remember really liking them. I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time, yells-at-cloud

      • Vingst [he/him]
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        201 month ago

        fr, they had way better chicken than KFC, and KFC used to be a lot better too

      • RoabeArt [he/him]
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        161 month ago

        And one of those meals cost just a nickel. In those days, nickels had pictures of bumble bees on 'em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter!”, you’d say.

    • Owl [he/him]
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      211 month ago

      I can’t quite articulate how/why

      It’s because she’s posing vaguely and staring off into the middle distance.

  • crispy_lol [he/him]
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    391 month ago

    Maybe I’m gay or some shit but I’m immune to the hot burger lady. WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER completely brainwashed me but this does nothing for me. Where the fuck even has Hardee’s/carls jr anyway? Feel like I only see them on road trips

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    311 month ago

    Wow women holding burger? That’s woke agenda everyone knows trad wives should only be eating salads

    • picklemeister [she/her]
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      281 month ago

      they dont want to fuck their trad wives though, they want to fuck virgin whore burger bikini models and then dehumanize them, the trad wives are there to do all their chores

  • SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]
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    221 month ago

    So there was this one time I was cleaning out a spare room at work with a coworker and we found an old 80s “Babe” poster ad. And he said “I wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating crackers.”

    And I was just like, “wtf? That’s the most old timey horny phrase ever.”