🎵Ba da ba ba bah! It’s Brave New World.🎵
Go to China. The real Harbinger is this
Wouldn’t be allowed here. 30 minute limit on the dinibg rooms. With purchase.
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?
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It should have been replaced by a 20mm turret.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?”
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
I shudder to think what the 1908s and 1970s McDs looked like in the US.
Or worse, a McDonald’s in 1860s Mississippi.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
🤣
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!
We used to have the only McDonald’s (that I know of) that was in a building designed by Eiffel.
They “modernised” it last year.
Some of that is from white balance making the top picture look warmer, but even accounting for that, it’s a tragedy.
Corpo interior designers should be hunted, and theblicenses should fund repairing damage they die.
Wow, which piece of shit did they bribe for that? They completely destroyed the interior of the building. Isn’t there any heritage protection?
AFAIK it was part of a larger restoration of the whole building complex (this is the Budapest Nyugati railway station), and the global redesign of McDonalds. They justified it by saying that the architecture is closer to the original - the lower level only became part of it when they built the McDonalds in 1990, before that it was a separate diner for the poors in third class. The furniture is default McDonalds.
The overall restoration on the building at large is not bad per se, but they basically destroyed a symbol of the Hungarian 90s - 00s. This was the place where if you lived in Budapest and got wasted, you could get some nutrition in the city center, and it wasn’t full of tourists because they didn’t think that the railway station buffet was so good.
BTW the local franchisee is trying to cater more to a “fast casual” crowd rather than the bare minimum, so a McDonalds in Hungary has a menu three times as long as one in the Netherlands for example. All I’m saying is that it was a nice place considering. Sic transit gloria mundi I guess.
Can I have my fries tho you were holding them those last three paragraphs no keep talking tho this is interesting
Thank you for the interesting context!
The place was a part of my early youth, I was sad to see it go.
From beautiful 19th century architecture to boring modern office lounge. Not everything needs to be updated for current trends.
My college did this. It might have been due to bedbugs. They swapped the cozy built in furniture with this weird vinyl stuff. Bugs can’t get into the seams.
Waiting for this…
“Two golden menus!”
Hooters is gone. This isn’t off the table.
In addition to moving away from marketing directly to children, the reason a lot of fast foot restaurants are rebranding to look like grey cubes is to make the buildings more generic and therefore more valuable as commercial real estate.
We’ve all seen the local Mexican restaurant that definitely used to be a Pizza Hut. This is to avoid that.
That sounds like the commercial real estate version of cancer to me, but I’m no expert in that field. I can see you’re right, though. It’s up there with motel art and off-white walls.
McDonald’s specifically is famously a real estate company that happens to serve burgers on the side. The corporation owns all of the land that its franchises are sitting on, so they can park a restaurant on it and sell it for a profit after the land appreciates in value.
Wheels within wheels within wheels…
That, and they want customers GONE. Eating in take space. People who come, get food, and leave are their favorites because it increases throughput.
When I talk about how much I miss the 90s McDonalds, I’m mostly complaining about the loss of a third space. My parents would go to McDonalds so we had a safe, climate-controlled, indoor play space, and we could spend hours there for the price of something off the dollar menu.
I don’t know of anywhere comparable these days. Anything indoors is going to be expensive, you have to get the city to unlock the local hoops, the cops start asking questions if you just want to hang out with friends, and if you have too many friends they make you get a permit to use the public park.
Discovery Zone, man. I actually feel bad for the kids that never got to experience Discovery Zone. Lasted for like 2 years. It apparently failed because they had a mountain of debt (all those plastic tubes are capital intensive buildouts) and adults had to sit around while their kids played.
I feel like if you made it work like a gym membership for your kids, and had something for adults to do off to the side, you might be able to make the numbers work.
Library? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Libraries are basically the only remaining third space, but they don’t fill the same need as the original commentor. Libraries don’t have places for kids to run around, be noisy, and climb things. That would be awesome though
And the right+libertarians want to destroy libraries too.
Some do. My library has a play area set up for littles and another area set up for infants. On Saturdays they have a sing along story hour thing, and other events like that throughout the week. We also have plenty of local parks with playground equipment. No free place with indoor slides and ball pits though like McDonald’s used to have.
Libraries don’t have playgrounds, and don’t allow food, drink, or birthday parties with friends.
Actually a lot of libraries do events. They have separate areas for it
Whaat, my library barely has computers.
