The Harbinger of the Dystopia

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • passepartout@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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 was there more often (or at all) when i was younger.

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  • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I also read that cars turnes 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.

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fair point! I entirely agree with that perspective in other areas. If we’re using this as an example, then I understand, but I actually think this is one example where the change is a tangibly good thing.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Interesting take. Maybe they should be designed like an art gallery of various medical office styles. Kids would hate that.

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d like to change the order of the meme

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    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.

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• ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJVj3vp-lho

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That, and they want customers GONE. Eating in take space. People who come, get food, and leave are their favorites because it increases throughput.

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• HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We used to have the only McDonald’s (that I know of) that was in a building designed by Eiffel.

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  They “modernised” it last year.

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  • blackris@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wow, which piece of shit did they bribe for that? They completely destroyed the interior of the building. Isn’t there any heritage protection?

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    From beautiful 19th century architecture to boring modern office lounge. Not everything needs to be updated for current trends.

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    • DrSoap@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• JordanZ@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Waiting for this…

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Two golden menus!”

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    • JordanZ@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Library? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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    • thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Libraries don’t have playgrounds, and don’t allow food, drink, or birthday parties with friends.

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Instead of McCafe, it should be “McSoylent”.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Excellent suggestion. Here you go:

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  • gingersaffronapricat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Would you like a 64 oz McEnergy with your McSoylent?

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “I’ve exhausted my monthly ration allowance for McEnergy, so I’ll have to pass today.”

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  www.sighthound-studio.com/blog/…/simon-stalenhag

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Thanks! I might get a print. Those are cool.

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• Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s this a picture of kids growing older¿?

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    You may have a future in marketing.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The food is also going to be shit like bugs or lab-made pink paste.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Soylent Green didn’t test well with consumers, so we fed it to bugs and made Soylent Pink.

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• atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The 2000s was perfect

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    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.

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• gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The order needs to be reversed. People don’t really read from the bottom up.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    You’re right. I just didn’t feel like chopping the original meme and stitching it back together. I just made my little addition to the top. I guess that did make the post a little…shitty.

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “You are in McDonald’s. Consume and exit.”

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No kidding. Not just them either. I know it’s a cultural thing in US restaurants, but I feel like I’m being rushed out the door. I know on the surface it’s a having respect for a person’s time thing, but it feels like an eating contest sometimes.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      depends how they do it. Nothing says “we’re a legit chinese restaurant” more than getting the “fuck off oranges” when you’re done.

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  More like hambinger

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Damn, I wish I’d thought of that.

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  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The harburgler of doom. Robble robble!

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• twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Welcome to McDonald’s, the All-American Restaurant, papers please

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

    You laugh, but a cashless society means ID’ing oneself with every transaction.

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  • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A couple of minutes in Dystopika, annnnnd…

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  80s : Pizza hut

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I miss it every day. That salad bar. The cups. The lamps. I wonder what things of today I’ll miss in 40 years.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Being alive. 😉

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That salad bar. The cups. The lamps.

      My god, it even has a drinks fountain.

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• RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  McDonalds: Fuck you I’m eating! / Home of the Extra Bigass Fries

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I was so sure that movie was hyperbole.

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• rakete@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Adapting to their growing customers

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s the hauntingly predatory nature I was struggling to portray.

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, it’s been harbinged. We’re in it.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I feel a little cheated. I was supposed to get a cool cyberpunk hacking machine. All I have is a Flipper Zero and a bunch of debt.

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• inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The French branch puts some effort in it, usually they look like this Image

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  • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I saw that in America I’d think it used to be a Starbucks.

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And god knows McDonald’s wouldn’t want to be confused with inferior coffee.

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  • teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Looks about the same in Sweden. Wood panels with green accents together with the golden arches

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  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same(ish) here in the Netherlands. The fact that the near vicinity isn’t entirely asphalt and concrete, due to there not being 300 parking spaces for a fast food place, probably helps it not feel like a Nazi bunker.

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• Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, I wouldn’t say no to a brutalist McDonald’s.

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  • glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would, but I’m rejecting the mc d’s part not the brutalist part.

    brutalist architecture is fucking cool.

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    • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s fair.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  needs to change the sign and logo to be more brutalist as well

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’re entirely right, but you might be writing cheques my 5-year-old phone can’t cash.

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• pawnfuture@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It should be a hole underground.

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• thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The soon one makes sense 'cause of global warming. We don’t be able to do it like the good old times.

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• UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ahhh gotta love the brutalist architecture.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just insert the mcnuggets tube into your throat, sir, and the credits will be deducted from your daily quota

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• ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Brutalist fast food restaurants? Don’t threaten me with a good time. Fuckin love me some brutalism

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• itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  McNormandy opens June 2026

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• cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was born in the early '80s. The 2000s picture was what my McDonald’s always looked like throughout my childhood. I’ve never seen a McDonald’s that looked like the '90s pic.

  The 2020 pic shows current McDonald’s, but they changed to that sometime in the mid-2010s.

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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