Wow this is terrible and also cherry on top ai created sign 100%
Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take
Submitted 1 day ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/72f8e228-c64a-4f67-ae44-2170e9896b61.jpeg
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Squatcher@piefed.social 1 day ago
daggermoon@piefed.world 1 day ago
What makes you think it’s AI?
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Look at the text on the beer can. It’s gibberish.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Like other commenter said, its more a general vibe.
Its the blocky graphic on either side with smaller text labeled modern squared off graphics in the middle. Its the font. Its the spacing. Its got the same general flow of the dozens of AI generated websites I’ve seen.
Its too cleanly unclean.
redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 7 hours ago
It doesn’t look like it was designed by hand. There’s no meaning or sense of planning in the design.
NathanDerWeise@feddit.org 1 day ago
The “emphasis whiskers” are a dead giveaway. Plus I’ve seen multiple AI generated posters with this exact color/font scheme. You’re gonna keep seeing it over and over now that you know what to look for, unfortunately.
sidebro@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I also think it’s AI. It’s not something in particular I can point out that makes me think that, it’s more an impression. An impression that comes from having seen a ton of slop.
ech@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The style of the text is a big giveaway to me. Generated text has gotten a lot better (ie usually legible), but it’s pretty much always that same block letters that aren’t quite perfect enough to be a typeface, but also not designed well enough to be made by hand.
The general format of this one is also fits closely to a lot of other generated posters I’ve seen (some examples: lemmy.ca/…/2d35f3bf-bc05-4971-8c8d-9e69fe857bde.p…). It’s hard to describe, but hopefully you can see what we’re talking about.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 day ago
The meaningless feature section in the middle of the poster.
stopforgettingit@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You still have to be 21 to buy NA beer. Even if its 0.0, the stores will get in trouble for not carding.
Rooster326@programming.dev 15 hours ago
Why doe?
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Rates of alcohol use and addiction have been decreasing.
This is just getting them started early like cigarettes always tried to do.
stopforgettingit@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ok, I did the digging on this because you asked. I actually just assumed because I was carded for NA beer that this was a law.
In the US, federally it is not illegal to sell less than 0.5% without carding. But many states treat NA beer the same as normal beer and they require the person be over 21. In the states that do not require 21 and over for NA beer many (most) stores and bars will still card because its better safe than sorry when it comes to ABC and losing your license.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
The real reason is you don’t. Not in every state. Some defined it by a strict measurable standard. Others defined it to close off what’s depicted in this image. Others defined it to describe what was banned as oppressed to what you measure, so that if you’re selling beer you can’t sell it to kids. No checking labels, no “well, it’s my home brew so I don’t know”. Is it beer? You can’t sell it to kids.
The last one is almost funny because you can almost feel the confusion about why the concept of non-alcoholic beer even exists.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Eliminating reasonableness is the first step in creating an abusive legal system.
SippyCup@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Because it’s beer. Generally the way laws are written in the us, they call out beer, wine, and spirits, or some such wording, not being available to under 21s.
Laws generally do not mention alcohol content of whatever it is you’re buying.
Vice is difficult to regulate, and laws surrounding vice are imperfect
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
The same reason why vapes are considered “tobacco products” despite not containing any tobacco and considered “flavored” if they contain any flavor (or no flavor) besides “tobacco” flavor (which is actually just caramel flavoring since vape juice has no flavor by default). It’s because politicians are stupid and short sighted and most of these regulations make little sense outside of government control.
JAPHacake@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
The sign is AI generated.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
makes me question if Budweiser did this or if the store did
s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Budweiser probably did it. In every grocery store I’ve seen, the beer vendors set up all the displays.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It says on the bottle not to be consumed by those under legal drinking age.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This shit should be illegal zero alcohol or not we should not allow advertisement of beer to children. Where the fuck protect the children groups on this shit?
protist@retrofed.com 1 day ago
The “protect the children” groups have federal cover now to actively harm children, which is what they always wanted to do anyway
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
German here. I’m absolutely flabbergasted that this incomprehensible opinion has 20 upvotes.
0% alcohol is 0% alcohol. What the fuck are you talking about?
thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
There used to be candy that looked like cigarettes and soft drinks made to look like a champagne bottles, and at some point we decided that was not a good idea.
I drink and I smoke, but I also think it’s not a good idea to get children used to those things. You can drink responsibly but there’s no quantity of alcohol that does zero damage, and the less we get young people used to them the better.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So, there are these things called candy cigarettes. They are candy shaped like cigarettes. Despite simply being things like bubble gum or chocolate, it turns out that people who ate them as kids are about twice as likely to smoke real cigarettes as adults. This has resulted in them being banned as advertising tobacco products to children in a good number of countries. This add for nonalcoholic beer specifically saying that minors can buy it can easily be argued to be the same kind of thing, with the same kind of legal response. If consuming non-alcoholic beer as a minor results in significantly higher rates of alcohol consumption as an adult, then ads for non-alcoholic beer that target children, like the one shown, might be worth a ban.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I’m also German but nobody should advertise harmful drugs to children.
Vrtrx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What does you being German have anything to do with it? Completely ignoring that no, being able to legally advertise it as 0% doesn’t mean it has 0%, in Germany non-alcoholic beer is still beer and doesn’t get advertised to children. That would be fucking insane to do.
creamfresh@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Absolute fringe opinion even in Germany. Most shops and bars refuse to serve 0.0 to teens below legal drinking age, ads also don’t target them.
osanna@lemmy.vg 22 hours ago
Lmao. They don’t ACTUALLY give a fuck about children.
MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de 1 day ago
Why? Because it is also ~0%sugar? Ban ads for coke instead.
TopsickPilgrim@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
let’s just ban all ads. That’d make me happy.
blackberry28@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
This is very likely form the US where u need to be 21 to buy beer. So even a 20 year old would be a child to you? This is dumb af.
stopforgettingit@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
This store is stupid for making this sign and they can get in quite a bit of trouble for this with ABC. NA beer is still 21 and over, its not “beer for kids”
SteveLeo@piefed.social 16 hours ago
What a desperate piece of signage
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
“Great for drivers!” If you still want to smell like alcohol when you get pulled over but without having drank any.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Wtf is the point??
Is someone out there drinking Budweiser…for the taste?
froh42@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is there a difference between Budweiser and having sex in a canoe? Nope. Both are fucking close to water.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Usually you’d start that joke with ‘what do x and y have in common’
Starting with what’s the difference works when there’s a difference. Like this, what’s the difference between a woman in a confessional and a woman in a bathtub? One has hope in her soul. ’
ech@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I have a parent who will only drink “lite” beer. I do not understand it. It takes like shitty water.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
In my experience it’s because they’re drinking 18 of them and don’t want to be sloppy drunk after 10-12 hours. I prefer the more direct method of hard liquor to be more efficient but I get the thought process.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s to beer what LaCroix is to fruit juice.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Maybe they’re keeping a better balance of hydration to alcohol for their old brain, and not having a fruity or sweet taste but not boring plain water as well. Lite beer can occasionally be refreshing. Although personally I’d rather pour half a beer into a cup of ice than drink most light beers.
quarkquasar@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The amount of adult stuff being deliberately pointed at children has increased quite a lot over even just the past couple years, because the corporations know that no one is going to come after them for it.
Hell, at my work, we replaced a court-ordered anti-smoking sign with a giant wall of cigarettes, so that we could make room for a bunch of new fruity flavors of nicotine pouches so that kids can become new addicts.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 17 hours ago
You didn’t like the smooth draw of a candy cigarette as a kid?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
I can almost taste the chalk now.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
If you can die in an industrial accident at 14, you should be able to enjoy the great taste of beer after work - even if you still have to wait for the alcohol.
Dingo_Kidneys@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
It’s always been the goal to get children consuming products. It’s a known function of humans that they usually stick to whatever they were doing when they were kids well into adulthood. It’s harder to convince an adult with pre-established routines and preferred products to switch over.
You’re right though that it’s getting pretty blatant now, but that’s to be expected as we dismantle food and drug regulations.
cosmos8188@leminal.space 15 hours ago
Not just the children - under age also includes teenagers and young adults in this case. Honestly, indoctrination has always been the case, since there is a push that drugs are harmful for all, why not indoctrinate the youngest of all: children. By the time they grow up to be teens they will be addicts.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
I suspect this is legal because “under aged” in the US doesnt explicitly mean “under 18”, since the legal drinking age is 21.
cosmos8188@leminal.space 15 hours ago
To be fair, under aged also doesnt mean child.
njordomir@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Nonalcoholic beer could very well be a healthier choice than cola.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 11 hours ago
Yes. The sugary cola. The diet version is not as bad as they say, though
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Looks like a ChatGPT poster
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It is a chatgpt poster
Matty_r@programming.dev 22 hours ago
Yep it always does those stupid lines on either side
Monte_Crisco@thelemmy.club 17 hours ago
Now we just need a platform for kids to gamble away their crayon colors so that they’re ready to do the same with their very first paycheck.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Just what we always wanted.
The enjoyment of beer without all that pesky euphoria.
daychilde@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Alcohol never did anything for me except make me sleepy. And now with kidney failure I can’t have social anyway.
I keep na beer because I like the taste and probably every month or so have one with pizza or something.
Even cheap beer is fine.
bangupjobasusual@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I wonder how they will advertise their grape flavored beverage…
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They saw that younger people aren’t drinking nearly as much, so they thought this might be a solution? Get kids used to the flavor earlier?
Sadly, I’m sure there are plenty of shitty parents who would buy this for their kids.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think there’s many parents that would buy this for their kids. I grew up knowing friends parents would would just straight up buy you actual beer. But knowing them, if they saw this, I imagine them saying “Then what’s the fucking point??? Pussyass bullshit!” While at the same time putting 2-24packs in the cart, and then saying “For you and your little friends when they get here.”
BigBenis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I still get carded often when I buy NA beer. Often the cashier will even acknowledge that it’s NA but say that they still have to card me.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I always thought it was because there is alcohol in it still. NA beer I thought was classified as .5% or less. So legally they are still regulated.
Alcohol free is 0%.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Fruit juice naturally has around 0.5% alcohol. It’s just a side effect of wet sugar.
There’s no legal federal limit, it’s all state law. Some states go by that 0.5%. others go by a definition that includes “things sold as beer” essentially.
"You are holding a container. It is labeled beer. Do not give it to anyone under 21.”Other times stores just assume and card everyone because it’s waaay easier than nuance and you’re not legally required to sell non-alcoholic beverages to minors.
robin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
They say “contains less than 0.5%” because that’s the cutoff that makes something legally beer. It more than likely has none, much of the time. That’s just the law (US):
0.5% it’s beer and subject to laws < 0.5% it’s not beer, technically a soda or something
So they label it as <0.5% simply to show that it’s in the latter category
But the grocers just do whatever. Hell, half the brands don’t have required nutritional info (beer doesn’t need it, soda does) but the real problem is that:
The regulatory agencies are captured and don’t do shit anymore. TECHNICALLY the FDA should be stepping in and making them put full nutritional information on all the brands of NA “beer” and making sure it is labeled and sold like a soda.
But the larger companies that sell it are just misclassifying it and creating problems to be as lazy and risk avoidant as possible.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
Apple juice can contain around 0.5% alcohol though?
robin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
They say “contains less than 0.5%” because that’s the cutoff that makes something legally beer. It more than likely has none, much of the time. That’s just the law (US):
0.5% it’s beer and subject to laws < 0.5% it’s not beer, technically a soda or something
So they label it as <0.5% simply to show that it’s in the latter category
But the grocers just do whatever. Hell, half the brands don’t have required nutritional info (beer doesn’t need it, soda does) but the real problem is that:
The regulatory agencies are captured and don’t do shit anymore. TECHNICALLY the FDA should be stepping in and making them put full nutritional information on all the brands of NA “beer” and making sure it is labeled and sold like a soda.
But the larger companies that sell it are just misclassifying it and creating problems to be as lazy and risk avoidant as possible.
filcuk@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
I quite enjoy ‘Supermalt’, a malt drink with NO alcohol. It has a large warning for 18+ on the shelves at Tesco, yet I’m not carded on checkout.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
I think a lot of it is due to stupid shop policies. I have been refused sale of a teaspoon for not having ID.
Jiral@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Not only 0% alcohol, also 0% taste and 0% beer. There are great alcohol free beers out there btw. This ain’t it.
Blanka@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
If you try them in Europe they are great. And even there underage kids are not allowed to buy them
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
What’s this actually taste like? I figure it’s basically what they added to bud light to make bud select if it wasn’t just water. Bud light - 110 calories, 4.2% alc. Select - 55 calories 2.1% alcohol.
I remember looking at it when it came out and thinking they filled half the bottle with carbonated water and sold it for slightly more.
foggy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Raw_Toast@fedinsfw.app 1 day ago
I raise you, Kids Extacy. WCGVqpsIVIOCagD.webp
echodot@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
I don’t know if this is a hot take or not but alcohol free beer is pointless. I don’t believe anybody actually drinks beer for the taste because it objectively doesn’t taste all that great, people like beer because of the association it has with having a good time with your friends, nobody drinks it as a refreshing beverage.
The fact that beer doesn’t actually taste all that good is why people invented cocktails.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
Not true at all. I love the taste of beer alone, AND in combination with certain foods. Not all beer of course, they make so many different kinds that it would be impossible to love them all.
I’m not going through the trouble and expense of cooking a steak if there isn’t going to be a beer accompanying it.
ICastFist@programming.dev 18 hours ago
So, just shitty barley tea being advertised by ai slop
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
The alcohol is the only reason to choke down the horsepiss that is beer; 0 alcohol beer’s only consumer base are self-loathing masochists.
Lasherz12@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Seems fake. It’s also not legal AFAIK to sell non alcoholic beer since it’s still got some alcohol in it. Then again I guess vanilla extract and mouth wash does too.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I live in California and they card me at my local grocery store if I buy 0% beer.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
We have purchased the N/A Corona from time to time. I still have to flash my ID to purchase N/A drinks.
richardisaguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, teach them kids to drink from a young age, i’m sure it will be good for them
mufkin@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Fucking yuck
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
jesus christ this is blatant child advertising and child harm. Fuck Budweiser.
Leviathan@fedinsfw.app 20 hours ago
I went to a microbrewery/restaurant recently that had kid’s beer in the menu. It was just juices and stuff, but it still felt fucking scummy.
frunch@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
The AI slop used to generate the ad poster contained a nice suggestion for an alternative name for this crap: Image
ours@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It’s evolving and recognizes shit beer.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Badweiser is accurate.