this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ahem, not marketing to kids is bad?

Nah, bottom is better. Attracting kids to get the habit of eating unhealthy isn't.

[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This isn't about McDonald's this is about society. All the colour and excitement has gone, McDonald's is just one of the casualties.

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[–] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The playpen was nasty af tho

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

I remember as a kid being in one, then a baby in there pissed like twice the amount of piss that their entire body could even displace from a tub. The parent collected the baby and left without saying anything to anyone. The thing then smelled like piss for the next two years until they renovated to the mccafe boring design and just got rid of the play area.

[–] psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Architecture in the Soviet Union

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

This is literally Dallas, Texas, USA.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Why should garbage unhealthy "food" be marketed to children though?

[–] DerdWurst@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

When will people stop eating that garbage.....?(probably never)

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

It's getting too expensive so more are quitting now than ever.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I stopped when I got old enough to realize the only thing I actually liked about McDonalds was the play place.

Now I give it a try like once every 3-4 years to remind myself how much it sucks.

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[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I really miss the unhinged topiary that used to be outside of every fast food restaurant when I was a kid.

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[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Looks like they changed their target group.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In both cases it's millennials. It's even called "millennial grey."

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[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I'm just surprised, looking at comments here, how many people here belong to the formerly targeted group.

[–] magnetichuman@fedia.io 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think their target group is exactly the same, they just aged a bit

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[–] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

Just more proof of the efficiencies of Capitalism

[–] eldain@feddit.nl 7 points 1 day ago

Looks like their customers have grown up and they tried to follow suit and became boring adults.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Ronald McDonald is a capitalist.

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