HOW MCDONALD'S GOT RID OF KIDS. || slow start React
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
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McDonald's is probably the perfect example of why I don't really feel modern advertising.
All the marketing is extremely focused on "it's all about you!"
But the aesthetic is boring and annoying to me. So it just makes me think "I dunno who they're talking about, but it's definitely not me."
Facts. I agree. 💯
McDonald's Japan has some cool stuff. They had some Japanese music I like. Like Ado and Ano. I still wouldn't eat there. But the commercials were cool.
The phrase “Lowest Common Denominator” springs to mind
@@Jordan-Ramses Yeah but Americans said those were racist so westerners don't get to have cool shit like that.
@DistractedGlobeGuy Those aren't Americans those are Communists.
In the first SmugAlana video I saw there was a moment where some weird thing happened and someone spilled chicken nuggets or something and Alana yelled "Nooooooo my nuggies!!" I've been hooked ever since lol
Lana has a way with words, they contain the funny
Oh hey, that's how I found her to 😂
@@muuhnkin4611 do you remember what that video was? I wanted to go back and watch that part but I can't remember what video it was.
@@colinmackay92 I don't remember either q.q it was the vid with the kid in the car, who gave one out and then spilled the whole box on the floor,
but damn I don't know from what vid that was
@@muuhnkin4611 lol that's all I remember too! Oh well. I'll find it eventually.
I hate the addiction corporates and their kin seem to have towards "minimalism". Minimalist this, minimalist that, everything becoming so "minimalist" that it's become bland. I swear these corporate types would look at russian blocs and cream like they were seeing Eden.
Meanwhile they never "minimialize" their bonuses every year to the corpos.
"Supersize me" was a big fat lie, there are absolutely no records of anything he suposedly ate or where he went to, also he lied saying he was in a "good spot" healthwise while he was actually a raging alcoholic for most of his life and quit cold turkey during filming, its really an odd coincidence that most of the symptoms he reported at the end of the film happen to look like Alchohol Withdrawal symptoms isnt it? also im sorry but he supposedly only ate 1 sandwich and hashbrowns every meal, thats nowhere near enough fat content to actually cause you obesity if you're also maintaining proper exercise; TLDR: the film lied the whole way through
No one cares because the message is what mattered.
Ronald? is that you?
@@primary2630 What a lie?
It kinda blows that the family isn't as valued as it once was.
Especially in general media and society.
True. One thing I am grateful for is that in the 90's, there was a bigger focus on family and kids being kids. Obviously there were still issues but it was simpler times and perhaps a better balance of things compared to how they were before or after.
I think it's less that the family is valued less now and more that the corporations are more open about how little they've always valued the family. That or we're old enough now to see it.
It is in Japan
11:05 All I'm gonna say about Supersize Me is that the documentary, in hindsight, is highly dishonest as McDonalds never once said that you should eat McDonalds for every meal, let alone supersize it every time. The documentary is shifting the responsibility of healthy eating and portion control from the consumer to the corporation itself.
Just cause they say "Would you like to supersize it its only another dollar?" doesn't mean you have to do it. Maybe theirs an argument that they shouldn't portray it as a "cost saving" measure or a "deal" in the consumers favor but simply asking "would you like to supersize it?" isn't wrong.
However, of you look at how the portions are handled in America compared to places like Japan, it is still fairly bad. Just not that bad.
@@OmniscientWarrior oh for sure we Americans have allowed Big Sugar to oversaturate all of our foods and we need to practice portion control and the nutrients and calories on the boxes need to be more easy to understand.
When you're so old that you remember the old McDonald's cartoon, computer games, and plates/buckets.
They don't even necessarily have to be "Kid centric" just make them a fun inviting place to sit down and chill while you eat and not so corporate grey.
One I went to before it was remodeled had a Motorcycle center piece and it was awesome!
But that wouldn't help them push the systematic demoralisation of the working classes.
But that would lead to the peasants fomenting and that's a no no. And also they'd take up valuable time and space from paying customers if they hung around.
That's why they have Mc Cafe
@@Taabituubino shit lol
It’s surprising how iconic supersize me still is even though it’s been proven to have been super misleading. Basically the main dude was a huge alcoholic. Most of his failing health and feeling miserable was caused by alcohol withdrawals and damage that was already present before the documentary from years of drinking excessively.
I wasn't aware of that! I thought it was weird that the fast food affected his health that rapidly! Well, I'm glad I beat alcoholicism 13 years ago!
@@TheZephyrsWind he kept the alcoholism under wraps basically until he died and the people close to him mentioned it. Its also worth noting that he had spent quite a while as a vegan before starting Supersize Me, so by coincidence it was also as dramatic of a shift in diet as you could get.
Supersize me had a few things wrong, but it's not like everything was inaccurate. Sure he was an alcoholic, but thinking he would've ended up with all the health problems he had with or without the fast food is crazy.
@@nujevad28 sure but the supposed damage done to his body impossibly fast is what made the documentary blow up so much. Everybody already knew fast food wasn’t healthy so it wouldn’t have been interesting without the misleading crap. Unhealthy food is a long term health issue not a fast one. No amount of McDonald’s could do anywhere close to that damage so quickly. Response documentaries proved you can lose weight eating fast food if you count calories.
@@nujevad28 if anything he proved more about eating 4000+ calories a day than he did about fast food specifically. It was a complete farce of a documentary in that it was both intentionally misleading and didn't hold itself to any scientific standards(such as isolating your variable).
A lot of this is just a response to growing pressure towards not market fast food towards kids and avoid the liability of playplaces.
I remember a McDonald's that had N64 kiosk, and one of them was set up with Majora's Mask. Since they were set up to reset after a short time, no real progress could be made (at least not by kids without Speedrun strats), but it was memorable simply for existing.
Funny thing is, Japan is still promoting McDonalds in a very family-embracing way wit really well-done and wholesome anime ads ranging from a family of three cozying up together around the table eating McDonalds to a multi-part anime commercial about a new girl being hired and her sempai teaching her while also trying to better herself with an interview for another job.
Customers don't deserve nice things. It's cheaper to remove stuff people can break when they throw a tantrum over having to wait twenty seconds for food. Making eating in a miserable experience, then you only have to put up with the entitled assholes on the drive-thru.
Also your mom was right about the play pits, cleaning them out was awful, they'd be full of piss and rotten food. Because kids are disgusting and wet themselves when they get excited in a ball pit, rather than go to the toilet.
When I woke up today I did not expect to experience a fox girl v-tuber telling someone in Russian about the Bloods, Crips and gang signs.
(and yes, my local McDonald's here in Europe does have children's parties)
I always love watching the intro because it's honestly calming before the shitstorm that is the video lol
The calm before the piss storm 😂
Weirdly it's these businesses like McD's and Chuck E Cheese modernizing that makes it unappealing to kids.
Entertainment places ripped out all their arcade machines and event room and replaced them with large versions of mobile games, and theyve made their buildings look so depressing that I would never take my kids to them
When I worked at McDonald's we literally had people calling in asking if they could buy the promotional uniform shirts we had for the Travis Scott or Balvin meals. Fyi their meals weren't even good deals, you got nothing cheaper at all than normal, closest we got is that in one the drink was subbed for ice cream which we normally couldn't do.
"Damn, you must be rich". Heck, McDonald's and local competitors were places where you went when you were hungry but had a handful of change in coins in your pocket. Is it that expensive these days? I haven't eaten fast food hamburgers in a decade, so this reaction came as a bit of a surprise.
That's Super Size Me movie was a load of b.s. of course what happened to him in the film would happen if all you ever ate every damn day was McDonald's.
Alternate title [Alana dating herself for about 40 minutes]
I'm old af and I remember most of this stuff. Play places, smoking sections, those little metal McAshtrays, nuggets used to have dark meat pieces, all packaging was styrofoam ... man I'm old, might live forever because I survived the bacteria infested play places.
It felt like McDs grew up with me. It was kinda surreal as a kid watching it get more sanitized as I grew up. Did a GameCube kiosk. 26:30 as a kid we were allowed to play in a play place… Once. Because we showed our mom a funny hair nugget
Eww! Hmm, I went to a bunch as a kid in the 90s, but I don't recall going in the play places more than 2 times. Maybe there was a local news story & my parents pulled the plug?
i never really questioned why they changed their target audience, but i also think it might be because they roped in a lot of kids back when they did this kind of marketing, and now they are older, so they are just trying to keep them roped in
I remember the McDonald's Ronald McDonald adventures VHS tapes.
In fact, the guy who does the old man voice in skyrim was the same guy who would advertise them.
I had at least 2 of them, grimace land and the one with the mad scientist that tried to turn everyone into babies so he could be the tallest.
Millennial with McDonalds is like Boomers with cocaine. It was all fun and games when you were doing it, but now that you've grown up no one else can have fun anymore
True! I was born in the late 80s, so this feels strange.
Honestly, I’d trade McDonald’s for the cocaine.
Supersize Me was such a gross misrepresentation of literally everything it tried to display.
Yes, turns out, if you only eat McDonald's for a whole month WHILE BINGE DRINKING OFF-SCREEN AND NOT DOING ANY ACTIVITY you'll feel like shit.
The guy was an alcoholic since he was 13 lmaoooo~
Ironically I think there was another guy that did something similar with Taco Bell but ended up being fine (not a paragon of fitness but not morbidly obese either) cause he still got a normal amount of exercise and didn't binge or drink off camera.
@@joshuawells7415 The fitness instructor Mark and Ethan met during Unus Annus actually did exactly that with Jack in the Box. He ate only fast food for for a month but kept up his workout routine and activity level and he was fine. A little bit worse off than normally of course but he was alright. I don't remember his name though but he was really charming too.
@@ectothermic As long as you're keeping track of calorie intake and exercising the only real concern is micro nutrients and those don't become symptomatic problems that immediately.
All Americans are alcoholics though so he was still representative of the population.
The Burger King near where I lived not only used to have a "Play Place" area, but also a huge water fountain. Both were eventually removed when the restaurant was being renovated during the pandemic. Now it's just as bland as all the rest.
idk why but the idea of a Russian McDonald's is so absurdly funny to me
"Babushka, I want capitalist clown meat"
Oh god, Travis Scott. I work at a McDonald's, have for six years, and when the Travis Scott craze rolled around, that was over half of the sandwiches we had to make. It got to the point I started calling them Travisty Burgers.
"Oh, another two Travisty's, what a surprise. Oops, my bad, it's actually five." I was not sorry to see it go.
For real I almost opted out when I heard "Virtual McDonnalds Birthday Party" Oh my Gosh what!? 😰
I can remember several years back my hometown removed the Ronald statue from the playground and I can still remember giving him high fives as a kid back in the early 00s.
McDonalds is not worth the price. They charging like they're food is being made by 3 star chefs lol
3 outa 10 stars is still too much
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No...Please no Alana. I need to pay rent-
Don't make me go to McDonald's.
I could see Hololive getting a Mcdonalds collab eventually.
I was about to say "where tf did this come from" and then alana said it in the video lol
I hate how serious “fast food it taking itself nowadays. They think they’re so good they became expensive.
Yeah, there's basically no reason to get fast food anymore. It's just as expensive as higher quality restaurant food, and you can usually just order restaurant food ahead of time for pick up.
McDonald's was never cheap in Eastern Europe... only rich kids had birthday parties at McDonald's where I grew up...
Mmm mc shy lilly meal
Comes with 2 big macs, 10 piece nugget a small extra thick oreo milkshake
It's insane how tiny she is with how much sloppy greasy shit she eats every single stream. She's got that Tarrare metabolism.
Reading the title of this video I had a mental image of the future scene in Terminator but with all the terminators replaced with Ronald McDonnald and all the children were the resistance fighters.
Not those Serbian guerrillas with the accordion?
I think in the near future concerning those branded fast food buildings that look like highways or banks.
I think those will slowly start to condense into multi-francises like how Subway and DQ can be in the same building.
Gas stations might even adopt it and put a pump there as well.
The McMousey burger would be a "Mexican" burger with pink hot sauce.
A McNazuna meal is an empty plastic tray.
If you buy a McFroot it'll be sent to your wife's boyfriend.
People who are into NTR: *sees the McFroot* I'll take your entire stock!
The McMousey was immediately recalled by the FDA, and _not_ because of the Pink Sauce.
The kids they used to advertise to, are all single Moms and Dads getting their kids Happy Meals for dinner every night on the way home. They realize that and know the adult will spend around $12 for their dinner as well. There are McDonalds adults that spend bank similar to Disney adults. Nostalgia and childhood memories are the strongest advertising strategy. Cheers!!
My family after I die in 2089: "He's in a better place"
Me, in hell, with fiery vengeance that burns hotter than the flames around me: "WHERE IS MORGAN SPURLOCK?!"
when i was a kid we had a mcdonalds nearby that had a mcdonalds themed pinball machine. loved that thing
That sounded awesome
The couple places I went to as a kid they had Nintendo 64 game station that had legend of Zelda demo. Another had a demo disc with PlayStation 1 games like Spyro and other games at the time. Think this was 2000 to 2003 though
This week may have sucked but eating mcdonalds and hearing Alana shout "Ronald McDonald" & "happy meal" makes it worth it.
Fun fact, my local mcdonalds used to have this log cabin you could eat inside that led into the play place, along with a few tvs that had some catroons and other stuff on them.
*Thats all gone now*
And whats even worse is a entire generation is growing up, and never knew the McDonald's used to have that....I feel old....
Fun fact my city has an old McDonald restaurant that unfortunately got rid of the red roof but that restaurant is one of the only McDonald’s that I have seen that has a big old neon sign of a chef walking down a street.
22:30 there was playgrounds in russian mcdonald's (at least in moscow ofc) i was like 9 y\o (so it was in like 2006-2007) they was rare AF but they were in fact real
Literally just have one worker clean it daily. 15 minutes, in and out, done.
my parents tell me about a time when a mcdonalds hamburger was $0.50 and to ad fries and a drink was an additional $0.15
The only fast food I can cheaply eat at is Sonic. Everyone else thinks their shit is gourmet when it tastes worse than ever.
Bro, atleast you get cheap end of it, if you think it is bad in america just imagine the price increases outside of america! Like in here its 10$ per stomach now and familiy combos are at 40$. So yea your right, … except popeyes they get a pass since there good
Meanwhile, in Japan: Ronald is performing _U.N. Owen Was Her_ and Colonel Sanders is a hot bishounen.
_Ronald McDonald Insanity_ was almost sixteen years ago.
@@DistractedGlobeGuy n....no... I don't wanna think about it.
I remember before they “went healthy” with their kids meals and they had gourmet and craft your own burger cause I liked to combine the Mcchicken and fillet o fish together but now they don’t let you combine 2 different meats 😢
speaking of mcdonalds toys. my neph got a book in his happy meal and i took a look....... it was 2 stories, one about that black woman that refused to sit in the back of the bus and the other about a woman wanting to vote.
fun piece of reading for the kids. kids dont care.
McDonald's France came up with a brilliant scheme lately.
Since they had a really big problem with families being mugged by suburban thugs in their restaurants, they used the green-washing excuse of changing all of their tableware from single use plastic to reusable silicone cups and glass bowls. Because those disgusting things are barely washed and steamed between customers, and with the inherent risk of giving soda in a glass to little kids, the last families have deserted their restaurants. As a result, their take-out sales have sky-rocketed and they use even more plastic containers than before!
I remembered to have a artifact of Ronald in a bench in mcdonalds use to go there a ton, but they removed it sometime later during my childhood
Mine used to have Mac Tonight right in the middle of this huge atrium.
Pretty sure they demolished the building like the week after the first Moonman album was published.
There used to be a McDonalds in my city that had a N64 with Diddy Kong Racing.
The place was tiny and easy to miss.
Sanders may not have expansive lore. But he has a Dating sim and hot vtuber level face
The reason why LeRoy, IL's McDonald's never had a PlayPlace was the franchisee didn't want to pay $500,000 to build it.
There were a couple of incidents of kids going in the play place. Especially ball pits there were stories ( take them with a grain of salt) that some found used needles again stories got no evidence just word of mouth
The movie Fat Head pretty much debunked the conclusions raised in Super Size Me.
Gotta admit, boy this makes me feel old. I have been cutting down on the unhealthy stuff after my lady checkup. While I have an extremely fast metabolism, can eat anything & actually struggle to keep weight on (to a dangerous degree) after being informed I'm pre-diabetic I decided that's a big, bold sign to get my diet under control.
My McDonalds experience was even better bc my uncle would always bring the displays from work and give it to me and my cousins and do y’all remember the Halloween buckets they used to have when u bought them with something else
i remember when i was like 3 (yes i have memories even from when i was 1) ronald macdonald would come to our kindergarten and give out free happy meals (my kindergarten was less than 50 meter's away from one so) and my 9 yr bday was at a mcdonald, hell, when i was 10 my class would go and get a tour behind the counter of the facilities of how mcD operated, we got to see the freezer and shit, was fun
OG Ronald
Me: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Fun fact: In Australia, Maccas now has the Happy Meal aimed at adults.
There is, maybe was( I don't go to Maccas hardly ever and I only get Mac's or flurries), an adult meal in America.
And now I want to listen to "back of the Maccas" by S3RL
They've done that everywhere for years to capture the "self-infantilising Millennial manchild" market demographic.
29:24 Its crazy that McDonalds has so much reach they have locations in both Rohan _and_ the Fangorn Forest.
McDonald's has removed a lot of kid content. I rarely see their mascots and playlands are mostly gone. They really don't have to try to get rid of kids with states like CA having value meals reaching almost 20 bucks there are not going to be that many kids with that kind of daily pocket money so I imagine adults exclusively will be their target customers. I'd just go to a real restaurant as until prices come back down to five bucks for a value meal there really isn't any point of fast food anymore.
We never really had Ronald in Germany when i was a child, but i still knew him. I'm from the start of gen z, by the way.
Same, I remember catching some of the old McDonald episodes. They were almost legends with how little they were mentioned.
The mascots were obviously on the way out even here in the US as far back as I can remember
We had him until the mid 2000 here in our local mecces.
Also Germany, but more the rural part so we were later for the modernization.
Good times when children had their own room, Noone would be annoyed by loud kids.
Also we had a ball pit. Best part 😂
I'm late gen y so you shouldn't be that much younger.
In Japan, Donald McDonald (I've no idea why they changed Ronald's first name for Japan) is still widely known, especially after picking up on the trend of ran ran ruu.
I don't like them no more because I can't get a hash brown and a double cheese burger at the same restaurant (literally 5 bucks I could get 2 mcdoubles, 2 hash bowns and a large iced coffee for YEARS). Also my favorite one had a Gamecube with Double Dash
Dang. Now for three bucks and change you get that bundle of a mcdouble and small fries. That used to get the whole bigmac meal and then some
@@simondeep I can do the same thing soon because of McStarbucks or whatever its called, but its gonna cost me like 20 bucks, a drive across town, and either the hash browns or the burgers being cold. But yea, currently I have to resort to the more mid version of fries on the burger
i have 2 aunts. back in the day they wanted to 1 up eachother for my cousins bdays
one did it at mcdonalds and the other one did it at bk a few weeks later.
as kids we loved bk just because we all got crowns after the cake
KFC's Colonel does have his own fried chicken themed dating sim, so there's that.
And the Spain branch marketing team won't stop posting KFPicasso bullshit all over Twitter.
The first McD’s jingle I ever saw was “Good time, great taste.”
15:57 Boy, do I have some news for you, because guess what corpo is planning to release a couple vtuber models in a near future...
Fill me in, which one?
@@mme725 I'mma be honest, it was months since I posted this so I sorta forgot. But in context I'm gonna guess it was McDonald's themselves that were planning on this.
I'd imagine a MCLana shake would just be a cup of piss and ice
How DARE THEY SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY WHEN THEY DONT EVEN KNOW GRIM. MC Vtuber does sound like it can happen.
"Fast Food" so I have a number of restaurants literally each a single block from my house. A Chinese Restaurant, an Indian Restaurant, a Korean Restaurant, and two Pizza Places. Aside from the Pizza, I can literally get food from them within a minute of ordering cuz they simply cook in volume to begin with.
Two blocks away, there's a Greek Restaurant that does the same. Also an Italian Restaurant, but it's like the Pizza Place, 12-16 minute wait.
Have not been to MacDonalds in about 10 years.
Almost forgot the Japanese Pub next door that I can literally shout out the window at and by the time I make it over there, they have my Sushi and Karaage ready. I have better options than MacD.
I had my 7 year birthday party at McDonalds. That building is now an Irish style pub
Makes you wonder if they are marketing to you, specifically.
Did they change the name to "MacDonaugh's"?
As a 80s/90s kid, McDonald's nostalgia is kind of sad when you see the company now.
I havent gone there in years, and when I do, its normally for breakfast when im traveling.
McD has the best diet Coke...Some locations anyway
9:46 I miss McDonald's land, it wasn't a place you could go to but it was on the TV show, I had all the VHS tapes as a kid. You can guess where I had my birthday in the 90s
McPippa Meal.
Diarrhea and vomiting aren't food poisoning, they're a realistic simulated part of the experience
Earlier in the year I think there was the first anime mcdonalds toy in the UK and it was YuGiOh, I got a dissapointing looking dark magician girl and couldn't be bothered (or confident enough to ask) to collect the rest.
When I worked at McDonald while in school, the play place was the fucking WORST. Cleaning it every night sucked, parents having birthday parties was a nightmare, and at least once a week a homeless man would come in and fall asleep in there
My parents used to take me and my brothers to McDonald's for our birthdays, they even had the paper crowns
Technically, "Where a kid can be a kid" was Showbiz Pizza's slogan. They just kept it when they rebranded everything to Chuck E. Cheese.
"I'm lovin' it" was 2003? I could have sworn it started earlier than that.
McDonald's is still cheap when you compare it to how the price of all food as gone up.
Wait, you still need friends to begin with for these virtual parties? Well, I'm still screwed.
God, how fucking dystopian is a fucking e-birthday party?
The problem with Supersize Me is... it didn't actually prove anything about fast food. Like, it wasn't an experiment in moderate use, it was literally going into it in the worst way possible that is guaranteed to be bad, no matter what you're going for.
This is the first time I've heard Alana speak Russian. Such a majestic language ^ ^
I saw the Travis Scott burger at mcdonalds back in like 2019 or something and i was like ain't that the name of the singer from Maroon 5? I had no idea who it was. Still didn't know who he was until people died at his concerts
I am terrified of the hypothetical McShondo
These reacts really help the workday go by
I had my 10th birthday on the McDonald's party bus (my auntie worked there) literally the only birthday party I ever had and it was awesome!
I had a bday party at a McDonald's but I don't remember how old I was. I didn't even know they had a bus. Freaking scammed
Foods expensive for the price, and all the corners cut makes it so much worse than all its competitions. The hamburger patties are even thinner than the pickle slices they come.
You may mock the concept of McDonald's gift coupons, but it was conceptually the same thing as the giftcards you see for sale in almost every store today.
Not McD's related but there was a pizza hut that had a really cool mini-arcade in an offshoot room.
I remember when my school used to give out tickets for those small personal pizzas for reading.
Fun times, miss those days. Anyway inside that mini-arcade was Mortal Kombat Trilogy or UMK3, a top down bullet fighter jet game and one of those motorcycle games with the bike you get on.
i keep running into history shifts in documentaries that are a result of that stupid "documentary" Supersize Me.
If i didn't know any better...i'd swear that particular domino is somehow responsible for our current reality of misery. >>;
when i lived in south korea for a year., i had to BIKE 10+ miles to get to a mcdonalds.. thats why they are healthier thn we are lmao
around 37:00 - Happy Meals are the original loot boxes
25:24 Yooo, I've never heard Alana speaking russian! Awesome!
The McDonalds near my old joint had an old steam train out the back that you could rent for kids partys before they got rid of it