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    3 months ago

    They already run what seems to be every other post on Reddit, so why not streaming, too.

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        So, you know how Reddit has posts? Well something like 53% of those Reddit posts are posted by chick-fil-a agents for various reasons.

        Ever since they won the chicken sandwich wars of the early 20s they’ve been focused on invading media spaces, often quite aggressively.

        Reddit is essentially a chicken sandwich propaganda wing of the massive chicken chain at this point, still quite a bit of porn though luckily. Can’t say I’m looking forward to chicken sandwich porn 🤷‍♂️

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          3 months ago

          They may have won the chicken sandwich wars, but Taco Bell will be the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars.

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            And with no more competition, they’ll go all fancy. Makes one wonder where you’d be able to get a decent burger anymore.

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              3 months ago

              The sewer people. They’ve got an underground barbecue going.

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          Can’t say I’m looking forward to chicken sandwich porn 🤷‍♂️

          Pepperidge farm remembers (shudder).

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          Chicken sandwich porn? When Popeyes came out with their sandwich, there was a trending video on Pornhub soon after titled “PAWG let me Fuck her for a Popeyes Chicken Sandwich”. The Internet beat you to that.

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        3 months ago

        Advertisers and AI bots have taken over reddit ever since Google made them the new SEO technique.

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        If you go to Reddit, you will inevitably very quickly come by posts that seem to be from regular users, but are actually fill-a ads.

        Funny thing happened and I just happened to be eating their food when I filmed it. We did a thing and it failed at other joints but succeeded at their place. My dog can do a cool thing with their box, etc etc.

        It feels like they have an army of as people dedicated to creating this content.

        It started soon after they got a lot of bad press for finding anti-LGBTQ organizations. Instead of changing their ways, they decided to change their image through social media posts and largely succeeded. Most people associate their brand with good times now, even though they don’t know why.

        Much like whenever US police murders someone, Web gets flooded with memes and videos of cops doing fun things and being generally great fun.

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    3 months ago

    The tops in boys. Short everything. Capitalism has finally reached the endgame.

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    3 months ago

    Family friendly unscripted programs.

    Are we talking '90s Nickelodeon, or real housewives of the rust belt?

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      We should be so lucky to get 90s Nickelodeon! No, I think the article said it’s going to be mostly original programming so it’s a safe bet whatever it is will be like Hallmark on steroids

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        Hallmark is an abomination to everything decent in the world. The movie channel, not the cards I mean:-).

        Also, I’m literally struggling imagining how it could possibly get more saccharine than it already is?! Hasn’t it reached peak levels of evilness already, at which point where would they even go from there?

        Probably just videos where you watch gay people get beat up (nonbinary and such would be too confusing to them to even watch). So “Christian” S&M.

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      I would watch only to find out if they are secretly renting out their spaces on Sunday as holy ghost kitchens.

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      They should hire you instead of whoever came up with the bonehead idea of starting a streaming service.

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    So, they are trying to speed run the failure of McDonald’s experiment with Redbox. Instead of creating a massively successful brand that eventually gets bought up and run into the ground by Christian nutjobs, the Christian nutjobs are starting a video business to crater on their own.

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      Redbox wasn’t a failure. It was actually quite profitable in its day. It just got outclassed by streaming, as did every physical media rental service. I don’t know if Netflix even sends discs out anymore, if they do I’d bet money that it’s severely less than what it once was.

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        Sept 29, 2023, the last DVD to go out was True Grit.

        I looked it up cause I remember reading about it ending fairly recently.

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      It does feel like one of those situations where the hate watching parties for the worst produced content might be a big enough percentage to rocket that content to the front page of their app.

      Assuming it’s a free service, anyway. Which I guess seems unlikely, of late.

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    Likely some C-suite person who feels like they are actually an innovator instead of yet another MBA with too much power. To prove it, they’re going to start a service that no one will use at a company no one respects so that they can brag about their “greatness” to equally clueless investors.

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    Is it wrong that my dream for this is that it solely pays for development of incredibly gay coded TV shows, that the owners are too homophobic to recognize?

    I don’t wish that on any fabulous creatives, but I do wish that for all the money Chik-Fil-A is gonna waste on this.

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      I guarantee you they are doing this to specifically generate more cis/hetero content and will keep a close eye on that.