In terms of advertising, Japanese McDonald's seems the best.
In terms of food, EVERY McDonald's outside of the US is better! Seriously, I've had McDonald's in other countries as that's always the safe option when you don't know where to eat. Go by one on a trip to the US, how do they get away selling this shit?!?
Its probably the filthy weeb in me, but advertising in Japan just always seems 1000x better.
Like yes, I want to buy the energy drink that had Freiza doing a fucking dance routine advertising it with his face on the can over the American equivalent of some loser telling me how cold it is or playing basketball better.
At least back before the Woke ruined everything, American commercials were sometimes full of hot chicks or utter insanity (the PS3 ads, you know the exact ones).
Now they are almost counterproductive to an absurd degree, I am legitimately offended that you showed me an ad and will refuse to buy it out of spite and worse yet a shitty modern/Woke ad that drives down sales is a common occurrence now.
Yeah at some point in the late 2000's to early 2010's it changed significantly, you could pin that on the Obama admin getting their fingers into as many media enterprises as possible.
It stopped being an avenue to interest or grab the attention of customers and just became propaganda. Japanese ads still have appealing musical jingles, interesting designs, etc.
I don't think advertising should be allowed, on media or in real life, at least not nearly to the level that it is now, but at least it used to be somewhat informative or entertaining instead of just brain poison.
I wish we could just go back to the advertising philosophy used up to around 1997 (when Clinton legalized the advertising of prescription drugs):
Showcase through audiovisual means why your product deserves to exist. That thought alone fostered a degree of creativity, wit, care, and passion in so many commercials from the '80s and '90s specifically that I believe is rarely replicated these days.
Its probably the filthy weeb in me, but advertising in Japan just always seems 1000x better.
I was in Japan for about two weeks back in 2010. The advertisements I saw on the street, on the television, etc. were so much higher effort than anything I saw in America. The only time we get commercials that approach the level of thought and care put into them is the superbowl, and that has fallen off a cliff in recent years.
This ad for a breakfast drink was another one I saw. A short simple ad, and yet it doesn't ring hollow like the ones over here.
I don't speak Japanese, but it was obvious that even if the people didn't care about the product they were selling, at the very least, they tried to make it seem authentic.
We seem to be missing a lot of sincerity in our culture, and that's something I hope Japan doesn't lose.
The only time we get commercials that approach the level of thought and care put into them is the superbowl, and that has fallen off a cliff in recent years.
This exactly. Also wanna say I appreciate someone who can appreciate that their commercials are "high effort" instead of just going "haha japan is so fucking weird man look at those fucking WEIRD commercials amirite".
But that's exactly why I like them. They wanted to use a creative and high energy way to show off how cool the advertised products are, and I think they succeeded. It might come off as weird, but I think it comes off as sincere belief in their product.
That's why I respect and enjoy these Japanese commercials. Through the effort put into these ads, it's clear that the Japanese genuinely care.
Now they are almost counterproductive to an absurd degree, I am legitimately offended that you showed me an ad and will refuse to buy it out of spite and worse yet a shitty modern/Woke ad that drives down sales is a common occurrence now.
This is where I am, and add in how persistent and irritating ads are basically everywhere you turn. I wouldn't use the internet at all if not for uBlock Origin and YouTube Revanced. At this point, 99% of the time ads make me actively avoid whatever product they're shilling.
You're joking but the massive payouts of pharmaceutical ads have raised ad budgets so much that creative marketing is no longer possible. So usurping Big Pharma would restore balance to that part of our culture as well.
I was actually responding to his last sentence. There's so much crap that "food" manufacturers are allowed to sell as edible, and RFK Jr is one of the few people talking about it. I have a lot of hope for his "Make America Healthy Again" promises.
If he can get even 10% of his agenda through, that alone would be a W in my book.
DC lobbying and bureaucracy is a swamp, and RFK's not afraid to get his hands dirty. I think he means what he says, and if anyone can improve our food supply at that level, RFK Jr is that guy.
At the very least, he can't be worse than past health officials.
The only other McDonald’s I’ve been to globally was in Samoa. They had an armed security guard and the food was way better. Going to Japan in spring, I’ll go the McD just for the collectibles.
That said, I'm pretty sure that was a teriyaki burger in the ad and even though I only eat a (mostly) animal-based whole food diet, if I see one of those on vacation I will consume several.
McDonald's in America though, no thanks. They could sell a McBlowjob on the Value Menu and I still wouldn't buy it because I know it would be from a DEI hire with mouth cooties.
I've been to McDonalds in several Asian countries and Australia. Every one was better and included pretty much the complete US menu plus local additions. I think the most underwhelming were the Philippines, but even there they added fried chicken and rice to the US menu. Hell, even Hawaii has a teriyaki burger and taro pie.
They also have cooler toys overseas. Japan had an exclusive Gundam vinyl figure painted black and gold and Australia had a knockoff Lego set a few years ago for example. This year they had some commemorative glasses with artwork featuring Happy Meal toys from the 1970s-1990s for sale. Some countries got real glass, others got plastic- the US got plastic.
It's weird that the US version of a restaurant that is often seen as a symbol of the country itself is easily the worst.
It's important to understand McDonald's in the US isn't a restaurant company—It's a real estate company. 95% of all McDonald's locations in US are franchise-owned. As long as franchisees pay their rent and royalties, corporate doesn't really give a shit, so franchise owners will cut corners to pad their own margins. McDonald's Corporate is somewhat aware of this, which is why restaurants get remodeled semi-regularly to clean up years of caked-on filth from lack of maintenance.
That's true, McDonalds the corporation gets their money selling everything to the franchisees.
If I'm not mistaken, the franchisees have to buy all the food and support equipment from corporate though, so the shitty quality of the food is all on them.
One thing I've always noticed is that the lettuce at the US McDonalds has a funny taste. It's been the same taste for at least 20 years and is the same at every one I've ever eaten at.
It's not modernizing. It's a direct and measurable consequence of the fact our public schools have been churning out semi-retarded citizens for at least two generations now.
I keep saying this to everyone who will listen: I manage a team of social workers in a blue city... I work with adults every single day who don't even know how to spell their own name.
It is honestly amazing how many adults I saw in college who read out loud at a fifth grade level. They couldn't read fast, and had trouble pronouncing words that had more than three syllables, and didn't know the meaning of many of the words they read.
It astounds me how these people are allowed into universities.
I sort of know how that goes. We had a drone show in Orlando, and the idiot government didn't have a safety area big enough in case one of the remote control weed eaters fell.
japanese mcgoyslop actually uses corn oil for frying while jewmerican mcgoyslop uses (((soy))) oil (also soy in the cheese and in the chicken breadcrumbs)
its like night day difference in both flavor and quality.
Some of the links in this thread were funny but the OP link was absolute trash. That isn't the tone of Evangelion, even by a long shot. It's a shameless commercial tie-in by McDonalds that looks like absolute ham. That big floating hamburger alone. :')
If they pulled that shit with the cast of LOTR eating and fighting hamburger trolls you would role your eyes and be entirely justified in doing so, hahaha.
On that note, Superman was created in 1938. I sure hope there's no ads featuring him in the near future. Imagine rolling out an 86 year old franchise, lol.
Wow. So a prequel that further pushes kids killing themselves and ending the world, that came out in 2021 is being pushed in 24-25 for some reason. In addition the new Superman movie looks 'weird' to say the least. James Gunn is a decade past his prime.
You can pretend this is comparable to a 30 year old Disney cartoon in the 90's all you want. But this is happening now. Not then. This is just the soft promotion of suicide. Just as Attack on Titan is.
In terms of advertising, Japanese McDonald's seems the best.
In terms of food, EVERY McDonald's outside of the US is better! Seriously, I've had McDonald's in other countries as that's always the safe option when you don't know where to eat. Go by one on a trip to the US, how do they get away selling this shit?!?
Its probably the filthy weeb in me, but advertising in Japan just always seems 1000x better.
Like yes, I want to buy the energy drink that had Freiza doing a fucking dance routine advertising it with his face on the can over the American equivalent of some loser telling me how cold it is or playing basketball better.
At least back before the Woke ruined everything, American commercials were sometimes full of hot chicks or utter insanity (the PS3 ads, you know the exact ones).
Now they are almost counterproductive to an absurd degree, I am legitimately offended that you showed me an ad and will refuse to buy it out of spite and worse yet a shitty modern/Woke ad that drives down sales is a common occurrence now.
This was randomly in my YouTube feed not long ago, wish ads on the west could be like this again..
Yeah at some point in the late 2000's to early 2010's it changed significantly, you could pin that on the Obama admin getting their fingers into as many media enterprises as possible.
It stopped being an avenue to interest or grab the attention of customers and just became propaganda. Japanese ads still have appealing musical jingles, interesting designs, etc.
I don't think advertising should be allowed, on media or in real life, at least not nearly to the level that it is now, but at least it used to be somewhat informative or entertaining instead of just brain poison.
I wish we could just go back to the advertising philosophy used up to around 1997 (when Clinton legalized the advertising of prescription drugs):
Showcase through audiovisual means why your product deserves to exist. That thought alone fostered a degree of creativity, wit, care, and passion in so many commercials from the '80s and '90s specifically that I believe is rarely replicated these days.
I was in Japan for about two weeks back in 2010. The advertisements I saw on the street, on the television, etc. were so much higher effort than anything I saw in America. The only time we get commercials that approach the level of thought and care put into them is the superbowl, and that has fallen off a cliff in recent years.
This series of Fanta commercials have so much more heart in them than any Fanta advertisement in the states.
This ad for a breakfast drink was another one I saw. A short simple ad, and yet it doesn't ring hollow like the ones over here.
I don't speak Japanese, but it was obvious that even if the people didn't care about the product they were selling, at the very least, they tried to make it seem authentic.
We seem to be missing a lot of sincerity in our culture, and that's something I hope Japan doesn't lose.
This exactly. Also wanna say I appreciate someone who can appreciate that their commercials are "high effort" instead of just going "haha japan is so fucking weird man look at those fucking WEIRD commercials amirite".
They can come off as weird....
But that's exactly why I like them. They wanted to use a creative and high energy way to show off how cool the advertised products are, and I think they succeeded. It might come off as weird, but I think it comes off as sincere belief in their product.
That's why I respect and enjoy these Japanese commercials. Through the effort put into these ads, it's clear that the Japanese genuinely care.
!! MORNING RESCUE !!
Some meme ads back in the day that were so good/bad they actually got fansubbed and included in the fansubs of yore.
This is where I am, and add in how persistent and irritating ads are basically everywhere you turn. I wouldn't use the internet at all if not for uBlock Origin and YouTube Revanced. At this point, 99% of the time ads make me actively avoid whatever product they're shilling.
https://www.tiktok.com/@midnightrecordingstudios/video/7199375592058293550
I found this pretty funny
Too bad they dont make ads like this anymore
When in doubt, blame a feminist. ;)
Maybe RFK Jr. can take a crack at the problem. Making vaxtards shit themselves is only the flashiest upside to putting him in charge of HHS.
You're joking but the massive payouts of pharmaceutical ads have raised ad budgets so much that creative marketing is no longer possible. So usurping Big Pharma would restore balance to that part of our culture as well.
I was actually responding to his last sentence. There's so much crap that "food" manufacturers are allowed to sell as edible, and RFK Jr is one of the few people talking about it. I have a lot of hope for his "Make America Healthy Again" promises.
If he can get even 10% of his agenda through, that alone would be a W in my book.
DC lobbying and bureaucracy is a swamp, and RFK's not afraid to get his hands dirty. I think he means what he says, and if anyone can improve our food supply at that level, RFK Jr is that guy.
At the very least, he can't be worse than past health officials.
The only other McDonald’s I’ve been to globally was in Samoa. They had an armed security guard and the food was way better. Going to Japan in spring, I’ll go the McD just for the collectibles.
US Food is all McGoyslop.
That said, I'm pretty sure that was a teriyaki burger in the ad and even though I only eat a (mostly) animal-based whole food diet, if I see one of those on vacation I will consume several.
McDonald's in America though, no thanks. They could sell a McBlowjob on the Value Menu and I still wouldn't buy it because I know it would be from a DEI hire with mouth cooties.
Still the most wholesome McDonald's Japan ad.
I've been to McDonalds in several Asian countries and Australia. Every one was better and included pretty much the complete US menu plus local additions. I think the most underwhelming were the Philippines, but even there they added fried chicken and rice to the US menu. Hell, even Hawaii has a teriyaki burger and taro pie.
They also have cooler toys overseas. Japan had an exclusive Gundam vinyl figure painted black and gold and Australia had a knockoff Lego set a few years ago for example. This year they had some commemorative glasses with artwork featuring Happy Meal toys from the 1970s-1990s for sale. Some countries got real glass, others got plastic- the US got plastic.
It's weird that the US version of a restaurant that is often seen as a symbol of the country itself is easily the worst.
It's important to understand McDonald's in the US isn't a restaurant company—It's a real estate company. 95% of all McDonald's locations in US are franchise-owned. As long as franchisees pay their rent and royalties, corporate doesn't really give a shit, so franchise owners will cut corners to pad their own margins. McDonald's Corporate is somewhat aware of this, which is why restaurants get remodeled semi-regularly to clean up years of caked-on filth from lack of maintenance.
That's true, McDonalds the corporation gets their money selling everything to the franchisees.
If I'm not mistaken, the franchisees have to buy all the food and support equipment from corporate though, so the shitty quality of the food is all on them.
One thing I've always noticed is that the lettuce at the US McDonalds has a funny taste. It's been the same taste for at least 20 years and is the same at every one I've ever eaten at.
I love the Teriyaki burger that the Japan market has, I ate a lot of them when I was at NS Yokosuka.
Dude, 7/11 in Hawaii is better than your average american 7/11.
Almost all of retail and fast food seems to have taken a step back. They call it modernizing, but the menu shrinks and the deals go weird.
It's not modernizing. It's a direct and measurable consequence of the fact our public schools have been churning out semi-retarded citizens for at least two generations now.
I keep saying this to everyone who will listen: I manage a team of social workers in a blue city... I work with adults every single day who don't even know how to spell their own name.
And demographic shifts. As the US becomes less White, it gets worse.
It is honestly amazing how many adults I saw in college who read out loud at a fifth grade level. They couldn't read fast, and had trouble pronouncing words that had more than three syllables, and didn't know the meaning of many of the words they read.
It astounds me how these people are allowed into universities.
I sort of know how that goes. We had a drone show in Orlando, and the idiot government didn't have a safety area big enough in case one of the remote control weed eaters fell.
Not only is this true, but also:
They still have the original McNuggets that were a mix of white and dark meat. First time I had some mcnuggets in Tokyo I was blasted back to the 90s.
No blacks.
And the only brown mystery meat featured is the burger patty.
Glad to see it wasn't a Gundam 0080 collab.
japanese mcgoyslop actually uses corn oil for frying while jewmerican mcgoyslop uses (((soy))) oil (also soy in the cheese and in the chicken breadcrumbs)
its like night day difference in both flavor and quality.
Some of the links in this thread were funny but the OP link was absolute trash. That isn't the tone of Evangelion, even by a long shot. It's a shameless commercial tie-in by McDonalds that looks like absolute ham. That big floating hamburger alone. :')
If they pulled that shit with the cast of LOTR eating and fighting hamburger trolls you would role your eyes and be entirely justified in doing so, hahaha.
that explains the rei with borgar art i saw. long hair rei is peak.
Awesome as fuck.
Stop eating goyslop
The 30 year old series, where everybody dies? How is that better?
The last movie was in 2021.
On that note, Superman was created in 1938. I sure hope there's no ads featuring him in the near future. Imagine rolling out an 86 year old franchise, lol.
Wow. So a prequel that further pushes kids killing themselves and ending the world, that came out in 2021 is being pushed in 24-25 for some reason. In addition the new Superman movie looks 'weird' to say the least. James Gunn is a decade past his prime.
The plot of Evangelion is literally the opposite of what you said, it’s about a hopeless kid finding the will to live
Also the movies aren’t prequels
The 400-year-old play, where everybody dies? How is that better?
(you, on Hamlet and The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Because it's not in McDonald.
It's not being sold as family oriented.
It doesn't depict the death of the world.
it's not being constantly promoted.
it's not promoted to children.
You can pretend this is comparable to a 30 year old Disney cartoon in the 90's all you want. But this is happening now. Not then. This is just the soft promotion of suicide. Just as Attack on Titan is.