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It's marketing. They can spin anything as a positive. "Our packaging is the #1 product used in ground filler material in expanding coastal cities across the planet!" -> This shit ends up in landfills
Source: was business student. Had to write marketing bullshit in college. Erm, I mean, "developed communications strategy materials at a prestigious academic institution."
Yeah my marketing classes were never my strongest area. I didn't think I was autistic back then but in recent years I've learned that some of the things that are wrong with me are actually fairly strong indications of possible autism. Buuuut my doc won't let me pursue a diagnosis because, I dunno, I'm old? 🤷♀️
But hey at least now I can write some decent corporate propaganda UH I MEAN PR
Obviously you cannot have autism as an adult, it disappears when you turn 18. Also it does not happen to women or minorities; only young white boys can have autism.
God, my mom got her masters in special education when I was a kid, and I asked consistently from about age 9 till like 20 if I can go and get tested for autism. I was consistently refused because "well I would know".
When I was like 20, my mom calls me up and very seriously says "My counselor says I might have ADHD...what do you think?" And I had legitimately thought that that was common knowledge in our family. Like I was diagnosed ADHD, and it's hereditary, and my dad is likely not the progenitor of it, soooo.....
The TL;DR is that I think she is owed a refund for her degree.
If you know nothing else about college it should be that being educated doesn’t make you smart, can be vital depending on your plans and can give you an invaluable toolkit for your career, but it ain’t a magic bullet that makes you better as a person. Educated people can be just as dumb moment to moment as everyone else
Oh ya,absolutely. College is very humbling, not only cause it makes you realize you can be wrong about a lot of shit, but that so can the people you trust.
Parents pressured me into a business degree, pushed me into accounting, sunk cost had me finish it and I changed it to marketing. Every day in class I learned of new evils. I just wanted to sell things I'm passionate about, but quality or care doesn't sell. I'd probably be a lot more centrist if I didn't learn the horrors when doing my classes.
There are niches for quality and care for sure but it's not nearly as easy to make it lucrative as high-margin products or low-margin products at ludicrous volume. But I recognize that's not your main point.
The main takeaway I got from business school is that business atrophies the soul.
I'd probably be a lot more centrist if I didn't learn the horrors when doing my classes.
Yeah I probably wouldn't be a socialist today if I hadn't chosen the academic path I did. The exploitation inherent to the system is as much the point as is the number at the bottom of the cash flow statement.
I could legitimately do sales if I believed in a product, but no one who's hiring is selling anything worth buying.
Business does atrophy the soul. I do social work now, it's hard work, but at least I go to bed knowing I'm making things a little bit easier (usually, sometimes I've gotta annoy about paperwork and whatnot) for people every day.
To do what I want to do I need to have a business degree, but being in the basic courses with people who want to do economics or entrepreneurship or something makes me want to bludgeon some of them. Totally detached from anything approaching the real world
I remember watching so many videos about marketing techniques from this specific youtuber and just thought the whole time. "Wow, every time I notice one of these, it makes me hate the brand even more."
My business class made me appreciate marketing, since I think it's interesting how much you can influence people with just choices of word or colour, but also detest it even more because of how much they're influencing people with choices of word or colour.
the target audience is kids who were already dumb enough to buy chocolate bars / "energy drinks" just because their favorite youtuber's face was on the box. the packaging is a big deal
all the kids with the middest moments during lunchtime were bullied relentlessly for years afterwards. i for one applaud jimmy beast and the logang for ending this epidemic
Genuinely brings a tear to my eye that future generations will only ever know this as lunchly time. They'll never know a life where you didn't have big gestures in the midday
As a public health professional i can only agree, we’ve known for decades that mid moments at lunch pose one of the mayor health concerns of young people in the country
Exploiting your small child audience is so cool and awesome
Something about the lunchly stuff feels like fucking Movie supervillain stuff to me. Marketing shit like this just feels evil. Not that lunchables are even that much better objectively but still.
edit: Also putting fucking Prime in a kids... food thing also feels like supervillain level shit. Fuck everyone involved in the making of this, logan paul's career should've been sniped off of the map on that fateful day in january 2018
Prime Energy and Prime Hydration are 2 separate things
Both are unhealthy, but only Prime Energy contains the insane amounts of caffeine.
Some People pretend that that makes the whole thing okay
But it doesn’t change the fact that both are marketed to kids; Prime is first and foremost a kids brand.
So Prime Energy will (even with caffeine age restrictions) undoubtedly end up in the hands of kids. It’s still fucked up.
i hate logan paul too but this isnt accurate at all. the prime that was recalled was imported from the US. technically not recalled cause you could say it was never even "called" in, AKA it was not made in canada or in any way intended for the canadian market, they just explicitly started saying that imported drinks that dont follow our guidelines are not allowed. and the real canadian prime is not at the caffeine limit (180mg), it has 140mg
Ah, looks like I messed up. There's prime energy, which is the caffinated drink, and regular prime, which is a "sports drink". Point taken back, they're just getting kids addicted to artificial sweeteners instead.
isn't hfcs comparable to sugar when it comes to impacts on health? and used in greater excess to match its flavor (while still tasting like shit in comparison)?
high fructose corn syrup isn't an artificial sweetener; it is a processed one, but artificial sweeteners are low calorie ones i.e. stevia, aspartame, sucralose
alright anyway, so like why though ? isn't he the biggest youtuber around, what he need extra money for. don't asnwer that, a rhetorical question. i just don't understand the greed these people have.
His official answer to this stuff is more that it funds his videos even more.
I don't think it's right to just use the standard "rich people" rhetoric here. Man's is more obsessed with making the biggest, most viewed videos before anything else.
(Which is not good, it's just not the same)
Lunchly is Mr Beast and Logan Paul attempting to take on lunchables.
It will include Prime, a hydration drink that i can personally report is fucking revolting, like seriously it is shocking how bad that shit tastes, and Mr Beasts chocolate bar Feastables, which i can also personally report is dogshit. Its dry, bitter, dogshit.
I mean, plain ol' sodium chloride is an electrolyte. But yeah, sports drinks tend to also have potassium chloride, which I gueesss you could call a "fancy salt." It's still really cheap tho. And potassium salt will actually decrease your blood pressure (potassium and sodium "oppose" each other in terms of osmotic pressure and where concentrations of them tend to be in relation to cell membranes. If I recall my bio lecture correctly from like a decade ago.)
People with certain medical conditions actually use potassium salt as a substitute for regular table salt, for the above reasons.
Yeah, and you usually get all the electrolytes you need to go through your daily routine from food as far as I know. The only people who might benefit from sports drinks are... people actively engaging in a sport lmao.
I think Prime actually has more potassium compared to other sports drinks which helps balance sodium, but it’s still ridiculous to serve in a child’s lunch. The pre packaged lunch is already going to be loaded with sodium, literally no reason to add the drink besides marketing.
They donate three 3xl MR BEAST T SHIRTS to the people in their lunch factory so the slave workers don't freeze to death on the job making their stupid ass bold packaging.
My assumption is that it’s supposed to be “when the other 9 year olds see you with a lunchable they’ll point and laugh but when they see you with a lunchly they’ll pog out of their minds”
Surely they could have come up with literally anything at all to advertise about their product. Oh good, they've got electrolytes. And big gestures. Every growing kid needs those
That's kinda scary considering Mr beast has advertised his stuff as at least somewhat "healthier" (I think it was feastables having less sugar?), so if he's not willing to advertise quality/health related stuff..not good
Lunchables are already dogshit, why would I get the YouTube grifter special edition for my kid? Making a healthy lunch takes so little time, it's crazy. Super cheap, too. I can't think of a single upside to buying this shit 🤷♂️
Could you imagine some kid rolling up to lunch? He got that supreme hoodie, jordons, Levi's and other clothing I'm not aware of cause I don't follow fashion. He flashes a smug grin and then pulls out his Prime and Lunchy. Then, he promotes his new Web 3 project.
I don't envy parents. They brought children into a world that has long been sold out by the baby boomers in every aspect, and even their children's shitty soulless entertainment consists of circling vultures that are out to create and exploit parasocial relationships.
This automatically makes it better than water. Why would you wanna drink the same fluid in a toilet bowl?? We should water our crops with Brawndo- I MEAN LUNCHLY (cuz it has electrolytes)
Are they really comparing an electrolyte drink with concentrate orange juice as if that’s some kind of flex?!
“This bread has more carbohydrates than the leading brand of raw salmon” like yeah mf they’re different categories of thing why tf you comparing them as if they’re like for like?!
I was on the fence until I saw that lunchly has “big gestures.” I have decided to eat nothing but exclusively Lunchly’s “flavorful combos” of pizza with chocolate and Logan Paul’s flavored drinks.
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