You ever noticed how all the colour, shapes and fun interesting design is all gone now? It's not that things were different when you were a kid. Things ARE really different from when we were kids. Everything is all cheap, grey, blocky and cost efficient. It just seems so... soulless. Like the magic and spirit is gone from society and people in general.
What happened after 2010?
Not my heckin fat ass center
Regulatory capture means they no longer have competition from better tasting mom & pop shops, so they no longer need to have fun atmosphere.
iPods basically made accouterment illegal
its because the restaurants arent for kids anymore when back then they were. it was a lot rarer for families to go their for every meal while its common now. theyve "matured"
You ever noticed how all the colour, shapes and fun interesting design is all gone now?
Everything is grey or white or glass and too brightly lit.
You aren't the only one who notices. I had a similar thought thinking of my favorite tea beverage of a bygone time. Glass bottle Snapple with real cane sugar. Look at that ornate label art. Pure soul and character. Tasted great.
Now it's in plastic. Tastes like shit from offgassing. High fructose shit slop doesn't even taste the same.
It's on purpose. It's an attack on the human soul.
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Mexicans. Mexicans always dropped their kids off at McDonald’s if it had a play place.
Colors are cringe. Self expression is the ultimate cringe.
These new McDonald's are sterile places full of foreign voices.
Buildings are mostly boring boxes now because of net zero and the obsession to cost cut by making everything standardised.
Brutalist architecture is part of your Marxist demoralization. Pretty colors make you feel good so we replaced all your colors with grey, black or white. Soft flowing curves remind people of nature so they make everything angular to disconnect you from nature. They destroy your statues and your fine art because nothing aspirational can exist. Nothing can remain to prove that human exceptionalism is a thing. They want to reduce us all to a homogenous grey blob of midwits with no soul.
It's because there's regulation which stop advertising fast food to kids.
The world isn't as vibrant as it used to be. I don't know if that's a consequence of getting older or something is going on.
It has nothing to do with design.
The majority of these companies holdings are in comercial real-estate.
I think something like 90% of McDonald's growth is in their real-estate holdings going up in value. If anything McDonald's is a real-estate broker that just happens to sell burgers.
No reason to market to children when few have them anymore. McDonald's now regularly has adult happy meals. Even the Minecraft happy meal was designed to appeal to man-children (male or female) instead of being primarily for children.
The original reason for McDonald’s doing it was to appear more like a Starbucks to attract millennial hipsters back in the 2010’s. They wanted people to actually hang out at a McDonald’s and treat them as hip places to hangout and drink coffee. It’s also why they added WiFi. In reality, nobody fell for that bullshit, and always saw McDonald’s as a fast food place to get burgers in a drive-thru. Nobody would be caught dead hanging out inside a dirty McDonald’s full of niggers or that one lonely old man who still takes the bus.
McDonald’s should have never tried competing with Starbucks and remained as America’s top burger stand. In the end, Starbucks stopped being hip anyways, and is now McDonald’s or Walmart-tier. Their marketing department is out of touch like rural Midwestern boomers who still think it’s 2015.
Even corporate clown-themed restaurants were just as shit as Marxist brutalism. One is depressing and corporate, while the other is tasteless, tacky, and unnatural.
It's manufacturing and real-estate.
It has nothing to do with selling burgers or coffee and everything to do with sitting on real-estate as the market goes up.
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True. What is really eye opening is when you walk into a museum where they preserve a royal room with all the royal furniture hand crafted by a master craftsman and built to last 500+ years. The elegant curves, the beautiful classical statues. The fine silks. The beauty and elegance of the classical period makes them look like gods, and makes us look like clods.
I don't know if that's a consequence of getting older or something is going on.
Cultural vibrancy in the west has been on a decline after 9/11 and the astroturfing of white guilt/wokeness. In the 80/90's it was on-trend to have neon colors on everything from clothing to logos to the general media we consumed (commercials, cartoons, music videos, etc.). However, various movements cut out the use of color and American exceptionalism in normal life, such as anti-corporate sentiment in the early 2000s (ex: what happened with McDs after Supersize Me came out), the LGBT movement gaining momentum and coopting the use of obnoxious bright colors in their retarded fag flag system, and millenials failing to grow up which relegated vibrant colors to 80s-90s "nostalgia" marketing causing a clear divide in the eras in terms of representation. Combine this with the fact that everything is made to appeal to the broadest audience possible, and we get the brutalist gray garbage we live with today.
the building on the right (the wacky animal MCdonalds) is a literal eye sore of the highest order
2013-2025, shit has been completely soulless, the 2000s really lasted until 2012 imo
I think the popularity of cyberpunk neon aesthetics and synthwave, (which also uses the 80's retro-futurist neon aesthetic.) points to the desire in the people for the bright colorful future that would have been the natural progression from the 90's when we still had white culture.
What happened after 2010
every boomer's kid was no longer a child, in many cases their grandkids are over 25, so boomers didn't see why the world needs to be fun for children anymore.
then the millenials get to pick the color scheme.
sorry your plans of going downtown and staring at businesses aren't going well for you
Soulless brutalism in everyday life is the mark of a (((communist))) controlled society.
This is alot of it.
Corporations needed an excuse to cut cost and manufacture the most amount of profit they could.
That's where the idea of taking color out of everything and selling it back to the consumer at a premium came in.
For the rest of society all we get is black, and three shades of grey. This is to denote our status and to remind us of our lowly place amongst our lords.
Some jew figured out the building on the left is worth 0.1% more money
Nah, the cyberpunk esthetic is just overblown times square Tokyo, mixed with Kowloon.
blame cali wali for this.
their ban on glass for beaches means everyone stopped using glass
even sobe!
I say fuck the californians!
remember when a lot of pistols capped out at 10 rounds to appease the californians?
I carry a 12 rounder.
fuck california.
I don't disagree. Early cyberpunk was based on novels but played on visually in things like Blade Runner which imagined a 2019 where Chinese culture had overtaken the West already. The influence of Tokyo or Kowloon or anywhere in a highly developed East, would for sure be influential on the aspirational element of 80's synthwave retro-futurism.
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nigger we're upset about the modern boringization of everything. a drab gray building is still selling the same greasy slop as a building designed to be fun and eyecatching. just because it looks like a place you'd take your tax papers doesn't mean it is one.
Trump happened
The best design, IE, one that would work for everyone, be they fans of futuristic or classic, would to make McDonald’s look like a neon 50’s diner with checkered floors and plenty of stainless steel trims. The drive-thru would be the same theme with a light-up sign that says go or stop in red or green.
What happened after 2010?
AUTOCAD
Why draw something by hand when you can drag-and-drop elements from libraries pre-drafted by chink pixel farms.
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Same thing with cars. Its all grey/white/black or maybe blue if you're lucky and an extra 500 for red.
Yeah that's a timeless burger joint aesthetic
Rush Limbaugh would be rolling in his grave
yeah maybe
Update it to 80’s diner with subtle 90’s patterns like old 90’s theaters (like the goofy triangle pattern) and it’s solid. Think of Johnny Rockets (50’s) in (80’s and 90’s) vaporwave shopping malls.
This but 1990. Autocad destroyed new building design. It's basically dead tech now but the damage is done.
This. As centralized corporate control approaches 100%, the country asympyotically approaches the Soviet Union
Not enough shiny stainless steel reflecting the neon.
red and green cars were never popular - they are cheaper becausew no one wants them
Red cars are expensive because women want them, and because women are shit drivers.
The slop is the same just more expensive.
okay so why come into this thread pretending like we're talking about the slop vanishing if you're aware that isn't happening?
go shit up an imaginary conversation in a notepad document and you can save some bandwidth
Why are you nostalgic about burgerpunk aesthetics. Ridiculous
if this had been your first post instead of some bullshit about the food, there wouldn't have been a rebuttal.
why did you choose to keep this in your pocket for *after* you were determined to be a moron?
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kek.
But the vibrant colors and family experience!
if i was simping for them i'd be defending their decisions.
i'm not. i grew up in a colorful world where some physical businesses were meant for kids. my children are growing up in a gray open air storage facility.
oh u want green car goyimjin??
that will be limited run 860 units only "special hakone edition" now pay up
And that's why I drive a black one. Also I had to wait 6 months just for one to come in with a manual option so I barely had a choice.
capitalism leads to the same thing. Both systems revolve around profit. The new Macdonalds is streamlined, efficient, sterile and easier to clean. Two sides of the same shekel
Colourful cars are cheap because they are hard to resell as neutral car colors are more widely appealing
red was the most popular color for a while
nobody wants them
Fucking what?
decorate shit
when there are no more kids,everyone is either on their phone or third world savages who want to rape kill murder and tweak out
it's a mystery why
capitalism died the first time tax dollars were used to bail out a dying business.
we live in some techno-slavery dystopia
there are no more kids BECAUSE the world is designed for boring retired boomers, not the other way around
Modernism is lazy, cheap and went out of style 90 years ago.
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Not really, what you do with the car after they sell it to you has nothing to do with it. they purposely don't make certain options anymore because it's not worth the space on the production line, some bean counters decided not enough people buy green/yellow/purple cars so you never see those anymore. They could give you colors if they wanted to but they'd rather save some money
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White parents would passively aggressively shame the parents of children who littered or picked on the smaller children in the '80s and '90s and it worked.
The slop tasted better when they still fried with animal fat too.
Shoebox style has taken over all food franchises. To be honest, it's a cleaner look overall.
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People didn't suddenly decide they wanted more boring cars, the paint choices were streamlined for production costs. They go by what is the most popular and after almost 3 decades we narrowed it down to blue, red, white and black. Anything more than that allocated for the assembly line is a waste.
Depending on the manufacturer, they have have it easier depending on their access to paint and shared platforms and how they make their cars. Dodge has always had goofy colors and I see lots of orange, green, and purple dodge challengers chargers and durangos. Again, they care fuck all what you do with the car after you buy it, they have your money already.
ford likes that rusty orange color
I think orange is kind of making a comeback overall. I'm partial to these tangerine orange subies, everyone I know thinks they look like shit but my neighbor has a crosstrek with an orange like this and I really like it.
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Spoken like a true gook drone,
you fucking balkan rats would rather sit around drink coffee 5 hours a day instead of be useful, so you take gook bribes instead of being men and working, and being europeans, you filthy fucking asiatic trash hicks
you absolute fucking cowards, traitors, gook cock suckers
why do gooks build your bridges and roads, with gook labor to boot? instead of europeans and your own people?
because you're cowards, because europeans and your own people can't bribe you fucking rats, you filthy fucking cowards you're not men, you're cockroaches, you're drones, you're weak
the human experience is being deliberately dulled out, we just so happened to witness it happen.
gen alpha is being bred to be thoughtless soldiers, theyre being denied the character building we got through experiences.
Yes, the millenials cleaned up the tacky mess the boomers and xoomers left behind, now gen Z is throwing us back into the tacky ass 70s because they're put grandparents reincarnated. Fuck you grandpa go die again, I don't want your fucking clutter! Cut your hair hippy!
i didn't know they stopped using glass... it was the only reason i bought it over other stuff.. guess I wasnt a proper consooomer tho... as I didn't knwo
Its women.
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Hear me out. Every woman I know loves grey. They say things like "its neutral" and "it matches with everything". They buy grey cars. They paint their houses grey. They fucking love it.
I don't know the reason for this. Are women soulless drones? Are the all colorblind? Are they depressed? Are they actually NPCs? I don't know. All I know is that whenever I see something grey and soulless, I know it was some womans idea to paint it that color.
neutral car colors are more widely appealing
I hate NPC shading.
Profit over aesthetics. There is no competition. Unilever owns every fast food place. So they are all uniform
I want my Suburban to be a tasteful shade of ruby why is that too much to ask? Dull people have made this a dull world.
He doesn't understand the impact of In McDonalds by Burial
Just switching to water that never touches plastic has benefited my health so much it's crazy. You have to get it from those fill stations in front of stores that use reverse osmosis and put it in a stainless steel or glass container, or if your water is already drinkable in your region still filter it with a Pur or other sink filter. It's not even plastic particles is it? It's the fucking plastic itself melting into what we're consuming.
Building the road to the bridge was harder than making the goddamn bridge. Chinks were hired to do the easy part.