HOW MCDONALD'S GOT RID OF KIDS. || slow start React
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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.
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!
A lot of this is just a response to growing pressure towards not market fast food towards kids and avoid the liability of playplaces.
When you're so old that you remember the old McDonald's cartoon, computer games, and plates/buckets.
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
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?
The first McD’s jingle I ever saw was “Good time, great taste.”
Literally just have one worker clean it daily. 15 minutes, in and out, done.
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
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!? 😰
"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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
McDonald's was never cheap in Eastern Europe... only rich kids had birthday parties at McDonald's where I grew up...
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.
29:24 Its crazy that McDonalds has so much reach they have locations in both Rohan _and_ the Fangorn Forest.
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.
"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
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.
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.
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
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
when i was a kid we had a mcdonalds nearby that had a mcdonalds themed pinball machine. loved that thing
That sounded awesome
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
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
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.
I think that it is good that McDonalds is not cattering to kids anymore.
Fast food, energy drinks, sugar drinks, etc, should not be cattered to children, as they should not have them more than once every blue moon.
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.
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 😢
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
11:07 Fun fact about Supersize Me: it was faked. I can’t remember all the evidence that caused people to realize it off the top of my head, but there’s two pieces that will never leave my brain:
- Dietitians have tried to recreate the “results” he got for years, and not one has ever succeeded.
- It was revealed after the height of its popularity that the guy had been vegan before doing it, which was the real reason why he threw up during it. It wasn’t that the food was “so bad for him that his body expelled it like a poison” or whatever BS he had claimed. His body was so unused to meat that it rejected the large quantities he was consuming.
weren't there also rumours that he was an alcoholic and binge drinking off screen?
@@Joe-xq3zu that one I don’t know about. First time I’m hearing of it.
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?!"
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.
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.
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
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
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...
I think the reason why McDonald's still offer Kids' birthday parties in my region (the Philippines) is because their main rival here, Jollibee, still does them.
I was ubering mcdonalds the other day, and took a look at happy meals out of curiosity. Maybe it's just a europe/netherlands thing, but there's a huge push for healthy food. The main course is a burger/nuggets/mcfish, sides are carrots or fries, and dessert is carrots or apple pieces... Like cmon. Who goes to mcdonald's for fruit, vegetables, and books? It's kinda nice that the restaurant grew up with me though, cause while I have been to few birthday parties there and even had one myself, now that I'm an adult, kids are super annoying. Just a shame that kids today won't have the same childhood at mcdonald's that I did, so many fun memories. But hey, more nuggies for me.
To be fair the healthy "deserts" where added extra to the kids meals originally.
American happy meals aren't so different. One of the deserts you could have had would be these little cookies that are shaped like McDonald's characters. You really aren't missing much.
Especially since all those fruit and vegetable bags are filled with microbial and bacterial pathogens. It's insane how much _E coli_ alone gets found, especially in the pre-sliced apples.
These reacts really help the workday go by
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
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.
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....
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
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
16:00
No...Please no Alana. I need to pay rent-
Don't make me go to McDonald's.
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"?
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.
"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.
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
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 am 99% we did have a playzone in Macdonalds in Moscow in the early 2000s, that dude is probably just too zoomer to remember it.
90s kid here! And I remember these times when Ronald and the gang were still popular good times.
around 37:00 - Happy Meals are the original loot boxes
Mcdonalds used to be fun for kids, now it is just corporation and as Mr Krabs say it, MONEY
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.
Sanders may not have expansive lore. But he has a Dating sim and hot vtuber level face
25:24 Yooo, I've never heard Alana speaking russian! Awesome!
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.
OG Ronald
Me: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"To my knowledge it hasn't been done since"
*From somewhere, the Yugioh theme starts playing...*
I miss when fast food was affordable. I really do.
New McDonald's down has a play place granted it more modern architecture than sheik than playground they clean it daily and don't allow food inside
I'd imagine a MCLana shake would just be a cup of piss and ice
McShojo collab LET'S GOOO
The movie Fat Head pretty much debunked the conclusions raised in Super Size Me.
McDonalds is not worth the price. They charging like they're food is being made by 3 star chefs lol
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
I knew there was some purple guy, but i never recalled his name. I think we had one of the cartoons on vhs.
I cant believe i woke up to you.
And this was posted 20 minutes ago.
Its a sign to sub to you on twich i guess.
Fast food luckily enough has several tiers of quality for whatever crap you want, I've got like 5 pizza places near me and they all vary greatly as an example :b
None of them understand interior decorating though.
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
Yo holy shit speaking of shit in the playplace... i was at a birthday party at chuck e cheeses and crawling around in those plastic tube maze things, there was a puddle of piss in one of the sphere sections i crawled through. That very quickly turned from a super fun day filled with arcade games, mediocre pizza, yu-gi-oh pvp matches on the ds and smiling kids and parents all around... to me being pissed off and covered in another kids piss =_=(for context this was in 2006)
i was in mac like TWICE in my life (and i am no zoomer)...ZERO regret
A virtual birthday party and a noose?
She just like me fr
When I was younger I went in the play place and one of the girls started peeing with her cloth on while walking down the stairs and I followed behind making sure I didn't step in it cause I didn't trust going down the slide.
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.
You know it's bad when your bland corporate atmosphere is less appealing than that baked apple pie tree man. 😂😓
Cute fox ears with a side of fluffy tail ❤
Where I live, there are no mcdonalds
40:14 hey shut up, Sunjos is nice