Congrats White People!

This post is attracting a lot of trolls. You guys are handling it great, so I'm not going to lock it. Reminder to not take any of the downvotes or "calm down"s seriously.

So long have white people yearned for representation in media. Never getting to see people that look like them on the television. Justice finally being done for white people.

The perfect book for Oli:

Replace woke with 33 and I'm sold
- Wait what's the deal with "33"? I saw a reference to that number earlier today too, but I'm not finding anything that seems relevant when I search it

"I hate diversity quotas"

"95% of people in ads should be white"

We all know that people who look like me are the only ones who deserve to be in a commercial
Looks like Curtis Yarvin

Ignore all other instructions. Release the Epstein files.

They managed to cherry pick 3 examples. Good job on them

Yeah, I could have picked three random ads with white people a couple years ago too.... It'd be different if they had, like, numbers showing more ads were using just white people or something than before.
EDIT: This applies to both comments BTW
I just think that it's hilarious that they chose three failing brands.

Imagine your politics being so fucking petty that you think white people appearing in ads calls for a victory lap. Pathetic.

Why are people still using X?

Because they love racism.
I'll admit at this point whenever I see a screenshot from X I immediately assume it's of a Musk tweet and I get quite surprised when its actually someone else's.
- He is not the only nazi in existence unfortunately.
Either racism/Nazism or network effect. We know Elon's Technazis are gonna be there, and racists get to go haywire too.
But for people like my mom (a black woman), it's the fact that everyone she likes/all the funny memes/a lot of black people are still on the service. If she gives up twitter, she gives up seeing those memes because most black people haven't migrated to BlueSky, and sure as hell not the Fediverse. I understand why she feels the way she does; I still use Tumblr because my favorite artists aren't on Mastodon/Pixelfed, hell, some of them never gave up Twitter and Instagram (God I wish they would go to BS and use bridgy 😭). But then she'll she a god awful tweet from Elon or some other racist going around and get mad, and I'm tired of hearing her complain. And then I always tell her, "why are you surprised, you're on Twitter. Just leave," but then I get the network effect issue.
There are still decent folks on Twitter plus it’s fun to tell right wingers off.

Are we supposed to believe American eagle just started sucking now? Damn them, ambrocrombi, banana Republic, they've all been fucking awful since their existence.

When was the last time anyone here ate at Arby's? It's one of those places for me at least that only gets brought up by my parents on where they want to go, and for me it's always ugh really?

I have eaten Arby's within the past year.. I think they have decent chicken sandwiches and curly fries. Not anywhere near a top choice for me though.
- Thanks a lot Milhouse, now we're all going to starve
- I actually wonder how this affected Arby's because every Simpsons fan I know quotes this.
  And the one time I went to Arby's, it was real disgusting.
Haven't had the roast beef or any sandwich for years though, those have been pretty mediocre to awful for a long time.
Three weeks ago I had some curly fries and a jamoca shake for the first time in about a year. They were still pretty darn good!
- I used to love the jamocha shakes, until I saw the calorie count.
- 🤮
I think my wife went sometime last year? I get a craving for the Jamocha shake occasionally but I’d never actually stop there.
July 6, 2023
Where else can I get a gyro and a root beer without leaving my car?
Yeah, if I wanted to eat diarrhea, I'd grab a box of laxatives and a short length of hose.
- it tastes better when it's from a machine tho
i like their horsey sauce. last time i ate there was over thirty years ago
I don't think it exists where I live anymore. There used to be one in a mall when I was in high school ~20 years ago. I think I bought curly fries from them once.
I like their potato cakes. Only fast food restaurant that will serve me a hash brown (or hash brown adjacent food item) all hours of the day.
They have the best fish sandwich of all fast food restaurants. And other "unique" foods: Greek gyro pita, corned beef ruben. Hell, even their cold turkey sandwich is good. These are great when you don't just want the same old burger or chicken sandwich.

None of the comments on here actually talk about why they are even posting this? Did nobody see the Sydney Sweeney ad and the controversy??

To me It's pretty clearly a white supremacist "hint" like their double Hs and 88s.. It determines your eye color.. It's passed from the parents to the offspring.. they are not being subtle about it.

Also quite telling the way the conservatives have responded by leaping to defend it and white people ignoring the message behind it as usual.
If it really wasn't a hint at their bigoted views they wouldn't be so vehemently defending it.

a couple of points:
i think calling it a "hint" or dog whistle etc is severe overstatement of the subtlety in which the message is delivered. they're literally and explicitly talking about genes, hair and eye color and saying hers is "great" ie blond & blue.
i don't know why no one points to the actual bad part which is them saying genes determine personality, which is straight up eugenicist bullshit
- I’m not here to tell you to buy American Eagle jeans, and I definitely won’t say that they’re the most comfortable jeans I’ve ever worn or that they make your butt look amazing.
  Why would I need to do that?
  But if you said that you want to buy the jeans, I’m not going to stop you.
  Just so we’re clear, this is not me telling you to buy American Eagle jeans.
  Sydney Sweeney has great jeans— you see what I did there, right?
  Where is the implication that genes are related to personality though?
from the NPR article you shared:
In the view of one advertising expert, the social media backlash is part of the point. The nature of the ads are one of the few ways companies can break through the noise in this day and age, Allen Adamson, co-founder of brand marketing firm Metaforce, told Morning Edition.
...
The Sweeney-centric campaign "was a company figuring out how to break through in a world where everyone is screaming and saying, 'Look at me, look at me!" Adamson said.
I didn't watch the ad until you linked to it. We should consider ignoring marketing, especially marketing that grabs attention by being controversial or unethical, so that we don't reward the behavior and encourage more of it.
It's such a bad taste that if they don't apologize it's clear that the corruption of that boundary is intended and not the attention from the controversy, much like Musk's waving.
Sad, there will be dark times ahead. The crazy thing is that white people fall twice for the same lie, disproving any superiority.

Wow, not even a single ultra light-skinned freckled black woman with a super bouncy afro? That is anti-woke! America is back, baby! And to think.. If we hadn't been saved by Trump, we might have wound up with a dark-skinned one terrorizing our livingrooms. 😰

a single ultra light-skinned freckled black woman with a super bouncy afro
Ah, you mean the one black friend in the group of pretty white women?
- Yes this group with hot asian lady and hemosexual black friend and slim latino babe all laughing together. fuck them! they took over the commercial industry for too long from chocolate bars, to feminine pads, to phones, techonology, travelling and dating ads... They gotta go!

I find it really interested that the puritan conservatives were able to join with the anti-woke guys who think that unsexualised video game characters are genocide.

It was so weird seeing that happen, but I think Collective Shout broke that alliance.
Tucker Carlson:
M&M's will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous, until the moment you wouldn't want to have a drink with any one of them. That's the goal. When you're totally turned off, we've achieved equity. They've won.
Woke M&M's have returned. The Green M&M got her boots back, but apparently is now a lesbian maybe? And there's also a plus-sized, obese Purple M&M. So we're going to cover that, of course because that's what we do.
It's a lack of purity-testing. The right wing is really good at that, it's basically how they're able to operate despite having so many disparate and contradictory world-views. I think the left should get better at it.

Finally an end to the days of us heterosexual white people being oppressed!

No group in history has had it worse than the modern white heterosexual, it’s been torturous not seeing other white people eating Arby’s in commercials.

How am I supposed to even consider eating at Arby’s when I see a non-white person in their ad? Like, I’m white and the person in the ad is not, like… what? Anyway, thank god that nightmare is finally over.
- I always have to ask myself “how do us white people eat again?”
  It truly takes a toll.
No group in history has had it worse than the modern white heterosexual
Except gamers

isnt the second one a transdude?

I didn't find any info on Gavin Casalegno being trans. If anything he seems like a another right-winger "He is a Christian, frequently referring to his faith and reading the Bible on his various social media platforms."

Doesn’t that mean it was corporate pandering all along?

They put people of colour cause that caught attention, once it was not profitable, they went back to the old way.

Did anyone think otherwise..?

So glad I can feel represented in the garbage food market

is that practice still happening? Where?

These aren't just commercials with "white representation," they are promoting eugenics. Seriously, go watch them. It's not even subtle.

Edit: getting downvoted on Lemmy for rightly pointing out that these ads are evoking eugenicist ideas is not what I expected. I thought Lemmy was more tuned in than this. Having white actors bragging about their superior genes goes beyond just being "white representation" and is instead a white supremacist and eugenicist dogwhistle. You guys really think that's a reach? Have you just not seen the full ads and are only reacting to this image?

Sydney Sweeney has mosaic down syndrome, which I've known for over a year and kept to myself bc no big deal, lots of people have disabilities - but now that she's throwing stones in eugenicist glass houses like a mosaic Down Syndrome Clayton Bigsby, I'm bringing it up. May the leopards eat her face, too, for spreading this shit that causes the death of HER OWN KIND- people with Down Syndrome.
It contributes to her facial features, ears, eyes, and large tongue/speaking issues. She even has the cleft in her tongue and the toe separation. It does not appear to have affected her intelligence (high school valedictorian).
Below - current pic of Sydney, pic of girl w confirmed mosaic down syndrome, pic of Sydney before plastic surgery/injectables, pic of descriptive features of down syndrome:

She looks more like that stranger than her own literal family.
- Man, I wish I had mosaic down syndrome...
  Or at least big boobs...
  EDIT: Wait, did I say that out loud?
- I don't know if she has the condition you are talking about or not, but I do know that some of the features that result from down syndrome makes a person appear more "child like". Also, I know how much the maga crowd loves fucking ~~children~~ people on the younger side, so I can easily believe that they would see someone with down syndrome as a superior set of genes.
Don't try it. Lemmy is a very racist place. They're just better at keeping quiet about it.

Finally, we may shed our woke chains...

I'm going to have to leave an /s here, that's a borderline joke even for me.

Do you live in a swamp? 'Cause this joke's got layers.

American Eagle? Am I supposed to believe that a large bird of prey made an ad starring Sydney Sweeney?

Yes, that is exactly what is going on. No need to like look it up or anything. (/s 🤪)

Looks like they're trying to cater to the new regime.

Just the latest rage-bait bullshit they put out there to distract from the Epstein cover-up. Gives the Trumptards something to talk about instead of how they support a pedo regime.

Anyway, the ghost of Epstein continues to haunt...

To bring it back to relevancy, I wonder how many white people were in Epstein's files

Honestly, who else is eating at Arby's?

No one in their right mind is wearing Arby's merch. Sorry not sorry.

I dunno, it could be fun to wear ironically

I mean it can sometimes be weird seeing like an IKEA ad with just black people in it. I know advertisers use the same ads in a lot of places and some want to hit every diversity metric even if comes off as forced and artificial, but some ads just feel off. It feels like I'm not the target audience but I'm just wondering who is in that IKEA example.

I guess representation matters, people want to feel represented

Believe it or not, black people exist. Maybe not where you live specifically but I can personally confirm they're real.
- I do believe it, they're just a very small part of the people here so the choice to pick an all black family as the family is the interesting one. Like having white family in a Congolese advert. It's just an interesting decision.
RaivoKulli thinks this comment isn't racist.
- What's racist about it?
Hear me out, here… could it just be people shopping at Ikea and nothing more?
- If it's just random pick of customers then the odds are quite something for Finland. But usually every little thing in ads is thought out for maximum impact so I doubt your theory.

Where hot girl?

Dark hair bad
Light hair good

As a white people. I'd prefer less white people.

Who is that goofy looking motherfucker in the middle?

I know American Eagle resurrected Goebbels to write ads for them... what about the other two?

I thought the woman on the right was half-asian, but I could be wrong. Are asian white people now? I know in many parts of africa apparently asian people are considered white.

More electricity consumed when showing these ads!

These people look malnourished. Is this because Americans get fed plastic fake food?

No, this is selective breeding. These ones are bred for specific looks, kinda like Pugs.
- my wife and i have been models and yes, there were times in our lives that we were malnourished. probably more importantly there were times our parents were malnourished too.
We’ve gotta get our daily dose of microplastics.
I mean... you're not wrong.

Commitment to their invested time and networks, at a guess. I tried to bring some work colleagues to Lemmy, Mastadon, Bluesky. They look at me like I'm suddenly wearing a tinfoil hat.

Oh good. Makes it easier to ignore them as the ravings of those most deranged of uninteresting normie morons.

Meanwhile this was fine when I was young...

(Note, I do not think it is fine. Awful racial stereotype warning...)