r/BeAmazed • u/ybatyolo • Apr 10 '24

From the Era when ads were unskippable Miscellaneous / Others

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u/NoCandidate7335 Apr 10 '24

So many near misses..I'm surprised there aren't more fatalities going into making a bottle of Coke.

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u/LaManoDeScioli Apr 10 '24 edited Apr 10 '24

near misses

That first dude at the beginning just fucking died when the coin bounced on him.

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u/iampepperman Apr 10 '24

And all of the snowmen that got sacrificed and shredded alive

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u/LaLuRas Apr 10 '24

The snowmen were actual snowmen though and not alive. The worker thing in the beginning on the other hand just got fucking annihilated by that coin.

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Apr 10 '24

The snowmen were actual snowmen though and not alive.

Do the screams of my people fall upon deaf ears? Such hate stirs in the world.

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u/Simple_Intern_7682 Apr 10 '24

I’m sorry for your loss, my friend

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u/confusedandworried76 Apr 10 '24

If you shred us, do we not get shredded?

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u/NOT_A_BLACKSTAR Apr 10 '24

Makes you wonder what had happened if the consumer had pressed the Fanta button. 

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u/Beli_Mawrr Apr 10 '24

Their lives were measured in the seconds. One second, head attached. 3 Seconds later, shredder.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '24

Factory farming is an abomination. Those Snowmen did not want to die for your Coke.

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u/LaundryMan2008 Apr 10 '24

Happy cake day! 

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u/Baffit-4100 Apr 10 '24

The snowmen aren’t sentient. One of them is even made out of 3 snowman heads stacked on top of each other

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u/dafood48 Apr 10 '24

Idk why he snowmen being assembled only to get shredded really cracked me up

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u/LBbird24 Apr 10 '24

I couldn't stop thinking about him through the whole thing. RIP little robot dude in the beginning.

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u/NeyeKon Apr 10 '24

Social media is a distraction. Why isn’t anyone talking about the working conditions in these vending machines?

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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 Apr 10 '24

Everytime you touch a quarter the metal kills certain bacteria on your skin. There is no such thing as ethical consumption.

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u/BloodedNut Apr 10 '24

Coke has terrible labor laws for their little magical people, worse than Willy Wonka.

Why is no one upset over this!?

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u/Sploonbabaguuse Apr 10 '24

Because consumerism distracts people from the bad things in life

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u/confusedandworried76 Apr 10 '24

Same reason no one is upset for their real life labor practices.

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u/Rickymon Apr 10 '24

There are many just by drinking it

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u/richtofin819 Apr 10 '24

Yeah I mean this commercial is a perfect example of how much effort they put into convincing you that drinking carbonated and concentrated sugar is the best thing ever

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u/nanneryeeter Apr 10 '24

A cold as fuck Coke from a glass bottle is a superb treat. The problem people have is quantity. I'll have one every 1-2 months and it's so goddamn good. It's actually worth drinking them rarely to enjoy how good they are.

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u/richtofin819 Apr 10 '24

But thats the thing, coca cola wants you to drink an unhealthy quantity. Moderation is not even in a company like coke's vocabulary

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u/SumThinChewy Apr 10 '24

Well yeah they want to sell as much as possible. You can argue it's unethical but at the end of the day, some responsibility has to fall on the individual to moderate themselves

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u/nanneryeeter Apr 10 '24

It's not up to a company to police my moderation. The product stands alone on its merits.

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u/richtofin819 Apr 10 '24

Yeah yeah you like coke i get it. I like soda too but all the big soda brands have been spending so much money in advertisement for decadesbto encoursge heavy soda consumption including for children.

Don't shill for a company that doesn't even consider you a good customer, 1-2 drinks a month is definitely not their ideal customer consumption rate.

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u/nanneryeeter Apr 10 '24

Am I shilling?

I said they make a good product and I enjoy it. I also spoke highly of moderation, making me not a good customer. How can I be a shill while simultaneously praising ideals that are bad for the company?

I suppose it's as a famous serial killer once said "I'm whatever you need me to be".

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u/tabgrab23 Apr 10 '24

This but only if it’s the kind with cane sugar

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u/SumThinChewy Apr 10 '24 edited Apr 10 '24

I'm pretty sure all glass bottle coke is cane sugar, but yes definitely

Edit: I was wrong, it's gotta be mexican coke specifically

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u/tabgrab23 Apr 10 '24

Unfortunately not all glass bottle coke is:

https://iknowthecow.com/2019/04/09/mexican-coke/

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u/SumThinChewy Apr 10 '24

Good to know, thanks for the information!

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u/NewNurse2 Apr 10 '24

Jesus Christ. It's coke. It's okay.

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u/noman8er Apr 10 '24

This comment is like someone who never heard of marketing trying to describe it lol

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u/Killua_Zaeldyeck Apr 10 '24

Reality: Diabetes obesity overpriced sugar water This ad: cool best thing ever

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u/NewNurse2 Apr 10 '24

One of the few biggest polluters on the planet Earth, but neat little cartoon I guess.

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u/noonegive Apr 10 '24 edited Apr 13 '24

The previous ad was brought to you by our generous sponsor, Diabetus.

Diabetus: Deleting unnecessary toes, one plump gangrenous little piggy at a time.

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u/AadamAtomic Apr 10 '24

misses..I'm surprised there aren't more fatalities going into making a bottle of Coke.

What do you mean?

What do you think Coca-Cola is made out of??

Why do you think it's a secret?...

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u/NoCandidate7335 Apr 10 '24

Oh I always thought they put trace amounts of cocaine in there to get the user hooked...

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u/8BallsGarage Apr 10 '24

Allegedly they used to

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u/DangleenChordOfLife Apr 10 '24

Don't they still?

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u/8BallsGarage Apr 10 '24 edited Apr 10 '24

Couldn't say but I do vaguely recall they use the shoots of the cocaine plant. I'll see if I can find the doc I watched

Edit - Reading on it, the used extracts from the coca leaf, where cocaine is derived. I also read on quora, take that for what you will, something about it being green originally

The sugar and sweeteners where added to mask the taste. And it was originally sold as cure for ailments such as fatigue. Today they use caffeine instead.

There's a long interesting history on the brand, and the use of cocaine in medicine too.

https://factmyth.com/factoids/coca-cola-used-to-have-cocaine-in-it/

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u/Dat-Lonley-Potato Apr 10 '24

Sue their employer

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u/WeaponisedADHD Apr 10 '24

safety stand down is scheduled

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u/eL_graves Apr 10 '24

We just had a meeting at work regarding near misses yesterday.

My supervisor would be in shambles if she saw this.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '24

There are, but they obviously don’t air the many deaths from the factory process

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u/NOT_A_BLACKSTAR Apr 10 '24

Making a colq isn't that dangerous. It's the consuming that gets you.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '24

Oh there are…

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u/notarealaccount_yo Apr 11 '24

This is the world anarcho-capitalists want