• Deebster@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is closer to fair-use satire than advertising (although not that close to either). It’s funny because McD is somewhat opposite to the gym, and that’s not advertising for the golden arches.

    • Joe Bidet@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I understand the alleged funniness in this, and am in favour of all sort of fair-use (and even unfair-use!) of copyrighted, patented and otherwise trademarked material…

      My questioning here, is: aren’t we advertising for the golden arches by multiplying them on our own federated servers? In people’s brains which have been filled already with this logo from the day of birth, associating it with sugar+fat tastes that speak to the “hmmm! good” part of the brains… seeing this wouldn’t trigger a “hmmm! good” reaction, you think?