This shit should be illegal zero alcohol or not we should not allow advertisement of beer to children. Where the fuck protect the children groups on this shit?
They saw that younger people aren’t drinking nearly as much, so they thought this might be a solution? Get kids used to the flavor earlier?
Sadly, I’m sure there are plenty of shitty parents who would buy this for their kids.
I don’t think there’s many parents that would buy this for their kids. I grew up knowing friends parents would would just straight up buy you actual beer. But knowing them, if they saw this, I imagine them saying “Then what’s the fucking point??? Pussyass bullshit!” While at the same time putting 2-24packs in the cart, and then saying “For you and your little friends when they get here.”
The alcohol is the only reason to choke down the horsepiss that is beer; 0 alcohol beer’s only consumer base are self-loathing masochists.
It helps my sober friends that used to down a 12-30 beers a night not lose that flavor. But to market to kids is pathetic
I love a good beer. Budweiser is not a good beer, and the thought of a zero version sounds even worse.
But there are great beers and even very good non alchoholic ones.
My issue is that beer is a lot of calories, particularly the good ones. Even the zero alcoholic ones.
Don’t drink your calories is a good rule of thumb.
Wtf is the point??
Is someone out there drinking Budweiser…for the taste?
I have a parent who will only drink “lite” beer. I do not understand it. It takes like shitty water.
In my experience it’s because they’re drinking 18 of them and don’t want to be sloppy drunk after 10-12 hours. I prefer the more direct method of hard liquor to be more efficient but I get the thought process.
It’s to beer what LaCroix is to fruit juice.
Maybe they’re keeping a better balance of hydration to alcohol for their old brain, and not having a fruity or sweet taste but not boring plain water as well. Lite beer can occasionally be refreshing. Although personally I’d rather pour half a beer into a cup of ice than drink most light beers.
Wow this is terrible and also cherry on top ai created sign 100%
What makes you think it’s AI?
Look at the text on the beer can. It’s gibberish.
Someone’s been a
Badweiser
It’s fucking Polish.
Edit: I looked up the can design and it’s sold in different regions with the same design with the top text being replaced with whatever regional language is expected.
French is gibberish now? This was taken in Canada, you can tell by the bilingual packaging.
Which part of this is French?
It looks Slavic to me.
No part of it is language at all. Its like latin letters got mixed with Devanagari.
100% AI slop
I agree, but this is what I was responding to: https://lemmy.ca/comment/24773109
Damn, good eye
As someone who took French for 6yrs, I don’t think R2]R is French… nor is a bunch of the text that appears like multiple characters written over each other.
Im sorry, what? Nothing about this id bilingual.
The style of the text is a big giveaway to me. Generated text has gotten a lot better (ie usually legible), but it’s pretty much always that same block letters that aren’t quite perfect enough to be a typeface, but also not designed well enough to be made by hand.
The general format of this one is also fits closely to a lot of other generated posters I’ve seen (some examples: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/2d35f3bf-bc05-4971-8c8d-9e69fe857bde.png). It’s hard to describe, but hopefully you can see what we’re talking about.
I can pick that same “general vibe” very well with video but I think I’m yet to acquire that instant read on still images (of graphic design as opposed to realistic scenes). Only one of three, the one on the right, seemed at all obvious to me.
The “emphasis whiskers” around “it’s” in the top, middle are a dead giveaway. Plus I’ve seen multiple AI generated posters with this exact color/font scheme. You’re gonna keep seeing it over and over now that you know what to look for, unfortunately.
Like other commenter said, its more a general vibe.
Its the blocky graphic on either side with smaller text labeled modern squared off graphics in the middle. Its the font. Its the spacing. Its got the same general flow of the dozens of AI generated websites I’ve seen.
Its too cleanly unclean.
I also think it’s AI. It’s not something in particular I can point out that makes me think that, it’s more an impression. An impression that comes from having seen a ton of slop.
You’ve seen quite a few pixels in your time, you say?
Sir, it’s an older meme but it checks out.
The meaningless feature section in the middle of the poster.
Oh, look, it’s that YouTube thumbnail I’m seeing all over my feed…
I raise you, Kids Extacy.
Yeah, teach them kids to drink from a young age, i’m sure it will be good for them
I mean, most countries drink 3-5 (some 7) years before Americans. By 21, people have kind of gotten over it and having beers for weekend chats and hangs is just normal. Drinking with intent or excitement to drink doesn’t exist without underlying mental issues.
This advertising wouldn’t exist because it would be aimed at actual kids and teens. Whereas in the US you join the military, kill people for them, then after a few years of that, you’ve earned a beer with some alcohol in it.
Yeah… In my country we can drink at 18
I have more than once witnessed 18-20 year old service members drinking openly and legally in bars and restaurants by using their military ID.
We have purchased the N/A Corona from time to time. I still have to flash my ID to purchase N/A drinks.
I think it depends on where you’re at. I’ve been taught to ID even for N/A beers (because usually when advertised as such, they are allowed something like 0.5% or less ABV). But also, what kid would enjoy the taste of beer? Even the stereotype that’s how teens want to drink all the time, the lack of alcohol takes all of the fun out of that stereotype. As an adult, I only drink ciders and wines, which has kid versions of soda and grape juice.
yeah same
Fucking yuck
Yucking fuck
Can’t even bother to make propaganda without sloppifying it. This is a real low point for humanity.
355ml
Wildly infuriating!
Aside from mindless fucking consumerism, what’s the issue?
It’s like marketing a vape with no nicotine to kids
Oh, like candy cigarettes and big league chew.
Oh, like candy cigarettes and big league chew.
Yeah… Which was also a bad idea… of which most of the world won’t accept in the modern age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_cigarette#Sales_laws
Big league chew, I guess was a bit more on the fence because it’s less obvious and it avoids any words that directly link it to chewing tobacco.
Amazon sells candy cigarettes.
yeah I saw that on another post… and did look it up myself, in the US they can be sold, but legally they cannot include the word cigarette anywhere in the labeling or packaging, on amazon they do indeed put it in the title of the listing, which is against the law, but not particularly well enforced, the packages themselves though you can also see clearly they don’t use the word cigarette for exactly that reason.
Amazon sells a lot of illegal shit. That doesn’t mean it’s okay; that just means law enforcement isn’t doing its goddamn job.
Because it’s clear they want kids to start drinking budweiser young. It’s marketing budweiser to minors, whether it has alcohol or not. And it’s marketing alcohol (“it’s BEER for under age”) to youth… Beer by default has alcohol. This is marketing beer to literal children.
What do you think all that marketing does? Gets them drinking more budweiser as adults, and probably interested in alcohol while underage. Shady as fuck.
You know how you can’t buy those sugar “cigarettes” anymore? Same reason.
You also can’t buy snortable children’s Tylenol.
You can, actually. They’re on Amazon.
Snortable children’s Tylenol… That’s a great idea. Do you work in marketing?
It’s interesting because, in the US technically they aren’t allowed to be labeled Cigarettes (in most countries they are outright illegal), Just did check amazon, and you can see the actual packaging just says “bubble gum”, or “candy”. Though I think the amazon listing using the word, may actually not be within the law.
I think these people haven’t been aware of near-beer sales to kids going back over 60 years. Kids have been able to buy them here in Canada for longer than that, that is just the oldest person I have know to buy a 6pack of near-beer as a 5 year old kid.
Well the industrious kiddos just go to the store and buy some juice, sugar and yeast.
