• etherphon@midwest.social
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    Huh I didn’t realize it was a thing, I worked with a trans woman who drank 4 of these things a night though, I really have no idea how her body handled it.

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    A couple of years ago i was hiring a sound team for a game. The biggest challenge was to hire someone who would make the monster sounds. For some reason the game director wanted to do it “like Mike Patton in I am Legend” and it was the single stupidest recruitment campaign i had to endure. Lots of deathgrowl dudes being very same and sweaty. And what do you know - the candidate who got the job was a girl who went to the interview for shits and giggles and she didn’t even tried sounding Lovecraftian eldritch abomination. And then she got screwed out of proper credit and quit the business.

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    13 hours ago

    Their branding must be region dependent. Monster drinks are still definitely targeting “BMX dudes” here.

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    Monster is actually a company that I will try to avoid as much as possible, specifically for their marketing. It’s one of the few energy drinks that I can tolerate and it would be my default “go to” when I need one, but I refrain from buying them because I remember seeing their giant pickup trucks in the streets of my city and I hate them.

    I bought hundreds of cans before but since I’ve seen a few of their monstrosities parade in my city, I avoid them.

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    “BMX dudes who punch drywall” 🤣 spot on

  • 1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    monster be viral marketing to trans women super hard the past decade and i’m tired of pretending it’s “just a meme”. this is a fucking ad.

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      is people talking about a movie they saw on a movie board also an advertisement in your definition of the word?

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        Its not the same. The people are not talking about monster energy because of the taste or the effect, they are talking about it because of their marketing. It would be like people talking about a movie because of poster they saw.

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          i don’t see how that is different, people are discussing things they enjoy and the community that has developed around that.

          the queer and trans communities making monster a common character trait has even advertised to, like if understand if they had specifically done a unch of shit but unless you consider them sponsoring https://www.capitalpride.org/pride_sponsors/ or their corporate ass “diversity” page https://www.monster.com/about/diversity-and-inclusion/ I don’t think they’ve done much to encourage trans people to drink their drink

          would you think the weed community sending a stoner meme is the same thing? I wouldn’t consider that an advertisement

          would you consider a video game sub talking about an update an ad?

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    2 days ago

    i have a niece that is going to be 11 soon, and one of her stand out personality traits is making animail noises…

    I look forward to her adulthood

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    Can’t relate at all

    I tried monster once in like 2019 and it tasted so bad I never bought an energy drink since

    If I want caffeine I just get coffee

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      I have bafflingly inconsistent stomach problems. Coffee wrecks me, but Monster and Red Bull are totally fine for some reason

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        Unfortunately the cost of an energy drink at least around here is nearly the cost of a large gas station coffee ~2.50$. and that’s for shit gas station coffee, if you go to like Starbucks you will pay double that easily.

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        Then you’re making coffee wrong!

        (Or just don’t like it, which is totally okay too)

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        I treat caffeine as a drink for the effects, not for the taste. Only energy drinks are good for the taste when I want both.

        Instant coffee, raw coffee, the shitty coffee that comes in MRE packets, the fancy stuff that costs too much, espressos, 5-hour energy, I’ll chug it all down all the same. Treat it like vodka or whiskey - don’t bother trying to taste it.

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        [sound of 1000 amateur baristas inhaling in preparation for a 2-hour lecture about how you are making your coffee wrong]

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      I love the taste of energy drinks, it tastes like liquid gummy bears to me (which is a good thing). But the name brand stuff is super expensive and I definitely don’t want to have a pint of it in a container that can’t be closed again. Also I get digestive issues from caffeine, haha