...I mean, I feel like we should've been expecting this kinda thing to happen, unless everyone forgot the fan response to Fight Club. Works of satire that mock a specific section of society are always going to have the people they mock as part of the fandom, who then engage in idiocy like... this, because they latch onto the character but miss the whole point of the show.
Why can't we like things without ruining it? Rick and Morty x McDonalds.
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Well, that is so very, very dumb.
Sigh, and here I was hoping I wouldn't have to say that today. Had a good feeling about it too.
Sigh, and here I was hoping I wouldn't have to say that today. Had a good feeling about it too.
What you've got 'ere is ya classic case of mob mentality combined with the overexcited self-oblivious nature of American young boys who seem rather validated in their fandom of Rick and Morty who think that everything they do together must therefore be funny and intelligent because what they so dearly have bonded together over is considered funny and intelligent by enough of the 'right' people that they cannot be wrong, no matter how entitled they want to act over limited edition sauce from a throwaway line in one episode.
It's sort of like the 'cake' syndrome of Portal if any outlet ever decided to think it a good idea to market a limited edition of said 'cake' and kinda really meant the 'limited' part. You'd see the same childish group behaviour.
I'll add Fight Club groups to the list also. And Apple fans that camp overnight for the next phone, because, seriously....dude....what the fuck is with that? What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you hypnotised that easily by marketing?
To be honest though, the police were called to what, one outlet in the US? Is this really worth denouncing the whole show and fandom? I know many who love the show and they don't give a shit about the sauce, acting like a twat in public or even pushing their love of the series onto others. Maybe online or US takeaway stores are a different story for fandoms, I don't know, tend to avoid those places.
[small]Admittedly, it really is irritating when specific fans with no imagination or sense of humour feel the need to parrot quotes from their favourite entertainment together, like a compulsive instinctual reaction. It reminds me of looking after cockerels, the annoying dumb fucks.At least with those, the authorities don't care if you kill and eat them. And when Rick started pushing a certain 'catchphrase,' all I could sense sadly were a thousand future cockerels latching onto it for no other reason than because they were told to.[/small]
It's sort of like the 'cake' syndrome of Portal if any outlet ever decided to think it a good idea to market a limited edition of said 'cake' and kinda really meant the 'limited' part. You'd see the same childish group behaviour.
I'll add Fight Club groups to the list also. And Apple fans that camp overnight for the next phone, because, seriously....dude....what the fuck is with that? What the fuck is wrong with you? Are you hypnotised that easily by marketing?
To be honest though, the police were called to what, one outlet in the US? Is this really worth denouncing the whole show and fandom? I know many who love the show and they don't give a shit about the sauce, acting like a twat in public or even pushing their love of the series onto others. Maybe online or US takeaway stores are a different story for fandoms, I don't know, tend to avoid those places.
[small]Admittedly, it really is irritating when specific fans with no imagination or sense of humour feel the need to parrot quotes from their favourite entertainment together, like a compulsive instinctual reaction. It reminds me of looking after cockerels, the annoying dumb fucks.
I'll chalk it up under another fandom growing too much in a too small span of time and contacting cancer.
To be honest, you need a high IQ to rage over meme mcgnugget sauce.aegix drakan said:
It's moronic either way. Perhaps even moreso the latter.wizzy555 said:
From what I understand, McDonald's kind of fucked up this promotion from a logistical standpoint. Most participating outlets got less than 2 dozen of the sauce in total and there were a bunch of locations that were advertised as participating but had no stock whatsoever.
Yeah people went nuts, and yeah let's laugh at the idiots, but this really was a logistical mess on McDonald's side.
Yeah people went nuts, and yeah let's laugh at the idiots, but this really was a logistical mess on McDonald's side.
I've been a fan of the show since before anyone knew what it was (yes, I was that guy, telling everyone about how funny it was) but this shit needs to end. Like, c'mon man. This is embarrassing as fuck, guys. [https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/10/16454458/szechuan-sauce-ebay-rick-and-morty]
Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen a fanbase go this off the rails so quickly.
Anyway, the third season was a bit too hit or miss for me and there wasn't enough comeuppance for certain characters so I don't know if I can keep watching after all this drama. We'll see what season 4 has in store, I guess. Probably give it a couple episodes and if things don't improve I'll just watch something else.
Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen a fanbase go this off the rails so quickly.
I saw this earlier and I dunno if this was staged or not but even if like, half of these reports are fake, the poor counter jockeys still don't get paid nearly enough to deal with this kind of juvenile garbage all day. Your pranks are at the cost of a tiny bit of some dude's soul.Smithnikov said:
Anyway, the third season was a bit too hit or miss for me and there wasn't enough comeuppance for certain characters so I don't know if I can keep watching after all this drama. We'll see what season 4 has in store, I guess. Probably give it a couple episodes and if things don't improve I'll just watch something else.
People lamenting the evil/dumbness of humanity like this stupid phenomenon isn't entirely localized in America.
I shied away from the show due to the rabid fan base before this whole incident, like I said before.Xsjadoblayde said:
Also, police activity was in several locations in America. La Brea, Cali [https://la.eater.com/2017/10/9/16448332/mcdonalds-mulan-szechwan-sauce-rick-morty-riot-police] was the one that had the biggest numbers, at least a thousand. That turned physical. UPenn [http://uproxx.com/tv/rick-and-morty-szechuan-sauce-mcdonalds-limited-event/3/] had police order over loud speaker that they didn't have sauce any more and return home, while the NYC lines were frankly ridiculous. Wellington Fl [http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local/new-customers-get-saucy-police-called-wellington-mcdonald/cuySG4WEFuhGPJQk0fP69J/] had cops come to officiate crowd dispersal when fans got too angry.
However, the question isn't "Is it really worth denouncing the whole show and fandom". The question is how can the fans not have the wherewithal to realize they more than likely actively damaged what they love.
We have politicians being 'outraged' that we dare talk about climate change after back to back cripplingly devastating hurricanes and now wildfires on the lighter side, several football players taking a knee is figuratively tearing this nation apart on the medium side, to a maniac's actions being used to erode a part of the constitution on the heavier side. This global climate can be summed up by "Overreaction Triggered".
Any distasteful action that can be attributed to a group will usually be used by the masses in order to paint that group as a whole. Mob think is a nice way of saying weakness. Everyone had a choice to make and some did it right. I applaud those people. But sadly, we live in this society. Where it doesn't matter how well you do something or how great a person you are, it only matters if the fringes of the same group you identify with does something wrong. Then the whole group is treated with the same suspicion.
Exactly. "Smart" Rick and Morty fans don't realize that the show is calling them stupid assholes. Rick is a stupid asshole. He may be the 'smartest man in the multiverse', but he's a total dick who regularly gets shown up by people with actual wisdom. And instead of doing anything that makes him happy, he spends all of his time wallowing in misery so he can feel smart.Saelune said:
It's Fight Club all over again.
I'm not gonna lie, I don't know if I could restrain myself from punching one of these R&M fans in the dick if I was a McDonald's employee and they were climbing on the counter and screeching at me. Treat them just like their hero would.