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Chick-fil-A is reportedly launching a streaming service for some reason (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by MrJameGumb@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] QubaXR@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They already run what seems to be every other post on Reddit, so why not streaming, too.

[–] Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sorry what do you mean by this?

[–] BlucifersVeinyAnus@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

So, you know how Reddit has posts? Well something like 53% of those Reddit posts are posted by chick-fil-a agents for various reasons.

Ever since they won the chicken sandwich wars of the early 20s they’ve been focused on invading media spaces, often quite aggressively.

Reddit is essentially a chicken sandwich propaganda wing of the massive chicken chain at this point, still quite a bit of porn though luckily. Can’t say I’m looking forward to chicken sandwich porn 🤷‍♂️

[–] radix@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They may have won the chicken sandwich wars, but Taco Bell will be the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars.

[–] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And with no more competition, they'll go all fancy. Makes one wonder where you'd be able to get a decent burger anymore.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

The sewer people. They've got an underground barbecue going.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Chicken sandwich porn? When Popeyes came out with their sandwich, there was a trending video on Pornhub soon after titled “PAWG let me Fuck her for a Popeyes Chicken Sandwich”. The Internet beat you to that.

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Burger King already tried the subservient chicken thing.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago

Can’t say I’m looking forward to chicken sandwich porn 🤷‍♂️

Pepperidge farm remembers (shudder).

[–] QubaXR@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you go to Reddit, you will inevitably very quickly come by posts that seem to be from regular users, but are actually fill-a ads.

Funny thing happened and I just happened to be eating their food when I filmed it. We did a thing and it failed at other joints but succeeded at their place. My dog can do a cool thing with their box, etc etc.

It feels like they have an army of as people dedicated to creating this content.

It started soon after they got a lot of bad press for finding anti-LGBTQ organizations. Instead of changing their ways, they decided to change their image through social media posts and largely succeeded. Most people associate their brand with good times now, even though they don't know why.

Much like whenever US police murders someone, Web gets flooded with memes and videos of cops doing fun things and being generally great fun.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Advertisers and AI bots have taken over reddit ever since Google made them the new SEO technique.