I remember the McDonalds Monopoly game where you collected episode 1 characters and every restaurant had a Jar Jar Binks cutout proudly on display (these all went away for episode 2 and 3 lol)

There’s a weird subset of people that got introduced to these films through the memes that didn’t watch the films without that. So when it’s not The Room level bad they think it’s okay. Not realizing these were major blockbusters at the time with insane marketing. Expectations are a bit different lol.

After watching the sequels I personally appreciate the attempt at telling a different story and if some of the motifs were fleshed out they could have been real cool (like the Jedi being more of the bad guys in the beginning). But they didn’t and the execution, for all of the reasons you mentioned, is atrocious.

And yeah the amount of racist caricatures in the films is absurd.

See. The entire point of the OG HailCorporate was that even if it wasn’t intentional astroturfing, posts and memes can end up being ads for large companies.

It was eventually co-opted to be intentional astroturfing (partially I think to make the community eat itself alive).

But my point is that even if you’re not specifically astroturfing this still unintentionally acts like an ad for Mug root beer and shows how far advertising reaches.

Hail corporate?

I’ve never had a manager complain about leaving a few minutes early.

It destroys more good will and motivation than the theoretical 40 hour a month. I say theoretical because the odds of anyone getting anything done in those 3 min are astronomically slim.

That employee is never going to stay later to help with anything if they don’t have the wiggle room to leave a few minutes early.

This one is less political and more “take public figure and make them googly eyed”

Fuck yes I’m so happy they let you tweak the bottom dock. It’s so simple but it makes me so happy