• @proudblond
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    315 days ago

    Wow I’m old, I remember this nightmare.

    • I'm_All_NEET:3OP
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      5 days ago

      Depending on your age Mactonight are two completely different things. If your gen-x or millennial Mactonight is the weird fast food mascot you saw at McDonald’s 20 years ago. If your a zoomer Mactonight is Moonman, the vaporwave, alt-right rapper who loves to say the n-word and kill minorities.

      I remember my dad listening to Moonman songs.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m an older millennial who’s fairly into vaporwave and I’ve never heard of this racist rapper version of mac tonight. The food mascot from the 80s (twenty years ago was 2004, btw) fits in with the 80s samples vaporwave uses, like this Saint Pepsi track:

        https://youtu.be/_hI0qMtdfng

        • @Clbull
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          Moon Man isn’t really a vaporwave thing. It’s a meme that originated from YTMND in the late 2000’s which rebranded Mac Tonight as a white supremacist rapper, often accompanied with slur-filled text-to-speech parodies of various rap songs.

          It’s not the reason McDonalds ditched the mascot (that was due to an entirely unrelated trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Bobby Darin’s son in 1989), but it is a big reason why they started actively pulling down Mac Tonight animatronics in their restaurants which were otherwise being left disused.

          The most infamous Moon Man thing to exist is a controversial DOOM mod which replaces all the enemies with incredibly xenophobic depictions of minorities, and adds a roster of several playable characters including him, Hitler and Ben Garrison.

        • @RubberElectrons
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          45 days ago

          This is the one I found as well. I wonder what happened to saint Pepsi?

          • trevor
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            55 days ago

            I can’t find the video, but i saw someone interview him, and PepsiCo asked him to use a different name.

            He now goes by Skylar Spence. It’s a different genre, but I love the songs he’s released under that name.

            • Ken Oh
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              35 days ago

              I saw him in concert in 2017 under Skylar Spence, but he flipped back to Saint Pepsi for his 2019 release, so he must have figured that out somehow.

        • I'm_All_NEET:3OP
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          15 days ago

          “(twenty years ago was 2004, btw)”

          I know that but if you were a millennial it would have been 20 years ago.

        • Flax
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          15 days ago

          I only heard about it from a youtube documentary

      • Altima NEO
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        75 days ago

        Mac tonight was more like 30 years ago… I thought he was cool

          • @proudblond
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            45 days ago

            Yep that sounds about right. I stand by my “old” statement.

        • Flax
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          25 days ago

          Why is emplemon controversial?

          • @[email protected]
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            15 days ago

            I was just being overly cautious because it’s been a while since I’ve watched and of their videos, and you know how it goes with YouTubers

  • @shyguyblue
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    115 days ago

    I remember the McDonald’s near my high school had a maybe 3/4 sized version hanging from the ceiling for a few years. Couldn’t get to the ball pit fast enough to escape that uncanny nightmare…

  • @BradleyUffner
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    65 days ago

    I don’t think adding sunglasses is going to make that any less of a nightmare.

  • @BetaBlake
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    65 days ago

    “any of you kids wanna see a dead fry cook?”

  • @[email protected]
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    45 days ago

    Let’s dance

    Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

    Let’s sway

    Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight!

  • @ViscloReader
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    24 days ago

    Please someone mixes Radiohead’s album The bends with this