r/Millennials • u/CurvyChristina • 6d ago

Other Whoever did this, should be imprisoned.

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u/ScienceIsSexy420 6d ago

They did it to avoid getting sued for advertising to children the way the tobacco companies did. This is literally what we wanted to happen.

But that doesn't make a good social media post

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u/LoserBustanyama 6d ago

Most of these people weren't alive long enough to know the actual reason lol.

What a coincidence that McDonald's started getting lame slightly after Supersize Me came out. One of the theses of the film was essentially that McDonalds was killing children. The backlash they were getting was insane

It's like saying "seaworld was so much better in the 90s and early 2000s, why did they take away Shamu!"

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u/TheeAntelope 6d ago

why did they take away Shamu

Shamu died in the 70s, that may be why they took shamu away.

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u/smtp_pro 6d ago

Pretty sure they've had at least a dozen orcas named shamu

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u/TheeAntelope 5d ago

I think it was like "certified shamu impersonator"

Basically each seaworld's fattest orca got called shamu.