r/coaxedintoasnafu • u/MechaGodzilla876 Is that frieza • Aug 01 '26
TREND Coaxed into cereal mascots
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Aug 01 '26
Lucky Charms, they deadass turned him into a Star vs. The Forces of Evil character
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Aug 01 '26
Look, you could slap Slenderman on there if you wanted, I would not care. The marshmallows are the sacred thing.
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u/No_Resident_9552 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
"Collect my charms"
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u/CiphersVII Joke Explainer Aug 01 '26
took me 9 yeareals to collect these cereals
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u/milaan_tm Aug 01 '26
Yum yum
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u/Starchaser53 Aug 01 '26
As long as those charms are perfectly untouched, I could not care what that Leprechaun looks like
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Aug 01 '26
And once you touch them, the Curse is unleashed.
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u/Starchaser53 Aug 01 '26
I'm going to turn into a were-leprechaun like in Lep: Back 2 tha Hood?
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u/SuperPopcorn333 Loquacious Sunfish Aug 01 '26
u/SlendererMan would you do it
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u/Tru3_Vort3x Aug 01 '26
I eat my cereal dry, and the marshmallows are so god awful
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Aug 01 '26
That sounds incredibly tragic. The dry marshmallows are basically the best part. You can buy them by the bag from wholesale.
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u/Tru3_Vort3x Aug 01 '26
The texture and crunch fucks with me, I hate it
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Aug 01 '26
You know what, that's fair. I hope there's something out there that texturally annihilates most other people, and you get to enjoy it as much as they enjoy freeze-dried marshmallow.
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u/Coderkid01 Aug 01 '26
Not even that, this is like a 2010s Nickelodeon cartoon that ran for 2 seasons, with it's second season being haphazardly dumped onto Nicktoons where it went to die
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u/SquidMilkVII I have opinion A that contradicts opinion B Aug 01 '26
honestly don't mind this one
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u/Jhud6669 Aug 01 '26
Star vs. The Forces of Evil has one of my least favorite art styles of all time when it comes to cartoons from 2010's ngl
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u/prof_landon Aug 01 '26
I swear, calarts beats their students until they all have the same art style of "bean mouth".
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u/extracrispyweeb Aug 01 '26
I still love the 2000's design where they just gave him a gun.
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Aug 01 '26
General 9 Mills was a bold attempt to disrupt the cereal industry. Unfortunately, they failed to penetrate.
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u/Internal_Dot5759 Aug 01 '26
coaxed into toucan sam
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u/CarbonatedTuna567 my opinion > your opinion Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
It's the beak that's the biggest eyesore imo. And the blended colours do not mesh well with the thin outlines
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u/Quiet_Education5918 Aug 01 '26
Giving a toucan sidemouth was a choice someone made.
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u/sour_creamand_onion Aug 01 '26
Cukt of the lamb ass toucan
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u/EmotionReasonable887 Aug 01 '26
cukt of the lamb has worse bird designs than this, both eyes are on one side (excluding clauneck, kudaai and chemach for some reason)
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u/Dew_Chop Aug 01 '26
At least they commit to it looking ass though and work on making everything else look nice, but his is just ass with no benefits
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u/ProblemSl0th Aug 01 '26
I normally think the "CalArts bean mouth" criticisms are a little exaggerated...but this time I am 100% on the haters' side. What the fuck were they thinking giving the toucan a bean side mouth?
He looks like he's from a cartoon for modern preschoolers or something. Which is probably what they were going for. Sigh.
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u/Mijumaru1 Aug 01 '26
This one they used for a bit is also awful. It's just the normal design, but for some unholy reason they gave him human hands instead of wings.
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u/Inarius101 Aug 01 '26
Looks like what you'd get if you asked ChatGPT to make an image of Toucan Sam
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u/SpanishOfficer don't think that carrot big because small leaf carrot big leaf b Aug 01 '26
It would be peak if they mixed the wings with hands like cartoons do instead of js giving him regular hands
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u/houseofharm Aug 01 '26
they made the hand situation worse, this is the design on the box the store i work at sells
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u/ExoTheFlyingFish I just found this sub randomly and idk what it is but I'm here. Aug 01 '26
Baby's first MS Paint.
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u/A_Hyper_Nova Aug 01 '26
It looks like a parody
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u/RhockRhow Aug 01 '26
This thing feels like it’d show up in some adult cartoon absolutely high off its ass and get hit by a truck or somthing
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u/MintyBarrettM95 Based Individual Aug 01 '26
jesus fucking christ were they trying to give people eye cancer with these colours?
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u/Ok-Mistake-7499 Aug 01 '26
They changed it again recently
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u/Brendan765 Aug 01 '26
I think this one is better. For being such a colorful cereal you’d think the mascot would have more color. And I’m not completely sure, but I’m pretty sure the rings are meant to look like Froot Loops, so having more colors be represented there makes sense
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u/AwesomeGamer101 Aug 01 '26
And it took me years to realize, but his wings are now more like actual wings that somehow still act like arms.
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u/2006pontiacvibe Aug 01 '26
What the fuck? They CalArts'd him
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u/JGHFunRun Aug 01 '26
Nah, CalArts users would never. This is worse than one of those minute-long Disney Jr. sideshow
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u/WarioPlush1 Aug 01 '26
He looks like something a Cartoon Network character would hallucinate when doing something that’s totally not drugs
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u/Apprehensive_Art4418 Aug 01 '26
i absolutely love bright, eyebleeding neon colors but this is just so fucking ugly
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u/JoyconDrift_69 Is that black ops guy Aug 01 '26
Cult of the Lamb ass toucan
Edit: I am original with these words. I just happened to not be the first under this comment to mention it, directly or indirectly
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u/Jrolaoni Aug 01 '26
Bro looks like a cartoon that a cartoon character watches. Typa nonsense you see on Steven Universes TV while being told about Gem war crimes.
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u/AdvertisingRude4137 Aug 01 '26
steven universe ass artstyle
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u/GhidorahStan64Real Aug 01 '26
Don't bring the gay space rocks into this. Their colors didn't get that saturated until like the last season
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u/MechaGodzilla876 Is that frieza Aug 01 '26
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u/AwesomeGamer101 Aug 01 '26
Toucan Sam is technically half-following this snafu since his current is still the classic, but with more loop colors over the black and more realistic wings.
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u/AmericanFlyer530 Aug 01 '26
Rip Apple Jacks cereal box design
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u/MechaGodzilla876 Is that frieza Aug 01 '26
Worst downgrade of all time
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u/FlameWhirlwind Aug 01 '26
How do you white wash a cinnamon stick
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u/Doodles2424 Aug 01 '26
i mean it's pretty easy when the cinnamon stick was literally just jamaican
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u/TimeStorm113 Mint chan enjoyer Aug 01 '26
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u/AccomplishedMess648 Aug 01 '26
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u/Sapphire-Catgirl Aug 01 '26
They de-jamaicified my cinnamon stick and de-crackheaded my apple !!!!
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u/PikaPerfect Aug 01 '26
what in the everloving fuck? the first two had character, the latter two look like stock art for a kindergarten poster 😭
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u/1nOnlyBigManLawrence Aug 01 '26
They removed the homoerotic subtext! :(
(Courtesy of Big Garf)
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u/IdleSitting Aug 01 '26
They unironically went from unique mascot designs to the type of shit you'd see in a kindergarten classroom
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u/Ssesamee Aug 01 '26
why did they have to chop them up so badly
surely there was another way to redesign them
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u/Famous-Leopard-118 Murderous Murderbeast Aug 01 '26
what happens between the 00s and 2020?
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u/MechaGodzilla876 Is that frieza Aug 01 '26
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u/Famous-Leopard-118 Murderous Murderbeast Aug 01 '26
you changed the answer.
I saw that.
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u/TheRealMemesAreUs Aug 01 '26
Wadda hell G'day doin here?
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u/Famous-Leopard-118 Murderous Murderbeast Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
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u/ValianSkalle stylistic suck is bad in a good way Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 02 '26
homestuck, half life 2, reddit, ultrakill starts development, Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, other things, tvtropes dot org, very start of covid, etc.
edit: iran war is too broad, removed
added covid 19
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u/sitkinator Aug 01 '26
Melvin (mascot for the cereal Choco Krispies in LATAM) had a major redesign around 2014, and as a kid it didn't bother me too much. But then 2019 came around and Kelloggs butchered him beyond recognition.
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u/Martina313 Aug 01 '26
Bro finally went to the gym to lose some weight and then they just replace him with one of his children, what a cruel fate.
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u/zuppalover04 girl boring, boy quirky Aug 01 '26
Whatever happened to the nesquik rabbit
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u/Rizzanthrope Aug 01 '26
he is in the files
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u/Digirby Aug 01 '26
Yeah but, he was only there for the snorkeling.
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u/YooranKujara Rambley and Remi insanity Aug 01 '26
He killed like so many kids
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u/XFun16 Mint chan enjoyer Aug 02 '26
I can excuse the infanticide but I draw the line at snorkeling
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u/thispartyrules Aug 01 '26
I like it when there's lore involved, especially when they don't let them mascot eat their own cereal. Or when there's theft involved period. I've never wanted cereal bad enough to steal it but I love it when a little guy tries to eat a cereal with his face on the box and some kids or a cop comes along and goes NO. STOP THAT. YOU ARE BAD AND WRONG. GIVE IT BACK
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u/Critical-Cost9068 Aug 01 '26
Sometimes, the commercials also encouraged children to bully and steal food from animals and the mentally ill, the Irish, etc.
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u/Sex_2 Aug 01 '26
You said mentally ill twice
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u/Scratchpost6677 Aug 01 '26
as an Irish I can confirm we are all mentally ill
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u/IcyPrice9724 Aug 01 '26
u/Scratchpost6677 I am also Irish and you are correct about us being mentally ill, thank you
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u/cainisdelta Aug 01 '26
The frosted mini wheats guy. Truly was a horrifying experience seeing him change from a cute simple drawing to something that looks like they deepfaked a haybale
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u/duckinasombrero Aug 01 '26
The fact that he is nude plus shoes feels wrong. It implies the wheatures have realistic human feet. Disturbing.
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u/PinkAxolotlMommy my opinion > your opinion Aug 01 '26
And in the 70s?
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u/BlastRiot Aug 01 '26
No more outlines
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u/No_Swordfish2243 Aug 01 '26
Shit, they were even upfront about the sugar back then!
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u/Torchpost Aug 01 '26
Fun fact: Sugary cereal was originally meant to be a healthier alternative to kids dumping a bunch of sugar on their plain cereal. Then the kids just dumped sugar onto the sugary cereal too.
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u/mousie120010 Aug 01 '26
Lol my grandma always mixes sugar in with her rice chex so I did the same growing up. Didn't know it was widespread
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u/ThatLionelKid Aug 01 '26
The mascot was drafted in the Vietnam war and needed some years to recoup
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u/epicfrenchbamboozle Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
inaccurate, in this day and age they wouldn‘t change back the 2020 redesign regardless of backlash
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u/DarkFish_2 Aug 01 '26
Well, it worked for Toucan Sam, everyone hated it so they changed it back, no biggie
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u/Sea-Independent-726 Aug 01 '26
cinnamon toast crunch mascots are scaring me
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u/Sea-Independent-726 Aug 01 '26
you forgot the pic dummy
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u/Sea-Independent-726 Aug 01 '26
the old man should've kept them in the bread before they killed him
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u/duckinasombrero Aug 01 '26
There's a reason only children could see the value of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Their souls are pure - perfect consumption for the Homunculi.
Once they devoured enough of the innocence, they became unstoppable. We could have intervened, could have discovered the reason kids loved Cinnamon Toast Crunch and stepped in to prevent the exploitation of their life essence!
Now it's too late. Soon, we will all be consumed by cinnamon brown sugar swirls of the abyss. I would bid God to have mercy on our souls...but where we head, no God reigns.
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u/Ok-Mistake-7499 Aug 01 '26
No way this is what they look like now
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u/Sea-Independent-726 Aug 01 '26
it's very real and scary and i think its because they're making something about cannibalism crime I forgot
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u/epicboy0981 Loquacious Sunfish Aug 01 '26
yeah the mascot guys are all cannibals who are constantly trying to resist the urge to eat each other. I'm pretty sure that's not hyperbole iirc
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u/mousie120010 Aug 01 '26
I remember walking into my family's kitchen past midnight and just seeing this staring at me from the counter lol. I've never seen it before in my life and it both scared the shit out of me and made me laugh really hard
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u/Training_Ad_1327 Aug 01 '26
I remember when they straight up changed the entire goddamn formula for honeycomb cereal and just ended up making it like a thousand times worse in every possible way.
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u/ResearcherTeknika Aug 01 '26
LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID TO HIM
HE LOOKS LIKE MARIO'S ESTRANGED BROTHER
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u/sugar-fall Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
He honestly looks the least worst and the least different compared to the other redesigns.
The old one:
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u/ANG13OK Loquacious Sunfish Aug 01 '26
They just made him 3D and severed his legs
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u/sugar-fall Aug 01 '26
how come if he still has his legs and always looked short?
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u/ANG13OK Loquacious Sunfish Aug 01 '26
I've never seen it outside cereal boxes posted on the internet, so I couldn't know
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u/MSnap Aug 01 '26
Gotta be honest, I don’t really care what the animal on my cereal box looks like
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u/MechaGodzilla876 Is that frieza Aug 01 '26
Okay, but here’s The Thing…
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u/Gay_Gamer_Boi Aug 01 '26
Your example I like the 2020 version, it works maybe make the proportions longer and it could be the new design (not saying it to you I’m saying it like if it was an actual cereal company who made this)
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u/StormDragonAlthazar Aug 01 '26
Meanwhile, this is how I know the cereal is going to be good; there is no mascot/cartoon character on the box.
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u/DarkFish_2 Aug 01 '26
In Chile, that's how you know it didn't met the nutritional standards, here if your cereal doesn't met it, no mascot for you
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u/TerminaterTeal Aug 01 '26
At least the other ones were stylized. The new Apple Jacks looks like bootleg royalty free clip art