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11mo ago

AMC Exec: We Wouldn't Have Made the Dune Popcorn Bucket if We Knew You'd Be Sickos About It

gizmodo.com AMC Exec: We Wouldn't Have Made the Dune Popcorn Bucket if We Knew You'd Be Sickos About It

You sexualized a perfectly good popcorn bucket is what you did, now look at it, that theater chain's got anxiety

AMC Exec: We Wouldn't Have Made the Dune Popcorn Bucket if We Knew You'd Be Sickos About It

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AMC Exec: We Wouldn't Have Made the Dune Popcorn Bucket if We Knew You'd Be Sickos About It

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11mo ago

AMC Exec: We Wouldn't Have Made the Dune Popcorn Bucket if We Knew You'd Be Sickos About It

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Meh, I’m sure they’re wiping their tears with all the money they got from selling an overpriced popcorn bucket because it went viral. If they really wanted something more tame, they could’ve used the pain box instead.
- If they really wanted something more tame, they could’ve used the pain box instead.

They knew exactly what people would do. All marketing is good marketing.
- Yep there's no way they didn't see it coming. I'm not saying this was day 1 intent but surely before release somebody had the realization that it had potential to be used in other ways.
- they knew

Why don't companies have someone in product development who's entire job is to point out less than desirable ways people will use their products, or protect against rule 34 or the like? The internet has been around long enough that it shouldn't have been a surprise that there were people who wanted to fuck a plastic lamprey eel. How as this even surprising?
- Hire a 13yo boy just to look at your products and point out all of the ways it can be badly interpreted
  
  They made a movie about that once with Tom Hanks. Guess these companies never watched it 😏
- Red Teams, they exist.
  Just like QA it doesn’t “make money” so why bother?
  
  I would argue that QA saves you money. In that, it detects faulty products and in doing so limit liability.
- Because that employee would be by far the most overworked one in most companies?
  Or maybe just because most companies don't care as long as you keep giving them money without costing them any 🤷
  
  And HR would hate them.
  The "Hey, did you know that you can Fuck this?" Guy.

...driving people to go crazy with demand for the shai-hulussy-shaped vessel.
This can't be legal
- I'm pretty sure it's in a "shouldn't be but is" grey area along with the likes if gerrymandering and planned obsolescence 🤷
- Bless the Maker and his shai-hulussy
  Bless the coming in Him

Right. Like AMC marketing execs have never heard the words vagina dentata.
Yeah. I'm just gonna leave that there. Like AMC did with the Dune popcorn bucket, lol.
- Pretty sure that the marketing department that brought us roughly a dozen The Walking Dead spinoffs can't climax WITHOUT hearing the words "vagina dentata"
- Vagina dentata
  What a wonderful phrase
  Vagina dentata
  Ain't no passing craze

Internet's been around for about 40 years, sounds like a you problem
- Yeah, it's silly to be such delicate prudes about it tbh lol

I think this is the funniest thing I've read all year, "driving people to go crazy with demand for the shai-hulussy-shaped vessel.
- I've seen eggdrop bots, all Dune inspired, fester in an irc room for years and never got anythin close to shai-hulussy. AI will never replace humans.
- I’m dead

- So the bucket was sold in other places? I thought it was just a gimmick from the movie theaters in mexico to boost sales.

They probably paid some TikToker to make videos about it's other uses to pump sales
- Heheh...... Pump
  
  😏

This is actively promoting it. They absolutely knew.

It should have been the "pain box" that Paul has to put his hand in!

of course they knew it. that is why they did it.

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