I thought this was a meme. Just looked it up on the US patent database...it's real.
Stuff like this makes me equal parts furious and immensely sad. When I was younger and first watched Wall-E, I thought the obese chair humans were funny and wacky.
Now watching it as an adult, it fills me with genuine horror. All human experiences reduced to virtualized, sterile, mini-games designed to make you as addicted as possible so you consume their products and services as much as possible.
They want us as helpless and dependant on their platforms as they can get us to be. Locked in, forced to dance like monkeys so we can get back to mindlessly consuming more sludge.
Capitalism really is a cancer.
The humans in WALL-E don't do any labour. When the captain tries to do something, a robot tells him to stop. That economic system is not capitalism. It's a socialist utopia.
It's not a utopia at all, it's a dystopia. The ship they are on was built buy the mega-corp Buy N' Large, which according to Pixar in the lore, gained a total monopoly over not just all other companies on earth, but much of the world governments.
It's a classic Cyberpunk trope of mega-corps that effectively are the government because they wield so much power and influence.
Plus, socialism is a society where the workers own the means of production, which isn't the case in the movie, so it can't be socialist.
my favorite thng about this image is how the mandatory hamburger acknowledgement is interrupting a scene where a man is getting shot in the face, emphasizing that the target audience is Americans
Please drink verification can.
At least Sony never brought it to market!
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Have they gone out of business?
Ted K wasn't wrong
How do they envisage this would work? It would merely make you hate the thing in the ad more.
Isn't it the path advertising is taking already? Shovel the product down your throat... I mean have you watched a YouTube video lately and did you enjoy the zillion interruptions?
If VR or AR goggles ever do become widespread, they will almost certainly be like the corporate hell UI from Ready Player One with 90% of your vision taken up by seizure inducing brainrot tier ads, or the scene from Altered Carbon where the only point of the contact lense is to add insane holographic signs and displays to every 5 feet of a street.
I still cannot believe that the Earth of Wall-E is currently looking like our most likely trajectory, and what, nearly half of Americans now are obese?
