Burger King Launches Mental Illness Themed "Real Meals" - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/burger-king-takes-aim-at-mcdonalds-by-introducing-unhappy-meals/ https://youtu.be/PjxRUEA0Tdo I guess depression is a commodity now.

I'll be honest the "salty" meal made me laugh.

It's an interesting marketing campaign, but I'm all for bringing more awareness to mental illnesses. It's really overlooked or downplayed by the majority of the population in the US.

https://i.imgur.com/G7o9HUN.png im gonna kill myself........ right after I get a bite of this Burger King™ Whopper™!

I can't help but feel that this is all marketing and for the money. Perhaps they could make it so, for every meal you buy, a dollar or 2 from it goes to mental health research/charities.

The ad makes it sound like they do, but after reading into it they're just saying they "support" the work of Mental Health America. Also why the fuck is there even a "YAAAS" meal in there, mixed with depression and anxiety? This whole thing is bad taste, it sounds like something from The Onion.

Finally I can grubhub salty meals to twitch streamers!

This isn't anywhere near as bad as the title made me imagine.

How did we go from the "Look how cool and radical I am!" advertising from the 90s to the "Look how depressed and shit my life is." of the 2010's?

The 90's was full of optimism and hope for a better world after the cold war ended, and now we know how much of a joke that was.

I was expecting them to shovel down a whopper to depressing music while the screen faded to grey. Color me surprised that it wasn't as shitty as I thought. It's overly dramatic, but I think what BK was TRYING to do is good. One part strikes me weird though; "They say I'm too young to raise my baby girl. Take your opinion world and suck it." That's going to be taken the WRONG way I feel, especially when we still have struggling teen moms in the US because Plan B is too hard to get, pills are expensive, and not a ton of schools teach safe sex right. The idea is that no one is happy all the time, but this sounds like a different message altogether.

can i get a uhh........ completely disconnected from reality value combo

Apart from this, BK has been pushing out a fuckton of coupons for all sorts of things. As of late it seems they're just relying on marketing when the food quality could use some improvement instead.

As a semi-regular diner of fast food establishments, I agree. No fancy marketing is going to make me want a burger from Burger King. That said, the advertisement and the whole idea is just weird. Not as stupid as I thought, but still not handled with the greatest execution. I guess it's good if it gets the idea of mental illness out there to people. Maybe if some money was going to actual people trying to help, I'd consider choking down a whopper.

Humans of Late-Stage Capitalism, directly. Of all the ways to bring up awareness this is the worst one.

But fast food just made me feel worse in the long-run?

I hope the Salty meal is vegan.

Is BK worse in the States or what, because I think it tastes fresher than McDonalds and even our Hesburgers, which also don't have free refills where I live.

Some people are picky, but it could just be shitty stores in their area. The burgers at my BK are damn good and blows McDonald's out of the water. Of course, McDonald's fries can't be beat.

Mental health awareness is a profiteering and PR opportunity for corporations now. Hurrah.

BK quality varies pretty significantly from place to place, even store to store in the same city. McDonald's is usually fairly consistent.

yeah no that's exactly what it is it's fucking disgusting to see capitalist corporations trying to relate to civilians like this, fuck off. If you really care about mental health, offer full benefits to each and every one of your employees.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I seriously hate depression memes and advertising that tries to take advantage of this dumb trend of making light of the condition. It's good to laugh about it and have some humor, but I feel like it's just been getting way too out-of-hand seriously.

I hear an analogy about gallow's humor; it only works if you're the one on the gallows. If you aren't, then you're just part of the execution.

If you ever work at Burgerking, you'll need some mental health therapy. But you won't get that working there. You also won't get enough money to live on. I make almost 30 god damn dollars an hour now, and I still feel less exhausted after my work days now than I did when I worked at Burgerking. They pay you 7.25 but they expect work as if they paid you 100k a year. Fuck this company for putting their workers through shit conditions with shit pay, and then pulling this marketing campaign. I hope they end up in absolute bankruptcy.

Everything is, welcome to the last 100+ years of liberal capitalist society.

Even then, I feel as if it pushes those with depression to wallow in it more and become desensitized, and go on to not treat it or take action. Combined with how social media is right now, I just feel so bad for depressed kids growing up now. At the same time though, there's more awareness of it now because of the Internet. So, I guess it's a double-edged sword.

The Burgers here aren't even anywhere near hot to the touch every time I order it. The fries come out more often than not just warm or sometimes even freezer burned. The chicken sandwiches are maybe the better things to come out of them, but everything else is complete disappointment.

I mean, this Late-Stage Capitalism aside, I genuinely like BK and wish I had one closer than 20 minutes away instead of a McD's. Wendy's is up there, too. McD's is just rly cheap shit that I don't even consider burgers, just "McDonalds food," in its own category. Which is okay but BK is genuinely pretty good.

I don't understand, when people say "Yaaas" they aren't happy? Is it some sort of cry for help?