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

Not The Onion@lemmy.world – 243 points – 3 months ago

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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14117334

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

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.

I agree whole heartedly, the “it doesn’t make money” argument is common and the fight to do proper QA is rarely won.

The problem is QA vs QC. Quality control means you actually have to do stuff. Quality assurance just means "I assure you, the quality is good ;)"

If you don't have a QA you run the risk of having to rebuild the entire bar from scratch

QC detects problems. QA predicts, mitigates, and resolves problems. QA is the first to go when it's cheaper to scrap problems rather than make perfect product. QC goes when companies can outsource it to supplier-reported inspections and then leave it to the customer to act as final inspection. The Amazon method that everyone has to follow if they want to stay competitive

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.

I’d replace HR with that guy honestly

...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"