another example of cargo cult empty image thinking. they are not combining things becase it wll work, they have no way of determining that since nothing matters to them (except themselves maybe). so what they do is put concepts together and sell through the marketing idea thinking that they can teach us what we will want to drink, eat, etc.

i have seen this and keep seeing it all over in various forms where image is more than content.

they are right on image, it drew you in. but they are playing a numbers game, attempting to see if the image mash up draws enough to the product that it gets a stable amount of purchasers to maintain enough and make it sellable.

its a very different way to target and it sort of works, as its results and mehtods are all known quantities, but it has no substance. the reason it has no substance is that they are so leftist that talent is missing.

so you have great products out there, but are nto designed by marketers using formulea to pretend to create substance on demand (mediocre at best and worst),they are generally designed and made by visionairies, and then later warped once we are addicted to them by bloating them till we are disatisfied, and to create a constant turn over.

its a false version of a measure of progress in a capitalist system in that things fracture. like sand on a pile as you add more. however, fracturing things as a process, does not progress make.

this is why nathans hotdogs are still loved, why entemans, ivory soap, and tons of others. while some born of great ad campaigns, most still exit anda re loved because they truly serve their customers rather than manipulatively serve the company by manipulating the customers.

That’s the only example I can think of off hand.