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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sing me a song, you're the bananaman...

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Party on, Slurms...

[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

I knew this would be in the comments... lol thank you

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

My thoughts exactly

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

With Leno chin.

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wow I’m old, I remember this nightmare.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Depending on your age Mactonight are two completely different things. If your gen-x or millennial Mactonight is the weird fast food mascot you saw at McDonald's 20 years ago. If your a zoomer Mactonight is Moonman, the vaporwave, alt-right rapper who loves to say the n-word and kill minorities.

I remember my dad listening to Moonman songs.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I’m an older millennial who’s fairly into vaporwave and I’ve never heard of this racist rapper version of mac tonight. The food mascot from the 80s (twenty years ago was 2004, btw) fits in with the 80s samples vaporwave uses, like this Saint Pepsi track:

https://youtu.be/_hI0qMtdfng

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Moon Man isn't really a vaporwave thing. It's a meme that originated from YTMND in the late 2000's which rebranded Mac Tonight as a white supremacist rapper, often accompanied with slur-filled text-to-speech parodies of various rap songs.

It's not the reason McDonalds ditched the mascot (that was due to an entirely unrelated trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Bobby Darin's son in 1989), but it is a big reason why they started actively pulling down Mac Tonight animatronics in their restaurants which were otherwise being left disused.

The most infamous Moon Man thing to exist is a controversial DOOM mod which replaces all the enemies with incredibly xenophobic depictions of minorities, and adds a roster of several playable characters including him, Hitler and Ben Garrison.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

This is what happens when you let channers have modding tools.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is the one I found as well. I wonder what happened to saint Pepsi?

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can't find the video, but i saw someone interview him, and PepsiCo asked him to use a different name.

He now goes by Skylar Spence. It's a different genre, but I love the songs he's released under that name.

[–] kenoh@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

I saw him in concert in 2017 under Skylar Spence, but he flipped back to Saint Pepsi for his 2019 release, so he must have figured that out somehow.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

"(twenty years ago was 2004, btw)"

I know that but if you were a millennial it would have been 20 years ago.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago

I only heard about it from a youtube documentary

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mac tonight was more like 30 years ago... I thought he was cool

[–] littletoolshed@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Yep that sounds about right. I stand by my “old” statement.

[–] b000rg@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/Jp35RSGt_Dg

I don't know if EmpLemon is considered a controversial character or not, but here's what popped into my head the second I saw this.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why is emplemon controversial?

[–] b000rg@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was just being overly cautious because it's been a while since I've watched and of their videos, and you know how it goes with YouTubers

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago
[–] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 days ago
[–] _m_cubed_@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fun fact: This was actor and contortionist Doug Jones’s first role.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 14 points 4 days ago

what in the fuck man

[–] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This'll scare the shit out of Seth 😆

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Found the jackal

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

CrackTonight

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

I remember the McDonald's near my high school had a maybe 3/4 sized version hanging from the ceiling for a few years. Couldn't get to the ball pit fast enough to escape that uncanny nightmare...

[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Let’s dance

Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

Let’s sway

Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight!

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I don't think adding sunglasses is going to make that any less of a nightmare.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

"any of you kids wanna see a dead fry cook?"

[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

1 day no zaza got me like

[–] ViscloReader@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Please someone mixes Radiohead's album The bends with this

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how much sunglasses will help this nightmare.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 7 points 3 days ago

It helps a lot, with the glasses he's just a weird jazz man, no glasses and he's a sleep paralysis eldritch horror.

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Is that Jack Nicholson?

[–] Davidvanb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 days ago

...hey, willem dafoe is an accomplished thespian; show some respect...

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Looks like Bob Hope.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago