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 Dude, your responding a month later. 

Jada said: 
Honestly, I don't even think the video is bad. The bashing is exaggerated.

Lol, isn't that bad? The CEO shows up in corporate wear, clearly doesnt eat that shit, takes the smallest bite ever and doesnt swallow, probably spits it out later, and then says yum yum this product is so good let me finish that later. "I eat McDonald's every day."

Yes it isn't that bad.

The man took a bite of the the burger and is talking to the camera, and people expect him to chew and talk at the same time and swallow before the video is over. They used editing, big whoop. It's a commercial plus they wanted a shot of the big arch with a bite out of it. 

Let's analyze the echo chambers of the Big Arch bandwagon. 

- "The CEO shows up in corporate wear" - This isn't part of the echo chamber. It's something you came up with, like wtf does his attire have to do with anything ? God forbid someone eats a burger in a 3 piece suit or a cartigen. 

- "Clearly doesn't eat that shit" - It isn't clear that he never ate it either. 

- "Takes the smallest bite ever" - So did Food Review of the week ( video posted last month on the first page ) and he loved it.  Some guys eat like girls. 

- " Yum, this product is good, let me finish it later" - I said nearly the same damn thing when I had it. I might have even mentioned on the first page how this thing is so filling people will wrap it up and save it for later. 

Hold on lets see the quarter pounder video, no editing.

Dear God it happened again ! 

At the end he should've just shut up, finished chewing his food for 10-15 more seconds so the camera can capture him swallowing !

 

Its not the first time the CEO has fucked up a McDonald's product.

Bandwagon effect. 

 

At any rate, I know this is aside, but McDonald should burn for ruining the health of children.

If McDonald's ruins the health of a child it's not Ronald's fault.

Plus the people who do die from unhealthy eating are people with unhealthy eating habits like gluttony. Eating like a pig when they're not even hungry.  

 

Any support taken from Donald McRonald is good news to me.

 

But what about the house of Ronald organization, which says here helps over 7 million children and their families each year ?

 

The clip is like an alien pretending to be human saying he likes human food, just like you. Sorry, but you dont see the irony in the clip?

 Not at all. See, I had the Big Arch maybe 2 years before it landed in the states. In Canada ( Where Ronald's isn't as unhealthy ) we loved the product. 

And yes, a hamburger IS a product. It doesn't simply grow on trees like fresh produce, it is something that is processed and assembled. I needed list the steps to what it takes to make a hamburger from scratch. 

Thanks for the live demonstration though. You're one of those who never had The Big Arch while you're entire outlook is based on what the bandwagon has to say about it without any personal experience with the product. 

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Gemini. A 2nd time....

 

Gemini said:

Yes, the online "hate" and backlash surrounding the Big Arch was heavily fueled by a bandwagon effect, primarily driven by viral internet culture and corporate parody rather than widespread disdain for the burger itself.

The entire controversy was sparked not by the product's quality, but by an awkward promotional video posted by McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski during the burger’s U.S. launch.

🍔 Anatomy of a Bandwagon

The wave of online mockery grew rapidly due to a specific sequence of viral events: 

- The "Squidward Bite": Internet users quickly latched onto Kempczinski's overly cautious, tiny nibble of the 1,000+ calorie burger. Many viewers poked fun at what they describe as an awkward or reluctant bite, comparing it to “a scene from SpongeBob SquarePants where Squidward cautiously nibbles a Krabby Patty.”

- Corporate Speech: The CEO repeatedly referred to the menu item as a "delicious product" rather than food. This corporate detachment became an easy target for memes and parodies across TikTok and X.

- The Comedian Catalyst: The video sat relatively unbothered for weeks until an Irish comedian stitched it on TikTok. This triggered an avalanche of copycat parodies, turning a minor piece of corporate marketing into the internet's "main character".

- The Burger Wars Bandwagon: Seeing the massive traction, competitors like Burger King, Wendy's, and A&W jumped onto the bandwagon. Their respective executives filmed themselves aggressively taking massive, messy bites of their own burgers to contrast with McDonald's.

📈 A "Cringe Win" for Marketing

Ultimately, the bandwagon effect didn't harm the product. Marketing experts classified the phenomenon as a "cringe win". While millions joined in on the collective internet joke of blindly mocking the video, the sheer volume of organic discussion turned the Big Arch into the most talked-about fast-food launch of the year, ultimately driving curious consumers directly to stores to try it for themselves.

The Comedian Catalyst. Wow so the video sat unbothered for weeks until some comedian made fun of it on TikTok. Herd mentality. 

It's the best thing that chain ever put out. I've said that before the US got it, and before the CEO.

"Yes, the online "hate" and backlash surrounding the Big Arch was heavily fueled by a bandwagon effect, primarily driven by viral internet culture and corporate parody rather than widespread disdain for the burger itself."

 

 

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Honestly you bandwagon more than anyone I have ever seen, and that includes when you regurgitate stuff about other people bandwagoning that sounds like rhetoric from other places. I don't even know how it's possible for someone to act like such a cartoonish representation of a boomer. (and yes I know that you're a millenial or gen x or some shit.) I'd go as far to say that you bandwagon a bit more than Turncoat does.

"04:07
Spatial Mind:
Yes. Autists belong in prison!"
I mean this literally sounds like a bandwagon to me, even if it was a joke or not. (it's still popular to make unscientific derogatory jokes about autism.)

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No, autism is itself a bandwagon disorder

Here as follows are the stages in which according to neurological research that autism develops:

Neural Development, Pain Signaling, and the Biological Meaning of Suffering

The earliest stage of biological development is not defined by organs but by cellular organization. A genome contains the information required to produce a complete organism, but this information is activated gradually through gene expression, cellular migration, and chemical signaling. Cells divide, specialize, and establish communication networks that eventually form the nervous system.

The nervous system develops before the body reaches full structural complexity because regulation and perception are fundamental biological functions. The neural tube becomes the foundation of the brain and spinal cord. Neurons extend processes through developing tissue, forming connections that allow the future organism to detect internal and external conditions.

Pain perception depends on the development of specialized sensory pathways. Nociceptors detect potentially damaging stimuli such as extreme pressure, temperature changes, or chemical disruption. These signals travel through peripheral nerves, the spinal cord, the thalamus, and finally to cortical regions responsible for interpretation. Pain is not simply damage itself; it is the nervous system’s evaluation of a threat to biological integrity.

A useful scientific metaphor is that pain functions like a biological monitoring system. Mild signals resemble a warning notification: the system detects a change but does not require immediate emergency action. Moderate signals resemble an escalating alarm: attention is redirected toward preventing further harm. Severe signals resemble a critical failure alert, where multiple systems prioritize survival responses over normal activity.

A hypothetical intensity scale could be described as:

**Level 1–2: Minimal sensory disturbance**
Comparable to weak background signals in a monitoring network. The nervous system detects change, but the information produces little disruption to function.

**Level 3–4: Noticeable discomfort**
The signal becomes behaviorally relevant. Attention shifts toward the affected area, and protective responses may begin.

**Level 5–6: Significant pain response**
The nervous system increases priority given to the signal. Heart rate, stress hormones, muscle tension, and attention may become affected. The organism begins actively modifying behavior to reduce the perceived threat.

**Level 7–8: Severe pain response**
The sensory system enters a high-alert state. Normal activities may become impaired because neural resources are redirected toward protection and recovery.

**Level 9–10: Extreme pain response**
The nervous system experiences overwhelming signaling that exceeds normal adaptive usefulness. At this point, the biological purpose of pain is no longer simply information delivery; it becomes an emergency state requiring intervention.

During normal development, the nervous system prevents sensory overload through maturation of inhibitory circuits. Early neural networks are highly active, but they are refined through synaptic pruning, neurotransmitter regulation, and the development of descending pathways that control incoming signals.

Without these regulatory mechanisms, the nervous system would behave like an uncontrolled diagnostic system that reports every microscopic change as a crisis. Biological development requires both sensitivity and suppression: enough detection to prevent damage, but enough filtering to allow normal function.

The ethical importance of understanding pain becomes especially relevant in advanced biotechnology. If future technologies create organisms with complex nervous systems, the central question is not only whether biological structures can be produced, but whether those structures are capable of subjective experience and suffering.

Medical ethics must therefore consider pain as a measurable biological process and as a potential experience. The goal of medicine is not to eliminate all sensation, because sensation is necessary for survival. The goal is to understand pain mechanisms well enough to prevent unnecessary suffering while preserving the protective functions of the nervous system.

Understanding pain is ultimately an investigation into how living systems protect themselves. The same neural processes that allow suffering also allow learning, adaptation, and survival. The ethical responsibility of science is to advance knowledge while recognizing the significance of the experiences that biological systems may generate.

 

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The "fading qualia" (left) and the "dancing qualia" (right) are two thought experiments about consciousness and brain replacement. Chalmers argues that both are contradicted by the lack of reaction of the subject to changing perception, and are thus impossible in practice. He concludes that the equivalent silicon brain will have the same perceptions as the biological brain.[19


The "fading qualia" is a reductio ad absurdum thought experiment. It involves replacing, one by one, the neurons of a brain with a functionally identical component, for example based on a silicon chip. Chalmers makes the hypothesis, knowing it in advance to be absurd, that "the qualia fade or disappear" when neurons are replaced one-by-one with identical silicon equivalents. Since the original neurons and their silicon counterparts are functionally identical, the brain's information processing should remain unchanged, and the subject's behaviour and introspective reports would stay exactly the same. Chalmers argues that this leads to an absurd conclusion: the subject would continue to report normal conscious experiences even as their actual qualia fade away. He concludes that the subject's qualia actually don't fade, and that the resulting robotic brain, once every neuron is replaced, would remain just as sentient as the original biological brain.[20][19]

Similarly, the "dancing qualia" thought experiment is another reductio ad absurdum argument. It supposes that two functionally isomorphic systems could have different perceptions (for instance, seeing the same object in different colors, like red and blue). It involves a switch that alternates between a chunk of brain that causes the perception of red, and a functionally isomorphic silicon chip, that causes the perception of blue. Since both perform the same function within the brain, the subject would not notice any change during the switch. Chalmers argues that this would be highly implausible if the qualia were truly switching between red and blue, hence the contradiction. Therefore, he concludes that the equivalent digital system would not only experience qualia, but it would perceive the same qualia as the biological system (e.g., seeing the same color).[20][19]

 

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0 votes RE: The Bandwagon Effect

Honestly you bandwagon more than anyone I have ever seen, and that includes when you regurgitate stuff about other people bandwagoning that sounds like rhetoric from other places. I don't even know how it's possible for someone to act like such a cartoonish representation of a boomer. (and yes I know that you're a millenial or gen x or some shit.) I'd go as far to say that you bandwagon a bit more than Turncoat does.

"04:07
Spatial Mind:
Yes. Autists belong in prison!"
I mean this literally sounds like a bandwagon to me, even if it was a joke or not. (it's still popular to make unscientific derogatory jokes about autism.)

 tbh, I don't mind if you've had those ideas about me. But actually you're just trying to invent stuff to complain about so you can impress Legga or something. 

"Even if it were a joke or not" Thanks for the laugh again. 

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