This is an example of it going poorly but advertisers to an extent do it on purpose. Kool-aid gets used to refer to powdered drink mixes like band-aid is used to refer to adhesive bandages and, in some regions, coke is used to refer to soda in general. The idea is to become so associated with the concept as to overshadow the competition.
At the same time, lawyers also fight the phenomenon because if your product name becomes the concept itself it loses all trademark enforcement. There’s a chart posted on this site somewhere that shows words losing trademark status because of court rulings, but I guess I didn’t save it. The term is “genericized trademark”.
“While initially gleeful at the imminent damage to his competitor’s brand, Kool-Aid Man would soon be confronted with the irony inherent in his own vast advantage in consumer mind-share.”
edit: after some time looking at this, i think all of the insane AI body hallucinations are way funnier than the joke.
edit 2: i can’t stop looking at this image. it’s so crazy. the more i look at it, the more insane shit i find! this is my new favorite pic on the internet!
you don’t find its plan, revealed here, to cut you in half and attach your legs, at the hips, to another pair of legs (instead of an upper body) disturbing?
Yes, and it’s a great use of AI. Ai is great for this sort of surreal shit, whether for Humor purposes or just to be wowed. This is a much better lane for Ai.
You should (or really shouldn’t) listen to the recordings. The leader was recording himself during the event and left the tape running after everyone started dying. Pretty haunting shit. They started with the kids first.
Jim Jones and I both went to Indiana University (I also grew up in that university’s town, Bloomington), and now I live in Terre Haute, Indiana, which has the federal prison where Timothy McVeigh was executed and a school for “troubled” teens that Charles Manson once got sent to.
I can’t help it if mass murder surrounds me, right?
They were told the poison was painless so they gave it to the kids first. The tapes show that the kids were in agony and the parents were freaking out, to the point where many wanted to leave and not take the poison but they were forced to at gunpoint
Oh! And be sure not to forget the part where Jim Jones then proceeded to turn his gun on himself and take the quick death instead of suffering the way he forced everyone else to.
Funny how often monsters turn out to be cowards as well. History rhymes, I guess.