• Jay@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      1 year ago

      Then he simply says that this is a statement about the commercialization of our society. To be honest, that would be a better explanation than “It’s an Oreo’s barcode”.

    • liquidbacon@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      It looks like a UPC barcode. So he should be able to scan it at any store that sells Oreos. With no worry about it changing.

      At least in North America. I’m not sure if UPC codes are valid elsewhere.

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
    192·
    1 year ago

    I remember reading on Reddit, that in some salon the hated the barcode on the neck tattoo. So they had a cut out barcode from a box of tampons, and whenever somebody asked for that tattoo, that’s what they did.

  • xia@lemmy.sdf.org
    122·
    1 year ago

    Intentionally making self-checkouts even more difficult and awkward…

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
      81·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, and is it supposed to be functional? How would it even work?

      We may be putting more thought into it than the dude who decided to tattoo a random junk food barcode on himself though.

  • Dagwood212@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    555 95472, or 5 for short, was boy close in age to Charlie Brown. 5 had brown spiky hair, and he wore an orange shirt with the number 5 on it. 5 also played for Charlie Brown’s baseball team. 5 was given a numerical name by his father, who was upset over the preponderance of numbers in people’s lives; when questioned, 5 clarified that this was not his father’s way of protesting, it was his way of “giving in.” 5’s family are named 1 (father), 2 (mother), 3 & 4 (twin sisters). and 6 (sister). His last name, 95472 (the accent is on the 4), was taken from the family’s ZIP code; it is also the zip code for Sebastopol, California, where Schulz lived at the time.

    From Wikipedia.

      • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
        93·
        1 year ago

        I genuinely thought they were joking with these comments, but I think they’re serious. They thought I was working for mcdonald’s the other day. Lol

        I don’t even know how that would work. I just like sharing memes.

        • Godric@lemmy.world
          32·
          1 year ago

          Don’t you know memes are window to your soul, and posting one means you 1000% support it???

          /s

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      74·
      1 year ago

      This post makes you want to buy Oreos? Weird.

      Edit: I’m having a fun time imagining a brand manager at Mondelez looking at this pitch:

      “So it’s a consumer that has a tattoo of the barcode and is scanning it? At like a Ralphs? Oh, no, a Home Depot? Ok great. And we can clearly see that it’s the brand with like a nice image of the product? No - it’s grainy and text only and can barely be read? Perfect - green light. Great work guys. Let the creative agency know to keep more of this coming. Also, let’s have the media agency seed this into some insignificant social media networks that almost no one is on. I can’t wait to see the sales lift this is going to bring. I can smell a promotion.”

      • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
        122·
        1 year ago

        “Also, can you make like 700-800 totally unrelated posts and spend a ton of time fawning over star trek first? THEN, when they’re least expecting it, we hit em with this masterpiece.”