/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Looks like someone needs a mcrib to calm down.

>>4869436
Is it really viral marketing?
Granted those are all shitty threads but maybe it's nothing more than morons and bad trolls.

>>4869441

OP is obviously in serious distress re: this issue. A mcrib couldn't possibly cut it. He needs a Jack in the Box munchie meal (available after 9pm)!

OP, do you even know what viral marketing is? Let me explain since you apparently don't get it.

Viral marketing is marketing that SPREADS between people, like a VIRUS does. It is shared from person to person via social media: like when you find a funny video and you post it on facebook or send links to your friends and say "check this out" and then they share it with all their friends, etc. That's viral because it's SPREAD.

There's no spreading going on here. Nobody is posting links to /ck/ fast food threads on their twitter or facebook. Nobody thinks these things are so cool that they just have to let their friends in on the awesomeness.

Normal marketing? Maybe. But it certainly isn't viral.

Original Poster, it looks like you're pretty stressed out about fast food! Don't put it down before you give it a shot, try a new Pretzel Pub Chicken Sandwich™ from Wendy's™ today!


Featuring a lightly breaded chicken breast topped with natural muenster cheese, honey mustard and a warm cheddar sauced all atop a soft pretzel bun. Tell us about your love for the Pretzel Pub Chicken and it may just get featured in our #PretzelLoveStories!

>>4869465

I'd better go have some Jack and Coke™ on the rocks to calm down (now available at your local Wal-Mart).

>>4869465
lol'd

>>4869461
>There's no spreading going on here.
how do you know that?

>Nobody is posting links to /ck/ fast food threads
That's irrelevant. All it takes is for one person to see some fast food thread on /ck/ and then say to his buddies 'hey lets go eat at that same fast food joint'.

Your distinction between 'viral' and 'normal' marketing is flawed b/c all marketing is essentially/potentially viral.

Not supporting op in this argument, but seriously... potato.

>>4869470

Perhaps you'd like to rehydrate and cool down, try a Strawberry Lemonade™ available exclusively at Wendy's™!

Or satisfy your sweet tooth with the classic Wendy's™ Frosty™

>>4869465

I don't know, man. McDonald's™ has so many options on their value menu. You can have quality and quantity with the huge selection, featuring things like: the McDouble™ the McChicken™ and of course, the McNuggets™. Don't forget to try their huge selection of dipping sauces, either! Their classic Tangy Barbeque™ or delicious Sweet & Sour™

>>4869477
I am a young person (aged 18-24) attending college. I work hard all day and sometimes I want a late night snack, but everything on campus is closed! I also want to save money but not skimp on taste.

Is their an option for me at the local Wendy's™ restaurant?

Are you tired of sitting on your bum all day and not getting paid? Well, now it's easy for you to earn BIG money $$$ by becoming a viral marketer! Visit your favorite websites, promoting the biggest and best names in the food service industry! Hourly rates start at $14.00! McDonald's™ is hiring dedicated, hard working, computer knowledgeable individuals to bring their quality products on all your favorite internet forums!

This would be guerilla marketing. Viral marketing is self-propagating among consumers, guerilla marketing is actively pushed by agents of the marketer.

A funny youtube video that is a disguised ad is viral marketing. A "regular joe" in the stands at a baseball game talking about how Coors is the best beer (being paid to do so by Coors) to anyone who will listen is guerilla marketing.

>>4869483

There is good news for you!

YES!

Wendy's™ is now open until Midnight or later depending on location. Had a hard day at work, school, or just want something on your lunch break? Visit your local Wendy's™ featuring the new Pretzel Bun style craft sandwiches.

>>4869479

Dude, you gotta try the McGangbang™ on the secret menu. It's a McChicken™ inbetween the two fresh-grilled, all-beef patties of the McDouble™. Share your favorite McStories @McDonalds #latenitesnck

>>4869488

While Coors™ offers a decent drink every now and again, be sure to remember the always refreshing Pabst Blue Ribbon™ brewed by the famous Pabts Brewing Company™. Drink responsibly.

>>4869488
*gorilla

I'll admit sometimes when I get off work and I go get petrol and see those.. uh Jalapeno or 3 cheese mega hot dogs in some gas stations I'll get one. Even before I go home to actually cook.

But I do agree, there isn't a day that goes by without at least 3 of the prepared/fast food 'what pizza toppings are the best from Dominos' or 'what should I get on my Subway sandwich.'

top lel

>>4869494
>*gorilla
lol'd

>>4869491

McDonald's™ does not recognize off-menu items, unfortunately. It's up to you to mix and match your favorite foods and flavors, but remember that all McDonald's™ employees go through a rigorous training process to offer you the highest level of service at the fastest rate possible!

>>4869436
>And ban the 'daily vegan thread' bullshit too.
I agreed with you until this line. You basically want mods to ban threads you don't like, instead of you just hiding them.

In short, 4chan is serious and fuck off.

It'd be better to contain them in one thread.

>>4869495

>buying 7-11 prepared food

I got THE WORST food poisoning off of their shit the first and only time I ever bought it. Complained to corporate and they gave me a coupon for a free muffin and small cup of black coffee. Should have sued their asses.

>>4869507

>It'd be better to contain them in one thread.

Except that it's multiple threads A DAY you dumbass.

>>4869510
>what does contain mean

>>4869505

I'm half with him. Vegan threads belong here, but the arguments on nutrition pseudoscience don't. Whether for or against. I'd love vegan threads that are just about vegan recipes, cooking, etc.

>>4869512
The vegan threads are just troll threads. They aren't actually started by vegans.

Everyone knows this, yet they can't refrain from posting in them for whatever reason. Therefore, some people find them entertaining so they shouldn't be outright banned.

Just hide threads you don't want to see. It isn't that hard. Expecting mods to censor threads that bother you is retarded.

>>4869505

The 'daily non-murderer' threads are fuckannoying and you know it. In retrospect, they're probably viral marketers for Whole Foods™ (be sure to try our new Sofritas™ today. Vamos!)

>>4869517
They are obvious trolls that are continually successful. If you and others stopped posting in them they would go the way of pink Himalayan salt.

>>4869510

Thus the containment. I don't think you understand the comment you're responding to. Strictly speaking fast food threads are part of the board's purview, but the spamming of threads pushing out others on more varied topics is the issue. Instead of removing all fast food discussion, regardless of marketing influence (which is tough to prove), containing them in one thread will remove the incentive for marketers while still giving anyone interested in those topics a thread to discuss in. I'm not interested in fast food, but I don't feel like my opinion should mean anyone legitimately interested in discussing it should be kept from doing so.

moot should ban all american ips from making threads on /ck/
nobody wants to hear about fast food

>>4869516

I'm not the OP. I wish the trolling, which as you said is obvious, would not happen, but I agree the best thing for us to do is minimize and ignore.

I do worry about crowding out other threads. Containment sounds good to me.

>>4869522
lol this

>>4869520

>Instead of removing all fast food discussion, regardless of marketing influence (which is tough to prove)
>tough to prove

It's so fucking obvious and it's not hard for the janitors or mods to prove because the threads are probably consistently coming from the same IP. Anyone with a brain can tell when a corporate shill is posting to promote their product.

It's shitting up the quality of 4chan, which is only entertaining because of the raw, un-censored content users generate. When half of the posts are ads, nobody will want to come here anymore.

>>4869530
>nobody will want to come here anymore
Can I have old 5chun back then????111

>>4869534
Old ForChan was best ForeChen.

Hey fellow cooking enthusiasts!

Be sure to check out Reddit™ if you've never been there, although I know most of you frequent both websites! There are what we call subreddits for many things, similar to separate 'boards' on this website. Check out the /r/cooking/ subreddit today!

>>4869534

>Can I have old 5chun back then????111

No, because moot has fucking sold out. Time to abandon ship.

>>4869547
>because moot has fucking sold out
Why, just because he uses 4chan as his personal blog, advertises his wordpress on every page, name drops hanging out with Taylor Swift, made a couple shitty websites that couldn't take off and decided to cash in on his highschool accomplishment, actually started charging money for 4chan Gold (I mean captcha evasion) while insisting it was a service and better than charity, etc.?

>>4869554

5 star post niqqa

>>4869554
moot may be a child molesting faggot failure but he's ours

>>4869547
>>4869561

inb4 ya'all fggts get auto b& for just saying his name.

>>4869561

>moot may be a child molesting faggot failure but he's ours

He'd be ours if he made an effort to stem the absolute cancer that is viral marketing, instead of allowing it and actually encouraging it for his own marginal financial benefit.

>>4869566
is moot voldemort?

>>4869567
He stole a website idea, it became wildly popular, he tried to make his mark in something unrelated to 4chan and failed, so now he is coming back to milk the cash cow that he neglected.

He likes the notoriety and thinks he is the mouthpiece of the internet now... let him sell off 4chan, he doesn't have anything else going on.

Except for Canv.as lol.

>>4869580

>let him sell off 4chan

b-but then where will I yell at vegans and share ramen recipes?

>>4869585
You'll have to purchase a tripcode and Platinum Membership to be able to post in both the /vegan - sponsored by Wendy's™/ and /Nissin™ Presents Ramen/ channels.

>>4869436
I agree OP.

Tell you what: when we see such a thread, we ignore it and start a new thread of our own to help bump that one off.

>>4869589

I think spamming is counter productive, but the issue needs to be brought to the mods attention with the support of the /ck/ community. No regular users of this board want the same hotdog threads over and over again

>>4869436
Shut it down.

OP got me in the mood for some taco bell. Thanks, asshole.

Let's be honest here OP, anyone stupid enough to buy fast food isn't going to be clever enough to distinguish between real posts and advertisements.
In fact there are a lot of posters who don't understand how cheap it is to hire people to post positive comments about their products or why it would be advantageous, take /v/ despite the overwhelming evidence of stealth marketers people still deny it's a thing, because what company would want to be associated with 4chan?
I'm sure the millions of users and Anonymity has nothing to do with it

You're just like /v/ now /ck/, aren't you glad?

>>4869622

>anyone stupid enough to buy fast food isn't going to be clever enough to distinguish between real posts and advertisements.

Everyone buys fast food, and everyone is influenced by adverts to some degree just by being exposed to them even if you consciously oppose them. Shit needs to be purged from this board.

>/v/ now just like /ck/

I gagged.

>>4869646
>Everyone buys fast food

No they don't, don't be so deluded

>and everyone is influenced by adverts to some degree just by being exposed to them even if you consciously oppose them.

Many people do not watch TV and block ads on the internet, see the majority of 4chan. You cannot be influenced by what is not there.

It may be marketing, but to say that it's viral...

There's no actual proof that this is marketing done in an official capacity. Sure, as time goes, it becomes likely as OP points out, but it's not made using the Taco Bell Inc. VISA card Captcha pass, and even if they were, we would have to profile them to understand their usage of the website and officially tell them this is against the rules.

/b/ holds-up Taco Bells, steals shit from 7/11s, spits in people's burgers at McDonald's, and only adds two fries to BK mini burgers. It's only fair their respective marketing agencies comes here to annoy us.

Think of it as an exchange. It's .... diplomacy at its finest. It's....

Something wonderful.

>>4869646
>Everyone buys fast food

>>4869660
>everyone who isn't a raging faggot
better?

>>4869663
>There's no actual proof that this is marketing done in an official capacity
There doesn't need to be. Marketing is marketing, whether it's voluntary or not. It doesn't belong here.

>>4869663
>There's no actual proof that this is marketing done in an official capacity.

On /ck/ ? No
On 4chan? Yes quite a lot

You would be naive to think it's isolated to certain boards

>>4869667

>You don't buy overpriced processed gunk devoid of nutrition filled with chemicals?
>Must be one of them faggots

Sure champ whatever you say

>>4869664

98% of americans buy the occasional burger. don't even pretend

>>4869646

>everyone buys fast food

>>4869704
>my family and I eat lots of fast food, so everyone else must too

>>4869704
I'm not American.

>>4869704

>Everyone is American

>>4869660

>You cannot be influenced by what is not there.

Clearly you never step foot outside of your house because ads are EVERYWHERE, you just don't notice them or are a shut-in.

OH LAWD PURGE THE VIRAL MARKETING FROM THIS BOARD, SWEET BABY JESUS

>>4869726
Not that guy, but I avoid ads if I can. I stopped using YouTube way back when they started putting ads before videos. Got rid of my FB account and other social networking as well.

>>4869732
>I stopped using YouTube way back when they started putting ads before videos
Ever heard of adblock?

>>4869663

>we have to prove scientifically based on the posts here that companies are paying others to market their products

This is 4chan, not Nature. It's plain as day that there are shit marketing threads all the time, and you're probably one of the marketers given your absolutely asinine and stilted post.

>>4869733
I did a while back, but I didn't know it would block ads.

It's cool though, I know a lot of people that waste time on YouTube, so I'm glad I got it out of my system. My life is full of enough diversions.

>>4869734
>This is 4chan, not Nature.
lol yes.

Moot replies to his emails, I got one back within hours regarding streaming on /sp/. If he thinks your wrong though you'll just get trash binned.

It's FOOD and cooking. People are posting fast FOOD. fuck off all ready

And complaining about the site and moderation is against the rules too.

>>4869726

I don't live in America and on top of that I live rurally so unless I make the trip into town I don't see public ads very often

What typically are you exposed to Anon? I imagine it must be easier to not look at ads that you can turn away from

>>4869742
They're not posting fast food, they're advertising fast food.

Just ban everything everything with a company name in it. And nothing of value was lost. Seriously.

>>4869749
It's actually true, nothing of value comes from fast food threads, literally nothing.

>>4869742
>And complaining about the site and moderation is against the rules too.

You're definitely being paid by moot to defend the way he's trashed the site in recent years. There's literally no place to opine about anything since /q/ is gone, moot doesn't respond to the majority of his emails or shit-cans what he doesn't agree with, and mods basically can't ban people who are paying to advertise on this site. Any discussion that can actually take place is going to happen on the actual board, as it naturally should in the first place.

>It's FOOD and cooking. People are posting fast FOOD. fuck off all ready

It's not a genuine discussion about food if it's just fucking adverts m8

I intend to post way more fast food threads due to OP's childish faggotry

>>4869767
epic

>>4869767
But he has a completely valid point. Look at the OP, 3 identical filenames with almost identical threads. You're saying someone likes 7/11 enough to make the same thread about them every couple days? You're the childish one and naive to boot.

>>4869767
what a lot of those faggots don't get is the board moves pretty damn slow as it is. Anything that gets bumped off was done with anyway. Most people will just shut up and let a thread die when its over. But the anti-fast food fags decide to start a shit storm in the threads keeping it at the top of the catalog and on the board for days.

If they would just hide and ignore it wouldn't be a problem

>>4869777
I know this.
You know this.
The brain dead anti's don't know this. This what makes it enjoyable for trolls.

>>4869777
closing your eyes to the problem won't make it go away.

compared to a couple years ago, this board sees a lot more fast food threads and blatant marketing.

>>4869785
there isn't a problem.

If you just make a thread and no one responds to it, it's likely to sit there and stay a day or more. Fast food threads are not cluttering or overtaking the board at all.

>>4869785
its called evolution of board culture

>>4869787
there's always people willing to respond to them
worst case the op just bumps it until he makes another attempt or another one pops up

>>4869792
you mean how /v/, /jp/ and /sp/ turned into shitposting wastelands?

great way /ck/ is heading

>>4869799
Maybe we respond to keep you mad, butthurtanon

>>4869802
I don't even post in them but since someone made a metathread I decided to say something

as a person who likes to occasionally visit fast food places for their convenience when I must, I don't mind them at all. I don't research and stay up to date about the new doritos tacos at taco bell, or that mcdonalds got rid of the angus burgers and replaced them with new quarter pounders.

If it wasn't for /ck/ I would have never of known. They are well within the context of the board and feel like they are just fine.

What do people even talk about in fast food threads? How much they like generic burger x? Aren't they always the same? what's there to talk about?

>people actually defending shitty fast food threads

guess I'll go back to reddit

>>4869810

>>4868369

>>4869813
>my burger place is better than your burger place
fantastic

I don't understand, it's for food and cooking in general, so anything food and cooking related can be talked about...

>>4869812
Don't trip over your butthurt on the way out, fag

>>4869792

some organisms grow out of control in an environment which doesn't benefit from it, it's called a cancer, usually.

i don't have a problem with free fries, cheap dollar menu meals, cool ranch cheap tacos. i don't think chipotle threads are always appropriate, but they're cool vegetarian motherfuckers, panera was annoying for a while but they stopped. other than those it's not amazing. they come here and post new things, which is somewhat OC.

i don't think it's a big deal on /ck/, and i don't actually mind them. i actually like them, but it's me. if you guys feel so negatively about it, i'll see what i can do.

>>4869785

you have to think about monkeying and fanart. there's no way mcd posted one mcrib thread an hour for two weeks. other people did it, and if mcdonald's posted about it, they did so prior.

i agree that this board is supposed to be about food, making food, cooking food, food culture, etc. and not about buying pre-cooked food and not even about restaurant culture or the industry at all, in general.

we should have one board for cooking and one board for food
I don't understand why moot hates smaller boards, nothing wrong with not having 150 posts per minute

>>4869818
we're talking about blatant marketing, not about fast food

>>4869825
Well I mean obviously we are, but there is no actual direct advertising in those threads.. People are just asking questions about those specific places.

>>4869825
You have more than a few screws loose if you think big corporations would even think about marketing on /ck/ let alone know wtf it is.

also /ck/ has grown in number of posts, but not really in number of new posts per day.

we should try to lower the latter, rather than the former.

>>4869827
look at the op and tell me this isn't advertising
it's evident that it's the same person making the threads from the filenames

>>4869829
You're in complete delusion if you think they don't. Advertising in complete anonymity, there's nothing better. 4chan gets millions of unique visitors every day, you'd have to be crazy not to advertise here.
4chan isn't your obscure little treehouse anymore, it's probably the third best place to market after Facebook and Reddit.

>>4869833
Well I didn't see those threads or notice the filenames the first look at OP's photo, but maybe it was one of those cases where the guy wanted to talk about 7-11 hotdogs and didn't get any replies so he just made 2 more thread? Maybe it's just idiots spamming. Maybe it is actual advertising. But I doubt it since a good number of you guys don't actually eat fast food.

>>4869838
You are too dumb to argue with. Have a scary life.

>>4869846
Have a sheltered life, thinking corporations are your friend you retarded waste of space.

>>4869838
4chan does but /ck/ does not get the kind of traffic to make it worthwhile for any kind of marketing campaign to consider. Looking at the first 2 lines of the catalog here, there's no problem at all. Where are is the thread after thread after thread from these marketing companies you speak of?

>>4869660

That's the point jackass, adblock can't target and block fucking guerrilla marketing shit ads plaguing this board on a daily basis.

Fast food ads work like cigarette ads. Fast food is highly addictive due to its chemically-engineered salt and fat content, and oftentimes just seeing a picture of fast food is more than enough to motivate a helplessly addicted fatty to go out and buy it.

>>4869855
Not getting much traffic is exactly why you don't need to waste much time on doing that here. Making one or two threads per day is enough.

>>4869856
or some people just actually like it, maybe, perhaps?

>>4869838

Maybe, but 4chan isn't Facebook or Reddit.

4chan is supposed to be a community. Let's see it as a town, or a village. Do we perceive their presence here as hostile or not?

They come to town square, and yell about their products which are not available in our town.

Do we burn them at the stake, let them be, invite them to come back, or ask them to leave and never come back?

>>4869858
bong!
cuckoo
bong!
cuckoo
That's what I get from your posts

>>4869862

>>4869863
You must be an intelligent person. Go blog about your life on Facebook, thinking they don't scan every bit of information to advertise better to you.

compared to what some of the other boards have to deal with, I've got no issue with the fast food threads. the occasional fit vs fatty and vegan vs meat eater arguments are kept well contained and scarce. You don't see the fast food people barging into the home cooking threads really. Everythings well kept in their threads. Just hide if you don't like 'em, what I do with the vegan threads and no stress ends up coming from them.

>>4869872
fuck you internet is serious bidnet

Sup /ck/?

I'm high as fuck and there is a Sunoco A Plus™ right near my apartment and they have this deal where you get two Nathan's® All Natural 100% Beef Hotdogs and a coke for only $2.99. You can even add chili and cheese or whatever toppings they have for free! They also have nachos, ice cream, instant ramen, and FUNYUNS® Onion Flavored Rings.
It's all fucking delicious and cheap too. I'd recommend it!

>>4869877
Holy fuck.
Must.
Get.
That.
Now.

Oh shit, that anon is right. Mind control.

>>4869877
Did I also mention they are Open 24-7, so they are perfect for midnight munchies?

>wake up to ad on radio
>check phone, 3 new spam e-mails made it through the filter and are now in your notifications
>clean self up with name-brand products
>eat cereal while reading ad on the back
>pass 5 billboards, 3 12ft business signs, and 6 lawn flyers on the 500 foot walk to the bus stop
>theres a giant ad on the side of the bus terminal
>bus pulls up, there's a giant ad on the side of the bus too
>get in, ads along the ceiling
>dump out ads comprising half the weight of your newspaper before you get to reading it
>get to work and fight temptation to get coffee from the starbucks next door again
>watch youtube videos preceded by ads and covered in non-removable adnontations
>dick around on 4chan, viral marketing everywhere

>>4869767

be careful not to cut yourself on all that edge

>>4869777

Having to hide the same viral marketing shit on a daily basis is getting tiresome, and no longer worth the effort. It now comprises a significant portion of this board. It's better just to stop coming to this shitty advertising-infested website until they fix it.

>what do you mean by 'viral marketing'? It's not 'viral' if it's on an imageboard!
>try our new 5 dollar Locos Tacos™ /ck/!
>it's fast FOOD so it's cooking related!

>>4869860

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987708006427

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03373.x/full

I don't think its marketing at all. After going to the last convention meetup, most people looked like they loved and regulary ate fast food.

>>4869900
Read the words in your tab brah.

>protip: FOOD (...........99. & cooking)

>>4869904

>>4869855

>Looking at the first 2 lines of the catalog here, there's no problem at all.

>subway thread
>mcdonalds vs burger king thread
>long john silvers thread
>burger king thread which LITERALLY includes an image of an ad in the OP
>taco bell thread

5/20 threads are fast food marketing horse shit

fucking 25% of the board

and you have no problem with this

>>4869910
not at all. Unless this becomes a cooking only board like the way /fit/ lost the health part of its title.

>>4869910
and those were only the first two lines, which because of this thread people went and bumped up those specific fast food threads. When I got up this morning they were spread out across the whole thing

>>4869910
Nope.

Don't kid yourself, most of this board probably eats out or eats the cooking of others more than they actually cook themselves.

>>4869855
>Where are is the thread after thread after thread from these marketing companies you speak of?

You must be blind because there's SUBWAY and MCSHIT right there on the front page.

board is fine
fast food IS fine
deal with it

go somewhere else if you don't like it

>>4869914

Any scan of the board at large is going to yield similar results, don't even kid yourself.

>>4869862
>Do we burn them at the stake, let them be, invite them to come back, or ask them to leave and never come back?

Burn them. Or, more accurately, BAN THEM.

>>4869885

capped.. ;_;

fast food posters are completely fine. Just learn to get along.

You don't see people complaining about marketers on /tv/. And /ck/ has a shit ton more room

>>4869927
>>4869918
Marketers

I agree with you OP, besides, who eats hot dogs at that seven place? If you want a value meal, while shopping ;) go to Wal-Mart. Now, I know a lot of you think the pizza there is not THAT good as your usual restaurant, but the cheese has been changed and the recipe has matched so far what others have to offer.

Go now, and for only 99 cents you can have an XL soda (except in New York Metropolitan Area)!

>>4869944

hur hur hue dur. you must be the first person to try this joke in this thread, congratulations on your originality

I wish I were fucking joking, look at all these viral marketing threads:

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>>4869952
out of 163 threads. We're sure being raided.

>>4869956

These were on the first 2 pages, you fucking shithead marketer.

>>4869972
>not using the catalog

>>4869441
OP needs a snickers
because he turns into a huge faggot when he gets hungry..oh wait

>>4869988
Great. Now the candy bar shills are on board.
Thanks, OP.

>>4869951

Hehehe thanks! Originality is valued in this message board, so I appreciate your comment ;)

>>4869952

>/ck/ - Fast Food Advertising & Marketing

well at least the threads are about food
you know what i hate on this board?
shitposting vegan threads.
whats funny is that ive seen some of them pop up in /fit/

How many shills in this thread? I count at least 40+ shill posts.

>>4869436
>And ban the 'daily vegan thread' bullshit too.

because muh feelings

>>4869436
IT'S A CONSPIRACY!

>>4870129

that fucking thread...

>>4869461

Holy fuck are you ever missing the point

This amazing thread is brought to you by Carl's Jr, If it doesn't get all over the place, It doesn't belong in your face and Ford Motor Company, Ford: Go Further. Now stay tuned for an all new Bob's Burgers and then the always funny Cleveland Show.

>>4870291

yeah, it's such a conspiracy because moot is even telling marketers to buy a 4chan pass in the banners.. dumbass.

topkek, speak of the fucking devil:

>>4870589

It's horrible. /ck/ is basically nothing but fast food marketing and veganism these days.

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>>4869604
lol harsh

>>4869436

I will reflect on this.

Most other boards are pretty DIY, indie and creative, and as I mentioned earlier, new posts per day hasn't significantly increased, though global posts have. So more posts in as many threads. I also think there's less OC on the board, from actual people cooking shit, but I could be wrong. I do see more and more fast food threads, though, and since there aren't more new posts, then fast food posts are taking other posts' places.

...the general idea in this thread seems to be that it's too much right now. i am personally not well, and i am not feeling healthy, and i do not think i am in a position to make the best decision for /ck/ myself.

it is my opinion that this isn't their personal facebook page, we don't go to their page, they come to our board
that if they have their eye on the money of weabs and NEETs they can buy banner time
that the board has to keep in line with the others. ask /sci/ to do your homework or /v/ for a walkthrough.
what else...fine, so not all of us can cook. not all of us have the energy to, not all of us have the time, etc. some of us do eat fast food.

1/?

If you want to fight marketers on 4chan, just blow up their social media with scat pics using a burner account every time you see one of their threads

>>4870718

knowing that, restaurant business is about "getting to know teh restautant". like you go, you sit down, you're already under. remains to know whether you're going to be well-fed. knowing that, it's fine to talk about fast food and restaurants but on a limited basis. there is always one, at least one, fucking Chipotle thread. I am so sick of seeing their fucking burritos, half-chewed on top of that...anwyay.

but yeah, taco bell's marketing agency was a problem. they sent us a press release once, i might have to get in touch with them. Chipotle is the same, they're annoying. Panera vanished #2good4us.

There is also the uncertainty principle, there's a lot of people, and a lot of people just post here once, and only once, only their fucking hald-chewed burrito, or only that one time they cook, in their entire life.

But yeah, I think we can handle it. I will try and pay closer attention.

>>4870726

No, but it's easy to go on their Facebook page and make mention of the problem. I said 4chan was like an island, or a county, and I've often called myself Chanese.

Most of us don't want to have relationships with these people, and I don't. But if we state on their Facebook pages that we don't want them within our realm, they'll probably go.

I am not volunteering to be an ambassador. I try to have as little contact with these people as I can.

>>4870726

>just blow up their social media with scat pics

fucking lol. i don't think classical conditioning will work on corporations.

>>4870748

I come here to chill, be with my friends, talk about food, cook, have a good time, etc.

I don't feel like dealing with this shit, but collectively, I do feel they're attacking us and infecting the joyousness of our lives.

i think it's a trap, though.

i don't know to what extend marketing agencies profile 4chan, IMO it's not really worth it beyond 4chan being on the list of "places where to mention new products". I think most of the "viral marketing" we see is from normal people just posting food. They're infected, come here to fap, and they eat something and all of a sudden it's a great place to [Share] it.

i dunno. i think this thread is worth reading. people don't seem to like it. i spent too much of my life dealing with these people though, and i just don't want to involve myself in foreign politics again.

>>4870742

Is.. is this an actual janitor response? You're saying taco bell contacted 4chan about advertising? So it is true, and you'll do something about it?

My god, I didn't expect this thread to turn out like this but I'm glad it did. Thank you gentlemod.

God forbid people should talk about food on a board called 'Food & cooking'

I've been a /ck/ visitor for years and though I don't contribute often I keep coming back. Partly it's coz of the large number of posters that need a good punching eg, all you self righteous cunts who present your opinion as fact. Eg, 'this is what 'real' food consists of, you're a pov nigger pleb if you disagree'. Posting and bumping fast food threads seems to annoy the fuck out of these imbeciles, so I do it and get a lol out of it. Think of it as me seeing what I consider your shitposting and in response, opening my asscheeks and spraying diarrhoea in your face.

>>4870794

Marketing your new 3cool5school pretzel sofritos hotdog snackbox is not food discussion, you protosimian.

>>4870778
Janitors can't out themselves. It's more likely that that is an actual mod without the name, or an epic ruseman.

>>4870802
>people who like things I don't like must be viral marketers

I suppose the autistic kid that makes his "krabby patties" must be in the pocket of mr. crabs as well, eh?

>>4870817
>p-p-p-please stop outing me ;___;

>>4870817

Just look at the threads mentioned in this thread, they're obvious marketing. If you can't see that then you're a fuckin dumbass (or more likely, a shill).

>>4870797

Strange, whenever someone starts being elitist about something I see them get shot down pretty quickly. There are some blatant attempts at what people call trolling, which I think you might be falling for. It's more effective to call them out for what they are, especially when it's clear they don't know what they're talking about. People insisting a particular style of beer is best comes to mind as an example.

>>4870821
>>4870822
The 7-11 ones are obviously that autist BBQ King that reposts everything daily. There is no giant conspiracy and the fact that you guys are in this thread bitching about them instead of just hiding the thread is sad.

>>4870802
I've made threads discussing fast food in the past, and I'm not a marketer. Stop with your fucking conspiracy theories.

I propose we allow fast food general threads, fast food story threads, and fast food v xxxxx threads, but any thread about a particular new product or a particular fast food establishment be deleted

What dickfaggot company would try to put ads on 4chan?

We literally only have paid ads for internet stores that sell waifu pillows. That is our demographic.

Count me among the skeptics that any of the fast food threads are created by paid marketers. They're frequent and repetitive, but so are a bunch of other topics (favorite condiments, poorfag needs to live on $10/week, noobfag leaving home needs recipes, rate this pizza, etc.) The occasinoal "ask me anything" threads from fast food employees seem perfectly authentic and non-promotional.

The ephemeral nature of 4chan seems like it would create verifiability problems for most social media spamhouses. I mean if you're paying people to write tweets, post on facebook, or add reviews to yelp or google+, you can double-check their accounts and see that they actually posted what they're billing you for. With click-thru link spamming you can include referral codes to track who's sending them. But a thread started on /ck/ is pretty likely to be gone without a trace by the end of the week. It's just doesn't lend itself to commercial abuse the way other websites would. Self-promoting websites or youtube channels does happen in the adult forums and in /b/, but /ck/ has relatively few offsite links like that.

How about we just add 'viral' back to the spam filter please.

the only place i legitmately have (personally) felt has viraled here
Is fucking chipotle
im 99% sure they do
its fucking rediculous and the food isn't even good

>>4869436
How much do you suppose is spent on viral marketing seen by 26 people, if only 12-13 of them actually can physically leave their house due to 4chanobeseness?

>>4871562
but chipotle is so popular, why would they want to advertise here?

>>4870694

>unnecessarily specific listing of location availability for the burrito

guys if you think this viral marketing go put on your tin foil and go back to /pol/

>>4870832

>conspiracy

I don't think you know what that word means. Guerilla marketing is a real thing and it's HELLA obvious when you remake the same threads almost verbatim, name drop the proper name of the product, and post the official company pictures of it.

In all honesty you sound EXACTLY like the people who used to defend moot in /q/. I think if there's a conspiracy here, it's that moot has hired people like you to defend the marketers and moot's shitty changes in moderation on this website in recent years.

>>4871471

This, we don't need a new thread for every new promotional burger or zig-zag shitfries or whatever it is marketers want to clutter the board with.

>>4870748

>I've often called myself Chanese.

I cringed harder than I have ever cringed before

>>4871608
we don't need a new thread every time someone wants to show off what they had for dinner either, but its culture.

>>4870939

so you're a shitposter whose contribution to the site is as detrimental as that of paid marketing shills. Got it.

>>4871584

to get more popular you faggot shill.

>>4869704
Not all burgers are fast food
Not all people are American
98% is not all Americans

It almost sounds like you're trolling or something

>>4871580

$0-20, depending on whether they're willing to shell out for 4chan gold. The neckbeards they pay to shill here probably consider free breakroom coffee and the 4chan pass to be more than generous payment.

If 12 of us each go out and buy a $5 burger as a result, that's 40-60 dollars of profit for the burger peddlers.

Now multiply that $5 by the actual number of visitors to 4chan, which exceeds 25 million unique visitors per month.

Faggot.

>>4869436
>mfw they all have the exact same writing style
The worst threads were the survey ones. The damn things went on forever.

>>4871666

At least they actually fucking cooked something. Who knows, maybe their posting their dinner will lead to people exchanging recipes or talking about, god forbid, fucking cooking.

the elitism on this board has gotten out of hand.
You want a just cooking or home cooked food only board go make a fucking subreddit.

>>4871703
just because we don't want to cook doesn't mean we're not applicable to this board. It's not a fucking marketer get over it

>>4871707

How about you read the fucking thread instead of covering your ears and yelling.

>>4871605
>In all honesty you sound EXACTLY like the people who used to defend moot in /q/.

... Oh no? How horrifying?

>>4871878

It means you sound like a shill and it's so obvious that you're only embarrassing yourself by continuing to deny it. You don't have to admit being a shill marketer, but at least don't insult our stupidity by denying it.

>>4871912
I'm not that guy, anon, I just think that was a silly ad hominem.

>guy doesn't agree with me
>he sounds like someone who disagreed with me on a different matter
>clearly mischief is afoot

OP, I haven't read the thread, but will do. But I am with you all the way, Sure, some of us have opinions on food we like and dislike, but actually arguing about and making a daily vegan thread, fuck me, vegan recipes I am ok with, but arguing about meat on a fucking board dedicated to food, fuck. And we should have a rule, one take away food place at a time.

Meanwhile...

>>4871670 (subway viral)
>>4871359 (viral video)
>>4871031 (KFC viral)

Just quarantine /ck/, this board is a fucking biohazard at this point.

>>4870748

>I've often called myself Chanese

>>4871698

>If 12 of us each go out and buy a $5 burger as a result, that's 40-60 dollars of profit for the burger peddlers.

>>4871536
Awhile back viral wasn't just on the spam filter, you'd get a 1 day ban for mentioning it. Viral claims are not welcome here.

>>4872334
2 day b& for you nig nogs.

There's no "viral" threads. You're not required to post in a thread you don't agree with (like my post here.) Stop bitching and put up quality content rather than threads that complain about the people on this board talking about what they want.

>>4870718
>ask /v/ for a walkthrough
Jesus, I'd rather not.

>>4870802
>protosimian

you are retarded

>>4873424

25% of the threads on /ck/ are marketing. It clogs up the board. You're not welcome here.