Ikr, it’s so interesting

Yea, I can't even see blue without thinking of Ikea.

@will make memes shut up

Oh god branding

Holy shit, PATTERN recognition!?

Disney is the new Coke in this regard.

It's a bit disturbing. I enjoy products from certain companies, McDonald's, Apple, etc. But if say McDonald's changed the secret sauce on Big Mac's... I'm not gonna go bother protesting it. That would be ridiculous.

@@Web720 and nintendo is the new disney

@@rainbowresorts its both.

Worse. Nobody expects gam gam to live forever.

The trouble is that the Old Coke had cane sugar as the sweetener and now it uses Corn Syrup. The taste is very bad and very inferior to coke made with cane sugar.

@@spacecadet35 as a Brazilian which only has cane sugar Coca Cola, I'd love to taste the corn syrup one just to bash on any American saying how much ours is superior

@@coldguto Corn Syrup Coke isn’t bad. But yeah, Cane Sugar is undoubtedly better. Wish it was more accessible in the US

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@@spacecadet35 coke had already started phasing in HFCS into their drinks before the new coke fiasco. By the time new coke debuted, old coke was already completely sweetened by corn syrup. People didn’t notice it then, and they probably don’t notice it much now.

I can't tell whether you meant "condemnable" or "commendable" and that honestly adds to this comment

@@1ntenc0 lmao reading it back it's so much funnier, say it out loud "comdendable"

@@1ntenc0 *YES.*

​@@1ntenc0 that bothers me so much

​@@1ntenc0 I'd be impressed in either one of the cases. In case he really stood by it, shows he has (or rather had, during his life) a vision. In the other case, if he was petty, then that's a simple statement about sheer willpower. Both are commendable in my opinion

Wow cuba

Imagine telling your son “I agree with the murderous dictator who forced us to flee the country.” Based Dad

Love your channel bro

Dude love your content

Solar Sands and EmpLemon are the same person. Gotta be. Right????

I could totally see that being uttered by a Simpsons Character. Maybe Mayor Quimby. Maybe the bald guy with the Moustache. Probably the bald guy with the moustache.

That's just what a smart person would say. It was 100% a publicity stunt.

I heard it's because they released Coke Classic with high fructose corn syrup instead of real sugar so people wouldn't notice the switch from the original Edit: He just mentioned it in the video lol I didn't get that far

They already had a winning formula and some stupid conspiracy attempt for marketing could just as easily backfire on them.

@@poika22 no, they’re genuinely not that smart. in retrospect it seems like a solid idea, but the logistics of creating, marketing and distributing an entirely new product costs billions all for the potential bump in sales it could bring to the existing formula. it would be way too risky for anyone to sign off on even if they had that idea, but i doubt they’d even considered it until new coke had already launched and failed.

I don't know if they changed Sprite I might have to make a sign😂. That's the truly refreshing one 😂😂

Europoor detected.

Plenty of countries with higher gdps than the US

In Europe that is

People are stupid. Especially in the south

Bill Cosby is victim of sour apples.

​@@Markos581973I hope you are joking.

​@@Markos581973you waited an entire year to say that?

@@howisthis8849 he probably had just found this video and wanted to respond to the comment

One needs to consider that some things about Bill Cosby might be made up. Then we have to consider projects/operations like Mockingbird.

I can still hear this line

Lmao Futurama was always ahead of it's time. Literally and figuratively

Today I finally understood that line.

@@PoohhNani that's not ahead of its time, that joke was parodying the new coke fiasco

@sisuphos They also did it in the Bongo comics, in an issue where Sideshow Bob has apparently had plastic surgery, and Bart and Lisa are trying to figure out which of three newcomers to Springfield is actually him, one of them is a homeless man who turns out to be the creator of New Coke.

"knocked him out cold" hehe

@@JoNarDLoLz Well to be fair... I guess he really did get a cold one

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murrdy murrdy 0 seconds ago THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ANOTHER THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ANOTHER THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ANOTHER THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ANOTHER THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ANOTHER THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ANOTHER OdiousMax's Stinky Trash Bin OdiousMax's Stinky Trash Bin 2 days ago (edited) After watching this I asked my parents if they remembered New Coke. Apparently one of my uncles and my father attended a baseball game and to promote New Coke a vendor was throwing free cans to people. One smacked my uncle in the head and knocked him out cold. Coca-Cola gave him around $10,000 or so because of it. To this day he says it's the only reason he likes New Coke.

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mexicoke is still sold at some shops in the states and it is much better i agree

Mexican Pepsi is also great, but unlike Coke you can get Real Sugar in a standard 12 pack for the blue.

I buy cases of cane sugar Coke from my local Costco. One thing I've noticed with that stuff is that it doesn't leave a film on my teeth like corn syrup soda does.

"It's not different, they just use a different ingredient." Lmao what?

@@triggered977 I'm literally holding a glass bottle of mexican coke in my hand right now, and the ingredient label says cane sugar. You are incorrect. "Ingredients: carbonated water, cane sugar, caramel color, phosphoric acid, natural flavors, caffeine." And I can taste the difference, it's night and day.

I feel like it was setup so people would be so happy to have regular coke back they wouldn’t notice the corn syrup or care as much if they did.

Fda wins again

@@bradr3541 If so, it worked, but it's a pretty risky strategy honestly. I just can't imagine an entire boardroom of experienced businessmen would go, "Yes, let's risk our entire reputation on this plan." Maybe, but I doubt it personally.

@@DiamondDust132 I honestly can’t think of any other realistic reason. I was alive when this happened. I never heard a single person say New Coke tastes better, ever. To be that big a company with a successful formula and try to literally throw the recipe away makes zero sense. Ok I came up with 2 possibilities. Maybe the ingredients had gotten more expensive and they were trying to cut costs Or maybe they pay some kind of huge payments to someone to use the original formula and we’re trying to end that by using a new formula. I don’t think either of those two are likely. By that point the recipe would be fully owned by coke.

@@DiamondDust132 What about the Yahoo executives that refused to pay 1 million dollars to buy google and then refused to pay 3 billion or so?

Coca-Cola was later distributed in the Soviet Union for senior Communist Party officials only as "Red Star Cola".

Zhukov was a fucking gangster. Watch Death of Stalin (or a review of it) for an idea of the magnitude of the man's balls.

@@leatheryfoot6354 The Death of Stalin is an amazing film and I recommend it to everyone. It's very dark, but very funny.

another fun fact: that colorless coke was later rebranded (with a touch of extra acidity and lemon flavor) as clear coke

Crystal Pepsi, which I kind of liked back then as well.

That raises another good point; did the little taste testing ad campaign Pepsi did DIRECTLY just... fuck Cola over? With a single ad, they fucked up Coca-Cola's entire marketing LOL

Fun fact: The energy and processing etc used to make one liter of Coca-Cola costs 3 liters of water.

typical americans.

Utterly disturbing.

I think you hit the nail on the head. I can only tell the taste of Pepsi because I am/was one of those water drinkers. Just the slight off sweetness is enough for me to tell. I couldn't do that as a kid.

Reminds me of when Scion tried appealing to young people but got mostly old people to buy them since they are just easier to enter than old sedans with higher ground clearance. ...also, boxy cars are the last thing I would think young people would have wanted, I have no idea what was Toyota thinking...

Coke-ception

when was this? depending on the time frame this could be from amusing to hilarious. like, im just imagining the semester directly following this starting and the professor standing up, very first words to the class, being 'yes, we all heard about new coke, we all know what an absolute fuckup of a disaster it was, if you so much as ask if you can do this or that project on new coke you're booted from this course and you are fundamentally flawed human being. hello, i'm dr james, i'll be your marketing 301 professor for this semester'

Now the question is...the question is...was he raping before his credibility was hurt by New Coke, or after? Cause if after, I think we have a smokin' gun! /s (we don't)

Coca cola wakes girls up

@@Ottophil cocaine does that

In the 80s yes. It's not like this happened within the past decade lol

@@KP-hm1dn i just think it really shows how Cosby was upholding a kind and soft demeanor for a long time.

Or she was just mentally ill and you're a redditor (not human)

twinkies arnt even that good though. God, people are just so dumb.

Twinkies tastes like chemicals and sweetener I don’t understand the emotional attachment

I saw a news story about a whole neighborhood of people that had gathered around the property where a Taco Bell had burned to the ground. These neighborhood people were crying uncontrollably, singing songs of tribute to the burned Taco Bell, getting on their knees and praying for the restaurant to be rebuilt very quickly because "we just CAN'T do without Taco Bell for that long. We'll have to move." The songs of tribute they were singing to the burned Taco Bell were written by those in attendance so it was all so bad it was making my ears bleed. But these people were being so serious and emotional and acting like someone had just murdered some people or something. It just made me sick to my very soul. I was like, "As a society, THIS is where we are now?" We might as well just go ahead and nuke ourselves at this point and start with the burned Taco Bell neighborhood. Then my neighborhood so I don't have to wait long. 🙄

@@gabbo7101 Twinkies are an abomination of nature.

Most of it is instrumental versions of classic songs and video game music from persona 5 and smash bros

Did he have 16 oz glass BOTTLES? ... sold in packs of 8 ... equaling 1 gallon total.

drink them

Neat.

Can yah reply to B sm’s comment?

That's awesome if true I've collected coca-cola stuff for years. Glasses radios lighters ECT.

haha yeah i laughed at that part

he definitely did something that hurt his credibility ALOT more

Its just funny to think that a messed up marketing campaign not only generated huge revenue for coke at the end but also saved them from a PR nightmare that would have happened if bill cosby didnt stop doing buisness with them....maybe subway shouldve changed the taste of their sandwiches to achieve the same effect

@@wetoddedd what a legend

"Failed" only in the sense that it was cancelled by people throwing literal tantrums. The more things change...

Well the difference is that Coca Cola are capitalists so calling it capitalist is at least well founded. And considering they were more successful afterwards makes the whole claim not really far fetched.

That’s pretty sad

go out to a more rural area for a day or two, see them

Dang, I completely forgot those existed

I wanna see a phone book video now

I want this. This would be a sick video.

Did you know at one time there where books with everybodies name, phones and sometimes addresses and nobody care about the big doxxing book

He might actually do it just to meme

@keep rolling deez nuts are here

Kind of reminds me about the Sonic's movie old design

@@Knuckles_la_Enchilada its basically the same story in a way lol

I know Emp said in the video that New Coke was the outlier against the phrase ‘any publicity is good publicity,’ but in the end he was wrong. It was a hugely successful mistake that made people appreciate what they had (shitty sugar water with a different label on it ❤️)

I bet new coke was a disguise to make people forget what old coke taste like so they can remove the cocaine from it then bring it back but everyone would have forget the cocaine taste. Massive conspiracy theory i just made.

New Coke did have a different taste to it. Emp simply failed to cover the difference in taste or the change in formula in his 30 minute video on the subject. To quote the 2000s: "Epic Fail".

@NarlepoaxIII. It may not matter to you and it may not matter to me or thousands of others but it certainly matters to some and it mattered a whole lot. It's fascinating for sure.

Hi Larry nice seeing you here, also I totally agree with you, honestly soda is soda lol xD

I wonder if the same people who can't tell the difference between coke and pepsi, are the same folks that value odd things, like -cockroaches from the ocean- lobster.

I'd say close but not exactly... add a tiny bit sugar or corn syrup, maybe. I was there during that era and I tired Coke 2 plenty of times but I NEVER finished a can of it because it was too sweet (but not overly sweet). It was one of those thing where it tasted good at first but the taste would wear on me..... kinda like the Burger King Whopper. It seemed like Safeway always had 16oz tall boy cans of Coke 2 on sale until 1987.

Lol not a bad recipe. But you forgot the last step - leave it out, uncovered, for 8 hours before drinking.

Why would I ruin a Pepsi with Coke?

Bush did New Coke

normal people are smarter than executives me thinks

To quote an ex coke executive “we’re not that dumb, and we’re not that smart.” Maybe they just rushed the rebranding because they needed to meet financial goals. I can’t imagine a difference logo and formula would take that long for factories to adjust.

@@faithlifeworshipcenter460 I mean that sounds super compelling, but they took of the classic and are back to Coca Cola, and it has a different recipe. Also, not being able to keep the same name while changing the recipe sounds kinda unbelievable. Like, coke had changed it recipe a few times and I know for a fact other companies change recipes but keep the same name. If I am wrong here than egg on my face but it all just sounds like a stretch.

no publicity is bad publicity

Nice job 👍

In n out is the best burger franchise ever.

I feel the same way about my neighborhood pizza place. No matter how many new pizza places open and become more modern .i still put the local one in my top 10

Yeah that’s how McDonalds built there brand. You’ll get the same Big Mac in London as you will in bumfuq, Idaho

All they have to do is think it tastes identical. Coke switched to HFCS after preventing everyone from tasting the real original coke, then claimed that was the original coke.

As a SoCal native, how dare you speak ill of the glorious In-N-Out

literally

cry about it

Tell me about it

@@zzz_zzz_ZZZ_zzz_ZZZ_ZZZ_Z_z-ZZ I don't care, I prefer Pepsi. It's just funny to observe. I'll cry about Crystal Pepsi though, but at least it was cancelled by Pepsi Co., not by the masses.

Now I’m more curious what is taste like

because its fundamental information about a person thats how you introduce people

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I find it funny New Coke was accused of being the result of Communism and Capitalism from two different parties.

@@yoshimasterleader New Coke: The radical centrist's drink

Unique - be honest - do you watch empLemon bc after all the piracy you're worried about scurvy?

Based as usual

80s? We're still like that

This guy gets it.

Someone who didn't smoke in the 80s? Wtf

Sigma Grindest, Zero Smoking, Zero Wamen, 100 Coke

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Dumb indeed my brother, wise you are 🙏🏻

Coke Goes To Hell: The Final Friday

@@Itlivesinthewall Coke: The Dream Child

It's like this guy changed with us, I used to love YTPs and still watch them, but I just love video essays even more

I started watching around 2016, right around the time he started making more "rant" type videos which I really liked.

@@tomiyu2297 YTP are cringe

@@User-ge7ni Nah not at all, growing up with them was amazing zoomer

I loved EmpLemon YTP and im happy for him to adapt and evolve and continually grow his channel while others would fade away.

I think the fact that the CEO wasn't fired, but instead, his tenure was considered a success, lends credence to your idea.

Johnny Harris did a video on the myth of the Mexican coke 😁 tbh I think the difference in flavor comes from the glass bottle cause it's such a slight difference but it is noticeable. That's the real conspiracy, why did we switch from glass to plastic

@@charleserickson3499 amen to that!

@@charleserickson3499 meh, coke from Europe may not be made with cane sugar, but it is made with actual sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup, and it definitely tastes different. It comes in plastic bottles.

@Jayce phthalates will get ya worse than the sugar 😉

absolutely what I was thinking....

New Coke was an intentional failure designed to disguise the fact they changed the formula. As evidenced by the fact that "Coca Cola Classic" was not the pre-New Coke formula.

Nope, it tasted like crap. I’ve had a vintage can

@@wolfetteplays8894 Could you imagine after so many years it would taste a tad bit different?

@@wolfetteplays8894 Oh hey everyone it's someone that can taste the difference between coke and pepsi wowie

Did they ever realize it through taste?

I like Coke Zero more than Coke.

If im going to drink a traditional soda its almost always a coke zero or a sprite. Its just not as pure sugar flavour as a lot of the other brands

@@Pheatan There's just something about a regular coke when you're extra hungry or extra thirsty though. Maybe with a slice of pizza. Favorite thing after an organized run. :-)

@@greenoftreeblackofblue6625 you like cancer more than diabetes frfr

You are correct. ✅

That's like when they put coke in a different color bottle and people said they preferred the original one.

If you can find coke made in Mexico that comes in the glass bottles still, they use cane sugar to this day. It's far better than regular coke.

@@deaj8450 They do not. Mexico switched a while ago. Coke sells glass bottles in some supermarkets that are made with cane sugar that say they're mexican but they aren't, they're just coke with cane sugar. You can go to Mexico and see that they use corn syrup.

@@n646n those are the bottles I mean. Didn't know they weren't really Mexican, but that's what I've always heard them called and as you say what is printed on them. I'm certainly not suggesting anyone go to Mexico or ship it or something to buy coke

@@DigeeTheGenie The three arrows of soft drinks Against Coke, Pepsi, and uh idk Dr. Pepper?

>Max Headroom was a proto-Vtuber Topkek

Ironmouse promoting Sprite on ABC would be quite the head turner.

@@seronymus i can now out-meme people saying the annoying orange and the gorillaz were the first vtubers. I feel powerful.

Reminder that Dominos had a collaboration with Hatsune Miku.

if it was up to me we'd still have both!

because it takes from the OG product’s sales

@@OhSoKatelyn1 Which doesnt matter if you think about it if you have 20% market share with 1 product or 20% market share with 5 products doesnt matter At the end of the day you have 20% of the market and thus the money it brings. And a company like Coca Cola cannot claim how much more expensive it is to sell 2 diffrent Colas as to why they remove the old one. If you remove well liked stuff from your service you always will have complainers (if they have a reason or not doesnt matter// Remeber Windows XP and how outraged people were when the Microsoft support ended in 2014, 13 YEARS after release and either 2 or 3 newer OS (at least Vista and 7 were out at that point) have been released) If they wouldnt have SUCH a big company behind them, that drink wouldnt exist anymore. The risk is WAY to high. Also, since they fundamentally make the same drink both drinks costs the exact same, so no money lost. Also by diversifying your product range you actually get more attention than before (look at Cola now, they never have looked back) Thats for example why the super exclusive iPhone is now sold in 3 diffrent sizes at release instead of waiting half a year for an "S" version (well they still sell an S version after a year but still). Apple wants the people that like big phones and the want the people that like small phones. And coke just want to sell a drink. Give people options, step up your marketing and there you go. If you just release it separately you still have the potential to grow your market share (look at Coke Light or the newer Coke Zero)

I drink Pepsi so it doesn’t matter

Strong enough to make drastic changes, Too weak to ease consumers in!

Coca Cola themselves hired paramilitary to assassinate labor activists and union leaders in colombia

One incredibly simple and incredibly human factor: People react to what directly affects them.

They don't care cause it affects poor brown people thousands of miles away. No matter how much americans claim to fight racism, most of us are still like slaves to them

boo hoo hoo

What did Nestle do ?

It's marketing, you were supposed to pick the pepsi on accident in front of the other customers, and by doing so, you sponsored pepsi without pay

I 100% can tell the difference between the drinks. I cannot put my finger quite on the difference, but there is for sure! If I had been old enough for the taste test, I would have been honest too. 🙂

@@NemoCat20 pepsi is spicy. coke is just brown

@@chrismanaloe3507 RC cola is better.

To me, Pepsi is more flat with a sweeter flavor opposed to coke. I don't like too much sweetness and more carbonation is better

New coke worked and possibly allowed them to shift to the much cheaper high fructose corn syrup without people noticing.

It's like that College Humor skit for the Oreo CEO. :D

Oreo could probably get away with making Double-Stuf the normal Oreo. It's a straight upgrade.

Except they switched in 1984, a year before new coke

Truth. I my local Mexican market pretty much pays its bills just buy selling Mexican Coke. Sugar Cane very clearly superior.

@@bastian_5975 Are u saying theyre wrong? the difference is huge

90% People probably can't tell the difference despite what you may believe. Infaxr Mexican coke now has a 50/50 of being cane sugar or HFCS, the preference is illusionary. Though some claim it does effect the "mouth feel" of it, that may be an illusion as well. I've even ran experiments on myself and my family to see if any of us could correctly guess which one was which. In many tests both were American coke and both were Mexican coke, to see if anyone could tell if they were tasting the same soda twice. Nope, none of us could. Its probably just the allure of the glass bottle or that it's slightly less carbonated that makes it preferred for some, but as of right now, I'm pretty confident in saying 99% of people will be unable to taste the difference.

The difference between corn syrup and cane sugar is overblown, but I'm sure plenty of people can taste a difference. Also, a lot of people assume that since it has a longer and more "scientific" name, that it must be some harmful chemical. As far as I know, nutritionally it makes no difference. They're both bad for you in significant quantities. I think the main reason why corn syrup is used so much is because the US government provides big subsidies to corn farms, which makes corn syrup very cheap.

this

That comes up a lot and even now, people take a sip and go "well that's not bad" but drink a few cans and its too sweet.

Same with photos or tv screens. We tend to prefer brighter and more saturated images...until we don't

@@807D14M0ND5 OLED is different. You get used to it

@@Vysair That's has no bearing on what I said but yeah I love my LG C1 ✌🏻

You couldn’t just drink water?

I didn't drink Pepsi either and now I drink unflavored seltzer.

It would be funny if they tried to bring it back

I like to imagine one of the new flavors is the original New Coke formula.

i’m not sure if he brings it up in the video or not but sometime around 2019 for the release of stranger things season 3 coke did a limited rerelease of new coke using the original formula, which i was quite interested in so i bought a case. it came with two cans of new coke and two stranger things theme coke glass bottles. if you’re wondering what it tastes like i think the closest thing that i could compare the “new coke taste” to would be modern diet coke, its just slightly sweeter coke. it left the same sort of aftertaste that diet does. TL;DR new coke basically tastes like diet coke.

The original "original" had actual cocaine in it so idk of we will ever

They should add it to the freestyle machines

@purple X shut up

Yeah I feel popular sports teams are a great example of overcharging mundane products. Likke a single chelsea mug can be sold for like 12 pounds while you could just get a 4 generic functional mug set for like 8 quid on the same site. That's the power of expert branding folks!

I believe in pure evaluation of the goods but I know that takes too much energy so people prefer going to reliable brands. Yet branding doesn’t make something good right? Confusing.

Branding does more than that. It acts as a promise of consistency, security in the quality of the product. You get a coke, you know what you are buying. Go to McDonalds and you'll know the quality will be on par with pretty much every other McDonalds. This promise and the ease of making it known is why they can charge a premium, average quality or not. The Branding where you put a brand lable on something that isn't actually that product is just a way to create a cult. It's replacing religious iconography with product placements, and worse those who fall into it only exacerbate it. Die hard Fandoms are the ultimate form of these cults. They don't just like the product or comany, they worship it.

✌👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖

This is one of the sweetest comments I've seen. :)

It's amazing if educators are using content like this.

No doubt. I love seeing his video essays, partly because they're on such random topics that I didn't think could warrant an essay. I'm always intrigued, and they're always fun and educational to watch even though, and maybe especially because, I have no interest to learn of these things by myself.

If only more educators were like you

one question tho, have you sticked to your guns and stayed with coke, despite the peer pressure it gave you when you drank the new formula? or did you switched to pepsi?

Jolt Cola!..."Twice the caffeine, ALL the sugar!"

@@peterbelanger4094 💯👍 I loved that stuff! OG gamer drink

I was there for a tour, yeah I was in the shit, I had a New Coke t shirt, so I was New Coke in the streets but I was a Coca Cola Classic between the sheets as it were.

I was in the fructose regiment myself. We got in many a sticky situation.

You can actually, it’s called Mexican Coke

Most people outside the US drink coke that's made with cane sugar (Old Coke).

It would be funny if they brought it back and called it “Coke-Cane”.

Technically even Old Coke isn’t really the original recipe since the coca leaves now have to be stripped of cocaine. Who knows how that affected the flavor.

But Old Coke is essentially what's being sold in any country banning GMO foods, and some others I assume. Here we use beet instead of cane sugar, but sucrose really is just sucrose.

I saw that coming. I figured that a big part of the reason for new coke was cheaper cost of production. I think initially they didn't want to change original coke so took a chance with new coke knowing they could always go back.

Yes Almost anyone who talks about this doesn't even mention this

Just speculation

Travis Gallagher 2 days ago This was 100% done to change to high fructose corn syrup without anyone going bonkers about the taste change and ingredient change. Going “back” to the “classic” was a genius maneuver in master manipulation. It’s kinda scary too 102 games n de bunker games n de bunker 3 days ago This guy could make the history of the phone book interesting 6K Red Circle Red Circle 1 day ago This is essentially the soft drink equivalent to the 2019 Movie Sonic design. 10 Your Friendly Cynic Your Friendly Cynic 2 days ago I think this video is a great example of how attached we become to recognizable imagery, even if there is hardly any difference And that doesn't make people dumb either, we all do it. When a celebrity we've grown up on dies, despite not knowing them personally, there is this weird feel of nostalgia and loss, because the person you're thinking about is more associating with those memories, rather than missing them on a personal level Weird example, but it was kind of like Black Ops 4 zombies and removing Juggernog, you still had the same health, but it just didn't feel the same 38

Yeah. If they had simply switched from sugar to HFCS the new formula would've been treated just like how New Coke was treated. But now instead the chance was being treated as "a return to normal". Genius marketing.

Not sure if today’s shenanigans are less or more bizarre.

@@t65bx25 today is more. Little in human history can and will top when a few years back a bunch of people tried to declare independece from their country, failled miserably, descended into a Lawless society rulled by criminal Warlords, started starving, needed to not only betray all their values but also ask the country they declared independence from to give them food, had some killings, implemented Race based segregation and finally colapsed. All under 9 days time.

Americans are special creatures.

@@infanos3720 You're referring to Portland, or the south? I genuinely can't tell

@@ileutur6863 its not that old.

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I wonder if they were going for a "coca-cola was for boomers" thing in response to Pepsi's "younger generation" campaign? But yeah - companies do a mind-boggling amount of needlessly screwing with what works imo.

This could possibly be the reason why American luxury brands - Cadilac, Lincoln, and Chrysler - seem to grasp no baring of for newer generations, especially now. These brands threw away the old-school, couch-cushion, land yachts in order to appease the "sporty" and "stylish" designs the Europeans were riding on. Now, those brands are having a hard time even justifying keeping living on because they don't seem to have anything that made them. Yes, bad management and all that happened, but the thought's still there.

Not always. That's actually been McDonald's go to strategy since the start. Ray Croc wanted to create a restaurant chain who's whole appeal was that it would be consistent no matter where you found it, since the consumer would be assured that at least they'd know what they'd be getting where ever they were. The same philosophy works with chain hotels as well.

Consistency gets you nowhere, innovation keeps you alive

@@CheeseMiser You need both, genius.

Good point. 💯

but we got the bad ending timeline

@@diwajerebation4077 what do you mean Original sonic design from original games everyone loved (coca cola) 2019 movie reveals bad design (new coca cola) Paramount backtracks, spends a buncha money and goes to a more classic design and releases the movie with the bad design all but forgotten (coca cola classic)

nah that design was genuinely horrific. It's like if the new coke formula made it taste like dirt.

@@diwajerebation4077 wdym? they fixed the design.

It's too bad they don't sell a version with cane sugar in the US. Pepsi does it with Mountain Dew, so it's not unheard of.

Coke with cane sugar is really good. When I drank canned coke, it was a bit underwhelming.

My dad just goes to a Mexican store and gets a glass cola, he never gets canned

Living here in Texas allows me to buy the bottled coke and take them back to Mexico to get them refilled.

@@fffrrraannkk Gotta make sure we’re drinking our corn syrup

What are these means

@@cujows1844 Competitive consumerism and population polarization for the sake of business.

@@cujows1844 Information warfare

Haha that reminds me of in my graphic design classes where we used minute maid for the same purpose, tweak the imagery of ur brand and people stop wanting ur product

Honestly, most of the complaining idiots should have been interned in an asylum.

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Thank you for your insights, Mr. President.

New Coke is actually a tale about how gullible and reactionary consumers are. People act like it almost ruined Coke but in reality it basically made them way more money in the long run

Thank god it’s not just us.

The internet does help magnify human behaviors, yes

It’s a different kind of privilege

Well now you know. Trust me, things moving too fast and people making rash decisions were occurring for as long as humanity existed- tens of thousands of years before the internet was invented

never forget it!

Which one do you prefer?

Mexican Coke tastes the way I remember Coke tasting as a kid.

Mexican coke uses high fructose corn syrup, they're just allowed to call it "cane sugar" (which HFCS is aswell)

this deserves at least 2m subs.

We call them MexiCokes and we buy them whenever we can. Plus, those little bottles are cute.

Yeah, imagine learning how to pronounce the name you're going to say in your scripted video. Real tired of the whole "Probably butchered that name lol" thing when you can just look it up

To be fair i absolutely hate to hear "Im pronouncing it wrong" because yeah, most of the time they do pronounce it wrong, but thats not the problem. I would never scold someone because his german is shite, especially foreigners AND especially specially foreigners that never learned the laguage it in the first place. But on the Internet you HAVE to be perfect or act like you would be sorry because Jeremy cant deal with the fact that spanish isnt spoken by everyone.

@@el_tristo Imagine being so upset that people do not speak your language. Also its rather difficult to "research" pronounciation. And even when you hear it, you have to LEARN it properly. If you disagree i would like to hear you say "Eichhörnchen" (Squirrel) without practicing it for hours. You are the problem people need to fcking APOLOGIZE for NOT speaking one of the thousands of languages of humankind. Imagine being that narrow minded

@@gandalf_thegrey I really love that germans never scolded me over my terrible language production skills when I was still actively practicing my language on poor tourists whenever I saw them, most old folks were really sweet and spoke slowly to me if I requested it. Frenchmen on the other side...

Americans constantly give English people shit for how they pronounce words in their own language. “Omg why do you say choobe instead of tooobe” 🤤 they can’t even say ‘pasta’ correctly

Don't let this distract you from the fact that I get bullied because my classmates think my videos are the worst. Please don't agree, dear josh

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2020 will be exempt from this

Nostalgia just ain’t what it used to be

True. I prefer Pepsi because that's what my step dad preferred and I remember stealing Pepsi's out of the fridge as a kid to have a nice treat

Probably because people are a bit... sleepy

It didn't go over my head... I even posted my own comment about it the second he said it in the video and I had finished laughing...

Why do assume everyone else didn’t get the joke? Seriously? You are the only person who has watched the news in the last 6 years? Yeah…you’re special and smart and clever and everyone else is stupid🤣🤣🤣🤣

just because nobody commented about it doesnt mean nobody got it brother

I mean, it didn't HELP...

I lived through the "change". There was a definite difference in the taste. i also believe that over the following few years that they "slowly" changed the formula in "Classic" Coke, and all are now drinking "New" Coke. RC Cola probably resembles the taste of the "Original" Coke formula, IMHO.

The major difference between old coke and the current version is that the old version had to have at least 50% cane sugar in it. After the New Coke episode, they introduced the "old" recipe, but used zero percent cane sugar. If you want to notice what the difference do a blind taste test on US coke and Mexican or kosher coke.

@@aronklemz8554 If that were the case, the brief time they had New Coke available for the promo with Stranger Things wouldn't have worked at all.

There's a lot of assumptions and biases that influence how we see coke, new coke, and today's coke. I doubt it's as simple as today's coke being new coke under a different label though

What about the "Mexican" version of Coke sold in glass bottles? Is that anything like what New Coke was?

@@azazellon Mexican Coke and American Coke are two very different tastes. As a Mexican who drinks Coke pretty much every day, and travels to the USA often enough to taste American Coke occasionally, I can assure you that I can very easily tell when I'm drinking the USA product or the Mexican one. American Coke is definitely sweeter, but in a more chemical-like way. It leaves me a bit of an aftertaste, although it's still good. These last couple of years I've mostly switched to Diet Coke or Coke Zero (known as Coca-Cola Light and Coca-Cola Sin Azúcar where I live), and they do taste much more similar to the American product. As a side fact, American Coke is much higher in calories than Mexican Coke; an American 20oz (591ml) bottle will have about 80cal more than a Mexican 600ml bottle. Cane sugar really makes a difference.

@@nocunoct I've only recently found out that Mexican Coke exists, and I highly prefer it over American Coke. Great to know it wasn't just my imagination when I thought they tasted different!

To this day I love cane sugar based coke. I know my local gas station has glass bottles of that still.