MrSebSin@sh.itjust.worksM to The Far Side@sh.itjust.works · 3 months ago3 August 2024sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1189arrow-down14
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minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down5·3 months agoAnyone under 40 will have no idea what this is referring to.
minus-squarewander1236@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 months agoThat wasn’t true even before Stranger Things referenced New Coke
minus-squareDirk Darkly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoI’d be willing to bet anyone who’s even had a Coke before is aware of this.
minus-squarezabadohlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoI’d be curious to see if there’s an age cutoff for awareness of the New Coke saga…
minus-square...m...@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months ago…when did they phase out coca-cola classic branding?..i posit that anyone whose age of literacy followed later wouldn’t organcially become aware of new coke; might even be skeptical of its veracity the first time they heard mention…
minus-squarezabadohlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoIn 2009 apparently Before anyone asks, New Coke, or Coke II as it was renamed by then, was ceased in 2002, with a brief return in 2019 as a Stranger Things tie-in.
minus-square...m...@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months ago…that’s when it ended original production in its final holdout markets, but it withdrew from most markets at least a decade earlier…
minus-squareVerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoHonestly it’s still one of the least esoteric Far Sides.
Anyone under 40 will have no idea what this is referring to.
That wasn’t true even before Stranger Things referenced New Coke
I’d be willing to bet anyone who’s even had a Coke before is aware of this.
I’d be curious to see if there’s an age cutoff for awareness of the New Coke saga…
…when did they phase out coca-cola classic branding?..i posit that anyone whose age of literacy followed later wouldn’t organcially become aware of new coke; might even be skeptical of its veracity the first time they heard mention…
In 2009 apparently
Before anyone asks, New Coke, or Coke II as it was renamed by then, was ceased in 2002, with a brief return in 2019 as a Stranger Things tie-in.
…that’s when it ended original production in its final holdout markets, but it withdrew from most markets at least a decade earlier…
You had to be there
Honestly it’s still one of the least esoteric Far Sides.