r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Tobias-Tawanda • 14d ago
The floor is sticky People buying and throwing away entire drinks just to use them to take a photo on the pink wall
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u/Remarkable-Opening69 14d ago
Most people are stupid so…
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u/duck_duck_zombie 14d ago
You mean influencers
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u/Remarkable-Opening69 14d ago
No. Well yes but, look at the garbage can again.
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u/sabakunoichigo 14d ago
But would a nomal person do that? I can't think of anyone I know who would buy a drink specifically for a picture and even if that happened we would finish it.
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u/insufficient_funds 14d ago
I can’t think of anyone I know that would care enough about a pink wall to take a picture in front of it.
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u/Outside-Pear9429 14d ago
Plenty of people. Not everyone with an IG is an influencer, and this is screaming IG post
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u/ChanglingBlake ORANGE 14d ago
Just because they aren’t an influencer doesn’t mean they don’t still see themself as one.
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u/Outside-Pear9429 14d ago
Some do, many do not lol. I don’t think the majority of poeple with social media, especially non-tiktok social media, consider themselves influencers. Lots of people with private accounts even just like to make their friends think they have exciting lives or just have pictures they think are cute for themselves
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u/Keyndoriel 14d ago
When I was going to school I went with 2 people who'd throw away change that was less than $10 because "hes not poor, thats poor people change" and I feel those are the same kinda people that'd do this shit
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u/SpookySchatzi 14d ago
Like throw it in a garbage can?
Imagine if they just stuffed it in the tip jar instead…
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u/Dangerous-Ad6589 14d ago
Yes. Influencers are stupid, those who get influenced are also stupid. And no, it's not only kids who got influenced
And then there's the wannabe influencer and trend chasers
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u/Clear-Inevitable-414 14d ago
Think of the calories. You wanna be confirmatively cool, but not confirmatively fat
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u/drgigantor 14d ago
I've just been getting fat! You're telling me I could've been getting cool instead??
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u/GergDanger 14d ago
Nah, influencers are a tiny subset of society. Most people are stupid and far outnumber influencers
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u/EasyAsAyeBeeSea 14d ago
Influencers inherently only exist because they have a large audience of people who want this type of content.
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u/nfld223 14d ago
To be honest I see one full cup and many empty
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u/thoang77 14d ago
Every visible cup with the pink drink, which is likely the ones purchased to take a photo with the pink wall, is over 2/3 full
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u/SomeGuyNamedCaleb 14d ago
Wasteful*
Wasting food is just an opening sign of bad character.
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u/reddit33450 14d ago
related, ill never understand the whole idea of being obsessed with "influencers", celebrities, etc. like theyre just normal people like everyone else. stupid
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u/Disastrous-Soup-5413 14d ago
I would argue they weren’t normal because they have a more obsessive need to have people outwardly and demonstratively like them/fawn over them.
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u/hawkseye17 14d ago
Celebrities usually are at least actors, musicians, etc. What the heck do influencers even do?
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u/NosePicklePicker 14d ago
Walking advertisement without actually being sponsored lol. They do all the marketing without enjoying any of the benefit
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u/joahfitzgerald 14d ago
Influencer's are living commercials, that don't realize they are living commercials.
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u/ACuddlyVizzerdrix 14d ago
I'm just tired of narcissists being famous for no reason
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u/tader314 14d ago
Only the pink ones weren’t empty. Probably tasted it and was like “this sucks” and chucked it.
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u/InsecureThoughts 14d ago
I was looking for this comment! My sister "influencer wanna-be" got the pink one to post on her story. She was honest with the review "It is that classic, Overly sweet/sugary where it just taste foul. They tried to dilute it with something bitter, and that just came across as motor oil in the milkshake"
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u/Frequent-Stress-4363 14d ago
yeah i heard they weren’t that good, but me personally i wouldn’t waste food/drinks
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u/Life-Top6314 14d ago
To take the same photo 30 people took within the last 24 hours. Actual NPCs.
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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea 14d ago
Why not just fish one out of the trash for the picture?
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u/P1g-San 14d ago
Why not make a prop drink and charge the dummies to use it?
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u/MyPunsAreKoalaTea 14d ago
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u/Redxmirage 14d ago
Where you think all these drinks came from? Bet there’s a stand right there selling the pink drinks to glamorize your photos
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u/Ronnyyyyyyy 14d ago
Imagine if there was an “exclusive one” that cost EXTRA just to hold through a line? Cash money.
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u/Elegante_Sigmaballz 14d ago
You expect ME?!?!?! The hottest influencer alive, to touch TRASH?!?! 😨😨😨 /s
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u/Reef-Coral 14d ago
Then someone takes a picture of you doing that and you go viral for the wrong reason
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u/sleepytoday 14d ago
What’s the significance of this photo though? What is the drink and what is the wall about?
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u/saturatedsilence 14d ago
It’s just a pink wall for taking social media pictures. It means nothing.
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u/CastleMeadowJim 14d ago
I think they were asking what relation the drink has to the wall
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u/Character_Mud_5843 14d ago
I could be wrong but I think Starbucks had a specialty drink this past weekend, called a unicorn or something. It’s cute and pink and all that. This might be for that specialty drink.
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u/ProduceNo1629 14d ago
Pink wall, pink drink it's cute and a vibe and an asethethic like literally.
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u/dougthebuffalo 14d ago
Man idk, if I was hot enough for people to like a photo of me holding a pink drink and that could be my livelihood I'd do it in a heartbeat. It'll pay as long as people (and millions of bots) consume the content.
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u/DocPsycho1 14d ago
Idiocy. Simple as that. I hate to be like this but what else is it.
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u/RepresentativeOk2433 14d ago
Probably tastes terrible. All these over the top fancy milkshake type places sound awesome until you actually try to drink it and realize it's just a daily caloric intakes worth of sugar and artificial flavors but still it isnt enough to mask the food dye.
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u/RestaurantOk8066 14d ago
Maybe it just wasn't good. The other drinks in the trash seem mostly finished.
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u/marveloustoebeans 14d ago
This has to be some kind of mental illness, right?
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp 14d ago
As someone with 7 mental disorders diagnosed...
I don't wanna be associated with these dipshits.
WHO WASTED FOOD?!?
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u/Vladishun 14d ago
RIP your inbox. Bout to have so many "I can fix them" type messages.
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u/General_Cranberry_29 14d ago
I got those occasionally, and I'm like "Yo, I'm a dude" and they scatter (this was before the King of the Hill avatars, obviously lol)
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u/Vladishun 14d ago
Haha I've gotten them from men and women alike when I'm advocating for the transparency of cluster B personality disorders, which I have two of. Telling them I'm married doesn't seem to deter them either, so I just block anyone as soon as I get the feeling they're trying to flirt or do more than just gain insight through asking questions
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u/spreadmeliketarot 14d ago edited 14d ago
lemme try my luck-- ptsd, 2 invisible disabilities. come and get it gentlemen 😉
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u/EmmyWolf222 14d ago
I’m gonna join in too! Bipolar, cptsd, ptsd, adhd / autism, and at least one invisible disability 😁
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u/spreadmeliketarot 14d ago
omg disabled girls date night! I'll bring my disability placard once it comes in. Best parking in town on me folks 😭💯🥂
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u/Not_Russian_bot9 14d ago
Ay lemme join in!
PTSD, severe depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia! I'll bring alllll the voices with me!
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u/West-Solid9669 14d ago
I'll take that and up it to an extra bit of severe depression, ocd (If a single person tries to claim cleanliness, I'm executing you), and constant suicidal thoughts. Alright, who can fix me, let's hear it.
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u/IndianaSucksAzz 14d ago
Just vapid dumbasses chasing the latest trends because they have absolutely nothing else of value in their lives.
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u/Carlsheartboxers 14d ago
Normally I’d say yeah. But the unicorn frap is terrible this time around so I understand those
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u/TbaggingSince1990 14d ago
Genuinely they look disgusting so maybe that many people don't like em lol
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u/cameronm-h 14d ago
I work at Starbucks and most of us think they’re gross. The blue drizzle is insanely sour, and the pink frap part has almost no flavor (it only gets 2 pumps of mango which is much less than most drinks of that size). I legit think a good number of those are cups that people tried and didn’t like. I feel terrible for the closest Starbucks—unicorn weekend has been terrible for most of us, but that looks like a whole nother level…
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u/NYSenseOfHumor 14d ago
unicorn weekend
Do I not want to know?
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u/FuturePause2736 14d ago
They brought back the 2016 unicorn frappuccino for the weekend and millions have sold
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u/sicilian504 BLUE 14d ago
I have no idea wth the 2016 unicorn frappuccino is and I'm proud of that.
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u/apocalypsebuddy 14d ago
Tbh I want to try a blue drizzle after hearing how sour it is. I always feel like sour things aren’t sour enough
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u/goldensoaring 14d ago
My friend I am you. I love sour. I eat lemons like they're oranges. I put sour powder on my grapefruit. Warheads are a delightful treat. .this stuff is more sour than that but also JUST TASTES BAD
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u/Wuz314159 (\/) (;,,;) (\/) 14d ago
Maybe I'm just too old, but I thought Starbucks made coffee. Ò_o
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u/Chemical_Choice_9056 14d ago
Yeah I really don't see why people are acting like there is no other reason to throw it out besides it was a prop. It is a trending spot so you wanna try it but after you get it the drink sucks and you rather not force a 600 calorie disaster down so you just toss it away because what else would you do with it?
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u/CoolBakedBean 14d ago
yeah i’m at a point in my life where i’m more worried about calories or too much sugar versus wasting something i spent money on
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u/i_poop_chainsaws 14d ago
They legit tasted disgusting. Like dairy and sour on the verge of curdling. With some sugar thrown in.
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u/nibletta 14d ago
It is disgusting. I got a free mini sample yesterday and the sour flavour mixed with the whipped cream tasted like actual barf.
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u/Aggravating-Hair7931 14d ago
business opportunity right there. pick up a "drink" from the can, rent it out as photo prop.
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u/phewDoinKphew 14d ago
I think i saw you in the gold rush, you were holding some showels. Weren't you?
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u/Solid-Category-2095 14d ago
I'll be honest, besides the pink ones (which maybe taste bad), the other cups look empty?
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u/Workman44 14d ago
Yeah I was wondering how far I'd scroll to find this. The first pink cup sure was full, but the rest look mostly empty lmao. And people just read it and don't even look?
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u/RedisforFun 14d ago
Majority of the full drinks are the unicorn frappes. I heard they didn’t taste the same as last time so maybe people actually hated it?
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u/NaturalSandwich8880 14d ago
We really should have banned TikTok in it's entirely
Not because it's a Chinese psyop used to manipulate domestic issues and cause deep-rooted partisanship but for the simple fact I hate influencer "culture"
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u/Theslootwhisperer 14d ago
Instagram is the biggest culprit here. Tiktok just continued the trend. But the current iteration of influencer culture comes from Instagram. Don't get me wrong. Not a huge fan of Tiktok, but influencer culture was a thing way before tiktok.
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u/KEN_LASZLO 14d ago
Just ban tiktok, surely a replacement won't take it's place in a week and influencer culture will end! Good thing influencers exclusively use only that one social media site
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u/st-shenanigans 14d ago
Its a republican psyop now.
They were forced to sell to a group of republicans in america and they're currently suppressing liberal creators and pushing narratives. Alex pearlman just had a video about it on YouTube.
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u/NakedSnakeEyes 14d ago
I understood some of those words.
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u/ruggles_bottombush 14d ago
Yeah, the only reason I am looking at these comments is because I'm hoping someone explained what this means, but so far nothing.
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u/botched__toe_ 14d ago
It looks like most of those cups are empty aside from a few? Is this just California rage bait?
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u/haha_squirrel 14d ago
My daughter bought one and couldn’t drink it because it tasted so bad… lol that may be the case here..
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u/ElBurritoNinja 14d ago
This generation of young adult really seems they don't want or care to feel like individuals.
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u/potatosalade26 14d ago
Oh please. As if the pervious generations didn’t have one big monoculture that legit had everyone tuning into and watching the same shit. Young adults nowadays are far more individualized and segmented into their own groups. And ya know, trends exist, they’ve always existed especially the exploitive ones the funnel money into capitalism and waste
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp 14d ago
Op if it helps you.
The zombie apocalypse is impossible, the zombies at this point would starve to death as there's NO BRAINS IN THESE PEOPLE.
Knock knock who? No brain in you.
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u/PowermanFriendship 14d ago
The influencers are dumb but not dumb enough to blow 1200 or whatever calories on a single drink that probably tastes like a gooey cup of high fructose corn syrup.
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u/enblightened 14d ago
i have a few friends who run a restaurant in a city that had a “brat” mural across the street for charli xcx’s album a few years ago. Apparently all day, girls would flash their chests and pose for instagram pics in front of it. They are only early 30s but they didnt understand the trend at all because they grew up on the other side of the planet
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u/thirdeyefish 14d ago
I did a job across the street a few weeks ago. It was like this all fucking day for the three days I was there.
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u/Shalom_pkn 14d ago
The french royals were throwing away food while the poor starved to death on the streats. It lead to something rly great.
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u/jdehjdeh 14d ago
What is this pink wall?
Why is it so special?
I've never heard of this phenomenon and I'm secretly fucking delighted by that fact.
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u/Wuz314159 (\/) (;,,;) (\/) 14d ago
What is this pink wall?
It's a pink wall.
Why is it so special?
It's pink.
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u/De-railled 14d ago
Someone should set up a stall and rent out a realistic prop or something.
Then they can be like
"OMG, so I went to this viral place that will only be trending for as long as my attention span. My whole personality might be a fake but I'm also a fake eco warrior, so I only used the reusable props to save our enviro. Give me social media points. I need validation."
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u/DeeRent88 14d ago
I hate it because California is such a beautiful state and even LA is pretty amazing but god the people there suck. Specifically the whole chronically online influencer community.
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u/Doogiemon 14d ago
I need to figure out where this is and rent drink cups to people for the cost of a drink and retire next year from their stupidity.
Rent 2 and the 3rd is free.
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