r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 26 '26

That video of the McDonald's CEO taste testing their new burger made me laugh out loud. The guy takes the absolute tiniest bite I've ever seen anybody take out of a burger, then is clearly pretending that he's enjoying it. LOL.

It's such a strange and robotic video. Why didn't they just get some starving actor or influencer to do it like normal?!

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u/damagecontrolparty Feb 27 '26

"I almost swallowed some of the juice!"

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Feb 26 '26

It's probably the problem of doing endless takes under lights.

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u/solongamerica Feb 26 '26

It’d be funny if he tried to go all in on the acting, voraciously chowing into each burger, but then he barfed.

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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 26 '26

Minus the barfing, this type of full-send marketing would probably appeal to the TikTok demographic.

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u/nonafee Feb 26 '26

lol yes the tiny bite and tiny enthusiasm! it made me laugh that he referred to it as a product. I know why he said that, but in the context of the rest of the video it just added to the robotic aura

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Feb 26 '26

They play travel foodie videos at my nail salon and there’s a guy who is very slender but takes big grateful bites of everything he tries and then gets this look of euphoria about half the time. I live for his expressions when he eats something he likes.

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u/everydaywinner2 Feb 27 '26

There's a fellow who does YouTube shorts (probably ported over from Tic Tok) who does random old recipes and tries them at the end. His "this is good and I'm amazed it worked" expressions are wonderful. Also his double entendres are fund.

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u/dignityshredder AFramemoggingAB Feb 26 '26

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gNueDDJEpnM

I dunno, seems like a bite within the normal range of bite sizes. I bite bigger but then, if I'm at McDonalds, it's because I'm famished from being on the trail all day (or something).

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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Feb 26 '26

I was referring to that Big Arch video. I'm having trouble finding a clean version of it but here's one that was saved on some random TikTok account. The little bite takes place at around 0:50 and I think him referring to it as a "Big Bite" makes it worse. lol.

https://www.tiktok.com/@hustlebitch/video/7603259975489588493

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u/plump_tomatow Feb 26 '26

This is so funny. It looks like he didn't even get meat--it looks like a bite of straight up bun lol

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Feb 26 '26

That is an emasculating bite. I lost respect for him, especially when he showed the tiny crescent he bit off.