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antisubliminalCited 4× on HN, 2016-2023
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Apple's famous 1984 Macintosh television commercial, which casts the company as a rebel breaking a Big Brother-style conformity.

Cited ironically or as a joke when Apple is accused of becoming the controlling Big Brother it once mocked.

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4 comments from Hacker News

@PaulHoule2023 · in “Ask HN: Will Web3 ever become mainstream?”

No. People don’t see the value in ‘decentralization’, their motto is something like ‘give me convenience or give me death’. This commercial, for the first personal computer that didn’t come with any programming tools, reveals the true attitude of the masses: ▶ this video (Note the guy talking in the screen is a blockhead as I see it.)

CriticalView on HN
@shrimp_emoji2023 · in “Tell HN: My son is being bullied for owning an Android phone”

It's not just that. Apple is evil. Apple users are willing slaves, shackling themselves to gilded cages. Death to the evil Apple empire. They never said winning was easy. Freedom is painful and unsexy. But it's right. It's the sea of sheep around us who is wrong. :triumph: Ironyposting ▶ this video

JokeView on HN
@kelvin02021 · in “Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it”

They've come a long way from building personal computers in Wozniak's garage. In the process they've transformed into the 'big brother' from their 1984 T.V. ad campaign. ▶ this video

CriticalView on HN
@ymse2016 · in “Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack”

That brings to mind this classic.. Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail! ▶ this video They should re-run this commercial for iPhone 7. "On September 24th, Apple Computer will introduce iPhone 7. And you'll see why 2017 won't be like 1984."

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