So in other words, the documentary was so successful in decrying the rampant hyperconsumption that was accepted in its time, that such rampant is no longer considered acceptable or normal. And on that basis, you consider it to be facile, obvious… “problematic”?

No. It was based off of a lie and people don’t mention that. But sure, invent whatever you want.

Literally nobody references Supersize Me as a “study”. It isn’t, and it hasn’t ever claimed to be

I was literally shown it in school as a teenager while the entire time it was referred to as a study. I’ve also had numerous conversations with people who call it a study. Moreover, my post claimed that people TREAT it as a study. So, yes. People do claim it to be but I never even claimed that they did. You are not an infinite font of knowledge, you don’t know everything.

Whenever you come up with similarly hot takes, the comments always end up being filled with a you offering litany of obtuse bad reasoning.

You’ve made one comment on one of my posts. A post where I said I didn’t like chocolate plugs being introduced at the bottom of ice-cream cones that otherwise have no chocolate there-in. Both you and everyone else in that thread had a fucking meltdown at the concept of an ice-cream cone that had no chocolate anywhere else other than the plug. They exist. I live in Canada. While the meme was talking about Cornettos specifically, I was just generally talking about ice-cream cones. You, however, refused to accept this as possibility. Instead, you acted like your own failed understanding of what was being said as the reality of what was being said. Much like in the comment I’m replying to now, you projected fucking hard and got angry at me over it. It’s boring and a waste of my time.

Your failed grasp at what is being said does not equate to reality. Reply to this or don’t. I don’t care. I’ll never see it.

I’m not saying it was a study, I’m saying people refer to it as one or treat it as one with alarming regularity.

Some people are stupid and they will believe anything that they see on TV. With how this documentary was framed as well, a lot of people just went about their lives assuming it was something that was reviewed and unflawed. There is a reason it was such a big deal when it came out he was an alcoholic during filming. About half of the documentary becomes completely worthless because we now know he was seriously lying during filming about what he was consuming. Which suddenly calls the entire thing into question because if he’s willing to slide on something as major as that, then what is the value of the rest of it?

No, I think their point was more the fact that it’s heralded by people as a great study but is massively flawed and with obvious outcomes. There wasn’t really anything stringent done in the documentary. Any impact it had was purely from shit people already knew. He had no controlled experiments and was an active alcoholic during it.

My point, personally, is that people who reference Supersize Me in any capacity as a valid documentary or study is someone who is either uneducated or a fool. There’s little difference in holding this documentary to your chest and referring to it or in doing the same thing to Joe Rogan or Bill Maher’s Religulous. It’s low-effort garbage that’s not made for intellectual consumption but is still used for it anyway.

That’s kinda problematic.

That’s my point.