Depending on your age Mactonight are two completely different things. If your gen-x or millennial Mactonight is the weird fast food mascot you saw at McDonald's 20 years ago. If your a zoomer Mactonight is Moonman, the vaporwave, alt-right rapper who loves to say the n-word and kill minorities.

I remember my dad listening to Moonman songs.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I’m an older millennial who’s fairly into vaporwave and I’ve never heard of this racist rapper version of mac tonight. The food mascot from the 80s (twenty years ago was 2004, btw) fits in with the 80s samples vaporwave uses, like this Saint Pepsi track:

https://youtu.be/_hI0qMtdfng

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Moon Man isn't really a vaporwave thing. It's a meme that originated from YTMND in the late 2000's which rebranded Mac Tonight as a white supremacist rapper, often accompanied with slur-filled text-to-speech parodies of various rap songs.

It's not the reason McDonalds ditched the mascot (that was due to an entirely unrelated trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Bobby Darin's son in 1989), but it is a big reason why they started actively pulling down Mac Tonight animatronics in their restaurants which were otherwise being left disused.

The most infamous Moon Man thing to exist is a controversial DOOM mod which replaces all the enemies with incredibly xenophobic depictions of minorities, and adds a roster of several playable characters including him, Hitler and Ben Garrison.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What the actual fuck‽

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

This is what happens when you let channers have modding tools.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the one I found as well. I wonder what happened to saint Pepsi?

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't find the video, but i saw someone interview him, and PepsiCo asked him to use a different name.

He now goes by Skylar Spence. It's a different genre, but I love the songs he's released under that name.

[–] kenoh@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I saw him in concert in 2017 under Skylar Spence, but he flipped back to Saint Pepsi for his 2019 release, so he must have figured that out somehow.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

"(twenty years ago was 2004, btw)"

I know that but if you were a millennial it would have been 20 years ago.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

I only heard about it from a youtube documentary

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mac tonight was more like 30 years ago... I thought he was cool

[–] littletoolshed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

1986-1990, apparently

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yep that sounds about right. I stand by my “old” statement.

[–] b000rg@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/Jp35RSGt_Dg

I don't know if EmpLemon is considered a controversial character or not, but here's what popped into my head the second I saw this.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is emplemon controversial?

[–] b000rg@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was just being overly cautious because it's been a while since I've watched and of their videos, and you know how it goes with YouTubers

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Lol true

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Conan O'Brien?

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

My thoughts exactly

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

With Leno chin.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Party on, Slurms...

[–] Qkall@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I knew this would be in the comments... lol thank you

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

what in the fuck man

[–] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

[–] _m_cubed_@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fun fact: This was actor and contortionist Doug Jones’s first role.

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I remember the McDonald's near my high school had a maybe 3/4 sized version hanging from the ceiling for a few years. Couldn't get to the ball pit fast enough to escape that uncanny nightmare...

[–] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This'll scare the shit out of Seth 😆

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who?

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SETH!

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Found the jackal

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

CrackTonight

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I don't think adding sunglasses is going to make that any less of a nightmare.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

"any of you kids wanna see a dead fry cook?"

[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Let’s dance

Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

Let’s sway

Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight!

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how much sunglasses will help this nightmare.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 7 points 1 month ago

It helps a lot, with the glasses he's just a weird jazz man, no glasses and he's a sleep paralysis eldritch horror.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Looks like Bob Hope.

[–] ViscloReader@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Please someone mixes Radiohead's album The bends with this

[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

1 day no zaza got me like

[–] Davidvanb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mac Tonight-mare

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 month ago

...hey, willem dafoe is an accomplished thespian; show some respect...

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Sing me a song, you're the bananaman...

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Is that Jack Nicholson?