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sometimes there would be “prize cans” of this stuff where instead of having soda inside it there would be hats. and they didn’t sell this option in boxes by the way they just put prize cans in random vending machines. and put like 25 cents in it so hey. you could get an actual soda that isn’t just hats. maybe.

did i mention that this soda also had a fucking MANIFESTO??? because yeah it sure had that printed on some cans and it goes as follows

and there’s these things called “coincidences”, which… yeah it doesn’t make it sound any less ominous

and you might be wondering how the soda itself tastes like does it taste good? ok? well apparently it was just a regular “citric” tasting soda but somehow they fucked it up so bad that it was compared to “carbonated tree sap”, and instead of trying to make the drink taste better they included that it tasted like shit, INTO THE ADVERTISING SCHEME ITSELF. they would literally advertise that it tasted like ass as a part of the ironic marketing, no i am not kidding.

but if you thought that’s where it ended there’s one more curveball and without any exaggeration, you will not expect what i am about to tell you.

take a look at this guy.

this guy is the “face” of ok soda, as in he was printed on the most cans and technically served as a mascot of sorts for the entire thing. his face was a major part of the branding, and this design for the cans was one of if not the most common.

okay. cool. no issue there right?

take a guess on who this guy is based off of.

the artist’s coworker? a generic guy? the artist himself? a relative? some random reference model they hired?

CHARLES MANSON. YES, THIS IS REAL. MEANING FOR A BRIEF MOMENT IN TIME, CHARLES MANSON’S FACE WAS USED AS A MEANS TO SELL COCA COLA.

the lead artist himself has even come forward to say this is the case. and now you may be asking wait. how’d he do this? how’d he possibly get away with this, years after the crimes had been committed?

well according to him, it was simple. apparently none of the contracts he signed said anything against putting a mass murderer on the can. so. there’s THAT.

unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, ok soda never really caught on since *surprise surprise!* teens really don’t want to buy soda that looks like a brutalist art museum, and it never had a wide release so it was only a thing for like two years between 1993 and 1995. but from what i’ve heard there’s still people who are giving this soda a small modern following, collecting all the cans and merchandise and even coming up with stand in recipes for the soda formula itself.

so yeah! that was ok soda.

CARBONATED "BEVERAGE"

But, this is just completely incorrect. Through the decades, anytime a discussion between Bruce and Alfred was written before getting Dick, Alfred was ALWAYS very clear that it was BRUCE'S JOB to parent the kid if he took him in, not his. That it would be BRUCE'S RESPONSIBILITY, not his. It was never "we are going to do our best" and always "you will have to do your best, Master Bruce". Alfred made his boundaries very clear that if Bruce took a kid in, Alfred wasn't going to step up in his place.

Another point is that, through Batman's publication history, children protective services have been wary of Bruce's parental skills. One of their worries was that Alfred, the butler, was the one actually raising the kids (Dick and Jason) and not Bruce, the foster father. This was a claim Bruce and Alfred both fought against time and time again since the goddamn 40s.

In canon, Bruce is the one lecturing his kids, grounding them, hugging them, he is their parents, not Alfred. Alfred doesn't do that. They will complain to Alfred about it, and Alfred may agree with Bruce, but he doesn't do the lecturing and the grounding. Bruce's children do not want Bruce to know what trouble they got into, they are fine with Alfred knowing because Alfred will not do the parenting. They have even been shown to ask Alfred to, please, not tell Bruce. They try to bargain with Alfred for him not to spill things to Bruce, because Bruce will ask question, have a discussion and maybe give them a lecture. BECAUSE HE IS THEIR FATHER.

Alfred never punishes, grounds any of the kids, or tells them they can't go out as Robin, Bruce does. And, unless they are being rebellious, the kids do obey. They will complain about it, but they obey. Bruce does have some authority on his children. Alfred will give his opinion, and Bruce may use it or not, but Alfred will not override Bruce's role and authority.

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