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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 129 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I'm often reminded of a bit on Top Gear years ago, when they were talking about "turbo" as a marketing tool in the 80s, when you could buy "turbo" sunglasses or "turbo" watches or "turbo" after-shave.

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago (2 children)

2000 or 3000 as product numbers was also a thing.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

HD and 3D.

marketing is so stupid. and humans are worse because apparently it works.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

LOL, I recall seeing HD sunglasses somewhere roughly 15 years ago. That was the period where everything had to have an HDMI port. I guess someone must have made an HDMI compatible toaster too.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

Lever 2000 comes to mind.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These days it's Pro. The word lost all meaning entirely. In the vast majority of products that are sold with this tag, it's just a slightly better version of an enshittified product

[–] ben_dover@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

or "plus". still waiting for Wallmart Plus and Starbucks plus

[–] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Walmart plus

hahahahapain

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Plus, Ultra, Max... All superlatives have completely lost their meaning.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's a cycle... we go between those superlatives, then back to "One" or straight up just the name of the product again as if its' a relaunch or something (but really just confuses people on the internet trying to find out information about your product). Then repeat.

Games and movies do the latter a lot. Not inherently bad I guess (e.g. God of War), though a bit annoying at times.

Growing up in the 90s, everything then was "Ultra" and "Mega" etc. before we collectively got "too cool" for that type of hype marketing in the 00s.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Movies like to just put "The" before the title to signify the definiteness of that particular reboot.

Too bad those often also end up getting sequels...

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

"All" superlatives? ;-)

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

and later the turbo button on your pc that actually made the CPU clock slower

turbon't

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

Yea, if you ever had old DOS games, this button was a godsend.

[–] GreenSofaBed@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 months ago

Even now you can buy a Porsche Taycan Turbo, an electric car, so there's no turbo in it.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or the 00s-10s when everything had to be "HD".

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

About a hundred years ago you could buy a "radio flyer". It's a red wagon. People don't change.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I never made that connection, somehow.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

We need turbo smart AI things.

Turbo smart AI potatoes. Turbo smart AI cigarettes. Turbo smart AI lamps. etc.

[–] NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

MOAR! Turbo smart AI thing pro max xl featuring Dante from Devil May Cry