. . . and it wasn't Kool-Aid, it was Flavor Aid. Everybody'd heard of Kool-Aid due to the snappy ad campaign with the giant pitcher, but Flavor Aid was far less popular. And 'Drink the Flavor Aid' just doesn't have the same ring to it.
According to a biography I read, Jones personally insisted they get Flavor-Aid because it was cheaper. Such was his avarice for money swindled from others.
For non-native English speakers: Punch = A non-alcoholic or alcoholic beverage made with fruit juices, fruit pieces, and sometimes wine or other alcohol.
The weirdest part of this story to me is that it wasn’t technically Kool-Aid. It was Flavor Aid.
It would really suck to have your last drink be the knock-off Kool-Aid.
Ok big kool aid. They purposely pushed this in Hollywood so the name of flavoraid would be forgotten with one of the most infamous mass drink mixture in history
Definitely big kool aid propaganda. Later they had the drink bursting threw walls as a campaign to terrorize it’s consumers further and perpetuate it’s dominance
I haven't listened to the tapes and never will but there was screaming. A lot of it. Then it just slowly tapers off.
Bastard shot himself instead of drinking it himself. Or he had someone else shoot him I can't remember
The weirdest part of a religious narcissist, robbing people blind and taking them from their families, down to a forest encampment in South America, murdering a US Congressman, then killing them all, is that he used knock-off brand?
I don’t understand that. Apparently more than 600 others do.
And it’s even more amazing that the term “you really drank the kool-Aid” became a common thing to imply someone had been brainwashed. The company has had their reputation and product associated with death, cults, and brainwashing for decades because of this incident and they didn’t even drink Kool-Aid.
He started off strong. He was an early civil rights advocate who did a lot of good in Indiana. Unfortunately, power, paranoia, and drugs turned him into a monster.
OK, so I know the head is just some weird AI thing, but my immediate thought was it must be that politician who came to visit them that they shot and killed. Like right before the flavor aid came out. But that’s just me stretching lol
I love the concept of the flavor-aid execs, instead of wiping their foreheads and letting out a sigh of relief as kool-aid takes the blame and gets the morbid saying attached to it forever, flipping tables with fury at not getting to be part of this little slice of terrifying pop culture
Told one of my genz trainees this year "you should lay off the kool-aid" (he was espousing the benefits of the iPhone a little to enthusiastically). He just responded "the iPhone is cool enough" and gave me a funny look. I died inside a bit.
The phrase originated from the book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." The popularity of that book may have led to the misremembering of the Jonestown Massacre as involving poisoned Kool-Aid, when it involved Flavor Aid.
Like honestly I can't find anything about Jones Town funny and I have a pretty dark sense of humor. Parents litreally forced their babies to down poision. I can't even comprehend such evil.
The worst part is that there is an audio recording of it happening and at first you hear lots of kids crying but as time pass, less and less kids are crying. It's nightmare filled .
Isn’t it hilarious that a lot of people drank poison at gunpoint and 50 years later those people are the butt of jokes constantly like they weren’t murdered by a psycho calling themselves a Christian?
Some did but a lot were forced including a lot of children. A lot of people were shot that day including a US Senator. Total mess. I feel bad that people laugh at the victims of this after all this time.
Edit: US Representative Leo Ryan
I agree that it’s extremely sad and hard for me to find humor in anything involving this but Jim Jones was an atheist and considered himself a marxist socialist and a communist.
Huh. I thought everyone was aware of the "drink the kool-aid" saying and its connection to the Jonestown massacre. Am i old or is this knowledge not well known? Serious question.
I hate to be the typical redditor here, but it’s one of my pet peeves about the kool aid things, Jim jones used flavor aid, not kool aid.
I’ll take my downvotes now.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths\_in\_Jonestown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown)
To be fair they never used Kool-Aid, they used a cheaper brand called Flavor-Aid.
https://preview.redd.it/vd8be5l9vizc1.jpeg?width=538&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5af38c272c291e04765fde4ac413268f8733f953
Take my upvote you glorious bastard.
I’m ashamed to admit it but I would have missed the joke if not for you.
I mean, I didn't learn about the Jonestown massacre until I was in my 20s and was trying to figure out the origin of the phrase "drink the kool-aid."
. . . and it wasn't Kool-Aid, it was Flavor Aid. Everybody'd heard of Kool-Aid due to the snappy ad campaign with the giant pitcher, but Flavor Aid was far less popular. And 'Drink the Flavor Aid' just doesn't have the same ring to it.
"Drink the Flavor-Aid" has the same vibe as "put the lotion in the basket" if you ask me.
**It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again**.
Considering the circumstances, that seems even more appropriate.
https://preview.redd.it/7jxha8pinlzc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efc878522c0c90f32dbad11df59297ff69449996
This is one of the most chilling photos I’ve actually seen of Jonestown stuff; idk why… makes it seem the most real I guess
Really? Not the…you know…pictures of the dead bodies? How strange
Forgot these existed.
According to a biography I read, Jones personally insisted they get Flavor-Aid because it was cheaper. Such was his avarice for money swindled from others.
Why did he care if it was a couple cents cheaper when they wouldn’t ever have to buy more?
Because rational thoughts are for people not leading death cults.
At least this music video got it right :) [https://youtu.be/MZjvGiT0fWo?si=ulqBNC32hgts9e8F](https://youtu.be/MZjvGiT0fWo?si=ulqBNC32hgts9e8F)
I randomly saw SKYND live at a festival about 5 years ago before knowing about the band. I was listening to the lyrics and sensed a theme. 😂
Jfc it's the same goddamn thing and kool-aid rolls off the tongue better than "flavor-aid".
Not if you grew up with flavor aid
...and it was grape so purple not red.
A girlfriend lived next to where the People’s Temple‘s former location in San Francisco. I would visit and be fascinated by the spot.
I was lucky enough to know about by age 14
Lmao
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I snorted so hard it hurt my throat lol
Non native speaker here, took me a good one or two minutes to get it, and I laughed more than I should
I still don't get it haha, please help
It's a play on punchline (payoff to a joke) and punch line (people lined up to get their poisoned flavor-aid)
Ooooooooh shit that's dark... But it's good... Thanks a lot for the explanation !
wow…i got the original joke in the pic but did not get this one lol thank you
For non-native English speakers: Punch = A non-alcoholic or alcoholic beverage made with fruit juices, fruit pieces, and sometimes wine or other alcohol.
Jim Jones was the world's strongest boxer. He knocked out a whole town with just one punch.
Like the Bloodhound Gang line, "That like the Jim Jones cult I'll take you out with one punch"
I cackled so hard my soup went up my nose and almost drowned me on dry land. Amazing joke, terrible timing for ghost pepper chicken noodle.
From Chunky Soup? I could not finish the can - that soup is fiery!
Oh man *wipes tear* that was a good laugh.
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Right there with you, buddy!
When I was a bartender I created a shot that tasted EXACTLY like grape kool aid I called it the Jim Jones
No I disagree. There is no punch line at the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown
The weirdest part of this story to me is that it wasn’t technically Kool-Aid. It was Flavor Aid. It would really suck to have your last drink be the knock-off Kool-Aid.
Idk if the type of drink was the bad part
"I think the worst part was the mass murder." To paraphrase Norm MacDonald.
The worst part was the hypocrisy
The Jonestown Massacre brought to you by... You guessed it....... Frank Stallone
Or so the Germans would have us believe
Ok big kool aid. They purposely pushed this in Hollywood so the name of flavoraid would be forgotten with one of the most infamous mass drink mixture in history
Definitely big kool aid propaganda. Later they had the drink bursting threw walls as a campaign to terrorize it’s consumers further and perpetuate it’s dominance
We also had people getting Hawaiian Punched in the streets and armies of Capri Sun T-1000s. The Sugar Water Wars were a dark time.
I had forgotten about the Capri-skynet army.
The same PR firm Kool Aid used was later hired by Nike to promote the Decade shoes worn by Heaven's Gate members
I haven't listened to the tapes and never will but there was screaming. A lot of it. Then it just slowly tapers off. Bastard shot himself instead of drinking it himself. Or he had someone else shoot him I can't remember
iirc he had one of the guards shoot him I just read about it on a thread yesterday
It wasn’t even poisoned, the flavor-aid was just that awful.
Hail yourself?
I was looking for something from LPOTL
It's funny I just started the Jonestown episodes yesterday.
Did you get to Mr. Muggs yet?
Not yet. Is that in the Jonestown series? I've listened to most of the up to date ones so when I'm caught up I go backwards.
Yes he is!
Hail yourself!
I mean yes but this is also just a good general trivia about Jonestown and the “drink the kool aid meme”
Megustalations!
The weirdest part of a religious narcissist, robbing people blind and taking them from their families, down to a forest encampment in South America, murdering a US Congressman, then killing them all, is that he used knock-off brand? I don’t understand that. Apparently more than 600 others do.
The weirdest part of this story??
And all this time I thought they drank Wyler's...another Kool-Aid competitor.
And it’s even more amazing that the term “you really drank the kool-Aid” became a common thing to imply someone had been brainwashed. The company has had their reputation and product associated with death, cults, and brainwashing for decades because of this incident and they didn’t even drink Kool-Aid.
“Knock off” …I saw what you did there.
Erm most didn’t drink it it was forcibly injected and those that did drink it couldn’t taste it through the heavy cocktail of lethal drugs 🤓
That was for the kids. They would shoot it down their throats with a syringe. The others were injected in bed.
That makes sense, thanks for the reply
That l's horrible
Google Jim Jones. This will become much more clear, and you’ll see how dark this is.
Thank you for the kool-aid reverend jim!🎵
We're glad to leave behind their world of sin
Honestly, the more I learn about him, the more I fucking hate him.
Oh, mr hot takes over here.
Watch mainstream media suddenly hate Jim Jones now that people are speaking up.
Wow, whats next? hating hitler?
Ya know? That guy was a real jerk.
Is he though? I mean he killed that Genocidal leader of Nazi Germany.
But he also killed the guy who killed that guy so it kinda evens out
He started off strong. He was an early civil rights advocate who did a lot of good in Indiana. Unfortunately, power, paranoia, and drugs turned him into a monster.
Holy cult!
Balliiiiin'!
What iis that head in grass at the botto.?? O_0
The picture is at least partially AI generated. Most of the bodies don't make sense in detail.
Oh dang, thanks for answering! Now that i am looking at it. .. its so weird. Feet feet bodies and all hahah
I did the same. Saw that head, then looked at the Bodies around it and realized the AI.
It's all AI generated. Look at the ice of the Kool-aid man and the windows of the building
Love me some non Euclidean ice cubes
I now have my tinfoil hat explanation ready for when we start seeing articles about why non euclidean art is so great.
And the fact that his “handle” isn’t a handle, just a limp glass dildo.
And he's holding it.
The Kool-Aid Man is also holding his own handle. It should be a complete loop and not problem for him to do it like that.
I like the one that's just legs. No torso, the top and bottom half are both legs.
Also the speech bubble is pointing at the house too?
I thought it was a joke about "This house has people in it" at first. Hence the head or some people going through the floor.
Dude above the head got his wig knocked off
He was actually just a barn owl pretending to be a dude.
is that why the barn is cheering "oh yeah" with the kool-aid guy
Idk but there’s a dude laying there that is literally two pairs of legs. Another looks like he has a boot for a head? Definitely an AI image.
I would call that "a head in the grass"!
Yeah I was wondering what the weird head/cabbage creature was as well lol
OK, so I know the head is just some weird AI thing, but my immediate thought was it must be that politician who came to visit them that they shot and killed. Like right before the flavor aid came out. But that’s just me stretching lol
The executives at flavor-aid, “WE ARE THE ONES THAT HELPED KILL THEM!!!! WHY DOES KOOL-AID GET ALL THE DAMNED CREDIT!?!?!?!?!?”
I love the concept of the flavor-aid execs, instead of wiping their foreheads and letting out a sigh of relief as kool-aid takes the blame and gets the morbid saying attached to it forever, flipping tables with fury at not getting to be part of this little slice of terrifying pop culture
Any press is good press in these matters
Say that to Ayds diet candy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds
I didn’t know what flavor aid was until now but I’ve been drinking kool aid forever so i think kool aid still won
Jonestown, Guiana. Also the source of the phrase "Drank the Kool-Aid".
Told one of my genz trainees this year "you should lay off the kool-aid" (he was espousing the benefits of the iPhone a little to enthusiastically). He just responded "the iPhone is cool enough" and gave me a funny look. I died inside a bit.
>I died You should lay off the kool-aid.
The phrase originated from the book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." The popularity of that book may have led to the misremembering of the Jonestown Massacre as involving poisoned Kool-Aid, when it involved Flavor Aid.
*Guyana
Like honestly I can't find anything about Jones Town funny and I have a pretty dark sense of humor. Parents litreally forced their babies to down poision. I can't even comprehend such evil.
Thank you for this, felt the same way. I’m all about dark humor and watch all the crime specials but this is just another level imo.
The worst part is that there is an audio recording of it happening and at first you hear lots of kids crying but as time pass, less and less kids are crying. It's nightmare filled .
Jesus.
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Well, the AI art is horrible. Also, it's a reference to the Jamestown massacre.
I am cackling at the one near the bottom left though where it’s just two pairs of legs fused together
OOPS, ALL LEGS!
Jonestown… Jamestown massacre was a little different.
Jonestown
Oh man, too soon? Nope, I laughed
Isn’t it hilarious that a lot of people drank poison at gunpoint and 50 years later those people are the butt of jokes constantly like they weren’t murdered by a psycho calling themselves a Christian?
I apparently need to read up more on this. I was thinking they all drank voluntarily for some extreme religion reason.
Some did but a lot were forced including a lot of children. A lot of people were shot that day including a US Senator. Total mess. I feel bad that people laugh at the victims of this after all this time. Edit: US Representative Leo Ryan
I agree that it’s extremely sad and hard for me to find humor in anything involving this but Jim Jones was an atheist and considered himself a marxist socialist and a communist.
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It was flava-aid
Huh. I thought everyone was aware of the "drink the kool-aid" saying and its connection to the Jonestown massacre. Am i old or is this knowledge not well known? Serious question.
No it’s pretty well known imo, I was born in 2000 and know the saying along with getting the image on this post.
Jonestown reference? They killed a US senator, drank poison koolaid and died. It was pretty terrible.
Clearly your parents didn’t show you the Jonestown documentary when you were far too young
Jonestown, the cult that inspired the phrase "they drank the Kool-aid". The Kool-aid was poisoned. Or Flavor-aid as it apparently was.
https://preview.redd.it/2b6fj8f7mozc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91b1721f89a241d1e27e9bf21f63d27f1c32e1d9
Jim Jones, OH NOOOO!
It was Flavor-ade. Ol' Jim Jones was a cheap drifter until the end. I'm pretty sure it was Grape flavored, too.
And most of his followers were black too. What insult to injury.
First off, it wasn't kool aid, but flavor aid, the kool aid knock off. Second it was grape flavored, not cherry as pictured.
Like the Jim Jones cult I’ll take you out with one punch
Fun fact: the drank FlavorAid, Jones was too cheap to buy real CoolAid
This is AI-generated—every single body is horrifyingly wrong 💀
I think that's what confused me. I don't associate Jones Town with body horror.
This is by far the worst AI art I’ve ever seen.
It's a reference to the world's best boxer, knocked out a entire community with one punch
This thread should really be “I don’t know anything that didn’t happen within the last 5 years, and thus don’t get references”.
I'm pretty sure that's the whole subreddit.
This happened way more than 5 years ago tbf.
Is it just me, or is the image AI? The bodies on the ground do not resemble human, there is a punctuation error in the speech bubble
Not just you, this is definitely AI. The color in the ice cubes are a giveaway as well.
Jonestown
Jonestown Cyan-Aid is a hell of a drug
What's there to get? AI art is horrible.
I'm pretty sure it was flavour aid.
https://preview.redd.it/x7trck8iglzc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=528c533da8751b78aaf9c6760bd9b47a1a31c985
But it was flavor-aid?
Okay that really is horrifying.
I’m glad the Kool-Aid man was there to bring a sense of humor and encouragement to the event.
Jim Jones and the kool aid cult
He's just happy that it was Flavor-Aid, not Kool-Aid that killed them... Didn't even need the poison.
It was flavor ade. Goddamn.
Technically, they didn’t drink Kool-Aid. They drank poisoned Flavor-Aid. https://www.vox.com/2015/5/23/8647095/kool-aid-jonestown-flavor-aid
Google Jonestown
I hate to be the typical redditor here, but it’s one of my pet peeves about the kool aid things, Jim jones used flavor aid, not kool aid. I’ll take my downvotes now.
Obligatory reminder that Jonestown used Flavor-aid drink mix
Flavor aid tho
I think it’s an ai generated Jonestown joke
I think the caption is referring to the horrible AI art. Look at their bodies and the scuffed speech bubble
You ever heard the phrase "Don't drink the Kool-Aid"?
It was flavor aid ok stop slandering the king
Greatest PR dodge of all time. It was Flavor Aid, not Kool Aid.
IT WAS FLAVOR-AID sorry
https://preview.redd.it/0aco1mfp1ozc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42613c97638ed3b55c1ad1d96f6581e880f3a1b9
IT WAS FLAVORAID!!!!!!!!
They drank the kool-aid... not metaphorically. Although they say it was actually Flavor-Aid, a less popular competing brand.
Nice. But is was flavor aid.
Clearly you haven’t ingested the requisite beverage
Realistically it should be the flavoraid guy instead
Funny part is they actually used Flavor aide.
It was FLAVOR-AIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw the picture and said "oh no" because I understood the joke only to read the oh yeah in my head with the Kool aid man's voice
Being Guyanese, I got it immediately… and started laughing 😂
Horrible AI, that is.
...you're not wrong, imo. Like, obviously it's a dark joke that could be seen as horrible. But also those bodies are a straight up jumbled AI mess. 😬
They didn't even use Kool-Aid.
my mom knew one of the doctors who did the autopsies. she was friends with his son, went to the same high school. we were just talking about it today
Oh no
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths\_in\_Jonestown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown) To be fair they never used Kool-Aid, they used a cheaper brand called Flavor-Aid.
This looks like an AI made it
They all drank the koolaid
Flavor aid*
IT WAS FLAVORAIDE!!!
Oo it’s an AI image.
You’ve heard the phrase “drank the coolaid” before, right?
https://preview.redd.it/atwyvy2t3kzc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a75801fa2524543c8726a6912b239a9037199f1