To be fair, teenagers should also not think about alcoholic beverages.

They say “contains less than 0.5%” because that’s the cutoff that makes something legally beer. It more than likely has none, much of the time. That’s just the law (US):

> 0.5% it’s beer and subject to alcohol laws

< 0.5% it’s not beer, technically a food

So they label it as <0.5% simply to show that it’s in the latter category. This creates a lot of confusion for some reason.

Even the grocers (and even manufacturers) get it all messed up. Hell, half the brands don’t have required nutritional info (beer doesn’t need it, soda does) but the real problem is that:

The regulatory agencies are captured and don’t do shit anymore. TECHNICALLY the FDA should be stepping in and making them put full nutritional information on all the brands of NA “beer” and making sure it is labeled and sold like a soda.

But the larger companies that sell it are just misclassifying it and creating problems to be as lazy and risk avoidant as possible.

So apple juice, bananas, …?

I have more than once witnessed 18-20 year old service members drinking openly and legally in bars and restaurants by using their military ID.

Yeah… In my country we can drink at 18

The style of the text is a big giveaway to me. Generated text has gotten a lot better (ie usually legible), but it’s pretty much always that same block letters that aren’t quite perfect enough to be a typeface, but also not designed well enough to be made by hand.

The general format of this one is also fits closely to a lot of other generated posters I’ve seen (some examples: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/2d35f3bf-bc05-4971-8c8d-9e69fe857bde.png). It’s hard to describe, but hopefully you can see what we’re talking about.

The “emphasis whiskers” around “it’s” in the top, middle are a dead giveaway. Plus I’ve seen multiple AI generated posters with this exact color/font scheme. You’re gonna keep seeing it over and over now that you know what to look for, unfortunately.

Look at the text on the beer can. It’s gibberish.

Like other commenter said, its more a general vibe.

Its the blocky graphic on either side with smaller text labeled modern squared off graphics in the middle. Its the font. Its the spacing. Its got the same general flow of the dozens of AI generated websites I’ve seen.

Its too cleanly unclean.

It doesn’t look like it was designed by hand. There’s no meaning or sense of planning in the design.

I also think it’s AI. It’s not something in particular I can point out that makes me think that, it’s more an impression. An impression that comes from having seen a ton of slop.

The meaningless feature section in the middle of the poster.

You can, actually. They’re on Amazon.

Snortable children’s Tylenol… That’s a great idea. Do you work in marketing?

Well the industrious kiddos just go to the store and buy some juice, sugar and yeast.

Oh, like candy cigarettes and big league chew.

They say “contains less than 0.5%” because that’s the cutoff that makes something legally beer. It more than likely has none, much of the time. That’s just the law (US):

> 0.5% it’s beer and subject to alcohol laws

< 0.5% it’s not beer, technically a food

So they label it as <0.5% simply to show that it’s in the latter category. This creates a lot of confusion for some reason. Hell, half the brands don’t have required nutritional info (beer doesn’t need it, soda does) but the real problem is that:

The regulatory agencies are captured and don’t do shit anymore. TECHNICALLY the FDA should be stepping in and making them put full nutritional information on all the brands of NA “beer” and making sure it is labeled and sold like a food. But they don’t.

Counter example: kombucha has naturally occurring alcohol, but you don’t see anyone getting carded for it and you have the regular nutritional label on it.

I drank beer more often at 16 (which was the drinking when I was growing up) than I do now. And I did it for the flavour. Though granted I had better choices than american “Budweiser”.

Usually you’d start that joke with ‘what do x and y have in common…’

Starting with what’s the difference works when there’s a difference. Like this, ‘What’s the difference between a woman in a confessional and a woman in a bathtub? One has hope in her soul.’

Maybe they’re keeping a better balance of hydration to alcohol for their old brain, and not having a fruity or sweet taste but not boring plain water as well. Lite beer can occasionally be refreshing. Although personally I’d rather pour half a beer into a cup of ice than drink most light beers.

It’s to beer what LaCroix is to fruit juice.

In my experience it’s because they’re drinking 18 of them and don’t want to be sloppy drunk after 10-12 hours. I prefer the more direct method of hard liquor to be more efficient but I get the thought process.

I’ve had one beer I thought tasted pretty good (a Sam Adam’s Cherry Wheat lager). It tasted like cherries. Like a slightly carbonated cherry juice; not beer with a hint of cherry.

I’ve never seen it being sold anywhere since. :(

Pretty sure I just hate the taste of hops. I have no tolerance for bitter flavours. Really sucks when my dad or sister cook, because I can hella taste when they burn any garlic used in it as it becomes super bitter.

I’m also German but nobody should advertise harmful drugs to children.

What does you being German have anything to do with it? Completely ignoring that no, being able to legally advertise it as 0% doesn’t mean it has 0%, in Germany non-alcoholic beer is still beer and doesn’t get advertised to children. That would be fucking insane to do.

Absolute fringe opinion even in Germany. Most shops and bars refuse to serve 0.0 to teens below legal drinking age (which already is ridiculously low), ads also don’t target them.

So, there are these things called candy cigarettes. They are candy shaped like cigarettes. Despite simply being things like bubble gum or chocolate, it turns out that people who ate them as kids are about twice as likely to smoke real cigarettes as adults. This has resulted in them being banned as advertising tobacco products to children in a good number of countries. This add for nonalcoholic beer specifically saying that minors can buy it can easily be argued to be the same kind of thing, with the same kind of legal response. If consuming non-alcoholic beer as a minor results in significantly higher rates of alcohol consumption as an adult, then ads for non-alcoholic beer that target children, like the one shown, might be worth a ban.

There used to be candy that looked like cigarettes and soft drinks made to look like a champagne bottles, and at some point we decided that was not a good idea.

I drink and I smoke, but I also think it’s not a good idea to get children used to those things. You can drink responsibly but there’s no quantity of alcohol that does zero damage, and the less we get young people used to them the better.

let’s just ban all ads. That’d make me happy.

Yep it always does those stupid lines on either side