Streamers react to Aldi\u2019s questionable \u2018Teatime Takedown\u2019 campaign Supermarket chain Aldi recently launched a campaign designed to get kids back to the dinner table instead of playing video games. UK Supermarket chain Aldi has launched a campaign called \u2018Teatime Takeover\u2018 which is designed to get kids back to the dinner table instead of glued to their TVs playing video games. The idea is parents would sign their child up for a program that would put their kids against professional gamers. The pros would presumably beat the kids so badly at games that they will stop playing. Seems like a simple method that will surely work, right? :megaphone: Parents: This is your call of duty. Sign up to #TeatimeTakedown to safeguard your family dinnertimes. https:\/\/t.co\/lm2MZCSZid pic.twitter.com\/tA49rzeF63 \u2014 Aldi Stores UK (@AldiUK) March 12, 2019 Sign-ups for this campaign will run until March 31. The first \u2018takedown\u2019 event runs from March 22-24 and the second one runs March 29-31. The idea behind this doesn\u2019t seem like it is too thought out on Aldi\u2019s end. What 12-year-old wouldn\u2019t want to go against a professional gamer in their match? We imagine any child would love to get into a match against Ninja, even if they are steamrolled by him. Members of the gaming community have been speaking about the campaign, mostly making fun of it. i was telling all these gamers how much i own them while having sex with their mothers but then shroud s1mple and scump killed me and teabagged me so now im going to eat dinner bye \u2014 Rod Breslau (@Slasher) March 13, 2019 Some popular streamers are even offering to play the part of \u2018professional gamer\u2019 who would virtually pound children into oblivion. Sign me up! I already make kids rage quit for a living https:\/\/t.co\/dUTLjT4XAK \u2014 LG SypherPK (@SypherPK) March 13, 2019 Can I sign up to have the pros join my team and carry me \u2014 Anne Munition (@AnneMunition) March 13, 2019 It\u2019s hard to see this campaign paying off for Aldi but maybe it can raise more awareness to parents wanting to eat dinner as a family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Streamers react to Aldi\u2019s questionable \u2018Teatime Takedown\u2019 campaign Supermarket chain Aldi recently launched a campaign designed to get kids back to the dinner table instead of playing video games. UK Supermarket chain Aldi has launched a campaign called \u2018Teatime Takeover\u2018 which is designed to get kids back to the dinner table instead of glued to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}