Mildly Infuriating

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.

The "emphasis whiskers" 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.

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.

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.

Rates of alcohol use and addiction have been decreasing.

This is just getting them started early like cigarettes always tried to do.

Ok, I did the digging on this because you asked. I actually just assumed because I was carded for NA beer that this was a law.

In the US, federally it is not illegal to sell less than 0.5% without carding. But many states treat NA beer the same as normal beer and they require the person be over 21. In the states that do not require 21 and over for NA beer many (most) stores and bars will still card because its better safe than sorry when it comes to ABC and losing your license.

So even tho it might be legal, you are probably still going to get carded, except at this place I guess.

But also I am struggling to understand why someone would choose to drink NA beer if they didn't already know what real beer was like and was trying to avoid it by getting the NA kind (like me). Like - NA beer costs the same as real beer, just buy literally anything else to drink and its cheaper.

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.

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

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.