Um…
So I’m reading CNN yesterday (print is dead but cable is print? I just don’t know what to make of our modern media), trying to work up some hu-mon tears to go along with the story of the family in Joplin whose son was sucked out of their car’s sun roof by the tornado, when something even more horrific demanded my attention. In the right hand column of the screen was this:
How…what…? Can anyone explain this?? Near as I can tell it’s an advertisement masquerading as a news article masquerading as a still from Army of Darkness. Either that or Anne Coulter is dating Chris Brown.
Of course I clicked it! I had to know if this woman was okay! It could have been a teaser for Internet snuff. Well, here’s where I landed:
Nothing out of the ordinary here. Just a single father raising his two daughter’s alone because he had to shoot mommy through the brain pan when she developed a taste for human organs!!
Zombie, Anne Coulter, doesn’t matter. Don’t forget to double tap.
Captcha has its own special holiday:
national wedifir
I first thought that was Ke$ha, actually.
Pretty sure those random banners are designed to get you to notice them, and not really to be pertinent to what they link to. It’s why they like to put flashing animations of dancing aliens and hot chicks in there too, because it plays to such base impulses that you can’t help but look and boggle at it.
So yeah, it’s just guerrilla marketing bullshit. You probably knew that; it’s just more depressing than funny imho.
It’s still only a teeny bit weirder than the elongated dogs/wolves they were using to advertise the same thing a few years back. Those would put me into a spontaneous fugue state every time.