Advertising… wow 11/2/2006

I’m sure all of you have seen the lame little ads here on myspace where you push the button really fast to do something and if your faster than  the flash animation thing, you win a free tea bag or something.  The most annoying thing is… alot of times I’ll just do it to see if I can be faster… even though I know I can and it’s not going to get me anything but a popup window.  FUCK!

Anyway, are these things really working on people?  I know when I get tricked into it, I just close the window that comes up, but are people really going “Wow!  I won a free ringtone!” or “Yes, a free new chance to buy something!”  I mean honestly, these things are ridiculous.  The most recent one I saw was a farting war with a gorilla.  Not a joke…You push the button to fart more on the gorilla than he can fart on you.  What the fuck kind of marketing is that??  “People who can fart really fast on gorillas love our products!”  Pure marketing genius.

I’m going to start making those things, only take it up a notch… something like…. “Push the button to nail more sluts than Ron Jeremy!” or “Push the button to fling more semen on innocent passers by!” or possibly “Push the button to bang more kids than a level 3 sex offender!”  Too far?  I don’t think so.