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So blatant, it can only be European.
Oh, it looks female? Yes, it's small, round, yellow, has a leaf emanating from the top, and has no limbs or sexual organs. Just like all the woman I know. The only thing making it look vaguely human is the face. But it's obviously female, and obviously having sex, with its non-existent genitals, and it's obviously having a whale of a time riding that green thing, which is probably some kind of allegory for a black man.
> Just come up with a shocking/witty ad, email it to a couple of people
> and pay street-teamers to link it on chat boards to "cool it
> up" and voila - instant demographic saturation.
*Looks at monkey_man suspiciously* :^)
Webmarketing is simple as hell and can go global in minutes.
Remember that beer commercial with "Wassup" and all the amusing spin-offs with cartoon characters, or that salmon commercial with the bloke fighting a bear etc etc etc.
Just come up with a shocking/witty ad, email it to a couple of people and pay street-teamers to link it on chat boards to "cool it up" and voila - instant demographic saturation.
I wish I wasn't so cynical or annoyed by all this sometimes but hey, that's just how I am.
> It's viral marketing.
> They come up with something deliberately provocative and it flashes
> around the internet/world in a day without costing them anything
> except publicity.
> Their marketing bods are patting themselves on the back and jacking
> off onto $$ bills as we speak.
I hate how stuff like that tends to be so effective.
The way people believe what they want to believe.. sometimes I wish I was still like that.
I was on holiday until a couple of days ago. The biggest yatch (sp?) in the harbour was called 'Golden Cell'. And I'll bet it didn't belong to the mojority shareholder in Duracell.
Accepting the glaring inconsistancy between morality and success.. it's quite a way to p*** on your own chips (dreams).