hate mail
Dear Stupid Banner Ads,
I am so done with you. You completely gross me out. Please stop stalking me. It’s starting to creep me out that you’re at every website I go to. Seriously. EVERY ONE. You know who you are. I’m talking to ads like…
YOU (fyi, being “discovered by a mom” doesn’t inspire a great deal of confidence in your periodontal procedure… plus that picture is sick):
YOU (moving graphics make you neither cool nor realistic… so just stop it):
and ESPECIALLY YOU (barf):
You’re gross, and I’m sick of looking at you. You need to hire some new marketers because your ads, when not nauseating, are simply laughable. Your nasty images don’t make me want to use your product. They make me want to plunge a butcher’s knife through my computer screen (that, or navigate away from the page). So kindly remove yourself from existence.
Much obliged,
Your most loyal boycotter
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To the two people who read my blog,
I’m sorry I had to put you through that. I probably shouldn’t have posted those screen shots, but seriously, my rage overtook me and I lost control.
Hoping you can forgive me,
Your ever-blushing blogger
P.S. Happy Friday! Here’s hoping your weekend is completely banner-ad free.
Category: if i ruled the world, pictures 5 comments »
February 27th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Where are those ads from?
February 27th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Thank you for saying what we all have been thinking.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Kelly, you need to say what you really feel. Oh, and to the other two people who read this…I am not “the mom” who discovered teeth whitener.
February 28th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
The first is from Facebook. The second is from Fandango. And the third one I’ve seen on at least 7 different sites earlier in the month, probably mostly sites for guitar tabs and music lyrics. (I can’t remember for sure because I haven’t seen it in a week or two, but I used to have to constantly refresh webpages or resize my screen so that I didn’t have to look at it the whole time. Earlier in February I sent a screen shot of it to Bryant one day when I was really sick of looking at it, so I still had the image saved in my email archives. Lucky for you!)
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Kelly, that’s so funny! I’ve seen those ads numerous times and think the same thing.. how about the dancing lady on mortgage rates going down or something??? That one is a classic and common one! Hope things are going well!