Once in a decade or so, an image so impacts me, that it feels like there is a physical weight on my chest. An example would be the little girl in the Shake and Bake commercial from the 60’s - “And I helped”. It was just such a weird and twisted image. Betty Crocker had gone terribly wrong. Over and over again, the networks played it. Even in my 10 year old world, the word on the street was: This was seriously twisted- and no one knew why.
Now, in my wisdom years, I understand why. The little girl was an alien. She simply was not from this planet, but some other relatively accessible sphere that has been monitoring us. And so it goes.
They took X-files of the air for a reason. I submit as evidence the above picture. At first, just a harmless Yahoo Mail ad banner. But then…insidiously…infiltrating my dreams…then my waking hours…Like some evil Jim Carrey or Jim Varney or some other evil Jim….Jimmy Crak Korn…Hell, I don’t know.
The point is this. There is something about this young man’s face that is just disturbing. Otherworldly. Which give one pause to ask:
Did the advertisers know this, and chose to use this image because they knew it was just so freaky-deaky that lots of folks would feel oogie, and then buy their product. OR,
Am I the only one that finds this visage slightly warped, looney, wacky, funhouse and disturbing?
Just another post from the editors at the Trifling Blog for your amusement and bemusement. Pax out.