Remember Bizarro the Superman villian from Htrae (earth backwards) where everything is backwards, you hate friends, love enemies, use nudity to sell clothes and cake to sell computers.
If you don't know where I'm going with this the marketing / advertising departments for companies have crossed over into the world of modern art.
Now some would argue that advertisements have always been crazy - as seen here. At least you know what is being advertised though. Billboards are the worst imho. I don't know what 90% of them are trying to sell me. Abercrombie has ads that feature not one piece of clothing. They sell clothes, but their ads feature nothing but nakedness, and worse than that male nakedness (the most hideous kind of nekked there is).
I see dozens of advertisements without any clear indication of what is being sold, and apparently without any real connection to the products they are selling. Is this some sort of weird reverse psychology? They put the male torso with a six pack almost as good as mine up there to remind the less blessed they should wear clothes?
Is this secret genius at work? I think its drugs. Large acid trips are the only explanation for toolishness of this magnitude.
This is the ad that inspired this post and nausea... Picture has been edited because I like you more than Abercrombie likes you.
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