Cody ([info]codeman38) wrote,
@ 2009-02-11 23:55:00
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Scammy Facebook Ad Fail

I was just checking up on Facebook, and this ad turned up on the margin:

[Facebook ad showing a newscaster with poorly pasted-in hands holding money, with the caption: 'I got fired. But thanks to Google I ended up making more money than my old boss.']

The first thing I noticed was the badly Photoshopped hands. (MY HANDS R PASTEDE ON YAY?)

But then I looked closer. I'm not very good at recognizing faces, but having watched SNL's Weekend Update quite a bit, I thought that the set in the background looked awfully familiar. And then I realized, hey, that does resemble Seth Meyers...

Google Image Search, and yep. That is, in fact, Seth Meyers. The un-Photoshopped original frame from Weekend Update even shows up in the search results.

And yet, that wasn't the best one. No, this one was even better:

[Facebook ad showing Dan Rather holding the same badly-pasted money]

Alas, I kept reloading the page, but couldn't get that ad to come up with the "fired" text from the Seth Meyers ad. Now that would have been priceless. Perhaps they didn't run it with that text because it would've been too close to the truth...




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[info]wolfteaparty
2009-02-12 03:01 pm UTC (link)
LMAO!

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[info]fenners
2009-02-19 06:19 am UTC (link)
This has absolutely *nothing* to do with the post, but...may we add you? We have a few friends in common, including [info]mirydian, [info]latenightparty and [info]azalynn. We've seen your posts on their journals, as well as in lj-asperger, and you've always struck us as rather interesting (in the good way, mind you)! I'm a ridiculously obsessive grammar and spelling geek myself, by the way.

--Kerry, Fenners

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[info]codeman38
2009-02-19 07:02 am UTC (link)
Go right on ahead!

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[info]fenners
2009-02-19 07:28 am UTC (link)
Added! :3

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-Barging in- Sorry.
[info]hirothepenguin
2009-03-23 05:06 am UTC (link)
I just hopped on over from your "An Autistic Speaks about Autism Speaks" blog entry (I know, it's old). (AKA: not stalking you. at all. no way.)

The comment for the entry was going to be:
"lol." Because that's the best way to comment on anything these days.

There are some pretty bad ads these days on Facebook... couldn't they be considered frauds?
And why do I always have safe-sex! condom! ads on my home page?

And I'm glad you share our respect for Japanese animation fandom! :]

I shall be away now!

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Re: -Barging in- Sorry.
[info]codeman38
2009-03-23 05:09 am UTC (link)
Heh, I just saw the comment you left on my other blog. Glad that post is still getting attention!

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Re: -Barging in- Sorry.
[info]hirothepenguin
2009-03-23 11:25 pm UTC (link)
Haha... Sorry. XD

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