Posted by matt | Posted in Quick Tips | Posted on 23-02-2010
Tags: banner ad, banners, cheap, facebook, manipulative, trick, tricks
Have you seen those ads on Facebook about “weird trick to losing weight” and “weird tricks to whitening teeth” and so on? Usually discovered by a mom who JUST SO HAPPENS to live in either the same town as you, or the same town as your proxy server?
Yeah they’re pretty dumb. But they do activate some primitive part of the human brain that’s hard to resist. “WHAT IS THE WEIRD TRICK! I MUST KNOW!”
There’s something about the unexpected that piques our interest, and once it’s piqued, something irresistible about having the unexpected explained to us.
Which is why I love this fake ad so much.
Spotted at the utterly NSFW webcomic Oglaf.
