YouTube is Trickery, or, How I Momentarily Thought All Advertising Went to Shit.
So I’ve always watched the Super Bowl for the commercials, and though I’m not a marketing tweeter, I used to rank them with my brother in our living room over hot dogs. Well this year I skipped out on the whole thing, just wasn’t feeling it, but had to Google who won (don’t care) and what ads showed. Like an Idiot I thought it would be easiest to just use YouTube. If there’s one thing the internet should have taught me, it’s that you can’t trust anything on that site. (Dax Flame, anyone?) A search for “2008 Super Bowl commercial” spat out something for Carls Jr. and Folgers. Imagine me at 1:15am alone in my room going “what the fuck!?” and thinking I had just missed some freakish turning point in American advertising. It’s all the fault of this guy (props to him, I guess) and my gullible nature. It only lasted a minute, but that minute was weird as hell as I watched the fusion of modern tv ads and b0g.org play behind my eyes.
