It's one of those banner ads for mortgage refinancing, where all of the states are listed. This one had each state represented by a baby sitting up wearing only a diaper, with the state's code written on the diaper. When I hovered the cursor over a baby (completely by accident the first time) it bounced up and down and waved its arms. But the arms kept moving in slow motion when the cursor was removed. Passing the cursor over the banner ad a few times led to half the babies waving their arms in slow motion. And they blink big, black eyes as they move. I'm not sure why this freaked me out so much, but it did. *shudder*
What's the freakiest or just plain weird ad you've ever seen?
--Mel
[ September 17, 2005, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: theCrowsWife ]
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Nope...I haven't actually SEEN it at this pont, have I? Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Um, that's just not fair, ya know? You tell us about this potentially funny, possibly even hilarious site, and you don't post a link.
I think I'm gonna go pout now.
*pouts* *sticks out tongue at CrowsWife* *pouts some more*
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
*joins quidscribis and pouts, waiting for the link.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Hey, Eduardo, how ya doing?
*continues to pout*
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
It was an ad in Opera, therefore no link. I did a desultory google search for the ad with no luck. I'll go see if I can do better.
[EDIT: I just realized that it wasn't an Opera ad, but one in Hotmail. Still impossible to link to, though]
--Mel
[ September 17, 2005, 11:01 AM: Message edited by: theCrowsWife ]
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Well, I couldn't find a link to it on the web. The best I could do was a screenshot. The blue baby is the one with the cursor over it. The others are swaying, blinking and waving their arms slowly.
--Mel
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Okay, that reminds me of Chucky. Nightmares, anyone?
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
I'm well, Quid. Teaching 7th-10th grade is hard everywhere in the world. But I dig it ;-)
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
I searched through the source code for the Hotmail page and managed to find a link for the ad in all its interactive glory. Enjoy.
EDIT: it seems to cycle through the available ads. I guess it was just happenstance that when I tested it I actually got the baby ad. Well, I'll leave the link up anyhow, maybe people will get lucky.
--Mel
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
WTF is it with this ad? OMG, its so freakin creepy!
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Pretty much every banner ad from Lowermybills.com is freaky and weird.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Agreed.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
What's weird about it is that the babies turn BLUE as they wave their arms, so it looks like they're choking or sick or something. Ugh.
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
Before I saw it on this post, I'd never seen that ad before. But now it came up like five times in the past few minutes!
And those babies are creepy!! Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I hit that link 10 times and never saw it.
Good work. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Yeah. That's kinda creepy. (I had to refresh 93 times before I got the right ad, though. )
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
93 times?
At what point would you have stopped if it never came up?
--Mel
Posted by Nell Gwyn (Member # 8291) on :
You kept count?? I have no idea how many times it took for it to show up for me - I'd guess around 30. But I didn't even think of counting!
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
"Come use our services! Your babies will asphyxiate!"
Very effective ad.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
quote:Originally posted by Narnia: What's weird about it is that the babies turn BLUE as they wave their arms, so it looks like they're choking or sick or something. Ugh.
I thought something like that too. Although I must say that I only refreshed ONCE before I saw the lord of all creepiness.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:You kept count?? I have no idea how many times it took for it to show up for me - I'd guess around 30. But I didn't even think of counting!
Yeah, that's kind of like a thing with me. When I start doing something like refreshing a page, I start counting. I just do. I always count stairs, too.
I would have stopped at 100 if I'd not seen it by then. Then I would have re-clicked the link and started over, probably.
Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
Arg! I've refreshed it more than KQ and I have not seen it yet. I've seen Netflix like a billion times thogh. I give up, I'm going to play WOW. Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Looking at that link, I found another creepy ad. Did anyone esle see the one from classmates.com, where is has a few yearbook pics on it? The eyes move. It's very creepy.
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
A marketing agency somewhere just made 100 bucks or more...
Posted by Treason (Member # 7587) on :
Funny, if you saw my last post in here I tried soooo many times to get these creepy babies to appear. I came back in and said "What the heck I'll try 1 more time." Got them 1st try. They are very Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Just bringing up the ads shouldn't be making any money for Hotmail, although it might be screwing up Hotmail's statistics *evil grin*. Now if people are clicking on the actual ads, that's a different story...
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