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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?
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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.
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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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. Posts: 870 | Registered: Mar 2005
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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.
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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 Posts: 870 | Registered: Mar 2005
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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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