"Fashion Shack" local ad may be the sketchiest ever

twentytwowords.com shared this insanely bad ad from 2010, featuring a really creepy voiceover, hypnotic music, and a group of young women who I fear may never have been heard from again.



The Fashion Shack is based in South Carolina (hence the "y'alls"). Y'ikes.

The latest stock photo meme

Stock photo cliché memes are a thing now, from women laughing alone with salad to things real people don't say about advertising.

This one, from Sad and Useless (via 22 Words) started last October and is pretty uneven, but some of them are worth sharing:

Yeah, ad people are cynical.

And now a Corporate Social Responsibility message from Big Tobacco

(Via 22 Words. Thanks to Jackie Di C for sharing.)

The killing probably has a bigger impact than the greening, though, because the locked-up carbon gets released into the atmosphere (and people's lungs) pretty damn quickly.