Microsoft Advertisement FAIL

This is just… creepy…

I’m not 100% sure why and I had to watch it a few times before I even realized it was creeping me out… But once I figured out why it was distracting/disturbing me, I realized it was just subtly creepy. It’s probably the dark colors the guy is wearing in juxtaposition with the all white background. He looks shady. He doesn’t look confident. He looks like he is sneaking. When he walks over to the camera he has to bend down to summon you (It would feel less creepy if you were always at eye level). It feels like you are a kid and some stranger is walking by and bending down into your face and saying, “come on kid, come look what I’ve got”. He’s got his hand in his pocket… why? That’s creepy. This whole thing feels like a drug dealer trying to get me to come smoke pot/crack/whatever with him. It’s just… creepy. Yuck.

Sorry Microsoft… but… FAIL.

Here’s the whole ad (I was able to extract it from this page)

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Christopher McCulloh

E-Commerce developer at Finish Line Co-Author of HTML, XHTML and CSS All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies Graduated from IU with a Bachelors of Media Arts and Science and a Certificate in Applied Computer Science. Tech Editor for Building Facebook Applications for Dummies and Building Websites All-in-one for Dummies 2nd Edition. Creator and maintainer of the Status-bar Calculator Firefox Extension Three years professional experience in Java E-Commerce Development and four years professional experience with PHP for a combined total of seven years professional JavaScript/HTML/CSS experience

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