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I've said it before, and I'll no doubt say it again: The Burger King king mascot creeps me right the hell out. I gather he's supposed to. Well, great job, BK!
But this...this just goes over the top: The King's MySpace Blog. If you click on the link, you'll get about 30 cookies (or not if you're like me and block them), but then you'll see that the "king" has almost 96000 MySpace "friends."
I saw an article about how MySpace allows corporate entities to create MySpace profiles for fictional characters (for a fee, and with higher quotas for content than a regular account). "Ricky Bobby" is a very popular one, as is "John Tucker," and even the Yaris, the new, obnoxiously cute little car from Toyota. Frankly, I think that's going too far, but at least it's not LiveJournal doing it. Yet.
But the King? Oy. Too far. Just too fucking far.1
Incidentally, I must agree with the author of the article I read that this has the potential of backfiring hugely. For instance, the actor who plays John Tucker in the movie "John Tucker Must Die" (Jesse Metcalfe of "Desperate Housewives" fame) has a veritable legion of squealing, misty-eyed fangirls that idolize the ground he floats ever-so-majestically above (from their POV)...and "he" is friended by many of them on MySpace. Many of them who want him, Jesse Metcalfe, to make a personal comment on their blog.
And if he doesn't? Methinks that someone at the studio and Jesse's publicist didn't think this through. He has the potential of pissing off thousands of his staunchest fans, without whom he'd be just another handsome face. And if he does? Does "he" (or the dozens of grunts hired to do it) comment to them all? Just a select few? What would "he" say?
Can of worms.
Let us fervently hope that LiveJournal doesn't give in to this kind of pandering.
1 I have my own reasons to despise MySpace that have nothing whatsoever to do with their public image (teenaged twits with the intelligence of retarded earthworms) or this nonsense. On three separate occasions, someone has created a MySpace account for themselves using my yahoo email account as "their" email, so I get all the shit that MySpace floods you with when you're a member. Three times I've gotten the password from them, three times I've trashed and then deleted the accounts, and three times I've sent carefully worded nastygrams to their customer service department about not verifying emails before allowing someone to use one as "their" account. They finally have a policy that if you change your email address, it sends email to the original one for confirmation before allowing it, but I don't know if they took my advice about a two-step registration process. Only time will tell, I guess. Fuckers.
Note: A funny: When I was typing this, I put two non-breaking spaces after the bolded "1" for the end-note before the small text. I always do. But this time, instead of , I typed &nabp;.
You're thinking right now, "Why is that even remotely amusing?" Well, NABP is the abbreviation for National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, which is a very common ETLA where I work...and I've typed it so much over the last couple of weeks, I didn't even see what was wrong with the page for a while.
Okay, maybe it's not funny to anyone but me. :)
But this...this just goes over the top: The King's MySpace Blog. If you click on the link, you'll get about 30 cookies (or not if you're like me and block them), but then you'll see that the "king" has almost 96000 MySpace "friends."
I saw an article about how MySpace allows corporate entities to create MySpace profiles for fictional characters (for a fee, and with higher quotas for content than a regular account). "Ricky Bobby" is a very popular one, as is "John Tucker," and even the Yaris, the new, obnoxiously cute little car from Toyota. Frankly, I think that's going too far, but at least it's not LiveJournal doing it. Yet.
But the King? Oy. Too far. Just too fucking far.1
Incidentally, I must agree with the author of the article I read that this has the potential of backfiring hugely. For instance, the actor who plays John Tucker in the movie "John Tucker Must Die" (Jesse Metcalfe of "Desperate Housewives" fame) has a veritable legion of squealing, misty-eyed fangirls that idolize the ground he floats ever-so-majestically above (from their POV)...and "he" is friended by many of them on MySpace. Many of them who want him, Jesse Metcalfe, to make a personal comment on their blog.
And if he doesn't? Methinks that someone at the studio and Jesse's publicist didn't think this through. He has the potential of pissing off thousands of his staunchest fans, without whom he'd be just another handsome face. And if he does? Does "he" (or the dozens of grunts hired to do it) comment to them all? Just a select few? What would "he" say?
Can of worms.
Let us fervently hope that LiveJournal doesn't give in to this kind of pandering.
1 I have my own reasons to despise MySpace that have nothing whatsoever to do with their public image (teenaged twits with the intelligence of retarded earthworms) or this nonsense. On three separate occasions, someone has created a MySpace account for themselves using my yahoo email account as "their" email, so I get all the shit that MySpace floods you with when you're a member. Three times I've gotten the password from them, three times I've trashed and then deleted the accounts, and three times I've sent carefully worded nastygrams to their customer service department about not verifying emails before allowing someone to use one as "their" account. They finally have a policy that if you change your email address, it sends email to the original one for confirmation before allowing it, but I don't know if they took my advice about a two-step registration process. Only time will tell, I guess. Fuckers.
Note: A funny: When I was typing this, I put two non-breaking spaces after the bolded "1" for the end-note before the small text. I always do. But this time, instead of , I typed &nabp;.
You're thinking right now, "Why is that even remotely amusing?" Well, NABP is the abbreviation for National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, which is a very common ETLA where I work...and I've typed it so much over the last couple of weeks, I didn't even see what was wrong with the page for a while.
Okay, maybe it's not funny to anyone but me. :)
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