With the deluge of spam email I regularly get, I often guide my mouse to “delete forever” without a second though. Today though, before I could, this one particular message jumped out and caught my eye. The more I think about it, the more ridiculous it becomes; according to Merriam Webster, “steal” is defined as “to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice.” Somehow, legal stealing just doesn’t make sense to me. Sure, the different wording caught my attention, which is surely the first goal of rhetors, but after trying and failing at figuring out exactly what they were trying to say by this, I wouldn’t have wanted to give these people my own name, let alone my address and credit card information! This completely ruined any semblance for ethos the emailers of this junk had. In addition, the ad featured no pictures or any other description; just a simple, undecipherable link. As we’ve been talking in class about how images can greatly enhance an ad or argument, this showed to me how the lack of images can completely result in failure.
This makes me think about all the other strange ads and billboards that I’ve seen that have made me think, What were they thinking?!
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| case in point: would you trust your love life with this company? |
I know what you mean, sometimes I see an ad and I'm like "What were they thinking? No one is going to fall for that." Some advertisers seem like they have just gotten lazy, like the one you have a picture of above doesn't even make sense!
ReplyDeleteBut, Rayna - 18-25 year olds in University Park just like you have gotten rich from working at home! Just click this LINK!
ReplyDelete...You have to wonder who their audience is. Who is gullible enough to actually click those links.
Your caption for the ad is aptly noted. ;)
ReplyDeleteEven the grammar is tripping me up!