May 10, 2012
Pessimistically rewriting overly positive corporate ad copy
Every time I see an example of corporate happiness I can only see the reality of life. I can’t help myself anymore. I can’t stop rearranging their copy.
Her work is dark, funny, and definitely more influenced by truth than the originals she’s messing with…
And my favorite…
(from Depressed Copywriter, via Buzzfeed)
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I am literally LOL’ing. This never happens.
This woman is in serious need for counseling before she kills herself or someone else. Not funny, but a desperately sad person. Taken individually, her “ads” are funny, but arranged together, they demonstrate a clinical case of depression.
I have a similar dark humor and wish I COULD find a therapist, or even a friend that had a sense of granted, dark, even very dark, humor, but, unfortunately, (almost) everyones sense of dark humor has THEM! People like this copy writer, who you have labelled as depressed, IMHO, HAVE their sense of dark humor, it is just so dark that it is OBSCURED from your comprehension. Perhaps you take yourself and your ego and drama too seriously, too PERSONALLY! Just sayin’ lol
this loses impact since I accidentally forgot to say “No? You took a week of psyche 101?” inbetween the “Human psyche?” and “Oh,” parts. Psh.
Thanks, Sigmund. If she’s dysfunctional, what’s your diagnosis for an industry that constantly barrages us with highly delusional and deluded ads, or your self-diagnosis as a person who finds their defacement to be a symptom of mental illness?
I thought about replying to Janet, but I can’t top this.
Here here! ;)
Ahhh I’ve just woke up… that phrase is meant to be “hear, hear” isn’t it… dammit.
There needs to be a like button. This is brilliant!