Ok…I wrote a blurb a while back about the frightening picture of the harelipped girl that was being used in an obnoxiously ubiquitous ad campaign on the net. The people behind said ad have since added one of an equally heart-wrenching little boy. And with it, they have created what is probably the most overwrought web campaign I’ve ever seen.
Where do these people get their funding? I have seen these ads EVERYWHERE, on literally hundreds of sites. That’s hundreds, plural. At this point, I don’t care if I sound like a jackass: these ads are a nuisance. They’re wildly distracting (good luck reading about Obama’s Veep pick when there’s one of these kids staring at you looking like they just saw someone shoot a puppy), and at this point, WE GET IT.
They’re the most disturbing ads, and they are totally inescapable. And I STILL don’t know who’s putting them up, because whenever I see them I shrink the window or RUN AND HIDE UNDER THE BED. And I have to wonder, at this point, where this mystery organization got the gadrillion dollars needed to launch this tsunami of an ad campaign, and why they aren’t using that money to do the thing that the ads are asking people to give money for, which is operate and fix these poor kids’ friggin’ lips.
Seriously. Enough is enough.
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