Just saw the below advert on Facebook and it struck me as amazingly controversial.
I know, you're thinking "Yeah, it's a seasonally relevant ad; the type I've come to expect on social networking sites. What's your point David? Well??" Well hypothetical passive aggressive reader my point lies not in the advert itself, but, rather in the photograph in the ad.
Sure the guy has a very pronounce chin and indeed a very large, wall-like forehead. You could go so far as to say his ears are a little on the big side and that his cheek bones pose a threat to anyone in his vicinity when he turns around. But that is no reason for the people who commissioned the advert to draw notice to these harrowing facial features by comparing him to Frankenstein's monster. For shame.
"But the bolts in Frankenstein's neck, surely those signify that it's all a gentle and playful advertising campaign?"
Well to you my dear and equally hypothetical sympathising reader, that is where the advertisers have really gone to town on this poor man. Underneath the collar of his jumper are two bolt shaped tumours, one on either side of his neck. Yes, tumours. Still think it's a playful, harmless advert? Want to know who most certainly doesn't think so? Tumour neck up there.
