Be it in an ad, article, or product announcement, there’s a good chance that—at some point—your eyes have darted over the discomforting image of a person gaily laughing and emphatically gesturing towards the cold, vacuous oblivion of a blank TV screen. And you probably didn’t even notice it! But once you do, things start looking bleak—and fast.
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We see overly specific, overwrought stock photography all the time. Like who ever decides that a picture of ‘hot girl in business suit crying because she’s trapped under cables’ or ‘guy in forest eating an ice cream cone while a bear lurks in the background’ is necessary? Those pictures (or things like it) totally exist! Hell, this parody video making fun of stock photography is only funny because it could be totally real. More »
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