When You Come Home Late The Doll Is Waiting Up For You

[bloodyrosemccoy]

I kind of love Facebook’s advertisement algorithm. It comes up with the silliest associations based on what I say I like, and it’s always just slightly off-base, like a funhouse mirror of what my interests are.*

Like when I say I like American Girl dolls, Facebook decides I like DOLLS! ALL THE DOLLS! and keeps flinging doll ads at me. So I get ads for bullshit Toys R Us dolls and Monster High dolls and emo ball-jointed dolls and Remember The Good Old Days When Golden-Haired Children With Haphazard Teeth Screwed Up Their Faces And Cried While Wearing What Appears To Be A Layer Cake porcelain dolls, none of which interest me in the least.

But it’s all cool because the ads are entertaining, until out of nowhere they advertise a doll that will SCARE THE HELL OUT OF YOU.

Good god with ketchup. The only way I’d buy that doll is if they included a solid black option for the eyes—then I’d pop off the wig, airbrush the whole doll grey, and pose her outside the windows of UFO conspiracy theorists. But other than that, Facebook, no more creepy dolls, please.

Seriously. YOUR SOUL BELONGS TO THE DOLLS NOW


*It’s not quite as confused as Netflix, which still thinks I’m a precocious and ghoulish six-year-old boy—a whole different way of entertainment.

Comments

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Yeah? Hmm. Okay, I'll check out a Phineas & Ferb episode. I'll probably enjoy it ridiculously.

I think Momo looks almost uncanny valley with the new chassis - enough for me to occasionally do a double take.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

The two shows are different on a lot of levels, but it's got something in common with Animaniacs in that a lot of the dialogue is designed for grownups while the show is slapsticky and silly enough for kids.

I think Momo must be, too, but I'm not good at judging drawings. I like that her pigtails seem to be rigid ball-joint units with involuntary controls, though.