{"id":955,"date":"2007-02-13T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=955"},"modified":"2007-03-17T12:04:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T17:04:26","slug":"rip-imvu-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"RIP IMVU AD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=949#comment-49338\">A reader expressed their irritation with the IMVU ads<\/a> that have been running in the sidebar recently.  I was actually glad to see I wasn&#8217;t the only one.  They have a trashy, lowest-common-denominator feel to them. Kind of a &#8220;Welcome to Hoochie World&#8221; vibe. The ad has been running for over a month, and I&#8217;ve never seen a picture of a single <em>male<\/em> avatar.  It&#8217;s either the quasi-jailbait in a bikini, or a couple of skanks in a pseudosapphic embrace.  Using a pretty girl to sell your stuff is perfectly reasonable, but doing it with such a lack of class gets on my nerves. I&#8217;ve never used the software, but the ads make me think their chat software is a world inhabited by l337-speaking teenage boys that would make the average FARK thread sound like the Mclaughlin Group by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of the <a href=\"?p=789\">comments Georgina Bensley made about &#8220;Girl&#8221; games<\/a> a while back.  These ads, by trying to create an image of a world that is wall-to-wall with girls, is actually doing almost nothing to attract them. It might even be alienating them.  <\/p>\n<p>All of this, coupled with the fact that we&#8217;ve all been looking at the same 3 images for over a month now, has finally persuaded me to &#8220;block&#8221; the IMVU ads in the Google adsense controls. Although I notice they are still showing up.  Maybe it takes a while to kick in?  I dunno.<\/p>\n<p>LATER: I&#8217;m at a loss, here.  The block has been in place for six hours and I&#8217;m still seeing these ads.  This is starting to annoy me.<\/p>\n<p>LATER LATER: All gone now. Yay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader expressed their irritation with the IMVU ads that have been running in the sidebar recently. I was actually glad to see I wasn&#8217;t the only one. They have a trashy, lowest-common-denominator feel to them. Kind of a &#8220;Welcome to Hoochie World&#8221; vibe. The ad has been running for over a month, and I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}