This is getting out of hand...

We've created a monster!!!

Behold, our picture. Yes, the neglected children one.

Mitch found it on Demonicious, which (from what I can gather) is a website dedicated to cool and interesting pictures and videos - simple as that. Our picture was found in the daily selection of April 24th - that'd be THE DAY AFTER WE POSTED THE PICTURE. And it was brought to my attention today. Which is the 29th.





Isn't that exciting? It's evolving!


The pictures surrounding our little guy admittedly isn't a very good example of what gets posted - I recommend you checking out the site for yourself, I found some very cool stuff.


A place like Reddit is a great platform from which people find interesting articles, cool pictures, funny videos ... anything of interest at all, really. I can't count the amount of hours spent scrolling through Digg and Reddit. So really, it shouldn't be surprising that our picture then was picked up by someone else, who sent it to someone else, who posted it on their own website. I know I've got plenty of pictures saved and sites bookmarked from my nightly sessions on those websites. I guess once we send out something into the internet that is of interest and is actually cool (see: ORIGINAL MATERIAL, not just another injoke...as much as we do love those), what people choose to do with it is really out of our hands.

Even if we were to put some sort of copyright STAMP on it, it's not as if (realistically) we'd be able to do anything if someone were to repost it or add something to it, or turn it around into something totally offensive. Which, given the nature of so much of the internet, is highly likely to happen.

Stay tuned, interwebbers.

They tried to steal our thunder...

But we defeated them!!!

From a Melbourne lane to the front page of Reddit.

So. What's all this then?
I was wandering around the good city of Melbourne with Mitch (who, incidentally, has become somewhat of a posterboy for our meme project) when suddenly we come across this great ad. To be honest, I'd never really seen anything like it - in RL anyway. So we took pictures on the best thing we had at our disposal, a trusty iPhone.

Mitch - or Mittz, as he's known on Reddit - went home that night and posted it up. You may ask why I didn't use my own account to do it. Plain and simple, Mitch spends much more time and effort on Reddit. I don't comment much at all, and I've never submitted anything. The likelihood of our picture getting any sort of attention and responses is higher with Mitch's account, which has been in existence for quite a bit longer than mine.

Here's the page if you wanna have a look-see for yourself.

Anyway, the next day Mitch proudly informed me that our picture had made it to the front page. Hooray!!

I don't actually have the screenshot, but when he sends it I'll post it up. That was three days ago. What's worth noting about the comments that we received is that there was a flurry of activity during those three days, then nothing. After we were on the front page, we disappeared, but remained on the "pictures" front page. Today, we're not even there anymore. Meaning, anyone that would want to find our picture would actually have to scroll and search for it.

So what does that mean? Your chances of getting a response is heightened tenfold by having a presence of the front page. Obvious, really.

What about the comments?

The comments we received were a mixed bag. Some didn't believe it was an ad, thought we'd made it ourselves, which then resulted in comments defending our honour. That was a little exciting. An amusing amount of comments were references to the Milford Academy of Arrested Development (where boys are neither seen nor heard). And - as we expected - there were a few references to pedo bear...lol.

BUT perhaps the most exciting response we got was this: apparently there's been a bunch of these ads around the place (Melbourne definitely at least). Once the dolls are removed, the text underneath read: "thank you for noticing me". Isn't that cool?

Anyway, here are the comments, all waiting for you to click on to see them better.











So that was our first little venture. And it was most informative and enjoyable.

Stay tuned for more!!