"... a source of endless, just-generic-enough, just-specific-enough photos the viewers can imprint their own values onto. The latest in this series of stock-photography memes is a photo... titled 'Disloyal Man Walking With His Girlfriend and Looking Amazed at Another Seductive Girl,' which features a scuzzy dude looking back at a woman as his girlfriend looks at him shocked and betrayed. And it’s a metaphor for … everything?"
From "The Hot New Meme Is Giving in to Your Worst Impulses" (NY Magazine).
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The girl in red is "seductive?" She may be attractive but she is doing nothing more seductive than walk down the street. Check your sexism, Mr. Writer.
The girl needs to be blonde. Then it's an ad.
There's a lot of bad new DVDs, like three last night
Ghost in the Shell
Come and Find Me
Lucy
On the other hand there's the old friends on the table
Two Weeks Notice
Get Smart (2008)
Notting Hill
Edge of Tomorrow
etc
So it seems to be the reverse of the stock photo.
Ghost in the Shell was interesting in a lit crit way though I bailed out.
It's all CGI with no plot, and is about whether machines have souls.
Sort of a metaphor for the film itself. Whether films have plots.
If my husband is looking at "another seductive girl," I probably am, too.
I am the worst offender. My wife catches me, and promises I won't have a pot to piss in.
I hate the fact that I helped drive the meme space to a complicated expanded universe by reading that garbage.
The angles make it difficult, but it looks to me as if the young ladies could be sisters. If so, that would really be the guy giving in to his worst impulses and signing his death warrant at the same time.
Red and blue dresses... the guy is clearly the American electorate.
Bad case of AWS, attractive woman syndrome.
I guess you guys don't find stock photos funny...
The best use of stock photos is the tumblr blog "Pornhub Comments on Stock Photos".
Pure gold. Truly.
John-Oliver funny.
Meaning not funny at all.
There was one on Twitter today, same guy looking back at a smiling, thumbs up Trump, while Marco Rubio looks on. Sad!
I agree with 'Darrell'.....and even John Oliver for the first time in my life?!?
This - or any - stock photo is NOT a 'metaphor', its a visual 'cliche' - which is essentially the best working definition of a 'stock photo'. But, yes, every cliche-filled human can 'see' just about any cliche they prefer in any stock photo. But that's a function of the dumbed-down person, not the dumbed-down photo.
I saw this on The Chive only yesterday, so it must be one step away from your dad putting it up on Facebook if New York just noticed.
I've seen funny, clever memes. This wasn't one of them. And seeing a dozen of the same photo with different captions doesn't make it funnier.
Wait, I just finished the "article" in between writing this. That's it? What the hell does the headline mean? That people have opinions New York hates? That must be it.
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you ...
Mr. Shutterstock is a young self made billionaire. Thats not funny.
This is the kind of thing where you really had to be there. I've seen probably dozens of three-part captions for that photo on Twitter, and lots of them are hilarious.
Seductive, scuzzy..... So much sexism packed into one comment
Seductive, scuzzy..... So much sexism packed into one comment
The meme I like in this series mocks a mesothelioma lawsuit. I wish I could find a link, it's awesome.
This one is not bad...
The film/video counterpart is "B roll". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8
Hide The Pain Harold is a personal favorite.
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