I’m probably a bit late with this, but I just found out that Curry, Super Greg, and Roy are all part of a perhaps too subtle advertising campaign by Lee jeans. (See this ZDNet article ). I’m heartbroken.
I have something of an addiction to these sorts of completely odd personal pages, and others like Peter Pan, the Asian Prince, and the Icy Hot Stunaz. If somebody hasn’t compiled a canonical link list yet, I volunteer. Any suggestions or submissions?
Well…I don’t get it.
I’ve seen these sites before and thought they were fake, but, even now, I can’t see their connection with Lee jeans by viewing the site.
If it wasn’t for the OP, I probably would never have known.
Not a very successful ad campaign IMHO. (But the sites are amusing…Super Greg is a hoot!)
As explained by my buddy Aaron on the NSMB :
Quote: from Aaron on 3:28 pm on June 18, 2001[br]Let’s see if I can clear this up some. (BTW I do watch enough enough TV to have seen these commercials. Hope it hasn’t made me too retarded to communicate with you no-TV types).
The advertisers who did the Lee Jeans stuff created the web sites for these characters before the TV commercials aired. They then got the ball rolling by posting links to these sites on message bored and chat channels, acting like they had just found the next Mahir . The URL then got passed around for its humor value by people like, um, Liam. Then when they aired the TV commercials, people had already seen the characters, and were like ‘Woaah, dude, its that unibrow rapper with the web site - they hired him for a commercial!’.
This hopefully achieves several goals for the advertisers: more people pay attention to the commercial, more people remember the commercial when they go to the mall, and more people think Lee Jeans are k3wL enough to spend their parents money on.
I’m now going to go bathe in the Ganges for being such a tool. I expect to be joined by both Tuba Diva and Cybersybar .
“…noticeably free of typos”.
Yeah, that was the tipoff for me, too. Wait for whisper-campaign sites to start deliberately building dead links and bad spelling.