Sorry for the vague subject line, I don’t know a succinct way to describe them. In the ad served to me on Facebook, they are a bra. Clicking on the link goes to something undescribed in a sunglasses store. But I can’t figure how they associate with either area of human anatomy.
Screenshots in case something is done to the Amazon page after I post this.
They’re little plastic clips that you can put on top of the hinges on the sides of sunglasses to customise them. They’re much smaller than they look in the photo in isolation. See here:
ETA: As usual I’m too thorough and too prolix. Curses! Ninja’d again! …
Here’s your answer. Search for “batwolf” | Oakley® US
I googled up the Oakley website then searched on that for “batwolf”. Those gizmos are decorative tidbits maybe 3/4" long each that snap into a matching receptacle on the glasses’ earpiece up near the hinge.
So now you can bling up your sunglasses by collecting the whole set of decorative pieces, maybe 20 or 30 colors and patterns in all. Plus whatever else the Chinese knock-off artists can come up with.
Very clever of these Marketing EvilGeniuses. But I repeat myself.
Interesting. A little like those old Nokia cellphone faceplates, except much smaller and more expensive.
I misread the Vanity Fair Wireless Bra ad on the bottom and thought that it was a description of the item.
I was very very confused.
You aren’t confused, that is exactly what they were listed as in that Facebook ad.
Oh. Uhm, ouch.
Not on Facebook which I do not use but I’ve bought a bunch of items off Amazon or similar where the picture, the product title, and the product description don’t match up. Maybe two agree and one doesn’t, or maybe all three are different.
If the item is cheap enough it’s just entertaining to buy oneself a gift and open it to find out which of the two/three it really is. Or maybe it’s something completely different. Most of those purchases were good for a chuckle on the way to the trash, but sometimes you get lucky and actually have a use for the whatever.
Then again, in my case I’m usually finding these “mongrel items” via a search, so at least one of the supposed attributes of the thing is something I already want. Or by the “you bought this; you might want that” feed. Not so much by clicking on random “Hey, look at meee!” ads.
I see this sort of ad all the time, in which it’s not obvious exactly what the thing being pictured is. They seem designed to tempt the viewer to click through, just to learn WTF that is.
Now that I’m paying attention I see that a large percentage of the Amazon items advertised to me on Facebook now have bad descriptions. It looks like they may have started to use AI to generate them and are getting random blocks of text from the product page. (Which still doesn’t explain how those sunglasses accessories became bras.)
The Amazon ads on mobile Facebook are a horizontal bar one item high that you can scroll through to see a large number of items. Here are a few of the descriptions.
