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Why does every Silicon Valley company have these creepy looking people on their websites?
by mdoms 5y ago
Why does every Silicon Valley company have these creepy looking people on their websites?
- Mizza 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis Facebook did it, everybody copies Facebook. It's awful.
- boppo1 5y agoI've been looking for a term for this, thank you.
- newsbinator 5y agoLike another commenter said, it's awful: they're visually lifeless and they don't add value in terms of being illustrative of the idea their associated text block is meant to convey, nor do they catch the eye in the first place. You might as well have a lorem-ipsum cat picture in their place, since it has about the same utility.
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- digisign 5y agoIt's simpler and a smaller download than the iStockPhoto of yester-decade. Criticism would be more constructive however, if it included an example of something better.