Take Ellen Feiss as an example... watch this (old) advert.
Immediately, there was rampant speculation that Feiss was stoned. It was fueled by the ad's unavailability on Apple's web site for a few hours, attributed to Apple getting cold feet. But the problem seems to have been a technical glitch; the ad is again online and airing on TV. A print version is running in magazines and on billboards. Teenager Ellen Feiss, the "is-she-stoned?" star of one of Apple's new "Switch" ads, is quickly becoming a Web celebrity but not necessarily for reasons that would please the advertiser. says a Wired staffer There is Ellen Feiss, the fan site and the Ellen Fan Club: beep beep beep , which has set up a Cafépress Web store to sell T-shirts, coffee mugs and flying discs adorned with her image.
Feiss is featured in a large number of Photoshop parodies making the rounds in e-mail and chat forums.
Feiss has been turned into a set of computer icons that, curiously, can be converted to display on machines running Windows XP. She is also the subject of some wallpaper pictures that decorate a computer's desktop. Jake Brown of Glorious Noise, an online music magazine, is another PC user who created a fan site devoted to Feiss. "We at Glorious Noise thought she deserved some kind of tribute because she's brought a smile to so many people's lives," Brown said. "I watched the ad online and thought it was brilliant and that Ellen was totally charming and funny." Brown said his tribute to Feiss is purely platonic. "I'd like to talk to Ellen, but I'm not a weirdo stalker maniac," he said. "I am a happily married 30-year-old guy who just got a kick out of her ad. I think she's worthy of a place in American pop culture and I want to make sure her 15 minutes -- well, 30 seconds -- of fame lasts as long as possible."
Is this all there is? Seriously?
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