Deutsch Jacks Off, Squirts Out Adsturbation

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Combining the theme of masturbation with the ever-unavoidable flashturbation, Deutsch has erected (I know, so fuckin’ lame) Adsturbation, a site on which you can pump yourself up (again…so lame…sorry) while listening to your client, creative director, account guy and supposed-to-be-hot-but-not intern heap praise on you in the form of wacky platitudes. Combine that with the introductory copy “You work in advertising. It’s Advertising Week. What better time to pleasure yourself with superlative praise. Why? Because it feels good…There are a few people who’d like to stroke your ego in private,” and you’ve got what amounts to either a witty take on our ego-driven, attention-whoring, self-esteem-challenged industry or a tired, lame, over done joke a fifth grader thinks is funny and can’t stop telling over and over and over until you want to scream “shit the fuck up” but you don’t because, you know, you’re supposed to be the role model. So which is it? You decide.

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