iCarly has launched her campaign website today – and quickly showed the state and the online world why she has gotten such a reputation for failure.
As the incomparable Baratunde Thurston has explained in the YouTube video at right (put together just minutes after iCarly’s site went live), her site is the “worst political website ever.” The Flash image in particular is stunningly absurd, reading:
It’s day & night. It’s dogs & cats. It’s good & bad. It’s Carly vs. Boxer. Coming soon? carlyfornia dreamin’ !!!
Aside from the totally out of left field “dogs and cats” (I’m guessing iCarly is giving up on the cat lover vote?!), the images used to illustrate each dichotomy are even sillier. “Good” is a cherub. “Bad” is a ninja. A ninja!
Baratunde Thurston’s reply isn’t the only way that iCarly’s FAIL has gone viral. Twitter users have created a #Carlyfornia hashtag that includes some of the following gems:
ravenb In #Carlyfornia the Peter Principle is the law of the land.
cruickshank In #Carlyfornia cats will be rounded up and herded into FEMA camps.
Of course, there are more fundamental questions about the site. It’s not quite clear what the purpose of the amateurish design and flash image is – to paint Boxer as a bad cat? And her Facebook page, with a whopping 20 supporters, makes NO mention of her time as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a company she ran into the ground while firing 18,000 employees.
Online, as with everything else in her professional life, iCarly fails at whatever she touches. Somewhere, Chuck DeVore is probably laughing.
Hey, I know a good consultant that Carly could hire: Carl Fogliani. He managed Pombo’s campaign in 2006 and I hear he is not too expensive. He claims to be a Community Organizer and knows all about that because he joined the attack against ACORN.
Boxer is going to have Win because Republicans do not have a candidate that is either Mainstream (not DeVore) or Credible (not Fionia).
I do not like Boxer and have never voted for her being a Republican, but Boxer is one lucky woman.
I am probably going to write Chuck Vasquez as my write in vote for the Republican nomination as a protest vote. He’s a Republican, he’s a city councilman, he’s socially inclusive and I will feel good with that vote.
I think the designer has real skill to fit this much fail into a small web page. Yecch.
Not that its his/her fault if that’s what the customer wanted. I can’t believe that Carly and her advisors think this look is suitable for a political campaign. The flash stuff is awful, but even with better slogans, that color scheme and the all-lowercase “carly” in that font make it look like they’re marketing something for teenage girls.
Many female candidates go overboard the other direction, trying to emphasize their seriousness. Carly chooses to show her silly side, why I can’t imagine.
This is getting very weird.