A Travesty of a Mockery

So I was talking with our brand manager the other night, and we were discussing the symbolism of logos. I decided that I should step back and take a look around. Maybe there are hidden meanings. What exactly is the AT&T logo? It seems like a line etching of a sphere. A little presumptuous to say it is Earth, but maybe. What does it mean? What about Sprint? Their logo looks like some disrupted feathers. Perhaps it is a bird wing flapping. Lucent? A big red circular stain, like from a coffee cup. Apparently their lucidity is ground roasted. So if that is how the big guys play it, what about the smaller ones? How do they choose to distinguish themselves. Looking around, I noticed something hilarious... an (de)evolution of logos.


Here we have the Silver Surfer, A Marvel comic character. He looks majestic and tough, arms folded. Click on him to get more detail. Where have I seen this before? Ah yes.


The adult bouncer logo, a blatant ripoff of the Silver Surfer. For those of you who have never visited the internets, AdultBouncer is one of those obnoxious pornography websites that will do whatever it can to get your attention and credit card number. They decide to mask him by putting some wrap-around sunglasses on him, and a single sun instead of a galaxy. I guess his secret disguise keeps AdultBouncer safe from being sued. Now we are getting somewhere. Yet, I had the feeling I had seen this before...

I knew I recognized that silhouette! Apparently the AdultBouncer logo is doing some moonlighting over at MightyPorn, er, Key. The little guy has the wrap-around shades, sun, and all. Of course they made some extremely minor changes like changing the sun color and changing his pose, but obviously they were trying to make people think of the adultbouncer version of the "surfer". I suppose that since they spent some time and money planning that logo, the subconscious association was intentional. Apparently MightyKey has a very specific client in mind. Perhaps this is an astronomically unlikely coincidence. Surely a professional company wouldn't try to incorporate any suggestive imagery on their website, because what does porn have to do with computer security, other than the most sophomoric understanding that "sex sells (computers)"? Well, if there are any other "special moments" you don't want your family or employer to see, be sure to lock them away in MightyKey's spank-ba... "vault" that only you, MightyKey, the government, and any corporation who requests it, have access to.

UPDATE: MightyKey decided to block some blog readers who tried to visit their website from here. Censorship from an anonymous internet provider? Glad to see they aren't violating their ethics or purpose of existence.