Maybe it’s me (it’s probably me), but when I saw this ad in an unnamed email flyer, I thought:
a) That annoying art style I so fervently dislike
b) The person done in that art style, with the spaghetti limbs, is shaped…sort of like a swastika?
So I looked up an actual swastika to compare. According to Wikipedia, the left-facing swastika is “a sacred symbol in the Bon and Mah?y?na Buddhist traditions.”
It looks like this:
And if you tilt it 45 degrees, the legs work, but the arms are bent the wrong way, because that would be a very odd way for someone to hold their arms while running.
Still, it made me think of a swastika, and I can’t be the only one. I mean, yes, I totally can, but I’d like to think I’m not (fake edit: apparently this has been discussed on social media of some sort and the consensus is totes a swastika).
Dear advertising wizards: Don’t make your stuff look like swastikas. And pay more attention in history class!
