[mikeash]

I think you're absolutely right. I would wager that if every ad on the internet was changed to a five-minute MS Paint scrawl, click-through rates would rapidly go back to where they were originally, if not drop even further.

[ktizo]

Reminds me of a 'saturday morning breakfast cereal' comic;

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2490&#...

...and the commercials are just a flaming baby skull barking ethnic slurs...