Followup on yellow gnome mefi post

May 6, 2006 12:00 PM

Followup-filter: the yellow gnomes in my "art or crazy?" post turn out to have been neither, but simply an instance of viral marketing for a VOIP application. [mi]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (staff) to MetaFilter-Related at 12:00 PM (9 comments total)

I will not dignify the company with a name or link, but if one follows the first link in the post it will be obvious that the site has been altered to "reveal the true nature" of the gnomes. If you want one, by the way, check out the forum on that site - some people appear to be offering up the ones they have found in various places in Scandinavia and the Low Countries.

So, congrats to mdn and Biblio for being less naive than me, and apologies for unknowingly making a Pepsi Blue post.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 12:01 PM on May 6, 2006

So, they're neither yellow nor are they gnomes?
posted by shoesfullofdust at 12:16 PM on May 6, 2006

yellow gnomes are the new Pepsi Blue.
posted by wendell at 2:01 PM on May 6, 2006

Pepsi Blue a Yellow Gnome?
posted by five fresh fish at 4:20 PM on May 6, 2006

that's hot.
posted by carsonb at 5:27 PM on May 6, 2006

PBYG sounds like a Linux distribution...
posted by five fresh fish at 7:19 PM on May 6, 2006

;_;
posted by beerbajay at 4:44 AM on May 7, 2006

so what does a bunch of yellow gnomes have to do with making phonecalls? These viral marketing douchebags don't even have to make sense anymore.
posted by puke & cry at 9:25 AM on May 7, 2006

Woo hoo! My cynicism has finally paid off! I knew those pee-colored fuckers looked shifty.
posted by Biblio at 7:37 AM on May 8, 2006