The Web Is One Sketchy Place in Squarespace Super Bowl Teaser

Memes and spam at every turn

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Website design service Squarespace has posted a teaser for its Super Bowl ad, which paints a pretty dreary picture of today's Internet.

Opening on a face-swapped baby, which is creepy enough, the ad cuts quickly from real-life incarnations of the Joseph Ducreux meme to annoying banner ads to chat requests from "hot local singles." We then see the ad's jaded protagonist turning to find something that gives him hope, a light in the dark alleys of digital debauchery.

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