So Panorama, the BBC’s investigative documentary series, is doing an edition centred around supposed cases of games addiction. And because the BBC wants people to watch it, it’s put an advert out. Unfortunately, regardless of the content of the show itself, the ad is the worst kind of “games rot your children’s souls” nonsense, full of woefully transparent, manipulative imagery designed to scare the living crap out of parents with thoughts of their innocent, sparkly-eyed young ‘uns turning into the kind of slack-jawed, glassy-eyed deviants who eat live kittens and listen to Michael Bublé.
Basically, it’s hilarious. And rather than being incensed, we saw it as a challenge to make an even more ridiculous version. You can judge whether we’ve succeeded in out-stupiding it over the jump. …