What More, Indeed?
Guess what the following have in common:
- This user profile (in Hebrew) from an Israeli site
- This forum topic (in German) on eBay Deutschland
- This LiveJournal
- This forum topic (or this one)
Give up? They’re all using images hosted by jsp.org. The Israeli site uses David Beckham from Madrid About This Guy, the German page features my “bed” from About Last Night (and therefore deserves extra points as the image wasn’t embedded in the page, only a link), LiveJournal dude is partial to Aguilera’s kissing boys featured in Now I Feel Better, and the forum posters are using the Militant Agnostic bumper sticker (You Don’t Either) and the cropped Abercombie picture (linked from the last sentence of Banner Ads I Don’t Understand, Pt. 7) as a signature and icon, respectively.
These are all just from yesterday’s logs. It seems that I’ve become quite a popular image host, thanks primarily to Google Image Search. The “Beautiful” kissing boys, in particular, are a big draw: with thousands of requests, they’re high up on this site’s most-requested list.
But my favorite would have to be the bed image, on eBay.de. Yes, I captured the boys from the video, color-corrected David, cropped the A&F guy, and even snapped the photo of the bumper sticker, but these personal connections are nothing compared to the fact that these people are discussing my bed.
All the better that I have no idea what they’re saying. Best I can glean from some of the imperfect translation services is that the person who linked the photo asked “What more do you need?” and his fellow posters suggested alternately that 1) a bottle and ashtray were necessary, 2) two pillows seemed extravagant (never!) and 3) someone thought it looked like his own room, which drew rebuttals by others casting aspersions on that poster’s cleaning habits.
It’s all very amusing to me, and it’s something I would never know was happening if these people didn’t choose to link directly to my site — something I could prevent by using scripts to disallow images to be loaded on remote pages and/or by banishing the Googlebot. But hey, why bother? I’ve got plenty of bandwidth, and after all, promoting (kissing) hot guys, agnosticism, and minimalism is just fine with me.