Posted on 12/19/2013 5:38:18 AM PST by cotton1706
ajama Boy’s place in Internet infamy was secured as soon as the insufferable man-child was tweeted out by Organizing for America.
He is the face of a web ad that is the latest effort by the Obama team to leverage the holidays for conversation about Obamacare. “Wear pajamas,” the ad reads. “Drink hot chocolate. Talk about getting health insurance. #GetTalking.”
And, sure enough, Pajama Boy is wearing pajamas—a zip-up onesie in classic Lamar Alexander plaid—and drinking hot chocolate. He is in his twenties, sporting hipster glasses he could have bought at Warby Parker and an expression of self-satisfied ironic amusement.
Pajama Boy is about as threatening as Michael Cera and so nerdy he could guest-host on an unwatched MSNBC show. He is probably reading The Bell Jar and looking forward to a hearty Christmas meal of stuffed tofurkey. If he has anything to say about it, Obamacare enrollments will spike in the next few weeks in Williamsburg and Ann Arbor.
Perhaps the goal of OFA was to create a readily mockable image to draw attention to its message, in which case Pajama Boy was a brilliantly successful troll. The right immediately Photoshopped him into the Mandela funeral selfie and emblazoned his photo with derisive lines like, “Hey girl, I live with my parents,” and, “How did you know I went to Oberlin?”
But it’s hard not to see Pajama Boy as an expression of the Obama vision, just like his forbear Julia, the Internet cartoon from the 2012 campaign. Pajama Boy is Julia’s little brother. She progressed through life without any significant family or community connections. He is the picture of perpetual adolescence. Neither is a symbol of self-reliant, responsible adulthood.
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Hysterical! :)
Here’s what’s really scary... pajama boy has to be over 26 years old...
Yep, 26 and under and he’d still be on Mommy and Daddy’s insurance...
Ouch. That'll leave a mark.
Stop it...you (and others) are killing me!!! I’m not allowed to ROTFLMAO at work.
You just knew that Julia had to have a GBF, didn’t you?
what is this “Julia” i keep hearing about?
I have been freeping here every single day for decades - how did I miss that?
(I missed the entire Snow Bunny saga AND CGEG mental breakdown too, even though I was here)
Ok what is the deal with the glasses?
They used to called ZPGs and were the cheapest frames on the market.
So now they are the fashion? Do kids these days have no sense of style?
I’ve heard of Birth Control Glasses. What are ZPG’s?
All he wants for Christmas is the hard to find Klaus Nomi Christmas album and the exceedingly rare Mary Worth comic where she contemplates suicide.
Considering the location of the string of lights, they look like visual bubble farts coming out of pajama boi’s back side... which explains his smug smile.
He looks like a guy that keeps souvenirs
Best laugh I’ve had in a long time. That is very good and I’m going to get a lot of mileage out of it!
Grumpy Cat wins again.
Same thing essentially, Zero Population Growth. Depends on what part of the country you are from I guess.
It’s Rachael Maddow’s baby brother.
If you like your Pajama boy. You can KEEP your Pajama Boy. PERIOD.”
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