Motorists may have noticed a 15-foot-long, cartoonish penis shape flailing off the back of a shark as they roll northbound on I-95. Perhaps advertisers at Apple knew I-95 traffic would be slow enough for drivers to take a closer look and realize it's actually an octopus sucking on a scuba diver's finger, which is maybe equally erotic.
Apple posted a video of photos in the ad series, which can also be found throughout Miami.
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Apple has had several iconic ad campaigns; every millennial remembers the dancing silhouettes holding stark white iPods. Ridley Scott famously directed a 1984-inspired Apple ad during the '84 Super Bowl, and, in the 2000s, Justin Long played the everyman "Mac" beside the nerdier, less approachable "PC" character. The new ad campaign, which began this month, is meant to emphasize how anyone can add flair to any photo from their camera roll with the help of an iPad, according to advertising news site Muse by Clios. For Miami Reddit, however, it seemed to teach one of humanity's oldest art lessons: You can draw a penis on almost anything and get laughs.
"What's the first thing you see on that ad?" writes TommyGunMassacre. "Cochino. Don't tell me I'm the only one."
"Can't believe it got through legal," one commenter wrote.
"BBC," quipped another.
One commenter thinks the artist knew what they were doing, writing, "even if you don't see it, dude's still fingering an octopus."
Another user agreed the likeness wasn't an accident, "it makes you look at the ad several times," they wrote.
The post had one user thinking about an ex: "I should call her," they wrote.
