Now, it might just be me, but I think that if you are going to feature something as absurd as a gallery of pets looking like Vanna White, you should really deliver on the premise. Sadly, the slide show in question does not. Let's take a closer look at why.
These are the two photos that start off the slideshow. You'll note that the resemblance here is not uncanny,
but it's not terrible. I would think that if Vanna White were a dog,
she would be a smiley retriever-type like this. So there is, at the very least,
enough integrity in the first comparison that you go into the second slide
with your hopes up. But then . . .
. . . You see this. A picture of Vanna White holding an umbrella
next to a picture of a black cat THAT LOOKS NOTHING WHATSOEVER LIKE
VANNA WHITE, also under an umbrella. Evidently the fact that the two
images share the presence of an umbrella is supposed to be enough to
sustain the theme of the slideshow, but come ON--the umbrellas don't
even look like each other. We are at the second photo, and already this slide show is phoning it in in a major way.
It gets worse with the third slide, and this crocheting cat.
People Pet's editors clearly had to go back 20 years to find a picture
of Vanna to include in comparison, and she's not even crocheting--she's
knitting. At this point, the credibility of the slide show has already eroded beyond repair.
This slide is clearly the best since No. 1, due to such factors as
the angle of the photograph, inclusion of sunglasses, and the slightly
similar bangs Vanna and the dog seem to be rocking. It constitutes the
second valid inclusion in the entire slideshow, though it is in no way enough to redeem it.
Another photo, another complete erosion of the premise of the slide
show. Notice the caption: "'One-year-old Puppy flips on his back and
sticks his paws up like a little bunny,' shares mom Judith Ohanian of
Sunrise, Fla." Which means that even Judith of Sunrise, Fla., who is
stupid enough to send a photo of her dog into People Pets, is not
stupid enough to compare said dog with Vanna White. A bunny, yes;
Vanna, no. EVEN THOUGH THEY BOTH, AT ONE TIME IN THEIR LIVES, POINTED TOWARDS A CAMERA.
This is the photo I am presuming sparked the idea for this entire
godawful photo gallery. Somewhere in a stack of photo submissions,
someone saw this dog pointing at a TV playing Wheel of Fortune and
thought, "Well, we have a million photos of dogs and cats. There are
also probably a million photos of Vanna White out there, because she's
been on TV for the past 20 years. Clearly, according to the 'Enough
Monkeys and Enough Typewriters' Rule, there has got to be enough
material out there to cobble together a slideshow comparing them."
Guess what?
That was an incorrect assumption.
In conclusion, People Pets' slideshow of pets that look like Vanna White contains two pets that kind of look like Vanna White, one pet that is kind of acting like Vanna White, and FOUR pets that fail to demonstrate anything more than the weakest notional resemblance to being like Vanna White, or in the same room as something she was once also in the same room as. This, to me, does not constitute grounds for a slide show; rather, it indicates the need for much greater accountability at the highest levels of the People Pets editorial structure.
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