Can we stop talking about this? Yes, they are fucking annoying but it's not like anything we say can have any effect on it.
You know who I blame? I blame every teenage boy on this site who took that survey marketing survey about deodorants a long time ago here on NS. I think Bishop said something like we got some stickers or entered in to a contest drawing if we took a picture of the finished survey and sent it to an e-mail. Well that survey wasn't for NS. It was market research asking what kind of deodorant the members of NS used. And there must have been an overwhelming amount of little middle school kids who told the survey they loooooovveed Axe deodorant because Axe has pumped an absurd amount of money into NS because their marketing team showed the results to the company saying it was a good investment putting advertising dollars into Newschoolers.com
So anyone complaining about these beyond annoying ads should stop blaming NS for them. They should blame the extremely large base of 12-15 year old boys on NS for taking that survey. Because if I remember right, that particular demographic filled up almost instantly. In a matter of a few days they wouldn't let people from that age group even take the survey because they had an absurd amount of raw data from that group already.
Yeah, call me Scooby fucking Doo because I just solved this mystery.
/rant.