Our pal Yuri Victor tweets:
Best ad juxtaposition ever. Ever. Internet over.
Yep. That’s one for the Hall of Shame. That was Gawker, earlier today.
Don’t look now, but it’s even worse now (4:40 p.m. EST):
Geez. The Twitter icon holding the gun tacked directly beneath the Walking Dead logo. Surely that’s not intentional.
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All the Gawker sites do that, with a (sometimes daily) sponsor. I find it funny that it had to happen the week that they’re sponsored by The Walking Dead’s return to the airwaves on Sunday. The TwitterBird with the gun, though, that’s classic Gawker.