Too lazy to screen shoot the whole lot. Click through the original tweet below.
I’ll only include this one. I mean the blank, not the Rachel one. It automatically gets included in the embedded tweet.
Love that whole look – the short hair, the tamed shrubbery. The man is photogenic in every possible way.
As for Audible? Seriously? What Besotted said in the comments the other day, applies – looks like a fan account. Ah, I forgot. Audible themselves have admitted they are a fan account…😂
The question remains: Why the massive Armitage promo??????????? I am curious.
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More shitty marketing from Audible. I wish someone else would employ him for a while.
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Yep. I don’t know what to say to that anymore. I like the images. I decidedly do not like the marketing. It’s embarrassing.
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Dunno. I don’t like their product, I don’t like the company’s politics as a whole, and we’ve seen variations on most of these images already, so … ?
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I like the pics, but honestly I don’t see the point of writing my name on his picture? What for? I mean, maybe if he held a blank sign, it would make sense. But my name on Ricard Armitage’s photo? Makes no sense to me. It’s supposed to
Be funny, I guess, but I am evidently an old fogie who’s lost touch with what the young ‘uns like *shrugs*
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… and he looks like a zombie in the blank picture. [shrugs]
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Aw, well, and that seems to be the one that has most fans in raptures…
Tbh honest, I haven’t really looked at any of the pics in depth. I liked the shoot back when it happened, mainly because I like the tidy look on him. Have to have a look tomorrow.
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Given that one of his biggest talents as an actor is the expressiveness in his eyes I don’t understand why anyone would want a straight picture of him with his eyes half closed. Only if he were playing that he was in the throes of ecstasy.
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I guess that is the fantasy behind it…
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It takes more creativity than I have to get there. To me it looks like he’s been on his feet all day and is about to fall asleep.
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Haha, that’s another way of interpreting it, I guess.
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That last blank one is #BedroomEyes.
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Well, they caught him just a split millisecond into the blink 😂
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Yup. Nice effect.
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He needs a cheeseburger. #toothin
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He’s sexier when he’s chunky, but I find him attractive like this, too… and just imagine- if he’s #toothin, you can feed him cheeseburgers and coddle him 😉
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I have no problems feeding that man. No problems at all!
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He’s STILL too thin!
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Also… Dad pants. Dad pants are sexy. hmmm mmm
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Not entirely sure about dad pants tbh.
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some people are sexy no matter what… or close to no matter what!
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Ok, well, I have to agree with that…
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There ya go!
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Very weird thing from Audible once again. And these aren’t even new pictures. These pics are from photoshoot he did few years ago when he was promoting Romeo and Juliet: A novel. https://youtu.be/HxCcTojIvNo
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Yep, it’s the same outfit from back then. I like the shirts. The trousers not so much *hehe*.
I’m just slightly mystified at the edits… too fan-art-sy for a professional company…
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OMG, thank you all for ‘splaining this to me. I thought the names were of characters from Audible productions which he had read/performed. We are supposed to put OUR names on these photos? FF’s sake, why? If Audible thinks they are successfully pandering to us, don’t they also read the reactions at places like this to see that they are failing big time? Oh, by the way, that last shot: I agree with Kate. Major smoulder there, I will take that one. And if that means I prefer my men a little knocked out, well I will own that — the better to bend you to my will, dear. 😘
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I was wondering whether they were character names, but I don’t think that he voiced a Jordan or a Payton or a Ben? But yes, we are supposed to out our own name on the pictures.
I don’t think that sort of marketing is meant to go beyond catching the Twitter audience’s attention for longer than 5 seconds. And I doubt that Audible would check reactions beyond Twitter. I guess they are playing to the audience there, which is very appreciative of such edits.
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G: Thank you for keeping your eye on the target. You’re right. The real question here is, “Why is Audible promoting him?” Are they getting ready to announce a new product? He has had that home audio studio set up long enough to finish recording something, hasn’t he?
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It’s also curious that it is *both* Audible UK *and* Audible US who have made two major Twitter campaigns with Armitage the last few days. Unless Audible’s Twitter slaves for UK and US are both major Armitage fans, I assume they are gearing up for something. With his new home studio in place, he could’ve been narrating something new…
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Yes, I wonder what Audible are up to, perhaps RA fans are not spending enough and they want to keep him in our minds – ho ho. The names hardly represent his fan-base and look tacky on his sacred image. Saying that, I love the pictures, even with beard and sleepy-eyes. The one where he is touching his ear, Liv, make me smile as he looks like a model in a TV commercial. (I agree about the trousers.)
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Yeah, I didn’t get the whole name-on-picture thing. (I mean, even as fan art I have never seen something like that – it just doesn’t make sense.) But well, it’s probably wrong to search for meaning in marketing 😂.
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One name represented one of his fans at least 😁😉
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We are all Rachel 😉
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And if they really want to see someone get excited, put “Matteo” on a shot. Come on, Audible, pay attention. Actual attention. Not half-assed attention.
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Yes! I thought of you
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I’m probably wrong..but weren’t gear pics taken when his Mum was not long for this world? Which goes towards explaining how thin he became and sad he looks?
The choice of names overall was weird. ..except one of course! It definitely didn’t make much sense tbh as a advertising idea.
Hair and shrubbery wise he looks divine.
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No, you are absolutely right. This is from the Dec 2016 BTS video by Audible (US) – that does explain why he was so thin that time.
The name choices – maybe more geared towards the US market?
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Very strange. I thought they must be character names too. If not, then wtf? Why would I want him to be Sue or want to be him? That’s just weird. (Audible Canada’s tweets are much more boring and no RA. Maybe that’s a good thing.)
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I was trying to figure out whether these names pop up in any of his works, narrated or acted, too, but no. Maybe it’s a good thing that Audible CA doesn’t try too hard…
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The only time I can think he said my name is in one of the Joy Ellis books — and Sue was a murder victim! Not the association I’d like!
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Damn, that’s definitely not the context one would want… (I think he says my name as Astrov in UV – but *meh*, Astrov dismisses Sonya, so it’s not exactly the explosion of love and passion I would love to hear 😉)
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Yeah… we can’t all be Esther!
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😂
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Nice pics but didn’t get the point of the names, he did look very swish in these, elegant and all that. But maybe the unkempt look is more him? 🙂 But it did make me think which book have i missed out on now? Maybe they just want to boos the sales for the recent ones..
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Late comment again but gosh. Audible. I feel like they’re off-strat with their marketing. They want online engagement but this is too much pandering to fans, it’s a bit cringey. I didn’t even bother to look at the tweet haha. I do remember these photos though.
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