This girl is everywhere: stock photos
ithinkisawhersomewhere.tumblr.com
ithinkisawhersomewhere.tumblr.com
http://asianstockphotogirl.tumblr.com/
http://www.glamour.com/fashion/blogs/dressed/2013/10/the-mos...
https://www.facebook.com/notes/ariane-the-overexposed-stock-...
She and her partner/photographer have made an entire business of travelling and taking photographs for stock sale. Not a bad way to write off your trips. Ariane's ambiguous ethnicity (She's French Canadian and Chinese) has made her look easy to adapt to many ad campaigns.
(I hadn't seen the one linked in this item before, however.)
"The photographer is Dunstin Steller, and he snapped this photo of his little sister, Hannah, and tossed it onto his iStockPhoto portfolio. For a few cents, Demand Media scooped up the photo and was then licensed to use it throughout their web properties. Thus, every time a website goes dark, Demand Media scoops up the domain registration and parks it, with ads and links around this photo."
http://mind--blown.blogspot.com/2012/05/fascinating-story-of...
She also has her own Tumblr blog (http://asianstockphotogirl.tumblr.com/).
We live in Brazil and she works with marketing on startups. She personally used her photos in her jobs until she could recognize her everywhere. At least once a month she point her to me on a new ad.
WHY?