This Is A Sign Of The Apocalypse

Meet Irresistible Ella. She’s NBC 10’s website’s new virtual anchor.

No, really.

She’s a virtual news anchor. Named Irresistible Ella. Who is on the main page of “Irresistible News,” which is what NBC 10 calls the news oddities section of the website (stories like “Donkey Kong Runs Through Downtown Cleveland!”).

And, yes, she talks in the monotone female computer voice you’ve probably heard before. (This means someone’s writing her script, then it’s fed into a computer program that “speaks.” If you’ve ever had a program that does this, you’ve probably made it curse.)

In the current “report” on the website, she recaps Barry Bonds’ one home run this weekend and ends with “I’m Irresistible Ella reporting from Citizens Bank Park for NBC10.com.”

Pretty soon, I’m sure NBC 10’s going to start using her on television to cut down on costs. I mean, she’s pretty cute, right? NBC 10’s anchors better start updating her resumes.

Irresistible Headlines [NBC 10]