Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Δ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Δ 022 – ‘Your Clothes Feel Intolerably Itchy…’ .”Here is what Bacchus found.
It is a sad commentary on the current sorry state of image search engines that despite being having been (as of the time of writing of this attribution [Faustus — probably January 2015]) “liked” and “reblogged” by 3750 different people on Tumblr since being originally posted there, the search engines are collectively aware of only one instance of this animation, and that is here.
No attribution for this animation could be discovered. However, it is clearly made from (or created as an homage to) the extensive schlock line-art advertising that has surrounded the entertaining flim-flam enterprise that is commercial hypnosis or mesmerisation, as first pioneered by Franz Mesmer and subsequently promoted by James Braid, vaudeville performers, hucksters at fairs the world over, small ads in the back of comic books and pulp magazines, and modernly, on blogs.
