Pacman

So it seems to me that there is a device or strategy often used in art in which the artist purposefully points out their awareness of the medium or form they are working in while trying to subvert it. For example, the photographer Christopher Williams has a photo of a "model" in lingerie, the point of the photo though is that the model's back has a number of small moles. By using a fashion photography approach but not photoshopping out or covering up the blemishes, he points out his own awareness of the style he is working in while questioning practices of fashion photography. What does all this have to do with today's photo and more importantly PACMAN? you ask.

Well this is what happened to pacman when he tried this strategy of self-awareness: