Subliminal Messages

I NEVER notice any until it's pointed out. Do product placement count? I see loads of them in music videos etc.

Sometimes I do notice, but I doubt they work.

I tend to ignore subliminal messaging... though I see it (and hear it in radio commercials - rarely in music, because I already know to ignore the lyrics of quite a few songs I like for the instrumentals) all the time. Especially in Adult Swim's self-deprecating advertisements... there's a lot in those.

I don't think 'suggestive' messages count as 'subliminal' since they're pretty obvious even if their meaning is somewhat obscure.

I read that subliminal advertising doesn't actually increase the sales of whatever is being advertised and that 'mind control' with it is impossible.

I laugh my arse off really badly at the Chowder ones. xD" But yeah, I do see them everywhere. It's only normal where I come from. Hell, my Friends are all pervs. They talk about weird things with fruits o-o"

I still find myself the same though, no changes in Violence nor in anything else. o-o

When people hear the term "subliminal advertising" they always assocciate it with the 1/4 second long images you hear about, this isn't the case. Most, if not all advertising is subliminal, see any advert on TV and everything will place placed in a such a way it appeals to the audience, mixtures of colours, sounds, anything. On the consious level it may not effect you, on a sub-concious if definitely does, you can deny it and say "advertising doesn't effect me" all you like, chances are it does, you just don't know. See an advert for Coca Cola think "What's the point in them advertising, everyone knows about their product", few days later maybe you need to choose between Coke and Pepsi, assuming you are neutral in the Coke v. Pepsi debate chances are you'll go for the former, completely unaware. A recent one I've noticed is all these adverts that use 70s/80s songs, you see it alot, come to associate that song with that advert, maybe hear that song on a radio a while later and "randomly" get the urge for what ever the advert was.

Subliminal advertising is a powerful force, don't even try to fight it, you can't, unless you force yourself to only by "no frills" products, and even then you'll be influenced over which shop to buy them from.

Sneeze said:

Subliminal advertising is a powerful force, don't even try to fight it, you can't, unless you force yourself to only by "no frills" products, and even then you'll be influenced over which shop to buy them from.

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Some of us can fight subliminal advertising because we already have addictions hobbies that eat most of our money. ;D;

I love how you all think marketing ploys are "Subliminal Messages".
[jq]Subliminal stimuli are any sensory stimuli below an individual's absolute threshold for conscious perception.[/jq]
Someone drinking a diet coke on your TV show isn't subliminal messaging. Flashing the words "DRINK COKE" on the screen for a quarter of a second is... and as far as I know, no one does that. You're all paranoid.

Galukxy said:

Yes, I'm sure I've seen some on shows like The Simpsons and Spongebob before >_>
I do tend to ignore them though because they don't make any sense at all to me.

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lol, "Yvan eht nioj"

There is no choice you must give sin all your moneez such thing as subliminal messages you guys, that's silly.

im not sure we don't mold our own subliminal messages from what we see...

and, how would one go about fighting subliminal messages anyway? avoid all media and advertising? actually it stretches further than that as everything you come into contact with can have embedded subliminal messages...

if u don't pick up on subliminal messages because they are subliminal then how is it possible you know they exist since they were meant to be subliminal in the first place? surely the second someone points out a subliminal message it stops being subliminal? wouldn't the person who picked it up have formulated it with their own thought process then? i mean two people can hear the same lyrics, see the same ads, yet interpret them differently, and come to different conclusions. would that mean there were several subliminal messages in the lyrics/ads and they each just "subconsciously" picked one?

if there were really subliminal messages out there than none of us would know because they would be subliminal...

Yusshin said:

Subliminal messaging is also showing something that isn't perceived consciously in its obvious manner and requires some thought / your subconscious to see it. For example, the advertisement for that MMORPG I was talking about. Consciously, it's saying to play the game. Subconsciously / subliminally, it's saying that women should be treated like *****s.

So it's not just flashing an image for a split second across the screen - it's also "hidden meanings" to phrases, situations, and pictures seen on TV, heard in music, etc.

"Subliminal" means "hidden" or "hard to see". Subliminal messaging is a message that isn't perceived easily / consciously.

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i know the MMORPG adverts you are talking about and i've never once thought women should be treated like *****es because of them (i believe *****es should be treated like *****es for being *****es tho)...so my question to you is does the subliminal message really exist if only some people pick it up? if i see the ad a million times and go on to live my life without treating women like *****es, does the subliminal message really exist? and if does, why wouldn't it have altered my behavior? the fact that you noticed it and i didn't surely shows its a product of your own making and not a constant thing that's in actual existence, like say air for example, that affects everyone?

anyway...i don't think anyone can blame any of their actions on "subliminal messages" as i believe in most cases those are things we create on our own to begin with...the only thing that's "subliminal" is our forming those opinions from things we see :P i mean sure you can be influenced but ultimately the decision is ours!