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Subliminal Messages
Have you ever seen Subliminal messages/ads/ect.? Personally, I remember some Spongebob ones and when a McDonald's ad flashed across the screen on the show Iron Chef. So, have you seen subliminal content anywhere?
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There's subliminal messages everywhere, in every show, on billboards, in pretty much every popular song nowadays.
But because they're subliminal, you don't see them or their effects. |
I NEVER notice any until it's pointed out. Do product placement count? I see loads of them in music videos etc.
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I've seen so many of them in tv shows and music videos -.-
Its not that difficult for me to notice xD |
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I search for them specifically, just so I don't absorb their hidden meaning by accident. I want to reject it all :< and I search to do just that! Really, subliminal messaging shouldn't be allowed to troll us to badly. It changes your personality over time, and it hits you when you're most vulnerable generally - as kiddies. It's like morphing the brain. |
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I know, its like they're brainwashing you .-. A bit freaky if you ask me. I see no purpose of subliminal messaging since most people don't even notice them.. |
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But their subconscience does << and it takes a hard impact, changing your personality completely in some cases. Most subliminal messages I've seen are sexual and/or violent. For example, there was an ad for an MMORPG. It was a woman dressed in rags, chained to a wall, and a message saying "Come play!" It's a subliminal message for rape. It disgusted me thoroughly. It should be illegal to show these kinds of things :| It actually promotes the brain to think that showing women in such a manner and thinking them as sexual objects is correct. You might not think it when you see the ad at first, but if you see the same message over'n over and not realize it, you're going to base your judgment of females on it sooner or later. Of course, it's not just females that are targetted. Alcohol, sex, violence, drugs... They're all floating in subliminal messaging, changing our youth and boosting the pornography / alcohol / similar markets cash quota. It's just for cash. It's to control the population and where they spend their money. Not to mention, if men and women treat each other like crap, get married, and keep getting divorces, where does all of that money go? To the government and into the hands of a lot of creeps. Some messages are really obvious, and people still don't see it as brainwashing. Especially song lyrics. Those are the worst o0 I want to make something to give a subliminal message of kindness, charity, and truth, but I don't know how to do it lol I want to fight fire with fire. I doubt mine would be very popular, though :| Not just because good morals and values seem to be already hopelessly lost, but because of what I'd be up against. I've got my conspiracy suspicions of all governments, especially that of the US. Among them, I find that the majority are against the good morals and values. I just call the people behind subliminal messaging and who are against the greater good of humanity satanists now (most would find this extreme, but I have other reasons to declare them as such). |
Sometimes I do notice, but I doubt they work.
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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.
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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. |
Well, if you have ever seen any ads for those cheap text based MMORPGs, they usually have a bunch of live, near nude women on them... does that count?
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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. |
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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. |
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. Quote:
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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. |
There is no choice you must give sin all your moneez such thing as subliminal messages you guys, that's silly.
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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... Quote:
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! |
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As has been said, that's an obvious marketing ploy, not a subliminal message. Sex sells — it's common knowledge. I've yet to hear a good, specific example of an actual subliminal message, except the McDonald's one mentioned in the first post, which was likely just a glitch, as the network stated. People are acting like every slightly manipulative advertisement is a subliminal message. |
I remember the Derren Brown thing on a while ago about subliminal messaging. He tried to fix people to their chairs at home through the tv by (supposedly) using a certain sound to hold you there. While I wasn't I heard of a lot of people who were. He also tried this thing where he set up an entire shopping centre to subliminally encourage generosity. He then dressed up in prosthetics etc as a beggar and made £300! One of the examples of generosity was a poster of a man giving a child a shoe, and this apparently caused a man to give him his shoes!
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I've heard a lot about movies like Disney have a lot of homosexual subliminal messaging.. but I think that it is poppycock. xD I'm never using that word again.
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Why yes, I am a Derren Brown fan, how did you tell? |
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i watched the derren brown thing too it didnt work at all. but it still freaked me out. i know of a sprite or tango ad ages ago being banned cos it had the bottle and logo popping up all the time and was said it was banned cos of the subliminal messages it was giving after watching it i do admit it made me want the drink. and as for the disney thing i dont see why they would wonna advertis homosexuality sence they refuse to have gays in there shows or anything. good example high school musical clearly gay but not allowed to say. |
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