The Youtube Subliminal Videos Craze
Friday, March 27th, 2009If you have been surfing youtube lately you must of noticed some of the Youtube subliminal messages.
These are videos highlighting the subliminal suggestions which have been used in the media. If you search for "subliminal adverts" on youtube you see hundereds of videos that people have made.
Subliminal messages are all around us, but now people ar sharing them when they find them with help from the viral power of youtube.
Subliminals are only very slight suggestions which go into your mind un-noticed. i.e. they set off your critical thinking function like an obvious suggestion would – you don't argue against the suggestion at all. Subliminal messages go straight into your mind without any resistance from your critical mind and will begin to change your beliefs and thoughts.
Due to their power to influence us subliminal messages are being used by everyone – from McDonalds to politicians, and their continued use only ads more evidence to their power.
A really famous popular example is when McDonalds were busted for using subliminal advertising on the food network. During the Iron Chef program a flash of the McDonalds logo is seen for just 1/10th of a second.
Through youtube this subliminal advert got major international attention despite the video being filmed on a camcorder in someone's house from a clip he recorded on TV.
McDonalds denied the use of subliminals, instead blaming the food network, who obviously also denied everything, saying it was a production error and not intentional.
We all have regular access to the internet and anyone can make a video and put it on youtube or google video. if we do this we can increase the awareness of the manipulation which is going on - this is illegal in the US, the UK but advertisers still use them if they think they can get away with it. Only when we make a massive stand against this practice will the advertisers get a bad reputation and take note.
To see some examples of these youtube subliminal messages then visit our blog for the entire collection!