I was doing some research into advertising appeals for class and came across these two ads. Read the explanation of the subliminal messages.
- the more I look at this picture, the more images I notice. Freaky shit.
Smokey,
I spent 10 minutes looking at each photo and reading all the info and such. I see nothing at all subliminal about them.
I find everything that the author said to be a complete stretch of the imagination. I mean, on the last one I laughed my head off when they tried comparing a reflection to a shark jumping out at you or a bird skull.
Maybe my imagination just doesn't work right but every supposed subliminal advertisement looks to me like a normal add that someone has spent more time trying to find "conspiracies" than the company did in creating the add.
But at the same time I have hear that a good portion of people would be completely immune to subliminal advertising while others may be susceptible for whatever reason.
The CR ad is a drawing. Advertisers don't do things just 'cause. Why include the disfigured, impaled soldier head? The vampire embedded to the upper left of the soldier head? The multiple demented faces throughout? I think the Seahawks Logo is devouring an infant Kevin Kolb to the far right of the soldier. Seriously.
With the first ad, I find the idea that tobacco companies may appeal to a subconscious death wish very disturbing and believable. It took a true will to live to quit.
It's certainly very interesting, either way. I'll say that I spent a few minutes thinking about the cig ad before reading further. The message I got was that you would die if you smoked the other guy's tar filled brand. I don't think I thought about the color black or the clothes they were wearing (or would have articulated it that way), it just hit me that it was a message of "death." But I never thought about it as a "death wish" (at least consciously).
What i am saying is that I think it is a crock to say there is images hidden in there. I could take that image and make up a 1000 things that are "hidden".
What I see is a bottle of crown royal broken. That is all.
There is not soldier head, nor a fox, nor a shark jumping in. Those are broken glass and light reflections.
And no, I don't like whiskey so there is no bias.
I have to add though that the tickle deodorant one is funny. The guy thinks that the company made the deodorant dildo shaped to attract women that want a little tickle form a dildo.
Yeah, call me what you want I think this whole subliminal messaging is not real and only feeds to those who think corporate America is out to get them.
