Hidden in Plain Sight: Subliminal Images

A Coca-Cola advertisement from 1995 featured a depiction of fellatio.

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That’s just Joan Kroc stepping on customer’s peepee with one cloven hoof.

A Renuzit air freshener can from 1995 featured a phallus.

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A Benson & Hedges cigarettes advertisement from the late 1970s featured a phallus.

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High school project back in the late 60s illustrating modern advertising. I did a series of mostly blow-ups of ICE CUBE images ... all showing blow job's, vaginas, dicks in butts etc etc. All images plain as day if magnified and cropped but in the context of a Coke or a whisky ad .... nada.

Like facbuk today, my "project" was BANNED.

It's because the devil is horny

A Lion King poster from 2002 featured a topless, cheeky female figure from behind.

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Or just some dude with a kink who sees wieners everywhere?



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Look up "Risqué Coca-Cola Poster" on $n0pe$. It's true. GLP won't allow a link.

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A Gilbey's Gin advertisement from the 1970s featured the word "sex" hidden in a drink's ice cubes.

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A TV ad for the 99-cent KFC Snacker chicken sandwich featured an image of a dollar superimposed on a sandwich's lettuce.



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I don't watch adverts
In my day we used to lay on our backs and make shapes out of the clouds..
Some Boobies, but never saw any Cocks though!

This Skittles Berry Explosion packaging features the word "sex".

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Subluminals were proven to work especially sexual or skeletons of humans and it was outlawed at one time.
if you become aware of them they no longer work on you

Brain Registers Subliminal Nude Images
By Roger Dooley

(neurosciencemarketing.com) - This is one of those experiments that must have raised a few eyebrows during the approval process… “Let’s get this straight, you are going to show subjects invisible pictures of naked people and see if they unconsciously remember seeing them…” Apparently, though, the research got the go-ahead and ended up producing surprising results. Cognitive neuroscientist Sheng He of the University of Minnesota was part of a team that presented subjects with images of nude men and women by showing separate images to each of their eyes. The images exploited an odd quirk in the way humans process visual information:

"The researchers took advantage of a phenomenon called binocular rivalry to make the erotic images invisible. When two very different images are presented to each eye separately, the images will alternate between one image and the other. But if one eye is exposed to an image and the other to dynamic visual “noise,” the noise will suppress the image and render it essentially invisible to the viewer.
(from LiveScience, 'Erotic Images Entice Even When Invisible')"

The high-contrast image used in these tests is called a Gabor patch. The experimenters found that even though the subjects were unaware that they had seen the erotic image, they registered its location and were more successful at determining the orientation of a Gabor patch shown briefly in the same place. ScientificAmerican.com reports in Subliminal Nude Pictures Focus Attention:

"Into the canceled out image slot, the researchers slipped an erotic image; for example, a naked woman displayed for a heterosexual man. To ensure that subjects did not consciously detect the invisible image, they were asked to press a specific key if they noticed any difference between the left and right images. Over the course of 32 trials, men were significantly better at detecting the orientation of Gabor patches when they appeared in the slot formerly occupied by an invisible image of a nude woman."

Decades ago, author Vance Packard wrote the best-selling title, The Hidden Persuaders, which focused on the potential power and misuse of subliminal advertising. Some years after that, there was a flurry of interest in the topic when another author claimed to find hidden erotic images and faintly printed obscene words in many popular advertisements. Everyone else apparently lacked the latter author’s unique ability to see these images, and the topic faded into obscurity.

What are the neuromarketing implications of this new research? On a direct basis, there really aren’t any. The unique and cumbersome means the experimenters used to present the subliminal images simply aren’t going to occur in the real world, nor would most advertisers seek to employ such an approach even if it were somehow possible. I think the findings ARE important for marketers in one respect, however – they serve as a clear reminder that we all DO process information without being consciously aware of it.

That we accept subconscious input isn’t exactly news, but it’s a fact often forgotten by marketers. When we view an advertisement, for example, there’s a lot going on under the surface. A good example of this is the rapidity of processing a web site upon arrival, as we reported in Neuroscience and Web Design; viewers form an impression in a fraction of a second, far too quickly for cognitive processing of the actual page content. This means that self-reporting (interviews, focus groups, surveys, personal logs, etc.) may be inaccurate even when the individual is doing his best to report accurately and truthfully. (“Naked woman? What naked woman? I’m sure I would have noticed THAT kind of picture! Nope, I’m positive I didn’t see it.”)

Whenever possible, marketers need to use absolute measures of results – actual sales, showroom visits, time-on-site, etc. as indicators of the effectiveness of advertising. Even when people WANT to tell the truth, they may not be able to. Measure their behavior instead of asking them.

The other important point is to be aware of every element of an advertisement (or marketing campaign, sales call, etc.). We expect customers to look at what we want them to look at – the catchy headline, the clever copy, the product photo – but they are registering a lot more information. The look and feel of the ad, the background, the font, the body language of the model, and many other aspects are processed – very quickly, and mostly unconsciously. In some cases, these may not be particularly important, but if one or more elements creates dissonance with the intention of the ad, the ad’s performance could be affected...

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A Dickies advertisement with phallic imagery.

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Now that we're focusing on subliminal imagery, do you see the goat face in this emblem on the cover of Morals and Dogma? The goat has floppy ears and is holding a dagger in its teeth.

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My brother still has one of these cans. It’s clear as day on there.

having a hard time with this one. I can sorta see it, but...

they admit the sex bit but once you wake up, all advertising, all hollywood, all news, all radio is subliminal propoganda.
Notice how every newscaster all over the world has the same tone and intonations no matter what country, the spinning logos, the color schemes, etc...

Its all subliminal propaganda folks, but yer theres also dicks in mcdonalds adds..

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.
Bernays

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Yup. True and all done very much on purpose. I took an honors English class in college and we studied this extensively. Reference Ogilvy on Advertising. Great text book. To this day I always scrutinize adverts for subliminal and hidden content. Another neat little book from that class worth reading is, How to Lie With Statistics. R.I.P. Dr. Erickson!

Also notice the angle of the text; erection angle. Commonly employed in ads. Beer companies love that one as well.

Yes it's seems the hand is about to be the recipient of an Icicle.

Excellent post!
This is interesting because it shows how rampant it is in advertising alone.

I'm sure since man first started drawing or painting messages have been hidden within, but I wondered just how rampant it is.

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It’s beyond time to reject the scribes of media who have destroyed our nations through their subliminals and overt teaching contrary to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The goal is to create a weak society, easier to control, the mark of the best/flesh is shown in this context, is the opposite of semen retention lol.

these are not the subliminals you should be worried about... jfc

I thought there would be something of value in this thread