Subliminal Messages - Comedy Central

KaiserLu

Has anyone else noticed the large amount of text that appears in the middle of comedy central ads? Sky Plus paused it there and it was all about mind control and how just because we're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after us....

Another one talks about bus drivers and the words highlighted say Breed With Caution Time To Panic....

Freaked out!!!!

I blame raDIOhead for iT

az2wp0sye65487

I noticed this too... Paused it and read it one day... Can't remember what it said but I wasn't freaked out or anything... Just went "meh" and carried on watching TV

KaiserLu

Papa Smut wrote: »

I blame raDIOhead for iT

ARent u So cEver? Hey, any OLd pErson can do it...

Dennis the Stone

Now if only the viewers could somehow subliminally influence them to stop repeating the same rubbish over and over again.

RobBaxter

Has anyone else noticed all the subliminal messages on comedy central?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAmoGVEazXg

I think it's weird because there is nothing online about it first of all.
Secondly, there's nothing on their website about it.
Thirdly, there is a sinister theme to theme.eg."Breed with caution, time to panic"

Weird right! Any comments?

landsleaving

RobBaxter wrote: »

Any comments?

Nope.

ScumLord

Marketing. You are now doing some advertisers bidding. I hope you feel dirty.

Laika1986

Iv noticed them before but thats the first time iv obviously read them. Bit mad alright

Colilfc

Complete mind f*ck.

Yakult

Pointless other than advertising. I dont really know..

RobBaxter

ScumLord wrote: »

Marketing. You are now doing some advertisers bidding. I hope you feel dirty.

thats a very easy way to totally write it off - if you actually thought about it you would realize that there are far better ways to market other than this underhanded way. I for one am a bit bothered by it especially seeing as a google search yields F*** all! surely not very successful marketing then? and if it is it certainly doesn't endear me to their channel!

landsleaving

RobBaxter wrote: »

thats a very easy way to totally write it off - if you actually thought about it you would realize that there are far better ways to market other than this underhanded way. I for one am a bit bothered by it especially seeing as a google search yields F*** all! surely not very successful marketing then? and if it is it certainly doesn't endear me to their channel!

It's called 'viral' marketing. The idea is that people, such as yourself, will spread the word of it throughout the interwebs, thus brainwashing more fools into obeying the hypnotoad, who runs the channel.

ScumLord

RobBaxter wrote: »

thats a very easy way to totally write it off - if you actually thought about it you would realize that there are far better ways to market other than this underhanded way.

They do this all the time. Get a bit of a buzz about it first then the media pick up and write about it (while more than likely being in on the whole thing) then they have the big reveal.

It's tried and trusted, I'd be utterly shocked if it's anything other than marketing for something, I'd wager money with you that it's an ad for something. TV stations don't make mistakes over and over when it comes to their ad content.

Saila

subliminal messages are not actually seen, thats the whole point
which means that isnt subliminal advertising

Yakult

RobBaxter wrote: »

thats a very easy way to totally write it off - if you actually thought about it you would realize that there are far better ways to market other than this underhanded way. I for one am a bit bothered by it especially seeing as a google search yields F*** all! surely not very successful marketing then? and if it is it certainly doesn't endear me to their channel!

Normally the most simple explanation is the correct explanation. I wouldn't read into it too much.

landsleaving

'We are watching Fox Comedy Central'

bonerm

Apparently it was aired during an afternoon six episode marathon of Two and a Half Men?

If they are meant as some form of mind control then I don't know how anyone could reasonably expect to subliminally influence the brainwaves of the sort of mental powerhouses who'd be sitting around for three hours in the middle of the day watching Charlie Sheen rattle off line after line of verbal dog poop.

ArtSmart

well it if was too highlight how hip they are it's worked.

however subliminal messages are sent at much higher rates , invisible to the (conscious) naked eye, so these tape-able messages of half a sec or so are in fact....wait for it....
-
a marketing tool, as scumlord suggests

EDIT. we'll i am drunk. i see at least 6 people posted before me! with same response

Firefox11

It the subliminal liminal stuff you need to watch out for. Hmmm...I think it's time for some chicken now.:D

BluesBerry

*puts on tin foil hat* :eek:

RobBaxter

ArtSmart wrote: »

well it if was to highlight how hip they are it's worked.

however subliminal messages are sent a much higher rates , invisible to the (conscious) naked eye, so these tapable messages of half a sec or so are in fact....wait for it....

a marketing tool, as scumlord suggests

Ya you guys are probably right i guess! if nothing ever does surface about them, however, id be more than a little bit concerned.

ArtSmart

RobBaxter wrote: »

Ya you guys are probably right i guess! if nothing ever does surface about them, however, id be more than a little bit concerned.

in the meantime, em, take up sport or something. or a girlfriend.

i'm kiddin, really. always pays to be vigilant...even if it's low pay

_Whimsical_

They're viral marketing themselves so people will watch their channel. To sell advertising space is the raison d'etre of the media, not to entertain.They want you watching the ads.They don't care if you like Two and A Half Men. You enjoying the antics of Charlie and the boys makes them no money, you hanging around for the adverts does. Thats how TV stations create revenue.

As this continues and easily excitable people create internet threads about it and link it to facebook etc they'll get more viewers tuning into watch their ads and the result will be that they'll attract more advertisers to the network and it'll make their ad slots more valuable.

RobBaxter

hardly a successful viral marketing campaign when a google search of the phrase "comedy central subliminal messages" yields this thread as the top result and this is after these ads have been played in the uk and ireland for at least 20 days now! it has basically generated no heat at all? i just dont like it!

landsleaving

RobBaxter wrote: »

hardly a successful viral marketing campaign when a google search of the phrase "comedy central subliminal messages" yields this thread as the top result and this is after these ads have been played in the uk and ireland for at least 20 days now! it has basically generated no heat at all? i just dont like it!

Now when someone searches it, they'll find the thread you started. Go ask comedy central to pay you as a marketing consultant.

Professional Griefer

The channel is screwed up for me, every now and then the sound goes all weird, kind of like a little bit of a wah effect. Gets annoying after a while.

technoboy

Well... On the backend of causing upheaval in the channel's viewer community, combined with facilities allowing one to ask questions and express their views (this board for example), it allows you to assess the public's increase in "paranoia", and furthermore what possible agendas we may attribute this activity and the message content to.

Ultimately, its perpetrated by a very powerful individual (in the monetary and influential senses) with a not so powerful agenda.

The creative nature of humanity and desire to express one's own creative ability can undermine the miracle of one's own creation.

Lukker-

Obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmiw1NmIz0

Owwmykneecap

HEY YOU, WATCH COMEDY CENTRAL!

Hyper liminal.

CiaranMT

CT forum >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Degag

bonerm wrote: »

watching Charlie Sheen rattle off line after line of verbal dog poop.

Strange, that's probably how he'd phrase it too....

Aoifey!

As said, it's not subliminal. They're fairly obvious.

I was watching CC one night when that screen came up "according to the internet...", etc. It stayed up on the screen for a good three or four minutes, so there's nothing subliminal about that. It's still strange to show a slide like that for three or four minutes, though.

entropi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w94GQyLqfIM

Just a bunch of words to me, nothing strange about that advert except that they are trying to mindphuck whoever thinks it's some form of control...

MrStuffins

"Hey you........... f*ck off"

kowloon

All glory to hypnotoad.

wonderfulname

RobBaxter wrote: »

hardly a successful viral marketing campaign when a google search of the phrase "comedy central subliminal messages" yields this thread as the top result and this is after these ads have been played in the uk and ireland for at least 20 days now! it has basically generated no heat at all? i just dont like it!

Maybe because you are in Ireland, boards is a popular website and that's the name of the thread? Tis how google works. If you google comedy central along with the most easily picked up words in the clip you get a lot of hits to much bigger sites, 4chan, youtube, various bloggers,conspiracy sites... you linked to a video with over 9000 views in 17days. It is viral marketing, now some viral marketing takes and others doesn't, there are varying degrees of success as its a relatively new area in a relatively old field and a lot of people just don't get how it works. Never mind the fact that "breed with caution" is pretty standard comedy central humour...

I don't think getting people talking about it is the desired effect though, I think they just want people with their nose glued to the screen during the ad breaks.

zirazira

Aoifey! wrote: »

As said, it's not subliminal. They're fairly obvious.

that's a little obvious for sure.

Azureus

It sucks as a ploy to get people to hang around and watch the ads because I for one love them lil flash screens of pointless messages! There was one about bus drivers I thought was hilarious (wine may have played a part). I just pause it on the aul sky plus and have a read. Then the time that takes up means I could fastforward the ads and get back to whatever I was watching.

thebostoncrab

I have no idea how people here think the point in these flash cards is to get people to get people to watch the ads.

1)They always air at the start or end of the ad break, never in between ads. (The ads for Comedy Central don't count.)

2) To read them, you have to pause the TV. It'll take the average person around 30 second to a minute to get the screen paused at the right time, to read the flash card, and then to fast forward through the ads. By the time they are back on track the ads are half way over. Plus then you have seen that breaks flash card so you can do something else for the rest of the break anyway.

I like them, most of them are funny. I'd say the point in them is to help build the "fun" image of Comedy Central. They'll help promote the channel itself.

wonderfulname

you're assuming everyone has one of them fancy sky+ boxes, they don't, if you didn't have one you'd catch a glimpse in the ad break, wonder what it was all about, then keep an eye out next time round. Then there's the fact there is a few of them, even if you do have sky+ if you're mildly curious you'll stick around to see if there's a new one this ad break rather than watch 5 minutes of MTV or something instead.

thebostoncrab

But you don't have to stick around for the ad breaks. After seeing them a few times it becomes obvious that they pop up at the start or end (Usually the start, because it would eat into the actual show which CC wouldn't want).

biko

AH -> TV

statto25

(Sorry for bumping the thread, I can make a new one if necessary)

The messages are back. I was just watching Comedy Central and one popped up. I took a pic of it...



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