Subliminal messages have been a "thing" for a long time, but this is a new, novel hook to make them with that places their creation into Everyman's hands.
Several years ago, in the mid 1980's, I spent a short amount of time studying art at a college. One of my assignments was to create a subliminal image for advertisement. I knocked one out advertising pears that had every male in the class wanting to buy pears, and they didn't know why. It didn't affect most of the females the same way, oddly enough.
Flash forward a few years, and I was on a night stock crew at Kroger's. One night I was filling a shelf with Glade air freshener in aerosol cans. The picture on the can was a mass of potpourri. Imagine my surprise when I found subliminals in that image on the can - in several places, the potpourri was arranged to form penises. It wasn't obvious, or even detectable unless you knew what you were looking for, but the subliminals must have worked well to make the air freshener fly off the shelves in the hands of housewives... after all, I WAS restocking an empty shelf of it!
So the basic concept has been around for a very long time. it's just that now anyone can do it by letting a computer do their thinking for them!
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Several years ago, in the mid 1980's, I spent a short amount of time studying art at a college. One of my assignments was to create a subliminal image for advertisement. I knocked one out advertising pears that had every male in the class wanting to buy pears, and they didn't know why. It didn't affect most of the females the same way, oddly enough.
Flash forward a few years, and I was on a night stock crew at Kroger's. One night I was filling a shelf with Glade air freshener in aerosol cans. The picture on the can was a mass of potpourri. Imagine my surprise when I found subliminals in that image on the can - in several places, the potpourri was arranged to form penises. It wasn't obvious, or even detectable unless you knew what you were looking for, but the subliminals must have worked well to make the air freshener fly off the shelves in the hands of housewives... after all, I WAS restocking an empty shelf of it!
So the basic concept has been around for a very long time. it's just that now anyone can do it by letting a computer do their thinking for them!
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