Regarding number 19, if I remember correctly there was a famous marketing executive who arranged a photoshoot in the 1920s, which fits the costume style, where he took photos of groups of young women smoking cigarettes as a way to show that it was an "independent, glamourous" activity for women. It was an active choice to sell cigarettes to more women by painting it as an explicitly feminist action.
Oh yeah that wouldn't surprise me at all if that was true. Tobacco companies did what they could to advertise their products until it became illegal to
My guess for the woman in the Icons PSA was actually that she is a reference to the "golden age of Hollywood", where so many movie stars were shown smoking on and off screen all the time, often with the long cigarette holders to make it look even more glamorous. (Among the many sad stories about Judy Garland and the filming of Wizard of OZ, her costumes on set had pockets sewn into the inside of the skirts for her cigarettes so she could smoke between takes.)
@@brycenall4410 I thought they were aiming at the macho Man. Lucky strike sponsored the "freedom torches" march and they had women oriented advertisements as early as the 1930's (hopping on the diet advertising bandwagon. "instead of reaching for a snack reach for a lucky")
it would be interesting to see you make a video on the history of that weird japanese train safety psa nobody can find, and watch the fanmade ones seeing if they would be effective as real psas
Here we go, nostalgia I'd remember... here we go! 20: This was aired during American Football's Superbowl here and I remember seeing it. It's actually 100% based on a true story, someone in Ohio actually did this to save her mother from an abusive relationship. I think it's powerful. 19: This one was before a lot of DVDs and VHS tapes at the time over here too. It never spooked me, but then I was older when I first saw it. It's really neat they used the actual tobacco icons, or what would have been. You can see Camel, Marlboro, Virginia Slim/Pall Mall, and Kool/Newport all represented here in different ways based on how they're actually advertised to people. 18: I love this one, I think it was a clever way to get the point across. Truth had a lot of good ads back when it started, it was cool and subversive at the time. So sad to see what it became. 17: This one is one I only first saw recently, and I love how it gets the point across. Very pointed and still an important message because this still happens even though we have other ways to test. Also the way this ad was made, really cool to see. You don't see a lot of stop-motion ads. 16: I never grew up seeing this one, but it's a great ad, I wish it got more play. It's that important. 15: I didn't see this one often, but did see it. I have a soft spot for this one, and its other song-based ad about the tiny babies born to smoking women. Worked great! 14: Didn't see this one often either, but no wonder - it's probably been buried by all the Truthers and gun nuts out there. 13: I've always been fond of this series of ads, they're catchy but also have a twisted sort of humor to them. I love the Avenue Q type puppets aping off Sesame Street. Delightfully done. 12: Montana Meth Project always did good ads. Like, very memorably scary ones. Sure as hell scared me away from doing meth, not that I ever had any desire to. I think this one's not the scariest they did, but this one is very effective and sad. 11: The last good Truth ad. I only saw this one a few times but it sticks with you for sure. Catchy as hell. Why on earth DO they make tobacco taste sweet? To hook you. I only ever see kids buy the sweeter flavors... 10: This series is also super effective. Again, not the scariest in this series, but it is a good one. The footage is clips of a marching band performance, by the way. 9: The original version of this ad's song is way too catchy, but both of them are good. It's a really good one. I keep on humming it, and every so often the Heroin one too, under my breath. Worked well to keep it in your brain for sure. 8: Oof. This one hits hard. Did you know the reason this one has pizza in it is because apparently, Pizza Hut sponsored it? What a weird sponsorship. 7: Don't recall this one but it's a good ad and probably the most powerful in its series. 6: This one's classic. I remember seeing this a lot, it frightened me as a kid too. 5: Aaand here's the Heroin ad. Lovely work. Really gross too, disturbing stuff. The Freshest Feeling indeed. 4: This is one of the more powerful Montana Meth Project ads IMHO. I saw this one and a few others several times as a kid. They always freaked me out. 3: I feel like I saw this one before too but can't remember where. It's harrowing to say the least... definitely one of the strongest PFADFA ads. 2: I know I saw this one on a VHS before as a kid... and it disturbed me a lot. I didn't watch it again for another 20 years because it freaked me out so bad. Super powerful. 1: Vince and Larry! Classics! That's all you can say.
One of the things that freaks me out the most about the school shooting PSA is that theres so many. We have gotten to the point where we need so many in America to try and stop it. And so many shootings dont even get coverage for how many they are. Freaks me out to where high school never felt safe. Im in college now and still am on full alert and randomly thinking about it to try and figure out what my plan would be if a shooting happened. On a lighter note, I discovered your channel not even an hour ago and you are criminally underrated, doing great!
One of my favorite PSA series here in America played in the early 2000s. I know it was on Vh1, and it may have been on similar channels as well. It was called Be the Boss of Your TV, and it featured parents talking to gangsters, mobsters, and a serial killer with a chainsaw explaining to them that their television shows are too graphically violent for their and the parents have to block these shows. It was funny watching these characters get so disappointed at that kind of news.
#15! THEE BEST EVER! Of course I'm a little bias because I'm the cowboy in the video! YUP! IT'S REALLY ME!!! I wish they would re-release it as I still get emails about it! Thanks for showing it! PEACE!
I was 12 in 1998 when the pizza PSA came out and it freaked me out so bad. I remember leaving the room and holding my ears when it would play, and my sister would turn up the volume so she could torture me.
The horrible thing is, back in the day, doctors actually actively promoted cigarettes and smoking, even though they were aware of the associated health risks…
It would be sooo sweet if you could do a russian PSAs compilation. There's one AIDS one that scared me shitless when I was a small child, but I can't find it anywhere unfortunately. Hopefully it got archived... If you'll need translating - you can contact me, of course, I'll be glad to help!
The last one in #19 is probably Virginia Slim, a brand specifically marketed to women, partly by leaning into the aesthetic of prohibition-era flappers.
How do you claim a PSA for copyright there used for teaching and spreading awareness witch is by definition fair use good lord is our copyright system busted
The last two in the ad with the different people representing the cigarette brands are Newports (kool didn't have ads like that) and the one u didnt know's Virginia Slims was the chick dressed like the 1920's flapper girl
Nice Video!! I´m from Spain and here we got the DGT (General Direction of Traffic) who time ago makes a lot of ads about drinking and drive very explicit. I would like to see someday a top of PSA´s around the world
I know I'm late to say this, but I'd put the "tips from a former smoker" series of PSA's on here somewhere. They kept me from smoking, and motivated my mom to try to quit a couple of times. I also just think they're well done.
Great list, great picks. From the classics like PFDFA, Truth, and Montana Meth to the lesser known like Kansas City Youth Ambassadors. There's pretty much something for everyone here. Who says America sucks at PSAs? (I hadn't seen "Save Ralph" before this. Ouch.) I clicked on this video thinking about a few specific American PSAs, I knew they weren't gonna be on here but I just had to say it... 1. There's a PSA from the Wisconsin Department of Transport called "What have I done?" It's a short ad about a man walking from his car to the construction worker he hit on the road. Standard fare for New Zealand or Australia, not so much over here. 2. There's a whole series of PSAs from Minnesota's Dept. of Natural Resources involving drowning and drunk boating/fishing/hunting. My favourite is "Can you find the fisherman in this picture?" (Answer: he got drunk and fell in the water.) 3. I remember this from the Reddit thread about that iceberg I made a few months ago - there's an ad from the Jewish Chautauqua Society called "Hate Hurts You", but only the ten second version exists online. The thirty second version is lost. No one's been able to find it. And apparently it scared so many kids in the late 70s that they had to pull/revise it.
Deep End (number 12) is one of the first PSA's I ever saw when I was first getting into them and it stuck with me ever since, its probably the PSA I remember the most vividly which is really great for a PSA in my opinion.
Have you found any PSAs from other countries that touch on topics that don't really occur where you live? Have you noticed any other cultural differences between PSAs from different countries?
Thanks for the video! It was great. I really like how you add a little more information about the PSAs, keep the good work ^-^ (Sorry if there's some misspelling, English isn't my first lenguage)
I grew up with a variety of Montana Meth Project PSAs airing on TV. They really stuck with me, and still feel like a gut punch to this day. Not even once indeed.
I'm a long time PSA fanatic (subbed to HelloImaPizza, Gabby the Clown before her channel got taken down, rocketraccoon16, SweetDisaster, the like) and I just came across your channel! Thank you for making content like this! I occasionally make PSA content on my channel, but it's not nearly as high-quality as yours.
Number 19 is prolly particularly effective in the United States because of how brand oriented our culture is (to put it another way, how many ads we're forced to see every single day).
I really liked the "You could learn a lot from a dummy" because they manage to both teach a good lesson and be proposefully/genuinely entertaining :) Very neat
If people are dumb enough to choose to smoke despite all the evidence just let them and stop harassing them tbh. They're just workers at a company they just are trying to do their jobs. Though I do hate secondhand smoke a lot. Saw this documentary where a kid developed asthma and the doctor even said so but the stupid father still wouldn't stop. And my boyfriend has a permanent cough from his mom smoking.
Yeah that's fair enough and with these top 20's I just let them play. Just with icebergs I only describe them whilst showing footage of the ads or PSAs
The only reason I remember number 19 (icons) is because it would always play on adult swim lol it's a good psa but it doesn't scare me more than the tips from former smoker adds those made me not want to smoke ever
I think the drama was extremely effective in all the PSA's. #14, the Sandy Hook one, has amazing drama but unfortunately the message is not effective. It would be like a timeless PSA if they changed the message line at the end to "Reform Our School Systems." #13 should just take out the message entirely and not even be a PSA, it is a really effective drama but the message isn't effective (it is more effective to promote prevention of illicit drug use than focusing on the dramatic symptoms of it). I really liked #19, #18, #15, #14, #12, #11, #10. #11 could hardly have been a better idea. #10 Is iconic. #9...wow. #8 - That is unforgettable. #6 Is like a Hallmark and a Lifetime Show at the same time, a very classic approach. #5 Is very memorable, though heroin use is extremely uncommon in the Midwest of the USA (actually don't know anyone that is or was a heroin addict) so the importance of the message is always at question. #4 Excellent too. #3 Interesting history for this excellent one: x I live in Nebraska and remember when this event happened. x I detassled with the brother of the guy in the video, the brothers' hometown is also my birthplace (actually just went there yesterday). x They were wandering out in the cold and thought they were talking to "foreigners" that were speaking a language that they didn't know. People think they were talking to cows out in the field and somehow thought they were foreigners. x I was not aware this was a PSA! #2 Excellent and unforgettable too. I really liked it when I saw it on the other video. #1 Interesting story about this classic one: x I believe one of the characters is the voice of Lorenzo Music, who also did the voice of Garfield. x For the first 18 years of my life, I lived in Garfield County, which was named after James Garfield, as was Garfield the Cat. Jim Davis's Grandfather, James Garfield Davis, was named after the president and the cat was named (and modeled) after his grandfather. Fantastic video, I will recommend it to anyone that I think might be interested.
Id say "truth" helped quite abit. The smoking age is 21 in the usa and you dont seem to see teens in groups puffing like you did in the 80s and 90s. Also there is an ad where the "marlbro man's" son (he was played by several actors in the 1960s-1970s as a puffing cowboy) talks to you telling you his dad was one of those famous actors and that his dad died from smoking and he shows you brief footage of the guy dying and gasping from air. His son is standing on the ranch set much like his dad was seen on.
@@Zach.R i wanna say it aired around 2011-2013 i saw it a few times on tv. It was pretty interesting and an ad that kinda sadly fell under the radar and not noticed as much. And i learned that all the "marlbro" men died from smoking after some research. What blows my mind is these cigarette companies had logo hats and camping gear, even sponsered race cars. Even "the flinstones" had such sponsors.
Sitting here a few days after watching Deshaun Watson and Kareem Hunt play an NFL game on the same team, you realize how little it means for an organization to throw money at things to clean up their image
#19 is fascinating because it hit on previous ad campaigns dealing with cigarettes: Camel, the Marlboro Man, and Newports during the 1940s-1950s (classic movie era). I love the confrontational approach to accountability on this subject.
The "Ralph" one was legitimately hard to watch (I hadn't seen it before) even though it was stop-frame and obviously fantastical, mostly because I am such an animal lover and think cosmetics testing on animals is completely unnecessary and cruel. Seeing actual animal torture (even made-up) is really hard for me.
27:26 PSA is like this make me glad I’m arrowace. still gonna be having children of my own. But at least only one of them will have to deal with arguments and even then way smaller arguments than this.
This was really well done and I like hearing your analysis after each video. One of the most disturbing anti drug PSAs I have ever seen was one from the late 80s called " Faces". It shows a close up of this beautiful, young blonde teenage girl's face. In the background u can hear a birthday song playing and it's gets slower and more distorted as we see her face deteriorating because of drug use. Then at the very end this sheet suddenly covers her face and u realize she's in the morgue. It used to give me nightmares. Was wondering if u have ever seen it? If u haven't, check it out.
The Truth Project ads were on tv here in the states all the time. Also, tons of dvd movies at the time had the icons psa on them. Those are the ones I remember the best.
Let me rephrase as after re-reading this I came off a little tone deaf. If your addiction truly is that bad that you see no other way out other than SH, then I truly feel for you. Meth is and can be a very hard drug to break away from, I was merely saying that if you truly want to, it can be done.
#3 has always stuck with me since I was a teenager. I haven't seen it since high school and seeing it now in my mid 30s, still is so effective and heartbreaking.
Regarding number 19, if I remember correctly there was a famous marketing executive who arranged a photoshoot in the 1920s, which fits the costume style, where he took photos of groups of young women smoking cigarettes as a way to show that it was an "independent, glamourous" activity for women. It was an active choice to sell cigarettes to more women by painting it as an explicitly feminist action.
Oh yeah that wouldn't surprise me at all if that was true. Tobacco companies did what they could to advertise their products until it became illegal to
And companies are still co-opting social justice movements to this day.
I'm guessing Lucky Strike or Gold Flake.
Who do you think makes the best PSAs?
My country united Kingdom or United States. Put your answers in the reply section.
Honestly a hard comparison to make. I don't really know if I would pick one over the other tbh
My guess for the woman in the Icons PSA was actually that she is a reference to the "golden age of Hollywood", where so many movie stars were shown smoking on and off screen all the time, often with the long cigarette holders to make it look even more glamorous. (Among the many sad stories about Judy Garland and the filming of Wizard of OZ, her costumes on set had pockets sewn into the inside of the skirts for her cigarettes so she could smoke between takes.)
Tobacco companies co-opted feminism to sell cigarettes. Virginia Slim's catchphrase used to be "you've come a long way baby".
Marlboro was the first cigarette company to market their cigarettes to women
@@brycenall4410 I thought they were aiming at the macho Man. Lucky strike sponsored the "freedom torches" march and they had women oriented advertisements as early as the 1930's (hopping on the diet advertising bandwagon. "instead of reaching for a snack reach for a lucky")
it would be interesting to see you make a video on the history of that weird japanese train safety psa nobody can find, and watch the fanmade ones seeing if they would be effective as real psas
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Here we go, nostalgia I'd remember... here we go!
20: This was aired during American Football's Superbowl here and I remember seeing it. It's actually 100% based on a true story, someone in Ohio actually did this to save her mother from an abusive relationship. I think it's powerful.
19: This one was before a lot of DVDs and VHS tapes at the time over here too. It never spooked me, but then I was older when I first saw it. It's really neat they used the actual tobacco icons, or what would have been. You can see Camel, Marlboro, Virginia Slim/Pall Mall, and Kool/Newport all represented here in different ways based on how they're actually advertised to people.
18: I love this one, I think it was a clever way to get the point across. Truth had a lot of good ads back when it started, it was cool and subversive at the time. So sad to see what it became.
17: This one is one I only first saw recently, and I love how it gets the point across. Very pointed and still an important message because this still happens even though we have other ways to test. Also the way this ad was made, really cool to see. You don't see a lot of stop-motion ads.
16: I never grew up seeing this one, but it's a great ad, I wish it got more play. It's that important.
15: I didn't see this one often, but did see it. I have a soft spot for this one, and its other song-based ad about the tiny babies born to smoking women. Worked great!
14: Didn't see this one often either, but no wonder - it's probably been buried by all the Truthers and gun nuts out there.
13: I've always been fond of this series of ads, they're catchy but also have a twisted sort of humor to them. I love the Avenue Q type puppets aping off Sesame Street. Delightfully done.
12: Montana Meth Project always did good ads. Like, very memorably scary ones. Sure as hell scared me away from doing meth, not that I ever had any desire to. I think this one's not the scariest they did, but this one is very effective and sad.
11: The last good Truth ad. I only saw this one a few times but it sticks with you for sure. Catchy as hell. Why on earth DO they make tobacco taste sweet? To hook you. I only ever see kids buy the sweeter flavors...
10: This series is also super effective. Again, not the scariest in this series, but it is a good one. The footage is clips of a marching band performance, by the way.
9: The original version of this ad's song is way too catchy, but both of them are good. It's a really good one. I keep on humming it, and every so often the Heroin one too, under my breath. Worked well to keep it in your brain for sure.
8: Oof. This one hits hard. Did you know the reason this one has pizza in it is because apparently, Pizza Hut sponsored it? What a weird sponsorship.
7: Don't recall this one but it's a good ad and probably the most powerful in its series.
6: This one's classic. I remember seeing this a lot, it frightened me as a kid too.
5: Aaand here's the Heroin ad. Lovely work. Really gross too, disturbing stuff. The Freshest Feeling indeed.
4: This is one of the more powerful Montana Meth Project ads IMHO. I saw this one and a few others several times as a kid. They always freaked me out.
3: I feel like I saw this one before too but can't remember where. It's harrowing to say the least... definitely one of the strongest PFADFA ads.
2: I know I saw this one on a VHS before as a kid... and it disturbed me a lot. I didn't watch it again for another 20 years because it freaked me out so bad. Super powerful.
1: Vince and Larry! Classics! That's all you can say.
I didn't know Ralph was an American PSA! Zac Efron plays one of the other rabbits.
One of the things that freaks me out the most about the school shooting PSA is that theres so many. We have gotten to the point where we need so many in America to try and stop it. And so many shootings dont even get coverage for how many they are. Freaks me out to where high school never felt safe. Im in college now and still am on full alert and randomly thinking about it to try and figure out what my plan would be if a shooting happened.
On a lighter note, I discovered your channel not even an hour ago and you are criminally underrated, doing great!
Thank you and yeah honestly it's horrible that American school kids have to worry about things like school shootings
I missed when Truth used to fuck around with a random NYC Tobacco company.
One of my favorite PSA series here in America played in the early 2000s. I know it was on Vh1, and it may have been on similar channels as well. It was called Be the Boss of Your TV, and it featured parents talking to gangsters, mobsters, and a serial killer with a chainsaw explaining to them that their television shows are too graphically violent for their and the parents have to block these shows. It was funny watching these characters get so disappointed at that kind of news.
#15! THEE BEST EVER! Of course I'm a little bias because I'm the cowboy in the video! YUP! IT'S REALLY ME!!! I wish they would re-release it as I still get emails about it! Thanks for showing it! PEACE!
i love that one aswell! the song is a bop aswell
You're the actor of the cowboy?
I was 12 in 1998 when the pizza PSA came out and it freaked me out so bad. I remember leaving the room and holding my ears when it would play, and my sister would turn up the volume so she could torture me.
and for the school shooting one another sign that's subtle is where that kids poster says dead man
The horrible thing is, back in the day, doctors actually actively promoted cigarettes and smoking, even though they were aware of the associated health risks…
you have to make a video on fan made psas. like the jumpscare fire kills one. theyre super cool imo.
That would be interesting to cover actually
You’re my new favorite comfort channel! I love hearing all the stuff you know about PSAs and seeing ones I’ve never seen before. Can’t wait for more!
Thank you heaps!! I appreciate it a lot also I usually get videos out every Thursday at 11pm AEST. *That's what I aim for at least* 😅
It would be sooo sweet if you could do a russian PSAs compilation. There's one AIDS one that scared me shitless when I was a small child, but I can't find it anywhere unfortunately. Hopefully it got archived...
If you'll need translating - you can contact me, of course, I'll be glad to help!
I appreciate it and I will definitely get around to countries like Russia at some point :)
I think the cleaner girl PSA stuck with people more because it's really fun to sing it while cleaning your house.
The last one in #19 is probably Virginia Slim, a brand specifically marketed to women, partly by leaning into the aesthetic of prohibition-era flappers.
The icons one Virginia slims they are super long and skinny and targeted to women
How do you claim a PSA for copyright there used for teaching and spreading awareness witch is by definition fair use good lord is our copyright system busted
The TH-cam copyright system is extremely busted haha
I’m surprised I never came across number nineteen when I was kid. I spent a lot of time watching dvds when I was a kid on long road trips.
When the kid said “look at me” it made me laugh only because it reminds me of the Joker line in dark knight
Hahahaha I never thought about that
The last two in the ad with the different people representing the cigarette brands are Newports (kool didn't have ads like that) and the one u didnt know's Virginia Slims was the chick dressed like the 1920's flapper girl
Nice Video!! I´m from Spain and here we got the DGT (General Direction of Traffic) who time ago makes a lot of ads about drinking and drive very explicit. I would like to see someday a top of PSA´s around the world
Thanks heaps and I will definitely get around to covering other places of the world ;)
I know I'm late to say this, but I'd put the "tips from a former smoker" series of PSA's on here somewhere. They kept me from smoking, and motivated my mom to try to quit a couple of times. I also just think they're well done.
Wow, great list. I knew most of these PSAs, but I'm glad to see lessons from my neighborhood especially.
Thanks!
Great list, great picks.
From the classics like PFDFA, Truth, and Montana Meth to the lesser known like Kansas City Youth Ambassadors. There's pretty much something for everyone here.
Who says America sucks at PSAs?
(I hadn't seen "Save Ralph" before this. Ouch.)
I clicked on this video thinking about a few specific American PSAs, I knew they weren't gonna be on here but I just had to say it...
1. There's a PSA from the Wisconsin Department of Transport called "What have I done?" It's a short ad about a man walking from his car to the construction worker he hit on the road. Standard fare for New Zealand or Australia, not so much over here.
2. There's a whole series of PSAs from Minnesota's Dept. of Natural Resources involving drowning and drunk boating/fishing/hunting. My favourite is "Can you find the fisherman in this picture?" (Answer: he got drunk and fell in the water.)
3. I remember this from the Reddit thread about that iceberg I made a few months ago - there's an ad from the Jewish Chautauqua Society called "Hate Hurts You", but only the ten second version exists online. The thirty second version is lost. No one's been able to find it. And apparently it scared so many kids in the late 70s that they had to pull/revise it.
That's wild about the third PSA you mentioned but I believe I do know the second one you are talking about. Also thank you!
The best part about the crash dummies was that one of them has Garfield's voice and it was funny hearing him talk about donuts.
Love the effort you put into these vids
Thank you so much!
With NO.19 I remember seeing it when I was 8 and it's stuck with me eversince.
Deep End (number 12) is one of the first PSA's I ever saw when I was first getting into them and it stuck with me ever since, its probably the PSA I remember the most vividly which is really great for a PSA in my opinion.
That truth PSA actually reminded me that they actually had print ads in Shonen Jump magazine back in the day
Save Ralph just makes me want to cry, it's upsetting and disturbing at the same time to me.
ikr,animal cruelty is one of the worst things ever for me,it upsets me sm :(
Have you found any PSAs from other countries that touch on topics that don't really occur where you live? Have you noticed any other cultural differences between PSAs from different countries?
Yeah I definitely have aha
In the train one, he's Rem Lezar!
Thanks for the video! It was great. I really like how you add a little more information about the PSAs, keep the good work ^-^
(Sorry if there's some misspelling, English isn't my first lenguage)
Thanks heaps for the compliment! :)
I KNEW IT WAS TAIKA
I grew up with a variety of Montana Meth Project PSAs airing on TV. They really stuck with me, and still feel like a gut punch to this day. Not even once indeed.
“Save Ralph” it goes to show that we need a change. Make our own products without animal testing
I'm a long time PSA fanatic (subbed to HelloImaPizza, Gabby the Clown before her channel got taken down, rocketraccoon16, SweetDisaster, the like) and I just came across your channel! Thank you for making content like this! I occasionally make PSA content on my channel, but it's not nearly as high-quality as yours.
Is Larry voiced by Lorenzo Music?
Yes he is
The woman in number 19 is meant to represent brands like Virginia Slims, Misty, Eve and More
Number 19 is prolly particularly effective in the United States because of how brand oriented our culture is (to put it another way, how many ads we're forced to see every single day).
Thanks for explaining the psa
do mexico next!! there are some really chilling ones in tacoland
I really liked the "You could learn a lot from a dummy" because they manage to both teach a good lesson and be proposefully/genuinely entertaining :)
Very neat
can you do top 20 Thailand PSAs some can be very dark
Will eventually get around to it hopefully
If people are dumb enough to choose to smoke despite all the evidence just let them and stop harassing them tbh. They're just workers at a company they just are trying to do their jobs. Though I do hate secondhand smoke a lot. Saw this documentary where a kid developed asthma and the doctor even said so but the stupid father still wouldn't stop. And my boyfriend has a permanent cough from his mom smoking.
I've never seen anyone that looked like that after smoking
Also thanks for showing the whole psas. I'm okay with them being described too but I really like to see them without going off to look it up.
Yeah that's fair enough and with these top 20's I just let them play. Just with icebergs I only describe them whilst showing footage of the ads or PSAs
So many ads it’s unbearable love you content but gawd Damb
Truth really fell off, TBH
They did
The only reason I remember number 19 (icons) is because it would always play on adult swim lol it's a good psa but it doesn't scare me more than the tips from former smoker adds those made me not want to smoke ever
The last Icon is Virginia Slims.
the psa at 13:00 aired 15 years ago already. there is only half as much time now.
that's actually nuts to think about it like that.
It's a shame how basically nothing has changed, too.
I like the last ones because they are funny and not so self serious. It teaches a good lesson while being light hearted.
I've seen the "icons" psa when watching adverts on Hellboy 2
i love that psa it’s so cool
I think the drama was extremely effective in all the PSA's.
#14, the Sandy Hook one, has amazing drama but unfortunately the message is not effective. It would be like a timeless PSA if they changed the message line at the end to "Reform Our School Systems."
#13 should just take out the message entirely and not even be a PSA, it is a really effective drama but the message isn't effective (it is more effective to promote prevention of illicit drug use than focusing on the dramatic symptoms of it).
I really liked #19, #18, #15, #14, #12, #11, #10.
#11 could hardly have been a better idea.
#10 Is iconic.
#9...wow.
#8 - That is unforgettable.
#6 Is like a Hallmark and a Lifetime Show at the same time, a very classic approach.
#5 Is very memorable, though heroin use is extremely uncommon in the Midwest of the USA (actually don't know anyone that is or was a heroin addict)
so the importance of the message is always at question.
#4 Excellent too.
#3 Interesting history for this excellent one:
x I live in Nebraska and remember when this event happened.
x I detassled with the brother of the guy in the video, the brothers' hometown is also my birthplace (actually just went there yesterday).
x They were wandering out in the cold and thought they were talking to "foreigners" that were speaking a language that they didn't know.
People think they were talking to cows out in the field and somehow thought they were foreigners.
x I was not aware this was a PSA!
#2 Excellent and unforgettable too. I really liked it when I saw it on the other video.
#1 Interesting story about this classic one:
x I believe one of the characters is the voice of Lorenzo Music, who also did the voice of Garfield.
x For the first 18 years of my life, I lived in Garfield County, which was named after James Garfield, as was Garfield the Cat.
Jim Davis's Grandfather, James Garfield Davis, was named after the president and the cat was named (and modeled) after his grandfather.
Fantastic video, I will recommend it to anyone that I think might be interested.
This is so interesting
I'm a tester, I test diabetes medication and equipment.
Id say "truth" helped quite abit. The smoking age is 21 in the usa and you dont seem to see teens in groups puffing like you did in the 80s and 90s. Also there is an ad where the "marlbro man's" son (he was played by several actors in the 1960s-1970s as a puffing cowboy) talks to you telling you his dad was one of those famous actors and that his dad died from smoking and he shows you brief footage of the guy dying and gasping from air. His son is standing on the ranch set much like his dad was seen on.
I don't think I have seen that one but it sounds interesting
@@Zach.R i wanna say it aired around 2011-2013 i saw it a few times on tv. It was pretty interesting and an ad that kinda sadly fell under the radar and not noticed as much. And i learned that all the "marlbro" men died from smoking after some research. What blows my mind is these cigarette companies had logo hats and camping gear, even sponsered race cars. Even "the flinstones" had such sponsors.
Sitting here a few days after watching Deshaun Watson and Kareem Hunt play an NFL game on the same team, you realize how little it means for an organization to throw money at things to clean up their image
Is the guy who voiced Larry the same voice actor as Garfield?
Yes
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#19 is fascinating because it hit on previous ad campaigns dealing with cigarettes: Camel, the Marlboro Man, and Newports during the 1940s-1950s (classic movie era). I love the confrontational approach to accountability on this subject.
The "Ralph" one was legitimately hard to watch (I hadn't seen it before) even though it was stop-frame and obviously fantastical, mostly because I am such an animal lover and think cosmetics testing on animals is completely unnecessary and cruel. Seeing actual animal torture (even made-up) is really hard for me.
Funny Story: After watching Point Of View, I immediately got a notification for iGun😂.
27:26 PSA is like this make me glad I’m arrowace. still gonna be having children of my own. But at least only one of them will have to deal with arguments and even then way smaller arguments than this.
Virginia Slims, marketed to women "You've come a long way baby"
This was really well done and I like hearing your analysis after each video. One of the most disturbing anti drug PSAs I have ever seen was one from the late 80s called " Faces". It shows a close up of this beautiful, young blonde teenage girl's face. In the background u can hear a birthday song playing and it's gets slower and more distorted as we see her face deteriorating because of drug use. Then at the very end this sheet suddenly covers her face and u realize she's in the morgue. It used to give me nightmares. Was wondering if u have ever seen it? If u haven't, check it out.
25:05 that sentence after that PSA. oops
Oh yeah I really didn't think that through but I definitely didn't mean that line in that way
@@Zach.R 👍 your good
7:29 I wonder what they actually had in those body bags
Also, that Stairs PSA came out in the 90s not the 80s
I know, I must have accidentally wrote 80's in this video
@@Zach.R Is cool
The Truth Project ads were on tv here in the states all the time. Also, tons of dvd movies at the time had the icons psa on them. Those are the ones I remember the best.
For number 15’s artist sings that at concerts
The meth thing is over-exaggerated. I stopped doing meth on my own, I’ve been clean for 2 1/2 years
Let me rephrase as after re-reading this I came off a little tone deaf. If your addiction truly is that bad that you see no other way out other than SH, then I truly feel for you. Meth is and can be a very hard drug to break away from, I was merely saying that if you truly want to, it can be done.
#3 has always stuck with me since I was a teenager. I haven't seen it since high school and seeing it now in my mid 30s, still is so effective and heartbreaking.
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Larry was voiced by Garfield!
It's "anyway" not "anyways", and it's "I've given to you guys" not "I've gave to you guys"
I don't think I have ever said Ive gave to you guys but I know with me saying anyways it's just a thing I have kept on doing overtime aha
@@Zach.R why do you say “anyways” instead of “anyway”?
@@Duvmasta honestly don't know haha
@@Zach.R oh....
@@Duvmasta isn't it an american way to say it? Always seen peeps from merica say anyways. I'm not a native english speaker, so just wondering
in re: "glamorous" woman smoking - google edward bernays torches of freedom campaign