Wonder if that inspired a poster PSA I saw. How are you getting home tonight? is the caption. There is a taxi, a police car, an ambulance and a hearse, all parked outside a cemetery. Very sobering.
'tentacle' has always hit hard for me.. specifically the scene where the girl is on a date with someone and theyre touching her leg, and the tentacle shows up, and the scene where she is much older and at a family gathering or dinner and the tentacle shows up and her smile drops. i always saw it as the memories of what happened coming back in different scenarios. another one i saw was a black screen while a man is screaming at his son, being abusive. on the screen it says "you neighbours will hear you. but don't worry, they won't say anything. because people don't know what to say." which is.. hard to watch..
I’m a firm believer that the best way to make a PSA is to just be as blunt and straight forward as possible. You don’t need to make it artificially upsetting. Get someone who has been effected by the issue at hand and have them talk about how it’s impacted them. Reality is way more disturbing than fiction
A few examples because I’ve been thinking about this since I posted this comment: Want to warn the public over the use of hard drugs, alcohol or smoking? Interview someone who’s experienced them. Users who use consistently always show signs of their bodies breaking down. Heck, even for anti smoking adverts I genuinely believe the psas that interview someone who’s lost part of their body to cancers are the best people to have explain just how harmful smoking is. Want to warn people about the risks of drunk driving or not wearing a seatbelt? Interview the victims of these incidents. If someone has experienced it and they’re still alive, have them come on to talk about their life post event. If they’ve died, get a close friend or family member to pour their heart out. I think I remember one PSA that interviewed the mother of someone who died while going way too fast on a motorcycle. At the end of the ad they showed the gopro footage of the motorcyclist’s last moments and accident. You didn’t see any gore but it was still very upsetting to see. I think about that video a lot. You can use any kind of PSA worthy incident to warn people this way. The more realistic and raw it is, the more people are going to remember it for longer. Yes, some cases work well with depictions of cartoons (dumb ways to die for example) and those are usually more effective for kids. Other than that I genuinely believe that the more real these psa are, the better chance the public remember
To be fair, some people aren’t able to sympathize as easily with something they’re told about and need to see it in order to really get it through their head how horrible it is. Of course with a lot of these issues they can’t directly show the thing happening so it has to be shown through work arounds.
I mean, I think the child abuse ones in tier four are perfect executions of what needs to be done for that one. Sometimes you need to strap people down and forcibly hold their eyes open as you make them stare into the void.
An example of the drink driving one’s has to be one of my favorites and I talk about it a lot. If you haven’t guessed it is the jaquoline one. Before she shows her face she tells you how it impacted her. If you are observant for this psa before she shows her face you can see her hands and that is one of the visuals for this psa. Than she shows her face and it is a visual people will most likely pound into their brain. This psa has made me not want to drink and drive as seeing her face made me scared I could do that if I drink. That’s why I think the Jaquoline psa is really affective!
the PSA about keeping lights on to stop people from breaking in is why my mother has things in place to turn lights on at night whenever she stays out the house for long periods of time
My grandparents do this whenever they go out, leaving the living room light on as well as having their Alexa play the radio. I don’t know if they ever saw the psa, I’m more willing to bet they learned it from their own families considering their age, but it’s a good lesson to teach for people who don’t have good home security.
Baby Monitor was the first PSA to make me cry. Dude, even if it’s not real, the situation itself happens with many children across the Globe, It hurts, the kids voice ☹️
The “Tip from a former smoker” ads absolutely traumatized me. I remember the first one I ever saw was a Terry one. I was way younger and it played in the middle of the night. I was petrified. Ever since then, whenever I see the title card pop up I look turn it off. Hell, I didn’t even look at the screen during its segment on here, I just looked down.
6:38 that actually happened sadly. The woman called for "pizza" after her mom (I think it was) started getting assaulted by her husband or boyfriend. It took a minute for the operator to realize that this wasn't about pizza and started asking her coded questions like "do want some pepperoni (cops) on that pizza" and he knew what to do based on her answers. It's pretty surprising how she managed to stay as calm as she did.
My favorite PSAs was “Lolli” and the Amber Alert one. Lolli was about children pornography; it was a room filled with lollipops (which represented the number of victims) and there’s sentences that appear on the screen, starting with innocent statements like “I like my Lolli” and “my Lolli is yummy”, but the last sentence said “my Lolli grew up. Need another.”, which was a real dark web comment. The Amber Alert one was funny and relieving. Basically a woman was talking to a girl about ice cream until she sees a man watching her so she runs off with the girl, and more men surround her as she runs, making it seem like the men want to get the girl. She eventually gets corners/surrounded by a bunch of people and a police officer arrests her, when it’s revealed that she’s the kidnapper, and not the men. My top favorite, honestly.
The Disaster Action PSA references certain disasters that occurred in the UK prior to 1991, like the aforementioned 1988 Lockerbie disaster, in which Libyan terrorists had planted a bomb on Pan Am flight 103, killing everyone on board. Also, great video (as always).
The fucking _uncomfortably long empty silence_ in the Youth Ambassadors entry legit chilled me to my core, I know you wouldn't put in a jumpscare but my whole body got ready for one anyways.
I wanna say first off absolutely immaculate choice in music, certified bangers every time. Secondly there is a PSA that got an entire animated series (technically, I guess). It's called Stay Alert Stay Safe and aired in Canada from the late 80s to late 90s that was basically an entire cartoon series teaching kids about street proofing (i.e. stranger danger, safe crossing, etc). It had an actual VHS release that was given away free to parents at Canadian Tire stores for a time and aired for a decade during the early-morning cartoon blocks generally when kids would be getting ready for school. Episodes were about 5 minutes long and it's not like it got merch or anything but they definitely gave it more television space than most PSA.
The reason there are a lot of PSAs related to kid's cartoons in the 80s and 90s is because there were regulations at the time that Saturday morning cartoons had to have a certain amount of educational content. Though that really doesn't explain He-Man's, since that cartoon was syndicated, not aired on networks.
There's a PSA that wasn't covered here that I think disturbs me more than most. It's called Penguins or Ghost Birds and it's a PSA I think opposing big oil companies after major oil spills kill 100s of birds. Its rarely ever talked about on all the lists I've seen but I feel like it also deserves a mention. It stunned me the first time I saw it.
This is my favourite PSA ever. The reveal of the bird, the zoom out, no surprises as the backing and the “deep sea oil mining could be 10000x worse.” It doesn’t fuck around and it’s beautifully done. It's by Greenpeace and it is called Ghost Birds.
6:32 so you're telling me the NFL funded that PSA yet won't do anything to any player who pulls that exact same thing on their wife that's crazy and ridiculous. Like I'm happy they are trying to inform people what to do and support victims but come on let's support the message more and fire players who are hurting victims. And I know not all players do that but some do and nothing happens sadly from what I know
I think another really hard one to watch is the Australia's "20 years of TAC commercials, everybody hurts" psa. I was in a healthcare trauma course and the police major crash squad came to speak to us and showed us this and by the end pretty much everyone was crying.
im so glad that someone else agrees that monsters isnt as scary as everyone makes it out to be. the only really scary thing is the monsters that the parents turn into, but honestly they arent that scary. maybe its just because ive been in situations like those in the psa but its never made me freaked out
I had a PSA phase when I was about 14 and I happened to find this channel today. Is it weird to say that find PSAs like "Tentacle" and "Torture by another name" to be nostalgic since I'd watch them 4 years ago? I really learned a lot through PSAs. Well, the good ones, at least.
36:13 Another fun fact: Donald Pleasence is also known for playing the character of Clarence "Doc" Tydon in the 1971 Australian-American-British film Wake in Fright, was originally banned due to its controversial content surrounding kangaroo killings and its negative portrayal of the locals and the outback lifestyle and was considered lost media until the mid-late 90s and 2000s when it was restored in 2009 for the Sydney Film Festival.
man, so many of these PSAs put me on edge and scare me, but I keep coming back to them. it's not even like horror movie fun scared either idk why I do this to myself-
My favorite series of PSAs of ALL TIME is the Russian train safety ad series "Can't Buy a Brain". The animation is really good, it's been compared to Ed, Edd n Eddy. I believe there's four of them.
A couple PSAs not featured that I found to be disturbing: The one where the lady is carrying a pot of boiling water in a kitchen at work, slips on water, and scalds her face off. The company made more super disturbing ads, but this one shocked and scared me the most. The ads running in Michigan about getting the COVID vaccine. They featured doctors telling stories about having to put people on life support, how hard it is to tell the family they might not make it. These ones struck me because I'm a nurse. A family in mourning because their loved one is dying is hard to see, but it's a lot more devastating when they couldn't see and support their loved ones. So those PSAs disturbed me because they hit home.
One PSA I saw years ago that stuck with me (I think it was part of a series?) was about keeping guns away from children. It had a series of crayon drawings and a child narrating about accidentally shooting his brother with an unlocked gun that was kept around the house. Does anyone else know this one?
Amazing work as usual. Not sure what it says about me that I STILL knew most of these... Regardless, glad to see some favorites getting some love here :)
I love the Vince and Larry PSAs because of Lorenzo Music being in it. One of my favorite voice actors ever. He was Garfield in ofc Garfield but also the original voice actor for Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters (1986 cartoon)
1:23:36 I found Photograph scary, not because the PSA was the best way to portray that concept (I think Faces by PFDFA or whatever that one is called did it better) but because the high contrast burnt the images of the guy's face into my mind, so I'd get after images every time I shut my eyes lol I find the scariest PSAs aren't always the best PSAs (though Nightvision TERRIFIED me when I was 12 or so and I find that one to be fairly effective)
One of RSA's more memorable PSAs has to be the Safe Cross Code. Safe Cross Code has three videos from what i looked up, theres two videos that focus on Annie, and on Jack, but the last video is their most memorable video, the safe cross code dance. The videos on Jack and Annie are of the two different situations where they want to go across the road to meet up with their friends, but don't look left and right to make sure the roads are safe to cross and gts trapped behind glass before they step on the roads. The safe cross code dance is an informative song on the 6 steps a child would need to know on crossing the roads. (I actually am glad to comment all of this, it's just me using this video as an excuse to chatter on about RSA)
2:04:52 reminds me of feu PSAs that eared in are country (and possibly in some other Slovenian countries (I don’t know if it was shown in other areas)) I remember there being at least two, where parents texted with there hid as they where on the way to pick them up from football/dance practice while the parents where shown in a black void as they moved specifically to eider make it look like they danced or kicked a football whilst glass flew around them, both ads ending with the child waiting.
I think one that fucked me up was a Fire safety PSA about this forgetful Dad and how it played out like Homer Simpson or Fred Flinstone with it playing kinda like a sitcom and shows the relationship he has with his wife and daughter until the end where he sobs out in a really realistic way and the camera pans out and shows the house is burned down and implies the Mother and Daughter were killed by the fire that was a result of the father forgetting to check the smoke alarms. Another one was this French Family Sexual abuse prevention ad taking place during Christmas. After watching a lot of PSAs you get this mentality that the world is a horrible place with tons of evil running around and it kinda gets you down, so recommend probably watching some wholesome videos. I don’t know if that happens to anyone else but it always does to me. Good video though, loved the Saint Pepsi in the background. Helped me through some of the more disturbing ones.
Thank you and I'm glad that my music choice helped when talking about such serious topics. But yeah PSAs definitely used to disturb me quite a lot but I'm at the point now where I have seen them that many times that most PSAs don't phase me aha
7:08 I’ve heard that since the shows at the time were considered “too extreme” for children and made it so that cartoons had to legally have an educational message or moral to teach children.
Just about recently, I saw a PSA about a pig and how some can be treated in the pork industry, very unfortunately so. But then the pig started talking, which caught me off guard, and she sounded like a young kid. She talked about how it was hard to stand, as it really hurt to do so, as well as a few other things. After she says her babies were being taken away, some caption comes up saying that, according to studies at the time of that airing, pigs had the mental intelligence equal to a 3 year old child. And something else that involved the pork industry being better regulated for the safety of both us and the pigs.
I remember as a kid seeing two PSA's warning about infected misquote bites and how infected one's can carry dangerous illnesses. One was a young Athlete who almost died and the other one showed a pic of a little girl who died cause of it.
We had a semi PSA (it was an advertisement for an anti smoking product called Nicorette) here in England that was rather sinister. It showed people wearing giant cigarette outfits chasing down smokers kinda like how the zombies in 28 Weeks Later react. Then the smoker would always slap on a Nicorette patch and violently assault the cigarette people. lol
The brazilian partnership against drugs had a version of the Pee Wee/Clint Eastwood ads but it was actually scary, because it employed some weird images alongside it (it featured a kids tv presenter, two actors and two journalists). I think the scariest of the bunch was "my name is cocaine/crack" ones though, those ads featured a lady talking about the glamurous side of the drug and then turning more deranged as she also lists the side effects(the cocaine one is the better one).
@50:00 according to comments on the (obviously age-restricted my GOD) TH-cam upload of Real Tracks, Real Life, Real Trains, the last person survived getting pulled underneath the train, but lost both of their legs; they gave consent to the footage being used. It wasn't as bad as some of the other PSAs I've seen but my god I can see why they got age restricted
8:08 A fun fact about this series of PSAs is that one of them was sampled in the song "Charly" by The Prodigy: "Charly says, 'Always tell your mummy before you go off somewhere.'"
Meanwhile in America the ASPCA: **shows flashes of dogs in the cold on leashes, starving skinny dogs, and sad puppies** ONLY YOU COULD SAVE A DOGS LIFE FOR JUST PENNIES A DAY
I always wonder why they choose the sad clips instead of showing where the money is supposedly going when you donate like instead of showing skinny cold dogs they could show a dog receiving medical care after years of abuse or a cat being well fed and warm by caring staff or foster owners.
Not sure if this PSA was mentioned, but Rewind the Future is a disturbing one. It shows an obese man's unhealthy choices as a child leading to him suffering a heart attack at the age of 32. The PSA was aimed at parents to have them stop feeding their kids junk food. And I got another one that I didn't see on the Iceberg-Buy a Puppy Safely. It's from a point of view of a male Dachshund puppy, who came from a puppy farm, and he says that he would die in a week because of his sickness. This PSA is a warning about buying a puppy from a shady ad and if the seller doesn't have the mom present (Or a fake mom is present instead) or the paperwork about the puppy, the would be buyer has to walk away, as the puppy would likely come from a puppy farm.
I think the psa that screwed me up was this one where these adults were in animal costumes (it looked like a kids show) and the guy in the bear costume started 🍇 the girl in the cat costume. Edit: Im only on tier 2 so it might be in there
If you ever make a new version of this, here's one: In Germany, there's a series of PSAs that just about everyone in my age group has seen. They were made by the Federal Association for Literacy and Basic Education (Bundesverband Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung), and they're directed at illiterate adults. They all depict some situation that arises from one of the people in the ad being unable to read, like, say, some sort of accident at work resulting from ignoring a warning sign (the contents of which the worker couldn't read), or a child asking their grandmother to read a story to them, just to realize that their grandmother can't read. The most famous one is probably this one: th-cam.com/video/ZLXs3elJFOU/w-d-xo.html That particular one shows a collapsed shelf with a sign reading out "Beladen Verboten!" (Translating to "Loading Prohibited!") and on the ground, we can see what appears to be smudges of paint from containers that fell off of the shelf that collapsed because the sign was ignored. We then see a dazzled worker, who is the one who loaded the shelf and caused it to collapse in the first place. Then enters his supervisor, who is understandably very angry at him for what just happened. He starts shouting at him about how there's a sign literally telling him not to load that part of the shelf, and asking him if he needs to make the sign even bigger, of if he just can't read. Another employee then comes in and says "Sir, this man can't read." The supervisor is shocked at himself for never noticing this all those years, and a text appears reading "Over 4 million people in Germany cannot read and write properly" as, for obvious reasons, the narrator is also reading out, followed by the words: "We can help." as a phone number is shown on screen, and the narrator continues with the line "Don't write yourself off. Learn to read and write." These are pretty famous here in Germany, and i think they'd fit your iceberg pretty well, seeing how most of the PSAs on it are from the anglosphere.
What if There was a psa that started off as Sesame Street and a teacher that would sing a song and then it would go off the rails and it will get popular, also it will get a tv show Oh wait, dhmis exists
Honestly, the Vince and Larry dummies would make for a weird Adult Swim-style show! I mean the merch alone would be a hit. (pun intended, maybe...?) But I know I'm not the only one who immediately thought about Ukraine after that Save the Children Syria one in the first tier.
I know it's been a year but for anyone else who doesn't know, the song being sung in the psa at 22:50 is "All Things Bright and Beautiful" which is a Christian hymn fairly well known (at least I know it's well known in the UK). The hymn is basically about how God created all of the beautiful plants and creatures but in the psa they've changed the final lyric from "the lord God made them all" to "oh god we've killed them all" as the psa is about global warming/ carbon emissions. The melody is also commonly used in other psas, particularly ones from the RSPCA (both uk and Australia).
To be fair for Australia their roads are crazy. 😂 insane intersections I’m from Jersey USA and we have jug handles and round abouts so they’re weird too 😂
1:52:03 I'll add a little bit here. This PSA was created in 2004 and the image shown is one of their print ads. One of four, might I add. They've also done more radio ads (and tv ads, too!) but they are not of the fear level of "Laughter" (the name of the PSA that Zach was talking about).
Truth is still doing ads, but they're focused entirely on vaping and getting teenagers to not vape. They're not scary in the least, and some of these ads are hilarious because of these unrealistic scenarios. Now granted I personally am probably addicted to vaping, wouldn't advise getting hooked on nicotine in any form. But the ads are seemly almost exclusive to telling teenage athletes to not vape, so I fail to see how it would meet the goal of stopping teenagers in general from vaping. "When I drag myself down, I drag the whole team down."
Yeah honestly. TH-cam has just made it harder and harder to stay monetized or even not get age restricted over the years and it really does suck but I try to get away with what I can
@@Zach.R friend i cant afford to pay anything but i love your content ant i will always support creepy stuff on youtube. never stop what you are doing because there will always be people who support what you do.
@@alistertowelie I appreciate that so much! Even just having people watch my content is amazing and hey the more people watching and supporting the content the higher the chance of me going full time with this is :) No one has to pay for my Patreon or TH-cam memberships (as much as it is really appreciated) I just appreciate people watching and enjoying my content so much!
To be fair most animation is outsourced. India and South Korea are the ones producing most of the animation in the world. The those standards rakin bass Christmas specials is technically anime but most anime is actually korean.
I don't ever really remember seeing PSA's growing up, but I remember some details from this video I saw when I was younger. I was about 5 or 6 so my memory of it is faint. It seems like it was a group of teenagers and I think they were drinking or something like that and it said something about some students don't make it to graduation. It would be at the end of some movies/dvds I would watch as a kid. I might be misrembering it but it would have been around 2014 or 2015. Does anyone else remember this?
Glad to see you back in full force brother 🫡 can’t wait to see more content from you! (Wish the Lou al bano and Bryan Cranston psa’s were on here but still an amazing video ✌️)
just so you know, one italian psa is actually pretty infamous in the psa community (basically is always in the top 3 most trending psas in the pif wiki
Really hoping someone finds and covers the one PSA that scarred me and others my age. It's a UK one, probably shown like... 2007 maybe? It was about drunk driving or something and this guy just seeing this dead kid everywhere. The two scenes that haunt me are where this kid is under his computer desk and then in the corner of his bedroom when he's trying to sleep. When me and others get on the topics of PSA's, I always bring this one up and the amount of times they thank me for bringing that one up and scarring them all over again kinda shows how much these things last with people. Albeit, being 6 and watching that will have some effect :')
I've talked about that one a few times before, it's called live with it and it's from think!. It's actually a rip off of an Australian PSA called 'Haunted' from TAC
@@Zach.R Oh cool!! I didnt know that! :) Thank you as well, I always wondered if I just made it up sometimes haha! Awesome video btw, nice to find more PSAs I havent seen covered :)
Is this just me or-do any pet/dog related PSA or shows with like a message that makes me just cry-its mostly just me and my mom tho but your videos are great u should do a collab with @tuv
The psa that always stuck with me i don't even remember what it was about but there was a little girl with a teddy bear and red paint then you see the bear fall covered in the red paint
I really like the Danny Elfman PSA when he says” it’s better to surprise your parents with a taxi bill than a funeral bill”
He was a clever man
@@terencecobain he is a very very clever man! I was the one who recomended that PSA
@@masterakinskywalker were you also a part of the secret club? I still have the hat and the shirt!
@@cszx2189 i am sadly fairly young (17) but i wish i could have been!
Wonder if that inspired a poster PSA I saw.
How are you getting home tonight? is the caption.
There is a taxi, a police car, an ambulance and a hearse, all parked outside a cemetery. Very sobering.
'tentacle' has always hit hard for me.. specifically the scene where the girl is on a date with someone and theyre touching her leg, and the tentacle shows up, and the scene where she is much older and at a family gathering or dinner and the tentacle shows up and her smile drops. i always saw it as the memories of what happened coming back in different scenarios.
another one i saw was a black screen while a man is screaming at his son, being abusive. on the screen it says "you neighbours will hear you. but don't worry, they won't say anything. because people don't know what to say." which is.. hard to watch..
I’m a firm believer that the best way to make a PSA is to just be as blunt and straight forward as possible. You don’t need to make it artificially upsetting. Get someone who has been effected by the issue at hand and have them talk about how it’s impacted them. Reality is way more disturbing than fiction
A few examples because I’ve been thinking about this since I posted this comment:
Want to warn the public over the use of hard drugs, alcohol or smoking? Interview someone who’s experienced them. Users who use consistently always show signs of their bodies breaking down. Heck, even for anti smoking adverts I genuinely believe the psas that interview someone who’s lost part of their body to cancers are the best people to have explain just how harmful smoking is.
Want to warn people about the risks of drunk driving or not wearing a seatbelt? Interview the victims of these incidents. If someone has experienced it and they’re still alive, have them come on to talk about their life post event. If they’ve died, get a close friend or family member to pour their heart out. I think I remember one PSA that interviewed the mother of someone who died while going way too fast on a motorcycle. At the end of the ad they showed the gopro footage of the motorcyclist’s last moments and accident. You didn’t see any gore but it was still very upsetting to see. I think about that video a lot.
You can use any kind of PSA worthy incident to warn people this way. The more realistic and raw it is, the more people are going to remember it for longer. Yes, some cases work well with depictions of cartoons (dumb ways to die for example) and those are usually more effective for kids. Other than that I genuinely believe that the more real these psa are, the better chance the public remember
To be fair, some people aren’t able to sympathize as easily with something they’re told about and need to see it in order to really get it through their head how horrible it is. Of course with a lot of these issues they can’t directly show the thing happening so it has to be shown through work arounds.
I mean, I think the child abuse ones in tier four are perfect executions of what needs to be done for that one. Sometimes you need to strap people down and forcibly hold their eyes open as you make them stare into the void.
like the Terry PSAs
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An example of the drink driving one’s has to be one of my favorites and I talk about it a lot. If you haven’t guessed it is the jaquoline one. Before she shows her face she tells you how it impacted her. If you are observant for this psa before she shows her face you can see her hands and that is one of the visuals for this psa. Than she shows her face and it is a visual people will most likely pound into their brain. This psa has made me not want to drink and drive as seeing her face made me scared I could do that if I drink. That’s why I think the Jaquoline psa is really affective!
the PSA about keeping lights on to stop people from breaking in is why my mother has things in place to turn lights on at night whenever she stays out the house for long periods of time
My grandparents do this whenever they go out, leaving the living room light on as well as having their Alexa play the radio. I don’t know if they ever saw the psa, I’m more willing to bet they learned it from their own families considering their age, but it’s a good lesson to teach for people who don’t have good home security.
"Its not that disturbing, I know theres dead children but its not that disturbing" lmao
Out of context that quote is wild haha
fnaf tldr
Shame on you genuinely feels like a family guy cutaway gag. “Geez, Lois. This is worse than the time I was speeding”
This is a great analogy for the PSA haha
1:21:26 i find it fascinating how a psa company understood the message of the wall *far* better than nostalgia critic
And it was back in the early 90's as well
Baby Monitor was the first PSA to make me cry. Dude, even if it’s not real, the situation itself happens with many children across the Globe, It hurts, the kids voice ☹️
I don't cry at psas but that one really upset me.
The “Tip from a former smoker” ads absolutely traumatized me. I remember the first one I ever saw was a Terry one. I was way younger and it played in the middle of the night. I was petrified. Ever since then, whenever I see the title card pop up I look turn it off. Hell, I didn’t even look at the screen during its segment on here, I just looked down.
Oh god so they really traumatized you a lot then? But I hope you watched the video the whole way through and subbed ;)
I'm still scared to even watch a PSA countdown involving that particular PSA but I think I watched the Debi PSA just fine
same not long ago I saw it when I was changing the channel and i screamed and I ended up of getting nightmares but it stopped me from smoking
@@AliciaInNevada Fr tho 😭
6:38 that actually happened sadly. The woman called for "pizza" after her mom (I think it was) started getting assaulted by her husband or boyfriend. It took a minute for the operator to realize that this wasn't about pizza and started asking her coded questions like "do want some pepperoni (cops) on that pizza" and he knew what to do based on her answers. It's pretty surprising how she managed to stay as calm as she did.
I appreciate you blurring and cutting out the gory parts, all the others PSA icebergs show EVERYTHING
My favorite PSAs was “Lolli” and the Amber Alert one. Lolli was about children pornography; it was a room filled with lollipops (which represented the number of victims) and there’s sentences that appear on the screen, starting with innocent statements like “I like my Lolli” and “my Lolli is yummy”, but the last sentence said “my Lolli grew up. Need another.”, which was a real dark web comment.
The Amber Alert one was funny and relieving. Basically a woman was talking to a girl about ice cream until she sees a man watching her so she runs off with the girl, and more men surround her as she runs, making it seem like the men want to get the girl. She eventually gets corners/surrounded by a bunch of people and a police officer arrests her, when it’s revealed that she’s the kidnapper, and not the men. My top favorite, honestly.
The Disaster Action PSA references certain disasters that occurred in the UK prior to 1991, like the aforementioned 1988 Lockerbie disaster, in which Libyan terrorists had planted a bomb on Pan Am flight 103, killing everyone on board.
Also, great video (as always).
The fucking _uncomfortably long empty silence_ in the Youth Ambassadors entry legit chilled me to my core, I know you wouldn't put in a jumpscare but my whole body got ready for one anyways.
I wanna say first off absolutely immaculate choice in music, certified bangers every time.
Secondly there is a PSA that got an entire animated series (technically, I guess). It's called Stay Alert Stay Safe and aired in Canada from the late 80s to late 90s that was basically an entire cartoon series teaching kids about street proofing (i.e. stranger danger, safe crossing, etc). It had an actual VHS release that was given away free to parents at Canadian Tire stores for a time and aired for a decade during the early-morning cartoon blocks generally when kids would be getting ready for school. Episodes were about 5 minutes long and it's not like it got merch or anything but they definitely gave it more television space than most PSA.
Thank you and yeah I have talked about the stay alert star safe PSAs before. Idk why I didn't put them on here
The reason there are a lot of PSAs related to kid's cartoons in the 80s and 90s is because there were regulations at the time that Saturday morning cartoons had to have a certain amount of educational content.
Though that really doesn't explain He-Man's, since that cartoon was syndicated, not aired on networks.
There's a PSA that wasn't covered here that I think disturbs me more than most. It's called Penguins or Ghost Birds and it's a PSA I think opposing big oil companies after major oil spills kill 100s of birds. Its rarely ever talked about on all the lists I've seen but I feel like it also deserves a mention. It stunned me the first time I saw it.
if the soundtrack is No Suprises by Radiohead (which it probably is) then i know what you are talking about (its by Greenpeace)
This is my favourite PSA ever. The reveal of the bird, the zoom out, no surprises as the backing and the “deep sea oil mining could be 10000x worse.” It doesn’t fuck around and it’s beautifully done. It's by Greenpeace and it is called Ghost Birds.
I’ve seen that one
6:32 so you're telling me the NFL funded that PSA yet won't do anything to any player who pulls that exact same thing on their wife that's crazy and ridiculous. Like I'm happy they are trying to inform people what to do and support victims but come on let's support the message more and fire players who are hurting victims. And I know not all players do that but some do and nothing happens sadly from what I know
This is EXACTLY what I thought when I heard the NFL funded this one. The numbers of players who have abused women with no consequences is staggering.
I think another really hard one to watch is the Australia's "20 years of TAC commercials, everybody hurts" psa. I was in a healthcare trauma course and the police major crash squad came to speak to us and showed us this and by the end pretty much everyone was crying.
im so glad that someone else agrees that monsters isnt as scary as everyone makes it out to be. the only really scary thing is the monsters that the parents turn into, but honestly they arent that scary. maybe its just because ive been in situations like those in the psa but its never made me freaked out
I had a PSA phase when I was about 14 and I happened to find this channel today. Is it weird to say that find PSAs like "Tentacle" and "Torture by another name" to be nostalgic since I'd watch them 4 years ago? I really learned a lot through PSAs. Well, the good ones, at least.
The Hannah Barbara animation feels very Junji Ito especially with the skeletons
36:13 Another fun fact: Donald Pleasence is also known for playing the character of Clarence "Doc" Tydon in the 1971 Australian-American-British film Wake in Fright, was originally banned due to its controversial content surrounding kangaroo killings and its negative portrayal of the locals and the outback lifestyle and was considered lost media until the mid-late 90s and 2000s when it was restored in 2009 for the Sydney Film Festival.
Definitely your best iceberg yet, a lot of ones I haven’t seen before.
Thank you!!
man, so many of these PSAs put me on edge and scare me, but I keep coming back to them. it's not even like horror movie fun scared either idk why I do this to myself-
SAMEEEE
I KNEW DANNY ELFMAN WAS FROM OINGO BOINGO, I SWEAR I SAW HIM AND I WAS LIKE “OINGO BOING9?!” WINSA
My favorite series of PSAs of ALL TIME is the Russian train safety ad series "Can't Buy a Brain". The animation is really good, it's been compared to Ed, Edd n Eddy. I believe there's four of them.
My fav one is the snake
A couple PSAs not featured that I found to be disturbing:
The one where the lady is carrying a pot of boiling water in a kitchen at work, slips on water, and scalds her face off. The company made more super disturbing ads, but this one shocked and scared me the most.
The ads running in Michigan about getting the COVID vaccine. They featured doctors telling stories about having to put people on life support, how hard it is to tell the family they might not make it. These ones struck me because I'm a nurse. A family in mourning because their loved one is dying is hard to see, but it's a lot more devastating when they couldn't see and support their loved ones. So those PSAs disturbed me because they hit home.
the first one you described is top chef, which was in tier 1
One PSA I saw years ago that stuck with me (I think it was part of a series?) was about keeping guns away from children. It had a series of crayon drawings and a child narrating about accidentally shooting his brother with an unlocked gun that was kept around the house. Does anyone else know this one?
I think I actually know what you're talking about. I have seen one of them I think
Yes that one’s called Omar I believe, it’s about his brother Omar
@@blueberrysodaart Looked it up and that's the one alright! Thank you!
I know this one!! It isnt gorey or anything but just scary drawings and a sad child
I've seen that one!
My favorite PSA will always be the Sonic Says "That's No Good" one.
Happy to see you back! Haven't watched yet, but I'm gonna get comfy and get some snacks and enjoy this absolute movie of an iceberg
Thank you and yeah it's a big one! Took at least 10x the length of the video to make haha
I love your uploads! PSAs have become a special interest of mine 🎉
Thank you!!
Amazing work as usual. Not sure what it says about me that I STILL knew most of these... Regardless, glad to see some favorites getting some love here :)
Thank you heaps!
It's so nice to see you uploading again! Love your videos!
Thank you!
I love the Vince and Larry PSAs because of Lorenzo Music being in it. One of my favorite voice actors ever. He was Garfield in ofc Garfield but also the original voice actor for Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters (1986 cartoon)
Yeah Lorenzo is a great voice actor. The Real Ghostbusters slaps hard
1:23:36 I found Photograph scary, not because the PSA was the best way to portray that concept (I think Faces by PFDFA or whatever that one is called did it better) but because the high contrast burnt the images of the guy's face into my mind, so I'd get after images every time I shut my eyes lol
I find the scariest PSAs aren't always the best PSAs (though Nightvision TERRIFIED me when I was 12 or so and I find that one to be fairly effective)
One of RSA's more memorable PSAs has to be the Safe Cross Code. Safe Cross Code has three videos from what i looked up, theres two videos that focus on Annie, and on Jack, but the last video is their most memorable video, the safe cross code dance. The videos on Jack and Annie are of the two different situations where they want to go across the road to meet up with their friends, but don't look left and right to make sure the roads are safe to cross and gts trapped behind glass before they step on the roads. The safe cross code dance is an informative song on the 6 steps a child would need to know on crossing the roads. (I actually am glad to comment all of this, it's just me using this video as an excuse to chatter on about RSA)
2:04:52 reminds me of feu PSAs that eared in are country (and possibly in some other Slovenian countries (I don’t know if it was shown in other areas)) I remember there being at least two, where parents texted with there hid as they where on the way to pick them up from football/dance practice while the parents where shown in a black void as they moved specifically to eider make it look like they danced or kicked a football whilst glass flew around them, both ads ending with the child waiting.
I think one that fucked me up was a Fire safety PSA about this forgetful Dad and how it played out like Homer Simpson or Fred Flinstone with it playing kinda like a sitcom and shows the relationship he has with his wife and daughter until the end where he sobs out in a really realistic way and the camera pans out and shows the house is burned down and implies the Mother and Daughter were killed by the fire that was a result of the father forgetting to check the smoke alarms. Another one was this French Family Sexual abuse prevention ad taking place during Christmas. After watching a lot of PSAs you get this mentality that the world is a horrible place with tons of evil running around and it kinda gets you down, so recommend probably watching some wholesome videos. I don’t know if that happens to anyone else but it always does to me. Good video though, loved the Saint Pepsi in the background. Helped me through some of the more disturbing ones.
Thank you and I'm glad that my music choice helped when talking about such serious topics. But yeah PSAs definitely used to disturb me quite a lot but I'm at the point now where I have seen them that many times that most PSAs don't phase me aha
I missed you man!!! So glad you’re still making videos!!!!!!!!
Sorry but s-sound + bleep is always gonna be 'shit' in my head which makes some entries pretty funny.
Love the video!! So cool to see all of these!
7:08 I’ve heard that since the shows at the time were considered “too extreme” for children and made it so that cartoons had to legally have an educational message or moral to teach children.
Good thing I found this iceberg. *Nice content btw*
Thank you heaps!
I wonder if we're going to get any PSAs of Ember, the fox who's taking over now that they've retired Smokey Bear
I'm deeply in love with SIRE's sign language. It's damn well made with the ringing noise and the missing letters.
have been falling asleep to this + your other iceberg videos/psa content for the past week, keep up the good work brother
Just about recently, I saw a PSA about a pig and how some can be treated in the pork industry, very unfortunately so. But then the pig started talking, which caught me off guard, and she sounded like a young kid. She talked about how it was hard to stand, as it really hurt to do so, as well as a few other things. After she says her babies were being taken away, some caption comes up saying that, according to studies at the time of that airing, pigs had the mental intelligence equal to a 3 year old child. And something else that involved the pork industry being better regulated for the safety of both us and the pigs.
I remember as a kid seeing two PSA's warning about infected misquote bites and how infected one's can carry dangerous illnesses. One was a young Athlete who almost died and the other one showed a pic of a little girl who died cause of it.
We had a semi PSA (it was an advertisement for an anti smoking product called Nicorette) here in England that was rather sinister. It showed people wearing giant cigarette outfits chasing down smokers kinda like how the zombies in 28 Weeks Later react. Then the smoker would always slap on a Nicorette patch and violently assault the cigarette people. lol
Is TH-cam that sensitive that the word ‘abuse’ has to be censored? Fucking yikes.
Yeah unfortunately I have to be that safe with videos like this since I say abuse in the video quite a lot
they're gonna ban people from saying rapeseed because it has rape in it.
The brazilian partnership against drugs had a version of the Pee Wee/Clint Eastwood ads but it was actually scary, because it employed some weird images alongside it (it featured a kids tv presenter, two actors and two journalists). I think the scariest of the bunch was "my name is cocaine/crack" ones though, those ads featured a lady talking about the glamurous side of the drug and then turning more deranged as she also lists the side effects(the cocaine one is the better one).
Damn, here I am once again watching another 🔥 tier iceberg. Awesome stuff
Thanks heaps! I appreciate it a lot!
@50:00 according to comments on the (obviously age-restricted my GOD) TH-cam upload of Real Tracks, Real Life, Real Trains, the last person survived getting pulled underneath the train, but lost both of their legs; they gave consent to the footage being used. It wasn't as bad as some of the other PSAs I've seen but my god I can see why they got age restricted
Very glad that they managed to live but that's really bad that they lost their legs
Eyyyy what a nice Halloween surprise! Good to see you pop up again and good video :)
Thank you and yeah got it out just before Halloween is over aha
8:08
A fun fact about this series of PSAs is that one of them was sampled in the song "Charly" by The Prodigy: "Charly says, 'Always tell your mummy before you go off somewhere.'"
1:47:08 I remember Uncle Mark, this inspired me to be more safe when playing with my younger brother
Meanwhile in America the ASPCA: **shows flashes of dogs in the cold on leashes, starving skinny dogs, and sad puppies** ONLY YOU COULD SAVE A DOGS LIFE FOR JUST PENNIES A DAY
and yet they make us sad every time
In the aaaaarms oooof the aaaangelsss….
I always wonder why they choose the sad clips instead of showing where the money is supposedly going when you donate like instead of showing skinny cold dogs they could show a dog receiving medical care after years of abuse or a cat being well fed and warm by caring staff or foster owners.
according to a news report they spend all the money on ads rather than helping animals
Not sure if this PSA was mentioned, but Rewind the Future is a disturbing one. It shows an obese man's unhealthy choices as a child leading to him suffering a heart attack at the age of 32. The PSA was aimed at parents to have them stop feeding their kids junk food.
And I got another one that I didn't see on the Iceberg-Buy a Puppy Safely. It's from a point of view of a male Dachshund puppy, who came from a puppy farm, and he says that he would die in a week because of his sickness. This PSA is a warning about buying a puppy from a shady ad and if the seller doesn't have the mom present (Or a fake mom is present instead) or the paperwork about the puppy, the would be buyer has to walk away, as the puppy would likely come from a puppy farm.
I think the psa that screwed me up was this one where these adults were in animal costumes (it looked like a kids show) and the guy in the bear costume started 🍇 the girl in the cat costume.
Edit: Im only on tier 2 so it might be in there
Good old biggie bear... Yay...
Omg this is my main! I apologize lol, I didn't know that is was further in the video as I only just started it :)
‘Jaqueline’ made me so sad when I saw it. I feel so bad for her.
12:31 ah hell nah,
Who invited Adam and Eve?
The kid... I guess haha
Alot of these are well made and gets the message through to the viewer even the hard to watch ones
1:38:57 Activision Blizzard with their employees in a nutshell
If you ever make a new version of this, here's one:
In Germany, there's a series of PSAs that just about everyone in my age group has seen. They were made by the Federal Association for Literacy and Basic Education (Bundesverband Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung), and they're directed at illiterate adults. They all depict some situation that arises from one of the people in the ad being unable to read, like, say, some sort of accident at work resulting from ignoring a warning sign (the contents of which the worker couldn't read), or a child asking their grandmother to read a story to them, just to realize that their grandmother can't read. The most famous one is probably this one: th-cam.com/video/ZLXs3elJFOU/w-d-xo.html
That particular one shows a collapsed shelf with a sign reading out "Beladen Verboten!" (Translating to "Loading Prohibited!") and on the ground, we can see what appears to be smudges of paint from containers that fell off of the shelf that collapsed because the sign was ignored. We then see a dazzled worker, who is the one who loaded the shelf and caused it to collapse in the first place.
Then enters his supervisor, who is understandably very angry at him for what just happened. He starts shouting at him about how there's a sign literally telling him not to load that part of the shelf, and asking him if he needs to make the sign even bigger, of if he just can't read. Another employee then comes in and says "Sir, this man can't read."
The supervisor is shocked at himself for never noticing this all those years, and a text appears reading "Over 4 million people in Germany cannot read and write properly" as, for obvious reasons, the narrator is also reading out, followed by the words: "We can help." as a phone number is shown on screen, and the narrator continues with the line "Don't write yourself off. Learn to read and write."
These are pretty famous here in Germany, and i think they'd fit your iceberg pretty well, seeing how most of the PSAs on it are from the anglosphere.
I did not even know Danny Elfman was in Oingo Boingo.
Also Don't Worry Be Happy is by Bobby McFerrin.
Honestly I feel that the Sandy Hook promise ones should have been way down, they are so heavy, poweful and unexpected...
Just wanna say your content is amazing and I absolutely love the Sonic OSTs you use. Keep up the good work!
Thank you lots!
I love the Sonic music throughout. You’re a man of taste.
Thank you! Also of course I gotta let the sonic music play
wake up new iceberg dropped
this iceburg is ballin
1:41:56 I got a feeling you got the background music from a Saint Pepsi album. Respect.
Definitely did 😉
What if
There was a psa that started off as Sesame Street and a teacher that would sing a song and then it would go off the rails and it will get popular, also it will get a tv show
Oh wait, dhmis exists
It isn't a PSA but I might have mentioned that once in my video... *Cough* when I mention St John's Ambulance
DHMIS AHH
OMG I LOVE DHMIS
Honestly, the Vince and Larry dummies would make for a weird Adult Swim-style show! I mean the merch alone would be a hit. (pun intended, maybe...?) But I know I'm not the only one who immediately thought about Ukraine after that Save the Children Syria one in the first tier.
That sounds quite interesting actually if they did have their own show
Yay You're back to this!
My parents leave my yorkie in the car but roll the windows down a bit to make sure he is ok
Train : you might not be here to deal with the consequences of your actions, but your children will be.
Imo this needs to be pushed again.
It really should be pushed again. It's been 15 years
@@Zach.R it's truer now than ever.
Keep up the great work, bro, absolutely love these.
@@mirandas7855 thanks heaps!!
I know it's been a year but for anyone else who doesn't know, the song being sung in the psa at 22:50 is "All Things Bright and Beautiful" which is a Christian hymn fairly well known (at least I know it's well known in the UK). The hymn is basically about how God created all of the beautiful plants and creatures but in the psa they've changed the final lyric from "the lord God made them all" to "oh god we've killed them all" as the psa is about global warming/ carbon emissions. The melody is also commonly used in other psas, particularly ones from the RSPCA (both uk and Australia).
To be fair for Australia their roads are crazy. 😂 insane intersections I’m from Jersey USA and we have jug handles and round abouts so they’re weird too 😂
I actually had no idea Dumb Ways to Die was originally a PSA and not a game. The more I know!
1:52:03
I'll add a little bit here. This PSA was created in 2004 and the image shown is one of their print ads. One of four, might I add.
They've also done more radio ads (and tv ads, too!) but they are not of the fear level of "Laughter" (the name of the PSA that Zach was talking about).
30:47 Don't worry, be happy was made by Bobby McFerrin, not Bob Marley
1:11:07 the scariest ad I remember by MADD was one entitled "White Sheet" which actually terrified 11 year old me for some reason.
No dude that photograph psa is terrifying. I can’t look at it every time I see it I just close my eyes
A lot of people do find it disturbing but I'm just completely unphased by it
It's funny to me
Thanks for the new iceberg video! Never get bored by your content 💞🇵🇷🔥
Thank you heaps!!
@@Zach.R No problem, man 💪🏻🔥🇵🇷
Truth is still doing ads, but they're focused entirely on vaping and getting teenagers to not vape. They're not scary in the least, and some of these ads are hilarious because of these unrealistic scenarios.
Now granted I personally am probably addicted to vaping, wouldn't advise getting hooked on nicotine in any form. But the ads are seemly almost exclusive to telling teenage athletes to not vape, so I fail to see how it would meet the goal of stopping teenagers in general from vaping.
"When I drag myself down, I drag the whole team down."
Yeah I made a full video talking about truth and their history as well as where they are now
I feel like robbers would eventually wise up to the tactic of leaving your light on to make someone think you're at home.
Ahhhh yeassss my favorite tracks from my all time favorite video game.
2:43 is that why Fred McGriff is called “the crime dog” ?
Also excellent video
its crazy some of this has to be blurred out when i watched the exact same jawns back in the day on youtube
Yeah honestly. TH-cam has just made it harder and harder to stay monetized or even not get age restricted over the years and it really does suck but I try to get away with what I can
my man lives half a planet away but still hearts it when i say jawn
@@Zach.R friend i cant afford to pay anything but i love your content ant i will always support creepy stuff on youtube. never stop what you are doing because there will always be people who support what you do.
@@Zach.R never give up
@@alistertowelie I appreciate that so much! Even just having people watch my content is amazing and hey the more people watching and supporting the content the higher the chance of me going full time with this is :)
No one has to pay for my Patreon or TH-cam memberships (as much as it is really appreciated) I just appreciate people watching and enjoying my content so much!
To be fair most animation is outsourced. India and South Korea are the ones producing most of the animation in the world. The those standards rakin bass Christmas specials is technically anime but most anime is actually korean.
Se ti droghi ti spengi translates to 'if you take drugs, you shut off.'
I don't ever really remember seeing PSA's growing up, but I remember some details from this video I saw when I was younger. I was about 5 or 6 so my memory of it is faint. It seems like it was a group of teenagers and I think they were drinking or something like that and it said something about some students don't make it to graduation. It would be at the end of some movies/dvds I would watch as a kid. I might be misrembering it but it would have been around 2014 or 2015. Does anyone else remember this?
Youth Ambassadors in my opinion makes really good PSAs. Short, sweet, and a good use of juxtaposition.
Glad to see you back in full force brother 🫡 can’t wait to see more content from you! (Wish the Lou al bano and Bryan Cranston psa’s were on here but still an amazing video ✌️)
Thank you!
40:35 I'm quite surprised by both the fact that there are Italian PSAs in here and that you actually tried to pronounce it
just so you know, one italian psa is actually pretty infamous in the psa community (basically is always in the top 3 most trending psas in the pif wiki
@@4xSpeedIsFxxst Wow, i didn't know
Really hoping someone finds and covers the one PSA that scarred me and others my age. It's a UK one, probably shown like... 2007 maybe? It was about drunk driving or something and this guy just seeing this dead kid everywhere. The two scenes that haunt me are where this kid is under his computer desk and then in the corner of his bedroom when he's trying to sleep. When me and others get on the topics of PSA's, I always bring this one up and the amount of times they thank me for bringing that one up and scarring them all over again kinda shows how much these things last with people. Albeit, being 6 and watching that will have some effect :')
I've talked about that one a few times before, it's called live with it and it's from think!. It's actually a rip off of an Australian PSA called 'Haunted' from TAC
@@Zach.R Oh cool!! I didnt know that! :) Thank you as well, I always wondered if I just made it up sometimes haha! Awesome video btw, nice to find more PSAs I havent seen covered :)
@@mizzemilyz458 All good and thank you! :)
Is this just me or-do any pet/dog related PSA or shows with like a message that makes me just cry-its mostly just me and my mom tho but your videos are great u should do a collab with @tuv
The psa that always stuck with me i don't even remember what it was about but there was a little girl with a teddy bear and red paint then you see the bear fall covered in the red paint
Bro really said the dead bodies are disturbing and that’s it 😭
Well yk, they can be haha