I Made a Disturbing PSA Iceberg

[@somecanadiangirl1]

There's a PSA that I've been seeing talk about on Tiktok recently. A woman is walking around town with a little girl, shady looking people watch them as the woman nervously tries to get the little girl away (presumably to safety), the PSA ends with one of the people approaching with a cop saying "that's her officer." The idea is the woman was the kidnapper the whole time and it can be anyone not just stereotypical "creepy" people.

[@bunhi5519]

I’ve seen that one on Reddit, or Instagram. But I remember seeing it! Thanks for reminding me of my first PSA I actually remember clearly.

[@TheSlipperyNUwUdle]

That one is so important. Cause I’ve heard men say they’ve had the cops called on them for being at a park with their kid and yet we just assume women are good and nurturing. When clearly some of them actually aren’t.

[@929er13]

seems to be a good one tbh because it is true most people think only "creepy looking" people could be kidnappers

[@idpoundu]

does anyone know what it’s called?

[@bendingstars]

my friend sent me that one on discord and the plot twist was so surprising honestly, it helps to get the point across. you can't really trust anybody no matter how nice they seem.

[@serpenking]

The ads that focus on the "scary reveal" being a person with physical disability or injury for some kind of shock value always left me with a sour taste in my mouth. It just feels cruel.

[@Pinkgobi]

I used to have a gruesome injury I got from having my feet on the dashboard of a car, and parents would have me show off my leg and foot to kids and scare them into using their seatbelts. Part of me had the same sour feeling of being the 'bad ending', having a body that scared children and was used as a lesson. But another part of me wanted to grab them by the shoulders and say "Yes yes do anything you can to not be like me!". It's a strange mixed feelings, and those ads make me confront it every time.

[@serpenking]

@@Pinkgobi especially stuff like facial injuries....idk, i understand the message behind it but I also feel like it shows children that people with "strange" faces or bodies are something to be gawked at and afraid of.

[@darkunykorn404]

Same, since some of us are just like that and all :-/

[@unicornalq11]

I agree when it is simulated with makeup and sfx for shock value, but when a person truly altruistically volunteers to make an example for themselves in pursuit of education and harm reduction, I think that should be allowed to be shown.

[@darkunykorn404]

@@unicornalq11 Agree, fellow unicorn When it's the disabled people themselves sharing their story it's a whole other kettle of fish, but grandstanding disability for shock value is a wee bit gross

[@princessfetus]

The ones that scared me the most were the ones about going through out their day normally and explaining what is about to happen to them. Like the lady chef saying “This wouldn’t have happened to me if there was a wet floor sign that obviously should have been there.” And then it cuts to her slipping and the hot grease pouring on her face.

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Right! There was one I saw a while back and I can't remember enough about it now to look it up again, but I think someone fell into a nail in a wall or something? Anyway, it put me off walking 😂

[@PygmyGoat3]

omg I was gonna comment the same thing!! That one of the lady spilling oil on herself still haunts me. My first job was as a line cook at a chain restaurant and we didn't have good safety regulations for replacing the hot oil for the fryers, so I was always thinking of that commercial while I had to carry vats of boiling oil through the kitchen to the dumpster in the back. Absolutely traumatizing!!

[@magnusmango]

I still have nightmares about that one. It was all I could think about when we would mop the floors at McDonald's

[@BlueMoonSamurai]

I watched that in my culinary class.

[@xXPhantomXOpheliacXx]

I watched that one in my Commercial Foods class back in high school in my grade 12 year as part of the food safety training we did as part of the curriculum.

[@Roboboyjinx]

I find it funny when PSAs are like “don’t show your kid awful or violent stuff.” And then proceed to put the work shit in the PSAs and scarring a kid probably equally as much as if they saw it in a movie or something. Idk just my thought.

[@sarahgiebink]

dude i thought the exact same thing, like showing gruesome things in the PSA isn't just as bad if not worse??

[@everafterhighgirlie]

@@sarahgiebink worse cause in the movie u know whats its a about ina psa its a shock

[@summerroses8841]

I think the majority of these (especially the gory ones) were aired past 8pm when children are supposed to be in bed so they’re not traumatized

[@DG_Toti]

@@summerroses8841yeah, Idk if something like ‘Sous Chef’ or ‘Have A Break’ would be aired on daytime tv especially in Canada

[@mormerill]

I remember a UK advert/PSA that nobody else seems to remember. It was about child grooming and all I remember from it was that the little girl was a muppets-style puppet with dark hair. The idea behind it was that the abuser was treating her like a puppet by not letting her speak out about the abuse. I swear I only remmeber it because, when it came on, my mum said 'oh, this is a horrible advert, don't watch this one' and made me cover my eyes, but I watched it through my fingers. I haven't been able to find this ad/PSA online since.

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Ohhh I think you mean this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWqqnX6gp6aFrq8

[@mormerill]

@@TheInternetInvestigator Oh my god... Thank you! It's just as haunting as I remember.

[@swimsvg1855]

I've literally never heard of an educational psa for children that even the parents wouldn't want their kids to see it

[@Hdtjdjbszh]

OMG THAT SCARED ME SO MUCH AS A KID. I THOUGHT A PEADO WAS GOING TO FIST ME LIKE A PUPPET

[@Imageltd86]

@@TheInternetInvestigator holy fuck im actually disturbed by that. Definitely the most effective PSA I’ve watched

[@brokenfoxproductions]

Honestly I really think we need more realistic and scary PSAs. I can't help but think that if I had known as a kid what my teeth and skin would look like from bulimia and heroin abuse, I might have stayed away. Instead I'm a walking PSA who nobody listens to.

[@crybunny]

i'm so sorry. reading your comment broke my heart.

[@asmith181]

I lived exactly that life for a decade. I looked ok, on the outside. I now have stage 3 metastatic cervical cancer and an auto immune disease (PBC) Its not just the damage you can see you need to worry about.

[@everafterhighgirlie]

this makes me sad this comment shoudl be in a ad

[@no_peace]

They should use techniques that are shown to be effective. PSAs don't make people stop being traumatized/mentally ill which is the main cause of substance use and eating disorders among susceptible people. PSAs often or even usually make pervasive social issues into an individual responsibility

[@lizalizal]

I think the most upsetting PSA I've seen is for anti-mine fields. A small child is happily playing in a white room full of toys, smiling at people on the other side of glass who are observing her. Suddenly there's a loud bang and it's shown one of the toys she had picked up was a mine. The video follows a toy train past a her severed foot at the end.

[@bunhi5519]

red banana!

[@ticrific]

Why on earth would they make that???? That’s so traumatizing for kids to see

[@summerroses8841]

Oh, Red Banana! That one always confused me of sorts because there weren’t any organizations that were tied to it, but they did give credits to the actors in one version for some reason, which isn’t something you see everyday. Makes me think it’s some Italian student’s film project that unintentionally got popular in the PSA community

[@filletdadivorcedfather3957]

@@ticrific Oh, the pfm-1 personnel supression mines, they were manufactured by the soviet union, some kind of wicked and cruel way to directly kill children and whoever was with them, they used them during the soviet afghan war, as a way to specifically kill dumb soldiers, or children, it was a very inhumane thing yo happen, tough

[@themoongateofficial]

@@ticrific that’s shit that happens in real life to some children, why try to hide reality when we should bring awareness to it

[@narrowstairs7]

one that definitely deeply affected me was this one framed as some sort of budding romance between highschoolers, culminating in one of them signing the other’s yearbook, but then suddenly the gymnasium doors swing open and a student opens fire …. super haunting psa about school shootings, if you look closely in previous scenes you can absolutely see the eventual perpetrator showing “warning signs”, it went relatively viral a few years ago which is where i saw it. definitely one of the only “recent” (made after like 2010) psa videos i’ve seen too, interestingly enough

[@narrowstairs7]

here’s the link by the way, forgot to include it for anyone curious kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6LcdWqsn7uZgqs

[@929er13]

bRuh

[@Jerry_the_Head]

yeah, that psa was played at our highschool awhile back when i saw it a few months ago when my sophomore year as at its end, and i must say that both that and the anti-drugs psa where a mother comes into her son's room to find him dead from an overdose and the mother starts to sob... those two have really stuck out to me, as well as this PSA about why you shouldn't speed, and it shows kindergarten or first grade year kids on a field trip as a soft acoustic cover of "Sweet Child O' Mine" is playing, then a man crashes a car into the children and they get crushed by the car, and then it shows the empty elementary school classroom as the song resumes.

[@bunhi5519]

@@Jerry_the_Head The last one is field trip.

[@Jerry_the_Head]

@@bunhi5519 ah, okay.

[@RainbowKaitou]

Oh also, in the US we had these recurring ads a few years ago called like "tips from smokers" or something and they were all just really sad advice from smokers (like a mom smoked when she was pregnant and her baby came out really small and weak so her advice was where to speak into the incubator thing so the baby can hear you better) Anyway a lot of them featured this woman (think she was called terry) who was deathly I'll from smoking her whole life, you could barely understand her when she talked. And it showed what she used to look like when she was healthy, before she ended up dying and disfigured, like her last wish was to keep people from ending up in her position. It was incredibly sad, and then the PSAs came back after a while with an update that she had died.

[@kkuudandere]

Geez, the one with the baby in the incubator is so sad. The way the mother is speaking softly but I can still hear how sad she is... Another one of those PSAs that I remember is the one where an older man has a stoma? or a hole in his throat, and he's in front of a bathroom mirror holding a razor, saying he has to be extra careful while shaving around the hole in his throat. The shot of him delicately going around it with a razor makes me wanna gag every time💀

[@Jerry_the_Head]

@@kkuudandere i saw a PSA once warning about the dangers of Dip(chewing tobacco) of this pair of jeans with a marking where the can would be, and then fades to a man dying in hospital with a deformed and kind a bumpy looking jaw/face from taking Dip, then it fades to black telling us who this man was and then that they died, i luckily have enough experience from bronchitis and both of my parents being smokers(and having some of their smoke accidentally blown in my face) to know better of what its done to them.

[@disaceter1130]

I remember those. One of them had Terrie recommending people record themselves reading a bedtime story or singing a lullaby so their grandchildren will know what their voice sounds like before they lose it to smoking. It absolutely broke my heart. Another smoking psa that still sticks with me to this day was one where they show a heart artery being squeezed like toothpaste and yellow tar spilling out. I saw that psa one single time when I was 4 and I remember it vividly. The psa ended with me hiding under the covers and crying. I think that one might have only been a local ad, so I found a link for it, but I honest to god don't recommend anyone clicks it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6abpYxufrafoac&ab_channel=NewYorkStateSmokers%27Quitline

[@themoongateofficial]

That’s why vapes were invented

[@no_peace]

I used to watch those while I was smoking. All they do is upset people. A huge percentage of people who smoke or do drugs or text while driving etc. (or are at risk for starting) have developmental or mental illness/trauma issues that interfere with the processes that are supposed to process that info to avoid risky behavior. Regarding substances, many people are already addicted, all those ads do is make it feel worse, which does not lead to cessation. I wanted to already have quit so badly but i had no replacement coping mechanisms and no support. Then tv people try to manipulate you by showing more trauma proon, not helpful

[@gaminggladiator06]

The saddest one i’ve seen was called “a monster in the closet.” It was an animated short of a little boy going up to his parents and telling them that there’s a monster in the closet. The parents tell him that there is no monster and to go and play. The little boy then takes things into his own hands, going to the closet and opening it, with no monster, but a box on top of some random stuff. The boy picks up a nearby briefcase and uses it like a step ladder. The boy, barely at eye level to the box, reaches in and pulls out a revolver. He inspects it, even looking down the barrel for a second, before trying to put it away. As he looks away, a bang can be heard, with the screen cutting out at that moment. A loud thud can be heard in the darkness. I don’t remember entirely what the end text said, but i believe it said “if you have an unsecured gun in your house, you really do have a monster in your closet.” This actually scared me a whole lot more than it should have, i have a friend that was shot in the arm by some stupid kid that mistook an actual gun for a toy. It shattered his arm bone, needing him to get surgery to remove the splinters and had to be in physical therapy for years. And he still hasn’t fully recovered. If that ad didn’t help, maybe my story will, DON’T leave firearms where a child can reach it. If it’s that easy for you to get it, it’s easy enough for them, too.

[@grindcoreninja6527]

I've got a monster in my pocket.... POKEMON! GOTTA CATCH'EM ALL!

[@signity5540]

@@grindcoreninja6527possibly the least funny thing I’ve ever read

[@th3yhatej0akim]

I think you should also mention the child abuse PSAs outside the UK, the one that intrigued me the most was called "Spilt Milk", it was created in 2003 in Taiwan to advocate for child abuse awareness. In it, there is a pile of blood dripping from a dining table with a little girl singing in the background, then it's revealed to be a glass of spilt milk on the table, a sentence is displayed with a description of the little girl (which i cant remember) which states "3 years old, COD: Brain Hemorage" which implies that she had been beaten severely enough to die from a brain trauma for spilling a glass milk, at the end it displays the number for a child protective services (i think it was 113).

[@EvilGayCat]

Do you have a link to this psa?

[@NANA-su5ql]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ2Vq2BmZ9-MadU Found it

[@summerroses8841]

@@EvilGayCat kinda late, but here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ2Vq2BmZ9-MadU

[@EvilGayCat]

@@summerroses8841 Thank you! :)

[@harmonymoon5210]

"Let's give ourselves irrational anxiety..." Lmao! So absolutely truthful.

[@neckpeck2738]

when i was 13, i stupidly decided to watch a bunch of "top 50 scariest PSAS" compilations on youtube. the smurfs village being bombed, the rwandan shoeboxes, the girl being haunted by that creepy tentacle, the cartoon boy being abused by his dad, lots of em were in there and it was a cool yet grim reminder seeing them again in this video. the german one about the grandpa showing his 6 year old kid violence, torture and death was especially horrible, especially because the song that plays over it is a happy old childrens song about a boy and his dad going on an exciting trip together. the most horrifying ones i remember till this day, but nobody ever talks about them: one of them was "the natural born smoker". it showed a horrifically distorted caricature of a human sitting in a chair with a narrator voice explaining what the natural born smoker would look like. he has gigantic lungs to inhale as much tobacco as possible. he breathes like a car exhaust pipe because that's what he looks like on the inside. he only has two fingers to pinch the cigarette between. he has tiny eyes because tobacco has made him blind, and because he refuses to see the obvious. he has tiny ears because he never listens. there was plenty of other stuff as well, and this description definitely doesn't do it justice because it sounds silly, but actually seeing a deformed human creature (i think it was either CGI animated or done with SFX makeup on a real actor) with those exact physical features makes for excellent body horror. the other was a PSA about sex slavery featuring two naked women telling the stories of their lives with the cameras only filming them above the neck. one is being raped and struggles to speak clearly as someone is forcefully thrusting into her, causing her pain, the other is lying flat on the ground with her head turned to the side, speaking in a dark monotone. the video cuts inbetween the two women, their stories are very similar. they talk in the third person about two women who were abducted, imprisoned, what conditions they're being kept in, how many men they're forced to have sex with every day, and so on. it ends with the one being raped, saying: "i am [name of woman]." the one lying dead on the ground says: "i was [name of woman]." that was by far the most terrifying one, even though i only understood what it was actually about as i became older. yet till this day i haven't heard anybody talk about it.

[@emilyjones9787]

I did this too!! The ones you describe are so vivid in my memory- Talk about a well informed childhood haha- I remember the one with the younger employee in construction that couldn't see out of his eyeglasses but operates a nail gun, where a nail goes in his eye. Similarly, the one where the girl gets her hand caught in a bread slicer. The ones that get me the most now are heroin psas. Like the one from Singapore where there's little to no audio except for distorted high pitched glitching, where they describe how your intestines begin to rot and become infected after stopping heroin. The one that makes me cry to this day when I think about it is the Rodney ad, where a friend compares a healthy looking man to one on drugs, all the same man. Repeating "Rodney. On heroin." before the last one of Rodney unconscious, where it ends: "That was my friend, Rodney." A family member of mine died from a heroin overdose; I'll never see these PSAs the same ever again.

[@fluffycuteish]

@@emilyjones9787 - I kind of understand… this past December, my 31 year old neighbor died of a heroin overdose; I never even knew he had struggled with it but it turned out he’d been fighting it for a few years. I’m 25 and I can remember all the way back to when we were both very young kids, but with him being older than me, I always looked up to him. It’s so depressing, he was such a nice guy.

[@bunhi5519]

the last one is i was elena i am maria.

[@callumdavies6473]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHK1nGBrZ9l-n8U&ab_channel=Kwiryniusz I think this is it. Ahhh never seen this PSA before. Wish me luck :')

[@neckpeck2738]

@@callumdavies6473 oh my god yes, that was it. holy fuck it's like a horror movie trailer. did they actually show this on tv?

[@laurentaylor3890]

We've had some pretty scary PSAs here in Australia, but definitely the most impactful has been "Dumb Ways to Die", a train safety PSA that went super viral. It reels you in with the cute cartoon characters and catchy music but it's actually quite impactful

[@user-to7zk3dr1v]

Dumb ways to Die was a PSA? I had no idea. I've always thought It was just a cool game.

[@forestboy8]

What is with the UK and having the absolute scariest PSAs?! Seriously, as someone who lives in Scotland, The UK can be truly terrifying with their creativity and their PSAs.

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

The British ones are are actually relatively tame compared to some from other countries 😄

[@caffeine_alex]

I can't remember who made the video now, but I watched one fairly recently that was specifically about (mostly the older crop of) disturbing British PSAs - from what I remember, back in the 70s the government literally hired film students interested in making *horror movies* and gave them budgets to make these PSAs, so the govt got cheap directors and the directors got the chance to essentially make a fucked up short film to trial their skills!

[@NuggetNapper]

I remember the episode of This Exists about them. Link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pH6WZmyDq8qdgZo

[@nyxiinyx]

Personally think NZ has some of the worst, but that might be bc I grew up with them... but the car crash ones here are pretty gnarly

[@sharonspears-mandeville2369]

You think that/those ones are disturbing enough? Try some of the ones from here in Canada,buddy..you really don't (Really.) don't wanna know,bud...

[@crowndust]

I'm a horror enthusiast. I love scary movies, true crime and disturbing internet stuff. But PSA's shake me to the core. I don't know what it is but it creeps me out to no end.

[@stanmarsh3813]

same, I feel like I dont get scared that easily but creepy psas scare me so badly 😣

[@ObamaMpreg]

I feel like it’s the fact that while scary movies/creepypastas etc are fake and fantastical, but the stuff in PSAs is very real and could even happen to us. Idk tho I’m not a psychologist

[@Kakmanmartinez666]

Literally thought I was the only one. There's one called Jacqueline that I cannot watch bc it haunted me so much when I was younger. It originated here in Texas and I remember they had a poster of her at a gas station in my town.

[@Pos1tr0nic]

I had to watch my favorite non-disturbing PSA as a way to calm down from the irrational anxiety this gave me, haha. Look up 'Too Many Kitties in the Cities', which is a fun bop about getting your cat fixed.

[@karaoconnoraliasraidra]

Where I’m from there’s one with “Scooter the Neuter Cat” which is a fun bop too.

[@SparkieGoth]

The most upsetting one I have ever seen is an Australian one against heavy drinking. A drunk man starts acting about at a party and knocks a very heavily pregnant lady into a table. The next scene is in hospital, the lady being examined by a doctor who looks grave and says "I'm sorry." She and her husband/partner then sob inconsolably. It's so sad. One that I thought might have been in your iceberg was the infamous fireworks PSA in which a couple come home from the supermarket whilst to find their son has been injured by a firework. The boy's injuries are shown momentarily and it was pulled because it was considered too graphic for television. The PSA was lost for many years but has since resurfaced.

[@GirlYouDontKnow-rx3lm]

One PSA that always stuck with me was one known as "Baby Monitor". It was a South African PSA about child sexual abuse. I can't even describe it. It was so heartbreaking and gut-wrenching. Just the sounds alone had me bawling at the end.

[@dagaki3793]

agreed, the woman couldn't even do anything, she could only watch as she watched a baby be traumatized

[@broreece]

Nice video. Some really disturbing ones you missed: 1. A French AIDS PSA called stage 9, shows a young man in bed who can not move with blotches all over his body with powerful text 2. A UK PSA about prisoners abroad (1990) called cockroach 3. I believe American(Maybe British?) Called Monkeys on their back about heroin. First known screamer in media.

[@satanicaries2949]

“It rarely stops” scared me so bad and the song got stuck in my head for days. I felt depressed every time I heard it in my head. They played this in my school as a psa and it stuck with me ever since. From time to time I still listen to the song, and it’s oddly comforting in a way. I have things pretty ok in life and I’m thankful for it, because I escaped from an abusive relationship similar to this. Any time I listen to the song I’m reminded that things could be much worse.

[@karaoconnoraliasraidra]

That one freaked me out too. I’m glad you’re okay.

[@sliver-fox-thot-patrol]

The damn ASPCA/humane society ones that get me. "Kitten" still makes me tear up. I adore my kitties so it hits hard.

[@sliver-fox-thot-patrol]

@Lost pelican Oh the drunk driving or drug ads don't bother me (too many horror movies). But that one particular animal abuse one leaves me a sobbing wreck and hugging one of my cats.

[@tapewormm3580]

I remember seeing "how much is that doggy?" when I was young, still makes me sick thinking about it more than most other PSAs

[@CarolineBearoline]

Oh yeah! Kids getting their shoelaces caught in escalators in the 90s was a thing, and growing up in New York City, I was vigilant

[@mxbx307]

Part of the reason they have brushes on escalators is to remind you where the edges are. It also stops some things falling into the gap therefore you won't injure yourself reaching in to get them.

[@skyofthelivingdead]

The one I find most disturbing is the Rodney PSA from the late 90’s, I believe. A man shows a photo of his friend Rodney, a handsome young man, and says “this is my friend Rodney!” Then he shows a photo of Rodney in a horrible state saying, “this is my friend Rodney on heroin.” It flashes back and forth between his sober photo and photos of him during his addiction (mugshots, looking terrible from the dope, and eventually a photo of him shooting up). Finally, the narrator says “that…WAS my friend, Rodney” and shows an outro card listing his name, date of birth, and date of death. It’s always stuck with me even tho it’s not particularly graphic, but especially gives me chills now that I’ve gone through the EXACT same situation with my own best friend who also died of a heroin overdose earlier this year. I watched her go from a beautiful, intelligent young woman with so much potential, to a shell of a human being, to finally laying in a casket no matter how much I tried helping. Nasty, nasty drug.

[@bunhi5519]

rodney on heroin!

[@skyofthelivingdead]

@@bunhi5519 yes! I always remembered it from when I was a kid, it was so heartbreaking. Even more so now, like I said. These days with opiate addiction at an all time high, most people probably know their own Rodney.

[@bunhi5519]

@@skyofthelivingdead I saw it on a reddit iceberg, the ad seems sad. i should see it sometime.

[@skyofthelivingdead]

@@bunhi5519 it is. I’d say it’s more depressing than disturbing. But it is effective.

[@bunhi5519]

@@skyofthelivingdead Yeah..

[@tapewormm3580]

reminds me of a PSA I saw on a compilation video a few years ago, a man just finished carpeting a room and smokes either a cigarette or weed, dont remember. he notices a lump in the carpet and stomps it down until a little girl walks in and asks if he's seen her hamster, when he looks down, the spot he stamped on is bleeding. not sure why that one stuck with me of all of them, but I still get nervous thinking about it

[@solflorspaceman]

Fun fact about the dark water PSA: the figure’s voice is Donald Pleasance, aka Dr. Samuel Loomis from Halloween! Edit: also I’m surprised that you didn’t mention the Protect And Survive pamphlets were considered absolutely terrible, lethal advice and lead to When The Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs (author of The Snowman)

[@kaitlin9288]

Now that you say that, I so wish this was on the list! She coulda also mentioned Threads as well as media that heavily used inspo from Protect and Survive

[@solflorspaceman]

@@kaitlin9288 Where The Wind Blows is one of my all time favorite comics! It’s absolutely haunting, and the fact that he uses characters he’d previously used for his children’s stories while not deviating from his usual kid friendly style makes it all hit so much harder. I’ve been meaning to watch the movie (iirc it was required viewing for some classes in Australia because of the uranium mining there).

[@kaitlin9288]

@@solflorspaceman I've seen the movie but this makes me really want to check out the comic haha The movie is really good! The soundtrack is amazing and the animation style is so unique as it combines the comic's aesthetics with diorama sets. It's visually interesting and they do a really good job with it imo

[@FrenkTheJoy]

This isn't a PSA, but since you did include technically a short film in this list - Signal 30. It's a short film about safe driving that they'd show to driver's education classes, and as far as I know had REAL footage (not staged with hollywood makeup) of horrific car crashes. My mom said after they showed that video in her class she didn't want to drive at all anymore.

[@TheLyingFigure]

We had one of those in drivers ed called red asphalt that was basically the same thing

[@sentientricecake3125]

At my college (Canadian), we had to watch all the work safety PSAs for a mandatory course. Even at 18, I was really shaken. Can't say they're ineffective at least

[@QueAwkwardNoises]

Omg I remember the 30 vs 40 speed limit video from being a kid, so effective for children imo but they’re not the target

[@veryexciteddog963]

Well I don't think they ever really target children but if you're going that fast sometimes you end up hitting them anyways. It is really effective tho

[@FieryKitty]

Saw this as a kid, still think about it, the bone crack is brutal 🤢 I’m 30 and stick to speed limits strictly, I have an adjustable limiter feature on my car and use it constantly and adjust it for different limits. People get mad but they’re always so much more cool about it when we pass mobile speed camera vans. No tickets in 12 years of driving with one simple trick - crippling anxiety about accidentally going 32 in a 30 and killing a child

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Yeah, this and Anthony are the only ones I remember well. I guess they're playing the long game, teach the lesson at an early age then hopefully when they grow up they won't speed 🤔

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

@@veryexciteddog963 Not sure if you're joking but I literally read the first comment like that the first time 😂

[@NostalgiaUnicorn]

I've watched most of these, I was hoping you'd mention the girl on the wall who gets pinned by her dead boyfriend. That messed me up for days. There's a lot of those Canadian workplace ones too - the one who gets hot grease poured on her is pretty awful but nothing tops the smushed dude in the machine. Brutal. I've seen a car one where they talk about how if the guy had been going the speed limit, his wife wouldn't have been killed on impact, his daughter wouldn't have broken her neck, etc.... and ends with the only survivor, a young child, crying for her parents in the wreckage. Then there's the whole train PSA film where kids get killed in awful ways playing school hosted games on the traintracks. Turns out to just be a kid daydreaming at the end but.. seriously who daydreams about THAT?

[@issie1344]

That car one was shown in the video. Around 28:46

[@kobcritic624]

I discovered a bunch of these years ago and the scene from Apaches where the girl is dying from drinking pesticides absolutely fuuucked me up

[@flaminhotyoshi7403]

This is SUCH perfect timing. I’m on a disturbing PSA kick lately and I’m actually looking for some to watch while at work. Thank you!!

[@the.sheeb.]

the Canadian work safety and was part of a series that had a way more horrifying ad wherein a chef in a kitchen is horribly burned by boiling water after slipping. my sister was a chef when that first aired and she said everyone at her work was a bit fucked up by it for a few days.

[@xlsye23xox55]

A note on the egg thing; if you are fortunate enough live in or near a rural area try and buy eggs from local farmers! Most of them treat their chickens incomparably better than industrial farms. Not only are you helping animals but also supporting your neighbours :)

[@Jerry_the_Head]

i feel like "The Child Molester" would've fit on here, it's a psa about child disappearances, in which 2 little girls disappear thanks to taking candy from a stranger, while one little girl is smart enough to know. the PSA ends with actual photos of corpses and crime scene photos of girls who have gone missing

[@violenceisfun991]

Could you add a link?

[@no_peace]

Weaponized victim blaming

[@creacherfeacher8232]

The PANTS song PSA isn't necessarily disturbing to me, but it is a bit off-putting. It's an entire song about underwear, privates, and not letting people see either; entirely aimed at children.

[@michellehuot9360]

I’m 24 now, from Ontario, Canada, and back in high school some students (including myself) got the opportunity to spend a summer doing this government funded job training and placement program of sorts that unfortunately no longer exists to provide decent opportunities for students in my hometown anymore. during the first phase of the program, before we each got individual placements at independent businesses throughout our small city, we had to endure days of work safety training which was way too many of these. I can’t remember what it was called, but it’s similar to the specific shock girl Canadian one brought up in this video, and it was so distressing that the organizers weren’t even prepared for it and sent everyone home early that day. I knew the younger sister of an organizer and apparently that one I can’t remember the details of got so much backlash it was only shown around Canada for one summer and hasn’t seen the light of day since. If anything, I wish they would’ve just given us a heads up, especially given the fact that they were showing these types of videos to young kids. I get that they’re all supposed to shock you for a reason, but there’s a difference between being shocked and disturbed.

[@camilleravencraft2326]

I saw similar two ads on animal cruelty shot from the animal's pov. The first was "Swim" where a dog and his brother is being taken out to swim in the cancel only to be stuffed in a bag and thrown in the river. The second was "Yard" where a dog is wondering what she did to deserve to be abandoned in an old yard with no food or water before fainting from dehydration and being found by some boys. The saddest part about them is the animal's slow realization of their doom and their trust in their "best friends"

[@EpicWolfy98]

Don't forget the one about fox hunting from the fox's pov, terrifying and disturbing that it still happens today

[@camilleravencraft2326]

@@EpicWolfy98 I think I saw that one on a compilation. Suffice to say, it was pretty disturbing

[@KingFluffs]

1:18 Pizza does the *BEST* ad uploads. I love her compilations of "Greatest ads" ect. Especially when they're almost an hour long. They really did their best to sell you something then, now adverts are boring and dull. I remember becoming a devoted Cravendale milk buyer because of their creepy cow adverts.

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

So far I've only seen their PSA compilations, I should probably check out some of the others :)

[@219SilverChoc]

They also are much higher quality than other uploads of the ads, I wonder where she downloads the higher quality versions?

[@johnathanrush4666]

Found you via your Lucifer Valentine video, but I'm also a huge fan of PSA/PIFs so this was a very pleasant surprise to find as well. Man, my fellow Americans and I got off really really light in comparison to other countries My personal most disturbing PSA was either from Australia or New Zealand, done in the style of a "Mummy and Daddy" kid's TV show but "Daddy" ends up being an abusive monster.

[@Spruudel]

I’ve never clicked so fast, I already love your content but PSAs are a huge niche interest of mine! As for me, the one PSA that absolutely gets me is “Faces” from 1987. It’s not even gorey or anything, i just can’t STAND the combination of being stared at directly into my soul as haunting music plays in the background. If I ever see it in a compilation I essentially get jumpscared, I hate it so damn much.

[@svinjamaria]

The scariest thing ever broadcasted on TV is the Africare Shoeboxes PSA. And you cannot change my mind.

[@lainedsyelwah]

okay yeah, that one was bad, but what about IFAW's the chase? literally shows pictures of REAL dead foxes.

[@lainedsyelwah]

@DJ Mutt PERIOD!!

[@ekathe85]

On that note there's one I personally consider scarier (because it's more eerie and I have a special nerve for that), you can find it as "Bury the Debt", by Sports Aid.

[@thomasvaldez8566]

The state of California right now is featuring anti-tobacco ads which feature real life people suffering from cancer and other diseases. One woman is missing most of her lower jaw.

[@JennRighter]

I remember “come on Dave, just one more”. That one was so, so sad.

[@MadeleineSwannSurreal]

God knows we had a ton in the UK, also the adverts and kid's programmes were scary enough like Look and Read - that was terrifying!

[@ryoki_PH]

im kind of surprised there were none of the australian road safety ads ive seen, theyre kinda horrifying. one specific one i remember and think about all the time that still makes me wanna cry a little; was one where theres footage of a car crash, but it pauses a couple seconds before the impact, and the drivers of both the cars get out and talk to each other while the cars are still frozen in time, one of them saying hes got a son in the back of the car, and the other very earnestly apologising, but both of them go back to their cars, and then the footage of the actual crash rolls. what always struck me the most is how realistic the acting is between them, it doesnt make a spectacle of the situation, and the driver apologising, then the other drivers face falling even further as he realises just _how_ hopeless his situation is has just been burned into my mind forever. incredibly effective stuff. but this video is absolutely wonderful, thank you for making it :D

[@bunhi5519]

someone linked said ad in another comment.

[@woods1504]

Honestly, I hate that PSA ads always relay on shock value and guilt-tripping. You can't rise awareness on people via fear.

[@woods1504]

I grew up in late 90's and early 2000's Spain and we had pretty gut-wrenching PSA ads too. Specially the road safety and anti-drug ones. We even had some guys coming to school and playing some VERY gruesome and VERY graphic car crash videos (With "Everybody hurts" playing in the background, I kid you not). I still get chills thinking about that xd

[@laurenhodges6411]

I remember the mirror ad for eating disorders! Too bad it didn't help me in my anorexia battle. Blessedly, it was never bad enough to be worth hospitilization.

[@GlitterySpleen]

A few good ones I was surprised weren't here: -"Skinned" (Respect for Animals) -"Singing Cowboy" (aka "You don't always die from tobacco") -"Wood for no reason is murder" -"The Hunting Game" (League Against Cruel Sports) -"Dumb Animals" (Respect for Animals) -"My Little Puppy" (RSPCA) -"Bowling" (NACAIDS, 1987) -"Searching" (1974, UK) -"Classroom" (DOE Road Safety) -"She Spilled My Coffee" -"Shadow Puppets" (SIRE, Netherlands, 1997) -"Made in DIEwan" (EIA, UK, 1995) -"Natural Born Smoker" (UK, 1985) -"Is There Anybody Out There?" (The Samaritans, UK 1986) -"Top Chef" (WSIB, Canada, 2007)

[@ekathe85]

"Paranoid Instamatic" and there's one I don't even dare googling: the one with the guy who runs over a redhead kid with his car, and the kid's dead body constantly appears to him everywhere he looks

[@ladyrendarkstrider2398]

I wonder if anyone mentioned this one, but Rewind the Future is disturbing, as it shows how the adult's unhealthy choices as a child led him to suffer a heart attack, from which he's dying as the result. That PSA was to also warn parents about feeding junk food to kids.

[@mitchelldsm6222]

I grew up with the Montana meth project and the one in this video was definitely one of the least scary ones... there were one with kids beating up their families and one with a girl selling her little sisters body at a truckstop. The meth problem is still really bad there but the PSAs definitely scared a generation

[@TweekerMcCormick]

It always surprises me when people list "Don't Drown In Toxic Smoke" low on lists like this, because that is the PSA that genuinely traumatised me as a kid. I had nightmares for months, and spent at least a year blocking my door up with towels and clothes to try and prevent smoke from getting inside. I remember my mum telling me I had to stop it, because it was a hazard in a fire, and thinking that I would rather attempt to escape out of the window and risk breaking bones than even slightly risk dying in my sleep because I'd breathed in smoke. Even now, seeing the opening shot makes my heart go crazy. I'm surprised to see no mention of "Live With It" - another British PSA about safe driving, which involved a man seeing the body of a dead boy in various places (out of the window of a bus, on the edge of a football field, under his computer desk, on the floor of his bedroom as he tries to sleep), revealing that he had killed the boy in a car accident and was now haunted by what he'd done. Again, I remember being terrified of looking under my computer desk as a kid, in case the dead kid was under there. I also really love the Dutch campaign "You Have Five Seconds" which features three different ads, Maim, Hurt, and Injure. The premise is you are shown a scenario where someone has fireworks, and then you have five seconds to try and identify the mistake made - in Maim, the boy is wearing a hood, so when someone else's firework is thrown, it gets caught in the hood and explodes against his back; in Hurt, the boy doesn't weigh down the firework, so it falls over and shoots towards him. However in Injure, the countdown doesn't even get to start - the narrator gets cut off as the firework explodes and takes off the boy's finger. After having seen the other two, you really get taken aback, and it really emphasises how unpredictable fireworks can be if not used safely.

[@stanmarsh3813]

there was this one psa I saw a few years ago in a youtube compilation that scared me pretty bad. it showed various footage of people walking on train tracks, seemingly without a care in the world. it then shows this real footage of a guy on train tracks in a subway who gets sucked under this train that he didn't see coming. just the fact that it used real footage of someone being hurt/killed was so scary to me. another psa I remember seeing was this one that aired on adult swim late at night a few years ago. it starts by showing movie stars and models and other glamorous looking people, then cuts to this older woman whose face is sunken in bc of how much she's smoked over the years. it was meant to say that smoking was bad, and it genuinely scared me when I first saw it.

[@Sensansenkai]

99% of the US school shooting PSAs are honestly scarring. Plus there's an Australian one about land mines that's jarring as hell.

[@ekathe85]

The one where they skip school to go to the beach? That one's a joke!

[@GreatFrostHawk]

"Give ourselves irrational anxiety" Oh hey that's me day to day, GAD is basically being afraid of everything to an exaggerated effect. These kinda PSAs mess with me for a while, but they're still good to know. Humans may be pretty hardy and resilient on occasion, but also simultaneously so fragile that people have also died tripping and hitting their head the wrong way on the curb after having a few too many.

[@disaceter1130]

Another film similar to Apaches is called "The Finishing Line" from 1977. It's a 20 minute short film about playing on train tracks. It has a tournament of "train games" with teams of children competing and each game goes horribly wrong. A race across the tracks ends with a child tripping and getting run over. A stone throw ends with windows getting shattered and the conductor getting hit in the head with a rock. Another race across the tracks ends with about 6 or 7 kids ending up in a pile and getting hit. The final few minutes are the "tunnel walk." Hundreds of kids enter a 3 mile long train tunnel and you see a train enter from the other end. Only 3 or 4 bloody, limping children exit the tunnel, the rest are carried out dead and laid on the tracks in rows, war-zone style. Granted, it's not _as_ gory as you'd imagine a psa involving children getting mowed over by trains would be, but it's still pretty disturbing, and the image of bloodied 10 year olds staggering out of a dark tunnel looking absolutely traumatized and shell-shocked will stick with you for a long while.

[@SkrapMetal84]

One PSA that i used to see on TV was one not to leave kids alone wile their in the bath, first some music plays (i cant remember the songs name) and slowly the camera pans back revealing a coffin with flowers on it wile it floats on the water, how ever threw out the PSA every few seconds it would show a picture of a child that died wile drowning both age/name and how it happened. This was quite creepy as i was in my early teens when i first saw it and always turned my blood cold.

[@desertparanormal2791]

You have such a lovely voice, I really think it helps with the subject matter cuz a beautiful voice can make even the ugliest truths a bit easier to deal with. My Mom is 71, she was 5 when they left Germany for Turkey and she said until they moved to the States when she was 10ish she heard air raid sirens frequently. Not necessarily a PSA but like Active Shooter Drills in the US, the kids practiced hiding. I can't imagine.

[@Rock_Lee_The_Handsome_Devil]

35:05 As soon as you started talking I knew exactly which you meant. I remembered but didn't believe it was a real PSA and now I remember when I saw it, they played it to my whole year group in a high-school assembly - I don't remember how old we were but I do remember many people crying.

[@17blackroses82]

There are two that I remember seeing that I don't think I ever see mentioned by anyone. One was where a other was smoking in her car with a baby in the back with the window up and the smoke was wrapping around the baby's head like a plastic bag and suffocating them. The other was a boyfriend/husband going to wake up his girlfriend/wife from a nap on the couch while filming her. It was all joyful and playful until the woman reveals that their baby isn't breathing and they both start freaking out. It was a PSA telling people not to sleep with their babies on sofas or other similar situations because it can lead to accidental suffocation if you turn over onto them in your sleep

[@grims4ever]

This one PSA still gives me the anxiety/chills and makes my heart race. It’s called When I Grow Up. Each one a kid can be heard saying, “When I grow up, I wanna be a _____” and another voice says “No one ever says “I wanna be a junkie when I grow up.” There are 3 from what I remember. A track star, ballerina, and a nurse. Each video is disturbing and in slow motion. And ends with a cop grabbing the runner, ballerina falling over, and a woman beating on a dead person in a bathroom after he OD’d. The ballerina one always freaked me out. And the music ended with the music sounding like Jason Voorhees. Still freaks me out to this day.

[@sakuramune_]

link

[@tonimauge3907]

Two PSAs that really got me in tears, both involved gun safety and they're both told in the perspectives of children. The first one, I forgot the title, but it featured a girl named Rosana who appeared to be 11 years old talking about how she was gonna look so beautiful in a blue dress and her hair being done and she mentioned that everyone she knew would be there. At first, I thought Rosana was talking about preparing for a birthday party, but instead it turned out to be her talking about getting prepared for her OWN FUNERAL. The second one was voiced by a younger boy. Throughout the psa, he talks about how he found a gun and mistakes it for a toy and he ended up accidently shooting his older brother in the stomach. He didn't mean to shoot his dad's gun. The drawings being shown while the little boy confessed what he did made it sadder...

[@flower..]

i remember seeing a psa showing instructions on how to make boiled bear. what made it disturbing was the bear screaming as it was being lowered into boiling water. there was nothing but a black screen with the instructions, yet it was still distressing.

[@Macachee]

Wtf was that a PSA for?!

[@watermeloon314]

@@Macachee From what I can get in context from the PSA, it's probably about the whole hunting bears for their fur problem. Or just hunting them in general.

[@dannahbanana11235]

I remember a PSA like that Swedish one with the girl and her skinny reflection in the mirror, it definitely made me aware of body dysmorphia. I had no idea anything like that actually existed until then, I always thought it was more of a figure of speech when people said some "see themselves differently" than they actually appear.

[@poochersmontgomery8825]

Nobody ever does internet icebergs about internet icebergs

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Dude... 🤯

[@poochersmontgomery8825]

@@TheInternetInvestigator btw love your content!

[@crepethepancake]

I absolutely adore the content you create, thank you for doing what you do! (Also, love the hair!)

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Aw thank you! 🤗

[@crepethepancake]

@@TheInternetInvestigator of course!!

[@just-Ada]

Truly great video! I was shocked by how many I had never heard of. My personal top scary PSA experience was the PeeWee Herman crack one. It isn't actually THAT scary but I was putting on a Dolly Parton VHS at my aunt's house at 3 AM, already terrified of the scary clown doll in the corner, and then PeeWee looks you dead in the eye and is like "This is crack cocaine". For this reason alone I think that Paul Reubens is the scariest man on this planet.

[@EonVankmer]

17:28 I remember seeing this one on TV, no joke it gave me nightmares for weeks; my parents ended up muting the TV whenever it came on. The cracking noises still live in my head.

[@noname223noname]

The iceberg videos have to be my favorite

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Glad you like them 😄

[@RainbowKaitou]

There was one that freaked me out, think it was a UK one about like knowing first aid and stuff? Goes through this whole long thing where dude is diagnosed with cancer or something deadly and it looks bad for a while, but then he eventually beats it and it's all v emotional and they have a party to celebrate, and dude straight up chokes and fuckin dies right there. P disturbing because they build up how lucky this dude is to survive and then he just dies anyway. :(

[@GlobalsoftPirka]

This one absolutely terrifies me, too. Although a part of me also thinks, almost, like…if that happens, maybe that was his time to go, you know? 😔 Maybe I watch too much Final Destination, but that always felt like death catching up with him.

[@ScreamingAllTheTime]

That Julie psa is literally the reason I’m so paranoid about people sitting behind me when I’m driving. It used to be legal where I live to not wear seatbelts in the backseat but I still had a strict seatbelt rule in my car.

[@vhs3760]

in highschool i did a lot of cooking classes and got to watch Canadian workplace safety PSAs. the ones that really fucked me up would have this set up: person going about their job (walking around a kitchen, construction site) and looking straight into the camera, talking about their upcoming plans happily. there was one of a woman walking in a kitchen talking about how excited she was for her sister's wedding that weekend. but then she says "but i won't get to go to it. because i'm about to die in a workplace accidently" and then she slips on spilled oil and falls face first into a deep fryer. fucked up!! fucked up. i'm so nervous in the kitchen because of these. but if you need a palette cleansing nice canadian PSA, check out the house hippo one

[@cricketburger7754]

I remember back in around 2018 the only things I watched were gaming videos, daily dose of internet and creepy psa/advert compilations. I don’t know how I didn’t use to get nightmares over it lol

[@miiqai]

28:22 for some reason, years ago i used to watch PSA compilations and this one really traumatized me, i completely stopped watching those compilations after that

[@katjaluisa6353]

I've been absolutely binge watching your content for the last weeks! It's exceptional. Small constructive criticism: I sometimes like to put your stuff on in the background just to listen while I do my makeup or whatever. When you do compilations of things, like this iceberg, would you mind also reading the titles of the separate entries out loud? In this video I sometimes didn't get what the psa was about because I didn't read it's title before you began explaining. That would be great!

[@bunhi5519]

as a person who is too afraid to look at the images it will be helpful too.

[@fizalex6612]

I love listening to your videos. Your voice is just so soothing. When I'm having an anxiety attack I love these type of videos I just close my eyes and focus on the stories instead of my anxiety. And when the person has a soothing voice like yours it helps so much.

[@TheEverSoTalented]

Dude,wtf, she's from the north of England......everyone sounds like that here-pls DON'T visit......we have our quota of weirdos already okay !

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Thank you! I'm glad it helps 🖤

[@fizalex6612]

@@TheInternetInvestigator thank you for responding. I was worried I was being a creep when I saw the other guys comment. I wasn't trying to be a creep or anything.

[@whatthehelliot]

my psa special interest is screaming rn!!! awesome video :) edit: a really good one (also pretty long) is called stop the horror, it's about euthanasia and it is brutal

[@Ravenfellblade]

One of the worst ones I remember was one I saw here on KZbin. I think it was an Australian PSA about car seats. It featured a young couple driving home with their newborn, and the wife was in the backseat holding the baby in her arms. Soothing music, lots of vignettes from the hospital, birthing, etc cut in. And then a car swerves and hits them head on and the baby flies out of the mother's arms. The PSA ends with a shot of the blood splattered windshield and the sound of the mother screaming before fading to black and overlaying text about always putting your children in an approved car seat.

[@Amdusiias]

As somebody who lives in Montana, particularly in a town where drugs and meth are a big problem, I remember seeing those PSAs as a child and boy did those really drive it home to never try any of that.

[@lxbryz5665]

YES disturbing PSAs are my shit! I love the ones released during high nuclear tensions on how to survive an atomic bomb

[@winterlantern8032]

"it's 30 for a reason" scarred me as a child, i remember it was on a video tape for a kids movie (cant remember which one), i'll give them props for one thing - it's bloody effective

[@bunhi5519]

charley says?

[@lookoutforburningbuildings5563]

disturbing psas were such a big interest of mine when I was younger and this video really just brought it all back!! this video brought back tons of memories as well as showed me some new stuff!

[@jonwallace6204]

Oh don’t worry about the image quality. Honestly, I hardly actually watch your videos, I just listen to them. It’s your voice and story-telling ability that keeps me subscribed.

[@Jay22222]

Oh awesome, another upload! Time to grab some tea! One suggestion that I think would really help with “iceberg” videos is to try and give each tier a vague theme as well. It’s something I would enjoy anyway. I get that it can be difficult as you already have an organisational criteria for the tiers. Anyway, thank you!

[@WakaranYT]

There was two school shooting psas that shook me to the core when I had a psa binge not too long ago, one was when it was disguised as a back to school ad where kids were talking about the products they thought where cool, it progressively got worse when it was revealed that a school shooting was happening in the background. The other was when it was disguised as a romance between two high-school sweethearts, they were falling in love until the end of the year came around and they found out who each other were but it got interrupted by a school shooting and the psa shows the warning signs we missed during the romance tale.

[@bunhi5519]

Sandy hook back to school?

[@WakaranYT]

@@bunhi5519 yeah that one

[@bunhi5519]

@@WakaranYT yw.

[@kirahoney2068]

Oh man, I love PSAs. It takes some real talent to get your message across in a memorable way in such a short span of time. There are some really effective ones out there, and I think they deserve more credit

[@Takoto]

Oh wow, these are a blast from the past. I remember "30 For A Reason" so clearly, it's probably the PSA that stuck with me the most alongside some of the fire-safety ones. I'm pretty sure I remember Julie and Can't Look as well, or at least ones that are very similar - definitely remember the "how kids see their parents when they're drinking" one. I also remember a load of firework safety ones to do with sparklers when I was a kid, though those weren't particularly disturbing in comparison to the ones on the list... I watched Apache in Ashen's stream once and oh boy that was a wild ride, the antifreeze (? I think it was antifreeze) one really freaked me out.

[@chris-tianmothman]

There's an infamous ad here in the US called "Sous Chef Accident" of a cook slipping on grease while carrying boiling water in a pot, wherein it boils her alive, with a graphic shot of her face burning. Kitchen safety is no laughing matter.

[@bunhi5519]

Sous chef by prevent it?

[@chris-tianmothman]

​Sous Chef "Accident" by WSIB, but you helped me identify it.

[@bunhi5519]

@@chris-tianmothman Thanks!

[@bunhi5519]

/ yw. i was unsure of the orgin, but the name i knew.

[@Ciaraahah]

It’s Canadian. It’s called Top Chef

[@thefriedmind]

I refuse to be the 4 out of 5 that never escape heroin. I’ve been clean close to a year now and I swear to God that I will beat this. It’s not going to be me.

[@steffymuze]

Good on you! Keep fighting. You CAN, no, my friend, you already HAVE -at a year beaten it into submission. Don't give up. Ever. Every day is a new day and I mean that, not trying to be trite. I have my own fights. It's an ugly disease that killed my stepbrother, uncle, and countless others. Be Well ❤🙏

[@violenceisfun991]

Good luck with it man, you can do it. After another year or so you'll think of it differently like something you don't want to return to. I been off of heroin since 2016. The desire is still slightly there most days, but it gets easier. No more being sick all night or always feeling cold and itchy. There is so much more to enjoy in life without that holding you back and making you unwell and unable to enjoy anything

[@KharonDeLune_vtb]

You forgot to mention what was, to me, the scariest part of How Do Children See Us When We're Drinking. The part where the parent with the sheer stocking over their head buckles the child into their carseat and closes the door before moving to get in the driver's seat.

[@princessfetus]

finally some recognition for HelloImPizza the best for compilations 💖💖

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

This would have taken a lot longer without their videos lol 🖤

[@pentexsucks43]

finally some recognition totals 31 mil views what

[@typicalchicken4479]

asked my dad if he remembers any, because i was very young when we moved to the UK, he doesn't but he said some South Korean ones in the early 2000's were horrifying.

[@amahmess]

There’s a PSA i vaguely remember being shown in middle school about meth. There’s this guy at a sink and he sees bugs crawling around under his skin. I don’t remember if its shown or just implied but he cuts at his arms to “get them out” but the sink just fills with blood cos its a hallucination. I think they were for the meth project since the tagline was “meth, not even once”.

[@bunhi5519]

deep end? cause they had one when a women slit her wrists open at a sink

[@Spruudel]

Yeah that sounds like Deep End to me as well

[@bunhi5519]

@@Spruudel yay! someone wo agrees! also sorry if my comment is triggering.

[@amahmess]

@@bunhi5519 yes!! It is that one actually. I dunno why i always remembered it being a guy

[@bunhi5519]

@@amahmess thank you!

[@lilrhia]

The Australian anti-smoking one is pretty upsetting, where the little girl is excitedly explaining to her dad what happened at a sports game, then trails off and says "I wish you had been there" and the guy is coughing and dying in hospital.

[@vaporeon1606]

I think this hair color looks really good on you!

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Thank you! 😊

[@thatgermanpotato1819]

I remember a PSA from 2005, “privacy is a crime”, I don’t know what I say it on but I vividly seeing it a couple of times.

[@paolasmorales-perez2481]

There was this one that SCARRED me as a kid. It involved ventriloquism. The abusive dad was the ventriloquist and the daughter the puppet. So sad and obscure.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

My dad is an electrical engineer and he would always make me and my sister watch these really scaring 90s electricity safety PSA's. I was terrified of electricity for the majority of my childhood. And even now I'm really paranoid about electrical fires. Every single time before I leave the house I go to the breaker and shut off the outlets in the kitchen and bathroom because those are the electrical outlets most likely to start fires (Due to humidity or steam or other liquids getting in there.). And I have dogs in my house that are there alone. Electricity safety PSAs were always the most scarring to me

[@edenanimates1465]

There’s one called turtle journey in 2019 Basically, after a sea turtle family go to see their grandparents, they go home, seems pleasant at first, but then you realise you see oil being dug in the background, one even catching a drop on its tongue, when they arrive home the sister’s camera glitches out and then we see the family, without their mum, one even says “where’s mummy” and text says “millions of turtles are dying because of oil” or something like that Oh, forgot to note THIS WAS AARDMAN WHO MADE THIS YOU KNOW, THE WALLACE AND GROMIT GUYS!

[@rowybowie]

I was kinda expecting to see one specific PSA from the US. It starts with a teenage boy writing on a desk in the school library, and next time he's there, there's a response, him and this mystery person keep talking and he meets her at the end of the year when she recognizes his handwriting. It's really cute but then another student opens fire. The rest of it is explaining how the kid who did the shooting was being bullied and very interested in guns and stuff. I really like it because the first time I saw it, I was like "wait is that kid holding a gun in that picture?" But I brushed it off, like everyone else in the story.

[@bunhi5519]

EVAN GOD DAMMITT