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 No.1860

I want to have a thread about hidden symbols in images. There are two types of symbols that could be put in an image. Secret symbols, like those in freemasonry. To understand their meaning you have to read up on them. Or symbols that have no secret meaning, but are there simply because they speak to us at a subconscious level. Whether you've heard of them or not, they affect you. This thread will be about the latter kind.

This first image is from another thread here and I think it is simply wonderful. The (not so) hidden symbol is of course the eye you see in the shadow of the lamp. Eyes have been found to be powerful symbols[1][2]. Yet it is still somewhat deniable, in that the symbol is formed by the shadow, and shadows are usually not the main point of an image, literally taking on a background role compared to the actual objects. In this case the objects would be the lamp, the guitar and the small table. The second image doesn't contain a symbol but rather is visually ambiguous as a whole on first glance.

That is the end of my knowledge and I would like to ask if /32/ knows anything more? To what extent can hidden symbols be used to manipulate? And is it commonly done?

[1]https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/daniel.nettle/ernestjonesnettlebateson.pdf (Effects of eye images on everyday cooperative behavior: a field experiment)

[2]http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0082055 (Do Images of ‘Watching Eyes’ Induce Behaviour That Is More Pro-Social or More Normative? A Field Experiment on Littering)

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 No.1861

What a coincidence, OP. I'm reading "The Age of Manipulation", which deals with subliminal messages including hidden images.

Images can be inserted into other images to attract the attention of the viewer, fixate the image in the person's memory or inspire a response.

Sexual imagery is often used to draw the eye and bring attention. This can be achieved by inserting genital shapes, or words like "sex" on the background. One instance of this is the fact that I always walked with my friend past a book stand, and the first book that always caught our eye was one titled "Deep Throat" (related to whistle blowers, if I remember correctly). This works because sex is treated as a taboo in our society, and we are trained to forcibly ignore it and repress it. This serves only further fixate it on our subconscious.

A feeling or response can be achieved by the insertion of words, symbols or lighting effects. A person cloaked in shadows and placed outside of the center of the image inspires much more dread and suspicion than one depicted with emphasis in a well-lit environment (the same person, with the same clothes and stance, that is). Other words like "kill", "blood" and "hate" can be inserted to associate the object depicted with negative feelings, as well as more abstract symbols like distorted faces and skulls.

Perhaps I am steering away from your intended topic. Apologies.

Imagine a website wanted to increase traffic. They could add images or words that generate a response to the background in a way that you cannot see consciously, but your eyes are still able to notice it and feed it to your brain. This theoretically could increase interest on the page both by those who are new and by those who are already familiar with it.

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 No.2044

>>1860

> they affect you

nope

to say that it affects everyone even if they are aware of it is nonsense

its been proven that music isnt remembered so well when it isnt consciously heard - and that is just notes

you know that feeling when you hear a non native language you know but cant identify the words? your brain registers even less whe it subliminal

with visual symbols?

this one is just nonsense

theres no magical genetic coding that makes you feel a specific and exact way about a specific type of marking

>inb4 the scientists are all in on it

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 No.2233

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>>2044

>theres no magical genetic coding that makes you feel a specific and exact way about a specific type of marking

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

it works both ways

shape <-> frequency

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 No.2235

subliminal messages != hidden symbols.

One is actual psychology, the other is a recipe for insanity.

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 No.3710

>>1860

This is a common practice in advertising, like visual sexual innuendos. Perhaps the mammalian brain doesn't pick up on it, but I'm sure the R-complex does.

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 No.3712

>>1860

It's just primitive instincts.

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 No.3747

>>1861

I completely agree. You have to understand that marketing people think about these types of seemingly extortionary tactics on a daily basis. The notion that "sex sells" goes beyond the concept of putting some big tits in a beer commercial. There are many ways that sexual logic affects many of the decisions we make.

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