Basic Trope: A Jump Scare snuck into a seemingly innocuous piece of media.
- Straight: Subliminal Messages in Alice And Bob is a YouTube video claiming to show subliminal messages in the show “Alice and Bob”. After the third image, however, it cuts to a picture of a demonic woman accompanied by a scream.
- Exaggerated: The video then goes on to show a smorgasbord of Shock Site imagery, each picture accompanied by its own very loud scream.
- Downplayed: The video rapidly zooms into Alice’s face and it turns red monochrome, but there is no scream.
- Justified:
- Subliminal Messages in Alice and Bob was made by a Troll.
- David made it to prank one friend, only for it to become an Instant Web Hit.
- Inverted: A Shock Site video is suddenly interrupted by a picture of some cute kittens.
- Subverted: The video is titled “This Video Contains A Screamer”. However, no screamer appears and the video pokes fun at the viewer for thinking one would actually appear.
- Double Subverted: And then an image of Regan MacNeil accompanied by a scream interrupts that very message.
- Parodied:
- The screamer is named as The Scariest Screamer On YouTube! The screamer is Barney The Dinosaur, but the comments treat the video as if it lives up to its name.
- The screamers throughout the video are close-up shots of maggots and spiders with scary music cues. The rest of the video is... a wildlife documentary about the life cycle of various flies and spiders.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Subliminal Messages In Alice And Bob has nothing scary happen.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded:Fred: Subliminal messages video. Knew it was going to end like that…
- Invoked: Gina shows Harry Subliminal Messages in Alice And Bob in a bid to scare the living daylights out of him.
- Exploited: India inserts a screamer into an embarrassing video of herself to slow down the effects of Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!.
- Defied: Subliminal Messages In Alice And Bob is removed by the YouTube moderators for shocking content.
- Discussed: “18 years of internet use has taught me to never trust being told to turn the volume up.”
- Conversed: “Subliminal Messages? I bet the price of my house that these characters will get jumpscared…”
Back to Screamer Pra-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Hope you brought your brown pants!
