Sunday, February 3, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmj1ITl3dZg
The images that appear in this video are ones of people who have become become addicted to meth. Each person has at least two pictures-one of them before their meth addiction, and one of them after their meth addiction. The video argues against the use of meth by showing people exactly what they could turn into if they were to use meth. It uses the emotions of horror, pity, and disgust in order to convince people that one shouldn't use meth. The comment below the video helps to further the arguement by explaining that the people in the video are real meth addicts who had been arrested on multiple occasions for possesing drugs. This means that the effects of drugs on those people was real, and not fake. This prevents someone from ignoring the pictures as fakes. The description also explains how the people pictured became so grotesquely mutilated by informing the viewer that the hillucinatory side-effects of meth sometimes cause people to feel the sensation of bugs crawling under their skin, and how, because of this, people will try to tear away at their skin. This scientific exlanation further pushes the truth of what happens to meth abusers into the viewers mind. Some of the people in the video don't even resemble human beings after their addiction to meth. This shocks the viewer into not wanting to try meth. This ad works to persuade people away from meth use by showing people the shokingly disgusting, real-life affects meth has had on people.

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