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This video is a spoken word about how the pop culture of todays world is desensitizing and telling people who and what to act like.
Ashley, the poet, has a strong sense of the worlds appeal to authority by saying that pop culture is telling people who to be and what to do and how to do it etc... just because they are famous. She provides no physical proof that these things she suggests are actually happening but she is convincing  enough that she does not need to. She is clearly religious so parts of the pop culture world may no coincide with her belief system causing a strong emotional and religious bias.

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Pop Culture is more than just Hollywood 

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Pop Culture is more than just Hollywood 

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Pop culture consists of anything that has made its way into popularity. One of these things is slang words that we may not even realize we are using everyday.

This photo has a lack of proof as it is just a list of words that the viewer may or may not recognize. It suggests an ideology that surrounds the society that we make up new words to represent other words. If you follow the chart the last bubble suggests that we will continue creating slang for words that already exist.

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Satan is Everywhere in Pop Culture Brands. 

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Satan is Everywhere in Pop Culture Brands. 

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This website suggests that the satanic symbol is in 5 corporate logos including Monster, Coke, McDonalds, SallieMae and Apple. They suggest a strong proof by verbosity theory by suggesting all sorts of different ways the logos can be interpreted to be satanic. They believe the Apple logo is suggesting that Steve Jobs made a pact with the devil by designing it to look like the same apple Eve (from the bible), took a bite from. The article also shows ideology and agenticity heavily present throughout.

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Monster is a huge icon in pop culture as you can find the logo on hats, bumper stickers, clothing etc...
In this video this lady is clearly a religious believer and suggests very strongly that Monster is the work of witchcraft, demons, Satan and more.
She poses quite a bit of questions as to whether she is telling the truth. There is lots of patternicity, agenticity and proof of verbosity present as she tries to convince the people around her that she is right and that the energy drink is evil.

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MONSTER Energy drinks are the work of SATAN!!!

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This photo shows a number of pop culture icons and suggests a thoughtful question followed by some examples of pop culture icons.
I believe most of these people and products are very important to pop cultureas they all rose to fame and became important symbols by doing something drastic. For example, Brittany Spears is well known and a great example as she was a pop star who had a mental breakdown, created top hits and was always in the publics view. Another example is the Harry Potter franchise. I was created and shot to fame with a series of movies and videos, creating a fan base believing in magic, mystery and wizards.

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Ghost Hunters is a popular show where mediums and others go and explore supposedly haunted locations with special equipment and a film crew.
This show seems credible and true but in reality it if filled with red flags. First is the confusion of correlation with causation. In the show they always make assumptions like "This is a very old building with strange noises, something paranormal must be happening". These kind of statements provide no evidence, are quite bias and are trying to make you believe it is true just because they seem legitimate ( an appeal to authority). As the show is pretty entertaining 98% of the time viewers may not think to much into the situations and just go along believing what they say is true just because they look professional and are on TV.

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This article is interesting as the mysteries were all solved by fans and written by one as well. It answers many questions such as "why is a raven like a writing desk?" and "Did Charlie Chaplin really time travel?".
I think this website is very believable and suggests an ideological support red flag. The fans supposedly solved the mysteries ending any sort of questions and other theories. They provide credible names and force facts upon you to make you believe what they are telling you.

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Yeah, that's not exactly what we were expecting, either, but at least it does sound like something Lewis Carroll would have come up with.
The Mystery:
In case your attention span is even shorter than ours, the Charlie Chaplin time traveling clip was one of the biggest non-rainbow related viral videos of 2010 (that wasn't a remix of the Trololo guy). Skip to about 1:35 for the interesting part:

It turns out that in the footage of the 1928 premiere of Chaplin's The Circus (included as a DVD extra in a recent collection), a woman can be seen talking on what appears to be a contemporary mobile phone. The uploader points out that it could also be a man in drag, but either way, the Internet soon decided this person had to be a time traveler.

Obviously not everyone bought it, but no one seemed to be able to provide a satisfying explanation. Radios of this size weren't available until the '50s, and walkie-talkies didn't even exist until the '40s (and even then, they were huge). So what the hell is it? Guess we'll never know for sure ... until someone sends her back to that moment, that is.
How They Solved It:
And then a YouTube commenter had to go ahead and ruin everything for everyone.

YouTube user Crennycrenshaw shattered the dreams of millions of sci-fi fans and Charlie Chaplin groupie wannabes simply by replying to the video with the following: " Go to Siemens hearing aid website and then click the link to view their history of hearing aids. The 1924 model has a picture that illustrates how it was held and it explains this mystery." Here's a comparison:

Hell, it could easily be the same guy in the video, a little older and dressed in women's clothes. As for why she's talking to herself -- have you ever seen an old person trying a hearing aid for the first time? They'll spend at least a day getting used to the fact that they can now hear themselves.
Jacopo would like to thank Rob Ager for his extensive research into 2001: A Space Odyssey and asks that you check out some more of his film analyses over at Collative Learning. For more ways fans have made things better, check out 6 Insane Fan Theories That Actually Make Great Movies Better and 5 Movie Fan Theories That Make More Sense Than the Movie. And stop by LinkSTORM to because your boss may or may not be in today. And don't forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter to get sexy, sexy jokes sent straight to your news feed. Do you have an idea in mind that would make a great article? Then sign up for our writers workshop! Do you possess expert skills in image creation and manipulation? Mediocre? Even rudimentary? Are you frightened by MS Paint and simply have a funny idea? You can create an infographic and you could be on the front page of Cracked.com tomorrow!

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6 Pop Culture Mysteries That Were Solved by Fans

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Yeah, that's not exactly what we were expecting, either, but at least it does sound like something Lewis Carroll would have come up with. The Mystery: In case your attention span is even shorter than ours, the Charlie Chaplin time traveling clip was one of the biggest non-rainbow related viral videos of 2010 (that wasn't a remix of the Trololo guy).

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Unsolved Deaths in Hollywood (click on "view original" to watch the video) 

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Unsolved Deaths in Hollywood (click on "view original" to watch the video) 

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When you think pop culture you think of Hollywood. This link is a video from E! that lists a few celebrities that died suddenly from unknown or mysterious causes including the OJ Simpson case.

The one case that stood out to me was of Brittany Murphy. She officially died of pneumonia and drugs at 32 in 2009 but they later thought it may have been toxic mold in the house as her husband died of the same thing, months later. What caught my attention though was her friend went to a medium provided by E!, a company that focuses solely on Hollywood news.
He mentioned the name Brittany and she quickly jumps to the conclusion it is Brittany Murphy giving the medium and easy way to continue and say " she is blaming an outside influence". This raises a confirmation bias and mystical energy red flag by suggesting he can talk to spirits giving the woman false hope which he then uses as leverage to trick her into thinking about a specific person. He most likely knew she was her friend, as they were on TV after all, so he said a name she might know and went from there. Personally I believe this E! medium was just stating facts that the company already knew and is simply making this woman believe its true to make himself seem credible for TV and the interview more believable. I do not think there is a way to fully know what happened unless they actually found the mold in the house and re-tested the bodies for that strain.

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Creepy Mysteries within the Pop Culture World

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Creepy Mysteries within the Pop Culture World

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This website contains a list of what the writer believes as creepy deaths that occurred to famous people.
I believe there is a red herring present all throughout this article. Critical thinking led me to believe that the writer is suggesting little pieces of information the readers may or may not already know to make his writing sound more believable. For example, he suggests that The Simpsons accurately predicts events that are going to happen in the future. He provides a picture of Bart and a magazine that has the letter 9 right beside two lines that look like an 11, supposedly showing what will happen in the future. This picture was from an episode in 1997, no one could possibly know what was going to happen 4 years later. Although The Simpsons have been right a few times the article is full of confirmation biases. The author believes something is true and he intends to prove it any way possible.

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We here at Listverse enjoy discussing conspiracy theories on a somewhat regular basis. Especially, especially if it really seems like it could be true. But we've barely even scratched the surface, because the world of show-business has some of the weirdest conspiracies of all.

10 Orson Welles
Prank Broadcast Was Psychological Warfare

The infamous Halloween Eve radio broadcast of War Of The Worlds has long been part of pop culture folklore. That night in 1938, Orson Welles panicked the nation with a mock news broadcast depicting a deadly alien invasion, and the power of the media was revealed to the world. But, according to one conspiracy theory, the panic was no accident.

It is known that the Princeton University Radio Research project-funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, in order to study the effects of media on society-published a study on the broadcast. The conspiracy theory asserts that the foundation-and therefore, the Rockefellers, who figure prominently in a wide array of theories-actually hired Welles to produce the broadcast with the intent of studying how the populace would react in the event of a genuine invasion (alien or otherwise). Tellingly, the study found that fully 25 percent of the six million listeners thought a real invasion was taking place, although most believed the invaders to be not aliens, but Germans.

9 Deaths Of Famous Actresses
Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood Murdered

While theories abound concerning any celebrity who dies young, two cases in particular have stuck in the public imagination in ways that few do: the deaths of Marilyn Monroe (in 1962) and Natalie Wood (in 1981). Monroe's death was a suicide, Wood's a tragic boating accident-but that's only if you believe the official line and Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi.

While Marilyn's suicide was generally accepted by the public (she was troubled, getting old for an actress (at 36), and the story fit her tragic image), later revelations about her involvement with the Kennedy family cast a retroactively suspicious pall over her death. Theories about the exact nature of that involvement vary almost as widely as theories about John F. Kennedy's assassination, but the most prominent is that it was a Mafia hit at the behest of Robert Kennedy to keep her from revealing her affairs with Robert, John, and even Ted. As for Wood, theories around her death (while aboard a yacht with husband Robert Wagner and actor Christopher Walken) were not much more than idle rumors and innuendo. That is, until the yacht's captain, Dennis Davern, published a book in 2008 which suggested that the "accident" came close on the heels of a fight with Wagner. Speculation intensified when police reopened the case with little public comment in 2011, but so far, the theories remain just that.

Interestingly, the Los Angeles County coroner on Wood's case-so-called "coroner to the stars" Thomas Noguchi-was a deputy coroner on the scene when Monroe died almost 20 years earlier. But the case that made him and his team famous (as he told them it would) was the assassination of Robert Kennedy, at LA's Ambassador Hotel in 1968.

8 John Lennon's Death
Killer Was Mind-Controlled CIA Assassin

The prototypical crazed stalker assassin, Mark Chapman shot John Lennon to death outside the Dakota apartment building on December 8, 1980. Beside the fact that he had just murdered one of the most famous and beloved figures in the world for no apparent reason, there were a few indicators that something was not quite right with Chapman: for one, the voice he claimed to hear in his head repeating " do it, do it." For another, the battered copy of Catcher In The Rye he was clutching as he sat waiting for the police, with one sentence scrawled on its inner front cover: "This is my statement."

Only three years earlier, there had been Senate hearings following the disclosure of the American CIA's project MKULTRA. One of the admitted goals of this project was brainwashing; specifically, it was alleged that one of the primary purposes of MKULTRA was to produce a "Manchurian Candidate," a mind-controlled assassin. One subjected to such treatment would display odd behavior indeed (as would somebody who is simply crazy, but we digress), and Chapman is not the only crazed shooter to display an odd fascination with Catcher In The Rye. But why would the powers that be want to kill Lennon?

Well, because he was a peace activist. Lennon was known to oppose the US war in El Salvador, and it's even been suggested that his benefit concert for activist John Sinclair in 1971 had first gotten him on the wrong side of American intelligence agencies. It's easy to see why this theory has legs. For his part, Chapman says that he killed Lennon for the notoriety, telling his parole board that society is so celebrity-obsessed that he's surprised they're not killed by crazy people more often.

7 Gangster Rap
Conference Promotes Genre For Horrifying Reasons

In the late '80s and early '90s, rap music was beginning to form pretty distinct sub-genres; the two most popular, in direct opposition to each other, being "conscious rap" (like Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest) and "gangsta rap" (like N.W.A. and the Geto Boys). But in a few short years, conscious rap had largely disappeared, while gangsta rap went on to dominate not just rap, but popular music in general. In April of 2012, a letter was posted to the blog Hip-Hop Is Read positing a breathtakingly simple and perfectly chilling explanation for this.

The letter's anonymous author claimed to be a music industry "decision maker" who was present at an invite-only meeting of like types in 1991. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the new direction of rap music, at the behest of a small group of people-also present at the meeting-who represented the private prison industry. The general idea was to begin almost exclusively promoting music that glamorizes criminal behavior, with gangsta rap being an obvious choice, in order to keep ghetto youth doing drugs and shooting each other-and keep those prisons filled. It's also suggested that conscious or political rap was hurriedly phased out at this point, since it would have been counter-productive to this goal.

Of course, due to the signing of a non-disclosure agreement (under heavily implied threat of violence), the letter's author can offer no verifiable details. The letter also fails to take into account the fact that gangsta rap's core audience consists of suburban white kids, who relate to its images of violence and drug use in much the same way that they relate to similar images in action movies and video games (that is to say, as pure escapism). But to those who wondered just why violent, misogynistic rap suddenly took over in the mid-'90s (and continue to wonder why it dominates to this day), this theory offers a disturbingly plausible account of how it might have happened and why.

6 Predictive Programming
TV, Movies, Books Hint At Events To Come

One common theme in conspiracy theories has to do with the behind-the-scenes puppet masters being fond of dropping lots of clues about their master plan, usually in plain sight. These clues almost always have to do with significant symbols, numbers, or other identifiable references to the occult, Freemasonry (the Masons being a gigantic target for conspiracy theories of all sorts), or specific dates or imagery.

This can supposedly be done in many ways (in architecture, for instance, or artwork), the most modern of which is what's known as predictive programming. For example, the above still, from a 1997 episode of The Simpsons, appears to put that "9" in a pretty strange place, right next to the image of the Twin Towers (which could be seen as an "11"). There are far too many potential examples of this to list here, with some obviously reaching pretty far to make the connections, and others being downright creepy-like the plot of the 1998 pilot of the short-lived Fox series The Lone Gunmen, which had government operatives hijacking a plane and crashing it into the World Trade Center.

Beyond flaunting their nefarious plots, predictive programming is said to play a role in softening up the public for the traumatic events that they predict, in ways that are undetectable to those being affected.

5 Subliminal Messages
Tactic Is Used To Condition Consumers

It's no secret (at least, not anymore) that extremely brief or cleverly hidden words or images can be placed within another image or film in such a way that the observer, while not making a conscious connection, is subtly mentally influenced by the message. The efficacy of this tactic has long been open for debate and has never been proven-but of course, this doesn't stop corporations from doing things like hiding images within their logos to try to bolster positive association with their brand. It may not work, but it can't hurt, right?

But according to this conspiracy theory, not only does subliminal messaging work, it works far more efficiently than we've been led to believe-and it's everywhere. Supposedly (and honestly, you really can make the case), the practice is mostly used in advertising to induce consumers to buy, usually with references to sex. Certain Coke and Pepsi ads in the early '90s were famously found to contain hidden sexual references (which the companies both claimed were coincidences).

One would think that, if effective, the only message necessary in subliminal advertising would fall right along the lines of "buy this product, and lots of it." But the subliminal sexual references, odd as they may seem, are not limited to advertising. Whether coincidental or some animator's idea of a joke, it's also been established that hidden references to sex appear with alarming frequency in Disney cartoons. Which brings us to . . .

4 Walt Disney
The Disney Company Is An Evil Empire

This cannot be disputed: the Walt Disney Company is one of the United States' oldest and most successful entertainment conglomerates. It was founded in 1923, and as of this writing consists of a certifiably insane number of subsidiaries. Disney has long owned the ABC network and all of its affiliated networks, including ESPN. The company made international headlines in 2009 when it acquired Marvel Entertainment for over US$4 billion, and again in 2012 when it acquired Lucasfilm for over US$4 billion more. The "House of Mouse" is probably the most influential and powerful of the tiny handful of huge corporations that control most of the media in the United States and, by extension, the world.

It also can't be disputed that, though a traditionally family-oriented business, Disney has allowed sexual images to make their way not only into completed cuts of their films, but also promotional and poster artwork. Many instances have been pointed out, from the overt (a couple of frames showing an image of a topless woman in The Rescuers) to the puzzling (a spire of the castle on the VHS cover of The Little Mermaid looks a hell of a lot like an erect penis) to the questionable (at one point in Aladdin, the Genie can be heard muttering offscreen something that sounds like "good teenagers, take off your clothes"). In each and every instance, changes were made to further releases, and chalked up to jokes by animators or simple misunderstandings. Why would Disney want to expose children (so to speak) to inappropriate sexual content, anyway?

Well, conspiracy theorists have their answers: Disney is all about sexualizing children. The Disney Company, they assert, wants to suck all of the money from the parents' wallets while rendering their children compliant, subservient consumers, and early exposure to these sexualized images is the first step in that process. Also, they say, because it's evil-mind-bogglingly, Satanically evil. And here is where some of the theories begin to tie in with each other, and the rabbit hole begins to look pretty deep, so please stay with us.

3 Monarch Mind Control
Most Celebrities Are Mind-Controlled Puppets

When MKULTRA was exposed in the mid-1970s, the CIA claimed that the program, begun in 1950, had long since been scrapped and had produced no viable results. But some conspiracy theorists will take issue with both of those statements: they'll say that attempts by the "power elite" to perfect mind control predate the CIA to at least the 1930s. They also say that MKULTRA never stopped, it just changed its name to "Monarch" and not only has it been perfected, but practically all of the world's most famous celebrities have participated. Especially those employed by Disney.

The programming supposedly consists of ritualized, regulated trauma and abuse, designed to cause the subject to "dissociate" and undergo a break from reality. Then, the "handler" is able to wall off and create multiple personalities-blank slates which can be programmed for a variety of purposes, like singing and dancing. Or killing. Or sex. Or all of the above.

According to the theory, this programming usually begins in fairly early childhood, sometimes with the direct cooperation of the parent. The subjects are used throughout their childhood and teens as sex slaves for the rich and powerful, and their public images are carefully nurtured. These images are plotted on a trajectory from squeaky-clean child star, to subtly sexualized teen idol, to full-blown object of desire (like Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears, both of whom were working for Disney as children). When such celebrities "melt down" (display bizarre public behavior), it's not simply the pressures of stardom, but broken mind-control programming. And they don't go off to rehab, but to be reprogrammed.

If it sounds like science fiction, consider the puzzling fact that Roseanne Barr once inexplicably blurted out-in the middle of an otherwise perfectly normal nationally televised live interview-that " MKULTRA mind control rules in Hollywood. If you don't know, Google that and look into it." Of course, we'd like to briefly point out that mind control should not be necessary in order to get young people to sing and dance for millions of dollars, but we digress. Because the rabbit hole eventually leads to where most rabbit holes lead.

2 The Illuminati
Aliens Control Music, All Entertainment

For being little more than a Bavarian social club that disbanded in 1785, the Illuminati have taken a lot of crap over the years for supposedly orchestrating everything bad to ever happen to any group of people at any point in time. And for such a shadowy organization, there certainly seems to be a wealth of information about their sinister agenda available to anyone with an Internet connection. You may have recently heard rumblings about Lady Gaga being a tool of the Illuminati, and laughed and laughed, because that is ridiculous. Until you consider the blatantly obvious occult symbolism in her videos.

No, really. It just kind of goes on and on: the "all-seeing eye" symbolism, the "Baphomet" poses-countless aspects of her stage shows, videos, and promotional photos are said to reflect her status as an Illuminati puppet. But by no means is this limited to Gaga: much of the same symbolism appears in videos by other female artists, like Katy Perry, Beyonce and (of course) Britney Spears. For that matter, it's not even limited to music. Illuminati/occult symbolism is said to be found all over popular culture, appearing in movies and books as well.

But why? Why use mind-controlled sex slaves to sell sex to a sex-starved public, while admitting the whole thing through a complex series of hidden symbols and imagery? Once again, conspiracy theorists are glad you asked.

1 Mass Media
Media Programs Our Thoughts

Consider the very first entry on the list, which some will tell you was a psychological experiment conducted to see the potential impact that mass media could have on the psyche and behavior of the populace. If we accept this to be even partially true, then it stands to reason that a great deal was learned from that experiment, and that the gist of the conclusion may have been this: the public is far more susceptible to manipulation by mass media than anyone ever could have dreamed. It also stands to reason that this knowledge would be employed early and often by those seeking to manipulate public opinion-like politicians and advertisers.

We indisputably live in a society where social norms and behaviors are taught to us largely by the media, from a very early age. We're taught to trust what we see and hear, and according to something of a Grand Unified Theory of pop culture conspiracies, that is no accident. We're very carefully conditioned from birth to consume, think, and behave in predictable ways. And while movies are great for conditioning social behavior, and music is great for instilling desirable (that is, terrible) values and morals, it's network television that they say really plays a role in shaping your reality, your expectations of life, yourself, and others.

Which, of course, may all be a coincidence. And while we find it much more likely that social science is very weird, that those with a lot of money and power tend to behave badly in the service of getting more of those things, and that being famous tends to make people kind of crazy-what can we say? We love a good conspiracy theory.

Mike Floorwalker's actual name is Jason, and he lives in the Parker, Colorado area with his wife Stacey. He enjoys loud rock music, cooking and making lists.

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10 Creepy Pop Culture Conspiracy Theories - Listverse

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We here at Listverse enjoy discussing conspiracy theories on a somewhat regular basis. Especially, especially if it really seems like it could be true. But we've barely even scratched the surface, because the world of show-business has some of the weirdest conspiracies of all.