Public service announcements

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A public service announcement (PSA), or public service ad, is a message in the public interest disseminated without charge, with the objective of raising awareness, changing public attitudes and behavior towards a social issue. In the United Kingdom, they are generally called 'public information films' (PIFs); in Hong Kong, they are known as 'announcements in the public interest' ('APIs').

Why They Suck

 * 1) Most of them try way too hard to be edgy and scary, but of course, they fail at it. The Real Cost is a good example.
 * 2) Some even have child violence.  There's even one in which a child shoots himself with a gun.'''
 * 3) There were some PSAs where people blew up teenagers, with blood and guts everywhere! That is so disgusting and very cruel, and even Cyber8 wouldn't be crazy enough to make those kinds of videos!
 * 4) They're just telling people that everything is dangerous, which shows they're wet blankets and don't even realize that pretty much a lot of things are safe, and you just have to be careful with the "dangerous" things.
 * 5) Sometimes these PSAs can be caused by a local community. An example can be College Music, in which the Study Girl livestream chat for that YouTube channel has people which talked about their stress and mental health issues, which would link to exam season. (mostly suicide and depression) Thanks to this, College Music had to collab with Samaritans to make the slightly atrocious Study Girl PSA to deal with these people that invaded the chat. Keep in mind, the stream started on December 10th, 2018 and the PSA was uploaded on April 30th, 2019. So chances are, the stream's chat became a chat for those that have suicidal thoughts, which may be possible proof that the chat was responsible for causing the PSA to happen before the latter date. This is serious because College Music now has to deal with suicidal people because of the chat.

Redeeming Quality

 * 1) There are some people only upload PSAs for satirical purposes or as a joke.

Examples

 * A PSA for UNICEF of an edited footage of The Smurfs, which includes animated falling bombs. This one appears in the GIF above.
 * A PSA for the Danish Road Safety Council where we see two cars crashing into each other... in reverse.
 * A PSA for the Delegation to the Security and the Road Traffic where a girl in a car unbuckles her seat belt and the man who is driving it crashes into another car.
 * The Entre Mas Rapido Manejas, Mas Rapido Te Matas series of commercials.
 * A PSA for Samaritans that College Music collaborated with where Study Girl (One of the characters from College Music) breaks down crying and attempts to kill herself. The PSA feels very wrong since Study Girl is just a girl that studies and has nothing to do with suicidal thoughts. (Unless you theorized that she is studying forever which makes her feel like it will never end)
 * Thankfully, YouTube gave out a warning towards those that clicked the video.