Back in 2002, Starbucks received plenty of grief over their “Collapse Into Cool” ad campaign, which appeared to take the symbolism described in Wilson Bryan Key’s perennial 1970s back-catalog bestseller Subliminal Seduction into the 21st century.
Starbucks quickly pulled the ad, but six years later, this viral video from a Dutch travel agency appears to also use 9/11 as its subtext, if much less obviously:
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