💾 R.A.B.B. Entry #071 — Snake Oil Salvation (1992)
Alias: The Evil Snake PSA
Source: [Evil Snake Anti-Drug PSA (1992) - Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flqFnTlIY88
Tagged: Psychological Fear Tactic, Racial Narrative Distortion, Snake Agenda, Corporate Pantomime Theater
🐍 INTRO: THE DAY THE SERPENT SPOKE
You're chillin'. Maybe watching DuckTales, maybe sipping some Hi-C Ecto Cooler, maybe still trying to figure out what the hell was going on in Captain Ron. And then—this scaly demon shows up on your screen like Satan got a cable deal.
He's not just selling drugs. He's breaking the fourth wall, slithering out of your screen like a VHS version of The Ring. He's not whispering. He's hissing, manipulating, morphing.
And somewhere, a 7-year-old drops their fruit snacks and questions reality.
⚡ THE SCRIPT: MODERNIZED RECAP
Snake: “You know me. Don’t act like you don’t. Send your parents out the room.”
(Immediate psychological assault: isolate the child, break down the trust barrier, seduce like a predator.)
Snake: “I got what you need. Crack. Dope. Anything you want.”
(Normalize drug variety. No fear. Just a menu. Like you’re at Chili’s with Satan.)
Snake: “People say I’m poison. Say I’ll steal your soul. But would I do that to a kid like you?”
(Shapeshifts into horrifying lizard demon hybrid)
Snake: hiss “Yessssssss.”
Cut to black.
⛈ THE TERROR TACTIC: SHOCK & SCALES
The PSA plays like a horror short:
- Low lighting
- Body horror transformation
- Direct eye contact with the viewer
- Manipulative tone like a streetwise predator
It wasn’t education. It was emotional terrorism wrapped in latex.
JonTron said it best: “YOU LOOK LIKE A SNAKE!!! WHAT!? WHAT THE F*!?”**
And he was right.
Because this PSA didn’t teach you about addiction. It didn’t provide support or context. It said: Black = Drug = Demon. And that fear = control.
🤠 THE RACE ANGLE: BLACK = SCARED STRAIGHT
Why was the snake a black man? Why does every street PSA from the 90s seem to have a "cool urban vibe" when describing the downfall of society?
Because back then (and arguably still now):
If you wanted to scare suburban white America and reinforce stereotypes at the same time—you made the villain black.
And even though this PSA technically wasn’t for them— It was meant for us.
To scare us. To shame us. To tell us we were the problem. And if we ever stepped out of line? We’d become that.
This wasn’t just propaganda. It was a serpent-coded warning label stitched onto black skin.
🌿 THE STREET PHILOSOPHY: DEAL OR DIE
See, here’s what they didn’t teach:
- Why people sell drugs
- Why systems collapse around our communities
- Why black excellence often gets filtered through sports, music, or hustling because books are gatekept, and jobs are rigged
Snake ain’t scary because he’s evil. He’s scary because he’s right.
"You’ll lie. You’ll cheat. You’ll steal from your mother to get that fix."
Replace drugs with approval, survival, status, rent, and tell me society isn’t addicted too.
Hell, Snake was a better businessman than most CEOs. He just didn’t have the PR team.
🧠 R.A.B.B. FINAL ANALYSIS: WHY IT FAILED
This PSA tried to burn fear into us. Instead? It became a meme.
- The effects aged like cheese.
- The messaging ignored nuance.
- The horror was more entertaining than it was effective.
JonTron and others laughed, not because it wasn’t scary—but because the message had no meat.
All hiss. No bite.
Snake became a campfire tale for a generation that saw the cracks in the system. And the lesson we learned wasn’t "Don’t do drugs." It was:
Don’t trust the message when the messenger’s wearing a mask.
🌪️ PERSONAL FILE: BUYER VS SELLER
“If I’m the buyer, yeah I might get hooked. But if I’m the seller? You never smoke the stash. You stack the cash.”
And that’s the reality. Not everyone on the street is some broken junkie. Some were entrepreneurs with no startup loan. No generational wealth. Just product, demand, and hustle.
Snake didn’t fail because he was fake. He failed because he was too real for a cartoon audience.
🧨 R.A.B.B. CLOSING FILE: THE SCALES NEVER BALANCED
Snake was never the monster. He was the symptom. The avatar of what this country made and feared—all at once.
When you’re black, brown, poor, or just not what they expected, you don’t get a fair shot. You get:
- A costume.
- A stereotype.
- And a fear-based PSA instead of a future.
And if you make it anyway? They still hiss behind closed doors.
But you know what? Let ‘em. Because we don’t slither. We strike.
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