Online Media
- The fictional crime-fighter, The Red Panda, featured on Decoder Ring Theatre, uses a highly fictionalized form of hypnotic power.
- The internet website YouTube has become a popular forum for learning techniques associated with both clinical hypnosis and stage hypnosis. Derren Brown, Richard Nongard, John Cerbone, Richard Bandler, Peter Powers and others have popular entertainment or instructional videos that have been seen on YouTube and this has increased the ease or popularity of learning hypnosis or viewing hypnosis as entertainment. It has also brought about the phenomena of "street" hypnosis, which is a form of impromptu hypnosis associated with busking.
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