of celebrities and domestic violence. A final criticism, exclusive to MTV Latin America, relates to the form in which titles are presented on the screen, which usually includes a variety of orthographical errors such as missing accents and use of exclamation and question marks. Critics argue that these errors do not aid in didactic learning for viewers, the majority of which are youth. However, MTV Latin America has also made many positive achievements. Between 2005 and 2006, MTV broadcast a campaign entitled “Don’t Kill the Music”, which aimed to broadcast a message of awareness to youth about music in general. As well the channel has created various projects to help independent Hispanic bands and musical artists. Controversy Subliminal message bumper On August 2002, there was a strong controversy over a 50-seconds bumper in the middle of an commercial break on the channel; The curtain showed a man with the Buddha position, 40 seconds later, some photos of pornographic content appear second by second (where some women are tied, gagged and naked). The bumper was so controversial, to such a degree that in the Brazilian version it was censored for having strong content and there were lawsuits. The bumper went off the air in March 2003 due to a programming change, it was not until nine years later at early morning on September 7, 2012 that curtain appeared again on the same channel due to unknown reasons. The last time since they have records of the bumper was on October 17, 2020 without giving an explanation. See also List of MTV Latin America VJs References MTV channels Television channels and stations established in 1993 Spanish-language television stations Television channel articles with incorrect naming style