Digital Horror: The Gen Z Childhood Trauma Genre

[@dysphoria-chan]

Just imagine in 10 years when "TikTok Aesthetic Horror" or "KZbin Kids Aesthetic Horror" became a thing because nostalgia

[@bowldawg4394]

KZbin kids is already a horror in of itself with elsagate levels of content being made there

[@RunningOnAutopilot]

KZbin kids is horror by accident because all children are psychopaths who love violence and fucked shit mixed with power fantasy and sex sells as soon as puberty Innocence is a lie and people get more innocent over time as adults and osmosis normalize them Back in the day coliseum matched and public executions were good family events Imagine if YT kids was horror on purpose that would be gold

[@SuperHorrorBro666]

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[@SuperHorrorBro666]

​@@bowldawg4394yeah

[@Flippylover_69]

I mean things like weirdcore already exist. I know the aesthetic isn’t exactly in the digital horror style, but you can’t deny it draws some inspiration. Particularly with some of the more.. surreal examples of digital and analog horror.

[@appleseed8282]

You know what the real digital horror is? The fear of every video containing jump scares. I lost trust in KZbin for a good 3 years or more because 2/10 videos had Jump Scares. Chris Angel vid? Jumpscare Lepricans in the woods? Jumpscare Easter egg (?) Video about that ps2 Ed Edd and Eddy game? You already know. Edit: Sorry for taking a while to put this in, but Tzer found it 100%! It was a EEaE glitches video from davidevgen

[@RedstonePower123]

i remember in a spooky scary skeletons video i watched back in 2013 there was an absolutely ear piercing jeff the killer jumpscare with strobe lights, i was shaking for hours after that

[@Daimaza]

Disabled comments/likes and dislikes, low views, too good to be true content, unusually short video length, telling you to "look closely, turn up volume". As much as I shit my pants because of those videos, in a way I also miss them.

[@yebchaos]

How to unlock darkrai and shadow Luigi in Smash bros. Brawl.

[@pineapplealien2907]

Yep! A few of those subliminal message videos the video talked about also had screamers that got me too, since they already set up a weird and quiet atmosphere. There was one about subliminal messages in the dollar bill that told you to "look closely" and then got you.

[@guillermorolandoferradaven9]

I remember that when I first got into KZbin there was a wave of subliminal message videos, and many of them had jumpscares.

[@yebchaos]

Digital horror has so much more potential for variety than analog, because prior there really wasn't much to innovate. With digital, there are so many crevices and forms of media that's really niche but are so extremely familiar.

[@LegioXXI]

idk, maybe its because im "too old" but i find most of the examples (except the soldier faces, like, dafuq) for digital horror in this video is unintentionally funny than scary. It also could just be the meme culture that ruined a lot of the themes for me, like the Windows Movie Maker effects. I can't stop myself from expecting a "You laugh, you lose" compilation whenever i see those, even tho i gew up in a time where those were used unironically. But I still think that digital horror can work and that the examples of this video only scratched the surface. I mean: creepy ambience of empty Source-Maps is one of the strongest uncanny themes the "digital horror" has to offer, and it wasn't even mentioned here. Or like, any 4th wall breaking that games or (fake) programs did. On a computer you are supposed to be in control and even if you don't know the code that is working under the hood, it is still code that has predetermined outcomes and behaviours. If this stuff suddenly behaves strange like your machine has cought a virus or is even influenced by the supernatural, it can be one of the most creepy things to exist. Losing control to a malicious entity, is just one of the most scary things, even in a virtual realm.

[@sidereus95]

I'm surprised you didn't include screamer or jumpscare videos. I remember just how prevalent they used to be alongside subliminal messaging videos (sometimes combined, asking the viewer to turn up their volume so they can hear the "message.") They were so frequent that people made just as many how-to videos on how to avoid them.

[@alexoxo1]

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who was obsessed with subliminal message videos but surprisingly none of them had jumpscares. Jumpscares were in the most random videos

[@sidereus95]

@@alexoxo1 I think I came across them in tandem so much because they both overlapped with the whole "what's wrong with this picture" style of content.

[@w花b]

Nooo you just digged out the craziest memories I didn't want to remember...

[@marcusanark2541]

Don't forget all the conspiracy videos with The Matrix and Requiem For A Dream music .

[@bun-e9361]

Maze Game was terrifyingg.

[@brsajo]

I can imagine an alternate world where Animator Vs Animation took a digital horror approach instead of an action focused theme. If the animator didn't have as much power but the cursed stick figure does, it would be quite scary to imagine accidentally creating a sentient virus that messes with your life and actively tries to stop you from destroying him

[@Spongyboi897]

Honestly, I need a digital horror version of the typical plushie videos from the late 2000's or the early/late 2010's

[@Smiley_404]

How would they mess with your life?

[@JJSquirtle]

The nostalgia. God I loved Animator vs Animation on Stickpage

[@dibbingsauce]

@@Spongyboi897 "Jeffy, stop i-" *skipping audio as melting jeffy face appears over some old 1920s music on full blast*

[@snowman3456]

I love the alan becker team. And i'm glad it is what i grew up with

[@Billy.X]

Gosh, I LOVED the feeling of being curious, anxious and creeped out at the same time watching these videos when I was a kid.

[@alexoxo1]

Right? Sometimes you’d just stumble into those odd low quality videos and something would just feel off or disturbing about it.

[@פוליטיקטינסקיקליינר]

Same

[@beavercontrol1743]

kfc murder chicks, yeah i think you did lol

[@cheechunlimited]

The feeling that everything is out to get you after watching some scary youtube videos Is something so special but painful at the same time. KZbin isn't like that now, I'm hoping digital horror can bring that back;)

[@cloudypine3683]

Lmfao whenever I see "let me hear your war cry" I always crack up laughing, because the first time I watched it, I immediately screenshotted both faces, sent them to my best friend, and we had them as matching pfps for a month.

[@AL_420]

"babe wake up Raymundo 2112 just posted a new video"

[@JesperBooperDooper]

HELL YES HONEY!!!!!

[@TheProphetLot]

Who's babe?

[@AL_420]

@@TheProphetLot idk

[@TheProphetLot]

@@AL_420 what I needed to hear

[@irate_g5mer673]

@@TheProphetLot babe is like his wife

[@Tanuki_Catmoth]

Weirdly enough both analog and digital horror would be creepily nostalgic because growing up I dealt with both video cassettes and dvds (I was born in 2002) Also I just found your channel and it’s very fun to listen to your vids while I’m at work honestly :)

[@gingermint1230]

Yes, same! I still have some of our cassettes and VHS stuff. Man, it brings back memories.

[@Skeleton_With_VR]

its cool how some people have nostalgia for eras they werent born in because they grew up with certain things from that era i have nostalgia for N64 games despite being 15 right now and not born in the 80s-90s

[@azazellon]

Born in 1998. Grew up on VHS and CDs. Still have a hoarding-level collection of both (I have a huge CD rack with hundreds of artists) and like...seeing comments on old recordings of media with "omg it's like analog horror video" just..disheartens me a little bit.

[@Skeleton_With_VR]

@@azazellon yeah

[@legoboy7107]

Same. I grew up with both forms of media. (Actually I still have all the VHS video tapes I grew up with, and we still have a DVD and VCR hybrid box, and a CRT TV which I currently have my Wii hooked up to). I also used Windows XP all the way through like 2016, and only had to stop because the computer physically stopped working one day.

[@Fighting.Flower]

It's so cool, i'm old enough to get analog horror, but young enough to also get digital horror! My my my is this gonna be a smooooth transition for me! (or, more realistically, a very jumpy transition treating the pause button as my dear friend while always looking ahead to make sure i'm not gonna scare myself TOO much.)

[@פוליטיקטינסקיקליינר]

When where you born? I also am, even though I'm a little more on the digital side. Born 2004. But early childhood included old tv, tapes, cd's.. all the good stuff. And then entered the internet era and went directly to the eerie shit. I had so much fun on the internet with these niche eerie stuff that it's insane. I wish there was more to explore in that.

[@Fighting.Flower]

@@פוליטיקטינסקיקליינר I do not want to expose such private information over KZbin. And yeah, i wish more people started dipping into digital horror, there's so much actually horrifying potential that people just aren't tapping into.

[@w花b]

H-Hey..! Stop flexing.. ÚwÙ

[@פוליטיקטינסקיקליינר]

@@Fighting.Flower oh reasonable. Yeah I love it :,)

[@Wawan778]

No one makes videos showing the true trauma and fear and videos that really defined our generation you pick the best videos that really scared a lot of us especially the subliminal message stuff and explain them so well I feel like we all had the same childhood sometimes you’re an absolute legend

[@assasinerd6650]

Sometimes youre an absolute legend

[@fwoofydoesart]

Honestly, if Tara the android was in the right hands, it could've been great. Tara could be Miku in an alternate universe

[@liulfrmcshane]

I think it's really sad that, according to the most recent info, after Tara's creator passed away, all his android stuff was lost/thrown out. It's just too bad someone with the same thought process couldn't've taken up the mantle and further developed it.

[@פוליטיקטינסקיקליינר]

Genius

[@sk8ingopossum]

Honestly I think there should be way more digital horror based on source games. Games like Team Fortress 2 are always so off putting when playing alone or hell even when playing with bots!

[@cyanified]

what abt old mc singleplayer?

[@ERRORDownBad]

There's like one arg based on l4d2 and what's scarier is that it effected the channel too

[@erykzysk3330]

@@ERRORDownBad link? 👀

[@Χριστίνα.Π]

Childhood trauma it's satisfying for a reason yet nostalgic

[@springcheese3642]

I think the series “Will It Kill Me?” by the KZbin channel Lupus Creepus could fall into this category, I remember watching that as a kid and being scared.

[@MarsMakes]

OH MY GOD SAME. those videos creeped me out so much.

[@dreamymelody12]

My childhood 😭 man the way I would watch so many unsettling videos and read creepypasta that I become desensitized to it 😶 I've seen/read so many messed up things

[@emilyjones9787]

AAAA that was a blast from the past 🥰

[@alexwasherefirst]

I miss watching those back in the day

[@CrownedCryptid]

YES I cannot wait for this to become more a trend, there are so many avenues for storytelling with this idea, that crazy thing with the "watc" link is a perfect example of how insanely creative and cryptic this can get. I would love to see the aesthetics of early 2000s tech and web appear more in creative works. Personally I remember watching old Mario Bloopers videos, which I could tell as a kid were meant to be funny (even though I didn't get the adult jokes) but there was still something off about them that really got to me, and sort of still does. A specific one about Mario 3 has a scene where Mario and Toad get arrested (the Cops theme song plays over it) and something about that scene always weirded me out.

[@SwaggyG_2102]

While analog horror is a favorite horror genre of mine, I tend to prefer digital horror more as I relate alot to that genre, given how I grew up during the late 2000s to late 2010s, having most of my childhood coming from the internet.

[@ThermalLabs]

Same

[@SkyrushFanboy]

Love the vids bro! I've watched the childhood trauma videos many times now, they're so good! The nostalgia you give is amazing, and I can't believe I'm almost 19 now. I wish I could be in 4th grade again! Random, but I thought I'd bring up that The Dark Crystal movie freaked me out when my parents would put it on. If you look it up, it's self explanatory as to why many children were terrified by that movie I don't know if you've seen it before, but "Girl goes psycho during makeup tutorial" is a pretty scary KZbin video I watched with my older brother when we were WAY too young to be on KZbin. I didn't sleep that night lol. It messed me up

[@allieg.5143]

First off, I recognize you from coaster video comments so hello!! And oh my GOSH I remember watching the one about the girl doing the make up tutorial at school in the library- so freaky ugh

[@cancledacc]

It is such a complex feeling to explain. I love that there is a community for this type of stuff, because subtle horror that is unnerving unintentionally is really creepy to me

[@kusuossecretgf5401]

Dude you're so underrated, I'm actually praying for you to get more subs cause you deserve it!

[@Raymundo_2112]

Maybe one day!!! I appreciate it bro

[@kusuossecretgf5401]

@@Raymundo_2112 No problem!

[@DjDeadpig]

@@Raymundo_2112 hey man I’ve got something really serious I need to tell you and it regards to lost media

[@sweefox]

I was born in 1991, so I was a teenager in the early days of KZbin & I still remember being creeped out badly by many of those videos xD

[@steviedraws2770]

Oh good, same here

[@ladylunatic6549]

Anyone else get hella scared while watching these videos and covering the screen or scrolling through the comments? I love horror, and maybe I am just being a scaredy cat, an odd combo I know, but I can't help but get so unnerved by this stuff. Even though it's just a video covering this topic lmao

[@odnorando8684]

I did too, you aren’t alone

[@madztheidiot]

I'm a major fan of horror but I hate jumpscares, so I guess I'm not alone either

[@ChillingDusselgurr]

Definitely same. Idk why but I used to stomach it way better when I was a teen, but nowadays seeing a spooky face in a video once might steal my entire night's sleep xD but the topic of horror in itself is so interesting it's so unfair! Hahah Anyway yeah dw, you're definitely not the only way too curious scaredy cat. I guess we're kinda like the people in a horror movie who walk into the spooky basement in the middle of the night despite it clearly being a very bad idea in their case lmao

[@HomekittyL2]

I like the macabre and creepy details in horror stuff, but I hate jumpscares. I prefer the more slow and unnerving things as opposed to cheap jumpscares

[@speedygoblinshark]

@@odnorando8684 same

[@creative-name5279]

I never thought someone would talk about the creepy ievan polka video. I saw that years ago on KZbin and it really freaked me out. I think I threw my phone. The woman in the video is actually Orihime from the anime Bleach, and I believe the scene was ripped straight from the show in one of the early episodes. It was so obscure that I assumed nobody else would know about it.

[@marcopolo8584]

SCP started out like this. That's what made it so freaky, the terse descriptions of events and simple site format made it feel like you got into a secret government server, and that gave you a very real feeling that these creatures and artifacts were really out there.

[@Copium445]

Gen x made the original media Millennials edited the media Gen z witness the horror of the edit media

[@pundertalefan4391]

Pretty accurate.

[@lunarskygacha9036]

I genuinely love Digital Horror as a concept, it has alot more room for storytelling.

[@SteveElOtaku]

As a late, late Millennial, a lot of this Gen Z horror rings true to my experiences. It's kind of great getting to share the traumas of two generations.

[@haybale287]

Nobody is saying it's Gen Z specific lol

[@random_5130]

I remember watching the Mullet Mike tails doll video when I was like 7 and my dad was right next to me Mullet Mike decided it would be a good idea for this to be his only video that has swearing in it

[@retrogamer7543]

I remember my cousin and I would believe in sonic creepypastas to scare ourselves and whenever I would sleepover her house we would watch the mullet mike videos and then when it was time to sleep we would spend all night alert until we fell asleep and ask each other “I saw tails doll in the distance out the window” or “sonic.exe was right by the door I heard him” good times ahaha I get sad and nostalgic thinking about it

[@pundertalefan4391]

Welp. Reminds me of when I liked iCarly, and an episode cam on in front of my mom, so I showed it to her. Then they talked about kissing. Like, making out type kissing. Awkward. Looking back on it, I probably shouldn't have been watching that show when I was younger. XD

[@jaybird1512]

Funny story with the I Feel Fantastic video. When I was younger, like 6 or 7, my cousins started playing the video on a speaker and closed the blinds in their room. They did this cuz they thought the video was cursed and wanted to see if it was true lol. Anyway, they locked me out of their room to "protect me" but it just ended up scaring me more cuz I was in a dark hallway alone with this creepy music blasting through the door. Everytime I see the video now, I just laugh cuz it's funny to me

[@gregorywarren6520]

i just got finished the child hood trauma iceberg my first video from you and i loved it complete coincidence i finished in time for this

[@fluffcake]

This brings back memories of me using my Mom's phone for copious amounts of time and watching mlp, anime clips, and let's plays before falling out into the weird side of KZbin shortly after.

[@pinkponcho3]

i was born in the early 2000s, but my family never really had internet access until the mid 2010s. I remember one night i was at my grandparents house and used my grandpa's computer to play some games. i remember i was looking up a tutorial for a level i was stuck on and ended up finding a lot of creepy videos like this.

[@pessimisticdiabetic717]

I truly love the digital horror such as Catastrophe Crow, Petscop, and BrandonWorks. The way that the lore worked was incredible to me and how the trauma aspect worked into it, was objectively, really interesting to me for some reason? And the way that all of them worked, with similar settings of trauma but how all of them worked in different intricate ways.

[@logic9680]

Funnily enough, me and my uncle would drive around his farm on his tractor searching for zombies. It was weird and stupid, but I look back at it and remember the innocence of childhood. Makes me feel good, you know?

[@Raymundo_2112]

That’s actually really sweet

[@NON-BINARYKINGOFDARKNESS]

​@@Raymundo_2112fr

[@BlueKoraidon]

@@Raymundo_2112hi listen I like some of your stuff but I just want to say that the childhood trauma thing scared me

[@DoktrDub]

The great thing about digital horror is that there is so much you can do with it that it doesn’t need to necessarily be nostalgic to freak you out, same with analogue horror but much more diverse.

[@videoslocosxDokno]

Growing up I was never really scared of horror movies, they were just fun to watch, but MAN that one video of the creepy red guy got me BAD. Early internet stuff just hits different, it feels real no matter how fake it seems now

[@Jade93972]

God does any one else remember those 'optical illusion' videos that would get you to stare at the screen and then jump scare you. God someone make a digital horror series based on those.

[@BuddHound]

Yes!

[@watermelonman8430]

I think you've captured something that a lot of people have a hard time putting into words much less an actual video. i'm not super aware of what everyone has posted on youtube but this stuff is super niche and the most interesting shit since it comes from an era where the internet's "wild side" was dying out and slowly becoming more mainstream. i wouldn't be surprised if you're one of the super rare many to start talking about this stuff and or actually put a label on it: "digital horror." this type of stuff is just something you had to be there for, a moment in time, gone and now only archives and or memories exist to tell about it. side note ranting: hoping this becomes more of a thing, and not a fan of analog horror.

[@15098D]

I'm so glad I wasn't the only who had these experiences as a kid. I remember being legitimately terrified of Herobrine and Tailsdoll. I really hope digital horror picks up

[@sonofsparda657]

herobrine yes, but tailsdoll scared me at first... and then i read a creepy pasta about it that started off really well and then ended in an "and then, and then, and then" way and i was done with it. like, "and then it came out of the t.v. but i ran away, but it chased me. and i hopped a fence, but it had a chainsaw and kept chasing" and i was just like.... "wait... where the fuck did it get that from, and why does it need the chainsaw? isnt it like... a demon?"

[@goosefruits]

0:38 Those are just the ceiling people wishing you goodnight, to get them to go away just say goodnight and kiss their hands

[@OxTime]

crazy coincidence, this was JUST uploaded after i started making a playlist of old youtube videos to take inspiration from for my own content

[@cyanified]

can i use?

[@ifeelathome]

I LOVED all of these Digital Horror mentions you made I love Analog Horror too but Digital Horror justs hits different in a way I cannot explain It's probably why I love smaller horror shorts like those instead of full length horror movies a lot more Edit: Petscop was literally my childhood I loved it so much

[@barrysteakfriessimp_real]

something about edits of innocent animations being turned into something disturbing and gorey feels really uneasy to me. like, it's not particularly frightening, but it just feels... off and kind of, how do i put it, catastrophically sad with a feeling of dread. stuff like 'Happy Tree Friends' is okay because you expect it to be gorey and it's more silly like a children's cartoon, but stuff like 'WB Splatter' is just so... unsettling and uneasy. sure, it's still slapstick and kinda silly, but the way dead bodies are animated falling onto the floor and the way it's framed like a lost episode creepypasta is just so... creepy. and it's weird, i grew up watching gorey Mario flash animations and i loved them for how awesome they were (Mario's Castle Collab anyone?), yet the edits are more unsettling and creepy, they stick with you.

[@paranormeow]

god I LOVE digital horror, it just perfectly captures the parts of my childhood where I was hanging out on my dads PC looking at something I wasnt supposed to see, its just so special to me AGH. Love to see your take on it!!

[@wispy_nova]

I think Digital Horror is far more terrifying than Analog horror. Vita Carnis and Blue Channel are the only Analog horror that have scared me as of recent. Far more Digital Horror has scarred me WAY more than Analog horror, too many for me to list!

[@isolatedirectorofficial]

Yo! Thanks for shouting out Thermal Laboratories! I’m actually friends with the guy & he’s got some cool stuff!

[@MG-fv4oj]

I love it when you play the old creepypasta piano reminds me when I saw these type of horror videos in elementary and middle school.

[@freduardo7499]

I had all but forgotten falling down the rabbit hole of subliminal message videos as a kid! I always felt pretty unnerved after watching them - the idea of, for example, a big movie studio with intentions of implanting a sinister message into audiences' minds without their awareness of it is very creepy. Thankfully i managed to avoid the jumpscare videos. I recall being extremely cautious about which video i clicked on, for fear that it might have a jumpscare lol. Subliminal message videos eventually led me to "backmasking" and "binaural beats" videos (two more forms of supposed subliminal messaging), which ultimately led me to i-Doser videos, although i was too afraid to watch the ones promising to induce anxiety and/or nightmares if i listened to them.

[@nyxgeist]

Idk how you don’t get more views on your videos dude they’re all so good and sooo well put together. You deserve so much more credit!!

[@extremis5002]

Despite the fact that I was born in 2006, all those classic things still hold a somewhat nostalgic feeling to me. It's weird, seeing as I wasn't on KZbin for a while, and I still find this stuff really nostalgic.

[@boorka5954]

I'm from Poland so I didn't really grew up with videos mentioned here. But what I remember to this is day is JJayJoker's (a very popular polish youtuber in 2011-2013) Minecraft Let's Play series which had 2 weird/scary moments to it: - On the end of season 1 (his whole let's play series had 3 seasons total) his base got utterly destroyed by someone who referred to themselves as "hackers" or something, which let JJay miserable. At that time (it was 2012 I think) I thought it was real and felt sorry for him. - Second half of season 2 was more story focused, where JJay and his friend Gromek found discs of traveler that got zombified. Said traveler mentioned some sort cult, so they started to investigate their base - giant church and underground base. In that base they found some prisoner who joined on their search through underground. Said prisoner died later in lava trap and while his voice acting were a bit held back and more comical than scary nowdays, back then 11 year old me was terrified hearing his death "screams". If I got something wrong, please forgive me, it was 8 or so years since I watched whole series.

[@L0rdOfThePies]

I love hearing of other countries child horror stuff 😅 im not American but i grew up on the English speaking internet so its nostalgic for me

[@SatanicPizza]

I don't know that youtuber, but this reminds me of all the horror story focused Minecraft videos, where they explored abandoned buildings with skeleton heads and pumpkin heads in them, paintings and blood(redstone). That was scary 🥴

[@moonsick1845]

i distinctly remember being in fifth grade and talking to a friend who was doing "the hand thing". I asked her what she was doing and she smiled at me and told me to look up "the hand thing" on yt once i got home, and little me was not aware i had automatonophobia yet. It was 3 am, I'd snuck into the living room, lil me in late 2014- early 2015 was not ready LMAO

[@f7bye]

I love how i used to be terrified of hand thing, but now when I watch it its actually pretty funny, and a neat art project

[@mrpoggers8606]

This is really great dude! I've been subscribed for a while now and I gotta say you got some of the best content I've seen in a very long while!

[@eyvweblog]

a thing I love about this genre is that if someone has a good idea for a horror series, they don't need to get a bunch of vhs equipment in order to make it look good/accurate. There isn't as much of those annoying cliché videos with cheap jumpscares and video filters.

[@TheFlaminShovel]

Let's go! I've been waiting so long for a new video from you!!!

[@spreak183]

The shit that traumatized Gen Z is the same shit that has them cackling and laughing their asses off today lol

[@Oddstories]

SHAYYYYYEEEE! Yeah, one of the big contributes to that creepy feeling is frame rate. That's why you can see a big difference between the original "Evil Dead" with something over produced by today's standards. Frame rate and grittiness tends to be a big deal.

[@brobs0463]

Seriously underrated channel, love your vids

[@toksinblack]

I'm surprised Marble Hornets were not mentioned once in the video. And yes, I do understand that it's a bit different to the subject matter, since it's just recordings from both VHS tapes abd digital cameras and doesn't use any elements of editing software or glitches (mostly), but it's very authentic to the time it was released in 2009. I think if you wanted to make a digital horror series it's a good reference for well done horror in general

[@Marchingvenusaur]

That doll face war cry clip still fucking scares me. I hate it

[@torki3697]

I did not feel uneasy while you were talking about bionicles. I was just really angry you called Matoro Nokama

[@desil30stm]

Oh gosh the ''I feel fantastic'' and '' the ''There is nothing'' videos creeped my out so much in my teens. Stuff like Shay St-John too.

[@omarolmosstudios7060]

Back at it again with your Magnum oppus again

[@guillermorolandoferradaven9]

Wow I love your new avatar! The way it moves is amazing! Congratulations man, your avatar rocks!!!

[@iorgicha3608]

The "I feel fantastic" and the one where the girl doll sitts at the end of a table and then plants her face in her bowl (don't remember the name, can't think of a better way to describe it) videos scared me so much as a kid, to this day I am terrified of life-like dolls.

[@pundertalefan4391]

There is Nothing.

[@kanathebagel]

A lot of the videos that scared me as a kid don't bother me now. But for some reason the let me see your war face video still makes me so uneasy.

[@steampunkllama]

if you want something thats a more intense version of the levan polka one, i'd reccomend a video called "Cucumber Flavored Yukkitori." it feels like an old anime meme video (think caprihina, cirino's perfect math class, if you know you know), but gets super creepy and wild after luring you in with that false sense of security.

[@Campedavey]

Thank you for making the realest Gen Z trauma video. For some reason we get lumped in with Gen Alpha and deemed too young for a lot of these videos. I'm almost 21 years old as a member of Gen Z. KZbin wasn't even out til 2006. All of this stuff was unfortunately my childhood.

[@regularchannel244]

In fact was released in 2005 instead 2006

[@dustin6139]

mullet mike and mutahar's old creepypasta videos are the fuckin PEAK of digital horror ngl

[@maxwellb0625]

"I feel fantastic" was the shit that horrified me the most as a kid. Too this day it still gives me a feeling of being watched

[@soothingmeow22]

Headphones were off before 2012, Bluetooth headphones weren't really a thing but the talking about zombies and making zombies survival stuff was spot on it reminds me of making videos with my buddies in high school with my iPhone 3g

[@deuce5546]

Webseries using slenderman in general are a good example of Digital Horror: Marble Hornets or EverymanHYBRID, are horror series that use the limitations of hand digital cameras and edition to their advantage. You should check them out.

[@crucifiedmoths6820]

barrack settlement yume nikki theme + based + awesome video + you've got a subscriber in me + im liking the video + good choice of music as previously mentioned in the beginning

[@crucifiedmoths6820]

oh my god i got a heart my life is completel and i fouynd my new favorite youtuber lets go

[@theincrediblegeneral5135]

I saw petscop when it came out, I was 8 and instantly fell in love. I'm 13 now and I still love petscop and I remember sitting there in awe during the final scenes from the last episode. If you also liked petscop go watch sheriff domestic.

[@randomcrap1184]

I like analog horror, but it falls into the same trap every other trend online horror media falls into. You have one or two really successful, well done projects that spawn dozens of imitators that creates a sub-genre that becomes so formulaic and watered down that it turns that entire sub-genre into a punchline. It started with Marble Hornets and Creepypasta's. You get one successful story about a haunted video game or old TV show, and the next thing you know, every video game you ever played and every kids show that ever existed somehow has a haunted or evil copy of it floating around somewhere... Somehow managing to tell the exact same story while getting more and more ridiculous at the same time. The Backrooms is still relatively new, and it's already becoming watered down... That's the price of internet fame I guess. It's no surprise Analog fell into the same trap, and to be honest, there's only three for four really good or original stories being told in that format anyway. I'll say the same thing I do with all these other horror projects. Respect and admire the ones that are actually good, original, and put the work in to make their projects unique and stand out... Don't lump them in with all the countless imitators trying to carve a few seconds of fame out of somebody else's back and diminish what was a truly original idea.

[@ceruleanhorrors]

Dude, this video is amazing! I love your iceberg videos and watched all of your videos, you are so talented in KZbin. Wish you the best in the future!

[@lightyami5934]

I just fealt surprizingly nostalgic,but not scared,since I understood the horror years ago...gotta say,thank you for reminding me of the better times when I had nothing much to do and just watched a lotta videos on youtube and was just a kid. Thank you and have a wonderful day!

[@LilPistachiofr]

Thanks for showing I feel fantastic. I almost forgot about it, and now youve shown it again. Bye bye good nights sleep.

[@Haunted_Plush]

I wonder if dhmis could be put beside digital horror, not _in_ that category but like right next to it. I remember hearing about it a lot but not seeing it until about a few years ago, when I was a freshman in high school. I only saw two episodes but it scared me *sh-tless*. I had genuine trauma from the experience, and couldn't even see a thumbnail on youtube without getting oddly anxious. I actually got back into it recently after hearing everyone sing the new seasons' praises, and I binged both the web and the tv series. Now it's hands down one of my favorite media series of all time

[@pundertalefan4391]

When I was younger, like fifteen, I HATED DHMIS. But now I love it. It's really well made, and the creators are so clever.

[@pundertalefan4391]

Plus the new show is hilarious. I love the first episode. "It's a vending machine, it's a vending machine. We all eat lunch from a vending machine." XD

[@enzito_sdf6978]

maybe it's because i grew up then, but this just makes me happy man. there's something so beautiful to searching on yt "loquendo creepypasta" and getting some terrible story, read by a tts, with promise reprise on the background. idk, i'm 20 years old, been doing great at work this year, been studying too, and after all i've lived since then i'm just now accepting my younger self i think, instead of cringing lmao. i'm starting to love that part of me that read badly written creepypastas every day, and got scared of them lol. i even have the shit i wrote myself... they are not good lemme tell u, but man i love them now.

[@antiseabearcircle3360]

I remember a video about supposed subliminal messages in the Pokemon anime opening where it told you to focus in on a particular shot and then did a jump scare where a picture of a man with a heavily tattooed and pierced face showed up.

[@MidoriMatcha]

Found this on my recommended and now I wanna list down the videos I’ve accidentally seen that sorta traumatized me as an 8 year old 💀: The Rainbow Factory, Pinkamena Pie, SMILE HD, Happy Tree Friends, those surgery gore MLP videos, more MLP creepypasta videos, etc. OH YEAH, I also used to watch those creepy video playlists when I was younger out of curiosity, saw a lot of stuff that I shouldn’t have seen as a kid ;;;;;;

[@rbmay]

You just made me remember a massive part of my childhood on KZbin that I ALOMOST forgot about (for reference I was born in 2003 and am currently 19). When I was little I was OBSESSED with the channel "billschannel" - WHO IS STILL UPLOADING TODAY! I freaking LOVED all those videos about creepy mermaids, ghosts and aliens. they were at times almost ridiculously fake, and I remember being old enough to understand that to an extent but I also remember that it was the possibility that one day, one of these videos could be real that really chilled me. Plus most of the footage was usually intended as horror in the first place. I looked back on some of the videos i remember from Bill today, and of course they are laughable. Also his acting and voiceovers make me giggle too (see "GIANT CREATURE on BUILDING - Real or Fake?" as a fantastic example of both of these). But I still hold a certain fondness towards Bill for awakening something in me, a morbid curiosity with the unknown. This would eventually evolve into creepypastas, true crime, deep web stories, and an overall love and respect for the horror genre as a whole. For that, I thank you Bill!

[@verylostdoommarauder]

I think that the genre of digital horror would allow for a lot of interesting stuff to be made, just based on the diversity of the content it's based on.

[@pithhelmet3717]

As part of early gen z (I was born in 98) this video gave me a wave of nostalgia, I lost sleep over so many of these when I was a kid, especially the microwaved phone one.

[@AlexanderLoaizaGameDev]

I remember that a very long time ago I watched this top ten creature caught on camera video, and number one absolutely freaked me out, it was this video of someone waking up in the middle of the night to hands growing out of the ceiling, I was afraid of something like happening to me, I remember asking my mom if she could somehow separate me and my brother's bunk bed apart because I slept on the top bunk and knew that if something like hands growing from the ceiling where to happen, things may be the worst for me. That video that scared me so much back when I was in middle school was the clip at 0:34. Strangely, I felt a strange sense of joy and nostalgia seeing it again, seeing this childhood fear of mine again felt like a happy reunion. Well horrific monster, I'm glad to see you again, you are as beautiful as the day I lost you.

[@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard]

God i feel this so much, i know most of the videos ypu showed and it felt like something within me which was slumbering for years reawakened and immediatly took over

[@JohntheDoe572]

4:39 YOU PUT RESPECT ON MATORO’S NAME! Jokes aside, great video

[@ermagerhd6140]

I remember as a kid, some one had uploaded all the episodes of the show “Lost Tapes” to KZbin I remember watching several and starting to get super unnerved by the Thunderbird and Jersey Devil ones. But then I sat the alien in a hospital one and that one genuinely traumatized me. 😂 I didn’t touch KZbin for weeks, it wasn’t until a few weeks ago I remembered lost tapes actually existed and went back and rewatched the alien episode only to realize all of it inconsistencies with the monster design and how it wasn’t so bad anymore. Although those tapes are still pretty good at horror in my opinion

[@caitlinwilcox5955]

Wooow this is basically my childhood in a nutshell. Subliminal message videos had a HOLD on me frfr. Creepypastas and jumpscare videos and pretty much anything I could find that was creepy/unsettling. I miss those vibes honestly. All the creepy stuff feels the same now

[@Parasite_06]

The digital media affects the tone, lower quality has a sense of emptiness and dread it's hard to describe but sometimes the horror aspect is more the minute off-putting appearance

[@DruidPC]

I hope kids channels don't ruin this. I really, really hope they don't, however, this is a horror that is really more terrifying to kids and kids channels can't really get that same feeling. It's a more thought provoking horror that you really need to think about to recreate. Some of the digital horror series I like are the ones like the Minecraft and GMod ARGs. They're genuinely full of interesting lore and include really creepy stuff.

[@miku]

Didn't expect PiroPito to watch English youtube ngl. congrats man! 💙

[@thecreatorofpc7929]

18:11 I was unnerved, but i got slightly less unnerved when i heard The Prowler sound from Into The Spider-verse

[@MrMetropolis]

Finally some good content to watch at ungodly hours of the morning

[@linkstan69]

I really liked this video and i was surprised at the mention of Alfreda playhouse, rarely see people mention it in contexts like this

[@wells214]

i remember when i was a kid, i really got into the paranormal. yknow ghost sighting stuff, urban legends and curses, etc. when i first started out on instagram there were these cheesy horror accounts dedicated to telling ghost stories and cryptid sightings. they scared me so much that i couldn't even bear to look into the corners of my bedroom at night. but i was so fascinated by ghosts and cryptids, an interest i still have today, that i couldn't stop looking at them. they terrified me back then but this video makes me look back with an awkward fondness. makes me wonder what my interests would be today if i hadn't scared the shit outta myself at 10 years old

[@clurgee4923]

I think my first interaction with digital horror back when I was younger was scary stuff people made on Flipnote (service on the DS). People made clips of really scary murderous Elmo and stuff like that. It was crazy. Good times!!