Episode Five: Creepypasta | Violating Community Guidelines

[@kaylassus]

this podcast feels like the two class clowns giving presentations on random topics and I’m here for it

[@pastelhotmess9299]

Yess

[@Xxbaesiaa]

This comment!!!

[@soph9901]

oh my lord this is so accurate

[@katycrawford8101]

it’s not even a “feels like” that’s literally just what this is lol

[@sugaring3921]

The best

[@skskskenny]

fun fact! Jeff the killer was so upset w his face's appearance that he developed a cosmetic brand to feel more comfortable in the uncanny valley. Nowadays he goes by Jeffree Star 💕

[@jotaech]

underrated comment

[@Danielle-eu3li]

He looked better before the work 😔🤡

[@missweasleylovegoodgranger7019]

this is too much i love it

[@sageann7490]

STOP BAHAH

[@koda2002]

this needs more attention cuz this comment is the best on yt

[@chloe3101]

I can't believe this is how I found out that The Russian Sleep Experiment didn't actually happen. I'm literally a licensed history teacher.

[@EmilyBekanich]

my high school teacher taught us about this experiment in our humanities class-- I genuinely don’t know what to believe anymore, I’m having a mental breakdown. Did this happen or not?! 😅😅

[@frostyskeletons8950]

@@EmilyBekanich it did not

[@OkamiSamaa]

I think you ought to quit... girl really

[@aabracadavra]

@@OkamiSamaa Chill.

[@skylarenglish1798]

me

[@user-re8mt1nw4d]

“i’m vaccinated. i can drink cave water” sarah is genuinely the funniest i’m gasping for air

[@DiMagnolia]

That joke took me OUT

[@user-re8mt1nw4d]

@@DiMagnolia it’s been two weeks and i’m still hollering

[@abubaytnighan6480]

@@user-re8mt1nw4dit’s been 10 months and I’m still seizing

[@demetriam2408]

​@@abubaytnighan6480 it's been over a year and I'm still dying.

[@Ilikebigbooties]

@@demetriam2408Jesus. So do y’all still need an ambulance or nah

[@lazysloth5703]

love how when I was a kid Jeff the killer scared the absolute SHIT outta me, but now looking back at the photos it gives me the same vibe of looking at Abby Lee Millers overly blurred ass photos

[@lala_lakeypoo]

Your hilariously obscure reference made me spit my drink out 🤣🤣🤣

[@desseducats3197]

Why I did just hear a staticy “living on the dance floor” in my mind after reading that.

[@kamjohnson6877]

Stop im trying to hold back tears lmao

[@KingOfGaymes]

GOD THEY DO LOOK ALIKE

[@maxwellgrimsley]

THIS IS SUCH A NICHE REFERENCE AND IT MAKES IT TEN TIMES AS FUNNY

[@vilyda]

The way Britney explained the "You feel like you are the only one burdened with this" is EXACTLY how salad fingers made me feel as a child. I was like, can I get ptsd from a cartoon???

[@whythenumber]

Oh my god same

[@angelel1535]

and the don’t hug me im scared series

[@yourface5447]

salad fingers fed me up dude

[@skylerpresley8223]

I loved salad fingers though 😅🤣

[@jacko666]

Good ol’ Salad Fingers!

[@ryaneisenbacher1408]

I think Sarah saying “you can’t park here!” In response to a brutal car crash is the funniest joke I’ve heard this year

[@graciedison]

They were quoting a tiktok

[@WhatExcellentBoiledPo-ta-toes]

@@graciedison is tiktok quoting the A team?

[@graciedison]

@@WhatExcellentBoiledPo-ta-toes quite possibly, I haven’t seen it. Just saying the joke has been made before, especially by several people on tiktok right around the time this video was uploaded

[@WhatExcellentBoiledPo-ta-toes]

@@graciedison ah I don't have tiktok that's why I was asking haha

[@littlewoodlandwitch7154]

It's the evolution as we age: goosebumps to creepy pasta to real crime documentaries

[@emmajudd1905]

literally

[@cassiepeters9769]

I was watching a real crime show on tv at my grandma’s house when I was like 7 and it was so normal to me lmao, definitely traumatizing

[@stone_cypher]

Goosebumps were my favorite books as a Child, then when I got a little older my Dad & I always watched Crime Docs & TV shows together. I didn't understand that it was unusual until I started dating my husband. I wanted to watch True Crime all the time, but he wasn't really into it & eventually asked why I WAS so into it. Which is a weird thing to try to explain lol But my Dad & I just had this love of Crime Stories, and I had dreams of becoming a Forensics Analyst or a Detective. We had so much fun watching the shows, guessing who had done what, and what was happening. Being our own little "detectives" through the screen. I now have my husband on board a little bit, and we watch/listen to several Podcasts & shows together! I don't think I will ever loose my love for true crime & all of the scary spooky things 🖤

[@jojored3981]

Night of the living dummy was shown at school and scared tf outta me forever, saw him every time I closed my eyes 😣😑

[@KingOfGaymes]

Me secretly watching forensic files in middle school: 🧍🏻

[@Maggie_mccann]

The Slenderman Attack happened 40 minutes from my house. I was in 4th grade and 10 y/o. The day my mom saw it on the news was the day she taught me how to distinguish lies and truths on the internet and, if I ever wasn't sure, to come ask her. It's definitely a case southern Wisconsin will never forget

[@kaedev.6888]

yeah that case is literally so unbelievable. when it happened my mum sat me down and questioned me if i was ever having any thoughts or inklings to do such things like that because i was also a fan of slenderman and the whole creepy pasta shitfest.

[@oeinahpets]

dude because of this case I was almost expelled in 6th grade for having a death note which literally had names of my friends and math notes. had an entire sit down conference with my mom, my friends, my friends parents, and the school administration to try to convince me that all that wasn’t real. towards the end they started blaming it on anime and video games, even though the only game I mentioned I played was the sims lmaooo

[@jamieschneider6176]

Go mom, that's a w for parents

[@jamiegray4837]

we need an episode on SCP's one day. the community is still incredibly active and all of the stories are either utterly terrifying or hilarious.

[@erinmcnamara8849]

THIS

[@Carlos43Suarez29]

When they talked about how The Russian Sleep Experiment read like something real I just kept thinking about SCP

[@annafrugee8589]

YESSS THIS WOULD BE SO COOL

[@noodlepoodlegirl]

are there some good SCP stories? I’ve listened to a few by Lowey Lane, and they like weren’t scary at all. It was like “he wears a hat and a trenchcoat and he isn’t human, and if you look into his eyes you’ll feel the worst pain and then death!“ Like when you rent a scary movie, so excited to be terrified, and then it’s like not scary at all.

[@embryjirak3426]

@@noodlepoodlegirl I’d request: 4666 5558 5991 2852 136 4319 Happy readings!!!

[@xoviolet32]

sarah: I hate horror movies also sarah minutes later: I used to look up *gore* as a child

[@yasminariana2001]

i have this problem slightly and i understand it. when you desensitize yourself at a young age, normal horror isn’t scary anymore.

[@noellethomas2589]

@@yasminariana2001 watching gore as a youngin did the opposite to me lmao 😭 I would be on bestgore at lunch and after school and now I can’t watch horror movies because I get too paranoid

[@thaloblue]

Tbh same

[@mortalkombatboot]

I can relate to this, I struggle to physically watch horror movies (I cried and had a panic attack the first time I watched Halloween..) but I've ran multiple versions of "The Gauntlet" and seen videos/photos of really messed up stuff and it doesn't stick with me NEAR as much. I think it comes from the image feeling of fear and paranoia that comes from watching horror movies, and having anxiety sometimes makes that really difficult. Seeing morbid things doesn't really do that, it's more of a "Oh my god, that's horrible" and you're able to move on instead of feeling scared? It's a weird struggle bc I'm a fully empathetic person and I feel like I should be more affected..

[@aabracadavra]

It was a learning curve.

[@srishtiverma1701]

I feel like Brittany and Sarah's comedy styles are so different but work well together. Like Brittany would be amazing at stand-up and bits and Sarah has those banger one-liners and impeccable comedic timing!

[@ninetailskwami]

you should see Sarah's tiktok they do amazing skit bits lol

[@KingOfGaymes]

@@ninetailskwami their vines from forever ago are still hilarious too

[@srishtiverma1701]

@@KingOfGaymes Oh I LOVED Sarah on Vine

[@jenelledulack1883]

this comment right here gets the gold star for accuracy

[@squiddyft.insecurities3549]

@@ninetailskwami her tik toks are so funny 😆😗😘

[@alexisc3658]

“The Manson murders for pbs kids”.... sarah your brain is *chef kiss*

[@joeyravioli]

Loved that line

[@spiderdude2099]

Apparently "Chillscountdown" has gone on record many times trying to explain to people that he REALLY DOES talk like that and he isn't putting on a voice. Like, that's his normal speaking voice

[@ajartwork9922]

that is so hard to believe because i can’t imagine ordering coffee or asking a target employee a question in that voice 😭😭

[@macyr3816]

Doesn't he have a collapsed lung or something

[@ssharkbait]

I don’t believe him at all lol. I saw someone do a deep dive about it and he hasn’t always spoken like that and it seems he makes his videos the way they are on purpose after they took off.

[@skellieswag3750]

There’s one song called “siren head” that he did with Corpes husband and it’s so funny hearing chills rapping with that voice.

[@jeffrey1954]

He didn't speak funny in his earliest videos. He does it for clickbait.

[@olivia-bm4mz]

I feel like they missed a super big part of the creepy pasta fandom and the reason why these kids did such horrible things is because they weren't just appeasing these fictional murderers - they wanted to become one of them. These kids actually believed that the creepypasta people were part of a secret community of real people that were adopted by slender man to become his "proxies". These kids believed that if they commited these horrible crimes that slender man would come and praise them for their murders and take them in / give them powers. This is exactly what the girls who tired to stab their classmate to death thought. The whole fandom would also sexualize these creepypasta characters to an obscene amount. Jeff the killer, Jane the Killer, Laughing Jack, and Ticci Toby were especially sexualized and these 12 year olds would be writing / drawing smut about these literal murderers and this would also drive them to commit the murders and be taken by slenderman so they can be with these characters. Its honestly very scary and sad when you get past the "people who like to read / write scary stories" and see that a large portion of the community back in 2013 - 2015 were children who would fantasize about having sexual relationships with fictional murders.

[@annacoldicutt9969]

Was looking for this comment, that stuff was crazy to be apart of. Such a strange time.

[@4swordsluver]

this is true but also there was not a surplus of violence from creepypasta. The slenderman stabbing is the only one I am aware of directly linked to creepypasta and I am big into true crime

[@eastweast35]

That's so horrifying yet I totally understand how easily that would sound like heaven to a teenager, I never found these stories thankfully but I still know what they were thinking

[@s_beetlebum_s]

Omg, i remember reading these wattpad fanfics and imagining being in a relationship with Ticci Toby, that's so embarrassing

[@annacoldicutt9969]

@@s_beetlebum_s I’m so obsessed with this response, I totally did the same thing

[@spearbaby4115]

brittany's mentioned the human meat cookbook in two podcasts... someone should Definitely mark her search history

[@Braedendoesminecraft]

what was the other instance?

[@spearbaby4115]

@@Braedendoesminecraft she mentioned it in the conspiracy theories episode when they were talking about using the library ipads!~

[@Braedendoesminecraft]

@@spearbaby4115 awesome thank you!

[@pepps1943]

I was like 666. HALP

[@marciecola1820]

nah she was on the apple store ipad she’s got nothing linking her to it! (ref)

[@anyab888]

Listening to someone read the russian sleep experiment at the ripe age of 10 by myself in my bedroom definitely did something to me long term lmfao

[@izzytepe]

i literally didn't know it was fake until i watched this podcast episode. TO BE FAIR i never actually read into it and just heard about it and was like "damn, them crazy russians"

[@fabulousroy]

I did that to help me fall asleep.

[@beesechurger5797]

@@izzytepe SAME

[@fx4426m]

definitely went to my 6th grade teacher and told her abt it 😭😭😭😭

[@niaroberts2193]

definitely changed my life most likely for the worst 😭

[@hes01231]

The “Black Eyed Children” stories really got me back in the day.. I am 30 and literally since high school, I’ll be walking in from my car at night and randomly, my brain will go like “hey.. you wanna think about those black eyed children stories.. be pretty scary if someone was following you..” and I’m like well, great. Now I have to run. And the stories were always like “…I’m writing this here because I’ve been trapped in my car for 2 days now, I’m so scared I haven’t been able to even look outside to see if the coast is clear. No one is going to believe what I’m about to say, but I’m sharing it anyway…” lmao

[@TheGinaChan]

fuck, that was 100% me with slenderman, for some reason my brain was SO convinced that this shitty photoshop mannequin lookin ass was gonna appear in my bedroom and kidnap me.... Thank god I got away from those thoughts, or I'd have to perpetually sleep in someone elses bedroom lol

[@hes01231]

@@TheGinaChan lmao yes.. I fully understand. Laughing with you, not at you, but the wording of that was hysterical.

[@wishingwell_333]

@@TheGinaChan omg this one. i mean I seriously was unhealthily paranoid

[@veronicapacheco6157]

@@TheGinaChan I literally had nightmares with that pale man 😭

[@katycrawford8101]

i still think about the black eyed children sometimes and freak out lol

[@shelbydean1876]

"Violating Ye Community Guidelines" would actually be a hilarious special episode where you talk about other societal phenomenon/history/literature that you find interesting that happened before the internet

[@courtneypaige18]

yes would love to see this!

[@nunpho]

I'd love that too

[@Howdyasdo]

Omg YES

[@seanriley1596]

Brittany calling Ben drowned ‘boring’ shocked me, that shit traumatized me from that game as a kid💀

[@Papabandana]

His ducking face… It was so WEIRD

[@Unhingeddirtdog]

Literallyyy The videos are so so cool😭😭

[@mintywillowthemedicinecat7415]

Majoras Mask by far is one of the creepiest Zelda Games in general, its so unsettling

[@alinktoana]

ben drowned is the only creepypasta i actually read bc zelda, and them not knowing what zelda is just reminded me im on the normal side of the internet lol

[@vampirellaxo]

​@@mintywillowthemedicinecat7415for real!! The mask salesman dude gave me nightmares as a child 😭

[@bianca7614]

I was TRAUMATIZED by the “lost episode” of SpongeBob…… the image of him with the red eyes literally would not leave my brain for weeks

[@becauseimLexie]

I HAD NIGHTMARES ABOUT THIS

[@sponchbob]

i was hoping they weren’t gonna show the photo 😭

[@LMRansfer]

same

[@amnoirgg8563]

Lost episodes were honestly the best idk why.

[@stephanieann8805]

Same I couldn’t even look. Nothing is scarier than those sunken red eyes

[@hyperluke1034]

I remember being so scared of Herobrine and Jeff the Killer. And the story of the girl who feels her “dog” licking her hand but it’s actually a guy that broke in.

[@KingOfGaymes]

The girl and dog one is an urban legend, it’s been around much longer than creepypastas

[@aliciau.6955]

omg herobrine scared the LITERAL shit out of me. i think i started to have panic attacks anytime i would play minecraft thinking he would show up

[@nancyscott4255]

the dog one haunted me for fking years

[@maggiekincade3288]

That dog one still haunts me to this day as a 20 year old. It'll pop up in my brain at the worst times and i get so paranoid because it was told to me at such a young age.

[@humanure0]

ngl i think herobrine permanently fucked me up. every time i play a game solo, i feel like i’m being watched from a birdseye view behind my shoulder. weird shit, idk

[@thekayfo8174]

bitch as an internet veteran i LOVE that this podcast is solely about the dark corners of the internet, i remember these SO well

[@G3minee]

Girl ur on the surface web. The dark corners are cp, harvesting body parts hacking and sex traffic

[@maliciousqueefer3427]

This isnt the dark corner of the internet girl

[@thekayfo8174]

never said it was the darkest. stop commenting on my reply with your weird dark web shit, it doesn’t make you look any cooler, you just look like a creep

[@noellethomas2589]

This is a very “female, 22, straight, not like other girls” comment.

[@maliciousqueefer3427]

@@thekayfo8174 💀💀

[@JaimieSteck]

8:38 “movies don’t create psychos, movies make psychos more creative!” All I could think about during this part. A classic.

[@maiforinger5385]

The Black-Eyed Children, lost episodes of spongebob and mickey mouse, jeff the killer, momo, and the entirety of r/nosleep really made my mind an absolute hell-hole back in the day. I dedicate part of my anxiety origin story to that era of trying to scare myself to death every day after school.

[@princembat]

you lumping momo in with those other things that are a few years older is so aging to me LOL, like, i feel so old now

[@TheCbazza]

Wasn’t momo like 3 years ago or something ?

[@maiforinger5385]

@@TheCbazza what can I say, I'm chronically online without remembering when I saw something lol it all feels like decades ago to me

[@Myapapaya00]

Momo literally traumatized 5th grade me 💀

[@veea.2370]

The black eyed children dawgggg

[@christinaaafaith]

brittany has almost the exact same history of being online as i do and it's so refreshing because i never meet anyone who was chronically online like i was

[@darthbaderginsberg7336]

Honestly way too relatable. I have a feeling I'm not the only woman watching this who was born in the early 90s, who had a vampire freaks account back in the day at an age I had no business being in that environment, and who was sending ytmnds over AIM to someone I met in a live journal community on the regs.

[@kathyperson2]

LIKE THE SQUIDWARD SUICIDE

[@effluviah7544]

@@darthbaderginsberg7336 Vampire Freaks, holy shit, I had one too. Livejournal community drama was so peak during that era, lmao. The migration to Greater Journal or whatever it was, lmao.

[@jessah95channel]

“When I went to church nothing meant anything anymore” FELT 😂😭 this episode had me wheezing

[@jjmartinez7867]

This podcast really feels like that moment when you meet a new person for the first time and share a similar yet uncommon interest; so you can’t stop talking to them for hours because someone finally gets you

[@peytonlajewski4033]

Sarah admitting to googling gore as a kid is so comforting because I was THAT kid and none of my friends relate 😭😭

[@Henny.777]

Fun fact: the photo often associated with The Russian Sleep Experiment is actually a decoration from Spirit Halloween! It’s called ‘Spazm’ and it was sold in the early 2000’s for about $150 USD. It would light up, shake, and groan.

[@bvbblebeam3236]

i'm SCREAM laughing at sarah talking about looking up a body being sawed in half at eleven and how she went to church and nothing meant anything anymore. i had to rewind it like 20 times

[@nightcrawler7_]

Creepy pastas belong to the kids who grew up on the internet. I remember being 7 reading about the rake and the Russian sleep experiment and trying to warn my parents. (obviously I was WAY too young… but what can I do about it now)

[@chelsea3652]

why'd i imagine you looking like courage the cowardly dog trying to warn muriel and the old guy

[@itscc2004]

I LOVED and ADORED Clockwork and Ticci Toby as a kid/tween. I even dressed up as Clockwork for Halloween once and I was having time of my life than.

[@CrystalLight000]

ME

[@nciscrazier]

the rake destroyed my ability to sleep as a child

[@TotosTales]

@@nciscrazier SAME

[@nuuget6996]

Fun fact: "Squidward's Suicide" was briefly referenced in a Spongebob episode. So, you can say that in some capacity, Squidward's Suicide is canon Also, about BEN Drowned: it involves a chatbot named Cleverbot. If you type in certain quotes to it, it'll start saying more quotes to you from the creepypasta. I spent HOURS doing that and it left me with a short-lived fear of the Internet

[@WhatExcellentBoiledPo-ta-toes]

I remember Cleverbot! Though I didn't know it did that.

[@damarisalaman]

I came to the comments SPECIFICALLY to see if someone mentioned the Red Mist Squidward! The episode is called “SpongeBob in Randomland”

[@writingsonthewalls]

Still in mourning over this show 😭

[@carleyc7226]

The way I didn’t even know that the Russian sleep experiment wasn’t real until this video. Thank you for your service ladies

[@taylahtrengrove4427]

Literally same!

[@leeniemb11]

There was a creepy pasta about how all the Rugrats babies were stillborns and that scared the shit out of me as a child for some reason?? Also Tom and Jerry’s suicide haunted me quite a bit

[@crutonabean]

omfggg the rugrats one i totally forgot ab that AHH that made me so scared and sad as a kid

[@hattiejones7531]

I remember the rugrats one, it was so terrifying to me as a child

[@lauraarauz8638]

THIS!!! That story seriously traumatized me at the time and I wasn't even that young tbh

[@nuuget6996]

omg Rugrats Theoryyy. I first heard of it from a Vocaloid song and then I read it. That shit fucked me UP

[@lauraarauz8638]

@@nuuget6996 Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@truebornseeker9767]

There’s two different types of creepypastas: “The Killer” creepypastas that are definitely written by 15 year olds. These the Jeff and Jane the Killers, the Eyeless Jacks, the Ticki Toby, Ben Drowned (which tbh- is pretty good as it went on and was kinda an ARG), etc. these typically surround one main characters (like Jeff) who are usually edgy depressed emo teen boys or girls who “snap”, and they’re usually somehow connected to one another. This is the more ‘fandom’ side of creepypastas, meaning there’s a lot of shipping and anime-fication of a lot of the characters (turning jeff’s burned, bleached and brutally disfigured face into just a paper-white anime teen boy with cute lil cuts on either side of his mouth), and this also leads to a lot of these characters to be placed in this sorta AU, putting them all in a mansion in the woods with Slenderman, who is usually seen as a father figure (even tho he’s still sometimes shipped with the others?) These aren’t all BAD per-say, like Laughing Jack Origins (the prequel of the main Laughing Jack story) is genuinely pretty well written and well made! AND THEN! There’s the proper horror stories like Russian Sleep Experiment and other ACTUAL good creepypastas that usually surround horrifying *concepts* rather than just a murderous teen boy who goes crazy

[@katyv9716]

i was gonna comment about this myself but you described it so perfectly! i still vividly remember all the fanart of slenderman in a frilly pink apron making dinner for the kids :')

[@KingOfGaymes]

What is with teenagers UwU-ifying killers and whatnot, like who looked at Jeff the killers horrifying photo and was like “let’s make him a cute anime boy” 😭

[@cez_is_typing]

@@KingOfGaymes sadly a lot of it had to do with mental state. Jeff the killer was written by a teen or something (it was badly written when I last read it) who needed a release. They probably were being bullied themselves and decided to write a story about a boy being a victim and then getting his revenge, probably as a fantasy thing. Then equally depressed or hurt kids and teens read it and identified with him. They find this character that blows their mind, written in a story format they had never seen before. And like Brittany said, creepypasta felt personal, like when you read it, YOU were the only one who had. A lot of kids and teens took this as comfort and ran with it I suppose

[@gigirants]

The Russian Sleep Experiment honestly traumatized me as a child. I remember going "How do people NOT talk about this?!" And low key it made me obsessed with history lol. It was astoundingly written and I should not have been reading these things as a child.

[@sadexcuseforlife3860]

No actually I thought that shit happened forreal. Most definitely scarred me.

[@lillygrace2115]

im 23 and i just found out it wasn’t real like 3 months ago

[@AshleyLovesBTR]

I read one called “The Smiling Man” and now anytime I'm outside at night I can't go towards the road or look at the street lamps because I'm scared I'm gonna see something standing in the light and it's just gonna run at me at an inhuman speed.

[@aidanboyle9063]

I literally broke my old phone because I was walking at 1 am and was like "what if the Smiling Man was behind you?" and started running to my apt and dropped my phone in a puddle 🙃

[@linneascameraroll]

if it makes u feel better one time i was scared bc i saw something under a street light and it was a possum, so im sending u a guardian angel possum through this comment lol

[@kaedev.6888]

if it makes you feel better, i literally couldnt sleep for two nights because i was convinced that jeff the killer would just materialise in my room and watch me sleep and that was scary and upsetting to me that i refused to close my eyes fyi jeff the killer looks like a munted small eyed puppet. like when i read his story i was like "damn this kid is so stupid lol" and then boom night time came and i was shitting myself

[@kaedev.6888]

also also, the smiling man creeped me the fuck out too except is was amplified by the picture of the man from the "have you seen this man in your dreams?" poster. i was scared shitless at night

[@Howdyasdo]

@@kaedev.6888 that fucking picture is so uncanny. Like some people believe that is the face of 'God' when he looks like a fish seller on the market

[@falkeprophet]

Being a Zelda fan and hearing the words “what’s a majoras mask” was like multiple stab wounds to the heart.

[@falkeprophet]

@Lil' Femboy ok? 💀

[@internallyscreaming90]

SAAAAME

[@landriecunha7039]

same bro

[@inebriated_boness_]

The one's that were too real for me were the ‘abandoned by Disney’ stories. They still make my skin crawl if I think about it! They talk about parks that were ‘abandoned’ and left to ruin but if you explored these abandoned parks, you'd see old character costumes with lines inside as if the person wearing the suit died in it. They were written so well they'd keep my brothers and I up at night

[@RyzNytch]

I was looking for this comment. That is the one that won’t leave my brain no matter how old I get 🤣

[@fanofthings6720]

Omgg these 😭

[@Howdyasdo]

The idea of urban exploring abandoned parks that failed is scary but that creepypasta is laughable

[@avalewis8156]

I absolutely love that now that tumblr is dead everyone is talking about the weird shit we did on there so the children can understand our history

[@whythenumber]

Baby it's not dead 😬

[@KingOfGaymes]

@@whythenumber it practically is since the pr0n ban

[@Fimpurities]

@@whythenumber is not rlly dead but its def not what it used to be

[@stellaelizabeth4104]

babe it’s not dead but nobody joins or leaves it’s just an echo chamber atp

[@lilo1815]

it's absolutely not dead. and it's 100% more bearable than any other social media rn

[@hey1mtay]

I was so incredibly burnt out on KZbinrs and online comedians until I found Brittany and Sarah.. seriously y’all, I haven’t laughed this hard in ages. You have no idea how much it means to me to be laughing again

[@iseetheWAYVision]

It's so refreshing right?!

[@maddisynreta7733]

“number ELEVEN, creePY MAN” 😂😭 the way Britney literally PERFECTLY impersonated the Chills Countdown account 😂😂😂

[@darlingicarus]

genuinely got ready for a jumpscare when y'all were talking about the scary maze games 😭 thank u for not subjecting us to that. it's me. i'm the children and old people

[@maybemeli]

a couple years ago I fell down the “dear david” rabbit hole and that scarred me for life. I feel like that would be an interesting topic for the podcast

[@emmaanderson9618]

oh my god i remember dear david

[@fa1ryt33thh]

pls i would love to hear more people talk about this like sarah and brittany are

[@colasupernova2196]

Dear David is so good. It’s so well done.

[@KingOfGaymes]

They’re making a movie about it I think, would genuinely watch it

[@kate-pc9ox]

why would u remind me of this😭😭

[@Neamhain]

To this day, you can say "People can lick too" and istg every millennial and older genZ will know lmao. Also the stories about the "mysterious stairs in the middle of the woods" that you should never climb from that forest ranger messed me up. Cause there ARE sometimes random stairs in the middle of woods, but what it actually is is that when an abandoned house starts to decay, the stairs are usually the last to go.

[@frosty_teacup]

That poor dog 😭

[@laineynye9608]

You just reminded me of people can lick too😭

[@BrielleE18]

Missing 411 is actually so real it's scary!!! People getting lost for days in the woods but their reality they were only gone for a couple hours! Crazy stuff

[@katelyn3612]

people can lick too TRAUMATIZED me

[@Ew_itsGabbie]

I literally had to sleep with a nightlight on a few days ago cause i remembered people can lick too

[@crazyfangirlcosplays]

When I was 14 and having my edgy phase I came up with a creepy pasta character called Silent Sage who got bullied for how much she spoke (that part was based on my life) and then she sewed her mouth shut with a needle and thread and went around killing her bullies and then of course going to the infamous “slender mansion”

[@nobodynocrime89]

that is a really good idea

[@yeahok8259]

That’s actually a good one tho

[@crazyfangirlcosplays]

@@nobodynocrime89 damn thanks

[@crazyfangirlcosplays]

@@yeahok8259 thanks lol

[@melonjel]

That Jeff the Killer picture just gave me such a fight or flight response. I grew up reading Creepypastas, but I could never get used to that picture

[@ben_nowak]

What Brittany said about the Russian Sleep Experiment is EXACTLY what happened to me with The Rake. That shit scarred me for life. I would think about it constantly. I was ACTUALLY anxious every single night thinking about The Rake and how it's around where I live. I will never forget reading about how The Rake targets you only if it sees you... and it will stop at nothing until it kills you... and it will never stop chasing after you... omg. I was a literal child that was convinced that some scary creature will hunt me down and kill me. From how it was described I had no doubt that the Rake could be in the woods in my backyard... or that it could see me in the window of my parents car. I was absolutely mortified. I remember the story saying that The Rake radiates an awful smell... like a decaying dead animal or rotting meat. And if you smell the stench that means it's near you. Well girlies... animals would die in the woods by my house sometimes. Especially in the summer. I would have actual panic attacks because I could smell the rotting animal smell. That shit was so real to me. I would hide from all windows like my life depended on it. I would hide under my covers just in case it came into my room. 😭 There was no way anybody could've convinced me that it was fake. I would be crying and telling my mom NO LOOK! THERE'S PICTURES AND VIDEOS AND THESE PEOPLE HAVE SAID THEY'VE SEEN IT!!! It truly was traumatic for me because of how real it was. It was like the first encounter i ever had with a creepypasta and i was TRULY convinced that it was real. Also, it felt extremely close to home and that didn't make it any better for me. The Rake allegedly lives aroud the same area that I do. It made me feel like myself, my family, and even my dog was in potential danger and it was sooo beyond worrysome for me. Even if I was 7-8 years old.

[@user-kt3zv1cm5j]

I was scared by a lot as a kid but I feel like to a degree I knew it wasn't real even if it still scared me shitless bc I'm just neurotic and anxiety-riddled like that lmao, but do you remember when you realised when it wasn't real? or was it one of those childhood things that fades away and you don't realise it's gone until you look back

[@rilesfomiles8662]

I’m still terrified of the rake

[@goblinofmossandmud1794]

Omg dude in 6th grade I watched a video of the rake coming out of some guys closet in history class w my friends scared the shit out of me

[@wishingwell_333]

@@user-kt3zv1cm5j yeah I was about to say I think literally having all the details line up would make it scarier like I might actually lose my mind, I didn't even know about the rotting meat detail but I remember to some degree still being incredibly anxious and scared of my windows in like sixth grade but i knew logically. it still was literally impossible to shake that feeling and idk I always thought it was abnormal to get so afraid of things like that- I still get intense moments of fear and I've had some panic attacks over like monstrous threats and I'm nineteen at this point. maybe we r jus super paranoid like neuro/psychologically unless it jus is a common experience but I've always had like this severe fear of extra dimensional type creatures. i mean I'd be scared to go outside at night in sixth grade, like bad feeling deathly afraid which might be normal, I was still running out of my room when it was dark at like sixteen tho thinking something would grab me and idk what that was about lmao

[@rossei2467]

mortified- cause (someone) to feel embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated maybe you meant horrified

[@Polexia00]

Every time I hear Brittany's laugh ten more years are added to my lifespan

[@ryanreifschneider4915]

Just found out the Russian Sleep Expirament wasn’t real. Love this educational podcast!

[@izzytepe]

SAME. THANK YOU for saying this. i genuinely had no clue until today

[@megczaban6814]

I was just like "I guess that makes sense that it's not but I learned about it when I was thirteen so I just never questioned it"

[@grayfons3894]

i understand we all read it as kids but did it never pass your mind once you were older and you were like oh that was so corny and definitely never happened?? 😭

[@noellethomas2589]

It was an interesting bit of anti-communist propa

[@ssharkbait]

@@grayfons3894 I’m glad I got into Creepypasta way passed it’s prime otherwise I’d probably believe it was real until adulthood too 😭

[@TheSizzlingSummer]

The creepypasta community is actually thriving!! I listen to them all the time

[@nva6412]

High key wish there was a jump-scare warning for the photos cause I kept scaring myself with Dog and Jeff 😭

[@soupcannes]

I literally printed and read the Russian Sleep Experiment OUT LOUD to people in a dorm room in college as if it was real (I believed it was) I cringe thinking about this scenario

[@Astoria88]

@Tiffany me too😭😂 literally thought about this not too long ago, glad it’s fake though lol

[@kyli3783]

@Tiffany no seriously same

[@talloncusack]

Finally someone my age lol

[@KingOfGaymes]

I know I would’ve done that if I hung out with people when I was younger 😭

[@humanure0]

did they at least believe it or get scared? idk

[@canyonmoonbeads]

the squidward creepypasta literally traumatized me at the ag of 13,, the way I thought I had witnessed something top secret 😩 i literally felt haunted by some type of knowledge

[@franciscoorellana5793]

Please dont end the podcast prematurely you guys are one of the only quality contentent left on youtube and its a shame that you guys don't have many videos so please dont stawp

[@ricardoelizondot]

In a weird way it feels nice to know I wasn’t the only kid that got scarred for life and got several mental issues from seeing things I shouldn’t have on the deep web 🥴

[@rainbowdemon5033]

Sarah: there are no communities around creepypastas, except for around the Individual Stories Me, who spent years 13 to 15 in the Creepypasta Fandom: Say what now

[@maddiehearn8421]

my core memory of my childhood is sitting in a circle at recess reading these stories. like we were literally 10, why were we doing this???

[@lindseywertz5897]

This podcast fills the hole that Jenna and Julien left. THANK YOU!

[@matthew9tt252]

YAAASSSS THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING!!!!! We stan 🙌

[@pepps1943]

I don't condone comparing them but your comment had 68 likes and I couldn't pass up being 69 😎

[@breeprimo5040]

@@pepps1943 they weren’t comparing they were saying it reminds them of j&j and it gives them something new to watch while also feeling that nostalgia

[@pepps1943]

@@breeprimo5040 no

[@thaloblue]

Lowkey!!!!

[@Nivaization]

honestly reading the notifications for this podcast is giving me whiplash. last week furries this week creepy pasta. keep us guessing queens.

[@brooke1257]

BRO this episode is already bringing back the like ~kind of~ fear from creepy pasta stories and then Sarah goes “don’t forget to fill the Brita” as I was reaching for the brita and now I’m scared 😭💀😂

[@coolgamer3000]

I remember arguing with my best friend in 4th grade over creepypastas being real. My argument was that if there were a lot of similar cases in one area, the police would be searching for the serial killer, especially with their name known to everyone with internet connection. Her argument was that Jeff is just too cool for the police to catch him, so the police never talks about him

[@annieeames2282]

Damn those killers being too cool for police

[@j2theill2theian77]

Sarah and Brittany! PLEASE do an episode on fanfiction (wattpad, archive of our own, tumblr, 1D era, smut, etc) i think it would be so interesting to hear your experience with it and opinions on it!!!

[@FlipsYouOffWithMalicousIntent]

they did it!!

[@MarinaBallerina]

I need these podcasts to be 2+ hours! I love listening to them!

[@kayleecampbell5180]

Fr!

[@fa1ryt33thh]

i would pay such good money

[@jojored3981]

Commenting immediately! To say that this podcast is so funny and I love them so much I’ve watched every episode at least 3x 🙂 even if it’s just background noise I’ll get distracted by how actually funny they are 😂

[@miaathermopolis2430]

Ugh preach .. praise the Lord amen lol 😂

[@oliviahancock2274]

I remember kids at school in like 2008 claiming that Dr quack appeared on their computer with a knife and murdered their webkinz.

[@paigeholloway5864]

8:30 I recently wrote a paper for college with a section about psychological effects on players of violent video games. The majority of unbiased studies and articles I read on the topic agreed that psychological effect's from violence video games are rare but the most common is aggression. Aggression can be violent, but it is more non-violent aggression seen as an effect. It has not been proven that violent video games leads to, by it's definition, violent behavior. Many people use the "argument" that a lot of violent people play video games, but with over 2 billion worldwide video game players, that's not really evidence. In my opinion, as a player of violent video games, I think the problem is the desensitization to violence (which does not lead to becoming violent).

[@chlogurt]

i read "there's a man behind you" on creepypasta in middle school on my mom's laptop before my parents got home and my life was forever changed. i literally remember being so scared and not being able to tell my parents because i thought i would get in trouble for being on that site LMAO i had to google how to delete my search history so they wouldn't find out and i went MONTHS convinced there was a man behind me that i couldn't see. probably the reason i have anxiety tbh.

[@baileymackinnonmusic]

omg i can’t even imagine the fear

[@samanthamartinez3223]

Honestly same, some of those creepypastas are probably the reason my insomnia started as a kid and then just developed into mental illness and stuff

[@serenityperry2948]

Brittany: spelunking is horrible word Also Brittany: that's a great word

[@bobbigranado]

I love how there is no method to the madness, keeping us on our toes with these themes

[@annalese135]

I love it when it just goes off the rails

[@noxxious4396]

the best way to tackle the whole know where your kids are at emotionally/mentally is not treating them like an extension of yourself and a point of pride, my dad made sure I never felt judged so most thoughts I've ever had no matter how fucked I've shared with him and I shared with him all the weird videos and stories I heard online and the response was never "you're disturbed for that" it was just that's disturbing so it would get me to not think of things as a novelty and be like 'hmm yeah that is fucked up'

[@NoteToLoser]

That whole back and fourth at 13:23 *killed me* and I have to mark it in case I come back here one day 😂

[@cnightingale7384]

I remember the Squidward picture being so disturbing and now it just looks like me any given Tuesday. Especially the dark circles.

[@ah4902]

Will be watching this after my philosophy exam, send me good vibes y’all Edit: the vibes worked! It was all essay questions and I knew the answers, AND the extra credit question, now I have my personal reward of watching this and hitting my pen

[@Seagazin]

You got this!!!

[@choptopjo]

Sending every good vibe I have ✨ ✨ 💕

[@awitchhazel6443]

Sending good vibes your way! You got this!!!

[@natalieg-s]

good luck!! you’re gonna do great

[@Brittany_Broski]

Period!

[@jg1404]

I can’t explain it, but Sarah asking “What’s a Majora’s Mask?” Was fucking hilarious

[@annoyinggirl2660]

i really think parents need to monitor their kids internet usage too but being unsupervised online literally made me.

[@annoyinggirl2660]

maybe like.. if ur kid is clearly impressionable or dumb or juvenile just keep ‘em off

[@randomentertainment]

something that’s so interesting about this is that the internet that they grew up on (as millennials and older gen z) is VASTLY different from the internet that i grew up on (as a young gen z). the internet they grew up with was a limitless medium of communication and expression that had so much potential and the internet i grew up with was one where i was warned “don’t go on these websites its just porn and viruses” and the way that it has changed is so incredibly fascinating. edit: as an internet kid, children absolutely should not have unsupervised access to the internet

[@desireecowling167]

16:33 So the Jeff the killer face when it popped up on the screen actually scared me because when I was younger (middle school age) that picture was on a text thread that was going around that said if you don't do something this person will come into your house at night but I didn't know back then it was a creepypasta connection. I didn't even know what it was. I just knew there was a series of creepy images going around in scary text message threads that you had to forward. I was so freaked that I stopped opening text messages from friends because I was terrified that a creepy photo would pop up.

[@serraarkan7079]

I was really unprepared for the dog picture and Jeff, I feel like they just violated my space. Are my socks blown off? No, but do I feel a bit off-put? Yes. The only way I can describe it is if someone used your toothbrush and you find out like weeks later.

[@shannonranalli8688]

no i literally am so scared to close my eyes and fall asleep it’s 2:30am

[@RandomNameHere1055]

When the episode started I was like "I've been carrying this burden of this dog smile picture for like 15 years, let me look at it in the daylight" and it was oddly therapeutic? I feel like a weight has been lifted.

[@macieg4052]

The fact I had a Skype relationship when I was 12/13 with an internet stranger who claimed to be Eyeless Jack disturbs me to this day…

[@ElizabethAyotte]

Um I need more information??!

[@ll-tj8hr]

HELLO??? COME BACK AND EXPLAIN A LITTLE

[@fxirydreams]

HEY BESTIE?? UPDATE PLEASE???

[@roxypicasso66]

SIS ARE YOU OKAY??????? please tell me you’re not still using the same email address or anything i’m actually worried for you

[@fxirydreams]

macie it’s been a month PLEASE....

[@ashleyb8567]

Im screaming, pissing and shitting. IM SO HAPPY TO WATCH THIS DURING MY BREAK

[@stasiyasworld]

i’m so happy for u bestie

[@jhart1127]

I love this for u

[@heyoitsfinn3784]

Growing up in the 2010s and being very much involved in online culture at such a young age I’ve been kind of numbed to the “scary” side of the internet some things do send a chill down my spine but it takes a lot to get me properly scared and growing up LOVING spooky stuff like this I love hearing other peoples perspective on creepy pastas and lost episodes etc ps I just love this podcast as a whole

[@matilda1693]

brittany sitting in trixies place and sarah sitting in katyas brings me so much joy

[@chloeleatherman8403]

Talking about morbid curiosity, I wrote my thesis on the horror genre and how it effects people between childhood and adulthood, our interest in it, and how those aspects can be applied to certain characters in horror movies, tv shows, and novels.

[@seikoshinohara3084]

Does looking at gore as a kid ruin your brain? I think it ruined my brain

[@seikoshinohara3084]

Like now that I know what a lot of gore looks like I constantly have intrusive thoughts where I imagine terrible gore-y things happening to people I care about lol I feel like SpongeBob saying "soiled it" over and over again

[@TheGinaChan]

@@seikoshinohara3084 Yeah, I have intrusive thoughts too sometimes, but I just try to move past it and not think about it. In a way some of that creepypasta shit was true, like the more you give something attention, the more it will bother you :/

[@clydefr0g]

Brittany!!! Please have your mom as a guest on the podcast, I re watch the two videos you have of her explaining ghost hunting & faeries. My mom has had similar experiences and I’m obsessed with the paranormal, and your ma😩🤌🏽❤️

[@espeonforever8]

I totally feel Sarah on this. The gore tab on Snopes fucked me up/:

[@haileyhunter4555]

yeah they really have to start putting some age tests on websites because it messed me up too :(

[@kelleyreeves965]

That and LiveLeak. Don't know how I found these things at such a young age

[@MKSsmile]

Snopes birthed a lot of issues for me istg

[@KingOfGaymes]

@@momomc.thotty okay but how do you meet friends through gore pages 😭

[@KingOfGaymes]

@@haileyhunter4555 seriously though I feel websites with adult content or anything should have like a way to prove you’re old enough, kids aren’t safe online. Clicking a checkmark saying you’re 18 or older isn’t enough

[@intothevoid10]

The Brothers Grimm is where Cinderella originally comes from and she cut part of her foot off to fit into the slipper. They were old school cautionary tales, absolutely loved reading them as a kid since they’re usually morbid. Look into them they’re wild!

[@jasmine-zw3qs]

wasnt it the sisters who cut off their feet

[@zaina5127]

actually the step sisters do that, not cinderella. one step sister hacks off her heel flesh to fit the shoe, and the other cuts a toe off. but they both leave blood in the shoe, so the bird tells the prince to look in the shoe, "there is blood in the shoe//she is not the one for you". and cinderella's foot fits the shoe perfectly.

[@keramon8188]

Man, I haven't thought about creepypastas in years. Reading them in the middle of the night in the dark as a preteen, becoming a part of the creepypasta fictionkin tumblr scene a few years later, then moving on and becoming invested in analog and arg horror now that I'm in my 20's. Time flies. I think the reason why we don't see many creepypastas anymore other than the fact it's not as popular is because of the move to more in depth and involved stories coming to light- where BEN Drowned paved the way for creepypasta becoming arg games, nowadays if you have an idea you want to be able to involve an audience or make a video. Glad I got this in my recs, it was nice going down memory lane.

[@MiryssaRayne]

I remember getting a terrifying chain text message in middle school with a story from creepypasta. I’ll never forget the story was about a girl named Carmen Winstead who was pushed into a sewer and would come up through bathroom drains and kill kids in the shower. It terrified me for so long 😭

[@Ew_itsGabbie]

I LITERALLY USED TO TERRIFY MY FRIENDS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL WITH THIS. YOU JUST UNLOCKED A LOST MEMORY

[@livid-fn9st]

Hi my name is Carmen winstead AUGHHHHHH I am 17 years old i am very similar to you aughhhhhhh

[@fanofthings6720]

LMFAO I never got this one but this one is so funny to me cause I only know it as that one tik tok comment with the AuGhhHs like the person commented

[@thefinalgirl6907]

Hi my name is HHUUUUUUUUUUUH Winstead, I'm 17 HHHUUUUUUHH I am very similar to you, did I mention to you that I'm HHUUUUH

[@vivitronn]

I SWEAR TO GOD ITS ALWAYS FUCKING CARMEN WINSTEAD.

[@paigewilliams7108]

Did anyone ever hear about the munchkin that hung himself in the backround of the wizard of oz? Still under the impression this was real and tbh im still fully half traumatised xoxo gossip gurl

[@ahhhh4017]

I think this one is real idk tho

[@4typesofpenguins99]

No that was not real it has been debunked

[@lillyp6905]

That just brought up a memory, I was literally introduced to that by my 6th grade history teacher at my CATHOLIC SCHOOL

[@fabulousroy]

The wizard of oz has been my God damn r e l i g i o n my entire life and it was always so annoying to talk about how much i love it and hear people be like "did you know about the hanging munchkin?!?!"

[@fabulousroy]

It was not real, btw. If you watch the movie, it's just big birds. You can search for it frame by frame, but it's not there. ~the person who has watched that movie more than anyone ever

[@MKSsmile]

42:54 "I wonder what that would taste like" broke me. Had to pause and sit here laughing for a minute.

[@TricksterPrince]

You both say such off the cuff things at the PERFECT moments, I’m crying

[@noircur3279]

I remember having to die hard convince this girl at my middle school that the Tikky Toby creepypasta was 100% fake because she genuinely thought he was real. Like no girl, I found his creators Deviantart and concept art of him hes FAKE. (We were like 14/15 at the time but it's wild to think about)

[@marianagimenez4414]

In a way, scary content can give someone a reason to feel anxious, and when I was a young child with anxiety on the internet, creepypasta just made sense, dread with a reason.

[@AwesomenessOverlord]

the entire mr smiley video is engraved in my brain. the evil laugh, the demonic voice. ""and pray that i dont find you" echoes through my hollow shell

[@choptopjo]

Is anyone else familiar with the “little babies ice cream” commercial. My mind has convinced me it’s real but after literally 10 mins of this podcast and reading comments i cant figure out if it was apart of the creepy pasta theme!

[@Spidertheidiot]

@@choptopjo Those words just awoke something in me that was buried deeeeeep and I'm confused and kinda terrified.

[@KingOfGaymes]

@@choptopjo it was a real commercial yes

[@AwesomenessOverlord]

@@choptopjo yess duuuude it was an actual commercial but obviously edited 😂 im gonna have to scare my kids with that one day

[@ThePoisonLotus]

creepypasta was how I got into horror, and now I'm a full-blown horror author. so glad the girliez are covering it. also I need brit's ev tottav outoboros

[@D4NC3Rable]

wait I've been staring at that sticker wondering what it means. "Ev tottav"??

[@ThePoisonLotus]

@@D4NC3Rable it’s greek for like sumthin

[@maliciousqueefer3427]

@@D4NC3Rable Greek for the snake that's devouring itself

[@cheyennefrench8396]

Oh man I remember being OBSESSED with creepy pasta 😂 I had a “crush” on eyeless Jack. I went as far as to make an OC that would date it. I could name all the slender man’s and their stories, man I was a weird kid

[@Spooklime]

no cause I did the same thing with eyeless jack! I literally wrote a fic on wattpad about my character and they ended up dating😭😭😭 so embarrassing

[@TenderNoodle]

Me too omg💀 We all live the same live fr

[@isabellaguerrero5194]

@@Spooklime nil I probably read that fanfic and ate it up 💀

[@MorganMacLean02]

i actually did a presentation on the russian sleep experiment in middle school and it scared the shit out of everyone and the teacher had to tell them it was fake but i thought for sure it was real

[@2542lauren]

I cannot over emphasize how much I love this podcast and you two in general. Could listen to y’all talk GENUINELY FOR HOURS