What YouTube Kids Did To Horror

[@EarthyOSC]

KZbin kids made horror go from nightmare to fever dream.

[@Ralseithefloofy]

Factual

[@TheCEOofTomlas_]

True

[@Icecalller]

fr

[@ilopsic]

outlast in 2023 when kids see: "na bro I ain't playing this trash game, roblox horror better than this low tier crap"

[@EarthyOSC]

​@@ilopsicFR

[@RngGm]

For me, the thing that ruined mascot horror were toys In a lot of tourist attractions that i visited in my country there were a lot tiny shops. Every single one had the current popular mascot horror toy

[@Ricky72072]

Oh yeah the cheap wierd poppy playtime piggy 2 pack 💀💀

[@Ricky72072]

Or the scary teacher among us playset

[@Ricky72072]

Bro my 6 year old second cousin had a rainbow friends play for school

[@Rey_Palpatine]

The neon colored Huggy Wuggy toys that they seem to sell at every festival/carnival thing 💀

[@sansationalgaming8420]

The thing is that they know that they’ll make money

[@514komeiji5]

KZbin kids is the scariest horror film site for adults lol

[@manboy4720]

it's horrifying in a very subtle, existential way.

[@AstraOG]

imagine if someone made an indie game based off the effects of youtube kids on the younger generation tho

[@sleeper6548]

I sadly had to delete youtube kids, its november you know

[@Greenisanidiot]

​@@AstraOG👀✏️📋

[@TheOffside0423]

Is it for the fear dream aspect, or their temptations on November

[@thehonoredone2361]

Elsagate is still the scariest thing to ever come out on KZbin. I remember scrolling past the almost endless amount of thumbnails of Elsa in dire situations.

[@TragicJade]

Fr and it hurts knowing some kids watch that

[@Noperison]

@@TragicJadewhen i was younger i crapped my pants watching herobrine and sonic.exe

[@xlbthedemigod5662]

Don’t even remind me

[@Zanemob]

@kaiserfranzjoseph9311I’ll never forget peaking over the coach to see my visiting 6 and 7 year old little cousins watching graphic Elsa Birthing Porn… I quietly whispered to the mon (right beside them) to look at what her kids are watching at low volume. I heard squirting and moaning and looked… I’m an adult who had never seen a pregnant woman’s vagina until then… KZbin Kids BTW!

[@Wasplin_Official]

fax

[@Whatsvrmn]

They should really take the Courage the Cowardly Dog route when thinking about horror for children. Make it disturbing, but light hearted enough for children to understand.

[@nickthegamer1451]

and entertaining enough for all ages

[@OmegaCorsair]

Well That’s Too much Work for them anyways

[@nickthegamer1451]

true.. why not make a low quality trash content for kids and get money instead of making effort

[@LucyKosaki]

I think shows like "Tales from the Cryptkeeper" hit the right spot between being scary but still child-friendly

[@AllenTheAnimator004]

They did,but KZbin kids did them dirty

[@star-not-moon]

I've been telling people for years that children on KZbin have been influencing the horror scene and everyone's looked at me like I'm crazy. I feel so validated.

[@viscountrainbows2857]

The fact there's a FNAF movie should shut the doubters up forever. Poppy's Playtime, Hello Neighbor, and Slender are next. Baldi and Granny I am not counting out, but those will more than likely not get the Hollywood treatment and instead be entirely fan-made and animated. Some kids may have them as their personal Salad Fingers. yep I'm showing my age.

[@siegfried_be7553]

@@viscountrainbows2857 theres already a slender movie

[@byungbin1395]

@@viscountrainbows2857 Slender already got a movie in 2018? Huh? I agree with the rest, but Slender already got the movie treatment.

[@viscountrainbows2857]

@@byungbin1395 Ahh I forgot about that one, my b. Maybe my brain was trying to hold out some glimmer of faith that particular dead horse was safe from flogging.

[@kimbaldun]

I mean if you randomly discuss that topic without any context people will definitely look at you like you're crazy, Everyone knows youtube kid's content is trash and kids will watch anything that moves and in a screen

[@senatorium]

What I hate in general about all of the mascot horror and vapid fandom stuff too is that it kinda unintentionally ruins my perception of the game. And I know that seemingly could be refuted with “just ignore that stuff and enjoy the game”, but it becomes REALLY hard to ignore it when the entire thing has been subsumed by that kind of crowd. (Though being real, now it seems like many games are being made specifically for that)

[@manboy4720]

that's a good argument senator, you wanna back that up with a source? i was gonna say that as a joke, but no you're completely correct. not making horror games to have a unique and terrifying experience, just making it so it can be milked by fandoms.

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

Ever notice how with each mascot horror game the quality goes down.

[@Cubeytheawesome]

Yeah, recently poppy playtime unveiled the supposed main enemy for chapter 3. It’s these care bear-like things called the smiling critters. And they actually look good. If chapter 3 is a success, mob games will have beaten the “for kids” accusations.

[@skelebonez1349]

⁠@@chadgorosaurus4898not exactly tbh, looking at indigo park or Shipwrefked and they’re genuinely really good I do get what you mean tho I do, I think it’s how things can be played out in the game that could determine on the level of well, youtube kid shenanigans it’d get That and people simply rushing their projects for that moola I do hope to make a mascot horror game someday? But more so in the vein of duck season n such Does kinda suck how KZbin kids can.. I wouldn’t say completely ruin but really just, heavily mock a lotta horror titles because they look for kids enough it that makes sense

[@Cubeytheawesome]

@@chrispy5249 most of those plushies were probably bootleg merch.

[@miromachado9028]

ngl im kinda glad the internet is realising just because it's indie dosen't mean you can't say something about you not liking it, the fact that most mascot horrors get all the attention while actual good games like puppet combo and iron lung get's considerably less isn't even annoying, it's just sad also hotline miami soundtrack in the video that's awesome

[@CaesarPlaYz]

There's a few good mascot horror games that are good, Poppy playtime was good and still is. Just ignore the yt kids Minecraft vids. Iron lung and a bunch of them get attention, but the bad mascot horror get sometimes more attention, Like Garten of ban ban.

[@damonlam9145]

@@CaesarPlaYz that the problem it's only good because it's follows the same formula of most mascot horror games nowadays and feel like there's a lot of missed potential because it doesn't try to do more than that.

[@CaesarPlaYz]

@damonlam9145 right, back then no yt kids would make vids beacause it was scary.

[@coin4898]

puppet combo and iron lung just arent liked by children. As simple as that, if they cant compete its their fault.

[@CaesarPlaYz]

@coin4898 true, if it's not a kids game it's not gonna be that popular. It's just the industry

[@alonenugget.]

imagine having little timothy in your car in 2030 saying "i want a scary huggy wuggy plush"

[@EarthyOSC]

I'm disowning him and taking him off the will

[@xerothereaper4158]

@@EarthyOSC sell the child for families that are desperate for a child

[@Artificer_]

abortion

[@matthewconnor696]

Force lil Timmy to watch the Alien, Predator, and Terminator movies

[@need4speed5353]

My nephew got a huggy wuggy plush and I wanted to disown my family

[@blusterthebenevolpede4137]

I'm so glad you mentioned how FNF was treated. I'd be lieing through my teeth if I said I had grown up with what it references, but I can still respect that it's a throwback to an era of the internet loved by many in a dire, lonely time. When the content farms got ahold of it, its aesthetic got appropriated into KZbin Kids and made it all the much harder to enjoy, same thing with Skibidi Toilet, even though I never had a personal connection to it and it's not horror.

[@headphonesaxolotl]

Skibidi is a sad story. It was just a funny example of modern memes that happened to have lore... and the content farms sucked it dry and cringeified it.

[@victorlolxd7347]

@@headphonesaxolotl🤣 sad story? Toilet man? Come on dude!

[@YaBoiKyogre]

@@victorlolxd7347 he means that it was sad how skibidi was just made for fun and then the content farms ruined it,.

[@headphonesaxolotl]

@@YaBoiKyogre Bingo

[@thedraftingax5963]

@mr.nooply9042Same here.

[@raineblackstar3522]

I still wonder why normal 18+ youtube needs rules to "protect" kids, *WHEN THERE IS KZbin KIDS!!!* Why do WE need to suffer for the actions of incompetent parents who apparently don't know what rule enforcement is??

[@BlueSphere12]

True!!

[@fuy1648]

So true!!

[@JNJNRobin1337]

because! the absolute minimum age to be considered an adult nowadays is around 98

[@fanerv3304]

The "children argument" is being used everywhere to justify the most stupid and greedy movements.

[@eltiolavara9]

they really, really don't know what they're doing

[@BuiHieuDong]

Remember when we were kids and could easily get traumatized by these horror stuff, but kids nowadays can really watch them normally without even scared a bit.

[@sourlab]

I played through batman arkham City THAT GAME CREEPED ME OUT SO HARD . I had to watch that f ing soup video so I wouldn't be called a puss . I watched THE THING AS A KID Atleast I'm carefull of what my sister sees , but I do know that most parents don't care as much

[@EarthyOSC]

When i was younger i watched htf and it kinda traumatized me but a 4 year old today could probably watch 10 htf episodes without getting scared

[@EarthyOSC]

​@@sourlabare you talking about the vid where two guys in costumes force a man to eat the remains of his family?

[@sourlab]

​@@EarthyOSCyup

[@kikitanda4024]

Annnnd that's not normal or okay

[@GraingyAircraft]

Boomers got hit by lead and radioactive fallout, Gen Z got hit by micro plastics and KZbin kids. Poetic, in a sense.

[@WokioWolfy]

A thing about these mascot horror things and the... you know... the gate... is that it all stems to what is the most popular with kids nowadays. You can kill the gate, but it will always come back as long as something becomes really popular and trendy with the kids.

[@fuy1648]

Just like William Afton!

[@anthonyoliver418]

Honestly the issue is that it is hard to find something good unless it is popular, but the more popular something becomes, the more warped it becomes thanks to fans and content creators, so either you may never hear of something good, or you hear it so much that you want it gone, the only time a form of horror or general media is safe is when it finds the perfect middle ground of being known, but not consumed by the weight of communities

[@daforkgaming3320]

Then once you find something that’s rlly good and meaningful to you, you have no one to share it with because there’s so little chance they would’ve heard about it

[@dysntgr8]

That's the sad truth. I discovered the backrooms when it was relatively new, and for a short period of time I could enjoy it. Then it blew up and the Huggy Wuggy and Lightning Mcqueen videos started popping up and... I'm glad I could enjoy it while it lasted.

[@parkervance3646]

And yet we still won’t know why sirenhead and granny stole scary teacher’s Ferrari

[@teravolt77]

if you find that video, let me know

[@nintendofan_64]

what the fuck

[@blockeontheleafeon]

It's a good thing I was born in 2001 when KZbin Kids didn't exist and stuff was actually scary to me.

[@Xeorboom]

say what you want but Gametoons BanBan is just *L E G E N D A R Y*

[@IcG64W]

@@Xeorboom its not at all, just another content farm

[@Xeorboom]

@@IcG64W "I didn't think I'd kill you I just wanted to turn you into my robo-slave"

[@cajowlingbowl]

@@Xeorboom gametoons is cringe as fuck

[@cajowlingbowl]

@@Xeorboom Gametoons is a cringe content farming channel. ill admit that i watched the among us videos when it was popular, but now its the cringest thing ive ever seen.

[@andrew-coronel-9016]

I wished I could travel back in time to the early 2010s when creepypastas were just scary stories and are not this dumpster fire.

[@thisisthenameofhandle]

*early 2010s

[@ColorInversion]

Creepypastas like Sonic.exe didn't even exist at that time.

[@chrismclean4789]

@@thisisthenameofhandle *early 2000s

[@aniketr341]

I mean some of them were kinda trash though

[@thisisthenameofhandle]

@@chrismclean4789 What creepy pastas were written in the early 2000s? Name 8, I dare you

[@ExBronyPony]

the worst aspects of this genre is why i really love the games that either make fun of them, or deconstruct and reuse their tropes in better ways. Baldi’s Basics (a mockery of education and horror games, made to be intentionally not scary) and the recently releasing My Friendly Neighborhood (a mascot horror with a less fantasy-like horror angle, and with a more genuine, heartfelt story which uses the tropes better) come to mind first.

[@devofficialchannel]

I also think that Baldi's Basics has a relatable appeal to children. I mean, who else hasn't had an overbearing teacher who'd scold or hit you for making a mistake?

[@EerieNone]

Fnaf genuinely scared me as a kid because it felt relatively real. Yes, it had some supernatural twists to it, but a man using a place where familys hangout to lure children away and kill them felt like it could happen. The same serial killer dying in the same suit he lured innocent children to their deaths in, and then coming back as an amalgamation of rotting flesh and metal, forced to live an agonizingly painful life to repay for his sins, was such a terrifying yet captivating story. And then Sister Location and the books came out, and I lost all interest in the fnaf universe.

[@uuuh_ok1]

if you describe it like that, yea it does sound scary, however i kinda lost interest in fnaf after pizzeria simulator

[@kyanartz]

Book just pretty bland and let just say, security breach is ruined by The media due the most of the viewer are children, I can't make my self lie about how things in it just don't make really kind of sense and lost all of the fnaf vibe on it

[@EerieNone]

@@kyanartz Security breach had an interesting concept. But the execution was abysmal. The layout of the complex doesent make any sense to me, the main protagonist isnt really likeable to me, you can only really bond with one of the animatronics which completely destroys the point of giving the entire gang their own sentience and personalitys, Vanny barely made an appearance, and the story overall just makes no sense to me. The DLC was just as dissapointing.

[@EerieNone]

@@uuuh_ok1 completely understandable. For a lot of people it was the ending to Fnaf, atleast it was meant to be.

[@kyanartz]

@@EerieNone exactly, It does had cool theme but hell, the gameplay and the story was completely Out of context, and DLC just really dissapointing by adding the whole new Character that DOESNT even had anything to do with security breach itself

[@exoticzave1173]

The overall rabbit hole of the KZbin kids thing is something that I've experienced before in my time growing up, But generally speaking, As a 2010's kid I didn't grow up with these kinds of KZbin kids stuff, (Well sort of) But All the KZbin kids stuff with poppy playtime, security breach ect. Is sorta taking horror into a more child friendly approach which isn't too bad but a lot of the stuff they produce is weird and don't really accomplish anything.

[@highcaution902]

Bro how old are you 💀

[@exoticzave1173]

@@highcaution902 14

[@chaseuk8621]

I’m the same, I’m so glad that I grew up with well made SFM shorts and not this garbage.

[@purple.st4rz_556]

Same 😭

[@Ricky72072]

Bro I completely agree with you horror when I was younger was scary but new horror is the same thing my 4 year old cousin plays and if she played the horror we played back then she would be absolutely spooked

[@MariaIsabellaZNN]

Ah, Junji Ito, now that's a good horror pick. I always struggle to decide which one to use to introduce him to new people, it's too easy to scare them off completely, even with the more tame stuff such as Uzumaki (my own jumping on point). I tend more to Tomie, since it's also funny...ish... or, Remina. Pretty crazy, but short. It can hit people fully before they realize wth even happened.

[@T3rr0r626]

I first got into his stuff after the FUNKe video. My personal favourite has been Black Paradox, everything from the themes to the horror and twists is just 👌

[@Posexe1]

You could try to introduce them through World of Horror, a videogame inspired by Itos work.

[@railfandepotproductions]

There's horror stories made by the Thomas the tank engine community(sad story of Henry is not the scariest episode of TTTE, that title belongs to Duncan gets spooked)

[@viscountrainbows2857]

GASHUNK 🦈

[@railfandepotproductions]

@@viscountrainbows2857 wut?

[@CZsWorld]

Idk, I'm too old to have experienced it as a kid, but I think mascot horror is a cool and interesting genre. Of course, I have the benefit of survivors bias and knowing which games are crap...

[@darling..............]

Heh

[@oculus_sight6403]

Not gonna lie the manga image at 10:28 genuinely had me more unsettled and unnerved than all the games mentioned in the video, something about it is genuinely frightening to me. sick vid though

[@falkrana2382]

It's from a short story called "The Enigma of Amigara Fault" if you're interested in learning more about it. It's quite bone-chilling!

[@oculus_sight6403]

Checked it out its pretty cool thanks.@@falkrana2382

[@BugBoyBugBoy]

I plan on being a game dev in the future, and the only reason one of my ideas for a game is a horror game is to try to save the genre, so yeah.

[@JellyNutButter22]

I wish you luck, hopefully if you cant save it you can atleast make it better! 👍

[@_nutcracker]

KZbin kids should be more sensitive to videos and should not keep horror related charecter in the videos If that's a rule, It will save Internet horror and horror games

[@_nutcracker]

Please reply if possible after you made the game and published it, would love to be the first player of your game

[@coritooty]

Good luck, this entertainment industry really needs a complete overhaul.

[@Xalkomak347]

Hey. I'm on the same road as you plan to.

[@just-a-cool-kid]

The same thing is starting to happen with TADC I don’t know why but I’m starting to see weird ass videos with the same genre as the videos you’ve shown and the videos are starting to sexualise pomni (my second favourite) which really hurts me. This is video is a definition of “suffering from success” and unfortunately, you are right! Guys we gotta slow it down with the masterpiece TADC before its too late!

[@I_Exist557]

Yeah,I agree with you. Despite my enjoyment for TADC. I'm not blinded by the fact that it's fandom is gonna turn to shit one day with all the r34 (Which I'm not surprised by it honestly)and controversies happening. It feels like it's just another popular thing that's gonna die in like 2 months. Let's just hope that content farms like lanky box won't milk the hell out of it.

[@just-a-cool-kid]

@@I_Exist557 dude I checked on lankybox and they’re starting to post shorts with characters like Jax, Pomni and Caine 😭😭😭😭

[@snowkitten3285]

@@I_Exist557this aged like milk

[@jackharpe3rd233]

As a Early 90's Millennial who grew up on Hocus Pocus, Chucky's Child's Play, or ever the Aliens vs Predators Franchise as early as age 5, I feel bad for late Gen Z and Alpha, for their step into Horror. It just comes off as subpar in comparison to what me and my Family grew up on. And I don't believe that because of Nostalgia, that just how everything feels now.

[@PhoenixRoseYT]

We’re probably the oldest people in this comment section 😂 back when we were kids, there was effort put into things. Nowadays everything mainstream is so low effort, it’s all just mass produced garbage and everyone eats it up.

[@dysntgr8]

I'm part of that late Gen Z group but having boomer parents I too was brought up on those kind of movies and series. It was only when I got my own device that I was introduced to modern day "horror"... and yes, it is much more substandard and poorer quality than older horror.

[@jackharpe3rd233]

Without a doubt @@PhoenixRoseYT.

[@jackharpe3rd233]

Sorry I took a while to respond​@@dysntgr8, but it's funny how you mentioned when you got your first device. Cause I never got my own PC or Mac until one of my Grandparents gave me their PowerBook G4 in 2013. And I never got my first Phone in General until 2016 with the Samsung Core Prime. Because of my instincts for these devices along with the use of Social Media is kinda Gen-X-ish as well, but at the same time I still think to myself if that too was for the best. That aside, I do sympathize with your backstory.

[@adamlolbonus4977]

Hocus pocus sucks ass ngl

[@mustardgaz5717]

It's always a great time when t3error posts

[@Ralseithefloofy]

Ye

[@Theincrediblerixtywixtiiii]

Ye too

[@N4KXR]

i fr agree with everything you say here Especially Friday Night Funkin' As a person who came from the community of that game, I'm generally mad and traumatized at the same time to see those youtube kids videos popping up. I swear, I've been in there for 2 years. I just dislike the fact those companies can be greedy on these characters for marketing too, it's just really bad. And yeah the inappropriate content are bad too. I remember when I was like 5 or 6, I saw one of those videos of spider man + injection thing, it ruined my innocence, I didn't understand it until I looked back now

[@YaBoiKyogre]

and then there's the mobile ripoffs of FNF

[@hardygaming3454]

I’m at just the right age where I remember genuine horror content as a kid to watch a lot of it blow up on the internet and see the general downfall

[@RedHatGuyYT]

kids ruin anything they get their grubby little hands on. and unfortunately, kids want to see horror involving things they like because they want to feel 'mature'

[@Datbet]

True

[@raptorskilltor4554]

Thank you goosebumps for introducing to me horror as a kid than your average horror kids game could 🙏

[@Toon_Lucario]

Finally someone mentions Ice Scream. I swear that game was a hallucination to me for the longest time. I feel like that game can have a whole video on how it basically disappeared

[@_nutcracker]

The fact is that I was literally Built to Be a family friendly horror game and says it is, I wish more horror games for kids get made so, we can seperate the shit, and KZbin kids get like hypersensitive, blocking everything that features a horror charecter, a good way to end KZbin kid's terror on horror

[@smitty_werben_jagerman_jensen]

​@@_nutcrackerI remember there being like 7 games out rn xd

[@_nutcracker]

@@smitty_werben_jagerman_jensen that's mascot Horror for you, I feel like It could be shortened into 4 parts, but I guess By sequels the game tries to increase its lifespan

[@smitty_werben_jagerman_jensen]

@@_nutcracker unrelated note Bendy is kinda like mascot horror, but at least it's actually scary in a way

[@Simbala-bq5vy]

Keplerians killed Ice scream by milking it with theyre factory chapters thats why it died

[@xenolion339]

One of my favorite creepypastas, the backrooms, was also ruined by this.

[@TheBruheak]

Maybe the Garten of BanBan was the friends we made along the way

[@davetheguy_708]

on god tho

[@sourlab]

""The money we lost along the wayyyy""

[@coneheadvr1]

10:42 I actually played the game one time in 2018 I didn’t know what to do so I was just wandering around the skield doing nothing for 5 minutes

[@ColorInversion]

10:41 One thing I also want to note is among us was probably also helped by the Henry Stickmin collection thanks to the many references and (ofcourse) Henry

[@lordsauron8546]

I've long been of the opinion that the thing that makes horror so great is it allows the audience to be exposed to harmful themes and emotions we otherwise wouldn't deal with in a safe manner; hence why the Silent Hill franchise is seen as a comfort game by many, for example. Being able to provide experiences like that is super valuable for not only telling engaging stories, but being able to help audiences better understand harmful emotions/themes (ie PTSD, stress, death, etc). The damage that mascot horror has done to horror games means game devs and storytellers are more incentivized by profit margins than trying to provide meaningful, or even just engaging experiences without much deeper meaning (ie Puppet Combo games). I think both PT and FNaF in their own ways contributed to the state that horror games are in, with devs taking the wrong lessons from them.

[@dysntgr8]

I wouldn't blame it completely on the mascot horror games though. The genre is a brilliant idea on its own - taking normally harmless characters and giving them an eerie edge. The main issue is that since mascots are so easy to be portrayed in a child-friendly manner, it would obviously attract a larger child audience. And these children can't play the games because they'd shit themselves, so they never experience the actual horror, they only know the mascots through youtube videos etc. The bigger problem arises because devs have noticed this growth due to child audiences and are overusing this genre to make quick cash. They fail to realize that these mascot horror games will not last a month in the community and will be replaced almost immediately, however a truly spine tingling horror game will never be forgotten

[@AugourtMcChickenFardKnuckles8]

youtube kids channels trying not to milk a horror game for 1 sec (99.999 impossible)

[@TheCakeFactorie]

dude you are like my favorite youtuber. your content and editing is so amazing to watch. as a person who has a baby brother who watches youtube kids this video is sadly relatable.

[@pumpy_king]

I miss the days before fnaf was ruined for everyone and it was actually scary I wish I could go back to that time because fnaf is my childhood and even though fnaf considered cring I still will forever love fnaf because I have spent so much money on fnaf Merch and I still love the games no matter how bad the games are I actually likes security breach and I loved fnaf world so I miss those days

[@PhoebeTheFairy56]

7:35 i feel a bit called out because one of my favorite spider-man stories has him get injected with something but it's probably an entirely different context than what people on youtube kids are doing (im fortunate enough to have not seen those videos so idk _for sure_ )

[@Zinkolo]

4:30 not at all! Deltarune proves you can do this successfully and improve the story's pacing. Each chapter is one big comprehensible story. Even games like Paper Mario did this and it was to it's benefit. It's just the Mascot horror games that abuse it for the sake of budget constraints. Whereas Deltarunes chapters take YEARS to produce.

[@Gutzzpiller0_o]

God, i really hope they dont target my fandoms ngl. The fandoms i like aren't well known online (omori, class of 09, ddlc, etc.), but things like project sekai is already being targeted, which makes me scared for other forms of games. Not just the ones I like, but the ones thousands to millions of people like. It doesn't even matter if its horror anymore, if something exists, there will soon be at least one video capitalizing off of it. I hope this doesn't become the future.

[@pugget6753]

KZbin kids takes horror and turns it into fever dreams

[@skyshunts]

It ruins horror games forever

[@alixdixon611]

And it does this with rainbow friends and banban and I godamm hate it.

[@victorlolxd7347]

@@alixdixon611why care?

[@alixdixon611]

@@victorlolxd7347 Why care? WHY CARE?!

[@victorlolxd7347]

@@alixdixon611Yeah… Why?

[@YourFriendlyShapeShifterFriend]

Imagine an actual horror game about an ai that was so sick of these things that they wanted to get out no matter the cost.

[@Wooper_Good]

So glad I grew up with normal KZbin

[@BlueSphere12]

Me to

[@IrishCoder]

0:46 …. That gave me soo many nightmares that goosebumps episode

[@K1ng_Squ1dZ]

Man i miss being a Trevor henderson fan before youtube kids ruined it

[@PercydeRoloFangirl]

Same

[@QueenOfPessimism]

This is such an interesting view on mascot/kid horror from the 2010s from someone who was actually in the age range! When i was a kid, i just watched actual horror movies. Lots of 28 weeks/days later, dawn of the dead, that sort of thing. Moved on to foreign horror as soon as i learnt how on the internet. I love fnaf and what not but I could never get into the mascot/kid horror popular back then and now. I just grew up expecting and wanting something different in a horror experience. The closest thing i can think of is creepypastas lol. But i would more read those than watch videos about them.

[@Megalon-qc8pf]

6:03 100% agree, Funky Nights at Freddy’s is an all time classic

[@xord6286]

dude you made me fail No Nostalgia Critic November by playing that tiny little NC clip at like 9:35

[@xtremeyoylecake]

Rip your No Nostalgia Critic November

[@A_ghost_leviathan]

It’s just a shame how cool horror ideas like the Trevor Henderson creatures, the backrooms, SCP, and many more get ruined by pop culture. Or, even worse: They get overshadowed by crappy, souless games designed sell merchandise (Poppy Playtime, Gartan of Banban)

[@vev9base]

5:10 that transition was so good

[@fallouttoonlink]

Courage the cowardly dog, Goosebumps, and Aliens were my intro to horror

[@FolderBoard]

T3rr0r: "The beginning of the [Let's Play] genre" Everything before horror game facecam stuff: *Vanishes into dust*

[@zsoltantal3996]

Love the fact that for the most "intense" part of the video had the hotline miami soundtrck in the back

[@TheCoolDefault]

I remember when siren head was once scary as hell

[@ninjascout]

back then everything on youtube that was for kids (where youtube kids was not a thing), everything on there would acually try to teach kids about things in life such as Story Bots/Netflix (I mean not that they did a good job on it) but atleast it did not have people getting a shot in thier ass to get views and money

[@Hunni_Gummi]

FnF getting consume by the rot of KZbin kids really messed with me personally considering I loved the game and getting tats(A BF,GF and MM Tats) , but I can't really share that love I have for it or commit to it without people calling it that "kid game" or berating me for my interest, but I felt like it had that adult swim humor and even the newer comics and animation are finally starting to get in that groove

[@shadowbonnie2314]

11:44 I found FNF annoying asf for a few reasons; 1. The annoying character design. 2. The annoying sounds. 3. The overuse of these characters everywhere. 4. Sonic and Sonic .EXE fans ruining it and tinting it with cringe Sonic stuff.

[@stereokuuji]

0:01 T3rr0r, you wild for this😂

[@corrumpted_ink69]

I like how terror don't care of new horror mascots like me.

[@The5kyDragon]

12:11 my reaction to that information: 😀🙂😐🙁😟😨💀

[@Kazoo336]

Elsagate Is the reason why I say they need to factory Reset youtube kids and make it to where creators need a license and certificate to make kid's content on there. And to keep it seperated from regular yt. Also maybe better age rating system for regular yt.

[@StarboundRose]

Hey so, I know you don’t like mascot horror, but look into My Freindly Neighborhood, it’s honestly the best recent mascot horror, where the gameplay and voice acting is really good, and the story is actually interesting. (Also it’s a whole game)

[@Baller_editz21]

The only thing wrong with it is it's not scary at all

[@shawellminoe]

@@Baller_editz21 well when you're fighting against basically just insane sentient puppets AND you have the power to kill a lot of them, it's really just a comedic game now.

[@AggrievedPurse2]

The really sad thing is. All of these games were amazing I loved Friday night funking cause it was one of the best rhythm games to come out. So was among us for it's fun and outrages from the arguments you would start, but youtube kids ruined it for a cash grab where it's now looked at cringe because the community and youtube kids ruined it.

[@TheDhins]

I once streamed exploring youtube kids on discord. To this day im scarred by what i've seen

[@smitty_werben_jagerman_jensen]

When BATIM first released chapter 1, it was genuinely terrifying, there was a yellowish atmosphere, it was like smth could pop out at any corner I wanna go back to those days

[@Rude_Dandelion]

If I ever make a horror game, I would make it much disturbing and bloody as possible to fend off KZbin kids

[@GrayScaledCube]

How to make a scary game for kids: Make it rainbow and fun happy time Make sure the characters has the most garbage dumpster fire names Give it a terrible name like “Spookys creepy land of HORROR”

[@HawloKnight]

"I fear no man. But that… thing… it scares me" - Heavy

[@masterseal0418]

I really hate how certain mascot horror like Poppy's Playtime encouraged a bunch of pale imitators to do the same gimmick: release a game that's not scary and only there for merchandise, that includes the internet eating it up. Literally quantity over quality. But kids horror has been done right before with Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Invader Zim, et cetera. The first example of which released in the late 1920s-1930s from Disney's Silly Symphonies called The Skeleton Dance. But nowadays, kids are glued to the internet just as ever, but there might be hope and it would give us plenty of exceptions. Only time would tell.

[@Simbala-bq5vy]

Yeah skeleton dance looks quite disturbing Fun fact: The creator of Tom and jerry started animation because he was fascinated by the skeleton dance Also chapter 3 of poppy playtime will be more disturbing brutal and darker and scarier

[@alexterra2626]

When there's actual "for kids" stuff, YTKids doesn't bat an eye When there's horror stuff that CLEARLY isn't made "for kids", YTKids milks it to oblivion What the flip is that all about?

[@Illusion517]

"Wanna watch" I'm afraid that's quite the overstatement. It's more like accidentally clicked on then sat for 5 hours as auto play cycles through the dumpster fire these channels call content as the kids brain makes not a thought nor sound except for the dial up noise. I don't think anyone thinks the kids are actually watching the content. They're hypnotized into a stupor by the familiar characters, bright colors, and loud sounds. I seriously hope studies are made comparing the intelligence of kids allowed to mindlessly watch this content and those who didn't. It would be fascinating.

[@flamer6566]

KZbin kids is far scarier than the modern horror film industry

[@fluffcake]

Horror for kids meant to only merchandise is something because I was a huge fan of the Goosebumps books as a kid and never owned a piece of merch (mostly cuz I was poor af)

[@davetheguy_708]

It's always a great time when t3error posts-🤖🤖🤖

[@walmadagaming5723]

Beep boop 🤖

[@marekstuff]

Welcome to the aperture science computer enrichement center.🤖🤖🤖

[@beefchopstick]

I liked my own comment 🤖🤖🤖🤖

[@blood-reaper]

​@@beefchopstick cool 🤖

[@Baller_editz21]

🐒

[@pyechos]

when you talked about the horror mascots and that i saw the ddlc girls sitting in the theater with the other, i was fucking scared, youtube kids videos are disturbing and prolly kink hidden in plain sight and seeing the characters of one of my favorite games in it would've make me vomit my organs

[@Neitheradentist]

12:50 because of elsa gate, then i was kid, i thought women would get pregnant of eating too much

[@Perrcoco]

I’m so happy that despite being very likely to see those kind of videos when I was younger, I somehow I got insanely lucky and just saw normal stuff.

[@sugarmashofficial_6210]

7:22 Just to Know Alternate Wail is not the Siren head signal even if siren head uses it and it came from an ultravoice controller

[@I_also_like_sirens_hehe]

That is correct. People need to know that Siren Head is capable of releasing sounds other than that

[@Ryzard]

Thank you so much for actually listing the music you used.

[@Edalgm]

When you were talking about mascot horror, you showed images from Baldi's Basics, which isn't really a mascot horror game according to the creator

[@coolguy.206]

crazy how i clicked on a video on horror and youtube kids and it ended up becoming a documentary on elsagate

[@angel_of_rust]

to me, videogame horror was the Goosebumps carnival game collection (PS2/Wii) and Grabbed by the Ghoulies (XBOX). the latter had controller vibration which sent me running out of the room out of shock.

[@whackydart39474]

the godzilla sound effects take it to the next level

[@FrenzyStudiosYT]

I don’t think that poppy playtime was ever meant for kids even after seeing the trailer for chapter 3 Until lanky box ruined it :(

[@Simbala-bq5vy]

Yeah it has such a good concept and the smiling critters look creepy mostly Catnap but Lankybox will lanky them in a box and turn it childish even though chapter 3 will be more teens focused

[@FrenzyStudiosYT]

@@Simbala-bq5vy should we get KZbin to ban them or tell them to stop this stupid nonsense

[@devofficialchannel]

Good examples of kids' horror would be stuff like The Nightmare Before Christmas or Laika's films like Coraline and Paranorman. They have a lot of spooky elements and still provide enough scares, they are also PG enough for children to enjoy.

[@SmilyCookieBone]

9:53 ZAMN! Siren Head Got that Cake 🎂

[@Kerm_ie]

I thought it was something else Penis head

[@shanthegamer21]

I’ve been aware of this ever since I’ve heard about these Digital Circus content farms. Now I’ve been heavily aware of this genre of mass-produced “videos” and it’s been a major issue. Even Annoying Orange got in on this “market” and it hurts me cuz AO was my childhood.

[@shanthegamer21]

@@EternalZip KZbin is stupid enough to let these god-awful content farms fuck around with Gooseworx’s OCs. In fact, the reason why Digital Circus has 200m views is because kids are watching it from their YT accounts. Little kids nowadays love to watch and mess up R-Rated stuff apparently thanks to YT Kids. 💀😔💀 I’ve already posted a screen recording of toddler accounts spamming gibberish in the comments of the OG Digital Circus pilot.

[@Neonthestuped]

12:16 How did thay masecurd my boy )=

[@lwaysDrawing]

And look at Sarv :( justice for the ice cream nun

[@tommothepomo9395]

What did they do to sirenhead bro 😭 9:57

[@I_also_like_sirens_hehe]

He vibin

[@DanteCrowlley]

Anything for kids is basically massive money imprint

[@Wowz_er]

12:16 thanks t3rr0r for giving me that information that would scar me on what I just looked at.

[@Crepis]

This is why people say FNAF, BATIM & Poppy Playtime is made for kids

[@Choccydude]

My future kid: Dad, can I watch this? *shows a cringey video* Me: You will never watch a video even close to that for as long as I live.

[@joemint5666]

KZbin Kids is a horror movie in itself.

[@randomperson8102]

And we are all in this movie.

[@mrvgsdoesstuff]

Between these time stamps, I'm literally hearing "Karn Evil 9 1st Impression" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. 0:21-2:15

[@hokton8555]

imo mascot horror is a weird term since it includes the neighbor but excludes like Spongebob Horror games