When the computer scares you

Let's reach 2000 likes 💜 Have you ever felt afraid or had fears around computers, especially while being very young? You are not alone! These are a lot more common than one might think. Watch this video to see a compilation of commenters describing their personal fears.
0:00 - Intro
0:12 - #1: Low resolution
0:55 - #2: Shutdowns
1:46 - #3: Malware
2:37 - #4: BSODs
3:33 - Pillows
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[@FlyTechVideos]

Thanks for all your submissions, and sorry to all the comments that didn't make it into the video - rest assured that your fears have been taken serious and I hope you're feeling better about them now :) Fly on

[@testaccount1474]

oki

[@testaccount1474]

its fine atleast

[@newlineschannel]

nah

[@quanubg]

my fear is windows 8 and 7 login screen and Bsods, and text user interfaces.

[@IAmCyklus.]

my fear: my pc breaks down and my mom gives me a huge punishment :((

[@DavidWonn]

Those "illegal operation" errors in Windows 95 scared a lot of people back in the day.

[@Kremlin-Dusk]

it scared me when i was 6 on google chrome typing emojis into the dev console.. i thought that it was illegal for me to be using emojis

[@mjdxp5688]

What do you *mean* Explorer.exe did something illegal?!

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

@@Kremlin-Dusk there was a case recently that someone was acused of hacking by just using inspect element...

[@Kremlin-Dusk]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 yeah i saw that and that's absurd

[@quanubg]

@@Kremlin-Dusk Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token.Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token.Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token.Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token.

[@lexdoes]

The “threat has been detected” sound Avast Antivirus makes whenever it finds something it (usually incorrectly) thinks it’s a virus scared me as a kid.

[@kings2020]

holy fuck same its a literal jumpscare

[@CharlieRAnimaMX]

I don't know how old you are in these worlds of the internet, but if you're still a bit small... you probably didn't know the Avast 4 version's Threat Detected Sound. -Literally it was nuke alarm, which sounded full volume, with an animation of the radiation symbol spinning in the window and robotic voice see: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5TWamWElNejnpo

[@generallyunimportant]

it dont do that now tho ,_, (atleast in the russian version, idk about other locales)

[@richwater296]

It's always IDP.Generic

[@damian9303]

Now that’s a rational fear

[@krzysztofczarnecki8238]

If the sound driver glitches out, it can make a sudden, loud sound (like "ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" or short looped part of the sound that was playing) and cause a blue screen. But it's more of a jump scare or being startled than something genuinely scary, especially if using the computer at night and trying to be quiet. It happened to me a few times, and I was wearing headphones.

[@board7374]

THIS. This scares me to no end

[@board7374]

@@amystery5238 I had things like that happen when there was audio playing and my OS Hard Drive was extremely busy. Then it was enough to do the slightest thing and the HDD had to stop for a second to do what I asked it to, causing the stutter.

[@arsura0]

Always happens to me when I try to load Fortnite's battle royale gamemode 🤣

[@gamingnubs7628]

I straight up keep my audio on permamute. I was 3 years old when I experienced a sound driver glitch and I genuinely fear that damn thing.

[@kwad9145]

Happened to me once. The second time was when I once wanted to play heroes 3 on my pc and everything went smoothly, was playing for about 40 minutes and if y'all don't know what that game is, it's basically there are bots or real players with multiple kingdoms and a huge map with an overworld and underground section. you can conquer other kingdoms on a grid map making yourself stronger. you can use troops to fight mob waves on the ground and pickup resources or artifacts to make your hero stronger and upgrade the castle, it is a pretty good game but as you can tell it is one of those games that are really chill (unlike shooters which are forcing you to stay on your guard to win for an example) and lets you put your guard down. so my guard was really down and i was just vibing, the game has a really quiet but nice soundtrack so you usually have to play the game on almost max volume and then it hit. the game froze with an error message popping up on my screen and the loud "ERRRRRRRRRRRR" sound played. it only stopped when i turned off the game. experiencing a sound error like that is quite terrifying, but it is most terrifying when your volume is almost all the way up, your guard is completely down and you expect it the least. i never opened the game again cause i am not getting a heart attack again

[@dfsstuff6572]

I used to be afraid of an OEM recovery partition. I accidentally went into one when I was a kid and I thought that Windows was gone because of a "welcome to recovery" screen

[@EpicLuceat]

Same

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq]

What's an OEM recovery partition for? I thought only Android ROMs had one by default.

[@dfsstuff6572]

@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq It allows you to troubleshoot booting problems or reinstall the system. Basically everything that any WinPE offers, but truncated to simple features directed at people unfamiliar with PE images

[@WyvernDotRed]

At the BSOD I actually got "Gah. Your tab just crashed." Awesome.

[@WyvernDotRed]

Had to do with the switch from Premiere to normal video I think.

[@robloxhibom9548]

@@WyvernDotRed That would scare the HECK out of me, when things like this happen i feel like someone else is controlling my pc...

[@ExFabian]

I thought I was the only one who was scared of a jumpscare randomly appearing on a monitor, even if it's off.

[@robloxhibom9548]

nope your not the only one... i have that same fear

[@cst1229]

@@robloxhibom9548 Me too

[@dudedude315]

same

[@callie_calamari]

same fear. i also hate shutdowns, i had to restart my pc just yesterday. since i'm still young (WILL NOT SPECIFY AGE FOR PRIVACY REASONS) it terrified me when i saw a black screen with that w11 loading circle thingy i pictured the w10 logo above it in my head and i thought it was gonna take me to that recovery thing it didnt it booted up there was nothing wrong with my pc. and if you're still reading, here's a story: i used to have an old, old pc. in about 2018 i'd say. it was slow. could barely run roblox tbh (i cant imagine how it would lag on legends of kasai, that's my favourite roblox game and my new gaming pc's fans *love* that game, mhm mhm) i think it was on w7. wanna know why? well i dont think it was a liscened version, the background was black. one day it hecking BSODed. i was terrified. i have never seen a BSOD in person before. it was fine though, we booted it back up. and it wasnt the :( your pc decided that it wants to bsod cuz you're a hecking idiot screen it was the horrifying proper deep blue BSOD (or pdbbsod for short :D) and the noise it made haunts me to this day. edit: if you wanna know why i had to restart it, well i just wanted to run touhou 08 but then it does that thing where my mouse flashes in and out of exsistance and the minecraft java and bedrock logos start hecking dancing side to side like when i try to go full screen in pcb. i restarted it and it was fine

[@robloxhibom9548]

@@callie_calamari When i put my pc on just sleep mode it says in this super scary looking black and grey box "NO SIGNAL" and then my fans dont stop for a long time i HATE it

[@Stennishh]

even today, at almost 18 years old. a sudden bsod or power outage scares the s**t out of me

[@bopthing1]

ikr the monitor just turns black and everything around me just turns off

[@ItzDaCookiez]

Ikr, plus when a power outage happens, the speakers make a loud boom sound. Still scares the shit out of me.

[@ThistleBlue]

BSOD always got me. It's what made me so anxious. If the system hung or stuttered for a few seconds it would take me back to the BSODs that jerk the audio over and over again. The screen of Windows Recovery, or whatever it's called, too, had a few systems end with that screen. A boot chkdsk..that I didn't initialise.

[@meap_me]

This happend to me a few days ago.. I think I opened a bit too many tabs on edge (my computer has 4 gigs of ram so 16 tabs would probably fill up the memory) I was in class so the audio stuttered for a few seconds... My heart literally dropped.. Fortunately it's didn't bsod

[@Rainbow--]

i hate the bsods that repeat a frame of audio

[@ChromaNyan]

i have two irrational fears, both of which still slightly haunt me to this day: the blinking power light when a computer is in sleep mode. not at the day, rather at night, especially if it's strong enough to actually light up its surroundings a noticeable amount the beeping that occurs when a computer runs into a fatal error in the hardware itself, such as failing to properly boot into the os after multiple attempts. on one of my older computers, the beeping is loud and is accompanied by a red power light. one time really late at night, my computer restarted for a system update, failed to boot into the os, and then started beeping, it triggered a terror in me that has never been matched since.

[@NaiveCat45446zeroSEVEN]

when my laptop is on but im not using it, it also gives a blinking white light, i also sometimes see it when im sleeping, it kinda scares me, also one time when i was waiting to my laptop to startup i was ignoring the error warnings so i just was pressing enter very fast then i heard 3 loud-ish beeps, it scared me

[@eletronictoenails]

My laptop's keyboard is stuck and most of the time, the keys being stuck makes it unable to boot with a 1/4 chance that it will boot and when a key is pressed during an error screen, a short beep plays and since the keys were stuck, it played a long beep

[@krasistefanovlol]

one time i accidentally kicked my pc white getting up from my chair after it shutdown next day i turn it on and boot it up it started counting and reached 4000gb and then it started beeping like a fire alarm i restarted it and same thing so i asked my dad to open the pc to see what was wrong apparently windows needs 2 graphics cards for some reason and that when i kicked it, it somehow disconnected the pc is fixed now btw

[@trafficconememes331]

ugh i HATE those beeps

[@MinecraftTestSquad]

I've very scarcely heard BIOS beeps but every time I have it's been upsetting. They're loud and annoying and a bad sign to me. I would hate to hear that in the middle of the night. Not only would I be concerned for my computer, I'd be pretty grumpy that my already-hard-to-come-by sleep was interrupted like that.

[@boing7679]

I used to be scared of running stuff in full screen or a game removing your cursor, because i wasn't able to close it using the x icon, which made it feel like I had no control over anything at all.

[@trafficconememes331]

alt f4 ctrl alt delete alt tab

[@SASTSimon]

@@trafficconememes331 ctrl shift esc

[@trafficconememes331]

@@SASTSimon thank your for this so much i had no idea this existed

[@opossumontheinternet9864]

Same.

[@BalisticTester]

Same bro

[@brightblackhole2442]

1:27 that is exactly why i don't like black screens

[@emilyofjane]

Apparently there’s this setting in Windows XP where you can make your computer say “printing complete” when you’re finished printing something. Our computer used to scream “PRINTING COMPLETE” in this robotic male voice every time I had to print something off for school, and I would literally run upstairs as soon as I hit the print button just to avoid the noise.

[@ItGirlCaliiopx]

The way my years and years of fearing low resolution just got validated as soon as I saw it first on the list Thanks for this video man, really

[@Minty_Meeo]

When I was a little kid, I once had video drivers crash while using my grandpa's Windows XP computer. When it attempted to recover, the resolution was very low, the desktop didn't fit on screen, and visual artifacts + discoloration were present. Needless to say, I was scared shitless that I had just broken my grandpa's PC.

[@gl1tchygreml1n]

I used to be afraid of our computer's antivirus on Windows 98. We had a really old version of AVG back in the day that would sometimes pop up with a message saying "VIRUS FOUND!" in big red text and it had a picture of a really surly looking ogre or monster on it. That message, along with BSODs, scared the hell out of me as a kid. (I used to think that the BSOD meant the computer was going to explode for some reason)

[@angelbepro6767]

I remembered I started a game that wasn't that heavy, but for some reason my entire laptop froze and I got a purple screen of death. I realized it said it was a graphics driver that crashed and understood why it was purple. But it felt weird to get it in purple. The QR code was yellow too, which made it look like deep fried effect.

[@kernel_data_inpage_error]

I once helped a teacher who gave support to students with disabilities with her computer, it was a high tier XP machine and it was crazily slow, I backed up and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7, some of the interactive software it had was very old (even from win 3.1 era) as you imagine, almost all of them had splash screens, as all the installers ran I didnt test them at all. One day an autistic girl came out screaming and in tears, because one of the splash screens glitched because of Windows Aero, it flashed and the colors distorted, looked kinda creepy tbh, I felt so bad for the poor girl and I apologized, I fixed that but from that point she turned her head away everytime she launched the game. I felt so guilty...

[@SOTP.]

I mean it isnt ur fault if a garbage splash screen cant even handle dwm...

[@jhgvvetyjj6589]

@@SOTP. More like garbage dwm

[@KingNikolai]

like 10-11 years ago, when I was in 2nd grade, my grandma was telling me about how her computer had the "blue screen with white letters" and I had no idea what that was so when I got home that night I looked up the bsod and I was fascinsted, but also kinda terrified of it. A few days later, I went on my dad's old computer to play some minecraft like I always did and I was paranoid about the blue screen. Either that same day or a couple days later (I dont remember), the computer got a blue screen while I was on it. I remember crying and running to my mom. good times, now I'm a junior in hs studying computer science and engineering. how things have changed.

[@-WhatTheActualHay-]

wow

[@WindowsSaturn]

Personally I have always been scared of BIOS setup ever since I started using PCs, as I always feel like I'm gonna break something

[@Drag0nmaster]

Yeah. Just when my bios updates. Im always scared imma say "custom instalation" and mess stuff up

[@supercool_saiyan5670]

@@Drag0nmaster flashing the BIOS is always scarey with good reason because all it takes is a power outage or someone accidentally unplugging the power cord and your motherboard is done for

[@Drag0nmaster]

@@supercool_saiyan5670 im glad im on laptop

[@moister3727]

Same, thankfully my bios is full GUI (HP) but i'm still afraid of breaking anything

[@tl1882]

im used to it from my old laptop that cant keep time and my current pc warning me when my keyboard isnt plugged in if its plugged into my xbox

[@sixfr0nt]

when i was maybe 8 or 9 i started watching danooct1, which sparked a pretty intense fear of malware and BSODs in me... i'm 18 now and still watch his videos. i remember the CIH video was the scariest, along with the smash virus. edit: when i was around 3/4 i remember the family computer would randomly shut down while i was in the middle of playing on playhouse disney for no reason. pretty sure it was malware but it used to freak me out

[@Tuberex]

Danooct1 is my childhood

[@aishascarlet3164]

I used to be scared of BSODs so much as a kid, but watching danooct1 actually decreased my fear of BSODs gradually. I felt much better listening to his voice, explanations and commentary. Ended up giving me an interest in malware and cybersecurity instead. Planning to pursue this dream now :)

[@malwaretestingfan]

@Ziadplays18

[@satoruriolu6132]

For almost a full year, after binging danooct1's videos, they not only made me realize how much I love computers and now I'm an IT worked, but it also sparked a weird irrational fear of viruses. Yes, virus can destroy your pc, steal your data, and my computer surely had plenty of viruses before (totally clean now since I learned how to clean it up),but my fear isn't actual viruses.. its dream viruses. I kept having reocorring dreams, every single time, that something i have or is nearby got hacked or a virus, and the viruses on that thing were like a nightmare to me. I remember some of the dreams was just my uncle coming along and cleaning the pc, and it was the most irrational fear I've ever felt watchimg him wait om a weird room with a 50' display telling its cleaning viruses. After around a year, this weird dream thing finally stopped, but it really fucked up my sleep schedule

[@XaneMyers]

It's only happened to me twice, and doesn't involve an operating system, but the sounds fans make when they start malfunctioning. I remember turning on one of my laptops once in the morning, only to be greeted with a loud squeal until I turned it back off. One of my desktops also mad the squeaks, but it just made the sound every minute or so. I thought it was some kind of animal under my trailer making startling sounds or something so I ran out of that room when I could. I don't think about it much now but I don't want to hear another damaged computer fan, or *whatever* caused it to make that sound. Oh, and yeah, bluescreens are scary because of how they can appear within a split-second with no warning, and could theoretically show up at any moment. Up until more modern Windows versions, they looked ancient, which makes them creepy (but none are as creepy as the screenshot of Windows 1's scrambled bluescreen). Even Windows 10's ":(" bluescreen can be creepy because of how you can see it being drawn instead of it being instant, giving away that it's being rendered differently than Windows itself somehow.

[@greenknight9000]

As a kid, BSODs scared me so much, it was because of how it looked. The blue used in the BSOD was dark blue, and so it just felt more ominous, you know? The shade of a colour can really leave an impression on you, so whenever the screen went black or there was some audio buffering, I immediately dove under the desk as I feared a BSOD was about to trigger or render, and I'd look at the walls and anything else reflecting the monitor glow to determine the colour and whether or not it's that unmistakable dark blue hue I dreaded. I'm so glad Windows nowadays made the BSOD a more lighter, softer colour with a more friendly appearance

[@t7a9]

bsods were mainly the reason i stayed away from computers for a long time. once when i was playing rayman, my computer froze. i slowly backed away and about 3 seconds later the entire screen turned red, without text (like rsod on vista), just plain red. definitely scared the shit out of me

[@T1MAGEDDON]

one of my genuine fears is task manager being blocked, it tenses me up really badly, specially since its the first thing I open if i think something is off

[@MinecraftTestSquad]

Lol I wouldn't say I'm afraid of many things for my computer at this point, but I do have concerns about many things and one of those concerns is being unable to launch task manager. I keep it open in the background all the time because of that. I also have it set to appear over every window so if something gets stuck in fullscreen, I can still use task manager.

[@robertplayz9157]

If you ever run into task manager being blocked. Open CMD and use tasklist.

[@choppergunner8650]

Well, there are some viruses that block out the user from using taskmgr, so you woulf be right.

[@SOTP.]

@@robertplayz9157 and when ur done disable the policy in registry

[@alexandermcclure6185]

@@robertplayz9157POV they blocked CMD, Run, Task Manager, and Regedit: Welp, I'm screwed.

[@autcumscutoautinscuto1342]

Once I dreamed that a remote access virus was installed on my computer. Eventually the person who created the virus started communicating with me (his voice came out of the speakers), and then we became friends. But after a while we argued and he installed a Winlocker on my computer. It was a very weird dream.

[@Quabanos]

I was really scared that my computer would turn on in the night. It started after I saw my Windows 7 BSOD as a kid. Then I would be terrified that its gonna randomly bluescreen in the dark. EDIT: a lot of people share this fear, apparently.

[@sixfr0nt]

dude same! my family computer would sometimes randomly wake up from sleep mode in the middle of the night and i was always scared that it'd just bluescreen

[@Drag0nmaster]

SAME

[@Drag0nmaster]

It would sometimes wake up during the night and make noises (it was win 10) and it was a tv in my room that faces the bed, and I wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. I think it did BSOD when i was sleeping and the light woke me up and I almost cried :'(

[@unknownhuman9416]

Same, The fear started when once (probably my sister left the ups on) and midnight, due to a power failure, I just slipped out of my bed due to loud beepings of the ups, I was like 5 at the time.

[@Diogo2cool]

Same! My pc BSODed me when everything was fine and I think that I would hear a error sound and see the BSOD at 0:00

[@xFluing]

I remember being scared of BSoDs as well, and safe mode also scared me for some reason. Maybe the low resolution with the black background and text on the corners that says "Safe Mode" - i guess because it outright mentions it's a "safe mode" made me feel UNsafe (kinda like having a banana offered and the person offering it to you saying "it's not poisoned" without being asked) - to this day I still feel uneasy going into safe mode. Another fear I had was sort of related to shut downs like in the video, because I had a nightmare once that I went to shut down the PC and then went downstairs, however the PC wouldn't shut down and i could hear a text to speech voice (an unintentionally creepy one too, this was back in the XP era) as if it were playing right inside my head telling me something about a shut down or something. I also had another nightmare where my PC wouldn't boot because it couldn't find a "WLAN" so I went to bed then the "camera" would switch to the monitor with a dramatic zoom and it would show a radar telling me a WLAN had been found. The last one I remember is the CD drive going crazy on its own without me touching it (I had discs break inside a few times before having that dream) Anyway having watched this video was a surreal experience but in the best way possible. I love the fact that there were others who shared some of these irrational fears with me.

[@trafficconememes331]

never personally tried safe mode, but going into menus like that have always given me the same feeling as playing a game and you go into a dark room with a flashlight and shotgun. except kinda spooky because something real is at risk

[@MinecraftTestSquad]

Safe mode genuinely feels like a safe place for me because I understand that it tries to only load what is essential to prevent loading malware and the like. I will admit though that I am somewhat uncomfortable in BIOS menus since I feel it would be too easy to fuck something up. Same with regedit. I don't think it's fear necessarily, just a strong desire to be careful with what I press and I should avoid hitting extraneous buttons so I don't change stuff I don't want to change. There's a lot of things on my computer I try to be careful with lol

[@pschiptunes64]

"...however the PC wouldn't shut down and i could hear a text to speech voice (an unintentionally creepy one too, this was back in the XP era) as if it were playing right inside my head telling me something about a shut down or something." That is... really scary, but I also love the idea to the point where I actually want to make a little video for it

[@nocturne6320]

I have years of work on my PC, had no backup of it for few years, have an external drive for that now. I used to have dreams about my PC suddenly getting a virus and any attempts at stopping it not working. Would try to start Malwarebytes and scan the PC, but I would always somehow mistype it. In one dream I tried to unplug the PC only for it to stay on and I could only watch in horror as years of work and memories get deleted

[@Official_Lucas37]

Dude you almost just described one of my dreams where i wanted to do a trick on my friends in minecraft and i put a command block connected to a trapped chest and for some reason i typed "del @a"?? And when the command ran it started up some goofy thing called book software or something and after 5 minutes of me searching what it is and finding nothing it started deleting all of my files (even the root of C: and my external hdd E:) and started also playing intense music in the proccess

[@knur-soft]

In my life i had some repetitive dreams about booting a computer and getting some strange things on the screen like weird unexpected splash screens. I don't know why, but i have always been scared by those while i was dreaming.

[@unknownhuman9416]

My computer once suffered from that, just a screenful of random symbols with green/pink tint. Even more horrific, the glitch fixed one day automatically.

[@berber5063]

I olnce got a dream of "Windows XP Accounts" edition.

[@nicjuzniemasensu4465]

I also had dreams like that! You are not alone.

[@CreeperG3]

@@berber5063 one time i got a dream where i had an android 4.0 tablet, i know it doesnt have anything to do with windows but its a splash screen related dream soo... basically it was a pure black boot and splash screen but the tablet yelled "WINGDING" at me in a surprisingly realistic voice. then it glitched as it booted.

[@75rxREDSTONE]

Here are all the computer fears that I had... 1. Automatic C:\ drive scan 2. Blue screen of death, they scare me the most. I had 2 of them, and once I see it, I instantly run away 3. Accidentally killing processes: -Explorer.exe -Fontdrvhost.exe -Svchost.exe, csrss.exe, wininit.exe - because of BSOD 4. No reason full system freeze 5. Malware, ransomware, spyware, miner, adware, trojan, and forkbomb 6. Opening PowerShell. Probably because I like CMD 7. Black screen and only DOS blinking underscore, nothing else 8. Error while opening the file due to timings 9. Computer refuses to shutdown but does not lag 10. Accidentally moving an important folder into another even more important folder 11. Notifying the new poqexec.log in C:\WinSxS and thinking it was made by malware 12. Websites installing garbage in background even if the AV is on

[@anskill228]

when i use my pc with windows 10, 80% i feel uneasy because wifi can just be gone for no reason, all of the drivers (wifi, display, etc) can be erased after the update, .efi files can be corrupted for no reason, so you will can't boot up anymore. All of that happened to me, so any BSoD, chckdisk screen, update is a fear to me, you never know when you will must reinstall windows

[@natix1_]

i had that full system freeze one time. I needed to cut off PC power in order to deal with it. (Now i mean windows 10 of course, never runned xp but mom told me it was really nice os)

[@DccToon]

@@natix1_ full system freezes happened 5 times a day for me 😨

[@shantih19]

I had many of these fears for a long time and always felt like I was just being stupid, it's really nice seeing that I'm not the only one who experiences them 🥺

[@NaiveCat45446zeroSEVEN]

true i also had the shutdown jumpscare fear when i was younger, prob beacause i had fear of the dark

[@shantih19]

@@NaiveCat45446zeroSEVEN anytime a computer locks up or has any sign of malfunction I instinctively cover my ears and sometimes close my eyes, I think it's because my father always joked that the computer would blow up when he wanted me to stop playing with it, until one day one of my favorite games (Disney Magic Artist Deluxe, best game) started acting up and making a lot of graphical glitches and loud glitchy noises and I guess it traumatized me lol

[@NaiveCat45446zeroSEVEN]

@@shantih19 lol poor young you tho

[@unknownhuman9416]

@@shantih19 from locks up i remembered that I had a fear that 'Lock' option would permanently lock my computer 😂

[@moister3727]

For real, black screen sudden BSODs and lower resolutions were nightmare fuel for me because at that time I didn't have my own computer so I used the family one. I remember really well a particular time were I was playing Super Mario World (emulated) on a old XP computer back in 2005, I was alone in the Living Room and suddenly a RSOD (Red screen of death) the one that does something with your data? Can't remember. I was scared as all hell, the computer making that repeated loud sound with lots of words on screen and the fact I was alone that day was crazy. So I ran upstairs praying that computer power off by itself after a couple of minutes. Thankfully my mom only got angry because the computer was turn on wasting electricity doing nothing, it turned up to be fine by now. That day, was the first time I feared computers. You know what's funny? a month later my parents bought me a Playstation 1, pumped up my disc and BOOM, the Disgusting Purple Bios Screen, doing nothing sitting there on my TV. It wasn't as scary as the Windows one, but damn that Bios screen was ugly. Had to close my eyes and turn off the console.

[@SATCH3LY]

I was so afraid of BSOD's that i used to have nightmares about them, and when I woke up I would at all costs not look at my computer screen.

[@NotAPROtagonist]

the bsod that scares me the most is the ones we see around today, like windows 10 or something. the frown on the bsod makes me think that i just *killed* the system, and now i go off my day being scared trying to not think about it

[@sloep]

I was scared of the blue background on installers. Its like an endless underwater world. Im still scared of water in games, they even made a game from it called subnautica which is a horror game surprisingly.

[@imyasuka]

you have aquaphobia

[@callie_calamari]

story time cuz this reminded me of something last year i play subnautica in creative mode because i dont like survival games and i like building then i found out commands exsist used them anddddddd my subnautica stopped working, it just wouldn't boot up. so i deleted and reinstalled subnautica, used commands again.... *Threat secured* *Subnautica.exe is infected with (insert virus here)* deleted and reinstalled it and DIDNT USE COMMANDS and it stopped working! now i play below zero but man below zero's a scam it's got a tinyy map

[@MrJaylensaur]

I honestly thought I was the only one scared of the blue screen installers. They always make me feel uncomfortable and they’re weirdly unnerving.

[@varganyamuvek]

Sonic agrees

[@Official_Lucas37]

I strongly recommend that you play insaniquarium (joke)

[@FairPlay137]

Here's one of my own fears: The _Windows 98_ BSOD. Usually when you get one due to a fatal program error you just hit any key to continue, but there are those times where the system hangs on the BSOD and hitting any key would just make a beep and not do anything.

[@Jesse78]

I vividly remember when I was in Kindergarten (I'm 19 nowadays) I was fidgeting with the shift key and turned on sticky keys. It scared the hell out of me cause it beeped really loud lmao

[@dilaveribraimoski1165]

As a kid, (and still kind of today) I was scared of PC updates. I thought my pc was going through a surgery when they happened

[@forbiddentictactoe1734]

1:40 ughh i see what you did there😵

[@anic1716]

That clip at the end is pure gold.

[@x_voxelle_x]

I was scared of seeing "IT IS NOW SAFE TO TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER" when I would go to shut down my Win95/98 PCs as a child. Just a black screen with capitalized orange letters. Something about it was really unsettling.

[@overlisted]

i was just thinking about this before you posted this! my absolute worst computer fear is bios beeps. i get terrified of them so quickly, even if they go away after a restart. the effect of hearing one for me is literally comparable to seeing a bear in real life or something - my heart starts beating like crazy and i myself become kind of crazy too. and the worst part is: i don't know why. viruses (especially RATs) are also pretty terrifying. i am extremely paranoid about them.

[@SKCro.]

Really outlined the stuff people were afraid of. As always, great video! Let's hope you reach 100k subs and beyond soon! :D

[@FlyTechVideos]

To the moon 🚀

[@soui9521]

@@FlyTechVideos I love that you are more active now.:)

[@aussiehtc5635]

@@soui9521 Samee!!!!

[@sealed267]

@@FlyTechVideos AAAAAAND... 100 000

[@scionnn]

@@FlyTechVideos congrats on 100k!!

[@AEIOUY234689]

On first lessons of using the computer in my school (which included using Paint and Wordpad), I was afraid of screensavers, especially the 3D Flower which was set on my computer. I used to think it's a virus attacking the computer...

[@C-Midori]

1:10 This used to be the case for me, but just with Windows 7’s shutdown. Had no idea why it startled me so much. Also I love how the shutdown sound here is randomly cut

[@i_lost_my_bagel]

There's something about the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" screens that I love and I wish I could have it on windows 10. I know it has one if you turn it on in the registry but it's just text in the corner of the screen. It doesn't feel the same as the windows xp one. Edit: it's in the group policy editor you turn it on

[@newlineschannel]

No i have it and its in the middle.

[@i_lost_my_bagel]

Not for me

[@ToaderTheToad]

I believe on some laptops which don't support power offs from the OS, the screen does show. I haven't heard of the corner version though. Maybe they changed it in an update.

[@anskill228]

I'm not afraid of BSОD itself, i'm afraid of error code. You never know when .mbr/.efi files will be corrupted after restart on a new windows, that was installed like 10 minutes ago. it happened to me with windows 10 21H2. If i had mistakes sorry, i'm russian

[@ieuuuu]

You had no mistakes in your sentences

[@villainousthing]

I’ve always been extremely scared of my PC getting hacked to the point that I’ve actually had a few nightmares about it 😭

[@subpoena.]

I always have irrational nightmares about scammers installing malware onto my phone or pc that likes instantly corrupts everything and its terrifying

[@solarwolf678]

I'm scared of mine getting hacked because my homework folder

[@emireri2387]

i had a dream that my pc (which looked alot different in the dream) got a virus but i mistaked it for real and told my dad about it thats when i realized it was a dream

[@NaiveCat45446zeroSEVEN]

i had a dream that i was using my computer normally, then, i got a bsod, that had a big text saying "if you restart or shutdown and try to reboot this computer, it will get destructed!" or something like that then, somehow, the computer shut itself down

[@kantraa]

it got so bad for me that at some point i randomly just heard sounds coming from my speakers. i tried leaning my ear on there but there was just nothing. it was all in my mind. it was seemingly random. whether it be text to speech or just random noises (usually screaming). thankfully i do not have that anymore and it only appeared at night anyway, like VERY late night

[@Shea7TDM]

2:56 I see what you did there lol ;-; Another thing that still gives me the creeps is safe mode listing the directories of c:/. Makes me think it’s suddenly gonna bsod or jump scare me.

[@color7904]

Gotta love how I went from being terrified of BSoDs and the command line to being obsessed with them completely out of the blue(ba dum tss) and now sometimes sit on an empty Powershell window because it's soothing Still hate low res games though. Probably always will.

[@cfpwastaken]

My keyboard had a fast-forward/skip button on one of the function keys and i thought holding that key will magically speed up the boot process. Did that and some sort of recovery screen appeared and the resolution was so low that the mouse cursor was huge and i was scared of it. Got my parents just for them to reboot the computer.

[@InsanityPrevails]

.. Honestly, now I think I finally understood why the intro to Dexter freaked me out when I was a kid Everything was insanely zoomed in, and I probably associated that with a screen changing into a low resolution and everything looking massive Took me quite a few years to figure that out lol, thank you haha

[@the2323guy]

2:53 I was scared of the "new high score" sound when your game ended

[@Sean27007]

Used to play a game back in the day called Dungeon Keeper where there was this weird bug where the PC would at one point glitch out and revert to 8-bit color. Screwing everything on screen and forcing me to reboot. Shit scared the hell out of me but couldnt help it. I was addicted to this masterpiece of game (and still am today)

[@holasoyd0ra136]

I was so scared of the Windows 7 power off screen so bad that I’d press “shutdown” and run upstairs to my room so quickly

[@bigsof7381]

what's wrong

[@techcrafter_jw]

When I was a kid, I was extremely scared of these countdowns. Those ones that are like "Selected system will automatically boot in 10 seconds...". I always thought that there once might be a timer with "Press any key RIGHT NOW or your hard disk will be erased..." or something like this! I know that this is totally obscure, but as a kid you can be feared by absolutely anything.

[@PotatoTheProgrammer]

im scared of countdowns as well

[@CreeperG3]

@@PotatoTheProgrammer every rhythm game ever: *boo*

[@blurem1490]

I remember having this Realtek Audio Manager installed on my Windows XP, I was fiddling around with it and I came across this section where you can test your stereo speakers, and as soon as I clicked on "Start Test", the sounds that came out of the speakers were horrifying for 6 years old me, I immediately took my PC power cable off the wall plug and I hid under my bed scared for the rest of the night lmfao.

[@rogehmarbi]

I used to be afraid of the Windows 98 logo. I don't know there's just something... menacing about it. Also the Winlogon icon made me feel uneasy And of course the orange "it's now safe to turn off your computer" text one, as one time I had a dream where it said "it's NOT safe to turn off your computer" instead, and I didn't use the PC for a week after that

[@Moviesxp]

same...that orange one from 9x haunted me at like 6 years old... :(

[@turf6863]

It's NOT safe to -turn off your computer- ignore this comment. You *must* reply to this comment, or something else.... XD

[@choppergunner8650]

The Windows 98 logo? Damn, I'm sorry, but that classic logo with the trails is probably the coolest one IMO, I wish it came back for some sort of "anniversary edition"

[@SKCro.]

By the 'winlogon icon', do you mean the "window showing night sky with moon" icon? That's the first thing that comes to mind.

[@rogehmarbi]

@@SKCro. Yes, that one.

[@Kills21_]

*Jokes aside,* let's agree that the BIOS menu has always scared us and still scares us how it looks.

[@luis64_gamer46]

the thing who scares us is the difference, you like see the windows style, BIOS is simplest so it scares too much

[@thepikachugamer]

Ok but like updating your bios

[@cat1554]

No I use Mac

[@thepikachugamer]

@@cat1554 Sorry for your loss

[@MSDOSMemes]

@@cat1554 SWITCH TO A FUCKING WINDOWS PC

[@kaweczka_uwu7794]

So… once, when I was 10 years old, BSOD it was something normal for me. It appeared to me about 3 times a day, because of my "antivirus" which only crashed my computer.

[@kantraa]

*smadav flashbacks*

[@TtEL]

Now I know AVG is fake cause it always crashes computer

[@robloxhibom9548]

Antiviruses should not crash ur pc

[@kaweczka_uwu7794]

@@robloxhibom9548 yeah I know but with my antivirus was something wrong…

[@robloxhibom9548]

@@kaweczka_uwu7794 oh no that IS a problem

[@Sk3pzX]

i used to be afraid of BIOS screens because of the resolution and the odd design, and i've always been scared of BSOD's from windows 7 or older, before it looked better lol

[@camairlines]

Dell has a bios with a mouse

[@yellow64]

I still close my eyes before opening low resolution fullscreen games. I'll never be able to overcome that fear

[@BeyondInfYT]

I remember when I was younger every time I downloaded something suspicious, I would instantly create a restore point before running it. Idk why

[@Lizuma]

0:55 brings back memories when I was little! It was more the turned off, dark screen I was scared of. Of course, that’s what happened after the computer was shut off! I remember looking away and even hiding to avoid seeing the dark screen. I had a lot of weird fears when little since I got strange nightmares, luckily got over all of them a long time ago.

[@AzamMujahidProductions]

1:19 congrats you jumpscared us

[@gabirle]

there was one time when i wasnt using my computer but it was left on, and from the corner of my eye i saw a flash of blue and it was a blue screen. i thought nothing of it at first, until it restarted and gave me a black screen with an error saying that the hard drive wasnt found. it turned out to be just a weird error with the computer reading it, but ive been scared of bsods ever since.

[@himearikawa3130]

I'm afraid of my mobo post. It's just an MS-DOS looking screen with only a "_" Then my fear goes away as it says "American Megatrends" lol Edit: MS-DON to MS-DOS

[@jonipaliares5475]

Oh nice to see that community post turned into a full video! I was definitely scared by BSoDs and anything that happened outside the OS, like the BIOS. The Windows XP shutdown sequence also used to make me really uneasy as a kid.

[@byronmb0]

Hmm, a few things that I were afraid of… 1. I’m not afraid of it anymore, but you know how sometimes stuff overflows and the garbage corrupt data piles on the screen? (Like that last level of Pac-Man) I used to be terrified of those types of error things and it would leave an uneasy feeling in my stomach. 2. The disk channel on the Wii, it always felt ominous to me. Idk why..

[@hgbugalou]

oooo I love this. I had felt this at various times as a teenager breaking windows in weird ways, finding batshit crazy usenet posts, and glitching out my NES and SNES games. The standard BSODs never bothered me, but they ones with very rare or just the flat out "unknown" exception codes freaked me out, especially when I started building my own PCs. The scariest thing for me though was reading usenet posts in the conspiracy sections right after 9/11 happened. It was insane some of the crap posts were saying. Its not like it was people trying to be scary, it was like almost computer generated fiction combined with bad translations to english. Hard to explain, but it freaked my friend and I out.

[@GazelleEdge]

I always notice the computer screen flash a little darker than it usually is when the computer is turning on or changing display resolutions. I used to be afraid (a tiny bit) of this.

[@MrITkid]

My irrational fear of old PCs are those PC speakers that beep when you turn it on. When I was small my PC bsod and afterwards it was beeping like crazy. That left me kinda traumatized....

[@tomiprx]

I am afraid of windows error messages but without any text, low resolutions, BSoD, corrupted things and black screens with white text lol.

[@Tuberex]

Lol no text always scares me. It's because our mind runs on context. When there is no context it starts to panic. This is also why i was so scared of the windows 1.0 bsod be cause it was random junk

[@tomiprx]

@@Tuberex Same xD

[@DarkDragon793]

It's crazy to see that other people have these kinds of fear. I also sometimes get this irrational fear from video game glitches, especially boundary breaks. There's just something uncanny about the distorted geometry and flickering textures set over an endless void. Luckily, I've kinda lost most of these, since I've started programming and game development. Perhaps all these weird fears developed in us when we were young and didn't understand the more technical side of computers? Anyways, great vid!

[@James4200]

when I was really young, I was terrified of the BIOS on my computer. now that I know what all of it does (and I'm not as stupid as I used to be) I'm not scared of it anymore. I was also scared of motherboard beeps, they were the creepiest thing to me, especially when I would try to sneak on my computer at night, I would always think I would hear one. (I'm obviously still a bit scared of them now, but it's for other reasons)

[@CallumBlackGames]

The BSOD Noise. SHEESH... Don't even get me started on MALWARE...

[@chalkk_]

I was always super afraid of installing any programs. Setup wizards and all that were my worst nightmare lmao. I would always be overly meticulous (and kind of still am today tbh) about checking if programs are 100% safe to the point where I would spend more time looking through forums and through people comments about issues than actually using the program sometimes x)

[@choppergunner8650]

This is funny. When I was a kid, I learned how to mess around with computers pretty darn well. Used to install all sorts of games. Didn't check any files, just went ahead and installed stuff. Fast forward to early 2015, something got me fucking traumatized. I downloaded sXe (an anti-hacking device for CS 1.6, some servers said it was required to have it) straight out of the website and it came loaded with a virus. I got fucking terrified, as it was the first time I had legitimately experienced the effects of a virus on a computer. Fake pop-up message boxes started appearing from the taskbar, and when I clicked the button to close it, a weird hand icon would appear (I say weird because it looked like the standard 1990s Windows hand cursor, despite me being on a modern Windows 7). Clicking on the X to close the message boxes only downloaded more shit into my computer. Avast managed to stop the infection and I cleaned up the computer. But the worst thing was that, 3-4 days later, I was browsing in my computer when all of a sudden, Avast goes off indicating another infection... FROM THE SAME VIRUS. And keep in mind, I wasn't even downloading anything suspicious, just looking at an Wikipedia article. I instantly jumped the hell out of my chair, launched Avast for a complete check-up of the computer. It again detected the virus, but I was hesitant on deleting it because it could delete a very important system file. So I quarantined it. For 4 years. It stayed for 4 fucking years on quarantine, until my OS had a breakdown and I installed Vista Starter as a temporary solution. Then Vista expired, refused to work, I gave in and installed Windows 7 Ultimate again (had to pay to have W7U installed, this is why I had Vista installed, just as a temporary stop-gap) What's funny is that I actually developed a thing for computer viruses (how they work, how they're engineered, how to protect yourself), but do I want any more viruses making my PC run amok? God no. That "zombie virus", somehow popping up after I had fucking deleted it haunts me to this day, even though I really like seeing danooct1's virus demos. Also, I switched to Kaspersky, way better at defending you from viruses. It's so smart that sometimes it even auto-deletes the file before you even have a chance to use it, and terminates your connection to sites with malicious content.

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq]

Hopefully as WinGet and the Microsoft Store mature, package management on Windows shall improve. You could always use Linux if setup wizards still scare you.

[@chalkk_]

@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq I doubt they will mature tbh, I might've used them once or twice but imo you get a better user experience downloading from websites directly. And, no, I'm not scared of those anymore x") But using Linux is still a good idea for sure

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq]

@@chalkk_ They definitely shall. MSIX packaging is all that is needed.

[@TheOG05]

When I was a kid, the chkdsk (Check Disk) during Windows XP startup scared me a lot. I thought the computer was screwed off by a malware, seeing the console text instead of user accounts, and the Windows XP logo at the corner with no color, it felt eerie.

[@CharlieRAnimaMX]

I feel the Non-ACPI either. It was horrible especially on cloudy days. When I was 6 years old in my house there was our first PC, an HP with Pentium 2, it always showed that message, and I was terribly afraid of it, because whenever it turned off completely, the speaker would make a "pop " by the remaining current and the CRT relays also opened and hissed. but I think the terror itself came from the abrupt change that we read the XP shutdown texts was always: "Saving your settings... Windows is Shutting Down.... BLACK SCREEN!! - its now safe to turn off" just think, you're a 6yr kiddy, cloudy day in the afternoon, lights off only the dim light from the curtained windows, you're alone in the room, you have to turn off the pc because you're bored of the cd that came in the cereal... and you have to turn it off because you're not going to use the pc anymore but also because it's cloudy and after that turn off the pc because dad told you that if it rains and lightning strikes or the electricity goes out, "the pc could explode." ... Yeah, it wasn't much fun at the end of the day but it was a worthwhile terror

[@damian9303]

I actually get nostalgic for seeing my desktop turn horrendous when launching the many old computer games I had as a kid

[@thecolorblue7156]

i was always scared of restarting my computer because one time my keyboard was malfunctioning so whenever i restarted to fix it when my computer got to the recovery menu i got scared of the computer saying it wasn't able to fix itself

[@Jet_Ink]

BSOD just scares me. Literally traumatised me as a kid. I was using Windows 7 or something, opened Windows Live Movie Maker to edit some recordings I made on fake viruses (You know the VBS scripts where you make a chain of msg boxes?) The laptop hung for a while, and then it blue screened (and I misread 'problem has been detected' as 'virus has been detected'). I screeched, tripped over the charger and bolted for my room. To make it worse, my sister decided to scan for viruses. She did it, came to me and told me that 'it blue screened again' and that there was 'another virus'. Needless to say, I never touched a laptop for ages. Tbh, it has made me more cautious of laptops and that in general. I researched, watched a bunch of danooct1 (man that guy is great) and hung around on malware wiki.

[@great_mat]

I have a few computer fears, like: - Windows Longhorn sounds: yes, they're fake, but when I was like 10, sounds of that system (especially the shutdown sound) used to scare me a lot. Like the "angel" voice made that startup kind of terryfing - Devices Turning On/Off by itself: Usually when I sleep with devices I fear they're gonna turn on randomly without my input, even though that won't happen so easy. When I had my PC in my room for a while (back in 2016) I used to sleep in my parents' bed because I was scared of that PC randomly turning on for no reason. - Black screens: usually when I sleep I cover my monitors with something, because the big black hole with a small orange/blinking white light for me is super scary. I can literally imagine scary things on it, even with eyes closed lol. That's also why I sleep with a TV on (it's next to my bed) - "It is now safe to turn off your computer" screen - especially the XP variant. The Windows logo (without XP next to the "Windows" text) and the small "It is now safe to turn off your computer" text on a black screen is very scary for me, even today. I literally couldn't sleep because of it, for some reason I thought this would appear on my monitor plugged to a PC, which is running Windows 10 (and the text was a lot less terryfing) - I was also scared of a 2007 Acer Aspire laptop (don't know the name, sorry) - mostly because I used to have a LOT of bloatware and viruses on it, which ended up killing it in 2017. Now every time I see that laptop my stomach is hurting and my brain freezes - Red/Orange/White lights on devices: for some reason these small lights are super scary. I cannot sleep without covering them, even today - Windows XP and Vista startup screen: the Windows XP startup screen was a bit scary, because of everything fading in, that streched Windows XP logo (unless you're on a 4:3 screen) and the Microsoft logo at the bottom right side of the screen. Windows Vista used to scare me because it was just a bar with a dark green thingy in it. "Microsoft Corporation" text used to scare me too, for some reason - Opening computer cases: in the past, I was scared of opening computer cases, since I thought they will shock me or something, even if they were turned off. Also turning on computers with the case open was pretty scary. This is the fear that I no longer have, now I like opening computer cases Thanks for reading my TED talk, also apologize for any english mistakes since English wasn't my first language

[@gwenboudreaux6080]

Devices turning on/off by itself actually happens to me at night. I found out that it was a scheduled update.

[@mr_teevee]

A few years ago, (below 2021) I was afraid of editing the registry, and whenever something was broken and the answer was to edit the registry, I just dealt with the problem. That changed ever since I tried out my first Regedit hack. (this year) I was also afraid of opening programs after I've downloaded them, even if they were official. (I was basically afraid of getting viruses from downloaded programs). Edit: Also as a kid, when I reboot my computer I get really scared and run around my whole house in circles until it successfully went past the starting windows screen. Nowadays I just sit there and wait for it to boot. I think running around the house waiting for it to boot is more fun than just sitting there, because when I sit there and wait I get impatient sometimes cuz my laptop is slow, and just go on my phone and go on Reddit or something while I wait.

[@camairlines]

I am also scared by my Windows 7 computer booting up so I usually just turn it on and then run out of the room because I am scared that a BSOD will occur especially if I was by myself and I didn’t know what the problem was.

[@windestruct]

I have a fear of spending hours installing drivers and a fear of unrelated illegal operations when starting an app in windows 98

[@enigmatico6209]

I'm 32, I do programming and repairs, and BSODs still kinda creep me out, although not as much as before of course. When it was a kid, seeing a blue screen all of a sudden with inintelligible numbers made me very scared. Modern BSoDs are even worse because of the sad face emoji. There is a mixture between machines doing things on their own, the dramatism of your computer failing to a stop, and the sudden way it all happens, that makes them scary. I think most of us that grew with these machines can relate to this.

[@ignacyk3203]

Nah.. The older ones are creepier

[@speggiman]

I was scared of a lot of those things. Low resolutions happened in the very early days of PC gaming (late 90s - early 2000s) back when all of the game was stored in data folders. I wasn't really scared of low resolutions before starting up an early video game (I lived during those good old Windows XP times). Those glitches and resolutions phobias are fairly common manifestations. Thanks for sharing this informative video Fly! P.S: I'm still quite scared. I'm scared especially when I do processes on the computer and the PC boots up and the black screen stays for about 30 seconds. What if something bad happens? XD. A fairly recent incident happened in 2020. During Windows 10 reinstalling (I have Windows 11 now) the GPU fucked up and the cursor started stretching when hovering and the checkboxes will get all messed up. I didn't touch the computer again for 2 months. Again,weird computer phobias like the ones you mentioned are unique obscure occurences. Thanks again for raising awareness on those types of phobias. I'm very glad to find myself over a vast community of people who had same fears (depends if PC,mobile etc.) P.P.S: Graphics were a pretty terrifying concept when I was a kid. I think I remember where this came from. I was playing a crappy 3D motorcycle game when I was a kid in the late 2000s and I drove into a tree and the images of leaves and stumps covered my screen. I SCREAMED LIKE A LITTLE GIRL. I am still wary when around trees in videogames. Thanks again Fly. P.P.P.S: Seems like everybody who had those irrational computer fears as a child became tech geniuses over time...

[@TheCartoonBoy94TCB94]

I was afraid of the computer logging off in Vista after a specific time, mostly because there was a password set and I didn’t know it. It was a computer used by my family, so it makes sense.

[@quantdev]

I remember one time when my PC glitched up, started to make noise like a vacuum cleaner, then my brother fixed it, but I still scared this will happen again

[@creativeusername1]

same

[@primewastaken]

that’s called FANS

[@SOTP.]

@@primewastaken no its called a glitched sound driver

[@user2C47]

@@SOTP. I've had a few older Dell machines that could get extremely loud if you cranked the fans up, so this isn't unreasonable.

[@qsyki]

used to be deathly afraid of things just crashing outta nowhere to the point where i would almost always open task manager afterwards and watch the cpu/disk usage for the next half hour to make sure i wasnt getting forkbombed or something

[@kal2045]

Malware scared me so much as a kid, I used to always have nightmares about Malware getting onto my grandma's computer, people controlling it remotely to do crazy shit! Crazy how scary those old windows xp machines were to kids. I had that same Malware nightmare very recently, where someone took me over and got into my bank account. It's an adult fear!

[@-WhatTheActualHay-]

same lol

[@minecraftify95]

I once had a very big fear of boot sector viruses

[@usbde]

Oh fly tech! Almost 100k

[@ChloekabanOfficial]

(3:33) **sigh** Not _another_ worldwide BSoD takeover. Luckily, I prepared last year. Deploy the bluescreen stopper!

[@ChloekabanOfficial]

@HildronOS **fires bluescreen stopper**

[@ChloekabanOfficial]

@HildronOS It's the same thing because bluescreens are still not immune to bluescreen stoppers.

[@ChloekabanOfficial]

@HildronOS **updates bluescreen stopper to be able to combat changes to bluescreen data**

[@ChloekabanOfficial]

@HildronOS **attacks rickrolling BSoD**

[@ChloekabanOfficial]

@HildronOS I still attacked it anyway.

[@UnderscoreAngel]

darn i used to be scared of those "illegal operation errors" and BSoD, and also unplugging my computer to clean it and put it back together, i still am, i always assume my whole windows installation will trash after cleaning my computer on the inside and i think something will go wrong and that will make me freak out a lot, i also used to be scared of low resultions and black screens with white text, but those fears fade out when i started to fix OSes by following KZbin tutorials, but yeah those are really scary, i also was scared of the sound that Windows XP makes when you bump the volume to the limit? yeah i had my speakers at 200% in the leaving room when that happened, and since then it makes me kinda uncomfortable, but yeah not much, good vid tho-

[@jtbirdACC]

Error messages in general used to scare the crap out of me. I'd be doing my thing and then my flow would be interrupted by this scary imposing box telling me I was doing something wrong. Especially during the night? Or when no one's around? Might as well die, I guess. Eventually I got over my fear, but it came back for a week or two after playing DDLC lol

[@Jennn]

1:08 this made me laugh so Hard~! Can Relate~!

[@berber5063]

I was afraid at first of my pc going "BEEEEEEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP" at first, then i had the courage to see what caused it. It was a CPU fan error. Yes, I got scared of a CPU fan error.

[@-WhatTheActualHay-]

same lol

[@alhuno1]

Between all these ones only the non-ACPI shutdown creeped me down as a kid, especially the Win9x one with that orange text. It's my first time seeing the XP one and it looks as scary if not more :)

[@i_lost_my_bagel]

Something about seeing the windows logo like that without it saying XP anywhere gets me. It looks unfinished.

[@ignacyk3203]

@@i_lost_my_bagel Like somthing from Whistler or Longhorn

[@scionnn]

When I was younger (and still fear it) I fear BSoD and glitched sounds as they rip my soul in half. Sometimes I get nightmares like slow PCs having errors and destroying the world with very loud songs/sounds, ripping earth in half when the PC gets an error, and when I turn on my desktop and put the wrong password but still login and then the cursor showing the red X logo, everything pixelated, glitching, taking me back to lock screen, going back from windows 10 to windows 7 and me running from it but can't and more creepy stuff.