Why Do These Scare People?

[@epoxylung]

i was scared of paul the monkey for like, a majority of my childhood, until one night i had a dream where i had to go on some kinda adventure, and ended up teaming up w him since we had a common enemy or something. literally at the end of the dream we were all like "we're cool now, right? yeah we're cool." and i was never scared of him again

[@4ofdubs]

Describe this dream.

[@epoxylung]

@@4ofdubs this was like, 8 or 9 years ago or something theres no way i can remember any other details from it LOL

[@idkwh4tnam315]

Kinda similar that I read about someone once scared of Ao oni and dream about being friends.

[@nocontent415]

bro quoted the ending of shark tale in his dream 😭

[@epoxylung]

@@nocontent415 *her but LOL

[@PhantomBunny888]

I think most of the fear/unease comes down to how jarring/unexpected these logos were. Credits would have a melody, easing the transition between the show ending and the commercials after, only for them to be abruptly interrupted with some random ass, often surreal logo.

[@aleksi2627]

I've always found these things a bit scary - especially as a kid. I'll try to explain why 1. They come in silence and leave in silence. There is often like 2 seconds of pure silence or static before these idents. These moments somehow build tension, like silence before a jumpscare does. 2. They are often strange. Weird sounds and weird imagery. As a kid, I don't understand what the hell I'm looking at, or - perhaps more importantly - why. What's up with the style change? I feel like in that short moment I see a glimpse of something that doesn't belong in there. Is this show really what it seems to be, or is there something uncanny lurking behind the scenes? It doesn't help that none of the "tv-people" (children's show hosts) address or explain these. They keep going like I wasn't just shown some of the strangest video clips I have ever seen. 3. They are speaking to ME. As a kid, I don't think I really comprehended what a "fourth wall break" is. In the ident, eyes look at ME, through the TV-screen. Text is presented to ME in an attention grabbing way.

[@Reece-3601]

nah, it's gotta be something else 🤔..

[@midimittens]

You absolutely nailed the vibe of those bumpers... and Silent Hill in that first song.

[@mynameisnotchef7310]

Williams Street actually used audio from another companys logo "Mark VII Limited" so this is like logo sampling-ception

[@PerEdlund]

Woah, never thought there'd be lore to that logo

[@skud1377]

one time I got an ad on youtube which was just a looping video of the klasky csupo creature with random video filters blaring at full volume and it jumpscared the hell out of me.

[@cubermanYT]

false

[@TrizziEhgan]

maybe some random kid on the internet found a way to earn money from youtube

[@skud1377]

@@TrizziEhgan I think it was an ad for an editing software

[@skud1377]

@@cubermanYT ok I'll go f*** myself then

[@TrizziEhgan]

@@skud1377 editing software? avs4you?!

[@SpongeyBubby]

That Klasky Csupo logo was pretty much the sole reason why I hesitated watching Rugrats or any Nicktoons from the 90s unless it was SpongeBob or FOP, then I knew I was in the safe zone. Shit I never got over him until I was 10.

[@MrSponge56]

Yeah fuck that dude I still curse that shit to this day

[@Izz.mp4]

Here’s my theory on why these things scare people. 1: vast empty spaces. This one is based off my own childhood fear of the veggie tales intro, but I think not seeing a drawn background or something close to it freaks people (especially kids) out, ESPECIALLY if there’s people or objects inside of it. It’s like an emptiness most kids probably haven’t seen yet, like the SpongeBob episode where squidward is in that void with the alone words or whatever 2: lots of sounds at once or little sound at all. You know how horror movies use music to scare and make tension for the viewer? It almost feels like these bumpers accidentally added a bit of that element with the either very quiet / eerie background music like the aka cartoon bumper or lots of clashing sounds that take a second to process like the one bumper with all the cut outs and eyes and sounds and colors (forgot what it’s called). 3: the dark. A lot of people talk about being scared of these bumpers, but I’ve sort of realized most of them mention watching the cartoons while going to bed. With the empty-ish bumpers with weird sound design being the dark would amp that anxious and almost uncanny or lonely feeling some of these have by A LOT. 4: tension. I think that that small moment of one episode ending and waiting for another to start most likely adds a little tension to your mind. It’s like “when is the next episode going to be on??” Or “I wonder what comes next??”. These are just assumptions, but I really love film and tv and design shit so I just wanted to share my theories :)

[@ecbrd8478]

with the hi i'm paul one i think the thing that freaked me out was the weird double helix trees, it was like i was staring into a fucked up other world that no one would tell me about

[@_end3rguy_]

“Ya get any of that?” “GOBLIN CAUGHT ON TAPE!” *braniff plane theme* I always enjoyed outro cards idk why, I liked seeing them at the ends of episodes and I felt kinda sad whenever they got changed in future ones

[@palookadventures5694]

This is quality! Nice to see all my childhood terrors returning to say hello. Tangentially related things I'm listing down here so I don't magically forget them: 1. Fearful Harmonies from the PSX, since that's an absolutely terrifying godsend of a method for music imo. 2. The OG Xbox dashboard audio, since it contains edited tracks of NASA conversations. 3. The "Hi, I'm Paul!" money.

[@KyleTheLandon]

i sampled some of the robot voices from the og xbox dashboard in like 2015 lol

[@Blankult]

There's something imposing about them, jarring, like it's not meant to be there, like it's an intruder, it wants your attention, but it comes completely unwarranted, which makes sense since they want you to remember the name of the people responsible for making the thing you're watching, but something about them is really offputting. I also think that, as kids, we expect things to follow the same steps everytime, but when something breaks the rules we don't really know how to react. You can see the same phenomenon with other things, like with commercials, psa's or glitches in video games, like when you're playing a game and suddenly everything gets garbled or just stops, it's scary, specially if you're playing old games like on the nes and a random sound just hangs there, haunting you. The sudden change in atmosphere seems to make us uncomfortable when we're kids. I had may things like this that scared me as a kid, and one that's still a bit uncomfortable for me is the lion king video game for the snes, that game gave me several nightmares. The death screens being so sudden that it made me so scared to the point that i would be afraid of dying, specially to avoid the continue screen, the music of which still feels uncomfortable, weird pixelated graphics that my mind would seemingly interpret the worst way possible, and the goddamn mini game where timon looks like he's being hunt down, and you're supposed to catch the bugs spread throughout the level, and as soon as you touch the spider, which you're not supposed to, it makes a screeching noise, cuts to black, and the mini game's over. It felt like timon had actually died lmao It's funny because otherwise it's just a happy little disney game, you wouldn't expect it to leave a kid terrified to play it lol Anyways sorry for rambling. Cool video though, you got the vibe pretty well.

[@synrmusic]

the music you've made with these bumpers at first, then your own bumper with the sound design, was extremely accurate and i think actually scarier

[@NewSonyWonderHappyMadisonFan]

Being in the logo/physical media community got me into movies and TV.

[@ogpandamonium]

You should put this at the end of every video

[@theratedrshimmer]

I always wondered when and how this obsession with getting scared with endtags started xD For me, In my country it was kind of a miracle seeing them on TV, as local stations always (And I must say, ALWAYS) chopped off the end credits in order to put more commercials or the next show immediately... except in cable TV, seeing them felt like "You reached this point cause this is premium stuff, not your ad-cramped local channel"

[@Sapphireeyes104]

I always thought the Klasky smile and the Paul monkey were uncanny as hell, but I was SUPER young when I saw them the first time. They're just...off. My little child mind couldn't process what I was looking at, really. Maybe if it was on something I saw when I was a bit older it would have been less jarring. Paul's face used to scare me with that extra eye, and with how fast and sudden he turns around. As for the Klasky smile, I could barely understand what exactly it was. I understood it was supposed to be a face, but it was still super offputting. It didn't bother me as much as Paul though, because it didn't surprise me as much. It doesn't like...turn around and jumpscare you with an incorrect face or anything like that. I had completely forgotten about these, actually. Neat Edit: Thinking back on these, I really think it was how quickly everything happened. How it was gone just as suddenly as it scared you. What you ended up with was really cool though.

[@LoganMcghee-j1n]

the thing at the end of "always sunny in philladelphia" hits pretty hard

[@caucasoidape8838]

Being an older millennial, it was the Viacom "V of Doom" that intimidated me.

[@YapTuntley]

I don't know how you come up with these ideas, but I hope you never run out

[@artism9780]

Call me weird but I was creeped out by the ending logos after Blue’s Clues. The low bass notes are bit eerie during the very end of the credits, you hear children laughing with more low bass notes plus low tuba notes in the Nick Jr logo, and finally the Nickelodeon Haypile logo with a pitch black background and dead silence

[@NdieCity]

Thank you so much for namedropping kaput and zozsky because for the life of me I could not remember the name of that show and it was driving me nuts. I kept getting it mixed up with sniz and fondue

[@wednesday122]

When i was little and i saw these at the end of a show, i always found them offputting because it was like people were supposed to leave during the credits. If you were still there by the time logos were being shown, its like you were seeing something you weren’t supposed to

[@skyshunts]

I never knew people were scared of Paul. I thought he was cute as a kid.

[@gaeulswife]

haven't seen the entire thing yet but i saw the thumbnail and i just wanted to say this, from what i can tell you're probably gonna cover those logo kids in this video and im pretty sure the logo kids do this stuff because they have autism, i have autism aswell and when i was younger i used to do some weird logo stuff, we get obsessed over things we find weird, or maybe unique, dunno how to explain it, we also sometimes get scared of things that others may not find so scary, i remember when i was younger i used to be afraid of when htv (tv channel) would play hot ranking (the tv show where its just 21 music videos), everytime the intro would pop up i would hide in this weird cat tunnel that my mom bought for me for some reason

[@KyleTheLandon]

i am a massive sonic fan so i understand completely lol

[@gaeulswife]

@@KyleTheLandon lol nice, you know i've always wondered why sonic is linked to autism, right now i've come up with a theory that autists like sonic probably because it's not the social norm, the social norm is mario, and like i said, we get obsessed with stuff we find weird or unique

[@DubUltra]

@@KyleTheLandon Please cover logo kids!

[@masterseal0418]

​@@DubUltraSame. Why not bring MagicMush to collaborate? He's been an expert in unorthodox internet rabbitholes/users/niches.

[@vermilliondosentexistanymorx]

close enough, welcome back Oneohtrix Point Never’s Replica

[@4ofdubs]

You're referencing Replica, are you?

[@vermilliondosentexistanymorx]

@@4ofdubs yes

[@LinRuiEn]

None of these scared me but the FBI warnings on VHS tapes did

[@louzcluez]

bruh me too 😭 idk why either they were just so.. threatening

[@asrieldreemurr8059]

“DON’T F*CKING PIRATE!!!”

[@honeybabes2017]

why is nobody ever talking about snee oosh from the end of hey arnold?????

[@Swarming-Languendo]

Nice video about a sorts niche topic! For me, the SpongeBob end Credits left a genuine off-putting feeling when I first saw them. Since at the time my only experience of the show was during syndication on TV, where there's always something else in the next time slot. For me it was probably just the fact that alot of the time I was doing things late at night. Back when being awake late is treated as a bad thing that you have to sneak around doing. Watching the TV at a low volume and slowly eating chips to keep the bag from crinkling. Being left, basically alone with you and the glow of the TV to keep you company. having to just...wait through the end credits of a late times lot or whatever studio Logo is showing is kinda spooky when you're young since you aren't actively engaged in anything at that moment and you probably couldn't care less about the logos on screen when it isn't a TV show you're watching. So the alternative is...literally nothing He'll even now I tend to play youtube videos in the background to not feel too 'alone' in an empry house or have some noise playing when I sleep. Something something 'silence is deafening or I just have Tinitus'

[@masterseal0418]

The Spongebob end credits sequence has been analyzed by YourEverydayTheorist, and the real reason why the atmosphere of such is unsettling to us as kids, was related to dissonance. Spongebob represents childhood innocence, and after an episode ends, and the closing credits roll, the youthful energy comes to a complete stop. We then question ourselves what happened, and all we're left is a ditty playing throughout what is called a liminal space. Pure emptiness in its finest shape.

[@KyleTheLandon]

yeah now that i think about it, the credits was a lil weird to me as a kid, wish i remembered it for the video!

[@broice9222]

5:25 “kickasskickasskickasskickasski”

[@JTRaptor1]

0:22 I Don’t Know Why I Thought His Nose Look Like Tiny Eyes In The Dark😂😂😂

[@ScrimmyBingus42]

Paul the monkey never scared me, in fact i find that end screen very nostalgic, played at the end of a lot of my favorite shows

[@ColinAnimate]

broski, that's goanimate for ya (i was one of these kids back when i was 10)

[@doyallsellcrablegs]

i still cannot get over the graphics card thing i’m actually dyingg

[@COolmanlyman]

I think klasky csupo was less scary than it was overstimulating.

[@apexMX125]

Alternative Viz Media Logo sounds after Inuyasha's Ending.

[@barchel]

2:15 I POINTED AT MY SCREEN THERE OMG NAILS UNDER NAILS

[@barchel]

OMG ALL THE CHAPTERS ARE SONGS also amazing video ofc you really nailed it

[@minionfan9000]

What

[@barchel]

@@minionfan9000 he used parts of his original music as the title cards

[@maffieduran]

I'm happy to see throught the years more and more people talk about how they were scared of Paul the Chimpanzee. I actually enjoyed the Klasky Csupo, AKA Cartoon (specially the music) and Stretch films logos a lot, but DNA was so distressing I'd have to turn off the tv when the credits began rolling and pray it had already happened when I turned it back on or take the time to know when Jimmy Neutron would come on Nickelodeon as to not accidentally switch the channel when it came, I'd cry or be unable to sleep if I saw it. Like, it was a HUGE thing for me. I had a similar thing going on for furreal friends (and the Tiger Electronics logo solely by association) which is a long but curious story. It's funny how something that small could affect us as children. I do wish you sampled the actual DNA logo and not the O Enterntainment though :(

[@masterseal0418]

Nowadays, I find Splaaat, Tex, and Paul to be quite cute really(the latter was even voiced by Greg Cipes aka Beast Boy on Klasky-Csupo's official KZbin channel). If you're asking, the Jimmy Neutron episode 'Tick Tick Boom' from Season 3 is the last we'll ever see Paul. Because you know, The Ant Bully bombed at the box office, and lead to DNA Productions' closure. Insert concerned Tom Hanks here:

[@mdihero]

honorable mention, the treehouse of horror Gracie films logo

[@ottav69]

There were some genuinely scary ones to me as a kid. But I never actually saw one at the end of a kid's show or any kind of cartoon really that scared me. The ones that always scared me as a kid were all from the endings of shows that weren't really meant for just kids. Some of them were probably "family friendly" shows for sure, but I can't think of any particularly scary ones that ever came from a show made exclusively for kids.

[@Treppy_Gecky]

Idk if it counts since it's at the start of their games but I always loved the cartoon sfx for Humungous Entertainment's logo. They made Freddi Fish and Putt Putt if you want to go and find their logo.

[@KyleTheLandon]

i adored putt putt saved the zoo as a a tike, i always painted him yellow

[@Treppy_Gecky]

@@KyleTheLandon based I used that or blue!

[@monkelad420]

The Klasky Csupo logo is so nightmarishly surreal, that even to this day, i still jolt jus from hearing it

[@veryannoyedrn]

These were sorta comforting to me ngl 😅 I was fascinated, then one day the weird went away Except for [adult swim] ofc

[@Ne0nV0id]

i remember being scared almost to death with that DNA logo. i HATED the monkey, the sound/melody it played, moving trees (?) it was a nightmare for me, made me so scared i couldn't sleep for months after seeing it 1st time

[@louzcluez]

4:52 y'all am i tripping or does that look like someone sitting at the end? with their legs bent

[@kiernanhowell-mackinley1733]

I was fine with Paul, but the variant with the two Pauls who said "Hi, we're Paul!" was the one that scared me. I was completely used to one Paul, so I wasn't prepared for two. Oh yeah and I used to be in the "Dream Logos" scene when I was in my early teens. It's really just neurodivergent folks with hyperfixations doing what they can to make their favorite ideas and fantasies "real". Artistic expression and creative writing and all that.

[@Wolvahulk]

I swear I'll buy a VR headset just for EmuVR it looks so sick.

[@masterseal0418]

When mentioning nightmare fuel in vanity plates, BND(VID) has to be the most creepy in my opinion(even it's countdown variant). Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to make that ident possible?! The atmosphere, 5 note sting, and mask are traumatizing! Sure, the vanity plate has been toned down heavily to look cute, but it still looks unsettling. On the other hand, PFFR's vanity plate is quite gross, and the 1980s-early 90s BBC logo is melancholic(imagine you turn on your Wallace and Gromit VHS, and you were greeted with this). As an autist, I've been dragged down the rabbithole regarding one of the most bizarre wikis imaginable(aside from Pooh's Adventures), the 'Scary Logos Wiki', which has decayed into a weird-ass amalgamation of fake vanity plates with shock value. MagicMush discussed the Scary Logos Wiki, alongside the Pooh's Adventures, Supernanny Fanon, and Original Scary Godmother wikis in Part 1. There's now a follow-up, which has the Smurf Fanon Wiki discussed and a brief revisit of the Supernanny Fanon wiki. I apologize for you ending up in this bizarre niche full of manchildren, but when mentioning DeviantArt, the platform is apparently dead. Rarely would you find fanart from talented creators, rather fetishes, more fetishes, stolen art, "memes" from immature users, groomers, fucking children, and the most low-effort content possible. Those reasons play part to why I focus heavy on Twitter/X's artists. Good video tho. Subscribed.

[@ZachBlackforest]

Renaissance Pictures, used to spook me back in the day.

[@GhostSpirit-tl4jd]

When I was little I didn't even get scared of these things I was just a bit confused and didn't know why they looked like that but now I'm a grown man and I know it's just a background

[@limpbizkit1631]

Yup, Kyle Landon releases another video and it's peak as expected, real spooky too, I was always scared when I was 7 years old and watching kyle landon and the hideaway child logo would show up, really spooked the shit dongles out of me, didn't know what was going on back then, now I understand, also there's something fascinating to me about that kind of children's memetic horror such as the aka/ati thing shown in the video, they get scared about one strange concept and it lingers, it spreads, it goes on and on until it becomes parody of itself, also the horror is always just blood and violence, I saw one website where a common theme was the THX Tex robot invades a random collection of animated media aimed at children aged between 0-6 and kills everyone with chainsaws and grenade launchers while saying shit like "I'M THE MEGA KILLLER, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR BEING ANIMATION, YOU! THE VIEWER! BRADLEY SMITH WHO LIVES AT 2753 FUCKSTONE SHITCREAK STREET ARIZONA, I AM GOING TO KILL YOU", Anyway great video, real kino.

[@ryandelaney3547]

There's one logo that scares me. Not gonna say it but it's haunted me for years .

[@Nekowaii_Girl]

Okay now I want to know

[@dorothyallspice1862]

THX?

[@ryandelaney3547]

@@dorothyallspice1862 Nah, THX has never scared me. Keep guessing.

[@hickorydickoryproductions4165]

@@ryandelaney3547 VID?

[@french.toastman]

2:35 The sound in the Williams Street video is the sound from the Mark VII Productions company, looped twice. kzbin.info/www/bejne/apLciIFtZc-ppMk

[@Shiodiodia]

This sounds like music from a horror/terror/surreal rpg maker game

[@joyce_rx]

another kyle landon banger

[@semyonshpagatov5321]

Would be better to post something insightful, but can't think of anything now and might forget later, so here's a comment for algorithm, or whatever, if it even works that way. Enjoyed this video, btw, great topic, l like unconsequencial things like that that are just pure creative force without a reason like these short 10 seconds videos.

[@mrslasher1064]

What is scary about Paul? I love Paul...

[@OneHellOfASandwich]

What’s the one in the middle of the thumbnail from? I have a shirt with it on it, and I believe it’s from SpongeBob, but I’ve never been able to find the image with searches.

[@cubermanYT]

the klasky csupo robot

[@OneHellOfASandwich]

@@cubermanYT THANK you!

[@cubermanYT]

​Youre klasky welcome

[@MR0KITTY]

4:46 Oooooooh ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 6:20 Some horror story background music, out of the AKA jass noise?!

[@nocontent415]

i think if you removed the fade in the ominous and eerie vibe would be stronger since most of those old studio ids just abruptly happened at the end of a shows credits (think of the fredorator studios id from fairly odd parents)

[@KyleTheLandon]

i agree! i will be refining it over time lol

[@tgeFallman]

Nice pfp

[@DJ_BoomBear]

ayyo EMUVR!?

[@Halfbit_0]

I liked the Hannah Barbara one

[@4ofdubs]

Is the "Exploring n Sampling" beat available online?

[@KyleTheLandon]

not yet but it will be!

[@wigwagstudios2474]

what is this random music channel producer doing talking about klasky csupo effects am i in a time loop

[@KyleTheLandon]

i do what i want

[@barchel]

lol the post credits scenes

[@Kharmatic]

How is your channel soo underrated??

[@cubermanYT]

when are you gonne release the klaskyklaskyklaksy klasky song

[@KyleTheLandon]

sometime idk when yet but it'll be out

[@TheBeatenBush]

Cruelty squad type beat

[@oisinbroadcast6916]

out of all the logos "Klasky Csupo" has been my favorite logo back in 2016. (i have been a fan of logos since around 2013(?) and been in the logo community since 2016.) i still have no idea why the Klasky Csupo logo has the most "Logo Effects" videos out of every other logo tho.

[@pareidoliac755]

cool video

[@YybChristian14]

8:00 what song/sound is this? It’s very relaxing

[@KyleTheLandon]

its a slightly slowed down version of my song "Abandon You (A Desperate Prayer" from my album "Selfish Animal" :) the song overall is not very relaxing tho but maybe check it out anyways??

[@YybChristian14]

@@KyleTheLandon def 🙏

[@SomeKindOfDood]

Paul a G fr

[@cubermanYT]

Klasky Csupo

[@d.borble]

babayooie

[@BobSempleton]

yo kyle

[@KyleTheLandon]

yo bob yooooo

[@Genuine3106]

Jussi

[@ThedudeWhohasBTS]

Klasky csupo

[@namelessnocebo]

WYM robot chicken is garbage??

[@KyleTheLandon]

ive watched like the first 4 seasons repeatedly when i was younger and i dont know why