Screamers - Why I Have Trust Issues

[@borederlands5387]

There's something existentially scary about thinking that anytime anywhere on the internet you could just get jumpscared through no fault of your own

[@Jenna_Talia]

There's also the fact that a lot of screamers (nicknamed void memes iirc) don't just have a creepy face pop up, they have the loudest earrape possible and deepfry/contort the image so much that it plays with your primal emotions. I remember there being one of Dash's teacher from the incredibles, where instead of going "coincidence? I think NOT!" he would instead go "coincidence? I think-" and then he would turn into a screamer. The video was so potent that it was the one video out of many to actually spark debate on whether or not it's okay to share those things around. Basically, what if someone with heart problems sees one.

[@Janfon1]

Don't let it get in your head, that's the important part

[@borederlands5387]

@@Janfon1 i just think it's good practice to have low volume and maybe scroll through vid thumbnails first for dubious videos

[@borederlands5387]

​@@Jenna_Talia yeah i was thinking of the void meme fad, there was something oddly funny about some but they were still basically just modernized screamers

[@Deadsk]

Just grow a pair.

[@ventoventi]

screamers have literally gave me a permanent fear of the dark lmao. because most of the backgrounds of screamers (when the face pops out) are dark / black, i now associate any dark screen, tv or background with something that’s going to pop out at me. lord help me

[@aconfusedmancx8323]

Holy shit same dude. Sometimes at bed I stare at my closet expecting a jumpscare

[@marikatsukibrito932]

SAME!! Nowadays I have to force my eyes shut because I am scared that if I open them again, I will see something I did not want to.

[@innoc4063]

You aren't alone, haha. Even as an adult now I sometimes get anxiety in the dark around mirrors for fear of some ghost/demon screaming at me.

[@phzephyrus]

same

[@MarcleandreGD]

Same as well with the Jeff The Killer jumpscare. I still struggled a bit going in the dark because I’m scared I’m gonna see Jeff’s face. I’m almost 16 and I can’t see the picture. Also same thing for Scary Maze Game with the Exorcist girl image.

[@sleepyashu]

You said you wouldn't scare us, but growing up as an early 2000's kid... I trust no one.

[@alexanderyt4610]

Fnaf era. Boom you close the door too late but you flip up ur camera

[@sheepkind]

i didn’t originally but watched the whole thing in youtube app’s video autoplay (so no audio, small video, captioned) and he’s telling the truth. it’s actually really refreshing

[@AegbGo]

@@alexanderyt4610 fnaf wasnt that scary, is the game that you'd play if you liked horror games but didnt want to be scared

[@saberbestgirl20]

i love this comment

[@DatWingMan]

Uh, growing up…. Man… I spent hours of my life.. getting jumpscared by…. SCREAMERS….. in the original 2008.. KZbin platform…..

[@NotJarrod]

Idk if anybody would count this, but my first "screamer" was the butterfly episode in Spongebob. The part that shows the butterfly super zoomed in and really loud buzzing audio plays. Idk why but that shit traumatized me so much as a kid.

[@squarohedron0664]

that one counts in my opinion

[@aselmao]

Same 💀

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

It made me laugh as I got older.

[@derekpayneszubliminals7723]

That somehow didn't scare me as a kid. Don't get me wrong, it was a little freaky and more of a "What the heck" moment.

[@ecstaticwooper368]

my first screamer was that tiki jumpscare in donkey kong country returns 3ds

[@LopolyHeart]

The screamer era of KZbin was the most annoying, imo. But I think back then it was a little easier to tell if it was a screamer based on how many stars the video had (I miss the 5-star rating system).

[@kesshoujo1357]

If the comments were turned off was another big tell at the time

[@JewelWildmoon]

There was a 5-star rating system??

[@XG417]

Also by how long the video is lol Screamers tend to be very short, though of course there are exceptions

[@LopolyHeart]

@@JewelWildmoon Yes. There used to be a 5-star system, video reply system where a person's video reply would show up underneath the main video (this is where the term "reply girl" came from), a feature that allowed users to create their own private chat rooms with video streaming, and other things that KZbin stripped away.

[@WilonaMinaWalker]

So do I

[@Noper12KSKx]

This video made me realize something. I have this habit of always checking the comments of a video while the first few seconds are being played. It's been so long that I misremembered and attributed this habit to hyperactivity, but watching this made the memories flood back. No... it wasn't because of hyperactivity, it was to search for the scare's timestamp in the comments, if the video had any. I guess I was traumatized too and didn't even remember LMAO. P.S.: My first jumpscare was the daisy circuit shortcut for MK Wii. The video is still around to this day iirc!

[@glitchyguru6468]

Damn.. not even daisy's circuit is safe!

[@Spongewolf]

I do this too 😭

[@FrecklesHasAQuestionMark]

I did that too but it was to check to see if people were mad/comments about how they got scared or something lol I'm pretty sure it's because a wikihow article I read that gave that advice to avoid screamers, along with checking the dislikes (lol)

[@walrus3479]

yep, that fuckin daisy circuit video traumatised me so bad.

[@georgesb3388]

I remember I used to check the last few seconds of every video before watching just to make sure it didn't have any screamers.

[@purplegalaxies2149]

I remember watching AFV as a kid and they pulled up the “what’s wrong with this picture” screamer and it gave me nightmares for weeks!

[@SuperHexer123]

Oh my god someone else who shares a memory of AFV's bs. I remember on a Christmas morning they had a skit playing a Christmas song, the reversed it saying "theres something funny in here if you listen closely", only to hit you with a flashing screaming. It got me so bad, I couldn't look in mirrors for months as the thought of focusing on the mirror would do do something.

[@anonymouslucario285]

Why weeks?

[@anonymouslucario285]

@@SuperHexer123 what do you mean their bs? Are they horrible people?

[@purplegalaxies2149]

@@anonymouslucario285 Omg you’re taking this way too seriously lol

[@Thecoolven]

I remember that too. I saw that with my sister and had it in my head for days.

[@koenko2]

scariest time of my entire life was the screamer era of the internet. you couldn't watch ANYTHING, even if you got really good at telling when it was about to happen, the really smart ones gave you NO warning

[@iitim2152]

I fully expected a screamer immediately after the "I promise you".

[@YuriTCC]

I assure you, I could never be that mean.

[@iitim2152]

@@YuriTCC lol well none of the screamers were as traumatic to me as my best friend telling me to check out "lemon party"... I've never trusted a link since.

[@LorectonMapper]

@@iitim2152 to me it was something worse called ´´1 man 1 screwdriver´´

[@iitim2152]

@@LorectonMapper unfortunately the name is descriptive enough that my mental imagine is probably traumatically accurate... thx for that btw.

[@rsombrero97]

@@LorectonMapper Ive heard that screamer before.. bro KZbin sucked back then lmao

[@StanleyMOV]

I remember being 14/15 years old and looking up "ghost chair.mp4" on a public library pc with headphones on, and when the screamer showed up I jumped away from the pc while screaming, and EVERYBODY in the library was looking at me. It's one of those memories that suddenly pops up at 3am when you can't sleep

[@ihidemyface2167]

Then they tell you to leave and you try to explain *why* you screamed, but they won't listen :( *So you turn them into the ghost on the chair*

[@squarohedron0664]

​@@ihidemyface2167there was no ghost on the chair

[@peterosullivan4764]

Oh why would you do that?

[@khakisohn9710]

as someone who has SERIOUS paranoia issues, I really, really appreciate you slowing down and muting the actual scares. I've always been fascinated by screamers and other popular horror in older media, but ofc paranoia gets in the way of all that.

[@CanularRadio]

Could you explain further if you're OK.

[@Sydneyosargent]

Yeah, i feel you random commenter!! I’m in the same boat as you!!

[@fortnitesexman]

@@CanularRadio what is there to explain? they're paranoid, and horror blends with that in the worst way possible

[@neoqwerty]

@@CanularRadio I'm taking a wild guess based on an arachnophobic person's reactions and how we've gotten around the, err, issue: Basically screamers tend to be all about being unpredictable and coming out of nowhere with no warning AFTER tricking you into thinking there's nothing there and it's normal. Now what's the oldest "joke" about paranoia? "It's not paranoia if they're REALLY out to get you." Basically the equivalent of telling an arachnophobe that you don't have any spiders in your house and then you shove your pet tarantula's tank in their face.

[@Dergenheinkel]

Ur being watched every second of ur life and you will never fully know it

[@airex12]

Screamers are like a rite of passage. A coming of age ceremony to teach kids that “hey, not everything and everyone on the Internet is good / for your benefit”

[@EduardoIsSmiling]

This video is based. I love how you had all the oportunity to traumatize me once again, you literally had me in your fucking hands the entire video, but never pulled a screamer. I feel you are the only person i can trust and i can trust you in everything, i wish you were my brother or something

[@cleverdragon2744]

The lack of replies disturb me

[@-ChainChomp]

@@cleverdragon2744we dont need any to be fair

[@Theragtagna]

​@@cleverdragon2744 what is there to reply about? The comment is perfectly fine on its own.

[@MonkeMan2.0]

@@Theragtagna that’s how I feel when it comes to that specific thing. It’s like, “what do I even say?” before just leaving it at that (of course unless I feel like I should if it’s something I like to engage in on and all).

[@lolly8219]

the way i can't even bring myself to trust this comment.

[@noinfo4789]

When I was little my aunts thought it would be funny to play a prank. So they sat me down and had me watch hours of screamers, every screamer they could find (they all blend to gather now but the library one is so vivid) it went tilI I stopped reacting, no yelping no flinching no wincing no blinking. it was mentality scarring, I wish I could say I got over it but I didn't and even over a decade later it still keeps me up at night.

[@ARCHIVED9610]

oh god

[@RealFakeRealSlimShady]

ahh the classic 'mentally traumatize a child for no fucking reason' prank

[@someguyonyoutube1]

@@RealFakeRealSlimShady i loved that prank back when the unnamed skinless creature would tie me to a chair and make me watch hours of screams i miss the good old days😔

[@viviangarcia5696]

If i were you Id ghost her ass if she comes to you for a. Favor. Pettiness is well deserved

[@GoodMorning.]

for HOURS?? nah bro, if i were you i wouldn't talk to them at all after that

[@briandiomede7354]

The screamer that got me is a club penguin video that advertised an infinite money glitch. It said watch until the end, but I hadn't encounter too many screamers before so I didn't catch the hint. The evil thing about it was the video seemingly buffered and then gave the KZbin "this video is no longer available" error before screaming, so everytime something buffered after that I would take my headphones off or mute the volume before making sure the video was actually buffering. Screamers are a trend I won't miss.

[@emperorleachy6435]

I think I remember that one

[@aceyspud551]

Is that the one where the final step was “check your inventory” and the screamer was shortly after?

[@damnsoda8286]

My first screamer was also Club Penguin but I think the video is lost. It was a video tutorial explaining how to get a rainbow puffle (before they existed) and I was following it step by step. I had two tabs open in my browser, KZbin and Club Penguin. Towards the end of the video I switched tabs to the game only to hear really warped clown music playing really loudly. When I switched tabs to see what the sound was, I was met with the image of a clown with no eyes and a long tongue smiling at me. The music itself is the weird part because my memory wants to say that it was a song from the soundtrack of Ghostbusters, but I think that's me misremembering. I've been searching for this video for years but can't find it. Tl;Dr fake Club Penguin rainbow puffle tutorial had a bloody clown screamer

[@LittleMusicBags11037]

@@damnsoda8286 Something like that happened to me but with a different twist. There was a video talking about how you could get a trillion tix in roblox, however, the video ended with a video with a clown dancing. The video was lost ever since, and I haven't seen any mentions of it online.

[@shizune_]

Nah, that's _low_ low, i'm sorry that you had to be tricked that hard.

[@kurocomics]

The fact I instinctively yelled "NO!" and jumped back when I saw the K-fee car ad near the screamer portion even though I knew he would edit it to make it not scary at all just shows the level of childhood trauma these things can cause someone

[@BitBlush]

I remember my uncle would hit me with these constantly because I had "funny" reactions. Eventually he dressed up in a monster costume and chased me down in my house. I was maybe 8 years old. Now, over a decade later, I have trouble looking out windows or mirrors in case there's something there. Even when it subsides enough, I can't enjoy horror content half the time because it'll make that paranoia resurface again. It's not like a hallucination, it's like, something in my brain *knows* this is exactly how the jumpscare goes. I look in the mirror, my reflection opens its mouth and climbs out and gets me. It feels silly but it never really went away for me.

[@maffieduran]

I am so sorry to hear that, he is a sick piece of sh*t

[@boel7522]

Oh my god I know that feeling!! I have no problem looking in a mirror with good lighting but seeing my reflection when it’s dark puts me on high alert. Maybe it’s because windows and mirrors are kinda similar to screens and our brains recognise that as the place where jumpscares happen? Also I’m sorry that happened to you. Grownups shouldn’t act like your uncle did :-/

[@blakeizapuzzy]

my mother was watching a film about mirrors having demons in them (so you dont look at the mirrors) and i would avoid ANYTHING with a reflective surface, doesnt matter what it was. mirrors, tvs, windows, even computers, phones and ipads!

[@edorasmarauder5761]

You're not alone in feeling this way. But I didn't have any trauma tied to it. For me, my brain made me think that my eyes would ooze black liquid all of a sudden. My brain is very interesting.

[@boogiesarcade]

​@@edorasmarauder5761 Let me guess, you saw those zalgo Garfield Comics

[@snowarmth]

So sweet of you to provide active, gentle commentary consistently enough that we traumatized souls don't get unsettled, on top of lowering volume/slowing down the scream, etc. Truly hubby material ;w;

[@PantsMasterPlays]

My sister made me play the maze in third grade. I cried for at least 22 minutes because an entire episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody played while she was trying to calm me down. It's unironically one of my formative experiences now, and I didn't get back into into horror until almost a decade later lol

[@CanularRadio]

😕

[@scholartheterminator94]

@@CanularRadio job bj 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😮😢🎉😂

[@edorasmarauder5761]

Worst sister ever.

[@2017xbattlecats]

Were you crying because of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody or the maze

[@flame7573]

My first screamer was the maze game and goddamn i'll never forget how Reagan's image made me cold sweat everytime i saw it. Fortunately i got over it when i got older and even watched the Exorcist which turned out to be a banger horror movie, but yeah, the memory still lingers lmao.

[@NekuZX]

When I was a kid I played this one flash game called "the upgrade game" that was actually genuinely fun because you played to gain money and upgrade not only your character but basic features of the game. Like adding music or a better pause menu. One of the available upgrades however was "increased heart rate" which was vague, so I bought it to see what it meant, But nothing would happen. However, 2 minutes later, the game would be interrupted by a flashing image of a fat kid screaming. That was the most terrifying screamer I've ever got.

[@Pepstep_07]

Wasnt this game called upgrade complete? I don't remember it having screamers

[@NekuZX]

@@Pepstep_07 i don't really remember the specific title. But I remember very well the screamer. I also remember that it had a sequel. So im not sure if the screamer happens in the first or second game.

[@Pepstep_07]

@@NekuZX ok it's definitely upgrade complete. I played the sequel a lot and it had no screamers, I never played the first one

[@NekuZX]

@@Pepstep_07 I found a gameplay showing the screamer. It was in fact Upgrade Complete 2. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqHakmB_Ysienbs

[@shanewheat]

I was thinking of this exact one during the video glad someone else was thinking the same thing

[@kronkydoink6144]

It's uncanny how much this video resonates with me, shout out to a generation of PTSD caused by cheap scares. I've had multiple nightmares growing up that took the format of screamers and I blame the internet's lack of creativity in the 2000s.

[@InvocationOfSebastian]

My first screamer was the one with the rocking chair that was kind of hue-shifted green, I remember it like it was yesterday because I was nearly inconsolable upon seeing it. Also, the subliminal message videos brought back a lot of memories.

[@agh7st]

holy shit i think i remember that video it scared me so much

[@gel6865]

lmao i remember watching that video with my cousins, we literally jumped from our seats and screamed so fucking loud

[@smfh_myhead]

Same

[@smfh_myhead]

I remember that the uploader uploaded it with a title like horror/scary Upin Ipin or something Just for context, Upin Ipin is a cartoon that is popular in Indonesia and Malaysia Of course, i clicked on it and regretted it

[@smfh_myhead]

I forgot how i found i though It could possibly have been my brother friends that showed me or i found it on myself

[@RapterWin]

That video preview on the playback bar was a gift I will forever cherish.

[@shizune_]

_pauses video_ _scrolls around_ "Oh, that's a screamer. Nevermind." _dislikes video to warn yourself later and clicks off_

[@jonsaltberry8167]

The ghost chair was my first. The worst part of that one is that whoever made it took the time to make Regan move too fast towards the camera, so you can feel for a millisecond a fight of flight feeling, but before you can do anything it's too late.

[@red5158077]

Yeah! I remember that! God Dammit!

[@CarlosRoyalTiger]

The ghost girl comic is such a classic. I remember my browser having an issue when "playing" the animations, so it kept scrolling up and down instead of just doing it once. It happened in the middle of the night when I was using the computer in complete darkness. Clicking on the x to close the browser didn't work, but alt + F4 did. It was one of the best scares I ever had.

[@Dantethedemonkiller]

My first screamer was one I can never forget. I was a small child in a Christian private school. At the end of the day the teacher would play KZbin videos. This would normally be Just Dance gameplay and we would act along with it. But one day a student wanted to play a specific video. It was called "Scary Car". I was mortified and cried once it was over. The teacher said she didn't know the video was going to be a screamer, and said "I thought it was just gonna be a video of cool cars." The school was closed down not long after and they say it's because they couldn't afford to keep it open but I know the truth.

[@e.l.studios455]

why is that actually kinda sad

[@ivanlugo8474]

@@e.l.studios455 because the wholesome and good intentions of the teacher ended up causing terror and possibly closing the school...

[@Lunar_Capital]

@@ivanlugo8474 Wholesome mmmm yes some hole 😫😫😫😩

[@nimbusykz2288]

NO I REMEMBER THAT VIDEO

[@PKSuperStar256]

That's really tragic...

[@CommanderWiggins]

I'm so glad you brought up the Bongcheon-Dong Ghost! Most screamers were just cheap gags to get a scare out of people, but that one was legitimately impressive in how it subverts your expectations and uses the experience of scrolling through a webcomic to heighten the fear. Losing the ability to control what you're seeing by scrolling and then removing the saftey of the comic being static and contained is so much more effective than just a spooky picture and a loud scream. Such a shame that the death of Flash reduced its impact.

[@meachew]

That car commercial I remember seeing that in a class and the kids who were up closer to screen absolutely had me dying of laughter 🤣. Poor souls

[@puchipuchi808]

I renember me and sister rewatching the video multiple times and still getting scared on our mom's ipod lmao

[@FireCrewGAMING]

Same thing happened to me, it actually made a couple kids cry lol

[@djjhdropthebeatyo]

i was a kid who stood close to the screen 😭 was shaking the entire rest of the day

[@peterosullivan4764]

You didn't get scared?

[@VocaloidRules101]

I genuinely teared up a little at seeing those photos, I've been thoroughly traumatized by screamers as a kid

[@appleseed8282]

I'm not sure if it was my first, but it was one that stuck with me the most. And it was when America's Funniest Home Videos destroyed my trust in it, making me never watch one of my favorite childhood shows ever again. I'm 75% sure it was that "what's wrong with this image" one, and they did it before showing a compilation of people pranking family members with it.

[@appleseed8282]

Looking back on it, I think that was one of the instances that contributed to me leaving TV for the internet. It's not a major turn, but loosing faith with a long loved show is a good way to help give up on a medium.

[@ClassicShocker]

huh they must've gotten complaints about it because I don't remember them actually showing the video first before the compilation, why would they even show it in the first place? :p

[@gopherthegold8722]

Same thing here. i don’t think i ever watched it again

[@jamiemunger2931]

I remember this era. I was a kid, around preteen age toward the end of it all. There were also a bunch of videos that i got sucked into about "haunted dolls" and ghost sightings. Theres one video, removed years ago, that ive been trying to find any trace of since. I remember watching it but have nothing but my own memory to confirm it was a real thing once. A little girl, presumably an actress from a recently released horror film, sits in a chair next to the host of a TV talk show, an older man, with another man on her other side not saying anything. The TV host is going on as normal, talking about how fasinating it is to have her there, and she's responding like any other kid in her position. Then she stops, stares at the host as her pupils dilate to take up the entirety of her eyes. She says, in a more serious tone of voice "You're going to be hit by a bus today, Bob" before making a loud slurping noise as she licks her lips. Everything is quiet. The host has heavy confusion and concern on his face as his eyes flicker from the girl to the camera. Then the video ends.

[@greensonickid3304]

Live Bob Cam:

[@Jomhezthaze]

The trauma I got from those screamers as a kid was so bad that I get extremely nervous from this kind of content. Obs: I'm 23 years old btw

[@ivanlugo8474]

Same i cant calm down even if i almost finish the video

[@ThatNotSoAznKid]

Same. Somehow just talking about this stuff triggers long repressed memories even though I know nothing is wrong. I'm finishing this whole video from the vets office so I'm not alone.

[@Deadsk]

just quit being a man-child.

[@moxusgaming]

lisa pfp

[@Jomhezthaze]

@@moxusgaming Best ranger btw

[@thatterrariaguidenpc8054]

i swear screamers are like a product of its time that it genuinely surprises and gets me unironically if i encounter a screamer video nowadays

[@kingpluto555]

If you visit the Screamer Wiki, the screamers are still kicking as recently as last year. Sometime, it's even worse and involves real gore or animal crush. It's absurd how there are people who even plan on creating such content. 😬

[@the13throse]

ugh the "what's wrong with this image" ones... I don't know if it was my "first" screamer, but the one I remember the earliest was one of those "when you see it" pics that was actually a GIF. It flashed good ol' Jeffy boy in my face and I recall jumping back in my chair and swearing at the screen. Sidenote: the JTK pic still creeps me out at 22 and I still can't look at it for long without feeling paranoid. I am not proud of this.

[@LatchinOn]

Don't worry, it still scares me too. The image really left an impact and I'm sure that even people who weren't scared of it, at least get goosebumps (not the good kind) when seeing it.

[@Synthenoid_]

hahaha same, my sister clicked a couple prank links from friends & we got that strobing jeff screamer twice in a row, after watching a fullscreen music video with the volume still turned up way high. I was like 12 at the time, 23 now & I've never browsed the internet the same way. I just remember full body adrenaline & screaming lmao. the picture genuinely unsettled/startled me for years, couldn't click links, etc

[@DroopersDelight]

Where's your pfp from?

[@kawaiiconcept7479]

23 here, I still can't look at it

[@the13throse]

@@DroopersDelight No More Heroes 2

[@littledreamerrem7021]

1:11 HOLY CRAP, THAT'S IT. That was my first ever jumpscare, and it's been haunting me for years. Gone were my innocent internet days.

[@HS-mn6jc]

I’m glad someone made a respectful, non-prank video about these, finally! I’m very glad screamers aren’t really a thing anymore, as I had my fair share of trauma from these things as a kid. I still distinctly remember my worst example of it (although it wasn’t my first screamer, that I cannot remember). My parents were watching the Super Bowl downstairs, Beyoncé was performing and they were super into it. I was upstairs on the computer, browsing KZbin unsupervised at the age of maybe… oh I don’t know, I must have been 7 or 8? I’m 20 years old now, if anyone wants to double check the year Beyoncé performed at the Super Bowl lol. Anyway, I had clicked on a video that apparently was supposed to show a car crashing into a train. I was a kid, I was morbidly curious, so I click on it. It’s one of those terrible CCTV cameras that moves at 0.5 frames per second, and shows a train slowly approaching an intersection with a road. Obviously I’m looking really closely at it to not miss the whole point of the video… and bam, an image of a giant skull with flames shooting out of it on one side of its face and a horrible screaming noise. Looking back I’m sure the image wasn’t really all that scary, but to 8 year old me I was fucking terrified. I’ve tried to track down this video or even just the image of the screamer since then but I haven’t been able to find it… unfortunately? Fortunately? Anyways, my mom was totally encapsulated by the halftime show on the television that she completely ignored my bawling ass as I ran downstairs away from the computer and didn’t touch it for another week and a half. Again, I’d seen screamers before, but they were with other people crowded around the computer. This was me, alone upstairs in the dark, exploring the internet on my own. Even today I still instinctively clench up and put a finger in front of my line of sight when I see a video linger on a single image too long. Edit: I found the video!! Thanks to your video I found that the screamer wiki is a thing that exists, scrolled thru it a while and found the video. As it turns out, I misremembered the image- it wasn’t a flaming skull but an edit of Jada Pinkett Smith from Scream 2, with half of her face ripped off and a bit of blood on her skull. I guess I remembered that half of the skull was there and the other half had something else going on, but I couldn’t remember exactly what it was. I feel weirdly nostalgic watching this despite the heavy trauma it set in my head lol. I suppose it’s also pretty great being able to “scan” through the timeline on the video to see when it was gonna happen hahaha, so it’s nowhere near as scary anymore. Here’s the link if anyone wants it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/moXZoHd3prqdaa8

[@neoqwerty]

@Daniel Rickroll is the only link I non-ironically liked to be "betrayed" by.

[@peterosullivan4764]

Thanks, I guess?

[@Easy801]

You’re actually so based for not actually including any screamers but still discussing the topic ❤

[@patrice8487]

I looked in the comments just for this comment to see if there actually were screamers lmao

[@EmmyE3]

@@patrice8487honestly even after hearing the disclaimwr my level of trust in the internet made me check

[@abrahamlorenzo421]

Ur lying he put in a picture of a coat hanger abortion at 10:21

[@nevy4256]

I remember one screamer I experienced as a kid, and I've never managed to find it since. It was a video of somebody playing through world 1-1 of SMB3, doing the background trick, and as they reached the goal box it popped a screamer. Always hated that one

[@burneraccount7831]

Iirc that one went to the overworld, started going back and forth, then some cracked doll showed up or something idk

[@nevy4256]

@@burneraccount7831 YEAH, that was it. It went grey scale as it went back to the world screen, and then the jumpscare was on a couch or something, but I'm probably misremembering.

[@11MinutesTV]

Screamer lost media

[@burneraccount7831]

@@nevy4256 remembering a bit more of it, the whole thing is kind of has this vintage filter all the time, which kind of makes it like an old video (fooled me), but overall it was a fast run of 1-1 before the screamer showed up.

[@N3Selina]

i remember that shit

[@beautifulmanstan8840]

The "scary rocking chair" video was the one that I always found the scariest. And it was my first one. The inhumanely fast speed the face crawls up to the camera. Scared the shit out of me ten years ago. Responsible for many nightmares. Still haven't forgiven my sister for that.

[@edorasmarauder5761]

That was my first screamer too. Scarred me for life, even today.

[@AkumuVids]

Things rushing at the screen will always seem to get me T^T

[@DonnyKirkMusic]

any time I read "subliminal messages" I think of the old YT screamers from like 06-09 there was this one video i remember called "death note: subliminal messages" where it suddenly flashed pictures of harley-quinn babbies and gross shit. i actually fell out of my goddamn chair even though I was kinda expecting it even back then, because this one was made to be extra disturbing, and i remember the scream was like constant, like he looped it over and over.

[@rgbstuff3382]

death note if it was based /j

[@themyofmy]

"harley quinn baby"

[@CaatsGoMoooo]

harley quinn babbies......

[@Rainbow.DELights]

Harley-Quin Babies? What are those? Also don’t ask me to search it up 😐

[@MC-bo6ql]

Siivagunner fans when they hear that condition: 😬

[@angel404]

0:37 lmaoo i remember that 2nd image. still one of the scariest videos I've ever seen

[@elle02]

hey angel love your channel

[@soupmuncher.]

hi angel (6 months late) whats the name of the video that image was from im curious

[@d0stick-bm4ph]

Same

[@harrisongoodloe2636]

I am so glad hearing someone else had the exact same issues I had with screamers. For a solid half-year when I was younger I couldn't watch ANY videos from new people or people I didn't trust without checking comments first, skipping around the end, or shielding half my face. My siblings got super frustrated because they didn't understand. It's good to hear someone have the same experience with screamer videos in their youth.

[@c7wolfyy]

I instantly started crying because of my trauma from them. But i’ve been looking for video like this for around a year, thank you so much for making this video. Very informative and well made.

[@TriniGamerGirl7]

Thank you for no screamers! And the very comforting reassurance. 💙

[@laurenpetro2901]

I think my first screamer was a Club Penguin video that promised to share Gary's password. I remembered that "Root Down" by the Beastie Boys played in it. I was 9. I think I remember being more confused than scared

[@princembat]

screamers and jumpscares are why i STILL have trust issues with videos, scary or not, but mainly scary, and therefore why i truly do tend to watch only a few people for horror content even though i enjoy horror content. i couldnt tell you my first one cause they all blend together in a mush of 'scared the living daylights out of baby me' but one i always remember is my brother telling me to watch him play a game on the family computer (ah, early 2010s, when family computers were still a thing) and i was like oh okay. it was the maze game. i remember being so scared that i started crying after i screamed. i still hate the idea of looking at that exorcist girls face at all because of it. also fun fact i was so apprehensive to screamers that i knew by the way people talked about them that the car one was one... but i never fell for it. it was only this very video that i finally saw the end of it... and its just a lame looking zombie? over a decade or so of avoiding it for that? damn. i hate jumpscares for a lot of reasons, but especially because of screamers. im extremely glad that that era on the internet is almost entirely just history by now.

[@box700]

I remember about 10-11 years ago my grandfather emailed my mom a game he wanted me to play. It was tic tac toe, but when you lose you get jump scared by a vampire with screaming.

[@Butley]

I still flinch with most jump scares today, probably because of these

[@SpartaYoshi]

Dude this brought back a decade in memory, I hated screamers as a kid. I wouldn't sleep for days

[@SubzeroEclipse]

Hi im a fan

[@KazakhV3]

my first screamer was a video called "scary mario commercial". it was the commercial for mario sunshine but with the K-fee zombie edited at the end. the unedited ad still triggers my fight or flight response, it's been over a decade.

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

Omg same 💀

[@EpikBirb]

What did you expect from a video titled "scary mario commercial"

[@squarohedron0664]

​@@EpikBirbno you don't understand it's really loud even on minimum volume

[@EpikBirb]

@@squarohedron0664 My point still stands

[@evanlikesbagelz]

I remember when my second grade teacher thought I'd be a good idea to scare the piss out of the whole class with the red dot screamer

[@UmberBee]

This video causes me nothing but panic, growing up with screamers really made me not trust anyone on the internet anymore lmfao, even when I'm told "Nothing in the video will be loud or actually catch you off guard". After growing up with these kinds of videos awaiting my next view, I learned to look at the Like and Dislike ratio for videos, then check comments if the ratio favored dislikes, so I was extremely pissed when Dislikes got removed, and now rely on searching through the comments first to wade out any of the possible "bait" comments on sketchy videos to not have my eardrums blasted out lol.

[@LittleMusicBags11037]

And then the comments are turned off

[@TheDetox36]

That joke Kfee one with the “Boooo!” Cracked me up just now. Had no idea about that one but I love it 😆

[@CurlyHairedHero]

My first screamer was the "Relaxing car commerical" one you mentioned, or it was one where it was a Carlos Mencia joke reel with the volume really low and with a screamer at the end of a joke instead of a punchline. Very pleasant video...considering the subject matter lol

[@DragoonCenten]

I think the Carlos Menica jokes are the scariest part of that video.

[@levidenniston5298]

Man, I am so glad to have been introduced to the internet after the screamer era. The first one I remember seeing was the car commercial one, but that was after I was told the premise and knew that the scare was coming.

[@Thecoolven]

2006-2007 was the most horrific experience any kid had when going deep on KZbin. I remember my first screamer which was the car commercial and my sister told me about the video in a very vague way. So my dumb 7 year old self went to my friends house that same day and we watched that video with speakers at a high volume and what do you know we both jumped and fell off our chairs. Now after countless jumpscares I don’t trust anyone when they want to show me a video.

[@iswallowplasticfigurines394]

i really vividly remember my first screamer (which is also lost now) being agor io. its probably one of the most evil screamers ive ever seen because all it took to activate it was misspelling the link, and i think that website is the reason why im still uncomfortable seeing jeff the killer

[@Janfon1]

One kid actually got a seizure cause of this website, his mum managed to either sue or take down the website

[@NeoLocket]

the ghost car one traumatized me to the point of thinking it was gonna be the zombie popping out of any dark spot int the house or behind me or when im staring into space

[@cerocero2817]

The labyrinth one literally made me fall off my seat, but I respect it's brilliance, it naturally makes you focus and lean in. It was my first and only screamer.

[@Blablarrr]

Damn.. Until now i never knew if my memory of seeing an actual screamer on TV was real. Didn't even know it was a Coffee ad, just that i shat my pantaloons as a kid watching german television.

[@Kydino]

Got tricked by an older brother of one of my childhood friends into seeing one of those "what's wrong with this picture?", I got so scared I flipped over the computer chair and couldn't walk straight for the whole night that day. Probably had nightmares too but I luckily don't remember them nowadays and didn't have any other encounters with screamers until I clicked a random guy's link in a chat room when I used to play flash games in the kongregate website, that one also wrecked my shit up because it was a Jeff the killer one back during the height of those old creepypastas. This was a great video man, has some real soul in it and reminded me of great and not so great times when I was growing up on the internet.

[@XG417]

I think my first screamer was GTA San Andreas Ghost on TV (or smth close to it), back when my obsession with GTA SA myths were at its peak. It wasn't overly terrifying or anything, no scary faces, just some screenshot of a guy mid-shouting with a loud noise jumping out at you after the subtitles tell you to focus on the TV in CJ's house. Still startled the heck out of me though lol The subsequent ones that I encountered were certainly more evil than my first one, though, and they pretty much left a lasting impact in my life. I've become so adept in spotting telltale signs of screamers that even today in videos that aren't screamers at all, whenever I see/hear anything unusual that could potentially set up for a jumpscare (unusually long silences, suspicious zooming in, the mere act of bringing up the topic of screamers) instinctively makes me pause the video. These things can really change your perception on things lol In any case, I think a reup of that video exists on YT rn if you'd like to view it

[@LSDOvideos]

my first screamer I found on a weird website that had a collection of flash games on it. I remember there was spank the monkey and a sort of point and click adventure game. One of the "games" involved a spining, red and yellow spiral. The text on screen said "watch closely for a minute, and your vision will start spinning!" or something to that effect. And, of course, after about 20 seconds a screaming weasel's head popped up along with a screaming noise. It didn't really scare or startle me at all, and I was confused why it showed up. I watched the video several times because I was a naive kid and actually believed that watching the spiral would make my vision spin, so I kept trying to get that to happen. And, of course, the one that actually scared me was scary maze game. I found the images about "if you see it, you'll shit brix" a lot more fun and scary, because the "jumpscare" was solely dependent on you scouring the image for something scary.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Was it EBaums World, by any chance?

[@LSDOvideos]

@@nicholasfarrell5981 Nope, I would have known. It was basically a geocities style website with a single page that had a bunch of flashes on it. Then again those flash games were definitely all ripped so it wouldn't surprise me if they were on ebaumsworld too

[@oranmccann2476]

I greatly appreciate the fact you muted the screamers and slowed them down. These videos gave me bad trust issues and made younger me paranoid of any strange video i would watch online. The screamer that traumatised me was Ghost in Rocking Chair

[@ticearpey3235]

One that my mother and I fell for was one that capitalized on the craze of videos of dogs “talking” like the one where the husky says “I love you”. The guy was holding his dog trying to get it to say “I love you” when they hit us with a screamer.

[@galaxeeb.8912]

I remember seeing something similar as a kid, except it was someone performing "hypnosis" on their dog, and the counted down as rhe dog was falling more and more asleep. Once it reached "one" it was a screamer with a lot of scary images

[@Yamamba]

Thanks so much for not scaring us! I constantly scrolled down when I could recognise a screamer *just in case* you decided to prank us, but you didn't. Great video. I honestly don't remember what my first screamer was but I think it was the K-Fee Car Commercial.

[@GMODTF24EVER]

That ghost car one, I still cannot bring myself to watch it, even with the audio muted, without myself muting the audio on the video and turning the volume down on my headset, that video alone has traumatized me so badly it's like instinct to mute everything I can if I see even the first frame of the video.

[@newbiegamelover4767]

I think my first one has also been lost to time. It was a slideshow that my dad had downloaded on his computer, which showed a series of photos that supposedly had ghosts contained in them. At first, it was completely innocent, just showing some old photos and pointing out the "ghost" hidden in them (though, I'm pretty sure most of them were just due to the shutters that cameras had back in the day). Then, just before the last one, the text on screen asked "What's between the trees?" It then switch to an image of a completely normal forest filled with a bunch of trees, and the only thing that was between any of them were sun rays. But after about three of seconds, it was replaced with an image of a black eyed dude screaming in your face, even though the rest of the sequence was completely silent and then ended with some sort of sendoff message (I don't remember what it was) with an evil laugh that accompanied it. I only saw that thing once, but it stuck with me a long time, even making me fear completely normal slideshows that my church would show of their missionaries' trips!

[@zh-r4442]

w00t w00t!! Yuri is back! Self report: it took me about a quarter way through the video to chill out. You're a real homie for not making this experience miserable. May your pillow always be cool on both sides! I was lucky enough to not get tricked into looking at a screamer but slightly willfully looked at one. My first experience was a "lets play" of a troll game that was making the rounds. I caught wind of something spooky from the comments, KEPT WATCHING for some reason, and boom! Loud, creepy noise and scary picture. Even though I was prepared it still left an impression lol BTW I heard about that webcomic during college before flash died. It's super cool seeing what that looked like in motion! Thanks for the lesson in Internet History! Sorry you got that post-Screamer Era trauma 😅

[@thouartseraph]

Literally as soon as he gave me the warning, I checked the comments lol.

[@sleepyashu]

@@thouartseraph I'm at that point now- I have terrible trust issues.

[@necrophoniac]

Ghost Car was honestly one that messed me up the most as a child. Just the appearance of green fields and the sound of heartbeats can sometimes bring me to tears and I'm a grown man now. Heartbeats and green grass should only symbolize life to the average person, but for me, I'm just filled with dread. I'm scared of life itself because of this period of the internet.

[@Blockinstaller12]

My first screamer was a video called "The scariest image in the world" (translated from german). The creator talks to the viewer via default windows movie maker text that they found the scariest image in the world and debates with themself, if they should show it to you. Eventually, an image of the teletubbies is shown and the creator explains, he decided not to show it, but that all lies have a kernel of truth in them. Then the actual screamer happens with a detailed fan-art of Spongebob with his jaw unnaturally wide open. I can't find the exact video anymore, only versions without the spongebob image. I guess my first screamer's also been taken down.

[@kid6423]

Can u send the link or title for the video (atleast the version without spongebob)?

[@cryptidx6088]

i know that spongebob image like the back of my hand! ty early youtube

[@NightbaneGames]

I saw something very similar, the screamer was that same SpongeBob image, but the text was different. It explained that a drunk or mentally ill man drew a picture of SpongeBob that was deemed too scary for anyone to see. It might've had a trick picture beforehand, but I'm not sure, all I know is that it eventually showed the pic with an accompanied scream.

[@fansee1368]

Same thing happened to me but with a Smash Bros render of Lucas with his head missing It was a normal fucking video about Brawl edits, idk how that happened 💀💀

[@cyberstark6483]

Ah the PTSD came flooding back, another great video Yuri!

[@visualconfusionlh]

I've been thinking about this a lot. Okay, so by your definition, a screamer is found outside of a horror context. A video or movie where you wouldn't expect a jumpscare. So, like a music video or something. And a jumpscare is found within horror media. Self explanatory. So, by that definition. The Parrot scene from Citizen Kane is the first /screamer/ And the jumpscare from Cat People is the first /jumpscare./

[@Akispark]

The video that scarred me the worst wasn't a screamer but a horror themed video where a guy was working late in an office building with uncanny looking environments. He just woke up from a nap, because a flock of crows outside the building were screaming really loudly. He looks inside of his monitor, which shows a narrow hole he can grab into. For some reason he starts climbing inside and the hole just keeps getting darker. He crawls further inside and all of a sudden the crows start picking against his office window. He gets scared and crawls faster, while the crows try to break the window. The tension rises and when the birds breaks his windows he panics and keeps crawling. The crows fly in through his monitor and pick him to death which was shown in a really gruesome way. When the crows scream he wakes up from his nap finishing the loop. Yeah...this video scrwed me up bad when I was a kid. Worst part about it is I can't find it anywhere. I hope somebody has a clue!

[@glitchyguru6468]

You should post your description to onthetipofmytounge subreddit. This video seems really interesting!

[@ruthkatz1998]

I've only stumbled across one screamer in my life and it completely shook me and permanently made the jack the killer image make me uncomfortable

[@ruthkatz1998]

Idk if this is just me but when a video says not to worry about screamers that's when I do

[@charlottebuckley2248]

Describe

[@dorkfishieSailor]

I remember the Garfield one! When I was little, it scared me so much that I stopped playing. There’s also a game where you prepare a turkey. Near the end, you get to stuff the turkey, when suddenly, it would come back to life and jumpscare me! I cried afterwards. Edit: Oh! I nearly forgot to mention Dreader! I was older when I first played it (19), but I think it still counts. It’s loosely based upon the Scary Maze Game. However, unlike the Maze, Dreader just shows you that something is wrong, giving you, well, dread. Let’s just say that spooky scary skeletons get involved.

[@AbsoluteGuardian]

Man this video is like therapy. I got hit with two really bad screamers almost back to back when I was around 8-9 and honestly I still get moments of unease sometimes where my cursor automatically rests on the X until I can verify that it's safe. The first one was the 'Ghost in the London Dungeon' video (still up). It just does way too good a job of luring you in with the premise and getting you to get as close to the screen as possible. The actual screamer itself is also fairly unique I think since I've never seen it used anywhere else. Gotta thank my dad for this one and while he had a good laugh about it I've never experienced such a visceral reaction to something scary, not before or since. The second one which I think is still around somewhere although it probably died with Flash is the 'Color Blind Test' game thing which shows you numbers made up of colorful mosaics and you have to type in what number you see. It's all fun and games until it gives you something that really doesn't look like a number and so you stare at it and stare at it and you know what happens next. I think this screamer was just some bad jpeg of a face and some blood but that combined with the loud audio was enough for a second dose of trauma. Browsing the internet just hasn't been the same since, in more ways than one.

[@patricknotstarf7678]

I don't remember my first screamer, but the one that scared me the most was this image at 3:50. I remember seeing this image in a Dora the Explorer YTP and it scared all life out of me. i remember the comments where talking about how they got scared by the screamer at the end as well. it makes me mad now because the image is an edited picture of a stock image, at least i'm pretty sure.

[@BSPNode]

I was a big The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time fan as a kid, and I can’t remember the video exactly, but there was one talking about a secret Shark Cage Easter Egg in the Lake Hylia Laboratory. It showed Link looking in first person at the shark, and then that typical jumpscare face showed up. It was pretty scary, and it made me not watch Zelda videos on KZbin for a while.

[@kingpluto555]

I have 2 video game screamer memories myself. Both were creepypastas and took place in the early-mid 2010s. The first video showed Mario exploring a Ghost House yard. Within the first minute, Regan McNeil shows up with no warning, but had a different female scream. The second video was a romhack showcase. At some point in the video, the player closes the game and investigates the suspicious .exe file that came with the romhack. Immediately after opening the application, he gets hit with the Jeff the Killer screamer from Findminecraft. It had no flashing lights, but was still loud as hell. 💀

[@Agaettis]

I got in the habit of right clicking and saving images to see if they were gifs or not The fact that you kept your word and slowed down sudden scares....you got a new subscriber and I look forward to your future stuff

[@scrums4748]

You brought this memory back from the depths of my mind. I remember one day I got home from school and found a cool web browser game, it wasn’t the maze, it was a genuinely fun arcade shooter. I played the game for around an hour straight, upgrading my ship and doing mission, before getting hit by the classic Reagan screamer edited to be scarier. The fact that they had the jumpscare so far into the game, I was caught with my pants molecularly obliterated. that traumatized me enough to be terrified browsing any web page for years. Also one of the scariest “screamers” was a horror webcomic where a character is unexpectedly animated, jumpscaring you by turning around and revealing themselves to have a bloody and shredded face, I believe pewdipie reacted to it back then. edit: YOOOO you actually covered the comic!

[@rat3300]

My first Screamer was an old flash game of naught's and crosses against a computer opponent. If you were about to win the screamer would pop up. My dad got 7 year old me with that one lmao

[@primalgiratina]

Screamers are the reason why I always dive right into the comments before watching any video. Ran into WAY TOO MANY of them back in the day.

[@TheBaldster]

I saw the maze happen at a friend's house to someone that his step brother had over. Ever since I saw that I always assumed that anything anyone linked me was out to get me so this never really happened to me. Lol

[@TruFalco]

I used to jump to screamers and jumpscares all the time, now I don't even flinch. The internet has broken my fear receptors, I swear.

[@RottenLegacy]

I used to binge those "subliminal messages" videos when I was a kid. It probably wasn't my first, but I have a vivid memory of an image of a crowd of people, one part circled in red, with "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt playing in the background - then a screamer appeared: a black-and-white face that probably had some blood on it. I remember insisting that I'd sit it out because I was a big kid, but turning the volume down out of fear after a few seconds lmao ALSO my brother-in-law showed me the Bongcheon-Dong Ghost a while ago and istg it shook me up for a solid two weeks. I was probably 17 at the time. I can still remember the cracking sound her neck made on the first 'jumpscare' ;;

[@nin_tendo6458]

The best part of this video is you reassuring me that youre not gonna jumpscare me tbh. I wiuld have watched the entire thing in fear.

[@Stitchlover96]

Thank you so much for not playing any of the screamers. You kept true to your word and I truly appreciate that. “What’s wrong with this picture” was my first screamer, then the scary car zombie. Hell, even a Scooby-Doo game formerly hosted on the same site as that Garfield game called “Escape From the Coolsonian” had a screamer in it, when you looked inside the sarcophagus. The text asked players to come closer and then a grotesque mummy face filled the screen with a loud scream. Scared me and my brother. Don’t really know if this is a screamer, but when I was a child, Large Marge from Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure scared the ever living hell out of me because it was so unexpected, and frightening for claymation. She doesn’t exactly scream, but laughs demonically. Was something that traumatized me for years. I’m obviously over it now, but back then, it was nightmare fuel. I’m a huge fan of horror now, and jumpscares don’t affect me as much, then again, it’s like you said, you expect scary things to happen in horror settings, so it’s definitely different.

[@kawaiiconcept7479]

omg same! Goose Boose did a video on it and for a long time I thought I was overreacting to how scary it is but omg it's really scary (the scooby do one)

[@AzA609]

I almost forgot Adobe Flash games once existed. I can't believe I almost forgot. They played a huge importance in my life. A hypersonic train of nostalgia just hit me. 😅

[@jpepwepy6110]

As someone who was obsessed with scary stuff for as long as I could remember, I usually watched a lot of the old iconic screamer videos, usually knowing that they were screamers and when it was gonna happen. However, the first time I ever got a screamer and didn’t expect it was a video of someone playing through the Turret Cemetery area in Portal 2. They got to the point where the door to the next room was obscured by the little conveyor rail thing carrying doors or something, it’s been too long I can’t remember ALL the details. But then it cut to the white text and blue background asking me if I “saw it”. Honestly with how much I knew about screamers I should have known that I was going to be bombarded by a screaming corpse with bright flashing lights. Honestly I kinda miss screamers. I wish more jumpscares in horror media channeled into that purely aggressive flashbang nature that old internet screamers did.

[@derocross3545]

Holy balls. you had me in your hands the whole video. i was scrolling down like a paranoid trying to avoid screamers. guess i could say my trust issues never disappeared now, my first screamer was the one with the chair. i remember my mom showed it to me and that made me never watch another video she showed me again, until years later, im glad that screamers died with time and they're only a memory now

[@ankaplanka]

I can't really remember my first screamer ever, but the first one that impacted me way more than I would like to admit was the MJ ghost one. I was watching that video with my dad, can't remember if he was aware of the screamer beforehand or not, I think he wasn't.. and then when it popped up, I got so scared! Geez..

[@tornado1025]

I don't remember my first one, but one that always stood out was a edited video of "The Duck Song" by forrestfire101. I think it was called "The Duck Song: Alternate Ending" or something like that. Most of the screamers I had tragically placed on me were ones with the exorcist girl in them. Personally, I think this was the one that stapled to me, because it was the least expected out of any screamer I had placed on me on the early days of the internet, plus it was the one that made me have a despise for the trend. I swear, I can't even look at an image of the exorcist girl on google without just having a feeling of uneasiness, like I'm in danger the longer I look at it. It's such an oddity to me, because I seen way worse on the internet now, just not sure why I can't ever feel comfortable when I see her.

[@zhangtthew]

I remember I had friends who were obsessed with horror stuff, they were the ones who contributed to my trust issues by forcing me to watch screamers

[@SalimOfShadow]

God...I remember the "Volume down,click to the end,check for screamers,go back and enjoy" type of KZbin...

[@ShenDoodles]

My first screamer was Liquid Generation's eye test game. You did a bunch of colorblindness tests, typing in the number you see, but after a set amount of time you'd be hit with a woman covered in blood and broken glass screaming.

[@locky123987]

The COD Der Riese Easter egg screamer was the one that got me when I was younger. Used to skim every video before watching after that

[@bigfgreatsword]

I am horrified of the "Never gonna give you up" screamer

[@MahouMell__]

haha Rickroll go brrrr

[@NiGHTSfreak235]

Believe it or not, MY first screamer is ALSO lost to time. This one was called "Sonic CD Subliminal Message" (not to be confused with the "Fun is Infinite" pic that's hidden in the game). That video would have a beginning part that said "Not a screamer. Turn up your speakers" which should've already been a red flag, and the video would show the version of the title screen that was used in the original PC version, and the version in Sonic Gems Collection. It would show that screen for a little bit with some music playing, and then suddenly it would cut to that same pic from the "what's wrong with this picture" screamer, and you'd hear a loud scream followed by a violin screech. I remember it scared the shit out of my 10 or 11 year old self, I screamed, stood up and blocked my eyes while the scream and violin screech would play. Then I slowly uncovered my eyes to see a message at the end that said, "I got you good". And oh man that video traumatized me, for a while I would be so scared to click on ANY video coz I didn't know whether or not it was gonna have a screamer. And also in ANY video of Sonic CD that used the PC/Gems Collection version, that title screen that was in those versions would always give me PTSD coz that one was used in that screamer video. But yeah, that was my first screamer, and it's LONG been deleted and no one has ever reuploaded it. lol