I thought it was a nice cozy outro with simple floral decorations and a tropical riff playing, reminded me of a little vacation after the show ended. Never once thought it was ever remotely unnerving let alone scary, just a nice wind down after an episode of laughing my ass off.
I really don’t understand zoomer internet horror. This and liminal spaces are the dumbest fricking things I’ve ever seen.
Whats frightening about this?
Whats frightening about an empty room with a shitty VHS filter? Oh you shooped a slenderman into the background, how spoopy, I can feel the existential terror welling up.
That VHS type humor is like a joke with no punchline. It has all the pieces to be scary, but no actual scare happens. For me, It would be neat to explore the room while knowing you're being watched. So now I'm interacting with the scary room instead of just looking at it and going "OOO SPOOKY!".
My good-faith explanation will be like pearls before swine to you, and I'm not a fan of most analog horror, but still... The appeal of VHS horror is a voyeristic thrill from seeing something you're not supposed to be seeing, made for someone in the past and lost to time, documenting something horrifying or hinting at its existence. That way the subconscious comfort of being pulled back to the present or your immediate reality and realizing it's all in the past is more visceral. It's like reading a found diary of a dead person from a failed expedition, but without as many boring details.
>The appeal of VHS horror is a voyeristic thrill from seeing something you're not supposed to be seeing, made for someone in the past and lost to time, documenting something horrifying or hinting at its existence
Your summary is apt but still all the more puzzling to me.
I grew up with actual VHS tapes so they don’t have the same “mystical” quality most zoomers seem to attach to outdated media formats. Its like the whole internet lost its shit because of a copypasta about a haunted cassette player. It just sounds stupid as hell when you’ve actually experienced and understand how this tech works.
I’m a big fan of true crime so I suppose knowing theres actual unsolved horrors out there makes shit like liminal spaces or fake serial killer videos seem incredibly silly to get worked up about. Nothing some moron can throw a VHS filter over can come close to the dread of listening to the toybox killer’s recordings.
I'm a zoomer and I grew up with VHS as well, and I still understand the creepiness and the appeal of looking at the recording of something disturbing from the past. It's not necessarily about the mystique or whatever. I was never enamored by the feeling of VHS tapes as a kid, I do remember watching them, but I don't remember consciously picking up on the artifacts as something that would stick with me.
I watch true crime occasionally too, and most of the time it's either too mundane or depressing to be "proper horror". It doesn't really give you the same thrill a spooky mysterious video on the internet some years ago could.
10 months ago
Anonymous
>It doesn't really give you the same thrill a spooky mysterious video on the internet some years ago could.
I suppose I’ve just never been a fan of internet horror. My brain already knows its fake, so its not like I can be mystified by the prospect of “omg this could be real”, and most internet horror is terribly written or presented so its not like theres an artistry to behold like with lovecraft’s stories.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I'd say there's an artistry to behold with things like Possibly In Michigan (though it's not really internet horror)
10 months ago
Anonymous
I do think that there are creepy things that can be done with VHS, but the looks and artifacts alone are not it. Any scary (not even scary, just weird) memories I have of them comes from shows that were not properly recorded so in the middle of it you'd see a sudden white fuzz and then nothing.
It's shocking because sometimes a little fuzz appears yet nothing happens, so when it seems you get used to it but this time something happens it hits you hard. That's a liminal space in the true sense of the word and not the way zoomers bastardized it to "muh scary empty room".
I feel something similar with stuff like
Hijacking this shit to tell you what's really scary to a 5 year old: Taking the remote and while you are comfortably watching your favourite TV show, and when you think you are going to change the volume or channel, get greeted by this as if the noise was violently shaking and screeching.
because whenever I changed the channel there would be a second of complete blackness and quiet. It worked the same way when changing from static-filled channels, so whenever I had to return to live TV, that split second that I normal ignored suddenly turned into a spot to hope that the next channel to appear would be back to normal
I feel like the idea that VHS makes things creepy originated from the The Blair Witch Project.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I think the trend took off with marble hornets, and probably stuck around because static and VHS artefacts are very convenient for smoothing over production errors and quality issues.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Blair Witch certainly had a hand and The Ring hitting a few years later certainly helped as well but haunted VHS tapes and demonic records for that matter go back to practically their inceptions.
My good-faith explanation will be like pearls before swine to you, and I'm not a fan of most analog horror, but still... The appeal of VHS horror is a voyeristic thrill from seeing something you're not supposed to be seeing, made for someone in the past and lost to time, documenting something horrifying or hinting at its existence. That way the subconscious comfort of being pulled back to the present or your immediate reality and realizing it's all in the past is more visceral. It's like reading a found diary of a dead person from a failed expedition, but without as many boring details.
>The appeal of VHS horror is a voyeristic thrill from seeing something you're not supposed to be seeing, made for someone in the past and lost to time, documenting something horrifying or hinting at its existence
Your summary is apt but still all the more puzzling to me.
I grew up with actual VHS tapes so they don’t have the same “mystical” quality most zoomers seem to attach to outdated media formats. Its like the whole internet lost its shit because of a copypasta about a haunted cassette player. It just sounds stupid as hell when you’ve actually experienced and understand how this tech works.
I’m a big fan of true crime so I suppose knowing theres actual unsolved horrors out there makes shit like liminal spaces or fake serial killer videos seem incredibly silly to get worked up about. Nothing some moron can throw a VHS filter over can come close to the dread of listening to the toybox killer’s recordings.
and etc.
A fair point can also be made that things the previous generation found entertaining can be seen as generally creepy in the next generation's eyes.
Things like old puppet designs and theater masks are 100% associated with being creepy now. Say "animatronic" and it went from something only certain kids were afraid of back in the 90s to the favorite horror genre of a generation.
Heck. A lot of things originally associated with childhood end up being recontextualized as creepy and/or edgy later on. This is the result of the "the more innocent it is the more fun it is to corrupt" attitude that places like this vietnamese knitting circle reveal have always existed throughout humanity.
These days, if something is particularly cute, for example, artstyle, character design, etc, the kids actively expect it to attack them at some point, or at least that it will reveal itself to be capable of doing that.
>Things like old puppet designs and theater masks are 100% associated with being creepy now. Say "animatronic" and it went from something only certain kids were afraid of back in the 90s to the favorite horror genre of a generation.
tbh this can also go the other way around. as technology progresses, shit that was in the uncanny valley 20 years ago looks fricking moronic nowadays.
take something like, your average PS1 horror or courage the cowardly dog CGI creature. your average zoomer isn't gonna find these as horrifying as a millennial 12 year old in 1999.
likewise you take said 12 year old from 1999 and you show him pictures of a servant grunt from amnesia or a fungal monster from TLOU, there is no reason for him to think it's not a real-life picture.
SM64 did a lot of damage to liminal horror discourse. I doubt that so many people are creeped out by the Spongebob credits theme and are more so trying to replicate their own "you just had to be there" craze for the stuff they grew up with as a means to bond with people and validate their childhoods. I don't begrudge the few people who sincerely felt unnerved by it because I can respect sharing an unconventional opinion (i.e. a hot take) and having to risk facing mockery for it but the moment that this opinion suddenly starts to spread like a wildfire where everyone collectively decided that this theme haunted their dreams is the moment when it starts to feel inauthentic.
I suggest we take all zoomers and push them off a cliff
Like, these are not the type of things that children contemplate on unless this person grew up in an abusive household and their escapism reached the time limit, thus misplacing their fear of the inevitable cold reality and projecting it onto the credits theme.
Hijacking this shit to tell you what's really scary to a 5 year old: Taking the remote and while you are comfortably watching your favourite TV show, and when you think you are going to change the volume or channel, get greeted by this as if the noise was violently shaking and screeching.
The fact it has a few million different name always got to me. At my house it was called "Bug Race" next door they called it "Snow" another called it "Waterfall broadcast" and one kid would just try to do an impression of the >**SKHRRRRR
noise it made. The lack of a unifying name made it more bizarre somehow.
They can't help but make shit up to add intrigue, because just saying "I watched a raindrop race down my windshield" is too normal and universal.
They had to call it "run-run-raindrop" and "Tear Trickle Trials" or some other inane pseudo intellectual navel gazing bullshit.
How else would we know they Experienced Life™?
Are all zoomers this fricking stupid or is it a bit?
It's not a regional thing. It's static. Or snow. That's it. Do they call soda 'fizz'? Does anyone call it "sugar slop" or fricking "tingly drink" come on.
10 months ago
Anonymous
They call it fizzy drink in the UK
10 months ago
Anonymous
You’re legitimately going on an angry tirade because some anon brought up different names for television static and instead of accepting the blatant fact that people will come up with different names for the same thing, you’d much rather stew in angry incredulity because apparently only zoomers do that?
What the frick is your problem?
10 months ago
Anonymous
Anger and disgust aren't the same thing you sensitive mongoloid.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Tone is hard to parse over text and when you’re posting like a spastic, youre gonna look like an angry moron, moron.
10 months ago
Anonymous
.t spastic mongoloid
10 months ago
Anonymous
Shouldn’t you be throwing a fit over slurpee vs. icee?
10 months ago
Anonymous
>Do they call soda 'fizz'?
We do in Bongland, uncultured Yank.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I'll take my L on that one, eurogays.
10 months ago
Anonymous
This kinds of break-ups with names are common too, especially because if children don't know how something is called, they may come up with something, and the parents may play along with it (especially if it refers to things not even they understand, like technology). I for example used to call certain marbles "toothpaste" when playing home alone, until I learned how the kids in my town called them.
10 months ago
Anonymous
.......you can't just say that and not explain why you called marbles that.
10 months ago
Anonymous
>I for example used to call certain marbles "toothpaste" when playing home alone
huh?
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt an assume you didn't have this variety in your country or that my post was unclear, because this thread has enough generational shit-flinging already.
I mean these marbles, which look like a bit of tri-color toothpaste stuck inside a crystal ball. I would use them as cannon balls and knock army men down. Turns out this design actually had a name, and I learned it from meeting with other kids.
10 months ago
Anonymous
No, we had those, I just didn't put it together. Power to you, Colgate.
God imagine if zoomers watched Batman Beyond or something, they shit their pants over the intro.
We did
10 months ago
Anonymous
We called them cats eyes
10 months ago
Anonymous
Oh yeah, I thought this was sealed toothpaste too, that and later cat eyes.
10 months ago
Anonymous
>I for example used to call certain marbles "toothpaste" when playing home alone
huh?
I once heard of this kid who had a horrible experience with the static channel. Claimed he saw a demon afterwards. Didn't help that his mom constantly had Christian broadcasts on the TV all day, either.
Zoomers are such pathetic scum that they snivel about shit en masse and then another generation makes fun of them for being fricking losers, and their gay response is always this shit.
There's a handful of videos with thousands of comments from zoomers all shitting and pissing themselves about it. Just because you aren't a complete mewling wretch doesn't mean 99% of your peers aren't either, dumb homosexual.
People who are "afraid" of stupid shit are performatively afraid.
No one is actually afraid of this, it's some pathetic pavlovian self-conditioning mixed with group gaslighting causing homosexual mass hysteria on a trivial scale.
This shit is why I fricking hate zoomers. Do you need to be told the sky is blue? It's blue. No one is actually afraid of this, they're just a fricking idiot who can't articulate any feeling beyond "happy" "sad" "angry" and "fearful" because they're adult children.
You could say the same about millenials... What makes you think the zoomers on Cinemaphile of all places are in the same boat as normies that post youtube comments?
>No u
Frick off moron.
Yeah, I'm sure the MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS of tiktok videos showing how moronic zoomers are in general is all a fluke. I'm sure the millions of likes/shares/views from the same generation are all vapor too.
Shut up, man.
>All the evidence of generational moronation is a vast conspiracy actually
are you people even real
10 months ago
Anonymous
You're making the mistake of thinking we all agree on the evidence. We don't. You do. Remember that.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, you can believe your shit smells like roses, it doesn't make its so, you dumbass homie.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Your response is literally "You have a different opinion? You can't do that, you're wrong". My only response to that is laughter. Haha.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Are you illiterate or just stupid as a hobby.
10 months ago
Anonymous
You're misrepresenting what I said. That the media lies or exaggerates stories to get attention doesn't imply the existence of a conspiracy.
10 months ago
Anonymous
how is what you can actively see people consuming a manipulation?
it's what they watch. it's literally what they're doing. it's not like its astroturfed [obviously the videos with tens of millions might be...but random mfs on tiktok push a million without bots all the time]
10 months ago
Anonymous
How many times do you have to be shown the "thus of oulde" picture before you get it through your skull that "generational decline" is not a thing
10 months ago
Anonymous
A cope for morons who don't know shit sucked less at some point.
Genuinely pathetic apologia for the world turning to shit. >Pointing out the obvious reality that shit is worse means you're doomsaying the end of society
did you guys all flunk out of middle school
10 months ago
Anonymous
Shit didn't suck less; you just weren't aware of how shit sucked.
10 months ago
Anonymous
The internet, specifically, did suck less. Things can get worse, or better, not everything is old men yelling at skateboards.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Zoomers are incapable of not imagining the world was always a shithole, and then act like petulant homosexuals when you tell them they're playing in septic water where there was once a lake.
10 months ago
Anonymous
No, no, no; I agree that the world was not always a shithole. But, it was a shithole for longer than you believe to be. The 80s and 90s are not the "good old days"; they are part of the shithole days.
10 months ago
Anonymous
But I thought zoomers loved saying how much they're glad that they're in -insert current year here-
10 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, when I was younger a single bag of chips didn't cost 6.70.
It cost 1.50.
That was 15 years ago.
Everything is shittier for less.
Frick’s sake everybody falls to the constant trap of declaring the now shit whilst reminiscing their cherrypicked reality of yesteryear as being objectively better.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I want to reiterate that regardless of the overall state of the world, the internet has gone downhill. I think it's worth zoomers' while to recognise that, since it's probably going to get worse for everyone before it gets better.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, when I was younger a single bag of chips didn't cost 6.70.
It cost 1.50.
That was 15 years ago.
Everything is shittier for less.
10 months ago
Anonymous
>good times are when I get my disgusting slop treats for cheaper
So you just want your bread and circuses, I see
The last three generations had cameras to film themselves, and 90% of it was shit that deserved to be filmed. Or at least being something 'new. The 80,000,000th tiktok users is not doing that.
Even if you want to go "Everyone is always moronic" there was a cap that has clearly come off.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Really it should be the nature of the internet and technology that you're mad about, not zoomers. They're just the result.
10 months ago
Anonymous
The internet existed 40 years ago, homie.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Are you being moronic on purpose? Obviously the internet has become much more insidious in how it effects people than it ever has in the past, homie.
10 months ago
Anonymous
coping again.
this shit wouldn't be this way if any of this garbage existed then. but ok.
>and the young doubling down on whatever stupid shit they're doing over and over again is hilarious.
Put on your glasses grandpa
shut up homosexual
10 months ago
Anonymous
Okay, let me just refresh your decrepit dried up neurons. Down the street. Don't forget. Down the street...
10 months ago
Anonymous
>le ur old
how did you dodge the hanger so many times and come out with so little to say?
10 months ago
Anonymous
I'm too fast
10 months ago
Anonymous
Maybe you're not so bad after all, zoomy.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I guess "social media" is what I should have said instead of cameras. As kids we'd always dare each other to do dangerous or stupid stuff while we were together. Throwing rocks through windows and running away, pissing on the neighbour's dog, running in front of cars... I feel like every generation has stupid young people. But it isn't like we'd do that if no one was watching, because no one would be laughing.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I suppose you could make the case 'the lid' was social media.
10 months ago
Anonymous
We're just seeing a lot more of it than we ever should have.
Wait, this is what got the kiddos all scared? I like this song.
Maybe kids weren't used to the instrumentation? If you've never heard clean electric guitar/ukulele it could sound strange.
I'm trying to think of weird things that scared me as a kid.
I remember Cool World upsetting me, especially these creeps. But it was an adult movie, so it's not shocking that a kid 5-6 years old wouldn't like it.
the people who shit on zoomers the most are the older 90's born zoomers who don't like being associated with zoomers
not too long ago you had people born in the 80's calling people younger than them "millennials", even though they were technically millennials themselves
I dunno man, who else would dedicate so much time shitting on an age group where the vast majority are still in high school/college?
zoomers are still too young to hold any real positions of power and it'll stay that way for at least another 20 years or so, shitting on them serves no purpose
Yes I'm sure it isn't your shit generation ruining the internet. Everyone shits on zoomers because it's their political power that's the problem.
Not the whole, making the internet landscape intolerable and having horrible opinions about literally everything.
Must be something else.
10 months ago
Anonymous
It's not a coincidence that the internet went to hell during early 10s once zoomers turned old enough to post.
10 months ago
Anonymous
It's not a coincidence that the internet went to hell during early 10s once zoomers turned old enough to post.
They don't hold decision-making positions at Alphabet, Facebook, Twitter et al. They grew up using the internet, they didn't spontaneously develop a bunch of negative traits in isolation from it.
10 months ago
Anonymous
They didn't get to have a voice to ruin the internet until like six years ago to begin with.
I know it might be hard to believe if you used the internet after 2014, but shit used to suck less ass on the internet in general before the Eternal Summer.
10 months ago
Anonymous
You're missing the point. Most of the more obnoxious zoomer behaviours can be traced to the internet as a major influencing factor.
>Man pisses and shits on the street >Every man gets made fun of for it >"You know, not every man pisses and shits on the street..." >"Shut it male! Men are the worst!"
>Everyone shits in the street 111onee!!!
Is not a profound statement.
No one is saying "Only zoomers are cringe".
Zoomers are the MOST cringe. That's the distinction. Maybe they can pass on the torch to Gen-A. After all, boomers passed on "most annoying homosexuals in the world" to zoomers, so why not keep the trend going.
10 months ago
Anonymous
That doesn't refute my point at all. Ascribing the same qualities to every individual of some category in your head is just reductive, that's all. You come off as a moron by automatically holding people with less regard just because they're born in a notoriously cringe generation. Not all zoomers and whatnot.
>it’s a Cinemaphilegs cherrypick dumb yt comments so they can pretend they’re superior like they don’t spend all day flying into screaming fits over cartoons
I love it, the repeating cycle of the old shitting on the young and the young doubling down on whatever stupid shit they're doing over and over again is hilarious.
>calls air conditioner sexist >gets scared of stupid logos(snee-oosh, BND) >thinks pewdiepie will start the fifth reich >thinks the train brickwall episode of thomas is the spoopiest thing ever >"b-but zoomers"
There were some feminists some years back trying to raise a stink about air conditioners being sexist because women have a lower body temperature than men, so they would freeze when they got turned on.
Yes they do. Men have a higher body mass, which increases their core body temperature.
It's not a massive difference but it can be enough that something like Air con can be uncomfortable.
I never felt any type of emotion when watching the spongebob outro. Although whenever I watched the ren and stimpy outro, I always felt like I was in some weird, smoke filled bar with a bunch of naked hot chicks and dancing dogs
This song never terrified me, I liked it, but I'd only ever hear it on the VHS tapes. Usually my parents would put one in while I went to bed as sort of an entertaining night light, so I knew once the song played it was going to reach the end of the tape soon, which both meant the room would go dark, and there'd also be some loud static. I'd usually just try really hard to doze off while the credits played lol.
The internet sucks so much these days. The memes suck and this is technically under the umbrella of an analog horror meme.
also when people talk about "oooh zoomers cringe they're scared about stupid shit" they mostly talk about moronic middle-schoolers. it makes sense that moronic children are scared of dumb shit.
when i was a kid i was scared of shit like cupcakes and jeff the killer. now as an adult i see the pink horse removing the blue horse's mark and think "heh... looks like a hangnail"
this shit terrified all of us anon
Am Zoomer. Always loved it when they played the credits because I liked the song.
homosexual.
>Am Zoomer.
>Types like a phone-poster
>Uses a shitty low-res reaction image with an "ironic" impact font caption plastered over it
Yeah, checks out
I thought it was soothing
>a relaxing song with a static background
AAAIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE HELP ME MOM I'M GONNA HAVE A PANIC ATTACK
Did your father beat you while the sponge Bob credits was on the background?
I thought it was a nice cozy outro with simple floral decorations and a tropical riff playing, reminded me of a little vacation after the show ended. Never once thought it was ever remotely unnerving let alone scary, just a nice wind down after an episode of laughing my ass off.
I got scared too
Oh god...I...I think I'm gonna be sick...
JESUS CHRIST HOW HORRIFYING
TV Tropes deleted the page because people kept mocking it, and I can't find an archive.
Huh?
I'm sorry, guys. I wanted to pick an image that evoked a creepy vibe. I thought that picture was perfect due to how ominous it was.
Stephen Hillenburg's smile was so fricking creepy because he did it in every photo he was in.
he looks like the lovechild between Tom Kenny and Tucker Carlson
What's scary about a boomer couch pattern?
Ask zoomers
The comments trying to justify their autism is the most pathetic part lmao
What the frick lol. The music is chill this is the first time I'm hearing about it scaring people
Every day I feel like I'm going crazier and crazier
I really don’t understand zoomer internet horror. This and liminal spaces are the dumbest fricking things I’ve ever seen.
Whats frightening about this?
Whats frightening about an empty room with a shitty VHS filter? Oh you shooped a slenderman into the background, how spoopy, I can feel the existential terror welling up.
That VHS type humor is like a joke with no punchline. It has all the pieces to be scary, but no actual scare happens. For me, It would be neat to explore the room while knowing you're being watched. So now I'm interacting with the scary room instead of just looking at it and going "OOO SPOOKY!".
My good-faith explanation will be like pearls before swine to you, and I'm not a fan of most analog horror, but still... The appeal of VHS horror is a voyeristic thrill from seeing something you're not supposed to be seeing, made for someone in the past and lost to time, documenting something horrifying or hinting at its existence. That way the subconscious comfort of being pulled back to the present or your immediate reality and realizing it's all in the past is more visceral. It's like reading a found diary of a dead person from a failed expedition, but without as many boring details.
>The appeal of VHS horror is a voyeristic thrill from seeing something you're not supposed to be seeing, made for someone in the past and lost to time, documenting something horrifying or hinting at its existence
Your summary is apt but still all the more puzzling to me.
I grew up with actual VHS tapes so they don’t have the same “mystical” quality most zoomers seem to attach to outdated media formats. Its like the whole internet lost its shit because of a copypasta about a haunted cassette player. It just sounds stupid as hell when you’ve actually experienced and understand how this tech works.
I’m a big fan of true crime so I suppose knowing theres actual unsolved horrors out there makes shit like liminal spaces or fake serial killer videos seem incredibly silly to get worked up about. Nothing some moron can throw a VHS filter over can come close to the dread of listening to the toybox killer’s recordings.
I'm a zoomer and I grew up with VHS as well, and I still understand the creepiness and the appeal of looking at the recording of something disturbing from the past. It's not necessarily about the mystique or whatever. I was never enamored by the feeling of VHS tapes as a kid, I do remember watching them, but I don't remember consciously picking up on the artifacts as something that would stick with me.
I watch true crime occasionally too, and most of the time it's either too mundane or depressing to be "proper horror". It doesn't really give you the same thrill a spooky mysterious video on the internet some years ago could.
>It doesn't really give you the same thrill a spooky mysterious video on the internet some years ago could.
I suppose I’ve just never been a fan of internet horror. My brain already knows its fake, so its not like I can be mystified by the prospect of “omg this could be real”, and most internet horror is terribly written or presented so its not like theres an artistry to behold like with lovecraft’s stories.
I'd say there's an artistry to behold with things like Possibly In Michigan (though it's not really internet horror)
I do think that there are creepy things that can be done with VHS, but the looks and artifacts alone are not it. Any scary (not even scary, just weird) memories I have of them comes from shows that were not properly recorded so in the middle of it you'd see a sudden white fuzz and then nothing.
It's shocking because sometimes a little fuzz appears yet nothing happens, so when it seems you get used to it but this time something happens it hits you hard. That's a liminal space in the true sense of the word and not the way zoomers bastardized it to "muh scary empty room".
I feel something similar with stuff like
because whenever I changed the channel there would be a second of complete blackness and quiet. It worked the same way when changing from static-filled channels, so whenever I had to return to live TV, that split second that I normal ignored suddenly turned into a spot to hope that the next channel to appear would be back to normal
I feel like the idea that VHS makes things creepy originated from the The Blair Witch Project.
I think the trend took off with marble hornets, and probably stuck around because static and VHS artefacts are very convenient for smoothing over production errors and quality issues.
Blair Witch certainly had a hand and The Ring hitting a few years later certainly helped as well but haunted VHS tapes and demonic records for that matter go back to practically their inceptions.
Don't try to understand zoomers, it's not worth it.
You're probably like 24-30ish; no shit you don't find the same things to be scary as a literal 12-year-old.
and etc.
A fair point can also be made that things the previous generation found entertaining can be seen as generally creepy in the next generation's eyes.
Things like old puppet designs and theater masks are 100% associated with being creepy now. Say "animatronic" and it went from something only certain kids were afraid of back in the 90s to the favorite horror genre of a generation.
Heck. A lot of things originally associated with childhood end up being recontextualized as creepy and/or edgy later on. This is the result of the "the more innocent it is the more fun it is to corrupt" attitude that places like this vietnamese knitting circle reveal have always existed throughout humanity.
These days, if something is particularly cute, for example, artstyle, character design, etc, the kids actively expect it to attack them at some point, or at least that it will reveal itself to be capable of doing that.
>Things like old puppet designs and theater masks are 100% associated with being creepy now. Say "animatronic" and it went from something only certain kids were afraid of back in the 90s to the favorite horror genre of a generation.
tbh this can also go the other way around. as technology progresses, shit that was in the uncanny valley 20 years ago looks fricking moronic nowadays.
take something like, your average PS1 horror or courage the cowardly dog CGI creature. your average zoomer isn't gonna find these as horrifying as a millennial 12 year old in 1999.
likewise you take said 12 year old from 1999 and you show him pictures of a servant grunt from amnesia or a fungal monster from TLOU, there is no reason for him to think it's not a real-life picture.
SM64 did a lot of damage to liminal horror discourse. I doubt that so many people are creeped out by the Spongebob credits theme and are more so trying to replicate their own "you just had to be there" craze for the stuff they grew up with as a means to bond with people and validate their childhoods. I don't begrudge the few people who sincerely felt unnerved by it because I can respect sharing an unconventional opinion (i.e. a hot take) and having to risk facing mockery for it but the moment that this opinion suddenly starts to spread like a wildfire where everyone collectively decided that this theme haunted their dreams is the moment when it starts to feel inauthentic.
Like, these are not the type of things that children contemplate on unless this person grew up in an abusive household and their escapism reached the time limit, thus misplacing their fear of the inevitable cold reality and projecting it onto the credits theme.
>le epic cartoon/video game theory videos where the guy just spends the entire time quoting the Wikipedia page on Liminality
hate this shit
Not at all. But what I did dislike as a kid was Paul the 3 eyed monkey from the Jimmy Neutron aftercredits.
I loved that. I always waved back to him and said "Hi Paul, I'm Anon!"
Is this the new "dude clowns are so scary!" thing where most people are just pretending?
Hijacking this shit to tell you what's really scary to a 5 year old: Taking the remote and while you are comfortably watching your favourite TV show, and when you think you are going to change the volume or channel, get greeted by this as if the noise was violently shaking and screeching.
The fact it has a few million different name always got to me. At my house it was called "Bug Race" next door they called it "Snow" another called it "Waterfall broadcast" and one kid would just try to do an impression of the >**SKHRRRRR
noise it made. The lack of a unifying name made it more bizarre somehow.
>bug race
You mean that it looks like bugs having a race or that it was a weird sluggish race to get back to the regular TV?
It's called static. I've heard snow once or twice, but the rest sounds like madeup bullshit.
They can't help but make shit up to add intrigue, because just saying "I watched a raindrop race down my windshield" is too normal and universal.
They had to call it "run-run-raindrop" and "Tear Trickle Trials" or some other inane pseudo intellectual navel gazing bullshit.
How else would we know they Experienced Life™?
Regional and personal variations on these things have always existed. Do you think “soda” and “pop” are made-up as well?
Are all zoomers this fricking stupid or is it a bit?
It's not a regional thing. It's static. Or snow. That's it. Do they call soda 'fizz'? Does anyone call it "sugar slop" or fricking "tingly drink" come on.
They call it fizzy drink in the UK
You’re legitimately going on an angry tirade because some anon brought up different names for television static and instead of accepting the blatant fact that people will come up with different names for the same thing, you’d much rather stew in angry incredulity because apparently only zoomers do that?
What the frick is your problem?
Anger and disgust aren't the same thing you sensitive mongoloid.
Tone is hard to parse over text and when you’re posting like a spastic, youre gonna look like an angry moron, moron.
.t spastic mongoloid
Shouldn’t you be throwing a fit over slurpee vs. icee?
>Do they call soda 'fizz'?
We do in Bongland, uncultured Yank.
I'll take my L on that one, eurogays.
This kinds of break-ups with names are common too, especially because if children don't know how something is called, they may come up with something, and the parents may play along with it (especially if it refers to things not even they understand, like technology). I for example used to call certain marbles "toothpaste" when playing home alone, until I learned how the kids in my town called them.
.......you can't just say that and not explain why you called marbles that.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt an assume you didn't have this variety in your country or that my post was unclear, because this thread has enough generational shit-flinging already.
I mean these marbles, which look like a bit of tri-color toothpaste stuck inside a crystal ball. I would use them as cannon balls and knock army men down. Turns out this design actually had a name, and I learned it from meeting with other kids.
No, we had those, I just didn't put it together. Power to you, Colgate.
We did
We called them cats eyes
Oh yeah, I thought this was sealed toothpaste too, that and later cat eyes.
>I for example used to call certain marbles "toothpaste" when playing home alone
huh?
Static is what we always called it but I've heard snow as well.
I once heard of this kid who had a horrible experience with the static channel. Claimed he saw a demon afterwards. Didn't help that his mom constantly had Christian broadcasts on the TV all day, either.
don't millennials have something better to do than make shit up about zoomers?
moronic zoomer
Go cry to your mom
Zoomers are such pathetic scum that they snivel about shit en masse and then another generation makes fun of them for being fricking losers, and their gay response is always this shit.
There's a handful of videos with thousands of comments from zoomers all shitting and pissing themselves about it. Just because you aren't a complete mewling wretch doesn't mean 99% of your peers aren't either, dumb homosexual.
Why do you care so much what other people are afraid of?
People who are "afraid" of stupid shit are performatively afraid.
No one is actually afraid of this, it's some pathetic pavlovian self-conditioning mixed with group gaslighting causing homosexual mass hysteria on a trivial scale.
This shit is why I fricking hate zoomers. Do you need to be told the sky is blue? It's blue. No one is actually afraid of this, they're just a fricking idiot who can't articulate any feeling beyond "happy" "sad" "angry" and "fearful" because they're adult children.
Sounds like they are better at talking about their feelings than you, tough guy.
I'm not even trying to be butch or machismo. I'm telling you the truth. And the truth is this is self flagellation homosexualry.
You sure are quick to judge others and tell them what to think. You can just say it's overblown without sounding like zoomers raped your dog.
You could say the same about millenials... What makes you think the zoomers on Cinemaphile of all places are in the same boat as normies that post youtube comments?
The youtube comments section is one of the only places on the internet that might actually be worse than here.
I was cracking wise
Disabling youtube comments will make your experience there much more streamlined and much less aggravating.
Way ahead of you.
>Disabling youtube will make your experience there much more streamlined and much less aggravating.
YouTube in general has been unusable since 2020
On the flip side a few morons on the internet being complete mewling wretches doesn't indicate 99% of zoomers are that way, dumb homosexual.
Zoomers are proudly a hivermind you delusional fricker
>No u
Frick off moron.
Yeah, I'm sure the MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS of tiktok videos showing how moronic zoomers are in general is all a fluke. I'm sure the millions of likes/shares/views from the same generation are all vapor too.
Shut up, man.
Yes, it's a common tactic by the media to astroturf generation wars shit because it gets lots of clicks.
>All the evidence of generational moronation is a vast conspiracy actually
are you people even real
You're making the mistake of thinking we all agree on the evidence. We don't. You do. Remember that.
Yeah, you can believe your shit smells like roses, it doesn't make its so, you dumbass homie.
Your response is literally "You have a different opinion? You can't do that, you're wrong". My only response to that is laughter. Haha.
Are you illiterate or just stupid as a hobby.
You're misrepresenting what I said. That the media lies or exaggerates stories to get attention doesn't imply the existence of a conspiracy.
how is what you can actively see people consuming a manipulation?
it's what they watch. it's literally what they're doing. it's not like its astroturfed [obviously the videos with tens of millions might be...but random mfs on tiktok push a million without bots all the time]
How many times do you have to be shown the "thus of oulde" picture before you get it through your skull that "generational decline" is not a thing
A cope for morons who don't know shit sucked less at some point.
Genuinely pathetic apologia for the world turning to shit.
>Pointing out the obvious reality that shit is worse means you're doomsaying the end of society
did you guys all flunk out of middle school
Shit didn't suck less; you just weren't aware of how shit sucked.
The internet, specifically, did suck less. Things can get worse, or better, not everything is old men yelling at skateboards.
Zoomers are incapable of not imagining the world was always a shithole, and then act like petulant homosexuals when you tell them they're playing in septic water where there was once a lake.
No, no, no; I agree that the world was not always a shithole. But, it was a shithole for longer than you believe to be. The 80s and 90s are not the "good old days"; they are part of the shithole days.
But I thought zoomers loved saying how much they're glad that they're in -insert current year here-
Frick’s sake everybody falls to the constant trap of declaring the now shit whilst reminiscing their cherrypicked reality of yesteryear as being objectively better.
I want to reiterate that regardless of the overall state of the world, the internet has gone downhill. I think it's worth zoomers' while to recognise that, since it's probably going to get worse for everyone before it gets better.
Yeah, when I was younger a single bag of chips didn't cost 6.70.
It cost 1.50.
That was 15 years ago.
Everything is shittier for less.
>good times are when I get my disgusting slop treats for cheaper
So you just want your bread and circuses, I see
>ignores the point to be a moron
typical
Do you think that if earlier generations had cameras they wouldn't be filming themselves doing stupid shit?
The last three generations had cameras to film themselves, and 90% of it was shit that deserved to be filmed. Or at least being something 'new. The 80,000,000th tiktok users is not doing that.
Even if you want to go "Everyone is always moronic" there was a cap that has clearly come off.
Really it should be the nature of the internet and technology that you're mad about, not zoomers. They're just the result.
The internet existed 40 years ago, homie.
Are you being moronic on purpose? Obviously the internet has become much more insidious in how it effects people than it ever has in the past, homie.
coping again.
this shit wouldn't be this way if any of this garbage existed then. but ok.
shut up homosexual
Okay, let me just refresh your decrepit dried up neurons. Down the street. Don't forget. Down the street...
>le ur old
how did you dodge the hanger so many times and come out with so little to say?
I'm too fast
Maybe you're not so bad after all, zoomy.
I guess "social media" is what I should have said instead of cameras. As kids we'd always dare each other to do dangerous or stupid stuff while we were together. Throwing rocks through windows and running away, pissing on the neighbour's dog, running in front of cars... I feel like every generation has stupid young people. But it isn't like we'd do that if no one was watching, because no one would be laughing.
I suppose you could make the case 'the lid' was social media.
We're just seeing a lot more of it than we ever should have.
>don't millennials have something better to do
Yeah I ahouldnreallybgo buy a hou-oh wait.
are you okay millenial anon
>ahouldnreallybgo
Happy Leif Erikson Day to you too!
It's generational backlash. Zoomers are responding to internet millennials' crippling multilayer irony by being mawkish about the most trivial things.
Bruh what the FRICK are you talking about zoomers inhale irony 24/7 and can barely write a sentence with sincere thoughts
this is more Cinemaphile then Cinemaphile with all the self-hating zoomers in this thread
No fricking way lmao. At least lavender town actually sounds creepy, this is just pathetic.
Wait, this is what got the kiddos all scared? I like this song.
Maybe kids weren't used to the instrumentation? If you've never heard clean electric guitar/ukulele it could sound strange.
I'm trying to think of weird things that scared me as a kid.
I remember Cool World upsetting me, especially these creeps. But it was an adult movie, so it's not shocking that a kid 5-6 years old wouldn't like it.
context ?
GENERATION FIIIIIGHT!!
the people who shit on zoomers the most are the older 90's born zoomers who don't like being associated with zoomers
not too long ago you had people born in the 80's calling people younger than them "millennials", even though they were technically millennials themselves
Zoomers start at 97, moron
zoomers are anyone younger than me because all generations are made up.
>older 90's born zoomers
ergo, zoomers born between 1997-1999
lrn2read
>only zoomers hate zoomers!
Your shitty meme will never catch up
I dunno man, who else would dedicate so much time shitting on an age group where the vast majority are still in high school/college?
zoomers are still too young to hold any real positions of power and it'll stay that way for at least another 20 years or so, shitting on them serves no purpose
Yes I'm sure it isn't your shit generation ruining the internet. Everyone shits on zoomers because it's their political power that's the problem.
Not the whole, making the internet landscape intolerable and having horrible opinions about literally everything.
Must be something else.
It's not a coincidence that the internet went to hell during early 10s once zoomers turned old enough to post.
They don't hold decision-making positions at Alphabet, Facebook, Twitter et al. They grew up using the internet, they didn't spontaneously develop a bunch of negative traits in isolation from it.
They didn't get to have a voice to ruin the internet until like six years ago to begin with.
I know it might be hard to believe if you used the internet after 2014, but shit used to suck less ass on the internet in general before the Eternal Summer.
You're missing the point. Most of the more obnoxious zoomer behaviours can be traced to the internet as a major influencing factor.
>zoomer ZOOMER LOL zoomy zoomy zoom zoom XD
Rent free
>Guy pisses and shits in the street
>Gets made fun of for it
>"Heh...Looks like it's (You) who shit and pissed in the street..."
have a nice day.
>Man pisses and shits on the street
>Every man gets made fun of for it
>"You know, not every man pisses and shits on the street..."
>"Shut it male! Men are the worst!"
Pathetic cope lol
Right...
>Everyone shits in the street 111onee!!!
Is not a profound statement.
No one is saying "Only zoomers are cringe".
Zoomers are the MOST cringe. That's the distinction. Maybe they can pass on the torch to Gen-A. After all, boomers passed on "most annoying homosexuals in the world" to zoomers, so why not keep the trend going.
That doesn't refute my point at all. Ascribing the same qualities to every individual of some category in your head is just reductive, that's all. You come off as a moron by automatically holding people with less regard just because they're born in a notoriously cringe generation. Not all zoomers and whatnot.
I suggest we take all zoomers and push them off a cliff
>it’s a Cinemaphilegs cherrypick dumb yt comments so they can pretend they’re superior like they don’t spend all day flying into screaming fits over cartoons
No anon, you don't get it. They're critics.
>Hundreds of comments and videos with thousands of views are "Cherrypicked"
Zoomers are the worst generation after boomers by far.
I don't think zoomers are second to anything, maybe Gen A but they're just zoomers 2
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aPTK_KzPIlc
You will never own a home
own a condo and have my own rentoid
t. 94gay
>NO YOU'RE NOT A REAL LOOMER YOU'RE A WOOMER YOOMER ROOMER SOOMER
how on fricking earth do people legitimately care about this
I don't get it, it just brings back memories of old nick bumpers. It's a nice song
I liked it, and I was born in 1997.
ITT
>soijak
Slava Israel
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aPTK_KzPIlc
So how is this any different from when millennials were routinely shat on by baby boomers and Gen X on a regular basis?
Because now *My* generation on top!
Millennials will never be on top. And even if they were, that doesn't make zoomers less moronic.
Hi! Im Paul!
I hate generational discourse so much it's unreal
I love it, the repeating cycle of the old shitting on the young and the young doubling down on whatever stupid shit they're doing over and over again is hilarious.
>and the young doubling down on whatever stupid shit they're doing over and over again is hilarious.
Put on your glasses grandpa
Thanks, shits even funnier in HD.
God imagine if zoomers watched Batman Beyond or something, they shit their pants over the intro.
Zoomers are so cancerous that millennials stopped using most websites
total zoomer victory
>calls air conditioner sexist
>gets scared of stupid logos(snee-oosh, BND)
>thinks pewdiepie will start the fifth reich
>thinks the train brickwall episode of thomas is the spoopiest thing ever
>"b-but zoomers"
>calls air conditioner sexist
lolwut
There were some feminists some years back trying to raise a stink about air conditioners being sexist because women have a lower body temperature than men, so they would freeze when they got turned on.
>women have a lower body temperature than me
no they don't
Yes they do. Men have a higher body mass, which increases their core body temperature.
It's not a massive difference but it can be enough that something like Air con can be uncomfortable.
>Yes they do. Men have a higher body mass, which increases their core body temperature.
Name a single source for this claim.
Lmao nice, an opportunity to stealth-filter feminazis from work environment
I was legit caught off-guard by people saying they felt scared by this ending. I always found it incredibly calming and nice.
I never felt any type of emotion when watching the spongebob outro. Although whenever I watched the ren and stimpy outro, I always felt like I was in some weird, smoke filled bar with a bunch of naked hot chicks and dancing dogs
This song never terrified me, I liked it, but I'd only ever hear it on the VHS tapes. Usually my parents would put one in while I went to bed as sort of an entertaining night light, so I knew once the song played it was going to reach the end of the tape soon, which both meant the room would go dark, and there'd also be some loud static. I'd usually just try really hard to doze off while the credits played lol.
The internet sucks so much these days. The memes suck and this is technically under the umbrella of an analog horror meme.
also when people talk about "oooh zoomers cringe they're scared about stupid shit" they mostly talk about moronic middle-schoolers. it makes sense that moronic children are scared of dumb shit.
when i was a kid i was scared of shit like cupcakes and jeff the killer. now as an adult i see the pink horse removing the blue horse's mark and think "heh... looks like a hangnail"
Imagine thinking every episode before the movie was good. This one is lame.
Nah, that one was good.
I'd consider Dumped, Squirrel Jokes, and Party Pooper Pants to be the worst pre-movie episodes. They did have their moments though.
>zoomer
are you an amerifat by any chance