The Nostalgia Of Old YouTube Horror

[theemii]

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"Today let's take a trip back to the 'Weird Side of YouTube' to cover several famous (and infamous) creepy, cursed and straight-up bizarre videos from the early 2000's and 2010's to examine how they came to be, as well as how they've influenced the types of horror that we see on YouTube today. In their own strange way these videos are all

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[glitterslugs]

I was a Saladfingers girlie!!

[irajaxon]

"salad fingers" is def pre-youtube. and it's definitely the kind of subtly unsettling that lingers in the back of your mind forever, lol.

[beuk]

I showed my mom the first video and she liked it but I wouldn't let her watch any more, haha

[tucker]

I've noticed for me (with the exceptions of trypophobia things) I'm less scared by visuals and much more scared by sound

like I can mute a scary clip and watch almost anything, but if it's like a dark room with creepy noises I get freaked outttt

I think the idea of the back rooms is super creepy

I sometimes have dreams about being stuck in a never ending building

I joined YouTube right when lonelygirl15 was revealed to be officially be an actress

[tucker]

this is kind of a YouTube tie in because sometimes people would make videos for it, but I loved old school creepy pasta please wake up and maybe once a year I still read that reddit thread about being a ranger in the woods and the stairs in the woods etc.

[itsme_eloise]

i am a huge weenie but i love that stairs in the woods thing

[mhfromnh]

SEARCH AND RESCUE WOODS!

[deerlike]

Ooh, speaking of, does anyone remember the penpal creepypasta series by 1000vultures? r/nosleep at its best. 🤌

https://www.reddit.com/r/NosleepIndex/comments/25mqnk/penpal_u1000vultures/

[goodnightsong]

I loved Salad Fingers. And almost as much, I loved looking for Salad Fingers theories on yt. It was just creepy, bizarre fun.

The ice cream video, on the other hand, get. That. Away. From. Me. I HATE it lol.