In the book James and the Giant Peach, his parents were actually eaten by a “strange carnivorous rhinoceros,” that escaped from a zoo. Certainly they couldn’t show that in the movie, but the foreboding imagery of the rhino does a good job of capturing james’ trauma.
that's wild considering hippos kill more people each year than sharks do, why it had to be a rhino that's the bad guy? they got enough shit on their plate
I’m glad I’m not the only one who found these horrifying. I remember one time my sister wanted to watch MLP so she clicked on one of these videos and we were both scarred for life.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one. a friend of mine showed me the video out of nowhere and I having to pretend to laugh with him while also being terrified of the animation.
When thinking about it, MisterDavey is probably one of those supposedly called ghost animators who separated their more professional work and animations for fun into two different halves so as to appear more professional. It's not uncommon considering that it's even in the art world where professional artists were known to have a pen name that's completely separated when making fanart & fan collaboration projects.
A lot of animators/those who work within the field as a whole have admitted to making darker content with the characters/settings they were working on almost as a vent at times (see the Rugrats storyboard jam for instance). Wouldn't surprise me if this was the case here and he used another name to separate himself.
Honestly I would believe that dude did work for Hasbro or Cartoon Network. Doesn't seem that uncommon and the animations are fairly high quality for one person. A lot of people in the industry do that a lot when they don't want their material to mix with their professional work.
I think that makes the whole idea that the swamp is depression even more apparent, as sometimes depression can get so bad you feel like you don't even deserve to be happy and fight off the attempts people make because you don't feel worthy to even be with them.
@@MercuryKurogane this but me. Got dysthymia and highly prone to acute depressive episodes. Semi-recently 'upgraded' from suicidal ideation to suicidal planning even though I have two friends trying their best to support me. It only make me feel more guilty that they are putting in so much effort and I can't offer them the happier me that they hope to get from all that effort.
tbh, as a kid the Artax scene was obviously upsetting, but as an adult? It now straight up makes me sob like a baby, like even thinking about it now makes me tear up. It hits me so hard now because I lost my best friend to drugs, but it was more than just drugs, it was a long decline I saw in her throughout the entire time I knew her, a slow descent where she had less and less hope and less and less reason to live every day, and addiction took over her life, and no matter what I did to try to save her (I was addicted to at the time, to be clear), it was never enough, she was trapped in her own Swamp of Sadness, and I couldn't stop her from sinking in the end, and even though it doesn't make any sense, I still blame myself sometimes. Okay, now I'm just full on crying...
Those MLP animations really did scar an entire generation of kids lol. I've seen countless examples of people who saw those videos that were absolutely traumatized by them.
@@FamiliarlyFrigid I was the same, it's super interesting how different kids look at these things. I think intent must play a factor. When I watched these then I seen them as things I'm not "suppose to watch" so I was naturally drawn to them while I can imainge randomly clicking MLP video are probably more likely to be traumatised.
same, i like dark stuff, but sometimes i wonder if that's because of me stumbling upon this mlp gore when i was a kid. i hated it though, they gave me nightmares, and i still hate it now lol
found them when i was 3-6, i’m 13 now and it definitely impacted my interests. not to be the edgy 13 year old but i watched these constantly, sometimes by choice.
Swamp of Sadness as a metaphor for depression sounds about right. Besides what's said in this vid, it could also represent the fact that, much like how we all didn't expect Antax to sink in the Swamp, those you don't expect to suffer from this condition actually do. And by the time you've finally realized it, perhaps because the depression has grown so severe that it's more apparent now, it might be too late to save them from it. Yep, horribly sad.
Too true. It’s sometimes the most outwardly “happy” people - people who we’re jealous of for apparently having it better than us - who happen to be the same people who are secretly sinking into a deep depression. Perhaps this happens because the outwardly depressed people get noticed and receive the support (or basic acknowledgement) that they need to stave off suicide [just a hypothesis]. I often wonder what I could’ve done to save my cousin, if I had only known about his depression. He was the last person I would’ve suspected to be suffering from it, since he was always the life of the party.
i remember being in the brony fandom when i was younger, but i didn’t know/wasn’t aware of the grimdark/creepypastas and by the time i delved into that part of the fandom, i guess i was too old to be scared by it? i was more fascinated by it but i also felt like it was just mindless gore for the sake of mindless gore, but i can totally see how it would be scary asf for a kid to come across it randomly on their recommended feed.
llamas with hats never really scared me but mentioning those MLP videos did remind me of that series, so maybe you could include that in the next video. "Caaaaaarl, that kills people!" absolutely wild.
@@RaveyDoesStuff It depends on the context for me. Animated/fake gore: perfectly fine Surgical gore where the person is perfectly play: gross but eh okay Actual gore: nope
Artax being able to speak in the book may add some weight to the misery but it would lose a lot of what made it so horrifying. Now that I've taken the time to think about it, what made that scene hit so hard was not just the horse dies - it's the realization that the horse is a PERSON immediately before the death. We're basically taught to see a line between animals and people with emotions on the people side. It was one of the first times the possibility of animals being people really crossed my mind.
As a small child, the Cupcakes animation made me kinda squeamish, but I remember going into Smile thinking it would horrify me only for me to be underwhelmed in the fear factor, but finding the animation really cool. I didn't expect it to be a crazy sakuga style fight scene, lol. Also that's funny. When I was a kid I watched the Mermaid documentary, knew it was totally fake, but it still managed to scare me. The Never Ending Story made me depressed for the first time in my life
Another thing that also scared me (which would probably be more fitting in a creepypasta video) is the gumball creepypasta "the grieving". It scared me so much as a kid that when gumball made a joke about it in an episode I thought it was being serious and turned off the TV (before I heard the TV in the other room also playing gumball and just hearing what it actually was)
7:50 LOOK GARY THERE I AM omg thank you so much for using my suggestion. those clips from animal planet are exactly the thing i was talking about oh my god. memories man. especially the kid getting grabbed that's exactly the scene. that thing was recorded on my sister's dish cable box and i cried even thinking about it but i was still fascinated by it. so i didn't change a bit lol. the two things i remember from that that "confirmed" it in my kid brain was the sketch recreation from the boy in the beginning (i think?) and the scientists analyzing a chunk of a mermaid's tail looking at the bone structure and stuff. thank you again. it was nice seeing it after so long. the cg looks even worse than how i remembered lol and oh my god those mlp animations bring back HUGE memories. i was a little kid downright obsessed with mlp during that time so i was the prime audience to get traumatized by those. one of the hdd animations taught me the "see you in tee" word and my poor mother had to explain why i couldn't say that
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels the same way about the mermaid designs from Mermaids: The Body Found. No one ever talks about how cool and terrifying they look whenever they bring this mockumentary up, only about how it was a hoax. I too want to see this type of design more. I wanted to use this design in my fanfiction rewrite of the Goosebumps book Deep Trouble (these rewrites are based on how I would do a film adaptation of each Goosebumps book, but in a novel form on a fanfiction website), because the first Deep Trouble is about mermaids (and a sea monster but it never impacted the plot nor did anything), and Goosebumps is supposed to be scary and those mermaids were the stereotypical, Little Mermaid-esque ones.
I don't know if you like manga/anime but Rumiko Takahashi made a story about mermaid's being like that. If you eat their flesh you can become immortal but most of the time you turn into a monster. Mermaids don't always appear (it's mostly about two people who ate the flesh and became immortal, meeting other people similar to them) but when they do appear... yeah.
Gore for the sake of gore disturbs me in a way I can’t explain. Distortions too. So, “cheap” scares are the things that usually do me in. Only one anime has actually put me on edge without anything inherently scary happening. I do like to draw gore though, and it can be really fun to make so I don’t blame others for making it.
Not at all, that's why there's so many dark stories revolving around MLP. People liking mixing dark subjects with kid-friendly franchises because it keeps things interesting.
I remember seeing the Smile HD when I was younger and being creeped out, I still am, I watched it again recently and it still makes me feel uncomfortable, not many horror based things do honestly.
I remember being a kid and watching these MLP disturbing animations on my mom's big ass computer 💀 another good Traumathon chapter, Goose! I love watching these series!
Oh boy you’re going there with those MLP videos! 😭😭 I discovered them at 12, around the time I was getting into the show. I remember being unphased by them, meaning I wasn’t really disturbed by those videos. But those videos are pretty much certified hood classics in the MLP fandom; if you’re a fan, there’s a high chance you’ve seen those videos.
I somehow missed those pony videos like Smile, even at the height of my mlp amd creepypasta obsession but the .mov vids always stuck out in the back of my mind. It's easy to see how that would scar unsuspecting kids who thought it was the real thing. I don't remember the swamp of sadness scene as a kid, for I was too scared of the dragon to ever watch ot more than oncs
this is my first traumathon and I am loving it. best part of my days being to comeback home after study academy and watch these videos, thank you so much for your hard work, dude! i have some important exams coming up at the beginning of november, and this is really helping me to stay sane while studying.
I was OBSESSED with the mermaids mockumentaries. They were genuinely so fun and the best part was how it was played so straight like the person said. They even used real life hoaxes like the pt Barnum mermaids to relate it back to real life. It made it feel more real lol
I actually liked the mermaid designs as aquatic apes with skin like dolphins because it sort of plays off of the idea of speculative evolution. The ape costumes in the beginning of the documentary were kinda freaky though
The Neverending Story scene sticks in my mind today even at 29 years old. I was inconsolable after seeing that as a kid because I really thought the horse died.
I found you channel a few days ago with the 8 of the internets scariest videos and I have been binging you in my free time. I was totally expect you to be one of those monotone voices who read directly off a list with no elaboration in the topic but no. I love the your Internet personality and the way you talk is like we are having just a casual conversation. Keep it up man, I can’t wait to watch more of your content
the james and the giant peach reminded me of this religious movie my grandpa watched. there’s a scene where this man runs outside to this sun shining down bright and stands under the light and disappears while his family is screaming for him to come back. i still don’t know what movie or the context of it but it still haunts me
In the original James and the giant peach book by Roald Dahl, the rhino isn’t a metaphor. The book straight up says an escaped rhino killed (maybe ate? I don’t remember) his parents.
Been loving the Traumathon this year! You've been killing it, Goose :) Edit: I was young when the pony. mov videos became popular, like I'm talking 7 or 8 years old. I'm 18 years old now, and haven't given them a thought in years. I never really had nightmares about them, but I do remember being horrified and even growing nauseous at the Fluttershy one I think. Or maybe it was the Pinkie Pie one. I don't remember, it's been so long.
omg I remember how I watched these mlp animations as a kid, And I was obsessed with the whole thing, I kinda joined the "fandom" as well like 💀 . . . lovely.
As a really little kid, one of the things that scared me a little was Hawk, from Pilotwings⁶⁴, because his voice clips were so loud and aggressive. The haunted track from Diddy Kong Racing also scared me, because of the laughing ghost heads that got right up in your face sometimes. My older brother got nightmares from the hub world at the start of Glover, which, if you've seen it, makes a _lot_ of sense. It creeped me out a bit when I first saw it as an adult. Also, Billiam covered a few of those fake documentaries if I recall correctly. So, if anyone wants to know more, you can check out his videos
The Mermaid documentary always rubbed me the wrong way, as they they were really deceptive about it all. They'd mix real stuff in with falsified info, and switch between the two in such subtle, slimey ways. At least with the Dragons one it's clear that it's all speculative, and it's honest about that.
Since this film is already 8 years old and now eligible to be mentioned during Traumathon, Transformers Age of Extinction contained a scene which greatly disturbed me when I watched it the first time. It was the scene where Ratchet is discovered while hiding by a human organization and bounty hunter Lockdown tasked with hunting down any surviving Transformers, either Decepticon or Autobot. He tries to escape but is gunned down very badly, to the point where he's hoping on a single leg. He begs the humans his mercy and reminds them that they were once allies. However, they have none of it and when Ratchet refuses to tell of Optimus' whereabouts, Lockdown extracts his spark (heart), killing him. This scene always upset me as 1) Ratchet is my favorite Autobot of the films and 2) it's so sad to see this betrayal and how Transformers are discriminated on Earth despite having so much character (character in which makes me and so many others fans fall in love with) in them. It's always so hard for me to watch that scene whenever that film plays somewhere. (Also lol on this vid's url)
As for the mermaid doc, as a kid I was always freaked out by it, but something in the back of my mind wanted me to not believe they were real. Glad that I listened, because regardless of how scared I was I can rest easy knowing there's one less thing to fear about the ocean. Out of the thousands of things to fear about the ocean.
I think that the MLP animations scarred a lot of people because of how MLP was a space for very very young children. And the fact that this kind of content(which is funny that bronies of all people were upset about them) was made so easily accessible to little kids. The fact that children could so easily find intense horrifying gore is so gross. While I think the animations are very well made it's still so wild to me how easy little kids could find them
That mermaid segment litteraly hit my head with a memory like a fucking stone *L o s t T a p e s* I was super fucking into lost tapes on animal planet and i believe it was one of the first traumatizing moments I had with a show. I would love to see you cover lost tapes ,I don't know if you have covered it yet or not but please please do it!
I feel like i wasnt traumatized at all when i watched this like in 2012. Infact it introduced me to creepypastas, which is now something i really liked
Cupcakes was actually the first thing MLP:FIM related I saw way back when it was on the front page of newgrounds. I loved it and it took me down a rabbit hole of MLP fan content that eventually led me to watching the show, loving it, and eventually meeting my best friend of going on 8 years at a brony con lol. So in a weird way, thanks MisterDavey for this, and all of your other sick and twisted cartoons.
Honestly, I think The NeverEnding Story deserves its own video. I was always personally scared of the turtle who was allergic to humans. But there was also the sphinxes, the magic mirror, and the wolf who worked with the nothing.
honestly even at like 11 i felt that the .mov shorts were made by someone just trying to get a rise out of scared kids, it felt more mean and edgy than anything and that kind of took away from the scare/shock value
This video triggered two core memories 😭… The MLP gore was practically something I was terrified by, especially the fact a lot of the fandom targeted very uplifting characters (e.g. pinkie pie, rainbow dash) and created HORRIFYINGLY ACCURATE cartoonish gore. At like 9 years old I was so horrified but fascinated by the fact that ponies were able to construct such a horrible.. mess 😭 Adding on, the discovery documentaries on mermaids CREEPED ME OUT as a kid. It only got worse because my mother SHOWED ME THEM and was FASCINATED while I was afraid of being captured by a mermaid. I literally never viewed mermaids the same for years and then I forgot entirely about the entire thing. Seeing it now feels so uncanny but comforting, and honestly, I hate it but don’t. Seriously good video at the end of the day though!!
The thing with 'James and the Giant Peach' is that the rhino is not a metaphor, James' parents deadass get eaten by a rhino. I never got why it was a rhino though, it'd make more sense if it was like a lion or some other predator. Also I remember watching 'Smile' and being utterly fascinated by the animation and fight coreography, like it was actually one of the many things that made me want to get into animation. And for me as like a 13-14 year old the gore was so comical and exaggerated that it didn't scare me, same for the '.mov' series. Oh god the Swamp of Sadness scene, I _hated_ these scene as a kid. I remember strangely understanding the metaphor and deeper meaning back then, like I could grasp the concept but in a childish way. Like I got the idea of "sometimes people are just so sad that you can't help them." and I just... did not vibe with that as an optimistic 7 year old.
Oh man I remember my old weird friend showing me those pony videos and being freaked out. Oh and a lot of newgrounds pr0n, very weird part of my childhood. I wonder how he's doing sometimes tbh
I saw Never Ending Story when I was very little. I didn't get the full picture of the scene in the swamp at the time and assumed Artax was sacrificing himself to save Atreyu from sinking in the swamp. Needless to say it still made me cry, watching a horse die like that. Finding out that Artax had actually given up was painful.
Speaking of Animal Planet. It's probably too late to submit our suggest things, but they had a show called Monsters Inside Me. Parasites of all kinds still really freak me out
Ya know... something that never actually was 'scary', but might be an interesting topic for a Traumathon video--- is the final scene from the 1977 version of 'The Island of Dr. Moreau'. There's actually a little bit of controversy around the final scene, and I have to spoil the ending of the movie, to explain.. so, SPOILERS. But in the end, Michael York's character escapes the island on a lifeboat, with 'Maria'--- he had been given a serum that was turning him into an animal, but in the final scene he wakes up, fully cured & back to normal, and sees a boat approaching and waves it down. There's a brief flash of Maria's face.. and a LOT of people think it's a surprise twist, and it shows that she's changing into an animal, proving she was one of Dr Moreau's animal-people all along. But a bunch of people DON'T think she looks changed, and they think she looks normal, and they don't believe there's any kind of twist that shows her changing. If she is changing, York's character doesn't even notice or react... so, it's a weird argument that hasn't been settled since I was a kid.
For mermaid horror, cold skin is one that might be something your looking for Goose. Saw a breakdown on it and looks pretty cool with a actual good quality and such
James and the Giant Peach was directed by Henry Selick who also directed Nightmare, hence the similar vibe. I also remember being quite scared of the Rhino in the movie, although I found the Aunties to be scarier somehow and that robotic shark too.
In any of the past Traumathons has anyone ever mentioned the death scenes in the Indiana Jones movies? I feel like those could be covered even though they aren’t technically from horror media, just a sudden terrifying moment in an otherwise not scary movie
I don’t know if you’ve done this one yet but as a kid when people were starting to make creepy pastas on forums and I first saw read and saw the Jeff the killer thing it scared me shitless because of that image of him. Don’t know what it was about that image but it still kinda give me an off vibe. Or slender man, the idea of being snatched up alone scared me especially living right next to a forest and walking through it to get to our tree house. Just recently I heard about the murder crap involving that and whoooweee did that give me the chills. Anyway, goodluck on Traumathon!
I watched James and the Giant Peach when it was new and remember really enjoying it. However I have no memory whatsoever of s giant sky rhino. Which is really odd considering how terrifying that thing looks to me right the heck now. It's definitely very cool, but I have a phobia of large things in the sky/sea and the way it bursts through that cloud in the dark sky is legitimately freaking me out and making it hard to look at the screen. Hence why I'm down here leaving a comment.
bro that mermaid series fucked me up so bad i seriously thought everything was real and would get into arguments with my friends when i was like 7 on how real it was
the reason i love MLP is that even thought its a kid show, it can be really weird and bizarre sometimes and some of these animations show this side of the show, only being way more explicit a short that always got me was called "My Little Pony: Friendship was magic", where it showed Twilight falling from a window with glimpses from the episodes and in the end, Luna saves her from hitting the ground and a text appears saying "You're gonna carry that friendship", and all of that accompanied by the Cowboy Bebop song "Greenbird" it isn't scary, but it's so sad that i've almost cried when rewatching it (mainly because of the music and from nostalgia)
_Please_ do a video on the fake documentaries, I LOVED Lost Tapes when I was a kid. I never thought it was real but I had never seen a found footage movie before and the idea was so cool to me. I think it inspired my love of cryptids
I have weirdly fond memories of the mlp gore videos as a kid, they scared me and I shouldn't have ever watched them but there was something about how wrong and disturbing it made me feel that kept me watching it and traumatizing my friends
cupcakes, smile, rainbow factory, the .MOV series, and worst of all banned from equestria forever are all pretty messed up animations that I’ve seen as a kid.
In the book James and the Giant Peach, his parents were actually eaten by a “strange carnivorous rhinoceros,” that escaped from a zoo. Certainly they couldn’t show that in the movie, but the foreboding imagery of the rhino does a good job of capturing james’ trauma.
that's wild considering hippos kill more people each year than sharks do, why it had to be a rhino that's the bad guy? they got enough shit on their plate
@@Goose_BooseYT honestly, gotta have some thick skin to be a rhino, especially when authors have unjustified grudges against you.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who found these horrifying. I remember one time my sister wanted to watch MLP so she clicked on one of these videos and we were both scarred for life.
I remember seeing lot's of fan made creepypastas Even one known as Sweet Apple massacre
Happened to me too, I just thought Smile HD was an actual HD clip from the show
I wouldn't eat blue cupcakes for years after watching the Vannamelon dub of Cupcakes. Watched it recently and it's still pretty bad.
Exact situation happened to me lol
I'm glad I wasn't the only one. a friend of mine showed me the video out of nowhere and I having to pretend to laugh with him while also being terrified of the animation.
When thinking about it, MisterDavey is probably one of those supposedly called ghost animators who separated their more professional work and animations for fun into two different halves so as to appear more professional. It's not uncommon considering that it's even in the art world where professional artists were known to have a pen name that's completely separated when making fanart & fan collaboration projects.
A lot of animators/those who work within the field as a whole have admitted to making darker content with the characters/settings they were working on almost as a vent at times (see the Rugrats storyboard jam for instance). Wouldn't surprise me if this was the case here and he used another name to separate himself.
Honestly I would believe that dude did work for Hasbro or Cartoon Network. Doesn't seem that uncommon and the animations are fairly high quality for one person. A lot of people in the industry do that a lot when they don't want their material to mix with their professional work.
I wonder why he quit
@@blaizegottman4139 im pretty sure he quit bcz of copyright issues?
correct me if im wrong tho
@@hashtag_rigby honestly he probably got bored but that couldve been a factor, hasbro started being brutal
Artax was even sadder in the book. He gets downright existential and fights any attempt at making him feel better.
I think that makes the whole idea that the swamp is depression even more apparent, as sometimes depression can get so bad you feel like you don't even deserve to be happy and fight off the attempts people make because you don't feel worthy to even be with them.
@@MercuryKurogane this but me. Got dysthymia and highly prone to acute depressive episodes. Semi-recently 'upgraded' from suicidal ideation to suicidal planning even though I have two friends trying their best to support me. It only make me feel more guilty that they are putting in so much effort and I can't offer them the happier me that they hope to get from all that effort.
tbh, as a kid the Artax scene was obviously upsetting, but as an adult? It now straight up makes me sob like a baby, like even thinking about it now makes me tear up. It hits me so hard now because I lost my best friend to drugs, but it was more than just drugs, it was a long decline I saw in her throughout the entire time I knew her, a slow descent where she had less and less hope and less and less reason to live every day, and addiction took over her life, and no matter what I did to try to save her (I was addicted to at the time, to be clear), it was never enough, she was trapped in her own Swamp of Sadness, and I couldn't stop her from sinking in the end, and even though it doesn't make any sense, I still blame myself sometimes.
Okay, now I'm just full on crying...
Those MLP animations really did scar an entire generation of kids lol. I've seen countless examples of people who saw those videos that were absolutely traumatized by them.
Yeah I can see why thanks to all the TH-camrs who made them
can confirm, and now can laugh it off XD
I used to love those kinds of videos when I was in middle school
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@@FamiliarlyFrigid I was the same, it's super interesting how different kids look at these things.
I think intent must play a factor. When I watched these then I seen them as things I'm not "suppose to watch" so I was naturally drawn to them while I can imainge randomly clicking MLP video are probably more likely to be traumatised.
I first went down the rabbit hole of disturbing mlp content when I was 6. I wonder what would’ve been different if I didn’t
same, i like dark stuff, but sometimes i wonder if that's because of me stumbling upon this mlp gore when i was a kid. i hated it though, they gave me nightmares, and i still hate it now lol
@@eloise1596 Same, it really changes how you perceive things
found them when i was 3-6, i’m 13 now and it definitely impacted my interests. not to be the edgy 13 year old but i watched these constantly, sometimes by choice.
I found them when I was like 8 omfg these are probably why gen z is so messed up LMAO
Millionaire, loving family, good job and a mansion. All of those could've been yours if you didn't watch those videos.
Swamp of Sadness as a metaphor for depression sounds about right. Besides what's said in this vid, it could also represent the fact that, much like how we all didn't expect Antax to sink in the Swamp, those you don't expect to suffer from this condition actually do. And by the time you've finally realized it, perhaps because the depression has grown so severe that it's more apparent now, it might be too late to save them from it. Yep, horribly sad.
Too true. It’s sometimes the most outwardly “happy” people - people who we’re jealous of for apparently having it better than us - who happen to be the same people who are secretly sinking into a deep depression. Perhaps this happens because the outwardly depressed people get noticed and receive the support (or basic acknowledgement) that they need to stave off suicide [just a hypothesis]. I often wonder what I could’ve done to save my cousin, if I had only known about his depression. He was the last person I would’ve suspected to be suffering from it, since he was always the life of the party.
On Halloween, we NEED a 10 min video of just the Grey Alien dancing in the backrooms.
howard the alien is lit
9:55 My favorite part of The Little Mermaid live-action remake was when Ariel grabbed onto Prince Eric’s arm and bit his arm off. It’s very realistic.
i remember being in the brony fandom when i was younger, but i didn’t know/wasn’t aware of the grimdark/creepypastas and by the time i delved into that part of the fandom, i guess i was too old to be scared by it? i was more fascinated by it but i also felt like it was just mindless gore for the sake of mindless gore, but i can totally see how it would be scary asf for a kid to come across it randomly on their recommended feed.
It's terrifying
SAME I think i was young enough to be impressed but old enough to just appreciate it, i loved the .mov movies and would watch fairly frequently
llamas with hats never really scared me but mentioning those MLP videos did remind me of that series, so maybe you could include that in the next video. "Caaaaaarl, that kills people!" absolutely wild.
Is that what it's called
@@blaizegottman4139 yup
@@CreatorofSecks interesting
@@blaizegottman4139 It's "llamas with hats"!
the ending though :(
I used to love those MLP videos as a kid, it didn’t scare me at all for some reason. I was fascinated by it
Really not one
same
What a coincidence me to 🦄💀🫀
SAME HERE.
I thought I was just a weirdo. I'm not scared of gore
@@RaveyDoesStuff It depends on the context for me.
Animated/fake gore: perfectly fine
Surgical gore where the person is perfectly play: gross but eh okay
Actual gore: nope
Artax being able to speak in the book may add some weight to the misery but it would lose a lot of what made it so horrifying. Now that I've taken the time to think about it, what made that scene hit so hard was not just the horse dies - it's the realization that the horse is a PERSON immediately before the death. We're basically taught to see a line between animals and people with emotions on the people side. It was one of the first times the possibility of animals being people really crossed my mind.
As a small child, the Cupcakes animation made me kinda squeamish, but I remember going into Smile thinking it would horrify me only for me to be underwhelmed in the fear factor, but finding the animation really cool. I didn't expect it to be a crazy sakuga style fight scene, lol.
Also that's funny. When I was a kid I watched the Mermaid documentary, knew it was totally fake, but it still managed to scare me.
The Never Ending Story made me depressed for the first time in my life
When that mermaid documentary came out I was young and had no idea it was fake. It gave me friggin nightmares I swear to god so I know the pain
On the subject of fake documentaries, the series Lost Tapes would be a pretty interesting episode
Yeah it would
Holy shit, I loved Lost Tapes as a kid.
Another thing that also scared me (which would probably be more fitting in a creepypasta video) is the gumball creepypasta "the grieving". It scared me so much as a kid that when gumball made a joke about it in an episode I thought it was being serious and turned off the TV (before I heard the TV in the other room also playing gumball and just hearing what it actually was)
“It’s just so sad, I’m about to tear up” me already crying.
7:50 LOOK GARY THERE I AM omg thank you so much for using my suggestion. those clips from animal planet are exactly the thing i was talking about oh my god. memories man. especially the kid getting grabbed that's exactly the scene. that thing was recorded on my sister's dish cable box and i cried even thinking about it but i was still fascinated by it. so i didn't change a bit lol. the two things i remember from that that "confirmed" it in my kid brain was the sketch recreation from the boy in the beginning (i think?) and the scientists analyzing a chunk of a mermaid's tail looking at the bone structure and stuff.
thank you again. it was nice seeing it after so long. the cg looks even worse than how i remembered lol
and oh my god those mlp animations bring back HUGE memories. i was a little kid downright obsessed with mlp during that time so i was the prime audience to get traumatized by those. one of the hdd animations taught me the "see you in tee" word and my poor mother had to explain why i couldn't say that
I remember being terrified of those MLP animations and the exact scene from the Animal Planet mermaid documentary with the mermaid grabbing the child
@10:50 Mermurder? GREAT songs by Dethklok ! Mermurder part 2 was my favorite.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels the same way about the mermaid designs from Mermaids: The Body Found. No one ever talks about how cool and terrifying they look whenever they bring this mockumentary up, only about how it was a hoax. I too want to see this type of design more. I wanted to use this design in my fanfiction rewrite of the Goosebumps book Deep Trouble (these rewrites are based on how I would do a film adaptation of each Goosebumps book, but in a novel form on a fanfiction website), because the first Deep Trouble is about mermaids (and a sea monster but it never impacted the plot nor did anything), and Goosebumps is supposed to be scary and those mermaids were the stereotypical, Little Mermaid-esque ones.
I don't know if you like manga/anime but Rumiko Takahashi made a story about mermaid's being like that. If you eat their flesh you can become immortal but most of the time you turn into a monster. Mermaids don't always appear (it's mostly about two people who ate the flesh and became immortal, meeting other people similar to them) but when they do appear... yeah.
as a young kid I liked watching mlp, but those gory or horror centered animations really did stick with me..
I don't watch mlp anymore btw-
Why
@@blaizegottman4139 I was a kid, what do you expect?
@@Pokey_Puni_ you know there's still adults who still watch it
@@blaizegottman4139 I already knew that when I was a kid, I'm an adult now and grew past it-
Gore for the sake of gore disturbs me in a way I can’t explain. Distortions too. So, “cheap” scares are the things that usually do me in. Only one anime has actually put me on edge without anything inherently scary happening.
I do like to draw gore though, and it can be really fun to make so I don’t blame others for making it.
Man the nostalgic is powerful, these mlp animation where pure gold. Good times
Is it bad i rly loved these as a kid? I loved the harshness between cute ponies and violence
Not at all, that's why there's so many dark stories revolving around MLP. People liking mixing dark subjects with kid-friendly franchises because it keeps things interesting.
everybody's got a morbid curiosity. i mean i adored soul eater and madoka magicka as a kid.
Hey man thanks for continuing traumathon despite things not being super easy for you at the moment. That's really cool and I admire it.
HOLY SHIT I WAS WAITING FOR THIS EPISODE TO COME OUT. IM SO GLAD YOU'RE COVERING IT, IVE BEEN WAITING SINCE 1-2 FOR YOU TO COVER THESE!!!
Good old days of Cupcakes and Smile. What a time to be alive!
I remember seeing the Smile HD when I was younger and being creeped out, I still am, I watched it again recently and it still makes me feel uncomfortable, not many horror based things do honestly.
10:30 You are explaining "The Lure". It's a slasher film starring two mermaids.
I remember being a kid and watching these MLP disturbing animations on my mom's big ass computer 💀 another good Traumathon chapter, Goose! I love watching these series!
Hey hey hey! Stay out of my shed!
Oh boy you’re going there with those MLP videos! 😭😭
I discovered them at 12, around the time I was getting into the show. I remember being unphased by them, meaning I wasn’t really disturbed by those videos. But those videos are pretty much certified hood classics in the MLP fandom; if you’re a fan, there’s a high chance you’ve seen those videos.
I somehow missed those pony videos like Smile, even at the height of my mlp amd creepypasta obsession but the .mov vids always stuck out in the back of my mind. It's easy to see how that would scar unsuspecting kids who thought it was the real thing.
I don't remember the swamp of sadness scene as a kid, for I was too scared of the dragon to ever watch ot more than oncs
this is my first traumathon and I am loving it. best part of my days being to comeback home after study academy and watch these videos, thank you so much for your hard work, dude! i have some important exams coming up at the beginning of november, and this is really helping me to stay sane while studying.
welcome to traumathon dude :)
I was OBSESSED with the mermaids mockumentaries. They were genuinely so fun and the best part was how it was played so straight like the person said. They even used real life hoaxes like the pt Barnum mermaids to relate it back to real life. It made it feel more real lol
I actually liked the mermaid designs as aquatic apes with skin like dolphins because it sort of plays off of the idea of speculative evolution. The ape costumes in the beginning of the documentary were kinda freaky though
if Christopher Columbus watched a documentary with those manatee mermaids he would go insane
Aww when the horse gave up......
I'm not crying..you are
I was at the age where i was starting to leave the age demographic for mlp so i saw these and loved them, bc i was a horror buff
The Neverending Story scene sticks in my mind today even at 29 years old. I was inconsolable after seeing that as a kid because I really thought the horse died.
Did the horse not die?
@@MokkafixGold In the movie it dies, but I thought it died in real life.
@@elwoodziggurat Damn that must've been twice as traumatizing then lol
James and the Giant Peach was directed by Henry Selick who was also the director of Nightmare Before Christmas
I found you channel a few days ago with the 8 of the internets scariest videos and I have been binging you in my free time. I was totally expect you to be one of those monotone voices who read directly off a list with no elaboration in the topic but no. I love the your Internet personality and the way you talk is like we are having just a casual conversation. Keep it up man, I can’t wait to watch more of your content
the james and the giant peach reminded me of this religious movie my grandpa watched. there’s a scene where this man runs outside to this sun shining down bright and stands under the light and disappears while his family is screaming for him to come back. i still don’t know what movie or the context of it but it still haunts me
In the original James and the giant peach book by Roald Dahl, the rhino isn’t a metaphor. The book straight up says an escaped rhino killed (maybe ate? I don’t remember) his parents.
I’m so happy Goose finally made an episode on these mlp animations ! I’ve wanted this for so long, and it did not disappoint :)
Been loving the Traumathon this year! You've been killing it, Goose :)
Edit: I was young when the pony. mov videos became popular, like I'm talking 7 or 8 years old. I'm 18 years old now, and haven't given them a thought in years. I never really had nightmares about them, but I do remember being horrified and even growing nauseous at the Fluttershy one I think. Or maybe it was the Pinkie Pie one. I don't remember, it's been so long.
omg I remember how I watched these mlp animations as a kid,
And I was obsessed with the whole thing, I kinda joined the "fandom" as well like 💀
. . . lovely.
As a really little kid, one of the things that scared me a little was Hawk, from Pilotwings⁶⁴, because his voice clips were so loud and aggressive. The haunted track from Diddy Kong Racing also scared me, because of the laughing ghost heads that got right up in your face sometimes.
My older brother got nightmares from the hub world at the start of Glover, which, if you've seen it, makes a _lot_ of sense. It creeped me out a bit when I first saw it as an adult.
Also, Billiam covered a few of those fake documentaries if I recall correctly. So, if anyone wants to know more, you can check out his videos
Gdi i now remember crying over the stupid horse scene. I was seriously traumatized by that sad scene.
Pinkie Pie was always terrifying even without edits
Damn, the repressed memories of my childhood are coming back to me like the Soviets taking Berlin! Thanks Goose!
The Mermaid documentary always rubbed me the wrong way, as they they were really deceptive about it all. They'd mix real stuff in with falsified info, and switch between the two in such subtle, slimey ways.
At least with the Dragons one it's clear that it's all speculative, and it's honest about that.
Since this film is already 8 years old and now eligible to be mentioned during Traumathon, Transformers Age of Extinction contained a scene which greatly disturbed me when I watched it the first time. It was the scene where Ratchet is discovered while hiding by a human organization and bounty hunter Lockdown tasked with hunting down any surviving Transformers, either Decepticon or Autobot. He tries to escape but is gunned down very badly, to the point where he's hoping on a single leg. He begs the humans his mercy and reminds them that they were once allies. However, they have none of it and when Ratchet refuses to tell of Optimus' whereabouts, Lockdown extracts his spark (heart), killing him. This scene always upset me as 1) Ratchet is my favorite Autobot of the films and 2) it's so sad to see this betrayal and how Transformers are discriminated on Earth despite having so much character (character in which makes me and so many others fans fall in love with) in them. It's always so hard for me to watch that scene whenever that film plays somewhere.
(Also lol on this vid's url)
As for the mermaid doc, as a kid I was always freaked out by it, but something in the back of my mind wanted me to not believe they were real. Glad that I listened, because regardless of how scared I was I can rest easy knowing there's one less thing to fear about the ocean. Out of the thousands of things to fear about the ocean.
I think that the MLP animations scarred a lot of people because of how MLP was a space for very very young children. And the fact that this kind of content(which is funny that bronies of all people were upset about them) was made so easily accessible to little kids. The fact that children could so easily find intense horrifying gore is so gross. While I think the animations are very well made it's still so wild to me how easy little kids could find them
That mermaid segment litteraly hit my head with a memory like a fucking stone
*L o s t T a p e s*
I was super fucking into lost tapes on animal planet and i believe it was one of the first traumatizing moments I had with a show. I would love to see you cover lost tapes ,I don't know if you have covered it yet or not but please please do it!
When I first saw the Carnatarus pop out in the Disney Dinosaur trailer it scared the shit out of me.
i loved those disturbing mlp animations so much as a kid, they got me into mlp, honestly really cool pieces of brony media
I feel like i wasnt traumatized at all when i watched this like in 2012. Infact it introduced me to creepypastas, which is now something i really liked
Vaguely remember these from back in 204-2016...I never thought you'd cover em, thought it makes sense that you did
204? Interesting, how was the roman empire like?
@@fjskfkskfkdkd8790 It was pretty interesting to say the least...I almost got killed a few times though😅
I found james and the giant peach really scary as a kid, not for the rhino though. More just the fact that theyre on the open sea for most of it haha.
ayyy, thalassophobes unite lmao
Oof
So sea scares ya huh?
The swamp scene from Neverending Story was so distressing to me as a kid
Cupcakes was actually the first thing MLP:FIM related I saw way back when it was on the front page of newgrounds. I loved it and it took me down a rabbit hole of MLP fan content that eventually led me to watching the show, loving it, and eventually meeting my best friend of going on 8 years at a brony con lol. So in a weird way, thanks MisterDavey for this, and all of your other sick and twisted cartoons.
I remember the Mermaid Mockumentary and it used to intrigue me more than scare me. But there definitely were scenes that scared me.
Honestly, I think The NeverEnding Story deserves its own video. I was always personally scared of the turtle who was allergic to humans. But there was also the sphinxes, the magic mirror, and the wolf who worked with the nothing.
honestly even at like 11 i felt that the .mov shorts were made by someone just trying to get a rise out of scared kids, it felt more mean and edgy than anything and that kind of took away from the scare/shock value
real talk these animations were fucking cool and extremely well made
This video triggered two core memories 😭…
The MLP gore was practically something I was terrified by, especially the fact a lot of the fandom targeted very uplifting characters (e.g. pinkie pie, rainbow dash) and created HORRIFYINGLY ACCURATE cartoonish gore. At like 9 years old I was so horrified but fascinated by the fact that ponies were able to construct such a horrible.. mess 😭
Adding on, the discovery documentaries on mermaids CREEPED ME OUT as a kid. It only got worse because my mother SHOWED ME THEM and was FASCINATED while I was afraid of being captured by a mermaid. I literally never viewed mermaids the same for years and then I forgot entirely about the entire thing. Seeing it now feels so uncanny but comforting, and honestly, I hate it but don’t. Seriously good video at the end of the day though!!
Horrified but fascinated is the EXACT feeling I had about the MLP ones
Once again, this year’s Traumathon continues to be the hardest hitting one for me
That goddamn wolf scene after the swamp of sadness is even more traumatic
The Neverending Story quicksand scene fucked me up and still makes me super upset, even as a whole ass adult.
Super impressed you can put out this many vids.
The thing with 'James and the Giant Peach' is that the rhino is not a metaphor, James' parents deadass get eaten by a rhino. I never got why it was a rhino though, it'd make more sense if it was like a lion or some other predator.
Also I remember watching 'Smile' and being utterly fascinated by the animation and fight coreography, like it was actually one of the many things that made me want to get into animation. And for me as like a 13-14 year old the gore was so comical and exaggerated that it didn't scare me, same for the '.mov' series.
Oh god the Swamp of Sadness scene, I _hated_ these scene as a kid. I remember strangely understanding the metaphor and deeper meaning back then, like I could grasp the concept but in a childish way. Like I got the idea of "sometimes people are just so sad that you can't help them." and I just... did not vibe with that as an optimistic 7 year old.
Jeez, I had a morbid sense of humor growing up. I always found those Hotdiggitydemon animations hilarious.
I remember watching them when MLP was still on air. My favorite one was definitely Apple.Mov. 😄😁😆
Oh man I remember my old weird friend showing me those pony videos and being freaked out. Oh and a lot of newgrounds pr0n, very weird part of my childhood. I wonder how he's doing sometimes tbh
Ah good times those were. Good times.
I was just rewatching mlp while drawing when I got this notification! This will be awesome!😁
Oddly enough Mister Davey is no longer
I saw Never Ending Story when I was very little. I didn't get the full picture of the scene in the swamp at the time and assumed Artax was sacrificing himself to save Atreyu from sinking in the swamp. Needless to say it still made me cry, watching a horse die like that.
Finding out that Artax had actually given up was painful.
Speaking of Animal Planet. It's probably too late to submit our suggest things, but they had a show called Monsters Inside Me. Parasites of all kinds still really freak me out
Ya know... something that never actually was 'scary', but might be an interesting topic for a Traumathon video--- is the final scene from the 1977 version of 'The Island of Dr. Moreau'. There's actually a little bit of controversy around the final scene, and I have to spoil the ending of the movie, to explain.. so, SPOILERS. But in the end, Michael York's character escapes the island on a lifeboat, with 'Maria'--- he had been given a serum that was turning him into an animal, but in the final scene he wakes up, fully cured & back to normal, and sees a boat approaching and waves it down. There's a brief flash of Maria's face.. and a LOT of people think it's a surprise twist, and it shows that she's changing into an animal, proving she was one of Dr Moreau's animal-people all along. But a bunch of people DON'T think she looks changed, and they think she looks normal, and they don't believe there's any kind of twist that shows her changing. If she is changing, York's character doesn't even notice or react... so, it's a weird argument that hasn't been settled since I was a kid.
For mermaid horror, cold skin is one that might be something your looking for Goose. Saw a breakdown on it and looks pretty cool with a actual good quality and such
James and the Giant Peach was directed by Henry Selick who also directed Nightmare, hence the similar vibe. I also remember being quite scared of the Rhino in the movie, although I found the Aunties to be scarier somehow and that robotic shark too.
Also the reason Jack Skellington makes a guest appearance as an undead pirate. =D
The Never Ending Story is an incredible movie. I loved it as a kid
In any of the past Traumathons has anyone ever mentioned the death scenes in the Indiana Jones movies? I feel like those could be covered even though they aren’t technically from horror media, just a sudden terrifying moment in an otherwise not scary movie
Thank goodness my grandpa skipped those scenes when I was young. I would have been scarred for life
CANNOT PUT INTO WORDS HOW HAPPY I AM YOU COVERED MLP
"apparently they looked very scary to people"
no shit, most of them saw the cartoon blue pony getting multilated as kids, ofc its gonna be scary
I don’t know if you’ve done this one yet but as a kid when people were starting to make creepy pastas on forums and I first saw read and saw the Jeff the killer thing it scared me shitless because of that image of him. Don’t know what it was about that image but it still kinda give me an off vibe. Or slender man, the idea of being snatched up alone scared me especially living right next to a forest and walking through it to get to our tree house. Just recently I heard about the murder crap involving that and whoooweee did that give me the chills. Anyway, goodluck on Traumathon!
I watched James and the Giant Peach when it was new and remember really enjoying it. However I have no memory whatsoever of s giant sky rhino. Which is really odd considering how terrifying that thing looks to me right the heck now. It's definitely very cool, but I have a phobia of large things in the sky/sea and the way it bursts through that cloud in the dark sky is legitimately freaking me out and making it hard to look at the screen. Hence why I'm down here leaving a comment.
bro that mermaid series fucked me up so bad i seriously thought everything was real and would get into arguments with my friends when i was like 7 on how real it was
I'm thank full for the Cupcakes MLP vídeo that introduced me into Andrew W.K.
In the book, wasn’t it specifically that an escaped rhino from the zoo ate James’ parents? I feel like I remember the phrase “gobbled them up”.
10:53 - That idea could work. A lot of mystery there. Afterall, "there are no fingerprints deep underwater, nothing to tie one to a crime."
the reason i love MLP is that even thought its a kid show, it can be really weird and bizarre sometimes and some of these animations show this side of the show, only being way more explicit
a short that always got me was called "My Little Pony: Friendship was magic", where it showed Twilight falling from a window with glimpses from the episodes and in the end, Luna saves her from hitting the ground and a text appears saying "You're gonna carry that friendship", and all of that accompanied by the Cowboy Bebop song "Greenbird"
it isn't scary, but it's so sad that i've almost cried when rewatching it (mainly because of the music and from nostalgia)
Us and are trauma and things are scared the shit out of us:
Gosse: wow that was cool
_Please_ do a video on the fake documentaries, I LOVED Lost Tapes when I was a kid. I never thought it was real but I had never seen a found footage movie before and the idea was so cool to me. I think it inspired my love of cryptids
Next year, Please cover the Scarecrow hallucinations from Batman Begins. Absolute goldmine.
Imo the scarcrow hallucinations from Arkham Asylum where much more terrifying
@@edgythehedgy364 I never played the Arkham games but I guess they could also go with the Batman begins hallucinations.
bro thes animations made part of my childhood and i wasnt scared
maybe thats why im not that scared for horror movies
I will say, as much as it was scarring to find these at age 10, they kickstarted my art career and now I'm a semiprofessional artist
I have weirdly fond memories of the mlp gore videos as a kid, they scared me and I shouldn't have ever watched them but there was something about how wrong and disturbing it made me feel that kept me watching it and traumatizing my friends
cupcakes, smile, rainbow factory, the .MOV series, and worst of all banned from equestria forever are all pretty messed up animations that I’ve seen as a kid.