As a person with OCD (and still working through it even though my symptoms started appearing 5 years ago) chainmail is very annoying and is constantly a mental block to work though, I used to be so avoidant of chainmail because I didn't get diagnosed yet. I KNEW rationally nothing would happen, but the little voice in my brain would constantly urge me to follow along with the chainmail. Mentally tiring. Chainmail can be fun if people are cool with it, but overall it's just manipulation and rubs me the wrong way
THIS!!! I literally post the (don’t skip or bad luck) things on Insta on my story and then immediately delete even though I never do them just to get the OCD feeling to go away
One time I reblogged a chain post on tumblr that had a happy fat calico cat and it said that they would protect me from every other chain post and also get me the rewards without doing anything. It feels like some sort of psychological loophole, but it really did cure me. Now I just picture that big chubby kitty and don't even entertain the thought of the chain post coming true or not
No I love those on tumblr. As someone else said about their OCD I have mild OCD and those chain mail things used to grind me up even though I KNEW it was all bs. Seeing those loophole posts helped me get over those chain mail posts. Now I don’t feel an obligation.
I think we should spread these anti chain memes again (like "this is larry, larry is here to protect you from any chain mail on the internet"). They were cute and having ocd myself, I feel like they helped
This is why I don't use Tiktok. You can do all you want to curate your feed and it just gets overwhelmed with garbage because you have no true control over it.
When I was like 15 I got a chain letter via facebook message from someone in school that I didn’t even know very well and completely misunderstood what it was saying (autism meant I took things very literally). So I told a teacher because I thought it was a legitimate threat to kill me and needless to say the school quickly educated students on the concept chain letters and fact checking.
Growing up, I was the kid who wrote chainmail just to spread it. 💀 It didn't benefit me at all because this was before social media became common, and I was like 10. I stopped because one time I sent a message to my friend that began with something like, "Only 1 and 10 people can solve this riddle!!!!! Share it with 5 of your closest friends if you get it," (A made-up statistic made it more believable to my underdeveloped child brain) and I thought my riddle was really clever, like some National Treasure type shit, and she just sent me a message back that was like, "Wow, what a dumb message. This riddle was so stupidly easy a monkey could solve it." Nah, she devastated me. 💀
Honestly I would too I have ocd and I literally have a panic attack when people send me chain mail it is incredibly upsetting to me whenever I get them I always scold whoever sent it to me
Hooooooh noh. I remember my first chain email, also around 8 or 9. I was trying to be brave and didn't forward it but then also didn't sleep all night because I was sure a creepy girl was gonna stab me and my plan was kinda just to be ready and fight her off. Surviving that night made me stronger.
Im so glad someone finally spoke out about this, this trend has been ongoing for years but I feel that no one has actually acknoledged how insanely annoying and destructive this trend is
was anyone else scarred by receiving a chain email that said if you blink your lights at someone at a stop sign they will follow you home, only is was like 20 years ago before you could even drive, but now you're in your late twenties and still think about it and hesitate flashing your lights at anyone??? just me???
Not just you!! I still get that creeped out feeling from time to time haha That story is still going around, too! My mom just recently got an iPhone and she “warned” me about that a few months ago.
@@starbucksthiholsters that’s what the chain mail was warning against!! (Obvi I do blink at others when there’s a hazard, but it’s just crazy how it stuck with me literal decades later)
As I’m in college now and used to get bad to okay grades the ONLY thing I found to give me good grades almost right away: is to study. And study frequently in small bits.
i deleted tik tok and twitter off my phone and occasionally go on it every few months. truly the best decision i’ve ever made. i have never been so happy to be out of the loop. life is just so much simpler without it, like i feel a lot more present and in control of my life (i suffer from adhd and tik tok truly is a dopamine trap). at one point, it was making me ANGRIER to be on those apps, having people spewing their opinions and bashing others. ugh life is so much more peaceful, i will never go back.
Same, I deleted the app a while ago and I couldn’t be happier that I didn’t stay sucked into it. Nowni just have to dodge the TH-cam Facebook and instagram shorts and I’ll be fine.
I remember in the 90s, we used to get chail mail letters. Your friend would send you a letter, and you had to copy it out and send it to six other people or (nebulous threat of bad luck). Glad to see that silly bollocks is alive and well for Gen Z. And by 'glad' I mean, exasperated.
As a person with OCD where my rituals can span up to 20 minutes long, I personally had to delete tiktok because this trend was completely destroying my mental health
I see a lot of this on Tumblr. A lot of posts are like "reblog this or you're racist and you want to murder everyone in the world" or "if you reblog this post [insert Tumblr Sexyman or cute thing here] will come to your room tonight". It's just really annoying and stuff like this prays on impressionable kids.
I remember seeing a lot of these chainmail type things on deviantart when I was a kid. I was safe from feeling pressured into spamming others with it because it was deviantart and assumed it was another bizarre roleplay thing 😭😭
As a Witch I get these chain tiktoks frequently. I'm pretty disappointed in the witch/spiritual community in participating in a thing that is so stupid. It hardly ever if ever works. The universe, God or whatever does not work through likes, comments, share, saving audios etc.
Saw a video that was like "use this sound and the goddess Aphrodite will bless you, skip she will curse you" like does Aphrodite has nothing better to do then check who used a tiktok sound???
Dude I remember being little and seeing one of those ghost child will kill you tonight ones on Pinterest and I didn’t want to repost it because my mom followed me and I was so terrified that night that I had to sleep in my parents bed 😭
I remember the chain letters from the mid-to-late 90s. They were so dumb. They were a thing at the time the internet came to be, but snail mail meant you had to have actual stuff (ie paper, ink, a way to put the ink on the paper, envelopes and stamps), so there was a barrier to entry. They kinda went insane when all you needed was a connection to the WWW. I can only imagine what it's like when there is a chance to monetize them via ad revenue
dude there were chain texts in my friend groups all the time as a kid and i never wanted to pass them on bc they terrified me and i didnt want to scare anyone else, but that meant that i was always extremely scared that the threat would happen even if i knew they wouldn't. i lost so many nights of sleep over these dumb things
I literally saw one that said use this sound or your mom dies and my mom had cancer and I was nervous and a little upset because how low can people get
It's absolutely bizzare to hear about chainmail content still thriving and taking new forms. I thought that the thing had died out a solid decade ago or at least stayed on Facebook
Jordy pleaseee do more videos for us that were kids on the internet during the mid to late 2000s, I'm a 99 baby and I swear anyone ik irl just doesn't know all the neat little things (and luckily for them all the dark parts) of experiencing the internet as a kid, I should've played outside more but here we are 🙏😭
this is why i have a pinterest board of those chain mail protection posts, can't get me, i looked at a picture of a dog and also a cat and now i'm immune for life
Another one that kind of reminds me of this is the 'pov you save my pet's life by liking, commenting and following' and it shows a sad, sick animal with high medical bills. I always felt so guilty for scrolling until I saw someone talking about how she had interacted with every one she came across and now her fyp was now exclusively sad videos about dying animals begging you to interact.
im SO glad someone is talking about this. i thought i was losing it being the only one under seas of comments with “claim” thinking this is insane and not true or real like it doesn’t even work !!
this!! and also people who make "manifestation music" i.e. if you stream their music, good things will happen. how can't people see that it's nothing more than a marketing gimmick?
i had a full on fight with a girl in elementary school over a chain text bc it gave me a panic attack and she kept doubling down on the chain text lore. our dads got involved
Ugh, those chain mails are horrible. It’s like you know know it’s stupid, but there’s still this nagging in the back of your mind about a ‘what if?’ situation if you don’t follow through. I remember getting those on Roblox back in 2014 and sending it to my Roblox friends because I was scared. Lmao.
My first chain post came about when I was in 7th grade (2014) and It was on facebook. I don't remember the specifics but it was something about if you don't repost this someone's going to unalive you in your sleep. I got a bit scared and reposted it then the next day talked to a friend about it who explained to me what chain posts are and I felt so silly after that. As for spiritual tiktok that's another story within itself and sadly has created more problems than solutions especially when it comes to readings.
i remember i used one of those chain tiktoks that are like 'use this audio and he'll be obsessed with you'. i was so obsessed and lovesick with my boyfriend, and my common sense just went out of the window when that tiktok came up. and then my boyfriend broke up with me that same day.
I'm glad that I always thought that these were weird and that everyone in the comments saying "CLAIM" was just concerning. This felt exactly like text/chain mail of the late 2000s-mid 2010s and I've been around long enough to experience both this and those things. Every time I feel like "damn my friend is smart" and then I see them in the comments of one of these I just deflate lmfao
The other thing I hate is the more subtle forms of this. I see it in social justice spaces where it takes a more subtle form of using shame or misplaced guilt, but also fear, to get people to participate in a petition or sharing posts or talking/learning about something. Similar kind of thing happens in religious settings. I’ve legitimately burnt myself out to the point of struggling to eat and shower (not even cook and clean) from overdoing it with voluntary work before so I know all too well that people legitimately only have the capacity to meaningfully care about one or two causes, and spreading yourself thin can a) burn you out like me and b) lead to the spread of misinformation and even scams by well meaning people. People aren’t bad people for not putting their effort into a given cause! I’ve seen so many people complain about performative activism and then turn around and guilt trip people into participating in activism, as if that approach isn’t one of the main causes of performative activism. Same thing with religion, people complaining about others not being dedicated enough and then turning around and using manipulation to convert people. Like if you’re getting people to become involved out of guilt or fear, instead of their own initiative, is it any surprise that they’re not passionate about the thing in question?? Thank you so much for this video!
The positive one's don't bother me so much unless people think their month will be horrible if they don't use the sound, what bothers me is the ones that say like "use this sound or [bad thing] will happen." It just feels off because it feels like people are just encouraging obsessive compulsive behaviors for clout. That whole "Do x or y will happen" kind of thing is how some kinds of obsessive compulsive thoughts manifest. I don't know if these kinds of TikToks can cause someone to develop OCD or to relapse but it feels like something people should be more aware of, even if it can't. Encouraging these kinds of thoughts isn't good. If you're having these kinds of thoughts, that's completely valid, but obsessive compulsive behaviors shouldn't be encouraged, especially for clout. (Little side note: I may not be fully right in what I'm saying but this is just how I feel as someone who had/has OCD)
I see this tactic being used for “social activism” on tik tok. There are some genuinely educational videos on things like palestine and congo on the app. However, there are some goobers who create filters to get interaction and pretend like they’re gonna donate the money they get to “causes”. its manipulative to children, but it hits especially close to home for people with morality OCD.
@@dysonsphereishere some of them are posted by accounts that don’t even have the ability to get money from the TikTok creator fund, others are created by bigots who only made the filter to get money. no matter what it’s very difficult to know exactly where the money is going, because TikTok is not a donation platform. I don’t doubt that there are people who make filters with good intentions, but it’s very performative and only surface level helpful.
These kinds of videos drive me so insane it's awful. I saw one that said someone I love would die the next day, and then the next day I got one saying that I would die. I have severe anxiety as well as other issues so that really fucked me up as embarrassing that is to admit. Like god that messed me up until someone had to soothe me out of it. It's the same as chainmail back in the day, little me didn't even know it wasn't real and now I KNOW that nothing will happen but there's a part of my brain that says it will. Fun.
not embarrassing at all! Being manipulated into being terrified of you or a loved one dying is not ur fault it's the unhinged people who decided to make it! Some people have certain anti-chainmail things they use that makes them feel protected from all other chain mail... I think I'm going to post them on my community tab so everyone will be protected 4ever no matter what
@@jordysyoutubechannelyeah I know Tiktok had that golden monkey thing ? But some ppl who make these videos have started saying "and golden monkey won't work" at the end of their little paragraphs and it's like oh ok. it did give me some peace of mind tho at least
Superstition is wild to me. People be believing kids tales as adults. I used to believe in all that ghost/demon/witch/religion shit as a kid. I left that there as a child where it belongs.
I love how you went through chain mail through history just to show that while the world around us changes quickly, humans can have very persistent ways hahaha
out of nowhere like every other tiktok on my fyp was one of these it was driving me NUTS. i had to click “not interested” for days maybe weeks straight for it to stop it was so annoying omg it was being pushed SO hard!!
@4:30 oh wow this is a ponzi or what is called a “giving loom” these days. Every Christmas, I’m invited to a new WhatsApp group that is literally just this.
when i was like 8 and would use my moms phone just to look at ifunny (not even to play games. literally just to scroll on ifunny. this was like 2011) there was _so_ many chain mail posts. thing is, i didnt know how to use the app, i just knew you swiped right to look at the posts, so whenever i saw the posts i was like 'oh thats scary' (they were almost always the 'bad thing will happen!' ones) but i never did the 'repost this to be safe!' thing and nothing happened so... i mean, im mentally ill and traumatized so maybe it manifested like that /j
we had a thing in russian social media, posts where it says "say the name of your crush three times do ten pushups and send this post to 5 friends and tomorrow you will have an iphone under your pillow!!!" like these kids understood manifestation before it became popular
2:00 god this reminded me of when i was a wee lass, my child self got the infamous carmen winstead chain text and me being the gullible kid i was forwarded it to as many contacts as i could. i was freaking out, hoping that the few contacts i had would suffice (i think it was like one or two short of what it said lmao) but tried to move on about my day. i think like a couple hours later, my mom comes in my room, holding the phone and seeming like she was crying (very convincingly might i add). now ofc when you see your parent crying, you start panicking. she tells me the call's for me, and hands me the phone. i ask who it is, heart racing, and i hear a gravelly voice asking why i didn't send enough messages, telling me i only have a couple days left to live, etc etc. so at this point i'm fucking hysterical and crying my eyes out, at which point mom starts busting out laughing and tells my uncle he can cut the act. afterwards i hear him laughing too, apologizing and then mom walks off and keeps talking to him, joking about it. so then i just went back to my bed, sat there for a few minutes and let my lil noggin process what the fuck had just happened. i still get a kick thinking about it now, a good bit later as an adult 😂😭
@@jordysyoutubechannel DUDE I WAS FUCKING FLABBERGASTED WHEN I FIGURED OUT MY MOM AND UNCLE GOT SOME LIL SCHEME GOIN TO PRANK ME BAHAHAHA was traumatizing yes but funny asf looking back on
I glad the "Something bad will happen" ones haven't effected me with my OCD and so I'm able to quickly skip and do a good old "Not interested". Dodging bullets out here...
I keep seeing these old internet trends reoccurring on new platforms and all I can think is, I'm old enough to the point where I'm witnessing history repeating itself.
When I was a kid I wrote a chain text threatening everyone to be nicer to animals. 15 or so years later I'm a hardcore vegan activist. My tactics have advanced (slightly).
To me, using people's feelings of hopessness and desperation just to generate clicks and clout is not okay. Not to mention the adverse effects it has on people with OCD, since it can be a huge trigger for compulsions/paranoia.
Since reblogging the ✨️magical shiba inu which recovers and protects you from all chain posts for eternity✨️ on my tumblr feed, I've been released from this curse of madness. :)
I remember getting chain texts in middle school, and they said to send to 15 other people but I didn't have that many in my contacts so I just stopped sending them
Great video! i love your video style and humor, but i'm not super into the movies you've covered, so i like to see you branching out on the things you are doing videos on!
i remember in elementary school i was playing roblox on my iPad, and my friend at the time sent me a message about carmen winstead. i had a whole breakdown because ofc i was scared shitless. but nothing happened and like a whole decade later i still feel a bit paranoid whenever chaintoks pop up (not the bad luck ones, but the ones about how a certain demon is gonna come out of my toilet and crawl up my ass or whatever)
0:35 Back in my days, we had "do X and Y good thing will happen for you, ignore and you'll receive Z years of bad luck/ your Q family member will die/get sick in the next R hours". Anyway, that's why I'll still be single for at least 20 of my future lives. ETA: Not to say I never shared the chainmails. I just got tired of life. And chainmails.
I'm such a paranoid person when I see those kind of videos as much as I want to ignore them, in the back of my mind I end up recording sm and posting it on private (its so bad it doesn't help my brother does the same thing so I find mysel actively looking down on the captions instead so I don't fully read the actual caption in the video.
I got in trouble as a child for sending one of these chain emails 😂 I wasn’t a lil bitch and I followed directions and sent it on to 8 people. Well one of my friends got “so scared she slept in her parents room for days” and called my mom to tell her about it! She was not happy with me 🙈
This shit has been done before on facebook. Share and you will have luck, ignore or this creature will come after you this evening or something like that.
As a person with OCD (and still working through it even though my symptoms started appearing 5 years ago) chainmail is very annoying and is constantly a mental block to work though, I used to be so avoidant of chainmail because I didn't get diagnosed yet. I KNEW rationally nothing would happen, but the little voice in my brain would constantly urge me to follow along with the chainmail. Mentally tiring. Chainmail can be fun if people are cool with it, but overall it's just manipulation and rubs me the wrong way
Literallyyyyy! They just want likes and shares I hate it so much
it makes me feel so stupid for not being able to ignore it. i’ve powered through some of it but not without the mental alarms going off a bit
THIS!!! I literally post the (don’t skip or bad luck) things on Insta on my story and then immediately delete even though I never do them just to get the OCD feeling to go away
@@erikajeweli would actively seek out the tumblr safe kitty when i was younger and would stumble into something lol
It's extremely triggering for people with OCD as well as delusional disorders in the psychosis spectrum
One time I reblogged a chain post on tumblr that had a happy fat calico cat and it said that they would protect me from every other chain post and also get me the rewards without doing anything. It feels like some sort of psychological loophole, but it really did cure me. Now I just picture that big chubby kitty and don't even entertain the thought of the chain post coming true or not
This is actually so cute💕 that would've probably cured me too😂
@@Tinymushroom1 Here, have it-- I pass her powers onto you!😽✨🧚♀
I saw something similar but it was a yugioh card instead with a dog on it.
that’s so incredible omg
No I love those on tumblr. As someone else said about their OCD I have mild OCD and those chain mail things used to grind me up even though I KNEW it was all bs. Seeing those loophole posts helped me get over those chain mail posts. Now I don’t feel an obligation.
I think we should spread these anti chain memes again (like "this is larry, larry is here to protect you from any chain mail on the internet"). They were cute and having ocd myself, I feel like they helped
YES
yeah there's one called the golden monkey.
I’m so glad someone is finally talking about this, this trend takes advantage of people with anxiety and ocd so hard
This is why I don't use Tiktok. You can do all you want to curate your feed and it just gets overwhelmed with garbage because you have no true control over it.
When I was like 15 I got a chain letter via facebook message from someone in school that I didn’t even know very well and completely misunderstood what it was saying (autism meant I took things very literally).
So I told a teacher because I thought it was a legitimate threat to kill me and needless to say the school quickly educated students on the concept chain letters and fact checking.
I’m really sorry, that must have been terrifying for you in the moment
Growing up, I was the kid who wrote chainmail just to spread it. 💀 It didn't benefit me at all because this was before social media became common, and I was like 10. I stopped because one time I sent a message to my friend that began with something like, "Only 1 and 10 people can solve this riddle!!!!! Share it with 5 of your closest friends if you get it," (A made-up statistic made it more believable to my underdeveloped child brain) and I thought my riddle was really clever, like some National Treasure type shit, and she just sent me a message back that was like, "Wow, what a dumb message. This riddle was so stupidly easy a monkey could solve it." Nah, she devastated me. 💀
oh man, what a brutal way to stop chainmail 😅
PLEASE HAHAHAHAHAHA
Honestly I would too I have ocd and I literally have a panic attack when people send me chain mail it is incredibly upsetting to me whenever I get them I always scold whoever sent it to me
Hooooooh noh. I remember my first chain email, also around 8 or 9. I was trying to be brave and didn't forward it but then also didn't sleep all night because I was sure a creepy girl was gonna stab me and my plan was kinda just to be ready and fight her off. Surviving that night made me stronger.
you are a SURVIVOR
Im so glad someone finally spoke out about this, this trend has been ongoing for years but I feel that no one has actually acknoledged how insanely annoying and destructive this trend is
was anyone else scarred by receiving a chain email that said if you blink your lights at someone at a stop sign they will follow you home, only is was like 20 years ago before you could even drive, but now you're in your late twenties and still think about it and hesitate flashing your lights at anyone??? just me???
Not just you!! I still get that creeped out feeling from time to time haha
That story is still going around, too! My mom just recently got an iPhone and she “warned” me about that a few months ago.
The only time I blink my lights is when people forgot to turn theirs on and it’s dark. I’m just trying to keep them safe.
@@starbucksthiholsters that’s what the chain mail was warning against!! (Obvi I do blink at others when there’s a hazard, but it’s just crazy how it stuck with me literal decades later)
@@starbucksthiholstersgod bless you people I just started driving and have been helped like twice already 😭
THAT'S WHERE I GOT THAT FROM! I still think about it every time I drive, which is wild because I'm sure I got that on AOL 😂
I had to start scrolling past all the chain TikTok’s because they were making me so upset. I even talked about it in therapy 😭
Bro they are stressful especially as a spiritual girlie!
FKJGHKBAKDJFJ I'm sorry I feel u but this made me laugh, we live in a ridiculous reality truly
As I’m in college now and used to get bad to okay grades the ONLY thing I found to give me good grades almost right away: is to study. And study frequently in small bits.
i deleted tik tok and twitter off my phone and occasionally go on it every few months. truly the best decision i’ve ever made. i have never been so happy to be out of the loop. life is just so much simpler without it, like i feel a lot more present and in control of my life (i suffer from adhd and tik tok truly is a dopamine trap). at one point, it was making me ANGRIER to be on those apps, having people spewing their opinions and bashing others. ugh life is so much more peaceful, i will never go back.
REAL, the only reason i even have tiktok is cause i post videos there, i hate everything else about the platform though
Same, I deleted the app a while ago and I couldn’t be happier that I didn’t stay sucked into it. Nowni just have to dodge the TH-cam Facebook and instagram shorts and I’ll be fine.
I remember in the 90s, we used to get chail mail letters. Your friend would send you a letter, and you had to copy it out and send it to six other people or (nebulous threat of bad luck). Glad to see that silly bollocks is alive and well for Gen Z. And by 'glad' I mean, exasperated.
That happened to me too, not just from friends but also from strangers (they took names and addresses from the phone book). Oh, and I'm from Europe.
As a person with OCD where my rituals can span up to 20 minutes long, I personally had to delete tiktok because this trend was completely destroying my mental health
I see a lot of this on Tumblr. A lot of posts are like "reblog this or you're racist and you want to murder everyone in the world" or "if you reblog this post [insert Tumblr Sexyman or cute thing here] will come to your room tonight". It's just really annoying and stuff like this prays on impressionable kids.
It drives me crazy- I feel like I can never ignore it. It's so evil- I'm surprised more people don't talk about it
I remember seeing a lot of these chainmail type things on deviantart when I was a kid. I was safe from feeling pressured into spamming others with it because it was deviantart and assumed it was another bizarre roleplay thing 😭😭
As a Witch I get these chain tiktoks frequently. I'm pretty disappointed in the witch/spiritual community in participating in a thing that is so stupid. It hardly ever if ever works. The universe, God or whatever does not work through likes, comments, share, saving audios etc.
It “hardly ever works”? No, this sh*t _does not_ work.
Saw a video that was like "use this sound and the goddess Aphrodite will bless you, skip she will curse you" like does Aphrodite has nothing better to do then check who used a tiktok sound???
Dude I remember being little and seeing one of those ghost child will kill you tonight ones on Pinterest and I didn’t want to repost it because my mom followed me and I was so terrified that night that I had to sleep in my parents bed 😭
OMG
sending chain stuff to kids is on the same level as having little first graders with anxiety play Zombie Apocalypse in phys ed 💀💀 shitty
same I never wanted to share them bc I didn't want to terrorize other kids 😭😭😭😭 so I was just all terrified
I remember the chain letters from the mid-to-late 90s. They were so dumb. They were a thing at the time the internet came to be, but snail mail meant you had to have actual stuff (ie paper, ink, a way to put the ink on the paper, envelopes and stamps), so there was a barrier to entry. They kinda went insane when all you needed was a connection to the WWW. I can only imagine what it's like when there is a chance to monetize them via ad revenue
dude there were chain texts in my friend groups all the time as a kid and i never wanted to pass them on bc they terrified me and i didnt want to scare anyone else, but that meant that i was always extremely scared that the threat would happen even if i knew they wouldn't. i lost so many nights of sleep over these dumb things
ur a true friend for taking the imaginary wrath of chain texts
Bro said it stops with me and stood on bidness🤴
I literally saw one that said use this sound or your mom dies and my mom had cancer and I was nervous and a little upset because how low can people get
It's absolutely bizzare to hear about chainmail content still thriving and taking new forms. I thought that the thing had died out a solid decade ago or at least stayed on Facebook
Jordy pleaseee do more videos for us that were kids on the internet during the mid to late 2000s, I'm a 99 baby and I swear anyone ik irl just doesn't know all the neat little things (and luckily for them all the dark parts) of experiencing the internet as a kid, I should've played outside more but here we are 🙏😭
they are on the way angel!
chainmail is one of theeee most triggering things for me to run into online, having severe generalized anxiety
this is why i have a pinterest board of those chain mail protection posts, can't get me, i looked at a picture of a dog and also a cat and now i'm immune for life
life hack!!
Another one that kind of reminds me of this is the 'pov you save my pet's life by liking, commenting and following' and it shows a sad, sick animal with high medical bills. I always felt so guilty for scrolling until I saw someone talking about how she had interacted with every one she came across and now her fyp was now exclusively sad videos about dying animals begging you to interact.
im SO glad someone is talking about this. i thought i was losing it being the only one under seas of comments with “claim” thinking this is insane and not true or real like it doesn’t even work !!
as a person who has ocd traits (but doesn’t have ocd), I am so glad people are speaking up about this.
Your channels definitely gonna blow up, way too well produced for 7k views!
this means the world tysm!
this!! and also people who make "manifestation music" i.e. if you stream their music, good things will happen. how can't people see that it's nothing more than a marketing gimmick?
i had a full on fight with a girl in elementary school over a chain text bc it gave me a panic attack and she kept doubling down on the chain text lore. our dads got involved
Jordy!! You have so many followers now!!! Congrats!!! I hope ur channel keeps growing!
U go girl!!!
thank you angel 🥹🥹🥹
Ugh, those chain mails are horrible. It’s like you know know it’s stupid, but there’s still this nagging in the back of your mind about a ‘what if?’ situation if you don’t follow through.
I remember getting those on Roblox back in 2014 and sending it to my Roblox friends because I was scared. Lmao.
My first chain post came about when I was in 7th grade (2014) and It was on facebook. I don't remember the specifics but it was something about if you don't repost this someone's going to unalive you in your sleep. I got a bit scared and reposted it then the next day talked to a friend about it who explained to me what chain posts are and I felt so silly after that.
As for spiritual tiktok that's another story within itself and sadly has created more problems than solutions especially when it comes to readings.
the worse part about this is the fact that no matter how many times I click "not interested" they still haunt my fyp. my sign to stay off my phone
i remember i used one of those chain tiktoks that are like 'use this audio and he'll be obsessed with you'. i was so obsessed and lovesick with my boyfriend, and my common sense just went out of the window when that tiktok came up. and then my boyfriend broke up with me that same day.
NOOOOOO omg
I'm glad that I always thought that these were weird and that everyone in the comments saying "CLAIM" was just concerning. This felt exactly like text/chain mail of the late 2000s-mid 2010s and I've been around long enough to experience both this and those things. Every time I feel like "damn my friend is smart" and then I see them in the comments of one of these I just deflate lmfao
The other thing I hate is the more subtle forms of this. I see it in social justice spaces where it takes a more subtle form of using shame or misplaced guilt, but also fear, to get people to participate in a petition or sharing posts or talking/learning about something. Similar kind of thing happens in religious settings. I’ve legitimately burnt myself out to the point of struggling to eat and shower (not even cook and clean) from overdoing it with voluntary work before so I know all too well that people legitimately only have the capacity to meaningfully care about one or two causes, and spreading yourself thin can a) burn you out like me and b) lead to the spread of misinformation and even scams by well meaning people. People aren’t bad people for not putting their effort into a given cause! I’ve seen so many people complain about performative activism and then turn around and guilt trip people into participating in activism, as if that approach isn’t one of the main causes of performative activism. Same thing with religion, people complaining about others not being dedicated enough and then turning around and using manipulation to convert people. Like if you’re getting people to become involved out of guilt or fear, instead of their own initiative, is it any surprise that they’re not passionate about the thing in question?? Thank you so much for this video!
The positive one's don't bother me so much unless people think their month will be horrible if they don't use the sound, what bothers me is the ones that say like "use this sound or [bad thing] will happen." It just feels off because it feels like people are just encouraging obsessive compulsive behaviors for clout. That whole "Do x or y will happen" kind of thing is how some kinds of obsessive compulsive thoughts manifest. I don't know if these kinds of TikToks can cause someone to develop OCD or to relapse but it feels like something people should be more aware of, even if it can't. Encouraging these kinds of thoughts isn't good. If you're having these kinds of thoughts, that's completely valid, but obsessive compulsive behaviors shouldn't be encouraged, especially for clout. (Little side note: I may not be fully right in what I'm saying but this is just how I feel as someone who had/has OCD)
I see this tactic being used for “social activism” on tik tok. There are some genuinely educational videos on things like palestine and congo on the app. However, there are some goobers who create filters to get interaction and pretend like they’re gonna donate the money they get to “causes”. its manipulative to children, but it hits especially close to home for people with morality OCD.
wait, the filters aren't real?
@@dysonsphereishere some of them are posted by accounts that don’t even have the ability to get money from the TikTok creator fund, others are created by bigots who only made the filter to get money. no matter what it’s very difficult to know exactly where the money is going, because TikTok is not a donation platform. I don’t doubt that there are people who make filters with good intentions, but it’s very performative and only surface level helpful.
These kinds of videos drive me so insane it's awful. I saw one that said someone I love would die the next day, and then the next day I got one saying that I would die. I have severe anxiety as well as other issues so that really fucked me up as embarrassing that is to admit. Like god that messed me up until someone had to soothe me out of it. It's the same as chainmail back in the day, little me didn't even know it wasn't real and now I KNOW that nothing will happen but there's a part of my brain that says it will. Fun.
not embarrassing at all! Being manipulated into being terrified of you or a loved one dying is not ur fault it's the unhinged people who decided to make it! Some people have certain anti-chainmail things they use that makes them feel protected from all other chain mail... I think I'm going to post them on my community tab so everyone will be protected 4ever no matter what
@@jordysyoutubechannelyeah I know Tiktok had that golden monkey thing ? But some ppl who make these videos have started saying "and golden monkey won't work" at the end of their little paragraphs and it's like oh ok. it did give me some peace of mind tho at least
I've had bad luck, ever since I didn't forward that one email with the snail to at least 15 people
Superstition is wild to me. People be believing kids tales as adults. I used to believe in all that ghost/demon/witch/religion shit as a kid. I left that there as a child where it belongs.
When jordy starts talking history 😫🫶💗 also ur hair looks so great! Also how do you get the lighting to look so good for ur vids?? 🤯
thank u angel!!! i just use a warm light above my camera !
I love how you went through chain mail through history just to show that while the world around us changes quickly, humans can have very persistent ways hahaha
out of nowhere like every other tiktok on my fyp was one of these it was driving me NUTS. i had to click “not interested” for days maybe weeks straight for it to stop it was so annoying omg it was being pushed SO hard!!
@4:30 oh wow this is a ponzi or what is called a “giving loom” these days. Every Christmas, I’m invited to a new WhatsApp group that is literally just this.
Kids still making chain letters but in tiktok form 😂 thinking they're so original and totally not doing what generations did before them 😂😂
when i was like 8 and would use my moms phone just to look at ifunny (not even to play games. literally just to scroll on ifunny. this was like 2011) there was _so_ many chain mail posts. thing is, i didnt know how to use the app, i just knew you swiped right to look at the posts, so whenever i saw the posts i was like 'oh thats scary' (they were almost always the 'bad thing will happen!' ones) but i never did the 'repost this to be safe!' thing and nothing happened so...
i mean, im mentally ill and traumatized so maybe it manifested like that /j
Not the prosperity club fancam lol
she really was that girl!
we had a thing in russian social media, posts where it says "say the name of your crush three times do ten pushups and send this post to 5 friends and tomorrow you will have an iphone under your pillow!!!" like these kids understood manifestation before it became popular
You have EXCELLENT taste in background music
im so so pleased you appreciate it
@@jordysyoutubechannel random ds music is literally the perfect background music for videos I swear
Finally someone talking about this. I hate these videos
2:00 god this reminded me of when i was a wee lass, my child self got the infamous carmen winstead chain text and me being the gullible kid i was forwarded it to as many contacts as i could. i was freaking out, hoping that the few contacts i had would suffice (i think it was like one or two short of what it said lmao) but tried to move on about my day. i think like a couple hours later, my mom comes in my room, holding the phone and seeming like she was crying (very convincingly might i add). now ofc when you see your parent crying, you start panicking. she tells me the call's for me, and hands me the phone. i ask who it is, heart racing, and i hear a gravelly voice asking why i didn't send enough messages, telling me i only have a couple days left to live, etc etc. so at this point i'm fucking hysterical and crying my eyes out, at which point mom starts busting out laughing and tells my uncle he can cut the act. afterwards i hear him laughing too, apologizing and then mom walks off and keeps talking to him, joking about it. so then i just went back to my bed, sat there for a few minutes and let my lil noggin process what the fuck had just happened. i still get a kick thinking about it now, a good bit later as an adult 😂😭
thats actually kind of traumatizing WHAT
@@jordysyoutubechannel DUDE I WAS FUCKING FLABBERGASTED WHEN I FIGURED OUT MY MOM AND UNCLE GOT SOME LIL SCHEME GOIN TO PRANK ME BAHAHAHA was traumatizing yes but funny asf looking back on
@@unsterino😂 that’s either gonna be a traumatic core memory and/or a ‘good times’ family meme forever.
@@Kleinage i honestly don't think mom nor that uncle remember, but i sure as hell do 😂😭
I glad the "Something bad will happen" ones haven't effected me with my OCD and so I'm able to quickly skip and do a good old "Not interested". Dodging bullets out here...
God the amount of times I received chain texts in middle school that came with so many false promises😂 I'm still waiting for my riches and popularity💕
I keep seeing these old internet trends reoccurring on new platforms and all I can think is, I'm old enough to the point where I'm witnessing history repeating itself.
When I was a kid I wrote a chain text threatening everyone to be nicer to animals. 15 or so years later I'm a hardcore vegan activist. My tactics have advanced (slightly).
you are honestly iconic for that!
@@jordysyoutubechannel Ohh how sweet of you!! I will print your reply out to read next time someone throws a burger at me (happened last week) 😂❤
HELP my KPop mutual was just sending us her old chain texts from middle school the other day
The irony of this video mentioning replying to youtube videos with videos being how I found out you can make a Short with the comments is chef's kiss
full circle moment omg
The office at 2:00 with the mark Zuckerberg poster is such a great little visual gag.
This used to be the kind of garbage going around on e-mails first, then Facebook, and now TikTok and TH-cam shorts…
They were very common in snail mail form in the 80s and 90s too. - sincerely, an elder millennial
@@superfacch Interesting, does not surprise me. I feel like these kind of things especially go around in school back in the day
The cocktober part spoke to me because I’ve been getting that message every Halloween for years now it feels
I really just blocked/restricted and filtered all the sounds and hashtags they used, and they went away. I hated seeing those, they're terrible
i remember seeing chain mail in soundcloud comments back in 2017😭
PLEASEEEE not soundcloud hahahha there is no escape
really enjoyed this!
im so glad!!
To me, using people's feelings of hopessness and desperation just to generate clicks and clout is not okay. Not to mention the adverse effects it has on people with OCD, since it can be a huge trigger for compulsions/paranoia.
I've never seen those videos, but that's probably because tik Tok figures out what I'm interested in and hasn't shown any of those to me
Omg I completely forgot about chain mail emails 😅 Fab video Jordy!!
thank you!!!
Since reblogging the ✨️magical shiba inu which recovers and protects you from all chain posts for eternity✨️ on my tumblr feed, I've been released from this curse of madness. :)
that's actually so incredible
@@jordysyoutubechannel it really is; if I find it again I'll link it 😭🪻
$1536.50USD in 1932 dollars is equivalent to $31,235USD in 2023 dollars.
Always a good day when you post lol
thank u angel
7:02 this gives my flashbacks to that one weird ass eichi post….. if you’re an enstarrie you know which one I mean.
The little model shoot clipshow of the postal service gave me a giggle, this channel is great.
im so so glad you appreciated it
I remember getting chain texts in middle school, and they said to send to 15 other people but I didn't have that many in my contacts so I just stopped sending them
Great video! i love your video style and humor, but i'm not super into the movies you've covered, so i like to see you branching out on the things you are doing videos on!
I don’t have tiktok but there keeps coming chainmail through text telling people to wear a certain color on certain days.
this video was so fun automatic subscribeeeeee the way you talk scratches my brain
does anyone remember the dabloon trend that lasted a couple of weeks? I feel like that works of the same energy
i remember in elementary school i was playing roblox on my iPad, and my friend at the time sent me a message about carmen winstead. i had a whole breakdown because ofc i was scared shitless. but nothing happened and like a whole decade later i still feel a bit paranoid whenever chaintoks pop up (not the bad luck ones, but the ones about how a certain demon is gonna come out of my toilet and crawl up my ass or whatever)
the demon ones specifically have caused me so much stress
I remember those spooky chain emails as a kid.
Hellfire from Hunchback of Notre Dame at 0:23…. And you thought I wouldn’t notice?
What’s so fascinating is that it works so easily on people and the ones that are making these videos make a lot of money.
Wow i cant believe its actually true. I subscribed and suddenly all the stray cats in my area found loving homes ???
I’m already subscribed… but if I wasn’t, I’d subscribe just for the ending music in this video. 🍀
ur fav!
I didn't realize that chain letters went back that far. Thanks for the little history lesson. 🥰
FINALLY SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT THIS.
This is random but I love your videos sm. You deserve so many subscribers and I can't wait to watch your channel grow!! Keep doing what you're doing ❤
thank you so much angel, means the world!
Finally someone is talking about it
"If you scroll down you will have a bad luck"
*refreshes instead*
0:35 Back in my days, we had "do X and Y good thing will happen for you, ignore and you'll receive Z years of bad luck/ your Q family member will die/get sick in the next R hours".
Anyway, that's why I'll still be single for at least 20 of my future lives.
ETA: Not to say I never shared the chainmails. I just got tired of life. And chainmails.
2:03 CARMEN WINSTEAD OMF 😭
OMG it's just like Facebook- hate it- but at least I get a little bit of nostalgia from it lol
I'm such a paranoid person when I see those kind of videos as much as I want to ignore them, in the back of my mind I end up recording sm and posting it on private (its so bad it doesn't help my brother does the same thing so I find mysel actively looking down on the captions instead so I don't fully read the actual caption in the video.
this is so fair
This has been the n existence since emails and flip phone forwarding lol
I got in trouble as a child for sending one of these chain emails 😂 I wasn’t a lil bitch and I followed directions and sent it on to 8 people. Well one of my friends got “so scared she slept in her parents room for days” and called my mom to tell her about it! She was not happy with me 🙈
This shit has been done before on facebook. Share and you will have luck, ignore or this creature will come after you this evening or something like that.
Can't wait for VR chain letters