The Cursed Image Creepypasta Iceberg Explained (1)

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  • Today we dive into the world of Cursed Images and Cursed Image Creepypastas. If any of those things interest you, give this video a watch.
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  • @bingobo2551
    @bingobo2551 ปีที่แล้ว +709

    Heres some timestamps
    Intro: introduction 0:05
    Creepypasta: Smile dog.JPG 1:33
    Image: jeff the killer 6:22
    Creepypasta: The Gif 8:55
    Creepypasta: Image.001 10:54
    Creepypasta: The Girl in the photograph 14:16
    Image: Slender Man 16:52
    Creepypasta: Zalgo 18:30
    Creepypasta: The Portraits 19:37
    Creepypasta: Slideshow 21:41
    Creepypasta: Tower of Silence 22:45
    Creepypasta: Janice.JPG 25:14
    Creepypasta: Anomaly 30:08
    Creepypasta: The Painting 36:47
    Creepypasta: Satellite Images 40:13
    Outro: Ending 42:47

    • @sankzear4555
      @sankzear4555 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I see you all the time on these videos

    • @bingobo2551
      @bingobo2551 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@sankzear4555 I’m usually watching most of these.

    • @sankzear4555
      @sankzear4555 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bingobo2551 I always forget that this channel exists until I get the new video notification

    • @r_a_z_i_n_
      @r_a_z_i_n_ ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thank god ahenobarbus genocide isn't here I would've shat my pants

    • @bingobo2551
      @bingobo2551 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@r_a_z_i_n_ it might be assuming sacrow is gonna make more than 1 part

  • @BlackDelarose
    @BlackDelarose ปีที่แล้ว +169

    The entities fighting who will kill me first after I looked at all of the cursed images.

    • @RiOSquINTos
      @RiOSquINTos ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Real moment

    • @yourdad5799
      @yourdad5799 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      They battle for custudy of your soul

    • @BlackDelarose
      @BlackDelarose ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@yourdad5799 yo dad, did you buy the milk?

    • @alkv7604
      @alkv7604 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "NO, I'LL KILL CAROLINE DELAROSE!"
      "NO, I WILL!"
      "SHUT UP ALL OF YOU! I WILL!"

    • @EternallyDoomed
      @EternallyDoomed ปีที่แล้ว +9

      “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”
      -Sun Tzu, Art of War

  • @590275502
    @590275502 ปีที่แล้ว +404

    Scopophobia is excessive fear of being stared at. It is often associated with other society anxieties. During an episode of scopophobia, you may feel your face flush or your heart race. You might begin sweating or shaking.
    This can also go in tandum with your fear of being stared back at through the window.
    This is the closest name I can find to label your fear

    • @DustPlayz1
      @DustPlayz1 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Actually scopophobia is a fear of holes in objects

    • @birdmotif
      @birdmotif ปีที่แล้ว +69

      @@DustPlayz1 that's trypophobia

    • @Only_kelpy
      @Only_kelpy ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have that too.

    • @Cringeneth
      @Cringeneth ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DustPlayz1 Ratio+

    • @kendradupree1094
      @kendradupree1094 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      was just looking to see if someone commented a name for it
      do you know the name for fear of dead things not fear of death, fear of things that are already dead

  • @Dexieboi2013
    @Dexieboi2013 ปีที่แล้ว +913

    The "Jeff the killer creepypasta" fan vs the "Jeff the killer picture" enjoyer

    • @Alcoholism420
      @Alcoholism420 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      True

    • @briggsy4799
      @briggsy4799 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      You forgot the "my name is Jeff" fan

    • @SOBEKCrocodileGod
      @SOBEKCrocodileGod ปีที่แล้ว +48

      My favorite thing about Jeff the Killer (and most creepypasta icons) is all the rewrites that are way better.

    • @shilohwhiloh9636
      @shilohwhiloh9636 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@SOBEKCrocodileGod I literally just got done reading one that I now accept as canon

    • @SOBEKCrocodileGod
      @SOBEKCrocodileGod ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@shilohwhiloh9636 the award winning rewrite and David Near’s version for his series “The Morgue Files” are my favorite

  • @jewjewsbizarreadventure
    @jewjewsbizarreadventure ปีที่แล้ว +1156

    Image based creepypastas are probably the most underrated genre of creepypasta if you ask me. Photos as a concept in general are pretty underused within horror and it's a shame since there's so much you can do with the concept alone. Smiledog is the most obvious example but the idea of a cursed image that needs to be spread works well within out modern social media dominated lives, and especially with the boom of things like snapchat/tiktok so a single photo often can tell a very scary or even unnerving narrative.

    • @zalybrainlessgenius503
      @zalybrainlessgenius503 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      They're underrated because they're not easy to make. You can't just write "AND THEN THERE WAS BLOOD WOOOO", you must actually provide the visual part.

    • @steviedraws2770
      @steviedraws2770 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The stories are usually pretty bad tho

    • @carsonleonard3372
      @carsonleonard3372 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Definitely most underrated genre is ritual pastas. They’re so cool

    • @A-with-the-J
      @A-with-the-J ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The MARIO creepypasta is my favorite example of this. On its own it’s a pretty bad and forgettable pasta. But with that epilogue including the photo it becomes an instant classic

    • @GoodBrotherGrimm
      @GoodBrotherGrimm ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@steviedraws2770 Yeah, majority of them sound like an edgy teenager found a "creepy" picture and made up a story for it over a weekend.

  • @IronBoy-hf2lp
    @IronBoy-hf2lp ปีที่แล้ว +227

    I like that not all of Anomaly's images are... Malicious, or dark. Sometimes it's just an uncle showing up to play one last great joke on his family. Give them a scare, and maybe an "oh, you!" before he goes.
    Sometimes it's a pair of twins watching their dead bodies be extracted from a car, anxious as their mother is brought out- before they see that she is alive.

    • @pancakes8670
      @pancakes8670 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      They all follow a consistent theme of tragedy and the paranormal, but not all of them are horrific or unsettling. It does a good job giving you a bit of a break between the spooky ones, while still keeping you immersed in the supernatural. It keeps your imagination flowing.

  • @gamerguyandsomenumbers
    @gamerguyandsomenumbers ปีที่แล้ว +689

    I'll be upfront about this, I can't help but physically recoil a bit whenever I see that photo of Jeff the Killer. There's just something about it triggers something deep in my mind. It can't really be reignited Childhood Fear, since pretty much everything else that scared me when I was younger has lost it's spark for the most part.

    • @azmx17
      @azmx17 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      same,, i remember first seeing it when i was 9 or so and it scared the hell out of me. i can stand to look at it now but it still makes me check behind my back when i see it

    • @phoenixs.1072
      @phoenixs.1072 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Dw bro it gives me the same reaction

    • @Snakepit_Media
      @Snakepit_Media ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Same here, I just feel like there's someone watching me and waiting for something because of that photo

    • @ScumSookar
      @ScumSookar ปีที่แล้ว

      You are all a bunch of limp wristed wusses. That image is comical, not scary.

    • @misseselise3864
      @misseselise3864 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      same. i have to make myself focus on something else whenever it comes up lol

  • @labyrinthgirl17
    @labyrinthgirl17 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    I don't remember the first time I saw the Jeff the Killer image, but it was the subject of the worst night terror I've ever had. Nothing like waking up to a near pitch black room, paralyzed, near nose to nose to Jeff and hearing his whispered catchphrase before the image faded away as my brain realized I was awake.
    Worst nighttime experience ever.

    • @TotalNigelFargothDeath
      @TotalNigelFargothDeath ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Holy shit bro, you have my condolences.

    • @finalMadfox
      @finalMadfox ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TotalNigelFargothDeath I also dreamed of Jeff bein disguised as my mom and tricking me and then cutting my hand, then I woke up

    • @rebeccapach6420
      @rebeccapach6420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have really bad visual anxiety and I can't remember the first time I saw this, but I'm still traumatized. I'm currently 18 and can't even read TH-cam comments without covering the profile pics, you wouldn't believe how many people have him as their pp... I can go (and have before) into week-long anxiety attacks if I even just get a glimpse of him or some of my other bad triggers. Good to know I'm not the only one!

  • @puunut
    @puunut ปีที่แล้ว +95

    The original image for smile dog has been found. I’ll just say, the dog goofy af.

    • @amandapanda5087
      @amandapanda5087 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I think I've seen the original husky picture, and it is pretty goofy

    • @S.1.L
      @S.1.L ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the dog seriously looks goofy when unedited. his stupid soyface man 😭😭

    • @alibi56
      @alibi56 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ayo??

    • @colecarstarphen8743
      @colecarstarphen8743 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Can you send me a link?

    • @justmaple4425
      @justmaple4425 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ive seen the original image for smiledog when it was found, all i can say, that dog was absolutely flabbergasted

  • @Abs0lut3Cyner
    @Abs0lut3Cyner ปีที่แล้ว +293

    The only creepypasta photo that genuinely scared me to the point I have NEVER felt fear like that ever again in my life no matter what I do to recreate it was smile dog but not the black and white husky the mostly all red one that's even more terrifying, it was late at night when I was like 11 or something and I've never felt that feeling ever since, I can't even describe how it felt it was so bad

    • @itzorny8526
      @itzorny8526 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Hard agree. I found it when I was around 8 iirc. Absolutely fucking terrified me, I don't think anything has scared me as much as that image. Hell, its been almost a decade since I first saw it, and it still makes my fucking skin crawl.

    • @CaatsGoMoooo
      @CaatsGoMoooo ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Funny enough, the red demonic smile dog always seemed goofy and unrealistic to me, whereas I couldn't even handle looking at the original until years later. I find it way scarier when a creepypasta picture looks like something like could actually exist, yaknow?

    • @ciclon5682
      @ciclon5682 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      yes. the red version of the image its terrifying. i still find it hard to look at sometimes. and it has been like 5 or 6 years since the last time i was into creepypastas

    • @rickashleysrollofricks7724
      @rickashleysrollofricks7724 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Bro I swear I was too young to be on the internet I must’ve been like 9/10 when I saw the red smile dog image and it FUCKED me up I was on holiday and outside my window was a red light i woke my whole family up screaming at like 3 am, I’ve still got a fear of dogs deep down because of that stuff, pure nightmare fuel

    • @pieloloon
      @pieloloon ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@rickashleysrollofricks7724 jesus 😭thats horrible luck

  • @m0ssy_g0bl1n
    @m0ssy_g0bl1n ปีที่แล้ว +34

    i gotta admit, photo horror is something that freaks me out the most. i can listen to creepy pastas and true crime like podcasts, but when it comes to photos something about it really irks me and makes my skin crawl. maybe it's because it makes it seem more "real" or gives "proof" but i'm never as scared of podcasts as i am of photos.

    • @ekaterina1951
      @ekaterina1951 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think it's because it get's 'burned' inside your mind ,like, it's easier to remember images than stories

  • @user-kz1kx8gq7l
    @user-kz1kx8gq7l ปีที่แล้ว +234

    *"The figure was seen wearing a black hoodie!"*
    *Looks down at myself wearing a black hoodie* *"FUCK I'VE BEEN CAUGHT!!!"*

    • @DrLiam-fg6wd
      @DrLiam-fg6wd ปีที่แล้ว +33

      many people are wearing black hoodies.... even me... It could be any one of us!

    • @hopfinatorischerkuchenkrieger
      @hopfinatorischerkuchenkrieger ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@DrLiam-fg6wd It could be you! It could be me! It could even be- *Shotgun Blast*

    • @DrLiam-fg6wd
      @DrLiam-fg6wd ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@hopfinatorischerkuchenkrieger what? it was obvious! *ejects shell* he was the man in the black hoodie!

    • @MM_Massacre
      @MM_Massacre ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Damn I’m wearing one too

    • @RiOSquINTos
      @RiOSquINTos ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DrLiam-fg6wd "Right behind you"

  • @makaelaischillin
    @makaelaischillin ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Image creepypastas are my favorite, only behind self aware(aka “I know you’re reading this”) creepypastas. Such underrated genres.

    • @misseselise3864
      @misseselise3864 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      the creepypasta that is telling you that you’re in a coma and need to wake up gave me an existential crisis

    • @selectioncrescimento
      @selectioncrescimento ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@misseselise3864 that one has been ruined for me after the markiplier coma copypasta

  • @GribbleGob
    @GribbleGob ปีที่แล้ว +514

    I can't take anyone seriously when they say Jeff the Killer is a good story.

    • @nyx8823
      @nyx8823 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      It's what we call a messterpiece

    • @daddycool7316
      @daddycool7316 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      it was a great story when i first read it and was like 8. revisiting it when i left my creepy pasta phase it was awful

    • @ginger-ale7818
      @ginger-ale7818 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      It is a very very adolescent story. Super spooky and edgy when you’re 10, but very cringey to go back to as an adult. Given that when he says he found it interesting, he was talking about his ten year old self, I think that’s wheat he meant

    • @nrg6245
      @nrg6245 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It actually is..

    • @GribbleGob
      @GribbleGob ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nrg6245 If you think it is then you have an actual brain problem and need to get your head scanned.

  • @beautybard
    @beautybard ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The Jeff the killer photo plagued my nightmares quite seriously for a hot minute. Like he was following me around Walmart and shit and I couldn't go back to sleep.

  • @wokeuplikedis1500
    @wokeuplikedis1500 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Jeff the Killer still triggers my PTSD whenever I see it. I remember getting screamed on my Mom's computer with that exact image and the loudest sound I've ever heard in my life. I still have to mentally prepare myself before looking at Jeff the Killer.

    • @abyssosque
      @abyssosque ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ohh I know what you're talking about, I got jump scared by that too once while my lights were off, I was in a discord call so my friends just heard me shriek like I'm getting stabbed lmao

    • @whizkeysh0t
      @whizkeysh0t ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i thought You said "screamed at by My mom WHILE the jumpscare" . oof. i'm projecting hard. thats still really bad.

    • @joeanderson8707
      @joeanderson8707 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      For me, it's the Smiling Jerry from Tom's Basement, the lost episode of Tom and Jerry. That inhuman grin still haunted me until this day.

    • @rebeccapach6420
      @rebeccapach6420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have really bad visual anxiety and I can't remember the first time I saw Jeff but I'm still traumatized. I can't even read TH-cam comments without covering them, you wouldn't believe how many people have him as their pp:(
      Im now 18, and I've spent the last decade or so of my life terrified, and at the age of 10, was too familiar with the psych ward due to Jeff, other bad triggers, and people who thought it was fun to show me the pictures when I was just doing whatever 10year Olds do all day. Some people suck. Anyways, reading this comment section is making me realize that I'm not alone, and that's actually really comforting.

  • @zalybrainlessgenius503
    @zalybrainlessgenius503 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    This is what I expected from the "viewing hazard" iceberg! Finally somebody made this into an actual iceberg

    • @cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967
      @cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What was the 'viewing hazard' iceberg?

    • @zalybrainlessgenius503
      @zalybrainlessgenius503 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967 th-cam.com/video/wbVIBiaelGE/w-d-xo.html
      Don't delete this comment for spam yt please

    • @dejankulusexy4472
      @dejankulusexy4472 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967 i don’t know but i’m commenting in case you get a response

    • @zalybrainlessgenius503
      @zalybrainlessgenius503 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dejankulusexy4472 I've responded with a link already

    • @nickythehickey
      @nickythehickey ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zalybrainlessgenius503 comments with links get deleted

  • @misseselise3864
    @misseselise3864 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    the only thing that scared me more than image based creepypastas are creepypastas that act like you’re cursed because you heard/read something. like boothworld industries

  • @camharkness
    @camharkness ปีที่แล้ว +212

    I'm happy that you're still making iceberg videos. I actually enjoy these a lot.

    • @proudoyster778
      @proudoyster778 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      facts bruh i miss these types of videos and the trend hasn't died since a few months ago

  • @eyegens2966
    @eyegens2966 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I really love the 2000 to early 2010's creepypasta nostalgia vibe I get from the topics you choose for your videos and the fact that you also seem to be very nostalgic about this era of the internet. :)

    • @dtxspeaks268
      @dtxspeaks268 ปีที่แล้ว

      2000? Creepypasta was an early 2010s exclusive tbh

    • @eyegens2966
      @eyegens2966 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dtxspeaks268 heavily depends on what you define as a creepypasta I'd say. First ever modern creepypastas, as in horror stories that spread through the internet and are not specific to your surroundings like an urban legend would be, appeared in early 2000s with Ted the Caver becoming popular in around 2004-2006, and then some more following suite around 2007-2009, that's when fandom creepypastas also became popular. If you mean Creepypasta like the fandom then yeah it's the 2010s definitely.

    • @dtxspeaks268
      @dtxspeaks268 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eyegens2966 when I think Creepypasta, I think of Jeff the Killer, Slenderman, Smile Dog, Ben Drowned, Russian Sleep Experiment, Candle Cove, 1999, Harbinger Experiment and Rake - all came out between 2010-2014

    • @eyegens2966
      @eyegens2966 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dtxspeaks268 then you mean Creepypasta the fandom. The term creepypasta is much older however and refers to just creepy stories meant to be shared, hence the pasta (=copy+paste).

    • @dtxspeaks268
      @dtxspeaks268 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eyegens2966 ok. Not the time period I named as the premier Creepypasta era. I consider the stuff that came before or outside of the fandom (ie Username 666, I Feel Fantastic, and SCP) more or less urban legends

  • @solidsnack912
    @solidsnack912 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    That smiling dog picture unnerves the hell out of me but because you put the resident evil 2 save room theme in it I haven't been scared of it since, that theme has always been so calming to hear I hope it gets put in more videos!

  • @eggmug562
    @eggmug562 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    The origin of Jeff the killer is traced back to an old Japanese message board

    • @makaelaischillin
      @makaelaischillin ปีที่แล้ว +14

      That’s the very earliest we’ve been able to find. Is it still unknown where it truly comes from? Or has it been found? Last I heard it comes from an unknown video of a woman in a closet?

    • @Zumi909
      @Zumi909 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@makaelaischillin a Japanese women in a closet took the video and uploaded it on some board then someone took it a made a challenge to make it scary or cute

    • @snarlingcupid3937
      @snarlingcupid3937 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Vampunz a theory

  • @tarotsport1451
    @tarotsport1451 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    i thought the portraits was a mirror? i remember being deathly afraid to sleep in front of a mirror for a while as a kid

    • @tarotsport1451
      @tarotsport1451 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Also i have a sweet spot for the smile gif but it’s so fake, like computers can’t be that loud, it’s impossible for gifs to have audio…ect. but the over the top-ness of the murders kinda counteract all those small nit pics.

    • @zalybrainlessgenius503
      @zalybrainlessgenius503 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@tarotsport1451 That's the horror punchline I think. That the gif literally did the impossible

  • @Jhud69
    @Jhud69 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Cursed photo creepypasta were the only kind I was actually scared of when I was younger. I wasn't afraid of being cursed, I was more so afraid of being afraid and having nightmares.

  • @InvisibleInque
    @InvisibleInque ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Smiledog used to give me legitimate panic attacks. Even now I feel weird looking at it, like I need to go post an immunity kitty somewhere on a blog ASAP.

  • @ivanbraginskienjoyer2089
    @ivanbraginskienjoyer2089 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I love this iceberg idea! The smile dog, the happy gif and the deviantart haunted girl portrait are my favorite ones!

  • @favesoe2201
    @favesoe2201 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I'm glad you're still making iceberg videos. It's always good to listen to them while doing something else.

    • @Ayyem93
      @Ayyem93 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, listen to a video that focuses on images. Peak Zoomer

  • @Raindrop114
    @Raindrop114 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    In regards to image00, there have been killers that record their crimes, usually serial killers.

  • @fatquickscope4150
    @fatquickscope4150 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    21:19 That seems like a specific branch of Scopophobia, which is the fear of being stared at in public

    • @zalybrainlessgenius503
      @zalybrainlessgenius503 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Nah, I think being afraid of being stared down in your sleep is a natural healthy fear. When you're asleep you're at your weakest, literally everything can kill you. You don't want anything potentially dangerous looking at you, and monsters staring from the windows is a classic horror trope that's been burnt into our brains

  • @Cubs2OOO_
    @Cubs2OOO_ ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Perfect time of the year to listen to creepypasta icebergs. Love the video Sacrow!

  • @takke9830
    @takke9830 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Great video as always!
    Also, as a hobby writer, I'd like to offer some aspiring creepy pasta writers some advice on how to write something that's actually really good. as well as how to genuinely make it scary and believable instead of generic and amateurish.
    So first, look at badly written ones and pick out the moments they broke your immersion, or where they stopped being scary to you and think about why. imma give you an example here so you know how to do it:
    Let's take the Smiley face one (the yellow one) and see where it breaks immersion and why. so my timestamp would be where it drove people mad that saw it. so why? Well, it's unreasonable to believe that a creepy gif with gore in it would drive people mad. so now that we focused on this. let's think about a better solution for this one. so what could be really creepy of an effect this could give to people that both isn't unreasonable but also is still out of the ordinary? well lets take 2 ideas here that could both play off of psychological effects irl, but also could work through subtlety. so let's say that instead, the gif would make people act slightly weird but in a very difficult to describe way. the narrator could talk about this for example like he found his friend's history of a deleted post with a broken image file or its a screenshot that talks about someone else saying that the picture made them feel really weird but brushing it off as just the contents being creepy and disturbing. maybe it could have more of an effect on the person than usual gore and he could speculate it maybe being because the particular picture of gore in it just made him feel bad because he had a bad day. now you set up someones expection to play into this. if someone is told something makes them feel particularily weird, they'll possibly subconchiously self induce that feeling mentally without knowing. so you made it more real for the reader too. now lets add some dimension to it. vaguely describe the gore parts visuals but in a vague enough way to make the reader scared by their own imagination while also playing off of ideas that aren't too clieche. maybe describe it like this: i only saw it very briefly, but it was basically a blurry pictzure of what looked like a corpse at night. the colors had a strange hue to it though. like the lighting was just off. and the face just didn't look right either, it looked like the victim was looking at the camera. it could've almost been a smile but its hard to recall. its making me feel creeped out even just imagining it again. it just looked off. the lighting, the pose and the facial expression. so much so i dont even remember details about the injury itself. i just want to unsee it now. but its just so bad. I wish i never saw it. if you see this image, i'm sorry. it may just be me being a whimp or something, but seriously. i wouldn't want anyone to feel like this."
    something like that would be good practice basically. take a bad creepy pasta, and try to play around with it and write down some ideas to alter it to be more creepy as practice. also ask for feedback too if you can. let people tell you what you did well and what could be better and use that to make your practice stories better.
    and when thats done u can make your own. now, if you wanna use a picture, be creative. ofc if its a original photo you took and edited yourself, it's also very beneficial. now use that as inspiration for your story. what did you take a photo of? and what edits did you make? do the edits look obvious? if so let that play into the story too. like for example if you made a scp, list the item as a edited photo. but most of all be creative with it. and for that scp's are actually great. because scp use incredibly effective ways to make their scps be interesting so analizing existing ones is a good start. they can also be very specific. like the livbing drawing one and its unique personality, attitude and ability. or just a cool magical concept like the vending machine that can give you anything in liquid form where it could be a blessing and a curse just by you imagining what you could do with it if it was real. or the infinite ikea one. taking something everyone kinda knows and has experience with and taking a part of it that is a universal feeling and twisting it into something really scary. aka ikeas size and architecture making it feel like a huge maze you can easily get lost in and making it so its size is upscaled to lovecraftian levels where its becoming dangerous adding the securty guards at night an extra fear since they behave like night securty would irl but making it slightly off to be scary. and then adding a narrative to it. that one in particular does also have kind of fantastic world building. but thats also what makes it so good because it allows you to be immersed in it for a while with its story. so take these aspects into account to shape your own stories and ideas.
    So as you can see, you just gotta learn what makes good scary stories scary by doing your homework on that so to speak and what makes other stories fail to be scary. things like unreasonable in story character reactions like being driven mad by a random image online for no reason. or images or videos featuring overly shocking things just to scare a reader. and the best way to also avoid that unrealistic pitfall is also to imagine yourself being in the narrators situation and if their reaction would make sense from your reaction. would you rather shrug off a game's weird glitches as just a broken piece of hardware or a hack and not be too scared off it based on knowing these possibilities? if so imagine what would scare you in the case it is a hacked game. maybe the hack related game alterations can'tz be found online by others experiencing it too in hacked games. maybe theres an image attached that you can't find online making the hack's contents unexplainable and unique to your copy. just by imagining what you'd do and trying to find realistic ways to make it scary to you can help you write a really good story. but this comment is long enough already.
    hope this advice is helpful. and hey if you wanna reply to my comment with a story of your own id be happy to give you feedback on it too if you'd like! writing can be hard to do right. but practice always makes perfect. remember that. and maybe some day your story may end up on a iceberg video some day too! after all, just using this approach would already make yours far better than the "iconic" ones on here, and thats good motivation to do your best.

    • @nightingale3688
      @nightingale3688 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      this is super helpful!! screenshotting so i can keep these tips in mind!! ty

    • @BlckstoneV1
      @BlckstoneV1 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      By the length of this comment, I can tell you really like to write

    • @takke9830
      @takke9830 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nightingale3688 thx! I‘m honored! Hope it can help ya ^^ i‘m not perfect in my writing so don‘t treat this as gospel either but if it helps, that‘s great!

    • @takke9830
      @takke9830 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BlckstoneV1 ansolutely do. I mean It kinda happens naturally tbh. But it‘s just so fun to me as well! Not to mention that many ppl don‘t offer advice like that so openly wich is a shame. Many ppl get really strong hate online for writing bad stuff, and I get why ppl get annoyed by that stuff. But at the same time ppl just need to realize that nobody will be a perfect writer from the start. If I‘d give you a quick example, i used to write sentences like: „and then she walked up the stairs to the balcony to yet again watch the city lights in the dark. Feeling sad.“ and once I learned a lot about how to write with more passion and artistic intent, i‘d instead write that like: „her hands would tremble slightly as she clasped onto the railing of the stairs. They felt heavy just walking on them. Not to stairs but her feet as she gragged herself up practically. Feeling as if her issues were tearing her down alongside the gravital forces of the world. The one that was judging her around every corner and would never let her make any mistakes in peace. Yet she‘d still go upwards to that balcony just to drown her sorrows in the artificial stars of the city in the forms of lights and signs that‘d flare up and drown the sky in light polluted grey fog. It was always distracting enough so she could regain some stability. But still the sadness would never truely fade from her. Even the thick light polluted skies couldn‘t stop that. Because those worries were so much stronger than a pretty scene. No matter how beautiful the world was. No matter how sweet the skyline and how dreamy the feeling of getting lost in it‘s lit up glory. In the end it could turn into her own little concrete graveyard. If she only ever took it far enough to not just sulk in her misery. But take action in it. And maybe that was the most terrifying thing. To know how close she always felt to losing it all. And knowing how easily she could just give up. It was terrifyingly beautiful. And that was also what made it so terrifying. Because seeing beauty in it made it so attractive in the first place.“
      And that‘s another long reply lol. Well but that‘s what I mean by writing well. You just gotta get lost in the character and write it like you‘re constructing a painting. There‘s so many parts that form the picture in a written scene and the better you get at constructing it, the more enjoyable will ppl find it to read. But that‘s just my own experience. :)

    • @BlckstoneV1
      @BlckstoneV1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@takke9830 That... was beautifully written. I will take these tips next time I write an essay

  • @zigomarhuntandotherthings221
    @zigomarhuntandotherthings221 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    >gif
    >screams loudly
    Gifs don't have audio

  • @zalybrainlessgenius503
    @zalybrainlessgenius503 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Why did you have to upload this video at 4 am 😂 Just as you were talking about the window tapping girl, something, a bird I guess, tapped on my own window. That made me almost lose my shit, ngl 😂

    • @Sacrow
      @Sacrow  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You're welcome

  • @nrg6245
    @nrg6245 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love the contrast of the darkness of the stories compared to the forest you have playing in the background. I love horror for that reason. That feeling it gives you.

  • @mategetsnosleep3612
    @mategetsnosleep3612 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The original smile dog image is actually one of my most hated images.
    Also that painting of that thing with a mask that has long arms and legs with the arms crossed.

  • @skystoyhunts7225
    @skystoyhunts7225 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The red image of smile dog origin was recently found but the other version of it still isn't found

  • @TimTheFantastic
    @TimTheFantastic ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "the tainting of childhood innocence" and "everything he touched turned to nightmare fuel" reminded me of the nowhere king

  • @TheLastGame666
    @TheLastGame666 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I once entered a site at 3AM, and it was a straight up flashing jumpscare with jeff the killer image accompanied with extremely loud noise, to this dau that image haunts me.

  • @MM_Massacre
    @MM_Massacre ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Let me say this here, Smiledog.jpg scares me (one with the deep fried image) because my cousin would traumatize me with the image whenever I was younger (like 5-7) and she would push it into my face saying “he loves you though” until I cried

    • @beyondobscure
      @beyondobscure ปีที่แล้ว

      l

    • @gpt-jcommentbot4759
      @gpt-jcommentbot4759 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bro smile dog scared me once too when I was 10 and scrolling through TH-cam late at night then the deep fried smile dog popped up on one of the thumbnails...

  • @triledink
    @triledink ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Some creepy images has its sources such as the rake (which was a picture from the promotion for ressistance 3), but what makes some images scarier is when they have no source, images like jeff the killer or Victim no.1 is obviously an photoshopped image, but what was the original photo? people are still searching for it.

  • @mandela663
    @mandela663 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I heard a different story of smiledog. Here it is: So there was a old man who hurt his dog daily until the dog ( smile dog ) snapped and killed his owner. In the photo, you can see a hand and a person behind the dog. Smile dog snapped and killed his owner and smiled widly in the photo. That's what i heard. I personally like this story because it sounds right.

  • @lordofducks3430
    @lordofducks3430 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I first saw the smile dog photo when I was around 12. I was watching a video explaining the creepypasta late at night. I was already on edge from lack of sleep and the silence of the house, so when the video flashed a photo of smile dog on screen at the end, it was really freaky. I didn't go to sleep that night because I was scared I would wake up and see smile dog at the foot of my bed

  • @grimmscuriosities9411
    @grimmscuriosities9411 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Gods, The Portraits pisses me off. not because it's bad, or anything like that, but because I'm pretty sure it isn't a creepypasta. I used to listen to tons of audiobook story compilations from Librivox, mostly from the late 19th century and early 20th. Stuff from H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, authors like that. And I swear to god I heard a very similar, but slightly longer, story in one of those audiobooks, but I can't find it now. So now every time I hear it I'm overcome with a need to track down the original.

    • @zalybrainlessgenius503
      @zalybrainlessgenius503 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The same with the window tapping girl. I've heard that story as a child multiple times, except that the girl was a doll

    • @misseselise3864
      @misseselise3864 ปีที่แล้ว

      it’s an urban legend

  • @MikeVonwolkenstein
    @MikeVonwolkenstein ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I really like this topic, these types of creepypastas are one of my favorites. Can’t wait for part 2 🔥

  • @OccasionallyBored
    @OccasionallyBored ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Another great iceberg video, I really enjoy the topics and narration :)

  • @F-ckIfIKnow
    @F-ckIfIKnow ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's been a while since i saw any icebergs, and it's even better since it's yours!

  • @RedSpade37
    @RedSpade37 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Jeff always shows up when I least expect him, haha. Jeff, SmileDog, and SlenderMan should go on adventures together.

  • @sankzear4555
    @sankzear4555 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I keep forgetting your channel exists but when I get the notification that you uploaded me day automatically gets better. Thanks for the awesome content, your one of the few TH-camrs who don't just cover the well known creepypastas, you dig deeper.

  • @dan5992
    @dan5992 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    idk if it is just me, but the "gif" creepypasta would honestly be a lot scarier if they did not include the "skinned and mutilated" part. the idea of someone making some creepy gif like that is believable enough to be scary. As soon as I heard that the people who saw it were skinned and mutilated I just kind of sighed because it ruins the immersion lol.
    It reminded me of the "toymaker" story of the guy on Steam who sent some file/link pretending to be a message that'd launch some intense screamer and completely brick your device, along with some other things.

    • @Zockanumber1
      @Zockanumber1 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think thats the case with a lot if not most creepypastas. They are so unneccessarily edgy that it becomes ridiculous instead of being scary

  • @UltraCenterHQ
    @UltraCenterHQ ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "The Gif" literally just looks like those roblox memes where they photoshop the roblox girl face on random things 😂

  • @someguy2401
    @someguy2401 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i hate the smile dog photo
    even though yknow its fake it just gives me the chills

  • @RobbyP289
    @RobbyP289 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I really loved the video. I can't wait for the rest of the series and any other video made.

  • @schawangus
    @schawangus ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don’t know what it is, but that poorly edited image of Boxxy with the bloody eyes and mouth for some reason really gets to me. I don’t understand it because it’s so absurdly dumb looking and stuff like that never bothers me, but that specific image still freaks me out for some reason.

  • @spindleclown
    @spindleclown ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love this! Excited for more.

    • @Sacrow
      @Sacrow  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad you like it.

  • @emberkitsune
    @emberkitsune ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love how there’s just a Jeff the Killer jumpscare every transition

  • @smol_lil_demon
    @smol_lil_demon ปีที่แล้ว +8

    21:20 looking out of the window and seeing something is pretty eerie but for me, looking at a mirror and seeing either something/someone in plain sight or even worst, something hiding

  • @postaldude9676
    @postaldude9676 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    that dog do be smiling

  • @phyllojoe5346
    @phyllojoe5346 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Always happy to see a new video from you!

  • @Alles2007
    @Alles2007 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve watched two of your videos and you seem to be a really fun channel to listen to about creepy pastas and other horror stories I’m happy to say I’m subscribed.

  • @orangeandblackattack4946
    @orangeandblackattack4946 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What's crazy is I couldn't finish this video I got so creeped out. What a wimp I am!

  • @shiba2ndworlder
    @shiba2ndworlder ปีที่แล้ว

    I waited a long time for this to be covered. Nice vid.

  • @fifox2348
    @fifox2348 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oddly enough, the image that (from what I remember) has scared me the most probably won’t even be on this iceberg. It’s the old image for SCP-106. Something about it was and kind of still is so unnerving. It doesn’t help that there’s no known source for the image.

    • @mikeerrmantrout6350
      @mikeerrmantrout6350 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bro you sent me on a carousel to my deep inner childhood fears, I vividly remember watching culturecrash and seeing that image, it was one of the reasons I got into SCP but lost interest due to my personal tastes growing from it

  • @aeronboi5552
    @aeronboi5552 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is a pure nostalgia trip

  • @bingobo2551
    @bingobo2551 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Not related to this but I find it funny that the fact I think the harbinger experiment as more of a ritual creepypasta than an experinent creepypasta

  • @raisnhed
    @raisnhed ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Smile Dog is the only one that genuinely terrified me. Even to this day when I see either of the pictures I feel really uneasy. It’s like I’m looking at something I’m not supposed to.

  • @PizzaCat913
    @PizzaCat913 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Don’t know if you’ll see this or not, but I really love your content, I somehow relive the nostalgia from first hearing about some of these from you.
    Keep up the great work and I hope you gain the recognition you very much well deserve!

    • @Sacrow
      @Sacrow  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you and glad you like the content.

  • @snookboi6025
    @snookboi6025 ปีที่แล้ว

    finally been waiting all day for this

  • @KARIMENT.
    @KARIMENT. ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The images end up being scarier than the actual story 😂

  • @Phys1csfactor
    @Phys1csfactor ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Instantly recognised the FNaF Ballora music😂

  • @Virtualmess32
    @Virtualmess32 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Cognito hazard ass pictures

  • @youtubeisevil
    @youtubeisevil ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Cool my favorite are Funnymouth, The Girl In The Picture, and the one where Siberian Russians find God and flayed his skin

  • @spacex6997
    @spacex6997 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Your videos are good for watching before sleep.

  • @adoniskasey
    @adoniskasey ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Green eyed Jeff creeps me out the most out of all the Jeff pics ngl

  • @jen4551
    @jen4551 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not sure if it falls under creepypasta, but the only image i cant stand to look at its the Have You Seen this man in your dreams? image. Everytime i look at it my heart drops

  • @TheCakesCup26
    @TheCakesCup26 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Smile dog was the last thing on the internet that truly scared me, It actually kept me up at night.

    • @SATANELLA.
      @SATANELLA. ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mine was Jeff the Killer. I tried to forget that image until this video.

    • @kingoffire105
      @kingoffire105 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I hate that picture, it's so disturbing!

  • @ryancronwell6368
    @ryancronwell6368 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "The infamous Blue screen" that's my computer every 2 hours buddy.

  • @slugmoment9595
    @slugmoment9595 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been waiting for this for long time

  • @suutopia
    @suutopia ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ughh the silent hill music makes this all so much better

  • @TheCheese06z
    @TheCheese06z ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I think Jeff the Killer is only scary because it was attached to screamer videos. However when I see him I'm like oh! Marilyn Manson!

    • @Haxfixxel
      @Haxfixxel ปีที่แล้ว

      when i saw the image i legitamently found it funny due to it litterally looking like the pufferfish eating a carrot- i can also imagine the image with peter griffins laugh- idk- XD

  • @MandyDeadite
    @MandyDeadite ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The perfect video to watch as I play stardew valley! Yay!

  • @Pystoria
    @Pystoria ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good day when Sacrow uploads

  • @hectorlumbagoCringe
    @hectorlumbagoCringe ปีที่แล้ว

    Great work!

  • @Cryinginthecloudssss
    @Cryinginthecloudssss ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I used to listen to creepypastas during English while doing my work. the one I remember the most is Valentine’s Day. I actually had some dreams about that one. And from what I remember it was a pretty good story

  • @DrLiam-fg6wd
    @DrLiam-fg6wd ปีที่แล้ว +5

    not even 10 seconds in and I thought of an MGR joke, but still, keep this up dude! I love your content
    Images.... the gateway to the soul

  • @miramuchachito296
    @miramuchachito296 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oh man i said it before but i will repeat myself: i'm obssessed with the piano intermezzos . They are brilliant, kind of scary. I love them 👏

  • @ampharos3106
    @ampharos3106 ปีที่แล้ว

    finally a nice calm and relaxing video to watch before bed

  • @user-zs9ux1ru8u
    @user-zs9ux1ru8u ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You sound like a younger version of BlameitonJorge, good video btw

  • @Prod.DJEvil
    @Prod.DJEvil ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can’t wait to see part 2! Hopefully Satan Sphinx is on there

  • @npc4570
    @npc4570 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The squidward pic scared me so much and I'm so embarrassed for it

  • @Ritcherr
    @Ritcherr ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Last night at like 12 am I was falling asleep to this video on my TV and when smile dog appeared, my dog started barking at my tv😰

  • @Eyetrauma
    @Eyetrauma ปีที่แล้ว +1

    9:23 Love those GIFs that play sound

  • @cyanity1017
    @cyanity1017 ปีที่แล้ว

    19:55 I remember my English teacher using this story on Halloween as an example of a topic I can't remember, but this story is like a childhood classic for me.

  • @Alexfilms_03
    @Alexfilms_03 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Everyone wake up Sacrow posted a new video

  • @mariofan191101
    @mariofan191101 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the first time ive ever noticed the hand in the smile dog pic

  • @emilyjuneofficialyt
    @emilyjuneofficialyt ปีที่แล้ว +3

    To be honest, some of these Creepypastas have been ruined after some kids and teens romanticize these characters who are supposed to be evil.

  • @fluffcake
    @fluffcake ปีที่แล้ว +29

    These recent videos your doing give me TatsTops vibes. Were you inspired by them? The format you tell these stories are really clean and nice to comprehend. Nice job!

    • @misseselise3864
      @misseselise3864 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      intentionally or not, i’m glad they’re making videos similar to tats tops videos since they don’t post much anymore

    • @MonkeMan2.0
      @MonkeMan2.0 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember watching their videos and being scared by them, their narrators and music is what really made those stories intriguing as a child, even the photos also helped the scare factor. I still come by just to watch their videos and sometimes I still feel that fear, but other times I put it on as background (idk why).

  • @bingobo2551
    @bingobo2551 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Any chance you could talk about gaming or lost episode creeptpastas that use an image to add some more life kinda like boothworld industry, as an entry like the creepypasta survival guide book in the ritual pasta iceberg, such as ben drowned, dead bart & nes godzilla/NG replay?

  • @ZaraTGgirl
    @ZaraTGgirl ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Slenderman photo is older than that forum. I remember it from a website on photoshop contests. Long before creepypastas. Even older than google.

  • @smfe
    @smfe ปีที่แล้ว

    I like how you go from saying "Since this is a short one, I'll read it in full" to "Let me just read it" lmao

  • @devilsorchard1449
    @devilsorchard1449 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If Jeff The Killer didn't have that picture attached to it, it would've been doomed to obscurity like thousands of other Creepypastas. It's not scary and poorly written, it just has a good image to go along with it.

    • @Random-guy-on-yt
      @Random-guy-on-yt ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not only is the image good, it’s fucking nightmare fuel for kids like me who had unrestricted internet access when I was 9 🙃