Can you give us some exclusive insider-behind-the-scenes information about the thought process that went into making the sprites? I’d be curious to know what your personal history with these creepy pastas are.
I wound up liking it more than I thought I would. I like the ones that are very mind-screwy, like the haunted videotape I show briefly in this video. What’s your favorite SCP?
One thing JJ didnt bring up was that part of the creepypasta culture is to insist these storys are real no matter what. And often when the storys would leave creepypasta forums people wouldnt realize they are works of fiction. Famously people still insist that the russian sleep experiment was a true historical even rather than something madeup on reddit around 2010
12:38 I don't know if anyone else has already said this, but the weird Mickey Mouse creature is not ment to be "Suicide Mouse". It actually comes from a creepypasta about Disneyland's Treasure Island named "Abandoned by Disney" and is mostly known by many for a videogame adaptation of the story that happens to be one of the earliest FNAF fangames called "Treasure Island".
@JJMcCullough pastra made a good video about it titled "the scaryist creapy pasta ever made." The tldr story is that a guy was exploring an abandoned disney resort and found a dark mickiy mouse. There is a prequal about the backstory of the preformer who became the mickey. the mickey mouse suit performer starts to slowly morph into the suit and starts to mentally deteriorate. It's like a body horror type vibe. I recommend watching that vid if you are interested!
@@JJMcCulloughbasically it's a creepypasta based around the mc exploring a fictional abandoned Disney park and encountering a living, "photo negative" Mickey Mouse costume, which later sequels explain is a tulpa brought to life by the idolization of Disney and the mix of positive and negative emotions surrounding the character
I have to say as a zoomer, I appreciate JJ, aging millennial that he is, takes the effort to understand the younger generations weird cultural developments.
Like I said, I think it’s important to know!  I don’t know what the alternative is other than getting confused and frustrated by what the young people are up to all the time.
As a GenXer, I liked the concept of how cultural literacy flows both ways. I think one of the reasons people are dismissive of "newer" phenomena is that it's difficult to tell what will truly become canon and what's just a passing fad.
This video is another great example of how most teen and tween culture is created by the previous generation. Most of this stuff was created by Millennials while most of their iconic pop culture was created by Gen X.
Not that I was ever all that prominent, but I wrote some creepypasta back in the day, mostly while I was in college. At the time I mostly assumed it was people in my own age group reading it.
I remember Momo so vividly. So, I come from a Hispanic household, and that panic definitely took hold of my mother. I remember one day, she came up to me and showed me an image of Momo. She then said, "If you ever see this image, run away. This thing will kill you. If you see this, come talk to me." I remember being so confused, as I had never heard of Momo until my mom brought it up. It's wild to think that some edgy teenagers on the internet could scare a rational woman so thoroughly.
Just a small correction: The Mickey pictured is not from Suicide Mouse. It's actually from a popular creepypasta called "Abandoned by Disney." If I recall correctly, it's about a guy going to an abandoned Disney theme park and encountering a sentient Mickey Mouse costume.
As a younger millenial, I also grew up with creepypastas. I remember reading the russian sleep experiment when I was maybe 16? It was great stuff, huge part of my canon
@@adhamwashere5320 Honestly, part of the appeal for some of these is that they seem possible in a very screwed up world. It's not just the supernatural part but the human part also scares me.
One thing I've found interesting about the SCP Foundation ever since it was pointed out to me is how much of a "Dubya"-era artifact it is. It's a paramilitary-like organization with very deep pockets and an ambiguous relationship with the government, that conducts shady operations around the world with little regard for human life or well-being, and then stashes its "extraordinarily rendered" captives away in one of its many black sites.
Interesting that despite being a "Gen Z" thing, practically everyone of these originate from Millenials writing in early internet. This, mirroring how the hip pop stars for a generation are often a decade or so older than their target audience.
I remember here in Western Massachusetts (decidedly not Latin America), a lot of parents of school children received little pamphlets warning them about the “Momo Challenge” and how to keep their kids safe online, in the same tone you would expect from a DARE PSA about drugs or something. I remember my mother made a comment like, “We tell kids not to believe everything they see online, and then we fall for the stories those kids create.” That’s really stuck with me.
The best way to consider it is, Slender Man (the movie) is a really bad adaptation of Marbel Hornets. It removes most of the charm and whatever actual horror could be derived from the series.
@@JJMcCulloughive never personally watched it but i know they dont refer to him as slender man, rather they call him the operator but it is obviously supposed to be slender man. Its also notable because two of the characters (hoodie and maskie) are commonly associated with jeff the killer and that whole kerfuffle
@@JJMcCullough There were droves of Mickey mouse creepy pastas. 2 of the most famous was suicide mouse and abandoned by Disney. So even if you were wrong they were both just as popular as each other and suicide mouse did inspire many other stories which also. One story it inspired did get big enough to even get referenced in SpongeBob!
@@JJMcCulloughIt’s abandoned by Disney, the plot is about some guy going to a never completed Disney park in the Deep South and finds a color inverted Mickey costume that’s alive, the reason it became famous however was because it was adapted into a FNAF fan game that became popular for let’s-players
As a relatively young man who grew up in the creepypasta / internet horror era of the internet, I adamantly believe that it is for the best that this particular era of the internet is over. After growing up with this stuff, I personally would not want my future children to be exposed to it. I do not believe that it would be particularly traumatizing or harmful to them, but there simply isn't enough research on the long-lasting impact of exposure to such content on the minds of young children. In my opinion, horror as a genre should not be exposed to children until they are at least in middle school. As someone who was exposed to the creepypasta world in my early childhood, I can tell you quite confidently that children who are elementary school aged have a strong tendency to hear of such stories and believe them to be factual despite the stories obviously being fictional. As for the impact on Gen Z, I don't believe that it will have a huge impact on our lives going forward. Creepypastas will just be another part of our upbringing that we will reminisce about in the later stages of our lives.
I should say, it was later revealed that one of the girls who committed the Slenderman stabbing had paranoid schizophrenia. So it was less of kids not understanding fiction from reality, but rather an actual delusion. I am SO tired of people using that case to justify fiction influencing reality, because they NEVER understand that part of the case.
It has always existed. Elvis, Black Sabbath, heavy metal, the power rangers, Mortal Kombat, South Park,... they were all at one point the cause of violence in kids.
JJ, I wish you made this before Halloween. I saw kids dressed up as some of these characters for Halloween, but didn't know what they were. Given that, I actually wonder if many of the kids even know who these characters are. Either way, this was fascinating.
I don’t know how relevant or popular this community is by I would say the modern form of scp is the backrooms There are hundred of articles that are more based on environmental horror and liminal places than monsters
I think also that the backrooms has Become its own thing and doesn’t have the bad traits of many internet horror stories Over time the stories and levels have gotten more fleshed out and more creative Also it is a driving force I would say if found footage videos today inspiring a lot of people to learn blender and stuff like that
The SCP universe and Local58 are in my opinion, some of the best and most well-made examples of creepypasta out there. SCP is still widely popular, and the well-curated site and wide selection of wildly different entries makes the whole universe quite appealing. Local58 literally established a whole new genre of horror, and is still one of the most well-made examples of this. As a GenZer from Greece, during my elementary school years, the most popular place for horror stories that I can recall, was a YT channel called “Gloomy Gentlemen”. They are basically these two dudes that narrate all types of horror stories /legends/real life scary tales. Looking back now, the channel is quite basic, but for a 15-year-old back then, that was peak horror. There was also this website that I remember called “Horror Stories: So that you won’t sleep at night!” or something similar, that had stories claiming to be real-life experiences of the users. Again, somewhat basic, but quite nostalgic now that I look back to it.
I was really prepared to not like SCP, but some of the entries are really creative and draw you in. The one about the haunted videotape I show in this video I think is very brilliant.
@@JJMcCullough I think it’s also due to the fact that these days, SCP has steered away from pure horror. Some of the entries on the website are closer to science fiction, some are just mundane, some are more fantastical in nature. There’s something for everybody. My personal favourite is SCP-1762, “Where the Dragons Went”, about a cardboard box populated by sentient paper dragons. It’s a sad and nostalgic rather than a scary tale, which shows, imo, that even projects like this can carry deeper meanings and emotions.
The 2024 culture video is gonna be crazy. J.J. is gonna have to talk about brainrot, Drake vs Kendrick, and Brat Summer. An award winning video for sure.
@@JJMcCulloughherobrine was a famous myth originating from one edited image of a foggy Minecraft world. The story is something like the game world was corrupted by some super natural force or it was an escaped bug from mojang. Players would encounter glitched blocks and chunks and trees with no leaves and see another player in a single player world with the default skin but with full white eyes instead.
i think it should be noted that the crocodile SCP isn’t nearly as popular today, with the ‘Shy Guy’ (SCP-096) having taken the top spot alongside the peanut mentioned in the video, at least for people on the younger side of gen z. It’s also a much more compelling concept than an invincible crocodile if you ask me.
The Mickey Mouse creature you showed looks more like Negative Mickey from a different disney creepypasta. The bare bones is a guy goes to the abandoned discovery island park and a Mickey mascot costume with inverted colors comes to life and rips its own head off.
There's a good "haunted videogame" web series called Petscop, which is presented as a Lets Play of a lost PlayStation 1 game that eventually becomes more surreal as the game continues. It came out in 2017 and seems to be influenced by copypastas.
@@JJMcCulloughI highly recommend pyrocynicals video on it. When he’s passionate about a subject his video essays grab you very well. However don’t expect a sequel anytime soon.
Glorious revolution was when the English deposed their Catholic King for a Protestant Dutch. It's probably taught in British History, we briefly covered it in America, and I heard the Dutch teach it too, but if you're not from these places then it's not really gonna matter. Never heard of the third guy
I’m surprised JJ didn’t mention how particularly poorly written the Jeff the Killer story is. I’m sure if I went back to reread a lot of the creepypasta stories from my childhood, they wouldn’t live up to how scary I found them a decade ago
12:47 *erm, actually: the mickey mouse depicted is actually from the short story "abandoned by disney" not suicide mouse. You can tell cause mickeys blue n white, thus "negative mickey"
As a Latin-American who was in the eight grader in 2018, Momo is definitely something I look back on with a bit of nostalgia, but I mostly see it as ridiculously funny.
Surprised you didn’t mention “Marble Hornets” when talking about Slenderman as it’s probably one of the most influential online horror series ever created. It arguably brought Slenderman out of the photo contest and into the wider internet sphere
As someone who grew up in the 00s and 10s, I am so thankful I had no understanding of the internet whatsoever. I didn't even know what youtube was. Because making up creepy things is inherent to every childhood, and I reckon this particular fad will never go away, just morph into something different perhaps, but it's so much better to fantasise about these things without computers, because it can get very scary, very quickly. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I find these internet gools particularly unsettling.
Great video. I generally agree with your point at the end of the video, allot of this stuff is really not that good or creative (I should know, I am of the right age to have grown up with it.) However, I really think it is unfair to throw stuff like the SCP foundation and Local58 in the same category as Jeff the killer and his ilk. I lost interest in the derivative, low effort stuff years ago, but I still read and love the SCP wiki and think it is a genuinely interesting and well done horror, but also science fiction and fantasy project. Again, great video!
@@JJMcCulloughI second what OP is saying. There are creepy pastas which typically appeal to younger audiences and often tend to have a more meme-like quality to them. (Associated with a viral image, or visually distinctive character) And then there are creepy pastas with excellent narrative storytelling. Of which certain writers have gone on to publish books and join writing casts for TV, etc. I’d recommend looking into Penpal, Feed the Pig, Borrasca, The Showers and Tales from the gas station. Some of my personal favorites. If you’re into podcasts, CreepCast has covered all the stories mentioned above. And I’d also like to mention Ted the Caver, which is pretty much seen as the first creepy pasta. I’m sure you’d find it interesting. Great video btw!
@@JJMcCullough Well, there are alot! But I'll go with one that, in my opinion, isn't as well known as it deserves to be. SCP-3049, The Apple Pie Oven. Enjoy
I can't wait for JJ to become a SCP themed channel, and then somehow relating every article back to Canadian politics. Also SCP-173 has unfortunately had to have its design changed due to copyright issues
Here in Brazil, one of the weidest crepypasta stuff that happened was "The Blue Whale Game", it was similar to Momo but far more grounded, and it was taken a lot more seriously. The idea is that it was some sort of internet Cult where some Russian would give volunteers tasks ( luring them somehow), until the last one where he asked you to commit su***ide. Don't know where or why this stuff was made, but for more than a month, every youth su***ide would be blamed on the game, and some groups might have actually copied this idea, but who knows. Even as 12 years old, I thought it was bs, but everyone's parents were pretty scared, and mainstream media was reporting it completely for real.
Russian here, I was in middle school when it happened Iirc, it was probably real, though my memory is kinda fuzzy. I remember three things: In my school someone wrote one of the "challenges" on a bathroom stall, causing an emergency meeting Organizers of this stuff used lots of netstalker slang I think I read that the guy behind all this ended up behind bars a couple of months later
Great video, but I think there should be a correction. I'm pretty sure that's not Suicide Mouse, that's from Abandoned By Disney, a supposed report from a park built by Disney in South American jungle, but abandoned and all mentions of it erased. The narrator finds it with words "Abandoned By Disney" on the gate, then searches through it and in the finale, a color-switched Mickey costume comes alive, tears off its head and starts bleeding yellow. Narrator runs away, but sees that now, the gate has "Abandoned By God" on it. Yeah, it's one of the weaker creepy pastas
@@JJMcCulloughit’s a story. The creator is called slime something. I was subscribed to his TH-cam channel a long time ago. He made a book on creepypasta archetypes in a similar style to SCP in that it’s “in universe”.
As a 55+ I had never heard of any of this, except for Slenderman which came to my attention through a Geocache. It’s amazing how much culture and lore is out there that fails to break generational barriers.
The expressions that J.J. is exhibiting is classic "cynical millennial". I love it. It's as if he's trying so hard to not tear down how ridiculous most of the creepy pastas are.
As someone who saw a lot of this stuff start then disengaged with it for years, it's interesting to see where people who were a few years younger than me took the concepts I remember seeing in their early days.
One thing I'm surprised didn't come up in the discussion of the Smile Dog was that it's basically just the old "chain letter" cliche. Once you see the picture, the only way to end its influence on you is to "spread the word", and show the picture to someone else.
Creepy pastas scared the hell out of me when I was a kid especially gaming creepypastas for the reason you mention of familiar things turning evil on me. Specifically the Herobrine character from Minecraft. Minecraft was my safe place to build and create whatever I wanted and the idea of a malevolent spirit destroying my creations for no particular reason even in singleplayer mode scared me a lot.
as soon as i saw this i said in my head “JJ video on creepypastas just dropped??” holy shit haven’t even watched a second and i’m already hyped. excellent topic!
I was introduced to slender man by a friend when I was 7. For years I was convinced he was real. Doesn’t help I had a sleep paralysis encounter which I thought was him.
I look forward to seeing more of these Cultural Cannon: How Do You Do Fellow Kids Edition episodes so I can also better converse with the Gen Z youth. Thank you for your service JJ! Edit: Blameitonjorge on TH-cam has had a lot of videos trying to uncover a lost Mickey Mouse cartoon that was made in the late 1960s-early 1970s as an art project, with Disney trying to snuff it out of existence. Various people have claimed to have uncovered the film and Blameitonjorge has some of those 2000s era cartoons in videos trying to find the true piece of Lost Media
@JJMcCullough I think the commenter is referring to Short Subject / "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam", a political short made by a hobbyist filmmaker/animator against the Vietnam War. EDIT: actually I think they're talking about "Uncle Walt". There are several lost (or once lost) unofficial films with Mickey Mouse from the 30s through to the 70s so it gets confusing
@JJMcCullough I was poking fun at the How Do You Do Fellow Kids, joking at the meme-fied concept in “understanding ‘Zoomers’”. It’s been an interesting getting older: My spouse is an Xennial (born in September 1982) and, oddly enough, he doesn’t work with Boomers anymore since they all retired and has been sharing various stories of how “Zoomer” college grads think about things (one “Zoomer” coworker says that Gen X, as a generation, is pretty chill). It’s only gonna get interesting from here on out.
@@JJMcCullough In reference to the Lost Mickey Mouse cartoon, “Uncle Walt”, Blameitonjorge had various concepts, sketches, and previous works from the artist who made the infamous short film in previous videos, but he’s got a newer video dedicated to finding a new found copy of “Uncle Walt”: th-cam.com/video/u7TlWQ9qdik/w-d-xo.html
YOOOO! Is JJ actually talking about [BEN IS DEAD]?!?!?! I remember when it happened, and I tried to replicate BEN when I gifted MM3D to my sister; I even resealed the plastic wrap so it looked new
Can you do a canon of teen-fiction. It wouldnt really be a canon, more like: millenials grew with Harry potter books, the generation before had Goosebumps books; before that lord of the rings. etc.
When i was about 12, I remember getting into an argument with my cousin about Herobrine, the supposed eyeless version of Minecraft Steve that haunted the game. I insisted that it was fake and that it was a story somebody made up but he was insistent that he was real. It was like a tiny window into the current day phenomenon of people believing stuff from the internet but then miraculously not believing other things from the internet.
Being 26 now I was the perfect age for this group of Internet tales and I was extremely familiar with all of the stories and their pictures growing up. Particularly in middle school I was fascinated with the whole thing, but how cliche and troupe filled the stories all are in hindsight makes them a silly thing to look back on fondly even if they're objectively not that good
I remember distinctly going through elementary school and being told by our school counselor not to go to TH-cam on our school laptops out of fear of us glimpsing Momo. Apparently the story had been so far warped by that point that the belief was Momo could hijack any TH-cam video in all her grotesqueness and convince the viewer to kill themself. Of course this was all very much not true, but I was subsequently terrified of TH-cam for a good few weeks after that and I've since come to think of that school counselor as rather irresponsible. Whether it was a ploy to keep us off TH-cam on our school devices or a genuine belief that we would end up dead I will never know. Wild times!
The Spongebob-themed creepypastas always stick with me. I love the SCPs that present impossible, or otherwise cursed places -- the whole Backrooms spinoff canon is sublime.
14:06 As many other commenters have also done with others I'll try and leave a constructive correction as one of these "middle class zoomers" who grew up on creepy pasta and TH-cam horror. While that image is now associated with Smile Dog nowadays I don't remember it being the one used for most of its history, the one I associate with it is a less bloody one of simply a husky but with a wide human toothy grin.
I say this every time it gets brought up, but I vividly remember the morning that the slender man stabbing happened. I lived in the next town over and everything was eerily quiet at school and on the bus. I had friends who knew the victim. There was a lot of worry from teachers and parents. Things only really went back to normal about a month or so later
I think one of the lasting legacies of these sorts of creepy pasta characters might be in children's low-budget TH-cam video things. My baby brother used to watch these horribly made Peppa Pig videos (Not sanctioned by the real Peppa Pig people) that featured these sorts of weird characters, like Siren Head and Slenderman. These characters have seemingly turned into stock 'horror' characters for Generation Alpha, but we'll see how long that will last.
19:02 Grew up in Waukesha about 15 minutes away from the school where those girls went. Was in 5th grade at the time, same age as the kids, and remember how polarizing and scary it was for all of us. Our school held an all school assembly to talk about slender man, seems surreal for it to happen in the suburban Midwest.
@ no presentation or anything. Just our principal with a few other favorite teachers of the school standing in the middle of the gymnasium/cafeteria. Mainly focused on how the internet is a dangerous place where bad people can get bad ideas and so forth. Much more so focused on how slender wasn’t real. I can’t even imagine how I would tackle talking about this to 400 kids.
I went to the same school as the girls (grade above them) and strangely it felt like the school didn’t talk about it with us. The principal spoke to some news people about it, but most they did for us was warn us that news people would be outside after school. No assemblies or announcements that I can remember
For Jeff the Killer, I like how one of the scariest images I’ve seen on the internet was put onto one of the least scary stories I’ve read on the internet
I remember being five years old in Wisconsin in 2014. Slenderman was more fact than fiction, given my only exposure to him was through my older brother, but when I heard about the stabbing and its motive even I just plainly thought “that’s quite silly.”
Anyone that played LittleBigPlanet back in the day remembers Jeff for spawning essentially an entire genre of levels based around him. Most of them were pretty basic, get to the end of this forest without the electrified sackbot with jacks face touching you. They were never what i would call great levels, but they always managed to be pretty popular, usually holding a firm spot in the "cool levels" section. And they are weirdly nostalgic for me in some way.
Gen Z here! I was a bit too young for the late 2000s forum post style creepy pasta stuff (recently turned 20!!!), but growing up on the internet meant that I was somewhat familiar with them. It also meant that I was a tween in the middle phase of this era of internet horror. Like most stuff popular with tweens, creepy pastas had a reputation for being cringe (albiet not as much as other things, because it was fairly niche). Tweens and teenagers love deeming a thing slightly younger people love as cringe. Of course we (hopefully) grow out of it, and the cynical hating everything "cringe" phase turns into nostalgia for simpler times. I was never into creepy pastas, but I think most people of our generation were really into at least one internet driven thing when we were younger. Sometimes tween cringe nostalgia can be your horrible picture day outfits, sometimes it's reminiscing on the Jeff the killer/Eyeless Jack yaoi fanart you were proud of drawing (not me tho I was too busy watching mlp fan animations 🙃).
I remember being a kid when these monsters were popular. I’m glad I can look back now as a young adult and think, “man, was I dumb to believe that.” Nowadays, I like to think I’m smart enough to know what is and isn’t real in media; though, that doesn’t stop me from having those small moments when I “see” a shadowy figure move in the corner of my eye or think I’m being followed while I walk down the street. The best I or anyone can do is to realize there’s probably nothing in the darkness except our own fears.
Despite many of these older Creepypasta's no longer being as prevalent as they once used to be, and there being less new material thought up and spread all over the internet, the internet horror scene still lives on among younger generations. Mainly in the form of the backrooms, popularized through the TH-cam channel Kane Pixels, which is surprisingly popular with young people specifically, and the analog horror series The Mandela Catalogue (though I haven't heard much from that in the last year or so) and other, smaller, analog horror series. And not to speak about how big the horror genre is in gaming nowadays (though maybe that's just me getting older and being exposed to more of that stuff, not the genre actually growing). All in all, horror is definitely still alive among the youths, just not in the way it used to be.
Gen z here and didn't know a lot of these. I was expecting more like Slenderman, the Russian sleep experiment, herobrine from Minecraft and all those weird creepy pasta theories about Hey Arnold or Phineas and Ferb or any other animated series from our childhood. I think this just kinda shows how big the internet is and how vastly different everyone's corner is
The Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License isn’t exactly public domain. It’s a license that allows people to share and adapt the content, but with the requirements of needing to give appropriate credit and put your your work under the same license. In other words, free to use if given credit and shared under the same license.
That beautiful face..the hair alone is magic over the years he can do any style and still be a total beautiful studd. Hope he has millions by now, he deserves it
I'm kinda surprised the Squidward's Suicide creepypasta wasn't brought up. It's so famous that it was referenced in an official Spongebob episode, and it's the perfect example of the classic creepypasta subgenre of the Lost Episode.
As one of the youngest Millenials (Jan '96), I remember listening to the Japanese Pokémon Green's Lavender Town theme, having read that they had to change it for the American release because some kids unalived themselves after listening to it, or something like that. Good times
Hey glad you liked my art to use it to sorta base around this discussion on creepypasta! Makes me want to make more of these little guys lol
Can you give us some exclusive insider-behind-the-scenes information about the thought process that went into making the sprites? I’d be curious to know what your personal history with these creepy pastas are.
@bugbearstew ditto on JJ's question. I'd love to know too!
Feels so weird to see J.J. talking about SCP, never thought id hear him even mention this little corner of the internet I so love.
And yet here I am
SCP to me is Saanich Commomwealth Place, lol, not sure what it means here yet
Secure, Contain, Protect. Hmm, I must be getting old… 🤔
>little corner
As if it isn't one of the most popular internet series
I wound up liking it more than I thought I would. I like the ones that are very mind-screwy, like the haunted videotape I show briefly in this video. What’s your favorite SCP?
this guy should cover the christmas creature canon (like gingerbread man, snowman, elf, reindeer)
ah yes, the reindeer, the most iconic fictional creature from the christmas canon
@@user-oi5hc6pv9k I thought reindeer were made up for a long time like a jackalope, I didn't know it was another name for caribou.
Good idea. I like these "cultural canon" videos.
@@user-oi5hc6pv9kFlying reindeer like Santa's are fictional lol
I would be curious when the iconic snowman debuted
One thing JJ didnt bring up was that part of the creepypasta culture is to insist these storys are real no matter what. And often when the storys would leave creepypasta forums people wouldnt realize they are works of fiction. Famously people still insist that the russian sleep experiment was a true historical even rather than something madeup on reddit around 2010
I cant belive jj is talking about sonic.exe and jeff the killer
I’m as surprised as you are
I can't believe anyone considers Jeff the Killer scary
@danielgertler5976 hey as a kid that image was horrifying. You seriously can't tell me otherwise
@@danielgertler5976i know, 9 year olds are so stupid, amirite?
I was crying when he showed the Jeff the Killer x Eyeless Jack ship art 😭
12:38 I don't know if anyone else has already said this, but the weird Mickey Mouse creature is not ment to be "Suicide Mouse". It actually comes from a creepypasta about Disneyland's Treasure Island named "Abandoned by Disney" and is mostly known by many for a videogame adaptation of the story that happens to be one of the earliest FNAF fangames called "Treasure Island".
this is true!
I thought that's what it was! I was so confused why J.J. didn't even touch on the inverted colours!
@@hunted4blood I honestly thought it was just a creative choice on the part of the sprite artist. Can someone tell me more about this thing?
@JJMcCullough pastra made a good video about it titled "the scaryist creapy pasta ever made." The tldr story is that a guy was exploring an abandoned disney resort and found a dark mickiy mouse. There is a prequal about the backstory of the preformer who became the mickey. the mickey mouse suit performer starts to slowly morph into the suit and starts to mentally deteriorate. It's like a body horror type vibe. I recommend watching that vid if you are interested!
@@JJMcCulloughbasically it's a creepypasta based around the mc exploring a fictional abandoned Disney park and encountering a living, "photo negative" Mickey Mouse costume, which later sequels explain is a tulpa brought to life by the idolization of Disney and the mix of positive and negative emotions surrounding the character
I have to say as a zoomer, I appreciate JJ, aging millennial that he is, takes the effort to understand the younger generations weird cultural developments.
Like I said, I think it’s important to know!  I don’t know what the alternative is other than getting confused and frustrated by what the young people are up to all the time.
As a GenXer, I liked the concept of how cultural literacy flows both ways. I think one of the reasons people are dismissive of "newer" phenomena is that it's difficult to tell what will truly become canon and what's just a passing fad.
@@benjaminrobinson3842 Bingo.
This video is another great example of how most teen and tween culture is created by the previous generation. Most of this stuff was created by Millennials while most of their iconic pop culture was created by Gen X.
That's a great point!
A lot of internet horror seems to be inspired by elements from the 80s to 90s era when millenials were kids.
Not that I was ever all that prominent, but I wrote some creepypasta back in the day, mostly while I was in college. At the time I mostly assumed it was people in my own age group reading it.
I remember Momo so vividly. So, I come from a Hispanic household, and that panic definitely took hold of my mother. I remember one day, she came up to me and showed me an image of Momo. She then said, "If you ever see this image, run away. This thing will kill you. If you see this, come talk to me." I remember being so confused, as I had never heard of Momo until my mom brought it up. It's wild to think that some edgy teenagers on the internet could scare a rational woman so thoroughly.
Just a small correction:
The Mickey pictured is not from Suicide Mouse. It's actually from a popular creepypasta called "Abandoned by Disney." If I recall correctly, it's about a guy going to an abandoned Disney theme park and encountering a sentient Mickey Mouse costume.
Yes but it also was made into a FNAF fan game which is how it became famous
Abandoned by Disney is a classic.
As a younger millenial, I also grew up with creepypastas. I remember reading the russian sleep experiment when I was maybe 16? It was great stuff, huge part of my canon
The image associated with that creepypasta is still scary to this day
That's definitely an iconic one
Gen X. You have no idea what we tried to on the internet. Some things shouldn't be for average people but here we are in 2024.
@@adhamwashere5320 Oh yeah, it's scarier than most scary movie ghosts/monsters
@@adhamwashere5320 Honestly, part of the appeal for some of these is that they seem possible in a very screwed up world. It's not just the supernatural part but the human part also scares me.
Oh no he's covering my generation!
Edit: and he got most of it right
Me at the bar when the one man band does a “The Who” cover
T-t-t-t-talkin' 'bout my generation.
@@indyfan9845 like zoinks, scoob !
Your generation is getting ollllld and is capable of being covered by the guy who covers history muahahahaha
John Otto, take 'em to the Mathews Bridge!
I think creepypastas primarily influenced modern day analog horror and subtlety the amazing digital circus
i think that's true gen z, creepypasta is more of a "zillenial" thing
TADC is the best! 🃏
One thing I've found interesting about the SCP Foundation ever since it was pointed out to me is how much of a "Dubya"-era artifact it is. It's a paramilitary-like organization with very deep pockets and an ambiguous relationship with the government, that conducts shady operations around the world with little regard for human life or well-being, and then stashes its "extraordinarily rendered" captives away in one of its many black sites.
Watching JJ mention Jeff the Killer X Eyeless Jack yaoi is very jarring, it'd be like John Madden commentating the Kendrick vs Drake beef.
JJ posted your comment on his Instagram story!
Interesting that despite being a "Gen Z" thing, practically everyone of these originate from Millenials writing in early internet. This, mirroring how the hip pop stars for a generation are often a decade or so older than their target audience.
Yeah, because 12 years olds usually tend to not be very good at anything
I remember here in Western Massachusetts (decidedly not Latin America), a lot of parents of school children received little pamphlets warning them about the “Momo Challenge” and how to keep their kids safe online, in the same tone you would expect from a DARE PSA about drugs or something. I remember my mother made a comment like, “We tell kids not to believe everything they see online, and then we fall for the stories those kids create.” That’s really stuck with me.
that was a hoax born in 2020 as i remember well. it appeared in LatAm again in that time.
IMPORTANT: Is the video at 2:15 award-winning?
technically, if a video receives 1 like on youtube, it has "won an award."
Yes, the award of the most likable guy on TH-cam
@@Woynichokay you have to explain that one my dude because literaly who except for you hs ever called a like on a video an "award"???
Michael from Vsauce is canonically an SCP
wait really? what entry number?
Wait really? That actually makes sense in a way...
where are your fingers?
SCP-4515
I'd never think to see a Canadian man talk about people like Lyndon B. Johnson & characters like Suicide Mouse in my lifetime
I'm surprised you didn't mention Marble Hornets with Slenderman, maybe it's not as well-known? I just think it's an exceptionally well-done web series
Is slenderman in that? What does he do?
@@JJMcCullough well he's the big bad monster of the series. It's what spurred the creation of Slender The 8 Pages
The best way to consider it is, Slender Man (the movie) is a really bad adaptation of Marbel Hornets. It removes most of the charm and whatever actual horror could be derived from the series.
@@JJMcCulloughive never personally watched it but i know they dont refer to him as slender man, rather they call him the operator but it is obviously supposed to be slender man. Its also notable because two of the characters (hoodie and maskie) are commonly associated with jeff the killer and that whole kerfuffle
@@JJMcCulloughit solidified a lot of the slender man tropes. It defined what slender man does and doesn’t do.
I think that the 'suicide mouse' was actually 'photonegative mickey' from an entirely separate creepypasta called "abandoned by disney."
What is?
@@JJMcCullough There were droves of Mickey mouse creepy pastas. 2 of the most famous was suicide mouse and abandoned by Disney. So even if you were wrong they were both just as popular as each other and suicide mouse did inspire many other stories which also. One story it inspired did get big enough to even get referenced in SpongeBob!
@@JJMcCulloughIt’s abandoned by Disney, the plot is about some guy going to a never completed Disney park in the Deep South and finds a color inverted Mickey costume that’s alive, the reason it became famous however was because it was adapted into a FNAF fan game that became popular for let’s-players
As a relatively young man who grew up in the creepypasta / internet horror era of the internet, I adamantly believe that it is for the best that this particular era of the internet is over. After growing up with this stuff, I personally would not want my future children to be exposed to it. I do not believe that it would be particularly traumatizing or harmful to them, but there simply isn't enough research on the long-lasting impact of exposure to such content on the minds of young children. In my opinion, horror as a genre should not be exposed to children until they are at least in middle school. As someone who was exposed to the creepypasta world in my early childhood, I can tell you quite confidently that children who are elementary school aged have a strong tendency to hear of such stories and believe them to be factual despite the stories obviously being fictional. As for the impact on Gen Z, I don't believe that it will have a huge impact on our lives going forward. Creepypastas will just be another part of our upbringing that we will reminisce about in the later stages of our lives.
I should say, it was later revealed that one of the girls who committed the Slenderman stabbing had paranoid schizophrenia. So it was less of kids not understanding fiction from reality, but rather an actual delusion.
I am SO tired of people using that case to justify fiction influencing reality, because they NEVER understand that part of the case.
Yeah why use that to justify it when you could use any kid who grew up to be a thug because their idols were gang banging rappers.
Yes, I found Strange Æons’ video on the subject very informative.
Yeah, poor girl got saddled with blame when her "friend" who talked her into it and planned it got off easy, clear as day example of being stigmatized
It has always existed. Elvis, Black Sabbath, heavy metal, the power rangers, Mortal Kombat, South Park,... they were all at one point the cause of violence in kids.
JJ, I wish you made this before Halloween. I saw kids dressed up as some of these characters for Halloween, but didn't know what they were. Given that, I actually wonder if many of the kids even know who these characters are. Either way, this was fascinating.
I don’t know how relevant or popular this community is by I would say the modern form of scp is the backrooms
There are hundred of articles that are more based on environmental horror and liminal places than monsters
I think also that the backrooms has
Become its own thing and doesn’t have the bad traits of many internet horror stories
Over time the stories and levels have gotten more fleshed out and more creative
Also it is a driving force I would say if found footage videos today inspiring a lot of people to learn blender and stuff like that
The SCP universe and Local58 are in my opinion, some of the best and most well-made examples of creepypasta out there. SCP is still widely popular, and the well-curated site and wide selection of wildly different entries makes the whole universe quite appealing. Local58 literally established a whole new genre of horror, and is still one of the most well-made examples of this.
As a GenZer from Greece, during my elementary school years, the most popular place for horror stories that I can recall, was a YT channel called “Gloomy Gentlemen”. They are basically these two dudes that narrate all types of horror stories /legends/real life scary tales. Looking back now, the channel is quite basic, but for a 15-year-old back then, that was peak horror.
There was also this website that I remember called “Horror Stories: So that you won’t sleep at night!” or something similar, that had stories claiming to be real-life experiences of the users. Again, somewhat basic, but quite nostalgic now that I look back to it.
I was really prepared to not like SCP, but some of the entries are really creative and draw you in. The one about the haunted videotape I show in this video I think is very brilliant.
@@JJMcCullough I think it’s also due to the fact that these days, SCP has steered away from pure horror. Some of the entries on the website are closer to science fiction, some are just mundane, some are more fantastical in nature. There’s something for everybody.
My personal favourite is SCP-1762, “Where the Dragons Went”, about a cardboard box populated by sentient paper dragons. It’s a sad and nostalgic rather than a scary tale, which shows, imo, that even projects like this can carry deeper meanings and emotions.
The 2024 culture video is gonna be crazy. J.J. is gonna have to talk about brainrot, Drake vs Kendrick, and Brat Summer. An award winning video for sure.
Herobrine has always been the most iconic creepypasta character to me, specifically of the "haunted video game" sub-genre
what is
@@JJMcCulloughherobrine was a famous myth originating from one edited image of a foggy Minecraft world. The story is something like the game world was corrupted by some super natural force or it was an escaped bug from mojang. Players would encounter glitched blocks and chunks and trees with no leaves and see another player in a single player world with the default skin but with full white eyes instead.
i think it should be noted that the crocodile SCP isn’t nearly as popular today, with the ‘Shy Guy’ (SCP-096) having taken the top spot alongside the peanut mentioned in the video, at least for people on the younger side of gen z.
It’s also a much more compelling concept than an invincible crocodile if you ask me.
FOUR FUCKING PIXELS!!
The Mickey Mouse creature you showed looks more like Negative Mickey from a different disney creepypasta. The bare bones is a guy goes to the abandoned discovery island park and a Mickey mascot costume with inverted colors comes to life and rips its own head off.
In the intro rn, why did youtube gove me the suicide hotline
I was wondering that myself
I would be shocked if even 1 in 4 knew what the “Glorious Revolution” was 😂
There's a good "haunted videogame" web series called Petscop, which is presented as a Lets Play of a lost PlayStation 1 game that eventually becomes more surreal as the game continues. It came out in 2017 and seems to be influenced by copypastas.
I thought it was interesting, but it went on for too long, and I got bored before it seemed to be reaching any sort of climax.
@JJMcCullough very fair, I think it loses steam in the later episodes
@@JJMcCulloughI highly recommend pyrocynicals video on it. When he’s passionate about a subject his video essays grab you very well. However don’t expect a sequel anytime soon.
0:17 welp, 1/3.
Glorious revolution was when the English deposed their Catholic King for a Protestant Dutch. It's probably taught in British History, we briefly covered it in America, and I heard the Dutch teach it too, but if you're not from these places then it's not really gonna matter. Never heard of the third guy
21:42 Still asking for a canon of tabletop games.
I'd imagine that it would be Monopoly, Candy Land, Snakes/Chutes and Ladders, Trivial Pursuit, and Trouble/Sorry/Ludo.
I did NOT expect to hear Any Austin in a JJ Video, but you couldn't have picked anyone better to cover all that bureaucratic stuff 🔥
I think the Mickey Mouse is supposed to be the photo-negative Mickey from the creepypasta "Abandoned by Disney".
Marble Hornets deserved to get mention during the Slenderman Section.
I’m surprised JJ didn’t mention how particularly poorly written the Jeff the Killer story is. I’m sure if I went back to reread a lot of the creepypasta stories from my childhood, they wouldn’t live up to how scary I found them a decade ago
10:32 what???! This is the most bizarre fact I’ve ever encountered.
This is my favorite slice of internet culture.
The only creepypasta I ever got into as a kid was Slenderman, largely due to Marble Hornets, but then after the stabbing it all just sorta felt taboo
12:47 *erm, actually: the mickey mouse depicted is actually from the short story "abandoned by disney" not suicide mouse. You can tell cause mickeys blue n white, thus "negative mickey"
I thought that was just some artistic flair on the part of the sprite artist!
@JJMcCullough there was even a fnaf fan game based on the story back when fnaf fan games were getting popular. Cool vid though!
All this talk about slenderman but no love for Marble Hornets?
As a Latin-American who was in the eight grader in 2018, Momo is definitely something I look back on with a bit of nostalgia, but I mostly see it as ridiculously funny.
Surprised you didn’t mention “Marble Hornets” when talking about Slenderman as it’s probably one of the most influential online horror series ever created. It arguably brought Slenderman out of the photo contest and into the wider internet sphere
As someone who grew up in the 00s and 10s, I am so thankful I had no understanding of the internet whatsoever. I didn't even know what youtube was. Because making up creepy things is inherent to every childhood, and I reckon this particular fad will never go away, just morph into something different perhaps, but it's so much better to fantasise about these things without computers, because it can get very scary, very quickly. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I find these internet gools particularly unsettling.
Great video. I generally agree with your point at the end of the video, allot of this stuff is really not that good or creative (I should know, I am of the right age to have grown up with it.) However, I really think it is unfair to throw stuff like the SCP foundation and Local58 in the same category as Jeff the killer and his ilk.
I lost interest in the derivative, low effort stuff years ago, but I still read and love the SCP wiki and think it is a genuinely interesting and well done horror, but also science fiction and fantasy project.
Again, great video!
What’s a clever and creative SCP you would recommend?
@@JJMcCulloughI second what OP is saying. There are creepy pastas which typically appeal to younger audiences and often tend to have a more meme-like quality to them. (Associated with a viral image, or visually distinctive character) And then there are creepy pastas with excellent narrative storytelling. Of which certain writers have gone on to publish books and join writing casts for TV, etc. I’d recommend looking into Penpal, Feed the Pig, Borrasca, The Showers and Tales from the gas station. Some of my personal favorites. If you’re into podcasts, CreepCast has covered all the stories mentioned above. And I’d also like to mention Ted the Caver, which is pretty much seen as the first creepy pasta. I’m sure you’d find it interesting. Great video btw!
@@JJMcCullough I like the ones on antimemetics
@@JJMcCullough Well, there are alot! But I'll go with one that, in my opinion, isn't as well known as it deserves to be. SCP-3049, The Apple Pie Oven.
Enjoy
I can't wait for JJ to become a SCP themed channel, and then somehow relating every article back to Canadian politics. Also SCP-173 has unfortunately had to have its design changed due to copyright issues
It's design wasn't changed, they just removed the image entirely, so now there is no official design for it.
Here in Brazil, one of the weidest crepypasta stuff that happened was "The Blue Whale Game", it was similar to Momo but far more grounded, and it was taken a lot more seriously. The idea is that it was some sort of internet Cult where some Russian would give volunteers tasks ( luring them somehow), until the last one where he asked you to commit su***ide. Don't know where or why this stuff was made, but for more than a month, every youth su***ide would be blamed on the game, and some groups might have actually copied this idea, but who knows. Even as 12 years old, I thought it was bs, but everyone's parents were pretty scared, and mainstream media was reporting it completely for real.
Russian here, I was in middle school when it happened
Iirc, it was probably real, though my memory is kinda fuzzy. I remember three things:
In my school someone wrote one of the "challenges" on a bathroom stall, causing an emergency meeting
Organizers of this stuff used lots of netstalker slang
I think I read that the guy behind all this ended up behind bars a couple of months later
the Mickey one is not Suicide Mouse, it's Abandoned By Disney
Great video, but I think there should be a correction.
I'm pretty sure that's not Suicide Mouse, that's from Abandoned By Disney, a supposed report from a park built by Disney in South American jungle, but abandoned and all mentions of it erased. The narrator finds it with words "Abandoned By Disney" on the gate, then searches through it and in the finale, a color-switched Mickey costume comes alive, tears off its head and starts bleeding yellow. Narrator runs away, but sees that now, the gate has "Abandoned By God" on it.
Yeah, it's one of the weaker creepy pastas
Is it a story or a video?
@@JJMcCulloughit’s a story. The creator is called slime something. I was subscribed to his TH-cam channel a long time ago. He made a book on creepypasta archetypes in a similar style to SCP in that it’s “in universe”.
As a 55+ I had never heard of any of this, except for Slenderman which came to my attention through a Geocache. It’s amazing how much culture and lore is out there that fails to break generational barriers.
"Oh cool, JJ is talking about creepypasta."
...
"Oh right, I actually HATE creepypasta."
The expressions that J.J. is exhibiting is classic "cynical millennial". I love it. It's as if he's trying so hard to not tear down how ridiculous most of the creepy pastas are.
As someone who saw a lot of this stuff start then disengaged with it for years, it's interesting to see where people who were a few years younger than me took the concepts I remember seeing in their early days.
I DIDN'T KNOW THE GUY BEHIND CANDLE COVE WAS ALSO BEHIND LOCAL 58?!
One thing I'm surprised didn't come up in the discussion of the Smile Dog was that it's basically just the old "chain letter" cliche. Once you see the picture, the only way to end its influence on you is to "spread the word", and show the picture to someone else.
Creepy pastas scared the hell out of me when I was a kid especially gaming creepypastas for the reason you mention of familiar things turning evil on me. Specifically the Herobrine character from Minecraft. Minecraft was my safe place to build and create whatever I wanted and the idea of a malevolent spirit destroying my creations for no particular reason even in singleplayer mode scared me a lot.
as soon as i saw this i said in my head “JJ video on creepypastas just dropped??” holy shit haven’t even watched a second and i’m already hyped. excellent topic!
I remember my best friend introducing me to SCP wiki in 07/08. We were both 13 at the time
We both thought it was real till many, many years later.
I was introduced to slender man by a friend when I was 7. For years I was convinced he was real. Doesn’t help I had a sleep paralysis encounter which I thought was him.
I look forward to seeing more of these Cultural Cannon: How Do You Do Fellow Kids Edition episodes so I can also better converse with the Gen Z youth. Thank you for your service JJ!
Edit: Blameitonjorge on TH-cam has had a lot of videos trying to uncover a lost Mickey Mouse cartoon that was made in the late 1960s-early 1970s as an art project, with Disney trying to snuff it out of existence. Various people have claimed to have uncovered the film and Blameitonjorge has some of those 2000s era cartoons in videos trying to find the true piece of Lost Media
What’s it supposed to be like?
@JJMcCullough I think the commenter is referring to Short Subject / "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam", a political short made by a hobbyist filmmaker/animator against the Vietnam War. EDIT: actually I think they're talking about "Uncle Walt". There are several lost (or once lost) unofficial films with Mickey Mouse from the 30s through to the 70s so it gets confusing
@JJMcCullough I was poking fun at the How Do You Do Fellow Kids, joking at the meme-fied concept in “understanding ‘Zoomers’”.
It’s been an interesting getting older: My spouse is an Xennial (born in September 1982) and, oddly enough, he doesn’t work with Boomers anymore since they all retired and has been sharing various stories of how “Zoomer” college grads think about things (one “Zoomer” coworker says that Gen X, as a generation, is pretty chill). It’s only gonna get interesting from here on out.
@@JJMcCullough In reference to the Lost Mickey Mouse cartoon, “Uncle Walt”, Blameitonjorge had various concepts, sketches, and previous works from the artist who made the infamous short film in previous videos, but he’s got a newer video dedicated to finding a new found copy of “Uncle Walt”: th-cam.com/video/u7TlWQ9qdik/w-d-xo.html
This video is gonna go hard, I can already feel it
As a Zoomer i only knew Jeff the Killer, Suicide Mickey, Slender man and Momo
YOOOO! Is JJ actually talking about [BEN IS DEAD]?!?!?! I remember when it happened, and I tried to replicate BEN when I gifted MM3D to my sister; I even resealed the plastic wrap so it looked new
How??
Can you do a canon of teen-fiction. It wouldnt really be a canon, more like: millenials grew with Harry potter books, the generation before had Goosebumps books; before that lord of the rings. etc.
Good day when J.J. uploads
Anyways, this has gotta be an interesting video considering I am Gen Z myself ('07 gang)
When i was about 12, I remember getting into an argument with my cousin about Herobrine, the supposed eyeless version of Minecraft Steve that haunted the game. I insisted that it was fake and that it was a story somebody made up but he was insistent that he was real. It was like a tiny window into the current day phenomenon of people believing stuff from the internet but then miraculously not believing other things from the internet.
10:30 nah thats just the ruler of everything
Being 26 now I was the perfect age for this group of Internet tales and I was extremely familiar with all of the stories and their pictures growing up. Particularly in middle school I was fascinated with the whole thing, but how cliche and troupe filled the stories all are in hindsight makes them a silly thing to look back on fondly even if they're objectively not that good
Cool to see you try and understand some of my gen’s odd creations.
I remember distinctly going through elementary school and being told by our school counselor not to go to TH-cam on our school laptops out of fear of us glimpsing Momo. Apparently the story had been so far warped by that point that the belief was Momo could hijack any TH-cam video in all her grotesqueness and convince the viewer to kill themself. Of course this was all very much not true, but I was subsequently terrified of TH-cam for a good few weeks after that and I've since come to think of that school counselor as rather irresponsible. Whether it was a ploy to keep us off TH-cam on our school devices or a genuine belief that we would end up dead I will never know. Wild times!
Please keep making these videos about Gen Z lore, this one is awesome.
I feel Sonic.EXE is the only major one missing here.
The Spongebob-themed creepypastas always stick with me. I love the SCPs that present impossible, or otherwise cursed places -- the whole Backrooms spinoff canon is sublime.
14:06 As many other commenters have also done with others I'll try and leave a constructive correction as one of these "middle class zoomers" who grew up on creepy pasta and TH-cam horror. While that image is now associated with Smile Dog nowadays I don't remember it being the one used for most of its history, the one I associate with it is a less bloody one of simply a husky but with a wide human toothy grin.
I say this every time it gets brought up, but I vividly remember the morning that the slender man stabbing happened. I lived in the next town over and everything was eerily quiet at school and on the bus. I had friends who knew the victim. There was a lot of worry from teachers and parents. Things only really went back to normal about a month or so later
I think one of the lasting legacies of these sorts of creepy pasta characters might be in children's low-budget TH-cam video things. My baby brother used to watch these horribly made Peppa Pig videos (Not sanctioned by the real Peppa Pig people) that featured these sorts of weird characters, like Siren Head and Slenderman. These characters have seemingly turned into stock 'horror' characters for Generation Alpha, but we'll see how long that will last.
They paved the way for mascot horror
19:02 Grew up in Waukesha about 15 minutes away from the school where those girls went. Was in 5th grade at the time, same age as the kids, and remember how polarizing and scary it was for all of us. Our school held an all school assembly to talk about slender man, seems surreal for it to happen in the suburban Midwest.
What was that assembly like?
@ no presentation or anything. Just our principal with a few other favorite teachers of the school standing in the middle of the gymnasium/cafeteria. Mainly focused on how the internet is a dangerous place where bad people can get bad ideas and so forth. Much more so focused on how slender wasn’t real. I can’t even imagine how I would tackle talking about this to 400 kids.
I went to the same school as the girls (grade above them) and strangely it felt like the school didn’t talk about it with us. The principal spoke to some news people about it, but most they did for us was warn us that news people would be outside after school. No assemblies or announcements that I can remember
one of my favorite videos of yours in some time.
For Jeff the Killer, I like how one of the scariest images I’ve seen on the internet was put onto one of the least scary stories I’ve read on the internet
I remember being five years old in Wisconsin in 2014. Slenderman was more fact than fiction, given my only exposure to him was through my older brother, but when I heard about the stabbing and its motive even I just plainly thought “that’s quite silly.”
Its not Moy-shee day-ahn its Moe-Sheh Dah-yahn
Anyone that played LittleBigPlanet back in the day remembers Jeff for spawning essentially an entire genre of levels based around him. Most of them were pretty basic, get to the end of this forest without the electrified sackbot with jacks face touching you. They were never what i would call great levels, but they always managed to be pretty popular, usually holding a firm spot in the "cool levels" section. And they are weirdly nostalgic for me in some way.
Gen Z here! I was a bit too young for the late 2000s forum post style creepy pasta stuff (recently turned 20!!!), but growing up on the internet meant that I was somewhat familiar with them. It also meant that I was a tween in the middle phase of this era of internet horror. Like most stuff popular with tweens, creepy pastas had a reputation for being cringe (albiet not as much as other things, because it was fairly niche). Tweens and teenagers love deeming a thing slightly younger people love as cringe. Of course we (hopefully) grow out of it, and the cynical hating everything "cringe" phase turns into nostalgia for simpler times. I was never into creepy pastas, but I think most people of our generation were really into at least one internet driven thing when we were younger. Sometimes tween cringe nostalgia can be your horrible picture day outfits, sometimes it's reminiscing on the Jeff the killer/Eyeless Jack yaoi fanart you were proud of drawing (not me tho I was too busy watching mlp fan animations 🙃).
Surprised you didn't mention Herobrine, he's the ultimately video game creepypasta and has actually been acknowledged by the Minecraft developers.
One thing I'll like to add is that Slender Man was a major inspiration for Notch in the creation of Minecraft's Enderman mob.
I remember being a kid when these monsters were popular. I’m glad I can look back now as a young adult and think, “man, was I dumb to believe that.”
Nowadays, I like to think I’m smart enough to know what is and isn’t real in media; though, that doesn’t stop me from having those small moments when I “see” a shadowy figure move in the corner of my eye or think I’m being followed while I walk down the street. The best I or anyone can do is to realize there’s probably nothing in the darkness except our own fears.
31 seconds in and JJ has me going damn I know 1/3 of those things. Quebec life.
6:39 OVER 9000!
Never in my life would i ever expect J.J. talking about creepypastas like WHAT?? :O
This man telling me about stuff that i should know. I know the Mona Lisa...
I also using a fidget spinner while watching
they're all like if a placeholder for an actual design was used instead of actually doing anything.
Despite many of these older Creepypasta's no longer being as prevalent as they once used to be, and there being less new material thought up and spread all over the internet, the internet horror scene still lives on among younger generations.
Mainly in the form of the backrooms, popularized through the TH-cam channel Kane Pixels, which is surprisingly popular with young people specifically, and the analog horror series The Mandela Catalogue (though I haven't heard much from that in the last year or so) and other, smaller, analog horror series. And not to speak about how big the horror genre is in gaming nowadays (though maybe that's just me getting older and being exposed to more of that stuff, not the genre actually growing).
All in all, horror is definitely still alive among the youths, just not in the way it used to be.
Please consider writing an a cultural canon book for the decade!
Gen z here and didn't know a lot of these. I was expecting more like Slenderman, the Russian sleep experiment, herobrine from Minecraft and all those weird creepy pasta theories about Hey Arnold or Phineas and Ferb or any other animated series from our childhood. I think this just kinda shows how big the internet is and how vastly different everyone's corner is
The Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License isn’t exactly public domain.
It’s a license that allows people to share and adapt the content, but with the requirements of needing to give appropriate credit and put your your work under the same license.
In other words, free to use if given credit and shared under the same license.
That beautiful face..the hair alone is magic over the years he can do any style and still be a total beautiful studd.
Hope he has millions by now, he deserves it
I'm kinda surprised the Squidward's Suicide creepypasta wasn't brought up. It's so famous that it was referenced in an official Spongebob episode, and it's the perfect example of the classic creepypasta subgenre of the Lost Episode.
As one of the youngest Millenials (Jan '96), I remember listening to the Japanese Pokémon Green's Lavender Town theme, having read that they had to change it for the American release because some kids unalived themselves after listening to it, or something like that. Good times