What YouTube Kids Did To Horror

Youtube kids made horror go from nightmare to fever dream.

They should really take the Courage the Cowardly Dog route when thinking about horror for children. Make it disturbing, but light hearted enough for children to understand.

For me, the thing that ruined mascot horror were toys In a lot of tourist attractions that i visited in my country there were a lot tiny shops. Every single one had the current popular mascot horror toy

Youtube kids is the scariest horror film site for adults lol

Elsagate is still the scariest thing to ever come out on YouTube. I remember scrolling past the almost endless amount of thumbnails of Elsa in dire situations.

I've been telling people for years that children on YouTube have been influencing the horror scene and everyone's looked at me like I'm crazy. I feel so validated.

What I hate in general about all of the mascot horror and vapid fandom stuff too is that it kinda unintentionally ruins my perception of the game. And I know that seemingly could be refuted with “just ignore that stuff and enjoy the game”, but it becomes REALLY hard to ignore it when the entire thing has been subsumed by that kind of crowd. (Though being real, now it seems like many games are being made specifically for that)

I still wonder why normal 18+ youtube needs rules to "protect" kids, WHEN THERE IS YOUTUBE KIDS!!! Why do WE need to suffer for the actions of incompetent parents who apparently don't know what rule enforcement is??

I'm so glad you mentioned how FNF was treated. I'd be lieing through my teeth if I said I had grown up with what it references, but I can still respect that it's a throwback to an era of the internet loved by many in a dire, lonely time. When the content farms got ahold of it, its aesthetic got appropriated into YouTube Kids and made it all the much harder to enjoy, same thing with Skibidi Toilet, even though I never had a personal connection to it and it's not horror.

ngl im kinda glad the internet is realising just because it's indie dosen't mean you can't say something about you not liking it, the fact that most mascot horrors get all the attention while actual good games like puppet combo and iron lung get's considerably less isn't even annoying, it's just sad also hotline miami soundtrack in the video that's awesome

imagine having little timothy in your car in 2030 saying "i want a scary huggy wuggy plush"

Remember when we were kids and could easily get traumatized by these horror stuff, but kids nowadays can really watch them normally without even scared a bit.

A thing about these mascot horror things and the... you know... the gate... is that it all stems to what is the most popular with kids nowadays. You can kill the gate, but it will always come back as long as something becomes really popular and trendy with the kids.

It's a good thing I was born in 2001 when YouTube Kids didn't exist and stuff was actually scary to me.

And yet we still won’t know why sirenhead and granny stole scary teacher’s Ferrari

I wished I could travel back in time to the early 2010s when creepypastas were just scary stories and are not this dumpster fire.

Boomers got hit by lead and radioactive fallout, Gen Z got hit by micro plastics and YouTube kids. Poetic, in a sense.

Honestly the issue is that it is hard to find something good unless it is popular, but the more popular something becomes, the more warped it becomes thanks to fans and content creators, so either you may never hear of something good, or you hear it so much that you want it gone, the only time a form of horror or general media is safe is when it finds the perfect middle ground of being known, but not consumed by the weight of communities

Fnaf genuinely scared me as a kid because it felt relatively real. Yes, it had some supernatural twists to it, but a man using a place where familys hangout to lure children away and kill them felt like it could happen. The same serial killer dying in the same suit he lured innocent children to their deaths in, and then coming back as an amalgamation of rotting flesh and metal, forced to live an agonizingly painful life to repay for his sins, was such a terrifying yet captivating story. And then Sister Location and the books came out, and I lost all interest in the fnaf universe.

the worst aspects of this genre is why i really love the games that either make fun of them, or deconstruct and reuse their tropes in better ways. Baldi’s Basics (a mockery of education and horror games, made to be intentionally not scary) and the recently releasing My Friendly Neighborhood (a mascot horror with a less fantasy-like horror angle, and with a more genuine, heartfelt story which uses the tropes better) come to mind first.