Childhood trauma... Not actual TRAUMA trauma, just things that scared us as kids, this is a trend that was started in 2016 by YourMovieSucks and- damn, 9 years ago already? Time really does fly when you're getting scared. Anyway, it was started in 2016 by YourMovieSucks, and since then, plenty of people have followed suit, like TheOdd1sOut, Wendigoon, and even some less well known people like Shunks, Spartan Dash, Distraxx, BHultra, Xander Roche, and now me. [EDITOR'S NOTE: Put screenshots of the videos by the respective channels' videos about it when they are mention, except for mine (because the viewers are watching the one by me otherwise they wouldn't see this.)] I decided this would be a great video idea, given that it IS October, hopefully Halloween when I release this, so I needed to, to quote Markiplier when meeting the Puppet: "Do something spooky." Also, voice reveal I guess, unless you count the videos by my good friends over at the Popcorn Lovers channel that feature me, go check THEM out too. Remember to do the usual Youtube stuff if you enjoy this video, or don't, I'm not your mom. Now I wanna preface with two things that I have: 1. vorarephobia, which is defined, by *sigh* the Urban Dictionary, as "The fear of being eaten alive or swallowed whole or the idea/concept of being eaten alive or swallowed whole." And 2. sensory issues, more specifically, auditory issues, loud crowds get me overstimulated for example. And with that, enjoy my absolutely quote-unquote, "pro," gameplay in the background, there'll be multiple games as we go on, and away we go. [Fade to thumbnail] So, everyone is afraid of something, right? It could be bugs, snakes, failure, or being eaten. I'm scared of all of these, not bugs as a whole, but wasps and maggots for sure. On top of that, we were all afraid of dumber things when we were younger, getting flushed down the toilet, the dragon from Baby Einstein, I Feel Fantastic, whatever it may be. For me, the DUMBEST, which is likely because of those sensory issues I mentioned, was people saying "Ta-da!" "Ta-da?" WHAT THE FUCK, CHILD ME?! Uh, yeah, I guess people shouting "Ta-da!" freaked me out when I was a kid for some fucking reason. Not much I have to say about that. Something else of note, looping back to the topic of vorarephobia, is that as a kid, I played New Super Mario Bros. Wii. If you know, you know, but if you don't I'll get to it. Anyway, the worlds all have different themes obviously: world 1 is plains, 2 is desert, 3 is ice, 4 is beach, 5 is forest, 6 is mountains, 7 is clouds, and 8 is Bowser. World 4, being the beach world, has a water level, and in this water level, you can go to a bonus room for a few 1-ups. Well, you may be wondering, "why is this relevant?" And to that, dear viewer, my response is that it's relevant because of THIS. FUCKING. FISH. This is Cheep Chomp, and, I believe Sam O'Nella said it best when he said, and I quote: "Can, can, uh, can, can you guess what he does? Hm? You wanna, you wanna take a wild stab? Uh yeah, that's exactly right, he, fuckin eats ya." I found this guy as a kid, I got eaten, and started screaming and crying. Later, I played New Supe DS and got to 3-1, and when I saw this purple fish again, my immediate response was "Nooope I'm just gonna do 3-A instead." Oh and I can tell ya for sure that when I got to 8-3 later, I sure LOVED the big-ass eel (That was sarcasm in case you couldn't tell by the way). This same panic from the fish (the time in DS, not Wii) carried over to the eel, and also the Gringills from Galaxy. I wasn't that freaked out when I found it in 3D, because I was playing 64DS, I would probably think of it differently if it was normal Super Mario 64 or Odyssey, I mean look at this thing, LOOK AT THIS. Something else Mario related that freaked me out was the Flashgitz animation Racist Mario, if you don't know what that is, it's a Mario Kart animation with non-Nintendo characters like Sackboy, Sonic, Knuckles and Kratos, and it features a bunch of brutal moments, like Mario pushing Sonic's head against the boost panels, or when he shoves the banana up DK's ass. Obviously not showing those, and there are more, but those are just some I remember. How did I find this exactly? A younger sibling was watching it on the family tablet (they shouldn't have been), and I decided to look, and I regretted it, and then I ran upstairs, turned my Wii off, curled up into a ball and cried. How about we get away from Mario but stay on the topic of video games for now? Remember how I mentioned Sackboy and Kratos earlier? They were also in a platform fighter called Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale, and it's basically Playstation's answer to Smash. I'm going to do the same thing I've been doing where I try to explain it as if you haven't heard of it before but not in a patronizing way. The game had characters like Toro Inoue (sorry if I messed that pronunciation up), who I guess is the Japanese Sony mascot, the aforementioned Sackboy and Kratos from LittleBigPlanet and God of War respectively, Big Daddy from Bioshock, REBOOT Dante from Devil May Cry THE REBOOT, Spyro and Crash- NOT THEM, and, the topic of this section, Heihachi Mishima (did I pronounce that right?) from Tekken. Now, kinda like how Smash has final smashes, All-Stars has something called supers, which have 3 levels, and they all instakill. And some fighters have a level 3 super that takes the form of a cutscene, including Heihachi, and his features him watching his opponents chained to a rocket about to get launched into space. Why did this freak me out? I'm not sure, I guess it was the dread of being helplessly chained to a rocket, about to die in space due to lack of oxygen. If that idea turns you on, keep it to yourself, but I do know what makes one person freak out, gets another person's freak ON, this also applies to vorarePHOBIA and/or vorarePHILIA. Wow, those weren't really scary, were they? But do you know what comforts me after learning about someone's fiftieth-rate fears from the past? A spons- I'm kidding, there's no sponsor, I'm not currently looking to sell out to sponsors, nor am I anywhere near big enough to land a sponsor yet anyways. (inhale) TOILE- So yeah, I was indeed scared of flushing stuff down the toilet. Don't know why, uh, that one scene from Monsters Inc. DID scare me, thanks for asking. Not MYSELF flushing down the toilet though, I knew that was just silly. Not much I CaN say, except for R.I.P. younger me, you woulda hated that one scene at the end of Captain Underpants. Now, before I get to the end, I wanna list some honorable mentions in sort of a lightning round, that maybe I had even LESS to say about than toilets or "ta-da", or that didn't disturb me as much. Mainly Don't Hug Me I'm Scared and jumpscares. Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is a British horror series by Becky Sloan, Joseph Pelling and Baker Terry about puppets in a kids show gone awry, and it has 2 series, the webseries on Youtube that came out from 2011 and 2016, and the TV series on Channel 4 that came out in 2022. My first exposure was the 4th episode, the one about computers, and honestly, it didn't disturb me that much, the only thing that even FRIGHTENED me that much was when Red Guy's head pops at the end. BOY AM I GLAD IT WASN'T THE 5TH EPISODE. Nowadays I love the series, both the original and the Channel 4 series. Now, I'll make a throwback to something of which I was born after the heyday, screamers. Now, what WAS my first screamer: What's Wrong? Ghost Car? The Maze? Dancing Girl? MJ's Ghost? No, Disappearing Boat. My mom showed it to me, and it ALSO didn't freak me out, but I figured my first screamer would be worth the mention. Speaking of jumpscares, Five Nights At Freddy's, My first FNAF jumpscare was actually from a fanmade Just Dance video for the song by The Living Tombstone, which featured muted FNAF 2 gameplay in the background, and when the song ends, Withered Freddy's jumpscare plays WITH AUDIO. However, this isn't my ONLY Just Dance jumpscare story, because once I watched a video where someone did I Will Survive in a costume, and it ended with a "jumpscare" in air quotes. If you think THAT's dumb though, I got scared by Humpty fuckin Dumpty, when I watched a video that for a while I thought, after the normal nursery rhyme, said "Humpty Dumpty was cursed" and it was rapped, but I looked up "Humpty Dumpty was cursed" to see if this was it, but instead I found a more rock/metal sorta version where Humpty Dumpty is GRUMPY and he cursed at birds and clouds and rain and stuff until he fell off the wall, and I think this was it. Why the hell did this scare me? I THINK it was because I wasn't expecting it, and I was just expecting normal Humpty Dumpty? Rewatching it to confirm this is what I saw, this is actually pretty funny. Now, for this next one, we return to sensory issues, and I return to Montana. Yeah, I know, "This motherfucker really lived in Montana." Anyways, there was a museum in the next town over called the Museum of the Rockies, and it featured stuff about history, both American history and dinosaurs. I loved this place, EXCEPT there was a dinosaur that I think was a brachiosaurus or some other type of long-necked dinosaur, and it made a droning kinda noise that I remember sounding like "uh, uh, uhhhhhhhhhh." There was also an upstairs kid play area focused on Yellowstone National Park, and this overstimulated me too. Also there was Sonic.exe and Pokemon vore, Sonic.exe mostly made me upset because Tails and Knuckles were dead, and vorarephobia meant that obviously this vore shivered me timbers. Now, before I move on to the last thing, I wanna include some b-roll of gameplay for the video. Ultimately, those honorable mentions and b-roll were just meant to be stuff I wanted to include before... the big one... Whatchu know bout Baby Einstein? It's a series of videos for babies that's meant to stimulate them, and teach them a bit about animals and colors and stuff. This teaching aspect was seriously blown outta proportion like seen in the controversy. Yes, there was a controversy, this here is a great video talking about it. [Put a screenshot of the video by Lulaloopsey talking about the Baby Einstein controversy] Anyway, there are plenty of people who got freaked out by these videos, multiple scenes too, including me. It could be the red dragon from Baby Bach, it could be the bulldog from Baby Mozart, it could be Baby Van Gogh, but one that I pretty much always hear, and can relate to myself, is the GREEN dragon from Baby Mozart. The scene he's in goes pretty much as described, he walks onscreen from the left end of the screen, humming, then someone whistles to him, which gets his attention, getting him to stop in the middle, and then he looks a bit before going to pictures of fruits while Twinkle Twinkle Little Star plays in the background, and then the best way I can describe it without using the actual footage is this recreation of it I made in GMod with Yoshi as a replacement of the dragon. [Put the clip] Then he looks at the camera again, winks, and walks away, humming still. This somehow became a trend in the BE community to edit the second half (the part after the fruit), called month 6? I dunno why, but anyways, I'm ashamed to admit that that's not even the only scene, because there's also a scene with THIS giraffe cone puppet that makes a kazoo sound going "dun dun dun dunnn" in World Animals. Hmm, does that "duh duh duh duh" sound ring a bell? Maybe a lil bit of "ta-da!" eh? Well, these may be dumb, but as I've already said like 8 times across both drafts of the script (there was an older script draft for when the video was meant to have screenshots like this for the footage a la rantsona and/or pngtuber), the sensory issues kicked in hard here for sure. I must admit though, I DO still kinda get startled by both scenes. So, why was I scared of this in the first place? Aside from the many-a-time aforementioned sensory issues, I believe it's how sudden they are, and on top of that, the BLACK BACKGROUND shared by these scenes and many more Baby Einstein scenes. "Why would a black background matter?" You may ask, somehow unknowingly. Well, black is the dark, so that 100% didn't help me adjust to the dark because I feared the dragon who shouts "blah!" would pop up, and I had to have the TV on at night for a good while. On top of that, black is also the color of a screen on like a TV, computer or phone when it's off. Because of these, the black background made it worse, as I feared a "blah" or a "duh duh duh duhhh" when it was dark or the TV was off. As a matter of fact, because of Baby Einstein, I was freaked out by the Sonic 1/2 1-up jingle. Once I was playing Sonic 2 on the ATGames plug n play controller, and I got a 1-up, then my dad turned on Baby Mozart in the other room right after, and for a while I got freaked out that when I got a 1-up, the video that would soon shout "blah!" at me would come on. So, that's the stuff that scared me in the past, and I will eventually talk about some of my nostalgia, maybe I'll eventually do a whole series talking about nostalgic shows and such (in NO way inspired by THESE cool people [put screenshots of videos by Lulaloopsey and Athena P]). But for now, I must move on from the past, and embrace the present. And YOU gotta move on too, because the video is over. I have plans for an upcoming unscripted Hunger Games video and a GMod murder mystery machinima, but as of when this is released, Halloween 2025, those aren't out yet. If you enjoyed the video, leave a like if you want to. Also, feel free to comment what scared YOU as a kid, could be stuff I mentioned, or stuff I DIDN'T mention. I'll link the aforementioned videos and channels below (and none of them know who I am except the guys at Popcorn Lovers.) in the description, so you can check it out if you wanna, I suggest you do. If you wanna watch this video again, do that, if you wanna watch something else, I have GMod nextbot shitposts and those aforementioned upcoming videos if they're already out by the time you're watching this. Or, alternatively, watch someone else's video, there's a bunch of cool vids in the description, including Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, which I think you should definitely check out if you haven't already, it's so good. Alright, until next time, buh-bye!