"You might have turned around" *Me, lying down on my bed with the bed frame directly behind me*

" _And it's what we do with that arousal that makes us different in our performance_ "

"What if I told you something, or someone, is right behind you?" Me: *Skooches chair back in such a way as to pinch the toes of whoever might be behind me*

So I came up with this idea when you were talking about those statues in Celeste: Imagine a level in a game with with all those disembodied eyes in the wall constantly following your every step, which is creepy and unnerving on its own. After a while, you enter a big, seemingly empty room and explore it, when SUDDENLY all the eyes jolt away from you to the other side of the room, wide open and trembling with fear, all looking towards the same point, but you see nothing. After a few moments of eery silence, you notice the eyes' gaze slowly shifting towards you, and suddenly you get attacked out of nowhere and the boss fight starts: you have to use the eyes to triangulate the location of whatever this thing is in order to fight it.

Damn. I'm constantly being watched by that annoying af immortal fly that's in my room

“What if I told you someone is behind you?” Me with my back to the wall: Ha! You fool, I’ve outsmarted you again!

"What if I told you that you're being watched? Me: *Looks at camera.* Hi Mr. FBI man!

The fear of unknown is huge. While watching horror movies - once the evil thing is revealed to us, i stop being afraid. But the whole time when it is unknown - it is scary. Therefore if you show just eyes in the darkness, you can sht pants but if the creep goes out to the light... yeah it may look scary but now you know what you have to deal with so it's less unpredictable and so less scary.

Dude, I'm just trying to go to sleep man...

I thought this was going to be about the psychology of having another person watch you play a difficult game, and it somehow making you better at the game.

There is a window behind me I hate you (It’s also 10PM)

Never trust the coffee table!

"What if i tell you - you are being watched" Me: turns around: " oh hi kitty" Yup I've been watched!

"The scariest door is the one left unopened." ~ Alfred Hitchcock, I think. I just thought that was relevant to your final point, that the _suggestion_ of something is greater than anything you could actually present. Also, that alternate thumbnail idea has me thinking of Daffy Duck now, that time when he practically screamed out La Cucaracha.

Watching this at one in the morning is a terrible idea.

Fear of being watched goes away pretty fast when you have a house full of cats. Of course you're being watched, you're always being watched. I wasn't surprised that when I glanced behind myself for shits and giggles (I didn't feel compelled to glance) it was to find one of my cats just sitting on the couch, watching me.

Oh man, when you showed that clip of the giant creepy smiling dude standing behind the normal looking dude (around 51 seconds) i freaked out a little and looked behind me 😂 i hate mannequins/masks/animatronics. Interesting tho, ive always wondered why they freak me out so much. Cutting off communication certainly makes sense.

3:00 someone needs to do a prank like that on someone in a back row. That would be HORRIFYING. I’d totally watch their reaction. Make it like someone in the second to last row, not quite at you, the people behind you look at you too and their eyes slowly focus on the person.

I finally have a way to describe my fears of performing when around others: social inhibition. This was very informative and interesting. Thank you!

“You probably turned around to check for someone watching you or are resisting the urge to do so” Since I have not left my basement for 2 weeks now, there is little concern for someone else being in here with me

9:14 "It's what we do with the arousal that affects our performance" I was told I'd lose this sense if humour when I became an adult

Me:does something 8 times in a row. Me:hey mom watch this Me: screws up.

Jokes on you, big borther Google is watching us through KZfaq as we speak!

“what if i told you something, or someone, was right behind you?” Me at 3 am: JOKES ON YOU IM LYING DOWN IN BED

I really like how they used this in Darkest Dungeon's Crimson Court dlc. You are hunting down vampire nobility hanging out in an eternal ball. You just can't go and kill the nobility whenever you feel like it. They have to invite you to the ball themselves where you fight them and as you fight them there is a group of vampires hanging out in the background. They just drink and chat, but whenever you fuck up they laugh at you and cheer and clap when you take critical hits. Your struggle is just entertainment for them. I just love it, makes you feel weak .

And yet... The only one being watched in this situation is the video, and not us.

When there’s a wall behind you...

Litterally didnt notice most of the eyes while playing celeste and even when i did i was just worried about not dying

what makes me more anxious is when someone looks back at me when im staring at them because im that guy

"Alternative thumbnail ideas: Definitely no jumpscares here" You're an evil little man. I like you.

Watching this late at night was NOT the moveee

That dude broke that pool stick with SPEED

and this is EXACTLY why 'Perfect Blue' is one of my favorite psychological thriller horror movies DESPITE not being a horror fan. I won't spoil anything ofc but the way that film executes being watched and the unknown of what to come for our main character really gets to your mind while watching it ^^

You already made me keep looking behind me, you didn't have to go and make me nervous about the coffee table too!

Not to disregard everything in this video, but I can't imagine many people are affected by an ingame audience. They just kinda blend into the background for me, I don't find myself getting anxious infront of them or anything

7:58 interesting thing happens to me. When I'm playing a competitive game, like Smash or Smite, and people are watching, I definitely play worse and think about how people are judging me. But when I know people are watching me play a single player game, like Celeste or Mario Maker, I thrive in it and play much better. I'm not sure why that is, but I've noticed that about myself over the last few months.

I'm watching this at 3 AM in my Bed without a blanket, I could die any moment because I don't meet any safety measures.

Video:”Someone’s behind you watching you” Me:*Laying down on the ground*

The editing in this video is absolutely fantastic. How do you not receive more views?

i currently have 24 eyes all from stuffed animals my dog, 2 birds, and my brother, watching me an i know how they react when there's another entity in the room.... i know whats behind me.. phh.. *LOOKS ANYWAYS*

"And the entire audience is looking behind you" Me: *turns around irl*

“If I told you that you were being watched-” Me: I believe you, my parrots are right behind me and they’re definitely people-watchers.

Me: *jokingly looks over my shoulder" "You may have just turned around to check"

"...if there was someone behind you watching your every move." *looks behind* *sees my dog* *continues watching video while petting dog*

Instantly recognized that Twilight Princess City in the Sky music 💜

Dude, I could make a whole video essay just about those MS-Paint faces in the theater staring in my direction and how deeply uncomfortable those made me feel. I don't even get easily affected by stuff like this! You just tapped into some sort of FNaF-level uncanny valley sweet spot!

Oh man, I thought this was going to be about how we're better at playing when someone (like a friend or brother) is standing by watching us play. Still interesting tho!

You definitely made the correct thumbnail choice. Ha! I originally thought this video was about playing video games while being watched irl (like with a friend). Obviously I am wrong but this is a great video! "Be clever with whatever information you present the player and what information you withhold. Sometimes the players own deep dark imagination and ability to fill in the blanks is greater nightmare fuel than you can ever crate." This has never been more apparent to me since playing multiple playthroughs in the latest Resident Evil 2. Your first time is the scariest because of what you see and your own fear of the unknown, your second time is less scary because you become normalized to what you see and you known (almost) all there is, your third time almost all fear is gone as you rush through the playthrough knowing what to expect. It's a ride of an experience; I highly recommend!

*This video reminds me* of the Horror RPG game _"Ib"_

"There is something behind you watching watching your every move" *me sitting against the wall*

7:20 "Ruin has come to our family. You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial. Gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moor. I lived all my years in that ancient, rumor shadowed manor. Fattened by decadence and luxury. And yet, I began to tire of conventional extravagance. Singular, unsettling tales suggested the mansion itself was a gateway to some fabulous and unnamable power. With relic and ritual, I bent every effort towards the excavation and recovery of those long buried secrets, exhausting what remained of our family fortune on swarthy workmen and sturdy shovels. At last, in the salt-soaked crags beneath the lowest foundations we unearthed that damnable portal of antediluvian evil. Our every step unsettled the ancient earth but we were in a realm of death and madness! In the end, I alone fled laughing and wailing through those blackened arcades of antiquity. Until consciousness failed me. You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial. It is a festering abomination! I beg you, return home, claim your birthright, and deliver our family from the ravenous clutching shadows of the Darkest Dungeon."

Why am I watching this at 3am and WHY CAN'T I PUT MY PHONE DOWN

Great video! It's really cool finding small but entertaining youtubers who are under appreciated

“Maybe someone is watching you from behind” Me who is up against the wall: Oh no scary wall monster

9:04 That is an excellent point. People are, in fact, way more unpredictable than coffee tables.

I really like these videos! The topics are always very interesting and the explanations are very informative. Keep up the good work buddy.

in the middle of watching your fighting game video and this comes out, lucky lucky! this was a great video, one fun thought though I wish you had brought up. At one point you mentioned being observed by other players in multiplayer and showed some footage of overwatch but then went on to focus more on ambiguous observation. I was hoping you'd touch on ambiguous observation in multiplayer, particularly in stealthy battle royale style games. Hamish Black made a really neat video touching on this (QVWyHl6YOGE), how it felt to never really know if someone, a real person, was ever watching you or not. Eyes are creepy yeah, but seeing signs of activity in a multiplayer game adds so many more questions I feel and makes you much more spooked. I've never really gotten into the battle royale scene, but it's always fun to hear people talk about it in their videos. "Being Watched" definitely seems to play a major role in those sorts of games. Anyways, rambling, good video fam!

god being anywhere without my back being touched to a wall or a surface and/or being alone makes me scared and gets me shaking because of the fear of being watched

"Youre being watched right now" bro its 3 am and I'm on the toilet taking a dump who would watch me lmao

there cant be anyone watching me because theres a wall behind me

whenever I finish an anime I always imagine the characters I like watching me for some random reason and I’m just scared bc I might do something embarrassing I guess u could say I’m a loser

Me:getting changed KZfaq:what if I told you that you were being watched?

I thought this was how people's performance on a game is lowered when someone irl is watching you

But what if you know whose watching and why? All of a sudden it strips the power away. Then it just becomes a show with an audience. 😀😁

Wow, cool stuff.

The power of being watched SCP 173: I cant move I didn't come up with anything better

When you showed the crowd looking back it made me panic and I had to resist a strong urge to look back💀

1:51 Random White Guy: *goes infront of the screen behind the word "Communication"* Hello- Me: GAH! GO AWAY!

What's the game at 2:30?

*I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE SOMEBODY’S WATCHING ME, AND I HAVE NO PRIVACY!*

I am going through some parts of youtube that I've never went before, and it feels like an endless pit, a good pit, a learning pit, and never want to stop falling deeper.

What is that game at 2:29???

What game is that at 2:29?

2:07 made me remember a time a few years back where I zoned out in my school’s cafeteria and zoned in a few minutes later, then realized I had accidentally stared at someone across the room for those few minutes and they looked _incredibly_ uncomfortable.

Me: turns around. The demon in my closet: why hello there!

I’m being watched :O By myself

How are u doing, FBI agent watching me over the internet for searching weird but very specific hentai?

Me, who has a phone and my screen is so dark that I can see my reflection of my dumb self and anything behind me: Lol u can't get me with that.

Now this is why I love your Channel

The feeling of something is watching you sounds like some bad PTSD. I remember I had a feeling of always being watched when I was in middle school through sophomore year and then I never felt that feeling again.

"What if I told you something, or someone, is right behind you?" Yea, my cat

I'm okay with eyes, as a Kirby of the Stars fan, I've built an immunity.

Your channels great I just discovered it last night so ima go and binge all the videos now, peace

I've had this irrational fear of smiling faces. Like say the Chester cat when invisible... just mouth and eyes. And had a hard time explaining why to people. I think this falls into this same explanation and now can use this to get the point across. I thank you. Came across you at random but find the subject matter here fascinating and have been binging. Look forward to more.

a while back i was playing mario kart double dash on my pc. no matter how hard id been trying to win a 150cc grand prix i just couldnt seem to do it. until one day i was using discords screen share in a chat with a buddy of mine. i booted it up cause i was waiting on some stuff to download and he watched me play. i found it very very interesting that i ended up winning this time around on the first try, even after getting hit with a blue shell. his cheers gave me this awesome sense of pride. now i know it was the social aspect that seems to have made a difference and its fascinating to me. i might start doing this twitch stuff in the near future because of it

This makes me think about Valve's logo screen. The bald head with the valve on the back of it. I'm specifically thinking of the older version of this, when the head ever so slightly begins to turn towards the player. That logo always gives me this rising feeling of anxiety.

"if i told you you were being watched, that right behind you --" me: *looks over my shoulder at one of my sisters on the computer behind me*

0:34 “Not scary per say” Speak for yourself, I’m lying in bed past midnight watching this, you better believe that put me on edge

When you described the scenario in the theatre, I thought of the social pressure of everyone staring at you making you to want to turn off your phone. Hmm...What social concept was I thinking of?

There’s a mirror behind me... I was watching myself when I looked

I am so paranoid that when you just showed those two dots at the beginning I had looked behind myself for a good three seconds, when you started talking about it I look behind myself around four times. Then when he had given the example of the people looking behind you, why did you NOT give them pupils, that was so hecking creepy and I had to avoid looking looking at my phone. And what the hell was in Kirbys "Ghastly Canvas Course"?! That was pure nightmare fuel.

Real life spectators make me unable to play. Any time my parents would come into the room, my performance went down drastically.

this guy: you are being watched me, who has birds in my room: yeah i sure hope i am

THIS is why I don't like people watching me make bread. My little siblings are all like "iM NoT eVeN tOuChInG yOu" but theyre still affecting me so...

Those first few questions are why I sit in a corner when watch videoes and playing games.

This makes me think of being the last person alive on your team in a round of Counter Strike, knowing that all your dead allies are watching you

As someone with social anxiety, this was a pretty fascinating watch. Got a few things to think about now.

"if i told you youre being watched" *me turning around and seeing my cat staring at me*

Another good example of being watched is in portal. You're constantly monitored through cameras, and every action is judged by a singular entity: GLADOS.