KZfaq kids made horror go from nightmare to fever dream.

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

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

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.

KZfaq kids is the scariest horror film site for adults lol

I've been telling people for years that children on KZfaq 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)

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

I still wonder why normal 18+ youtube needs rules to "protect" kids, *WHEN THERE IS KZfaq 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 KZfaq 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The overall rabbit hole of the KZfaq kids thing is something that I've experienced before in my time growing up, But generally speaking, As a 2010's kid I didn't grow up with these kinds of KZfaq kids stuff, (Well sort of) But All the KZfaq kids stuff with poppy playtime, security breach ect. Is sorta taking horror into a more child friendly approach which isn't too bad but a lot of the stuff they produce is weird and don't really accomplish anything.

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.

Ah, Junji Ito, now that's a good horror pick. I always struggle to decide which one to use to introduce him to new people, it's too easy to scare them off completely, even with the more tame stuff such as Uzumaki (my own jumping on point). I tend more to Tomie, since it's also funny...ish... or, Remina. Pretty crazy, but short. It can hit people fully before they realize wth even happened.

Idk, I'm too old to have experienced it as a kid, but I think mascot horror is a cool and interesting genre. Of course, I have the benefit of survivors bias and knowing which games are crap...

I plan on being a game dev in the future, and the only reason one of my ideas for a game is a horror game is to try to save the genre, so yeah.

Not gonna lie the manga image at 10:28 genuinely had me more unsettled and unnerved than all the games mentioned in the video, something about it is genuinely frightening to me. sick vid though

The same thing is starting to happen with TADC I don’t know why but I’m starting to see weird ass videos with the same genre as the videos you’ve shown and the videos are starting to sexualise pomni (my second favourite) which really hurts me. This is video is a definition of “suffering from success” and unfortunately, you are right! Guys we gotta slow it down with the masterpiece TADC before its too late!

It's always a great time when t3error posts

As a Early 90's Millennial who grew up on Hocus Pocus, Chucky's Child's Play, or ever the Aliens vs Predators Franchise as early as age 5, I feel bad for late Gen Z and Alpha, for their step into Horror. It just comes off as subpar in comparison to what me and my Family grew up on. And I don't believe that because of Nostalgia, that just how everything feels now.

Thank you goosebumps for introducing to me horror as a kid than your average horror kids game could 🙏

Finally someone mentions Ice Scream. I swear that game was a hallucination to me for the longest time. I feel like that game can have a whole video on how it basically disappeared

i fr agree with everything you say here Especially Friday Night Funkin' As a person who came from the community of that game, I'm generally mad and traumatized at the same time to see those youtube kids videos popping up. I swear, I've been in there for 2 years. I just dislike the fact those companies can be greedy on these characters for marketing too, it's just really bad. And yeah the inappropriate content are bad too. I remember when I was like 5 or 6, I saw one of those videos of spider man + injection thing, it ruined my innocence, I didn't understand it until I looked back now

youtube kids channels trying not to milk a horror game for 1 sec (99.999 impossible)

I’m at just the right age where I remember genuine horror content as a kid to watch a lot of it blow up on the internet and see the general downfall

kids ruin anything they get their grubby little hands on. and unfortunately, kids want to see horror involving things they like because they want to feel 'mature'

Man i miss being a Trevor henderson fan before youtube kids ruined it

Maybe the Garten of BanBan was the friends we made along the way

I remember when siren head was once scary as hell

One of my favorite creepypastas, the backrooms, was also ruined by this.

KZfaq kids takes horror and turns it into fever dreams

I've long been of the opinion that the thing that makes horror so great is it allows the audience to be exposed to harmful themes and emotions we otherwise wouldn't deal with in a safe manner; hence why the Silent Hill franchise is seen as a comfort game by many, for example. Being able to provide experiences like that is super valuable for not only telling engaging stories, but being able to help audiences better understand harmful emotions/themes (ie PTSD, stress, death, etc). The damage that mascot horror has done to horror games means game devs and storytellers are more incentivized by profit margins than trying to provide meaningful, or even just engaging experiences without much deeper meaning (ie Puppet Combo games). I think both PT and FNaF in their own ways contributed to the state that horror games are in, with devs taking the wrong lessons from them.

KZfaq kids is far scarier than the modern horror film industry

I miss the days before fnaf was ruined for everyone and it was actually scary I wish I could go back to that time because fnaf is my childhood and even though fnaf considered cring I still will forever love fnaf because I have spent so much money on fnaf Merch and I still love the games no matter how bad the games are I actually likes security breach and I loved fnaf world so I miss those days

I love how your editing get better every

Fire video! Used to watch you a lot, glad to have found your channel again. Never even noticed how much your videos affected my editing style until now.

5:10 that transition was so good

Love the fact that for the most "intense" part of the video had the hotline miami soundtrck in the back

Great video, really clean and visually pleasing editing

Thank you for making a video about this topic

10:41 One thing I also want to note is among us was probably also helped by the Henry Stickmin collection thanks to the many references and (ofcourse) Henry

So glad I grew up with normal KZfaq

When there's actual "for kids" stuff, YTKids doesn't bat an eye When there's horror stuff that CLEARLY isn't made "for kids", YTKids milks it to oblivion What the flip is that all about?

This is such an interesting view on mascot/kid horror from the 2010s from someone who was actually in the age range! When i was a kid, i just watched actual horror movies. Lots of 28 weeks/days later, dawn of the dead, that sort of thing. Moved on to foreign horror as soon as i learnt how on the internet. I love fnaf and what not but I could never get into the mascot/kid horror popular back then and now. I just grew up expecting and wanting something different in a horror experience. The closest thing i can think of is creepypastas lol. But i would more read those than watch videos about them.

Imagine an actual horror game about an ai that was so sick of these things that they wanted to get out no matter the cost.

12:11 my reaction to that information: 😀🙂😐🙁😟😨💀

I’m so happy that despite being very likely to see those kind of videos when I was younger, I somehow I got insanely lucky and just saw normal stuff.

0:46 …. That gave me soo many nightmares that goosebumps episode

12:16 How did thay masecurd my boy )=

7:35 i feel a bit called out because one of my favorite spider-man stories has him get injected with something but it's probably an entirely different context than what people on youtube kids are doing (im fortunate enough to have not seen those videos so idk _for sure_ )

pepper in the bg music 🫀 amazing video !

dude you are like my favorite youtuber. your content and editing is so amazing to watch. as a person who has a baby brother who watches youtube kids this video is sadly relatable.

back then everything on youtube that was for kids (where youtube kids was not a thing), everything on there would acually try to teach kids about things in life such as Story Bots/Netflix (I mean not that they did a good job on it) but atleast it did not have people getting a shot in thier ass to get views and money

T3rr0r: "The beginning of the [Let's Play] genre" Everything before horror game facecam stuff: *Vanishes into dust*

I like how terror don't care of new horror mascots like me.

Congrats on 350 K !

Courage the cowardly dog, Goosebumps, and Aliens were my intro to horror

6:03 100% agree, Funky Nights at Freddy’s is an all time classic

0:01 T3rr0r, you wild for this😂

Hey so, I know you don’t like mascot horror, but look into My Freindly Neighborhood, it’s honestly the best recent mascot horror, where the gameplay and voice acting is really good, and the story is actually interesting. (Also it’s a whole game)

It's always a great time when t3error posts-🤖🤖🤖

Elsagate Is the reason why I say they need to factory Reset youtube kids and make it to where creators need a license and certificate to make kid's content on there. And to keep it seperated from regular yt. Also maybe better age rating system for regular yt.

is this why I keep seeing 4 year olds watching extremely scary things on youtube that they shouldn't,they really shouldn't be watching a rated M game or a rated R movie or whatever they watch when they're not on youtube kids,are they bored? it sounds like it

This is great editing.

Anything for kids is basically massive money imprint

Instead of making the horror scary in the correct way KZfaq Kids made their horror go the complete opposite direction.

Good video but you scared me when you used pepper I didn't even think it was coming from th video at first lmao

12:33 was the perfect clip to sum up how people feel when that happens.

KZfaq Kids is a horror movie in itself.

I once streamed exploring youtube kids on discord. To this day im scarred by what i've seen

12:16 thanks t3rr0r for giving me that information that would scar me on what I just looked at.

really great video dude

12:32 Mega Satan fight lol

9:53 ZAMN! Siren Head Got that Cake 🎂

the godzilla sound effects take it to the next level

pepper by the butthole surfers is awesome... didn't expect to see that here. i like your use of the instrumental versions of songs.

"I fear no man. But that… thing… it scares me" - Heavy

FnF getting consume by the rot of KZfaq kids really messed with me personally considering I loved the game and getting tats(A BF,GF and MM Tats) , but I can't really share that love I have for it or commit to it without people calling it that "kid game" or berating me for my interest, but I felt like it had that adult swim humor and even the newer comics and animation are finally starting to get in that groove

dude you made me fail No Nostalgia Critic November by playing that tiny little NC clip at like 9:35

When BATIM first released chapter 1, it was genuinely terrifying, there was a yellowish atmosphere, it was like smth could pop out at any corner I wanna go back to those days

It’s just a shame how cool horror ideas like the Trevor Henderson creatures, the backrooms, SCP, and many more get ruined by pop culture. Or, even worse: They get overshadowed by crappy, souless games designed sell merchandise (Poppy Playtime, Gartan of Banban)

to me, videogame horror was the Goosebumps carnival game collection (PS2/Wii) and Grabbed by the Ghoulies (XBOX). the latter had controller vibration which sent me running out of the room out of shock.

Your stuff is very consistent, oh yes! You always seem to speak your lines the same way!

SFMs were goated by a lot more than these animations today

4:30 not at all! Deltarune proves you can do this successfully and improve the story's pacing. Each chapter is one big comprehensible story. Even games like Paper Mario did this and it was to it's benefit. It's just the Mascot horror games that abuse it for the sake of budget constraints. Whereas Deltarunes chapters take YEARS to produce.

When you were talking about mascot horror, you showed images from Baldi's Basics, which isn't really a mascot horror game according to the creator

Y'know, I wouldn't be surprised if your inspiration for this editing style was EmpLemon. I can just feel the similar energy oozing from the way you present the topic.

Scary stories to tell in the dark is a very good movie with more practical than special effects.

That ending was better than most marvel cinematics 💀

12:50 because of elsa gate, then i was kid, i thought women would get pregnant of eating too much

I like how aqua tv show show intro is playing at start of this video

Some thing to note is that in terms of (fan animations) Roblox piggy is actually doing pretty good because usually I see piggy animations made by fans for fans that are good quality far more often than in 2020 take for example: The piggy RP film series by Pghlfilms or the Roblox Piggy: Mansion Film. by SnookumS