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osby said:
Still find it funny how he's one of the two demons with a " ?? " race. They straight up don't know what's this blue rat's deal.

(He probably would be UMA or Fairy if they gave him one)
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I just stumbled across a video about why the old Spongebob outro credits apparently traumatized an entire generation.



Okay, but like...how?

A lot of things from certain episodes of Spongebob scared me as a kid. The credits weren't one of them. Heck, the music actually cheered me up and I was actually sad when Nickelodeon started changing their airing format to cut out the intros to their shows in general.
 
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KingofPhantoms said:
I just stumbled across a video about why the old Spongebob outro credits apparently traumatized an entire generation.



Okay, but like...how?

A lot of things from certain episodes of Spongebob scared me as a kid. The credits weren't one of them. Heck, the music actually cheered me up and I was actually sad when Nickelodeon started changing their airing format to cut out the intros to their shows in general.
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Yep

This is a thing.



It's tangentially related to the whole "Scary Logos" group.
 
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Shroob said:
Yep

This is a thing.



It's tangentially related to the whole "Scary Logos" group.
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Okay, some of these I kinda get. Klasky Csupo especially because of the purposefully weird face design and the deep and distorted voice acting they used to have it say the name of the studio. But the Spongebob credits?
 
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KingofPhantoms said:
-Googles

Okay, some of these I kinda get. Klasky Csupo especially because of the purposefully weird face design and the deep and distorted voice acting they used to have it say the name of the studio. But the Spongebob credits?
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KingofPhantoms said:
I just stumbled across a video about why the old Spongebob outro credits apparently traumatized an entire generation.



Okay, but like...how?

A lot of things from certain episodes of Spongebob scared me as a kid. The credits weren't one of them. Heck, the music actually cheered me up and I was actually sad when Nickelodeon started changing their airing format to cut out the intros to their shows in general.
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Yeah I was a part of that group

something about the abrupt calmness of it all did it in for me, same reason why Liminal Spaces are creepy or something. The brain is weird and stupid
 
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cashregister9 said:
Yeah I was a part of that group

something about the abrupt calmness of it all did it in for me, same reason why Liminal Spaces are creepy or something. The brain is weird and stupid
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Liminal spaces are easy to understand at least.

It's like, a place where you expect to see people being devoid of people is unnerving.
 
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Shroob said:
In the words of Rick.


"Don't think about it."
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cashregister9 said:
Yeah I was a part of that group

something about the abrupt calmness of it all did it in for me, same reason why Liminal Spaces are creepy or something. The brain is weird and stupid
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I guess it's just weird to me. I grew up enjoying those credits and being cheered up by them. Never saw anything inherently creepy about them (especially when intentionally creepy stuff like the void scene in SB-129 actually did totally freak me out and was also still new at the time) and only just now, over 20 years later, am I suddenly learning that there were apparently a decent number of people who were scared of or unnerved by the credits as kids instead.

It really goes to show how subjective horror and what scares people in general is, even stuff that isn't supposed to creepy. A lot of things that you don't find scary, or at least weren't scared of growing up, you might find odd to learn that other people were scared of it later on. You're just not familiar with the concept and might not totally g et what they found was scary about it. In this case, that's me with the Spongebob end credits thing.
 
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KingofPhantoms said:
I guess it's just weird to me. I grew up enjoying those credits and being cheered up by them. Never saw anything inherently creepy about them (especially when intentionally creepy stuff like the void scene in SB-129 actually did totally freak me out and was also still new at the time) and only just now, over 20 years later, am I suddenly learning that there were apparently a decent number of people who were scared of or unnerved by the credits as kids instead.

It really goes to show how subjective horror and what scares people in general is, even stuff that isn't supposed to creepy. A lot of things that you don't find scary, or at least weren't scared of growing up, you might find odd to learn that other people were scared of it later on. You're just not familiar with the concept and might not totally g et what they found was scary about it. In this case, that's me with the Spongebob end credits thing.
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Wait, was this video the YourEveryDayTheorist one?
 
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KingofPhantoms said:
Yep, that's the one.

Not sure if I've ever seen videos from the guy before but it turned up while I was watching some videos about lost media.
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Ya in the mood for some mooooore Spongebob horror?


Here ya go pal.

www.youtube.com

The Horrors of SpongeBob Memes

SpongeBob SquarePants has been through many transformations on the internet. In this video essay, we're going to be looking at its more unsettling ones, from...
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
 
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Shroob said:
Ya in the mood for some mooooore Spongebob horror?


Here ya go pal.

www.youtube.com

The Horrors of SpongeBob Memes

SpongeBob SquarePants has been through many transformations on the internet. In this video essay, we're going to be looking at its more unsettling ones, from...
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Oh, yeah, I've seen the title and thumbnail of this video but haven't actually watched it.

Maybe that's for the best. Still might watch it later out of sheer curiosity, though.
 
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KingofPhantoms said:
Oh, yeah, I've seen the title and thumbnail of this video but haven't actually watched it.

Maybe that's for the best. Still might watch it later out of sheer curiosity, though.
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The scariest thing, is that Hillenberg's greatest fear about his creation ended up coming true.
 
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Professor Pumpkaboo said:
Would Umineko make me cry and feel depressed like The Great Ace Attorney did when I beat it?
Because that game put me into a ****ing SPIRAL
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Ahahahaha. There is one scene in Chapter 4 that absolutely ****ing destroyed me in a way no other fiction had been able to. Game's pretty damn tragic though yeah
 
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Professor Pumpkaboo said:
Would Umineko make me cry and feel depressed like The Great Ace Attorney did when I beat it?
Because that game put me into a ****ing SPIRAL
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Hello yes, as someone who played every Umineko.

Yes, 100% yes.

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Ahahahaha. There is one scene in Chapter 4 that absolutely ****ing destroyed me in a way no other fiction had been able to. Game's pretty damn tragic though yeah
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I see what you did there Gwen

 
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Multiversus revealed the joker gameplay:

more importantly though it leaked another character:

it may have also leaked the flash as central city is on the computer and the other towns are associated with playable characters. So who knows, could be a fun reference at the end of the day.
 
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