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black-rose-writings · 2 months ago

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We're babysitting my little cousins this weekend (ages 8 and 5), and I am so very grateful for growing up in the early 2000s, because I only had severely restricted access to the internet until I was 12, and the most fucked up thing I did was playing cult with my (of-brand) barbies. I made potions with leaves and flowers and burried little toy figurines in the sandbox, like a normal child.

I did not make anyone around me wonder why the hell is my 5yo cousin clutching a plushie of a character from the "human experiments on orphans" game, who a) is an orphan who was experimented on and b) gets torn in half and then canibalized alive by other human experiment orphans within that game, ya know.

#rant #anti mascot horror #like I enjoy it personally but I'm 22 and I was like 14 when I first discovered it #and the ethics of having something so fucked up be so outwardly child friendly are... questionable to say the least #nothing makes you question mascot horror like putting that into words #like is this really something that should have plushes of all things as merch?#like jesus fucking christ #poppy playtime isn't even subtle about the fucked up elements #like fnaf at least doesn't really involve the lore in the gameplay #I mean I know kids in my generation were obsessed with like creepypastas and shit #but that stuff didn't really have merch available in your local toy store #my brother had a fnaf phase when he was like 10 #but that was before the merch was really available #and there was no internet savvy grown up to have an existential crisis about it #my mom doesn't know the mangle plushie she bought my little sister years ago is fueled by the lifeforce of a murdered child #(and honestly its biggest problem is that it looks silly AF)#and she doesn't know the plushie my little cousin brough with him is an orphan who was converted into a toy and then canibalized #but I do #and I hate it

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