#i have been around the block too long in internet horror spaces im fully immune to Then A Scary Monster phobia | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

marklikely · 2 years ago

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really love amateur Internet horror as a whole like its a great medium for passion projects and creativity but if there's one thing id like to never ever see in the space again its "legitimately good subtle story but we added a scary monster that runs at you BWAH!!"

#its absurdly common in adaptations of liminal horror like someone comes up w a great liminal horror idea #and then a bunch of people who don't know how to be scary are just like and then we put a monster in it ooOoOooh!!!!!#like what happened to the backrooms or some scp video games #or there are these really great tiktok videos i think they're called like. phobia videos or something #and they're a collection of 3d animated clips that genuinely do get under my skin like #thalassophobia *video of you in a creepy underwater place* acrophobia *video of you on an impossibly tall building*#but then they always always ALWAYS end the clip with like . a creepy guy jumps out at you #like in the acrophobia one a creepy guy jumps out and pushes you off the tall building. they all have something like that #and it genuinely makes me insane because im like well THATS NOT? the phobia?? these arent different fears its all the same thing!!#i have been around the block too long in internet horror spaces im fully immune to Then A Scary Monster phobia #avpost #and im not one of those people with a stick up their ass about jumpscares its just like. not every story needs a scary monster face #i promise you there are other ways to índuce fear in your audience #and this has been going on like. at least since i was a teenager. like its so played out and we clearly will never move on #hell even from before i was a teenager like those youtube screamers are arguably the precursor to this #but nowadays its more annoying bc the stories are genuinely really good! until the goofy face monster ruins it

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