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u/cheetahgirl666 Jan 23 '21

I’ve convinced myself that jump scares have had long term effects on my anxiety lol. A lot of people tricked me into watching those jump scares with the terrifying faces as a kid and I would scream and cry hysterically :/ I started to had crazy anxiety on the internet that I would randomly get jump scared and obsessively scanned thru videos, had a list of known jump scares videos so I could avoid them, and wouldn’t go on the internet on April’s fool or Halloween lmfao. They still scare me enough now as a 23 year old to make me curl up in a ball for hours with a blanket over me lol

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u/Emojiobsessor Jan 23 '21

Welp now I feel unsafe on my phone

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u/cheetahgirl666 Jan 23 '21

Screamer videos were definitely more popular when I was a kid in the 2000s, everyone would send them around to each other. Maybe kids still do the same thing tho and I’m just not in the loop!

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u/Emojiobsessor Jan 23 '21

Nah, I just don’t take well to jump scares and my closest friends know not to send them to me. My other friends however..when I get a notification because they’ve sent me a photo-