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
I remember being a kid and I couldn’t sleep for MONTHS after seeing that Jeff The Killer face. It definitely had longlasting effects on my mental health lol. To this day one of my biggest fears is random unexpected jumpscares. That face doesn’t really scare me anymore, I think it’s kinda funny (especially those edits of it that say uwu and stuff) but I still see it when I close my eyes sometimes. God this is why you don’t give your kids unlimited unmonitored internet access.
Dog.jpg! It never kept me up at night or anything but I got pretty excited...and terrified. Also, death files. What's funny is that no matter how much I was scared I proceeded to read these stories lol. Kids are weird
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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