u/Accomplished-Juice-7

Before I go and explain this channel, let me tell you about the story on how I developed my irrational fear of YouTube screamers.

See, like many of you, I was a wee little kid with unrestricted Internet access during the early years of YouTube in the late noughts. Imagine my excitement seeing video game walkthroughs and gameplay clips of Mario and Sonic, as well as toy reviews and movie trailers. All of this led me to discovering the well-renowned YouTube Poop community. Remixed meme edits of famous cartoons and video games had me hooked as a child. This also introduced me to Hotel Mario and Link: The Faces of Evil in the CDi because of the memes.

Somewhere around 2010-2011, I started watching Achille12345's high-effort YTP content. All of it was genuinely well-edited and had a narrative story behind his funny edits. He was like the primordial Granddayy or SomeBuddy. Around that same time, I was also made aware of the Scary Maze Game, but I only heard about it from my friends who love to cower behind curtains and blankets waiting for the dreaded jumpscare to arrive. So I never really got SHOCKED by it, so to speak, just enjoyed the innocent funny thrill waiting for the scary face lady to pop up on the screen for a few seconds. But I knew of its existence, scared me a lot, so I vowed myself never to play the game or watch clips of it without my friends or else I'll be traumatized forever. The face was haunting, but I'm glad it didn't truly catch me off-guard.... until this channel.

While watching Achille12345's amazing videos on repeat, I noticed this weird video recommended to me that just says his channel name, and the thumbnail is his Evil Luigi channel banner and nothing else. It wasn't from his channel at all, and nothing suggested that it was his, so it kinda piqued my interest and I casually click the thumbnail and BOO! Loud noises and the extreme closeup of Regan from the Exorcist fully sent shivers down my spine!

It was the first time I ever felt true fear for something so quick and disruptive. I was too scared to touch the family laptop so I came downstairs and asked my dad to shut the computer down for me. I didn't cry, surprisingly enough as a 6-year-old, but I was trembling hard. I could never forget about this experience, and for a long while, it placed my distrust in YouTube videos as a whole because I thought all the videos I'd get afterwards would be filled with just screamer videos!

For a long while too, that image and any infamous screamers, as well as creepypastas, took a toll on my poor young mind and it made it harder for me to sleep at night. That took me almost 15 years to confront that specific fear of looking directly into that infamous picture of the Exorcist kid, as well as accepting the whole thing as just some dumb prank.

Just now, I revisited the channel that caused this irrevocable damage in my psyche, and it turns out that it was just some dumb troll named ScreamerMaster127 trying to capitalize views off of niche YouTube creators from that time. They only had 3 videos with thumbnails from 'Achille12345', 'zeldamaster52', and 'kirby8943', assuming the latter two were also Nintendo gamer YouTubers with moderate fame in the late noughts since I couldn't find their videos anymore. It was nice knowing that all of this was just someone trying to be funny or rude, and not because of some elaborate scheme to traumatize me for a lifetime LMAO!

Anyway, if you've read my short story this far, I thank you for your time and patience. I finally get to unwind this weird fear of mine in an appropriate setting. For now, lets reminisce how stupidly fun and careless we all were back in the first years of YouTube!

EDIT: Apparently, kirby8943 is a famous Zelda speedrunner that's not exactly known in YouTube but has made a following in OOT forums and other websites. Huh, ScreamerMaster127 must've really hated these guys in order to make bait jumpscare videos to target their audience.

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