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Every Gen Z Childhood Trauma Explained In 9 Minutes

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  • Published on Apr 18, 2026

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  • @FinestExplainerr
    @FinestExplainerr  Month ago +352

    which childhood trauma did I miss?

  • @SilverAndGoldPodcast0823
    @SilverAndGoldPodcast0823 15 days ago +688

    Momo not being on this list is interesting

    • @JettRametes-u4d
      @JettRametes-u4d 14 days ago +43

      That's made me wet the bed for 3 years lol

    • @muhammed88o
      @muhammed88o 14 days ago +14

      Momo is the final Level thats why

    • @LollixYT
      @LollixYT 14 days ago +24

      I believe it's because it causes the video to get flagged and shows the suicide help hotline number under it, sometimes even causes a few videos to get demonetized

    • @Samaritan_Studios
      @Samaritan_Studios 14 days ago +7

      I used to be afraid of that when i was younger

    • @HeffleyRoderick
      @HeffleyRoderick 14 days ago

      I remember the amount of sleepless nights I got from the Momo thing lol

  • @ChildofGod-p1q
    @ChildofGod-p1q Month ago +508

    When I was 11 years old, I thought Slenderman was real, I was scared, and I thought, "I just gotta have to survive until I'm 18 years old" 💀💀💀

    • @RainbowStartechnoschool
      @RainbowStartechnoschool 19 days ago +39

      now you gotta survive from taxes lol

    • @chandrannk7471
      @chandrannk7471 14 days ago +6

      ​@RainbowStartechnoschool 😭✌️

    • @sam_fan155
      @sam_fan155 13 days ago +8

      it was so real that some teenagers went ahead and stabbed another just to prove the legend existed back in 2014. the drastic measures people are willing to take just because of some fictional horror story.

    • @CapyxBlissxArt
      @CapyxBlissxArt 13 days ago +3

      Lol

    • @Myeena
      @Myeena 7 days ago +2

      Meanwhile i wished he’d come get me and make me a proxy

  • @windowxp1946.glitched
    @windowxp1946.glitched Month ago +227

    OK but why do i feel Herobrine and Slender as a nostalgia?

  • @ResonanceFilmProductions
    @ResonanceFilmProductions 23 days ago +151

    Spiderman + Elsa videos were traumatic

  • @ColtonzChannel-p3d
    @ColtonzChannel-p3d Month ago +279

    I had the fear of smile dog looking at me through the windows

    • @popililo
      @popililo Month ago +7

      me too every time i think about it i cant sleep

    • @RACER-ayaan
      @RACER-ayaan Month ago +4

      Nahh he showed it 2 us 🥀🥀

    • @p4lmer-f5l
      @p4lmer-f5l Month ago +2

      Same

    • @HeidiYau-t6q
      @HeidiYau-t6q 18 days ago +3

      He literally made me remember that traumatic experience 😭😭😭

  • @Hannah-t5z
    @Hannah-t5z Month ago +561

    Slenderman is by far, the scariest. Mainly because it leaked into reality and tempted 2 girls to lure their friend into the woods, and stab her, trying to sacrifice her to see if it was real

    • @jacogiordy
      @jacogiordy Month ago +12

      I think that happy tree friends is the most disturbing

    • @zaraslayscookiexoxo
      @zaraslayscookiexoxo Month ago +6

      i genuinely can’t believe that it went this far

    • @AilanMorha
      @AilanMorha Month ago +3

      That was their fault

    • @DominicFatass
      @DominicFatass Month ago +1

      as a gen alpha I don't really find him scary but cool and mysterious, idk that's what I think when I was younger

    • @mariagiuliazanon8564
      @mariagiuliazanon8564 Month ago +3

      Yup, I'm 25 now, but back then I was 13 and in 7th grade

  • @Yourlocalkitty-XD
    @Yourlocalkitty-XD Month ago +126

    I used to have talking Angela as a kid and when I found out that there was someone in her eyes I got so scared and deleted the app

  • @SprinkleBurger
    @SprinkleBurger Month ago +174

    I was so scared when i was younger that herobrine would appear right next to my bed

    • @ShadowMilkCookie3
      @ShadowMilkCookie3 Month ago +9

      I was scared to play minecraft becuase of Herobrine

    • @VoidMaster-l6y
      @VoidMaster-l6y Month ago +3

      I used to be scared of walking in water in Minecraft cause I thought there was crocodiles that where gonna eat me 😅

    • @ActualCMaj7chord
      @ActualCMaj7chord Month ago +2

      @ShadowMilkCookie3I was so scared that didn’t played it for 8 years

    • @W00ZZZII
      @W00ZZZII 12 days ago +2

      I did, too, but then i imagined a big blocky figure running at me and laughed. I was also scared of Slender Man, but knew he was tall, and imagined him standing there, head clipped through the ceiling like in a video game, shaking and bugging out. XD. Got over my fear

  • @uydollaronline
    @uydollaronline Month ago +27

    Smile dog scared the schiße out of me

  • @ThisBeanIsEvil
    @ThisBeanIsEvil Month ago +61

    I used to watch Happy Tree Friends when I was *8* years old, however, I didn't feel afraid a lot while watching some episodes

  • @anya-q9m
    @anya-q9m Month ago +93

    I used to be too scared to play Minecraft cause I thought hErObRiNe would haunt me 😭. Also I think u should’ve added smile hd or cupcakes since I know that traumatized millions

  • @leumasccentertainment2010

    6:20 *2010s

  • @aliaguendich667
    @aliaguendich667 Month ago +56

    After 16 years ...

  • @YesitsEstelle
    @YesitsEstelle Month ago +6

    Happy Tree Friends actually traumatized me and I'm not even exaggerating

  • @KatherineV-m4h
    @KatherineV-m4h Month ago +74

    I only associated Happy Tree Friends as humor

    • @adonkusintheOSC
      @adonkusintheOSC Month ago +4

      First time?

    • @Generic712
      @Generic712 Month ago +4

      Yeah surprisingly people found this funny I remember watching this show and gave be creeps forever

  • @maudowusu-amponsah4420
    @maudowusu-amponsah4420 29 days ago +15

    "Anyone who saw smile dog would get insomnia"
    Him- "let me just share this"

  • @Orihime_riya
    @Orihime_riya Month ago +17

    5:27 bruh it's still traumatizing me rn 🙂🙂am already 17 and this

  • @Gypsy_king420
    @Gypsy_king420 7 days ago +3

    Happy tree friends is the reason why i dont get scared by gore. And my mom said i watched it when i was a little kid

  • @ReyHansClarenceMacalutas

    Happy tree friends was my favorite show since i was 8....i never forget it...

  • @Omorisknife
    @Omorisknife Month ago +6

    I used to be so afraid of Slenderman that I genuinely developed insomnia because of it

  • @craighode
    @craighode Month ago +6

    God does not only comfort, He transforms. Thank you for this channel.

  • @TheEnvisionment-1128
    @TheEnvisionment-1128 Month ago +5

    Let’s be honest tho, Herobrine is such a cool freakin name tho

  • @jordankaplan7403
    @jordankaplan7403 Month ago +6

    1:37 My cutesy lifetime (without gory violence)!

  • @ROLLINGREELSlol
    @ROLLINGREELSlol Month ago +3

    I had BLANK face while watching Happy Tree Friends

  • @royroyeoyzroyroyroyz
    @royroyeoyzroyroyroyz Month ago +5

    is it weird that i like happy tree friends when I was a kid?

  • @Buggy_music
    @Buggy_music Month ago +3

    Happy tree friend mentioned

  • @Fliqpy-Flippy26
    @Fliqpy-Flippy26 13 days ago +3

    Once I've spread the word of smile dog, I had a amazing dream of them being my friends 😭💔🥀 it ain't no joke, this happened back in 4th grade spreading this to my friends

  • @Ganymxdes328
    @Ganymxdes328 Month ago +4

    OK DUDE I HAD A NIGHTMARE ABOUT THE SMILEDOG WHIT THE STAGE 2 LOOKING FORM WHIT BIGGER GRIN

  • @briangriffinfg1999
    @briangriffinfg1999 13 days ago +3

    I was scared of herobrine when I was playing minecraft in 2010s. every time the game glitched or when a cross appeared, I would leave the game

  • @silverTherian2012
    @silverTherian2012 13 days ago +2

    smile dog and happy tree friends were the scariest for me when I was a lil guy, whenever I saw smile dogs face it would send chills down my spine

  • @BlefoMan
    @BlefoMan Month ago +10

    Fun fact : all gens are repeated for centuries
    Starting with gen A and ending with Z and now ill list every gen in their order:
    A, B, X, Y, Z

    • @octarinedits
      @octarinedits 20 days ago

      Fun fact: gawk gawk gawk gawk gawk gawk gawk gawk gawk gawk

  • @Superbulut01YT
    @Superbulut01YT Month ago +5

    7:39 slenderman is my childhood trauma

  • @アノーニマス
    @アノーニマス Month ago +6

    I remember the Talking Angela hoax scaring the heck out of me when I was 12 😭 If you do a pt. 2 you should include the Webkinz killer!

  • @ActualCMaj7chord
    @ActualCMaj7chord Month ago +5

    My friends and I stayed 3 months sleep deprived after knowing about slenderman 😂❤

  • @bunnieloveshoping
    @bunnieloveshoping 11 days ago +2

    Happy tree friends, lavender town and little baby ice cream is the ones i don't know. But OMG THE OTHERS GAVE ME TRAUMA, especially the smile dog

  • @stickman-17s
    @stickman-17s Month ago +4

    I love Happy Tree Friends

  • @AndrewT-pd9ln
    @AndrewT-pd9ln Month ago +2

    I was Traumatized from Cartoon Network from 2017 & 2018

  • @NewttheExplainer
    @NewttheExplainer Month ago +2

    *For me Smile Dog is the scariest!*

  • @redbullscar
    @redbullscar Month ago +8

    i would curl up in my bed for days until i was hella sleepy scared herobrine was gonna get me or hack my hard worked Minecraft islands. u should include jeff the killer if u have a pt.2

  • @adonkusintheOSC
    @adonkusintheOSC Month ago +45

    I was 12 when i first started watching happy tree friends, I love it with all of my existance

    • @MsYukizomesorangejuice
      @MsYukizomesorangejuice Month ago +4

      Same but it’s not much of an all time fav due to bullies. But it still has a place in my heart and it’s why I’m into horror films

    • @adonkusintheOSC
      @adonkusintheOSC Month ago +2

      ​@MsYukizomesorangejuice alright I understand

    • @DominicFatass
      @DominicFatass Month ago +1

      sounds like my cousin

  • @fakeyt5362
    @fakeyt5362 Month ago +1

    you missed the most popular childhood trauma : SirenHead

  • @ozero56-krutoi
    @ozero56-krutoi Month ago +2

    But now you realise. That weren't traumas . It was our childhood

  • @AKA_Teli
    @AKA_Teli Month ago +10

    4:18 idk why i found this funny it doesn't scares me

  • @Monkee553
    @Monkee553 Month ago +3

    oh wow the black color in an eye reflects the background so scarryyy

  • @Kittycorn_player
    @Kittycorn_player 13 days ago +1

    Angela and a creepy weird Michel Jackson smiling in a corridor still haunt me

  • @justice37-l2z
    @justice37-l2z Month ago +3

    I can get Gen Z being scared of happy tree friends

  • @teadragonpot
    @teadragonpot Month ago +2

    My cousin, when he was like six, kept “talking to slenderman” LIKE IT WAS HIS IMAGINARY FRIEND and told me that Slenderman was his best friend. I was very worried, as he was already showing mental illness signs other than this from a young age. He’d draw him, and even made up little songs about him. He eventually moved on though, so that’s good.

  • @Sócrates188
    @Sócrates188 Month ago +1

    lets be honest,we were all scared of smile dog

  • @AkR-Yay
    @AkR-Yay Month ago +2

    I saw happy tree friends referenced somewhere, so I wanted to check it out. I saw a random episode, and thought that this was a joke until I was caught off guard-

  • @BlefoMan
    @BlefoMan Month ago +1

    Ngl herobrine , slenderman and lavender town hit the hardest back then

  • @zeekNoir
    @zeekNoir 13 days ago +1

    If he added every gen z childhood trauma this video would be 3 hours or more

  • @ComWatch21
    @ComWatch21 Month ago +1

    When i was younger and first saw smile dog I couldn't sleep for 3 days

  • @BekzhanInkarbekov
    @BekzhanInkarbekov Month ago +1

    This hit like a brick, not gonna lie. Thanks for posting.

  • @pink99644
    @pink99644 Month ago +18

    I remember that I actually believed in Herobrine when I was like 6 or 7, and believing all those “HEROBRINE CAUGHT ON CAMERA!!” videos. And every time a cave sound plays, I thought it was a sign that Herobrine has entered my world, so I quickly got out of it and delete the world 😭💀 Ngl, I do missed those days 🫠 Herobrine may not be as popular as he was 15 years ago, but he was a very fun and horrifying memory and belief 🙏❤
    Bro… I was literally just saying how old I was around the time. I’m *NOT* referencing anything… I literally got 2 replies pointing it out. I didn’t even realise, until then…

  • @DAVEtvFan5669
    @DAVEtvFan5669 Month ago +1

    I only remembered herobrine,happy tree friends and talking angla

  • @heninyaagam2942
    @heninyaagam2942 Month ago +2

    Nooooooooob, remember that time in the lemonade episode where Giggles got her freaking face ripped of, and Petunia who got her eye poled the heck of not those memories 😭😭😭😭🩸

  • @icerockprogamer
    @icerockprogamer 25 days ago +1

    Slender man is part if granny's family

  • @goldenfreddy_e3w
    @goldenfreddy_e3w Month ago +5

    happy three friends is too brutal...

  • @jurassicsight
    @jurassicsight 9 days ago +1

    I'm a baby Gen Z so I didn't know about it until I got into Gen Z stuff when I was a kid

  • @CrystalShard9871
    @CrystalShard9871 11 days ago

    HTF: "Hey, how you doing?"
    Me asf: "THIS MAN, RIGHT HERE-" **points at Flippy** "-MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD."

  • @Durian_flex
    @Durian_flex Month ago +1

    5:43 even at the fog of war a tank is still visible.

  • @B.elleplays
    @B.elleplays 29 days ago +1

    When I was a kid I saw the smile dog thingy and every time I’d try to sleep the image would come to my head and I would scream bloody murder

  • @msaadalyousif2009
    @msaadalyousif2009 Month ago +1

    I used to watch happy tree friends since I was young, but now I’m 17, and it kinda freaks me out btw.

  • @lopez_el_joven
    @lopez_el_joven 22 days ago +1

    HTF really got me before, I was 12, not into gore, not into scary stuffs or violence. I was in a soccer court with some friends from school, we were on break and one of them wanted to show me something, it was "Top 10 most brutal deaths in HTP" and like I said, never seen or heard anything like that, so I saw it with them, say the animals eating an apple with Razer blades, have to climb back to a tree WITH THEIR EYBALLS, have ants explode your heart, kill the itchy feelings with a razor, etc... I was so traumatized that I fell on the grass and almost fainted on the spot, had to lay down on the bench right after...

  • @RajuAintHereoff
    @RajuAintHereoff Month ago +4

    I'm an early gen alpha but still experienced these traumas when they were trending

    • @somerandomgirl768
      @somerandomgirl768 Month ago

      Sameeee especially htf (happy tree friends) was my biggest trauma ever

  • @I_lovedeku-y4k
    @I_lovedeku-y4k Month ago +2

    I never played a single pokemon game but watch a pokemon show

  • @HollyMcMillan-p3j
    @HollyMcMillan-p3j Month ago +25

    5:07 okay um what about the kids? I’m pretty sure parents argued that it was traumatizing for kids to look at.

  • @leumasccentertainment2010

    My version of a title: Every Late Gen Z/Early Gen Alpha Childhood Trauma Explained.

  • @greyfurwcue
    @greyfurwcue 12 days ago

    Ok but seriously blurring the smile dog actual image is so helpful thank you 🙏🙏

  • @StarLow2123
    @StarLow2123 13 days ago

    4:27 that drawing is very accurate. 😂😂😂

  • @The9FandomsGirl
    @The9FandomsGirl Month ago +9

    That One Htf Episode Scarred Me When I Was 9
    AND I NEVER WATCHED IT SINCE

    • @cosmos_machine
      @cosmos_machine 29 days ago

      Wich one?

    • @The9FandomsGirl
      @The9FandomsGirl 29 days ago +1

      ​@cosmos_machineThe Flaky One....

    • @mariagiuliazanon8564
      @mariagiuliazanon8564 29 days ago

      ​@The9FandomsGirlwhat Flaky One? There's tons of episodes with the red anxious porcupine

    • @The9FandomsGirl
      @The9FandomsGirl 29 days ago +1

      ​@mariagiuliazanon8564The Snow Sking One

    • @mariagiuliazanon8564
      @mariagiuliazanon8564 28 days ago +1

      ​@The9FandomsGirloh that. I remember that one too well. The ones that actually traumatized me were all the Sniffles and ants episodes

  • @KimberlyNavarro-q5f

    That creepy candy green bear still traumatize me

  • @UnrefrigeratedMilk
    @UnrefrigeratedMilk Month ago +2

    2:23 I found it when I was 5 or 6 and it's reason I'm not squeamish

  • @GalaxyRuler6783
    @GalaxyRuler6783 9 days ago

    That's true that if anyone sees the smile dog image they will never forgot the image anymore

  • @DullerVessel869
    @DullerVessel869 Month ago +1

    I do remember watching Happy Tree Friends back in the day, but for some reason, I liked the show for obvious reasons, I don’t know, I just do,

  • @DAVESANIMS
    @DAVESANIMS Month ago +3

    Luckly i never knew about happy tree friends until now

  • @Harobrine136
    @Harobrine136 Month ago

    Herobrine and Slender-Man are both my favorite childhood horror characters.

  • @BubbleBoiTADC
    @BubbleBoiTADC Month ago

    When I was younger I was obsessed with Minecraft creepypastas

  • @PitamChattarajTheOG
    @PitamChattarajTheOG 18 days ago

    When I was a child, I had red curtains in my room, upon turning off the lights during night, the outside light made the curtains look like the background of the demonic red version of the smile dog image, and I couldnt sleep, I told my parents about it, they told me to just remove that fear, but I couldnt, even though the red curatins were replaced, I used to still see the visions of smile dog in the darkness,
    The creepypasta haunts me to this day, I get like anxiety and panic attacks whenever I see that image, especially the red demonic one, which is the one I most associated my fear of the creepypasta to

  • @Aiden-f3p8f
    @Aiden-f3p8f 20 days ago

    Smile dog scared the heck out of me

  • @crescentmoonlover
    @crescentmoonlover 14 days ago

    Herobrine really traumatized me when I was a kid lol. I was so scared to play survival without cheats back then because of him.

  • @tiragd928
    @tiragd928 Month ago

    This was peak internet not trauma

  • @hardstyleplanett
    @hardstyleplanett 9 days ago +1

    Since i heard of the talking Angela rumor. I haven't downloaded that app since like 2019..

  • @AkmalShaikhYT
    @AkmalShaikhYT 8 days ago

    that lavender town music thing brought back such a weird memory… used to play pokemon late at night as a kid and always felt kinda uneasy in that town but never knew why, just muted the volume and kept going 😭 funny how your brain just decides

  • @Stella_cute_bae-w2q
    @Stella_cute_bae-w2q 10 days ago

    Instead of scared 11 years old me looking at slenderman like he's a handsome person

  • @Joproyes
    @Joproyes Month ago

    Momo was so traumatizing, he didn't even include it

  • @soggymilkbread
    @soggymilkbread 5 days ago

    when i was a kid, I refused to play minecraft and whenever I would play Minecraft for some reason, I could only play for 5 minutes because i was scared that I would encounter herobrine. also, little baby's ice cream traumatized me for YEARS. i cried the first time my sister made me watch it smile dog also made me scared for years. it scared me so much that I wouldn't even look at the windows when it was nighttime, thinking that the smile dog would be there 😭

  • @ChezBurger-f6e
    @ChezBurger-f6e Month ago +2

    I remember this time when i was in the nether looking 4 a base then like dead ahh huge lava towers started to apper. Then i touched one and instantly died. Now b4 u think im dumb, I was in CREATIVE MODE

  • @Tordswife4eva
    @Tordswife4eva 27 days ago

    I had ALL of those fears and I remember them

  • @moooooo00-b8s
    @moooooo00-b8s 12 days ago +1

    But the angela one was also around for a couple of gen alphas

  • @aurakinggz
    @aurakinggz Month ago +5

    3:29 when you said Japanese ad came up about learning Japanese

  • @AngelZipagan-e5s
    @AngelZipagan-e5s Month ago

    I feel satisfaction and ascendedwhile watching this

  • @Mugzy-buddy
    @Mugzy-buddy Month ago

    No joke, when he said slenderman could interfere with devices by internet became wonky

  • @The_Drunken_Bat
    @The_Drunken_Bat Month ago

    I was never traumatized by any of it.

  • @MsYukizomesorangejuice

    Me, who actually liked HTF as a kid:

  • @AnaGiuliaBeltreLouzada

    My worst childhood traumas I still have nightmares about 😢

  • @jamesappley8779
    @jamesappley8779 12 days ago

    Fun Fact: The reason the green bear [fliipy] goes crazy and kills all his friends is that he has PTSD

  • @BraydenChan-p5y
    @BraydenChan-p5y Month ago

    2:41 new grounds? That explains why now

  • @Clever_Fire2010
    @Clever_Fire2010 Month ago

    "That one blue maze"