"What if I told you something, or someone, is right behind you?" Me: *Skooches chair back in such a way as to pinch the toes of whoever might be behind me*
So I came up with this idea when you were talking about those statues in Celeste: Imagine a level in a game with with all those disembodied eyes in the wall constantly following your every step, which is creepy and unnerving on its own. After a while, you enter a big, seemingly empty room and explore it, when SUDDENLY all the eyes jolt away from you to the other side of the room, wide open and trembling with fear, all looking towards the same point, but you see nothing. After a few moments of eery silence, you notice the eyes' gaze slowly shifting towards you, and suddenly you get attacked out of nowhere and the boss fight starts: you have to use the eyes to triangulate the location of whatever this thing is in order to fight it.
I imagine the level starts out with no eyeballs. As you progress, one opens up, but doesn't end up looking at you. More and more eyes soon start to open up. Eventually, once you kill an enemy, one of the eyes starts... eying you. As you continue on, overcoming obstacles, killing more enemies, more and more eyes start to open up and quickly take notice of you. Eventually every single eyeball that is ever onscreen at some point is *always* looking at you. Word gets around quickly. You have their unwavering attention for quite some time. *Then, you walk into the boss room.*
The fear of unknown is huge. While watching horror movies - once the evil thing is revealed to us, i stop being afraid. But the whole time when it is unknown - it is scary. Therefore if you show just eyes in the darkness, you can sht pants but if the creep goes out to the light... yeah it may look scary but now you know what you have to deal with so it's less unpredictable and so less scary.
Neri Ikr! That’s why I find ghost horror movies scarier, cuz even though I know what is haunting the characters, I don’t exactly know where it’s going to attack next/how to fight against it. Sure, some films have exorcists and stuffs, but what if even that is not enough? What else can the characters do to fight against such terrifying things? Or will they succumb to a terrible fate...
@@Gabyrinconavila Definitely this. Even in the shower where the windows are designed in such a way that you can't see through them, I'm always anxious that I'm going to see the vague outline of a person through it.
I thought this was going to be about the psychology of having another person watch you play a difficult game, and it somehow making you better at the game.
"The scariest door is the one left unopened." ~ Alfred Hitchcock, I think. I just thought that was relevant to your final point, that the _suggestion_ of something is greater than anything you could actually present. Also, that alternate thumbnail idea has me thinking of Daffy Duck now, that time when he practically screamed out La Cucaracha.
@@lexort4204 imagine your being watch you turn around to see your cat just staring at you. After sometime you go and check on the cat. But the cat was just sleeping in your lap this entire time 👁 👁
Ome of the best parts of having cats; spooky things happening? Feeling of being watched? Things going bump in the night? Yeah, that's just the cats being dumb, dw about it 😂
Fear of being watched goes away pretty fast when you have a house full of cats. Of course you're being watched, you're always being watched. I wasn't surprised that when I glanced behind myself for shits and giggles (I didn't feel compelled to glance) it was to find one of my cats just sitting on the couch, watching me.
3:00 someone needs to do a prank like that on someone in a back row. That would be HORRIFYING. I’d totally watch their reaction. Make it like someone in the second to last row, not quite at you, the people behind you look at you too and their eyes slowly focus on the person.
Oh man, when you showed that clip of the giant creepy smiling dude standing behind the normal looking dude (around 51 seconds) i freaked out a little and looked behind me 😂 i hate mannequins/masks/animatronics. Interesting tho, ive always wondered why they freak me out so much. Cutting off communication certainly makes sense.
whoever made fnaf definitely had that weird mildly-traumatic experience of going to chuck e cheese and being *batshit fucking terrified* of the animatronics and the guy in the suit
“You probably turned around to check for someone watching you or are resisting the urge to do so” Since I have not left my basement for 2 weeks now, there is little concern for someone else being in here with me
Glad this could help! And hey, thanks to social facilitation, eventually performing around others will actually make you better ;) just keep practicing!
Public speaking courses (at least where I'm taking it) teach ways to handle that anxiety and inherently remove the fear of the unknown (at least if you practice)
I really like how they used this in Darkest Dungeon's Crimson Court dlc. You are hunting down vampire nobility hanging out in an eternal ball. You just can't go and kill the nobility whenever you feel like it. They have to invite you to the ball themselves where you fight them and as you fight them there is a group of vampires hanging out in the background. They just drink and chat, but whenever you fuck up they laugh at you and cheer and clap when you take critical hits. Your struggle is just entertainment for them. I just love it, makes you feel weak .
7:58 interesting thing happens to me. When I'm playing a competitive game, like Smash or Smite, and people are watching, I definitely play worse and think about how people are judging me. But when I know people are watching me play a single player game, like Celeste or Mario Maker, I thrive in it and play much better. I'm not sure why that is, but I've noticed that about myself over the last few months.
Maybe it has to do with the fear of letting others down/what others feel in competitive games, causing you to overthink or get distracted. Compared to something like having an opportunity to show off your prowess in a single player game.
Not to disregard everything in this video, but I can't imagine many people are affected by an ingame audience. They just kinda blend into the background for me, I don't find myself getting anxious infront of them or anything
and this is EXACTLY why 'Perfect Blue' is one of my favorite psychological thriller horror movies DESPITE not being a horror fan. I won't spoil anything ofc but the way that film executes being watched and the unknown of what to come for our main character really gets to your mind while watching it ^^
i currently have 24 eyes all from stuffed animals my dog, 2 birds, and my brother, watching me an i know how they react when there's another entity in the room.... i know whats behind me.. phh.. *LOOKS ANYWAYS*
Dude, I could make a whole video essay just about those MS-Paint faces in the theater staring in my direction and how deeply uncomfortable those made me feel. I don't even get easily affected by stuff like this! You just tapped into some sort of FNaF-level uncanny valley sweet spot!
You definitely made the correct thumbnail choice. Ha! I originally thought this video was about playing video games while being watched irl (like with a friend). Obviously I am wrong but this is a great video! "Be clever with whatever information you present the player and what information you withhold. Sometimes the players own deep dark imagination and ability to fill in the blanks is greater nightmare fuel than you can ever crate." This has never been more apparent to me since playing multiple playthroughs in the latest Resident Evil 2. Your first time is the scariest because of what you see and your own fear of the unknown, your second time is less scary because you become normalized to what you see and you known (almost) all there is, your third time almost all fear is gone as you rush through the playthrough knowing what to expect. It's a ride of an experience; I highly recommend!
RE2 is a great example man! Absolutely love that game. That''s so true of horror games though man. Dead space 2 is one of my all time faves, and the first time I played I was so on edge the whole time lol. But on a second run I felt more like a hunter than a survivor. That game cured my fear of the dark xD
Oh man, I thought this was going to be about how we're better at playing when someone (like a friend or brother) is standing by watching us play. Still interesting tho!
7:20 "Ruin has come to our family. You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial. Gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moor. I lived all my years in that ancient, rumor shadowed manor. Fattened by decadence and luxury. And yet, I began to tire of conventional extravagance. Singular, unsettling tales suggested the mansion itself was a gateway to some fabulous and unnamable power. With relic and ritual, I bent every effort towards the excavation and recovery of those long buried secrets, exhausting what remained of our family fortune on swarthy workmen and sturdy shovels. At last, in the salt-soaked crags beneath the lowest foundations we unearthed that damnable portal of antediluvian evil. Our every step unsettled the ancient earth but we were in a realm of death and madness! In the end, I alone fled laughing and wailing through those blackened arcades of antiquity. Until consciousness failed me. You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial. It is a festering abomination! I beg you, return home, claim your birthright, and deliver our family from the ravenous clutching shadows of the Darkest Dungeon."
2:07 made me remember a time a few years back where I zoned out in my school’s cafeteria and zoned in a few minutes later, then realized I had accidentally stared at someone across the room for those few minutes and they looked _incredibly_ uncomfortable.
The feeling of something is watching you sounds like some bad PTSD. I remember I had a feeling of always being watched when I was in middle school through sophomore year and then I never felt that feeling again.
in the middle of watching your fighting game video and this comes out, lucky lucky! this was a great video, one fun thought though I wish you had brought up. At one point you mentioned being observed by other players in multiplayer and showed some footage of overwatch but then went on to focus more on ambiguous observation. I was hoping you'd touch on ambiguous observation in multiplayer, particularly in stealthy battle royale style games. Hamish Black made a really neat video touching on this (QVWyHl6YOGE), how it felt to never really know if someone, a real person, was ever watching you or not. Eyes are creepy yeah, but seeing signs of activity in a multiplayer game adds so many more questions I feel and makes you much more spooked. I've never really gotten into the battle royale scene, but it's always fun to hear people talk about it in their videos. "Being Watched" definitely seems to play a major role in those sorts of games. Anyways, rambling, good video fam!
Oh man that's such a great point, I wish I had thought of that! An in game audience is one thing, but when its real people it can really double down on the effect. Thanks so much!
I've had this irrational fear of smiling faces. Like say the Chester cat when invisible... just mouth and eyes. And had a hard time explaining why to people. I think this falls into this same explanation and now can use this to get the point across. I thank you. Came across you at random but find the subject matter here fascinating and have been binging. Look forward to more.
whenever I finish an anime I always imagine the characters I like watching me for some random reason and I’m just scared bc I might do something embarrassing I guess u could say I’m a loser
This makes me think about Valve's logo screen. The bald head with the valve on the back of it. I'm specifically thinking of the older version of this, when the head ever so slightly begins to turn towards the player. That logo always gives me this rising feeling of anxiety.
a while back i was playing mario kart double dash on my pc. no matter how hard id been trying to win a 150cc grand prix i just couldnt seem to do it. until one day i was using discords screen share in a chat with a buddy of mine. i booted it up cause i was waiting on some stuff to download and he watched me play. i found it very very interesting that i ended up winning this time around on the first try, even after getting hit with a blue shell. his cheers gave me this awesome sense of pride. now i know it was the social aspect that seems to have made a difference and its fascinating to me. i might start doing this twitch stuff in the near future because of it
I am so paranoid that when you just showed those two dots at the beginning I had looked behind myself for a good three seconds, when you started talking about it I look behind myself around four times. Then when he had given the example of the people looking behind you, why did you NOT give them pupils, that was so hecking creepy and I had to avoid looking looking at my phone. And what the hell was in Kirbys "Ghastly Canvas Course"?! That was pure nightmare fuel.
god being anywhere without my back being touched to a wall or a surface and/or being alone makes me scared and gets me shaking because of the fear of being watched
I am going through some parts of youtube that I've never went before, and it feels like an endless pit, a good pit, a learning pit, and never want to stop falling deeper.
Had to think of Observer at the beginning of this video… Gosh, this was so interesting, I got goosebumps a bunch of times!! I love how pretty much everything concerning psychology can be tracked back to basic animal instincts! I think the informational influence concept was also tested once with people turning into a specific direction in an elevator. A test subject then entered the elevator and after a short while positioned itself in the same way the others did. I think the concept of ambiguity and using it to one's advantage and intentionally withholding information (creating a mystery) is really awesome and I'd love to see more of it! To sum it all up: humans are weird, haha.
Haha oh humans definitely are. And I know the elevator experiment you're talking about, that was actually about social conformity, but it does tie into informational influence. When a ton of people are doing something, even if its weird, its the "norm", so people might conform. This is how things like the tide pod crisis happen haha. They did another experiment like that in a waiting room, its kind of hilarious ruclips.net/video/b9O9SokTTA8/видео.html
0:48 I always have people behind me watching me, that no one else can see. Just part of dissociation. Sometimes I'm the person behind watching someone else pilot the body.
I wish I watched the beginning of this video alone, in my room. That wouldve freaked me out so bad. But sadly I am in a busy room so yea, I am being watched. Makes sense to me
I will say, this is quite true, a new game that came out after this video called creature in the well, had this thing that had eyes and watching you, and makes a creepy door sounds when they get up. Its pretty scary when your in a part then boom, eyes watching when you look away.
One of the most memorable videogame i had with that very dreadful feeling of being watch was Firewatch. The writing and ambiance was just so good in it!
Another good example of being watched is in portal. You're constantly monitored through cameras, and every action is judged by a singular entity: GLADOS.
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"You might have turned around"
*Me, lying down on my bed with the bed frame directly behind me*
*laughs in safety*
"and you think that will save you?"
*Me, in the exact same position but still turned anyway, even if to prove a point*
Look up.
If not behind you, then to your side.
" _And it's what we do with that arousal that makes us different in our performance_ "
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Coffee tables arouse me
@@DarylTalksGames Lol how fitting im the 69th like on this comment ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Daryl Talks Games oh no now your comment has 69 likes
XD
"What if I told you something, or someone, is right behind you?"
Me: *Skooches chair back in such a way as to pinch the toes of whoever might be behind me*
Underrated comment lol
Lmao, the only problem with that is then you might just piss off whatever wanted to hurt you, already, even more.
69 likes, you're cursed!
*i did that too*
😂👌
Damn. I'm constantly being watched by that annoying af immortal fly that's in my room
lol same
Ghost fly...
F
what's worse, they have too many eyes
Ikr
“What if I told you someone is behind you?”
Me with my back to the wall: Ha! You fool, I’ve outsmarted you again!
@@scr1be_iv or INSIDE THE WALL
@@itiswhatitis1883 or its the wall itself
You ever seen The Boy?
What if its face slowly creeps out and goes through the wall while you aren’t looking at it?
The wall is what’s watching you… “wth are you doing?”-Wall 2020
So I came up with this idea when you were talking about those statues in Celeste:
Imagine a level in a game with with all those disembodied eyes in the wall constantly following your every step, which is creepy and unnerving on its own.
After a while, you enter a big, seemingly empty room and explore it, when SUDDENLY all the eyes jolt away from you to the other side of the room, wide open and trembling with fear, all looking towards the same point, but you see nothing. After a few moments of eery silence, you notice the eyes' gaze slowly shifting towards you, and suddenly you get attacked out of nowhere and the boss fight starts: you have to use the eyes to triangulate the location of whatever this thing is in order to fight it.
Holy crap, that is genius!
Thats sounds like a potential Metroid Boss
I imagine the level starts out with no eyeballs. As you progress, one opens up, but doesn't end up looking at you. More and more eyes soon start to open up. Eventually, once you kill an enemy, one of the eyes starts... eying you. As you continue on, overcoming obstacles, killing more enemies, more and more eyes start to open up and quickly take notice of you. Eventually every single eyeball that is ever onscreen at some point is *always* looking at you. Word gets around quickly. You have their unwavering attention for quite some time.
*Then, you walk into the boss room.*
i had literally the same idea! O.O
That would be fcking epic
"What if I told you that you're being watched?
Me: *Looks at camera.* Hi Mr. FBI man!
*The FBI knows your search history*
Dr. Plague
FBI: It’s blank.
I have been bamboozled.
to whoever ruins these 69 likes, I will find you, and I will creepily watch at you through your window
Fuck I did this lol
The fear of unknown is huge. While watching horror movies - once the evil thing is revealed to us, i stop being afraid. But the whole time when it is unknown - it is scary.
Therefore if you show just eyes in the darkness, you can sht pants but if the creep goes out to the light... yeah it may look scary but now you know what you have to deal with so it's less unpredictable and so less scary.
Neri
Ikr! That’s why I find ghost horror movies scarier, cuz even though I know what is haunting the characters, I don’t exactly know where it’s going to attack next/how to fight against it.
Sure, some films have exorcists and stuffs, but what if even that is not enough? What else can the characters do to fight against such terrifying things? Or will they succumb to a terrible fate...
Nope I am more afraid of the aliens when they are revealed as I know more about how horrifying they are
i’m afraid of the fact that if i look out my window at any time there could be a person staring right back at me
@@Gabyrinconavila Definitely this. Even in the shower where the windows are designed in such a way that you can't see through them, I'm always anxious that I'm going to see the vague outline of a person through it.
I thought this was going to be about the psychology of having another person watch you play a difficult game, and it somehow making you better at the game.
Godlyvex5 I relate
If you watch the whole thing it is.
It kinda is.
Same, but this is better.
same
Dude, I'm just trying to go to sleep man...
Well... not anymore!
maybe that's the point :)
Okay that’s your fault for clicking a on video called “The Power of Being Watched”
Dude i have been watching you for a year go to sleep
@@horribleperson9531 havent slept since...
There is a window behind me
I hate you
(It’s also 10PM)
Having a uncovered window infront of me at night can actually spook me out more then the idea that someone is behind me.
Same: i started watching, i saw the creepy white eyes, and i RAN TO CLOSE THAT FREAKING WINDOW
Its 11.30 pm
same situation here except its 1am, im watching youtube with the lights off and theres no one home xD
My Pfp will watch you.
The window in my room is pretty big and facing the street so I have blinds
"The scariest door is the one left unopened."
~ Alfred Hitchcock, I think.
I just thought that was relevant to your final point, that the _suggestion_ of something is greater than anything you could actually present.
Also, that alternate thumbnail idea has me thinking of Daffy Duck now, that time when he practically screamed out La Cucaracha.
"What if i tell you - you are being watched"
Me: turns around: " oh hi kitty"
Yup I've been watched!
Same for me too lol
@@lexort4204 imagine your being watch you turn around to see your cat just staring at you. After sometime you go and check on the cat. But the cat was just sleeping in your lap this entire time 👁 👁
Ome of the best parts of having cats; spooky things happening? Feeling of being watched? Things going bump in the night? Yeah, that's just the cats being dumb, dw about it 😂
this wholesomeness went from 0 to 100 real quick
Incredible, absolutely phenomenal.
Never trust the coffee table!
You might spill hot coffee on your crotch, or worse break your toe!
ruclips.net/video/XtAhISkoJZc/видео.html
Coffee tables arouse me
Watching this at one in the morning is a terrible idea.
Haha so sorry about that, its like 10 in the morning here.
Ah yes, currently watching at 12:57 am as well...
At 2 in the morning is even worse...
oh no
Yeah...
... 1:00 am is not morning, though.
Fear of being watched goes away pretty fast when you have a house full of cats. Of course you're being watched, you're always being watched. I wasn't surprised that when I glanced behind myself for shits and giggles (I didn't feel compelled to glance) it was to find one of my cats just sitting on the couch, watching me.
3:00 someone needs to do a prank like that on someone in a back row. That would be HORRIFYING. I’d totally watch their reaction. Make it like someone in the second to last row, not quite at you, the people behind you look at you too and their eyes slowly focus on the person.
Oh man, when you showed that clip of the giant creepy smiling dude standing behind the normal looking dude (around 51 seconds) i freaked out a little and looked behind me 😂 i hate mannequins/masks/animatronics. Interesting tho, ive always wondered why they freak me out so much. Cutting off communication certainly makes sense.
Haha oh no kidding, that stuff gives me the creeps. So naturally I had to put it in xD
whoever made fnaf definitely had that weird mildly-traumatic experience of going to chuck e cheese and being *batshit fucking terrified* of the animatronics and the guy in the suit
Jokes on you, big borther Google is watching us through RUclips as we speak!
borther
@@janelarsen4985 s t e p b o r
“You probably turned around to check for someone watching you or are resisting the urge to do so”
Since I have not left my basement for 2 weeks now, there is little concern for someone else being in here with me
And yet...
@@shout4371 you never know until you finnaly look......
9:14
"It's what we do with the arousal that affects our performance"
I was told I'd lose this sense if humour when I became an adult
@Autumn Dye I have achieved perfection
I finally have a way to describe my fears of performing when around others: social inhibition. This was very informative and interesting. Thank you!
Glad this could help! And hey, thanks to social facilitation, eventually performing around others will actually make you better ;) just keep practicing!
Public speaking courses (at least where I'm taking it) teach ways to handle that anxiety and inherently remove the fear of the unknown (at least if you practice)
I really like how they used this in Darkest Dungeon's Crimson Court dlc. You are hunting down vampire nobility hanging out in an eternal ball. You just can't go and kill the nobility whenever you feel like it. They have to invite you to the ball themselves where you fight them and as you fight them there is a group of vampires hanging out in the background. They just drink and chat, but whenever you fuck up they laugh at you and cheer and clap when you take critical hits. Your struggle is just entertainment for them. I just love it, makes you feel weak .
Me:does something 8 times in a row.
Me:hey mom watch this
Me: screws up.
Exactly XD it never works when I try to show someone.
hello kitty
“what if i told you something, or someone, was right behind you?”
Me at 3 am: JOKES ON YOU IM LYING DOWN IN BED
Look around ur bedroom..
*who said theres nothing under your bed?*
And yet... The only one being watched in this situation is the video, and not us.
👁 👁
When there’s a wall behind you...
the titans that composes ur wall are watching u
The walls are speaking
@@awfulweek 👁 👁
@@dinosaurwithpoorinternet4717 👁️👃👁️
👄
They come through the wall and drag you in
Litterally didnt notice most of the eyes while playing celeste and even when i did i was just worried about not dying
7:58 interesting thing happens to me. When I'm playing a competitive game, like Smash or Smite, and people are watching, I definitely play worse and think about how people are judging me. But when I know people are watching me play a single player game, like Celeste or Mario Maker, I thrive in it and play much better. I'm not sure why that is, but I've noticed that about myself over the last few months.
Maybe it has to do with the fear of letting others down/what others feel in competitive games, causing you to overthink or get distracted.
Compared to something like having an opportunity to show off your prowess in a single player game.
"Alternative thumbnail ideas: Definitely no jumpscares here"
You're an evil little man. I like you.
Not to disregard everything in this video, but I can't imagine many people are affected by an ingame audience. They just kinda blend into the background for me, I don't find myself getting anxious infront of them or anything
Agreed. When you know they're not human then there's not really any social pressure, since they don't even have their own thoughts.
what makes me more anxious is when someone looks back at me when im staring at them because im that guy
and this is EXACTLY why 'Perfect Blue' is one of my favorite psychological thriller horror movies DESPITE not being a horror fan. I won't spoil anything ofc but the way that film executes being watched and the unknown of what to come for our main character really gets to your mind while watching it ^^
I'm watching it this evening
Watching this late at night was NOT the moveee
You already made me keep looking behind me, you didn't have to go and make me nervous about the coffee table too!
i currently have 24 eyes all from stuffed animals my dog, 2 birds, and my brother, watching me an i know how they react when there's another entity in the room.... i know whats behind me.. phh.. *LOOKS ANYWAYS*
LMAO
The editing in this video is absolutely fantastic. How do you not receive more views?
Thank you so much, I really appreciate that :)
That dude broke that pool stick with SPEED
I'm watching this at 3 AM in my Bed without a blanket, I could die any moment because I don't meet any safety measures.
Dude, I could make a whole video essay just about those MS-Paint faces in the theater staring in my direction and how deeply uncomfortable those made me feel. I don't even get easily affected by stuff like this! You just tapped into some sort of FNaF-level uncanny valley sweet spot!
Video:”Someone’s behind you watching you”
Me:*Laying down on the ground*
Gaia:
"Hi sweetie!"
It's just all of the dead that have ever passed away and were buried under the sands of time in that spot.
"And the entire audience is looking behind you"
Me: *turns around irl*
“If I told you that you were being watched-”
Me: I believe you, my parrots are right behind me and they’re definitely people-watchers.
Me: *jokingly looks over my shoulder"
"You may have just turned around to check"
Instantly recognized that Twilight Princess City in the Sky music 💜
"You might have turned around"
ME ON THE TOILET IN A SMALL BATHROOM AT HOME
Same expect I literally whipped my head around to look 🤣
"...if there was someone behind you watching your every move."
*looks behind*
*sees my dog*
*continues watching video while petting dog*
You definitely made the correct thumbnail choice. Ha! I originally thought this video was about playing video games while being watched irl (like with a friend). Obviously I am wrong but this is a great video!
"Be clever with whatever information you present the player and what information you withhold. Sometimes the players own deep dark imagination and ability to fill in the blanks is greater nightmare fuel than you can ever crate." This has never been more apparent to me since playing multiple playthroughs in the latest Resident Evil 2. Your first time is the scariest because of what you see and your own fear of the unknown, your second time is less scary because you become normalized to what you see and you known (almost) all there is, your third time almost all fear is gone as you rush through the playthrough knowing what to expect. It's a ride of an experience; I highly recommend!
RE2 is a great example man! Absolutely love that game. That''s so true of horror games though man. Dead space 2 is one of my all time faves, and the first time I played I was so on edge the whole time lol. But on a second run I felt more like a hunter than a survivor. That game cured my fear of the dark xD
@@DarylTalksGames Funny--that's actually the series I played before RE2:R. I played through the OG all the way through to the forgotten DS3. ;-)
Oh man, I thought this was going to be about how we're better at playing when someone (like a friend or brother) is standing by watching us play.
Still interesting tho!
9:04 That is an excellent point. People are, in fact, way more unpredictable than coffee tables.
7:20 "Ruin has come to our family. You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial. Gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moor. I lived all my years in that ancient, rumor shadowed manor. Fattened by decadence and luxury. And yet, I began to tire of conventional extravagance. Singular, unsettling tales suggested the mansion itself was a gateway to some fabulous and unnamable power. With relic and ritual, I bent every effort towards the excavation and recovery of those long buried secrets, exhausting what remained of our family fortune on swarthy workmen and sturdy shovels. At last, in the salt-soaked crags beneath the lowest foundations we unearthed that damnable portal of antediluvian evil. Our every step unsettled the ancient earth but we were in a realm of death and madness! In the end, I alone fled laughing and wailing through those blackened arcades of antiquity. Until consciousness failed me. You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial. It is a festering abomination! I beg you, return home, claim your birthright, and deliver our family from the ravenous clutching shadows of the Darkest Dungeon."
did you write this yourself?
@@haymyellow1880 nah it's the narrator intro for Darkest Dungeon which sounds so epic.
@@JustSomeRandomGaming oh, thats still neat tho!
Great video! It's really cool finding small but entertaining youtubers who are under appreciated
Thank you so much! That means a lot :)
*This video reminds me*
of the Horror RPG game _"Ib"_
Now this is why I love your Channel
Why am I watching this at 3am and WHY CAN'T I PUT MY PHONE DOWN
2:07 made me remember a time a few years back where I zoned out in my school’s cafeteria and zoned in a few minutes later, then realized I had accidentally stared at someone across the room for those few minutes and they looked _incredibly_ uncomfortable.
I really like these videos! The topics are always very interesting and the explanations are very informative. Keep up the good work buddy.
The feeling of something is watching you sounds like some bad PTSD.
I remember I had a feeling of always being watched when I was in middle school through sophomore year and then I never felt that feeling again.
in the middle of watching your fighting game video and this comes out, lucky lucky!
this was a great video, one fun thought though I wish you had brought up. At one point you mentioned being observed by other players in multiplayer and showed some footage of overwatch but then went on to focus more on ambiguous observation. I was hoping you'd touch on ambiguous observation in multiplayer, particularly in stealthy battle royale style games.
Hamish Black made a really neat video touching on this (QVWyHl6YOGE), how it felt to never really know if someone, a real person, was ever watching you or not. Eyes are creepy yeah, but seeing signs of activity in a multiplayer game adds so many more questions I feel and makes you much more spooked. I've never really gotten into the battle royale scene, but it's always fun to hear people talk about it in their videos. "Being Watched" definitely seems to play a major role in those sorts of games.
Anyways, rambling, good video fam!
Oh man that's such a great point, I wish I had thought of that! An in game audience is one thing, but when its real people it can really double down on the effect. Thanks so much!
I've had this irrational fear of smiling faces. Like say the Chester cat when invisible... just mouth and eyes. And had a hard time explaining why to people. I think this falls into this same explanation and now can use this to get the point across.
I thank you.
Came across you at random but find the subject matter here fascinating and have been binging.
Look forward to more.
But what if you know whose watching and why? All of a sudden it strips the power away. Then it just becomes a show with an audience. 😀😁
7.43 the music gave me goosebumps great video by the way
whenever I finish an anime I always imagine the characters I like watching me for some random reason and I’m just scared bc I might do something embarrassing I guess u could say I’m a loser
This makes me think about Valve's logo screen. The bald head with the valve on the back of it. I'm specifically thinking of the older version of this, when the head ever so slightly begins to turn towards the player.
That logo always gives me this rising feeling of anxiety.
there cant be anyone watching me because theres a wall behind me
Mole people
They're in the walls
a while back i was playing mario kart double dash on my pc. no matter how hard id been trying to win a 150cc grand prix i just couldnt seem to do it. until one day i was using discords screen share in a chat with a buddy of mine. i booted it up cause i was waiting on some stuff to download and he watched me play. i found it very very interesting that i ended up winning this time around on the first try, even after getting hit with a blue shell. his cheers gave me this awesome sense of pride. now i know it was the social aspect that seems to have made a difference and its fascinating to me. i might start doing this twitch stuff in the near future because of it
1:51
Random White Guy: *goes infront of the screen behind the word "Communication"* Hello-
Me: GAH! GO AWAY!
I am so paranoid that when you just showed those two dots at the beginning I had looked behind myself for a good three seconds, when you started talking about it I look behind myself around four times. Then when he had given the example of the people looking behind you, why did you NOT give them pupils, that was so hecking creepy and I had to avoid looking looking at my phone. And what the hell was in Kirbys "Ghastly Canvas Course"?! That was pure nightmare fuel.
Wow, cool stuff.
Thank you!
"There is something behind you watching watching your every move" *me sitting against the wall*
How are u doing, FBI agent watching me over the internet for searching weird but very specific hentai?
Your channels great I just discovered it last night so ima go and binge all the videos now, peace
What's the game at 2:30?
god being anywhere without my back being touched to a wall or a surface and/or being alone makes me scared and gets me shaking because of the fear of being watched
I’m being watched :O
By myself
As someone with social anxiety, this was a pretty fascinating watch. Got a few things to think about now.
What is that game at 2:29???
I am going through some parts of youtube that I've never went before, and it feels like an endless pit, a good pit, a learning pit, and never want to stop falling deeper.
What game is that at 2:29?
dude that beginning creeped the shit out of me lol, got the chills good job!
I like that you’re using background music from The legend of Zelda games. Brings back good memories❤️
“Maybe someone is watching you from behind”
Me who is up against the wall: Oh no scary wall monster
This was super informational, thanks for making this!
Thank YOU for watching!
Had to think of Observer at the beginning of this video… Gosh, this was so interesting, I got goosebumps a bunch of times!! I love how pretty much everything concerning psychology can be tracked back to basic animal instincts! I think the informational influence concept was also tested once with people turning into a specific direction in an elevator. A test subject then entered the elevator and after a short while positioned itself in the same way the others did. I think the concept of ambiguity and using it to one's advantage and intentionally withholding information (creating a mystery) is really awesome and I'd love to see more of it!
To sum it all up: humans are weird, haha.
Haha oh humans definitely are. And I know the elevator experiment you're talking about, that was actually about social conformity, but it does tie into informational influence. When a ton of people are doing something, even if its weird, its the "norm", so people might conform. This is how things like the tide pod crisis happen haha. They did another experiment like that in a waiting room, its kind of hilarious ruclips.net/video/b9O9SokTTA8/видео.html
Uh, thanks for that! :')
omg, I just watched the video… what the heck, that's so weird yet interesting :'D
0:48 I always have people behind me watching me, that no one else can see.
Just part of dissociation.
Sometimes I'm the person behind watching someone else pilot the body.
3:08 i got chills dude
0:34
“Not scary per say”
Speak for yourself, I’m lying in bed past midnight watching this, you better believe that put me on edge
I thought this was how people's performance on a game is lowered when someone irl is watching you
as someone who gets anxiety of people (even photos and such) looking directly at me, this was a very stressful video but i liked it lmao
Me: turns around.
The demon in my closet: why hello there!
I wish I watched the beginning of this video alone, in my room. That wouldve freaked me out so bad. But sadly I am in a busy room so yea, I am being watched. Makes sense to me
When you showed the crowd looking back it made me panic and I had to resist a strong urge to look back💀
3:03 gave me of a little just a tiny junpscare
The power of being watched
SCP 173: I cant move
I didn't come up with anything better
I will say, this is quite true, a new game that came out after this video called creature in the well, had this thing that had eyes and watching you, and makes a creepy door sounds when they get up. Its pretty scary when your in a part then boom, eyes watching when you look away.
Me:getting changed
RUclips:what if I told you that you were being watched?
okay i just stumbled across this video and you have no idea how excited i am to see Kirby Canvas Curse and Pkmn Colosseum representation!!
One of the most memorable videogame i had with that very dreadful feeling of being watch was Firewatch. The writing and ambiance was just so good in it!
Another good example of being watched is in portal. You're constantly monitored through cameras, and every action is judged by a singular entity: GLADOS.