Clout chasing is apparently on notice and I couldn’t be happier. I’m so old, chain mails were literally made out of paper when I was young. They were the basic kind: “send this to friend for good luck _or else,”_ sort of thing. They were just handed to us by classmates at random. I found them to be a burden since I was too young to understand if this was a game or not and since the paper didn’t belong to me I’d just pawn them off to someone else and forget about it. Great Stuff, as always!
I like the ones that are just like a picture of a frog and "this is [name] he wants to travel. share him to show him the world" they're very friendly and non threatening
In the past year or so I’ve noticed chain messages taking a darker turn. I’m always seeing on Instagram the whole “repost if you’re against racism/rape 😔” and it’s so fucking gross. Like it’s simple but it tries to guilt gullible audiences into reposting. Not to mention it makes light of the topics and turns it into a fun little trend
Omg yes! A while ago there was a “share yours” type of sticker on Instagram that said something along the lines of “share your photo if you’re against racism & support BLM” followed by “I CAN SEE WHO SKIPS 🚫👎” My instant response was: wow… threatening people much?!
oh gosh- i hated those since they're just demonizing non-sharers instead of addressing the issue being shown. even worse when it says "i can see who skips" like wtf, no one has to share/repost that something just to prove they dont support it or it means they're a bad person for not sharing , it just comes off as performative activism tbh..
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 I'm sorry but this was far before tiktok lol, in late 2015 to early 2016 I was already coming across deep fried chainmails on pinterest.
I think the one chainletter that stuck with me after all these years wasn't even a classic chain letter. It was just: "We know of you, and we approve. -The Gnomes of Zurich" To this day I still have no idea what to make of it.
"gnomes of zurich" seem to originate as a 1960's british nickname for swiss bankers, the brits thought these bankers were messing with the economy or whatever. swissland banks used to be like rich and secretive or something and they still are wealthy but not as secretive bc the eu got sus.
As a 10 year old kid I would get sent the "13 year old girl" ones occasionally by my friends. The oddest part was we never spoke about it lol. I would get sent one, send it to other people nonchalantly and never bring it up again. On a side note, I could never fully participate in these cause I had like 4 friends to send these back to and I was not about to text my grandma that "her crush would kiss her in the next 48 hours"
I remember the first time I got a haunted chain text Back when Motorola Razors were the big thing and chain texts had weird formatting that sorta looked like emails. I got one from a new friend about some girl who died in a sewer I think? And if you didn’t send to 10 more friends she would come kill you next I just burst into tears because I fully believed it and I couldn’t believe my friend put me in danger like that 😭
As a kid with anxiety growing up, these chain letters were terrible but without a doubt the ones I really REALLY fell for were the ones that wanted you to prove something, like "share 10 times if you love your dad" or "tag 5 friends if you think she's beautiful". Idk I guess younger me wanted to prove i was a good kid by sharing this stuff
OMFG same here. I’d always get gotten by those ones that were like ‘share if you’re against cancer’ because I was worried people would somehow see that I saw it and didn’t share and they’d think I was pro-cancer or something.
I remember having a chain letter that was literally just about sending sticker sheets to your friends and nothing else. You’d get a letter and a sticker sheet and it’d have you send sticker sheets and copies of the letter to your friends. No curse, no scary BS. Just stickers. That was a wholesome one. Though most I see these days are just like twitter ice breakers.
@@4eyedecker neither did I but it was probably one of the most wholesome chain letters circulating around the time. No bad luck clause, no strings attached, just stickers.
Yeah, we did this when I was like 6 in my jr girl scout type group! Except we all just ended up sending them to each other bc we were like 6 and didn’t really get how it was supposed to work haha. Still, we all got a bunch of cute stickers!
I really appreciate you mentioning how much stress these can cause people with OCD, I used to have really severe panic attacks caused by these especially when the death of a loved one was involved. I remember having to go so far as to put in my deviantArt about me section that posting any sort of curse/death/ghost copypasta to my page would earn an immediate block. In retrospect they’re really silly but I lost a LOT of sleep over these as a kid.
I’m 2 years late, but I really relate to this a lot as a person with OCD. I have vivid memories of huge panic attacks as a kid where my mom would try and reassure me that the message wasn’t real, but the paranoia was intense and I definitely felt like I had to partake in sharing or whatever the message told me to do. I would have anxiety for weeks because I would think I did something wrong and it would kill me/my family ):
i dont think its silly. i dont have ocd but i understand why theyd cause so much stress. i deal with a lot of severe anxiety and paranoia and these sorts of things would freak me out too, even if logically i knew it was the fakest sounding thing id ever heard. when it comes to irrational fear, logic doesnt matter. its really annoying to deal with but its not stupid, its real. dont let anyone make you feel bad for it.
I used to see a TON of them on tumblr back when I was on there like a decade ago. I had a friend with OCD who would reblog every one even though she hated doing it because her OCD made not doing it feel even worse. It always made me really upset on her behalf, so whenever I saw she was online I'd find one of those "this lil guy will protect you from all chain posts!" type images and post it so that she'd see it and feel safe. I'd also tell everyone I knew who I caught posting them to cut it out. Most ppl weren't taking them seriously and were just doing it for memes, but it genuinely upset some people so I got pretty passionate about stamping it out from my social circles, lol
I absolutely hated them because lots of them are so malicious.. like it's whatever if the punishment is like your crush won't like you back or you'll fail your exams.. but lots of them are YOUR MOM will DIE, your LOVED ONE will DIE. It's honestly so mean even if it's not real
An interesting thing is how this has actually evolved onto Tiktok. There are a lot of viral tiktoks out there that are like "use this sound and something amazing is gonna happen to you!" or "Use this sound on a video and you'll manifest (etc..)" Not necessarily a "chain letter" but by people seeing it and making their own video with the sound it sorta turns the sound itself into the "letter" that's being passed around.
I've seen it on tiktok as well especially with "use this sound for good luck" quickly became teens saying things like "I skipped the song and I got dumped and my dog died" while using the sound to scare others into using it
That’s what I expected them to say in the video! Very similar to the Twitter thing of course but definitely is its own thing where you can SEE how many people fall for it
Yeah, and the “Like, share, and repost for ______.” It’s very similar and could maybe be classified as a chain letter if you consider that you have to send it to someone (which boosts it in the algorithm and etc.)
Story time. About 10-12 years ago there was a copy-paste going around FB that something like "FB is going to start charging for their service. Repost this and your avatar will glow blue at midnight, indicating that you are an original user. Original users will not be charged". My grandma showed me this. I laughed. She was furious. She took it 100% seriously. This turned into a screaming match where she threatened to take away my computer if I did not repost that thing, because she refused to pay for FB. Sobbing, I had to comply. FB friends teased me for "falling for it". Moral of the story, boomers should not be allowed to be online.
That's a _broad_ definition of "boomer," but I get your point! Facebook was especially susceptible to those kinds of things because they were the first service we all used who _would_ radically change things overnight and _never back down_ even if the change was for the worse. (I miss you, "[Username] is..." status prefixes.)
@@shuasapphic I've thought about this a few times before, because I wish I had better ways of addressing people. I sometimes call people 'friend' when talking about something emotional, but that easily sounds sarcastic/condescending because of the way people say "hey buddy, hey pal" when they're annoyed. It's quite common in some cultures (I'm thinking of UK afro/caribbean culture) to call people 'cuz' as in cousin, which I always thought was rather nice. It's also common in a lot of Asian (and other) cultures to call any older person you're friendly with brother/sister, aunty/uncle or grandma/grandpa, which also seems quite nice to me. I'm not from those cultures, so I don't wanna just take their customs, but I also feel like it's something really lacking in (white) western culture. I hope it's ok to try something similar, as long as we acknowledge the source... especially in queer spaces where we're making our own culture & experimenting with language, and where we really need solidarity. But it's not for me to make that decision, I'll just keep talking about it and see what various people think. There isn't a good non-gendered alternative for older relatives in English though. (Well, I'm nonbinary and I personally don't like the existing terms like.... 'pibling'.... which sounds like a mix between 'piffling' and 'dribble'. Surely we can do better than that.) I do like cousin, it has that feeling of universal friendliness/solidarity without being gendered, it's not overly familiar (can be used with strangers) and I guess it can technically work for any age?
I distinctly remember one that I got as a kid that absolutely terrified me to the point that I couldn’t sleep for days. It was about a little boy named “Teddy” who had no arms or legs (disability = scary apparently?), who would come into your room at night and kill you if you didn’t share the email. What really terrified me was the story about what had happened to someone who had allegedly ignored the email; their parents discovered the bathroom covered in blood, with their child’s skin plastered all over the walls, including a message written on the ceiling- the contents of which escape me now. I was PETRIFIED. I was the kind of kid who was afraid of everything, so those emails always terrified me. The moment I began reading one and realized what it was, I had to back out ASAP in fear AGDKGKFHJK
I love how the "if you don't repost this a girl named catrin will be in your bathroom tonight" post didn't even specify anything creepy about the girl, just that her name is catrin and she will be in your bathroom if you break the chain. that almost makes me want the letter to be real so I can break the chain. who is this catrin. i wanna know her story.
I've struggled with OCD and psychosis and these were the bane of my existence as a kid. Even "good luck" ones would send me spiralling. Even now they still trigger me a tiny bit when I see them
im neurotypical and even i had a hard time ignoring those when i was a kid... it would just make me feel extremely anxious, i cant imagine how you felt XD
Same. I've got bipolar and ocd and really bad anxiety, so these things really were awful. They also sometimes get me a little bit today, even if I can tell they're not real.
As an autistic I never fully believed them but they would still, just for a moment, panic me I was a easily frightened kid after my mother made me, her and my older brother binge watch Dr.who haha So ghosts and stuff weren't spirits of dead people or demons but things in the shadows. Unexplainable and scary. I used to hallucinate sometimes as I barely slept at that age which, as you can guess, made things worse. I never spared the good luck ones a second glance despite the threat of bad luck. Maybe it's just a kid thing tho- we're all scared of smth-
Broke: believing creepy chain letters Woke: not believing creepy chain letters Bespoke: reading a ton of creepy chain letters at once so the internet ghost girls have to hold a fighting tournament over who gets to kill you
Was an artist on Instagram back in 2014, these were everywhere in fandom communities. I remember a bunch of “furry pride” or “tag your pack and your loyal members will do the same” ones. Today, I see a lot of more interactive ones that are like, “draw a horse in your style and tag 3 friends to do this challenge too!” with Instagram stories, which are pretty cute and fun IMO :)
Ohhh yeah tag games! Tag games technically aren't that since most people use them as a little icebreaker, like they'll have one post asking a question and then they'll tag their friends, so on and people will join in and learn more about each other and learn more about their mutuals.
Humans really haven't fundamentally changed much since we became human. One of my favorite things I learned while getting my Anthropology degree was about a cliff carving that was so high up on the cliff, the humans that once inhabited that place MUST have built a ladder or something to get there. Once we got access, we realized it was Viking and we translated the carvings, and it essentially said, "This is very high" 😂
The graffiti wall in Pompeii is also great. Basically no different than a modern bathroom stall wall, with toilet humor, prostitute recommendations and lots of bragging about genitalia size.
@@esl4287 Yup. Its a wonder to me why people put ancient cultures on such a pedestal without weighing their accomplishments against their very crude, soundly human nature. Obscene graffiti, funny remarks like the one in the comment above and tasteful nudity have always been a part of our culture, present and past. Its so interesting how much has changed and how much has remained exactly the same.
@@moleperson i love that kind of nonsense like Shakespear plays were vulgar lowbrow humor like biting you at some one was basically the flipping some the middle finger of the time we miss alot of it now cause were missing the contacts everyone would have back then
@@kendradupree1094 Absolutely! Fantastic example you brought up. Shakespeare was a fantastic writer and extremely gifted in insults, wordplay and deeply interesting plays… but these plays would have one fifth the charm if performed without the fantastically low brow humour.
As someone who’s always struggled with intense paranoia and intrusive thoughts due to an unholy combination of anxiety, OCD and ADHD, these letters always freaked me the fuck out
exactly!!! I know these are fake and not real but I'm always like...what if I don't share and I DO go to hell? or my parents get killed and it's because I didn't repost??? so I hate these with a burning passion tbh
man, my intrusive thoughts and paranoia luckily didn't bother me when it comes to chainmail (granted i did have to pray when i saw the religious ones or repost) but i can't imagine how much of a disaster my social media would be with the amount of chainmail i came across as a kid,, ocd is a bitch
@@mammoneymelon do you still have the urge to pray? Are you not religious now? (this isn't meant to be interrogative btw, just wondering because i kind of feel like religion messed me up lol)
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 i am still religious! fortunately, getting older and learning more about the world helped me to learn to think for myself so even though those posts occasionally give me a bad feeling, i'm able to reassure myself that my faith isn't reliant on a social media post. i do struggle with religious trauma (probably related to my ocd now lol) but it's something i've actively been trying to come to terms with and work through.
I knew someone in highschool that tried to quietly go offline entirely because of how severely distressing it was for her OCD and psychosis. Even the "positive" ones are harmful.
as a kid i had crippling anxiety, OCD and intrusive thoughts so needless to say the chainmail in the eary 2010s made me so so scared, the first time i got chain mail about this creature will appear in ur room at 3am if u dont send this to 15 people, i nearly shat myself. my poor friends on instagram had to deal with me sending that to them because i was legit scared it would happen because i had thoughts in my head like: "if you dont turn the lights on and off 3 time your entire family will die". looking back i can laugh at these chainmails but at the same time its a bit sad how thoughts like this ruled my life as a child.
Most of the chainmail I saw was this one specific chainmail that went along the lines of "that girl you called fat yesterday? She's on a diet. That girl you made fun of for being bald? She's on chemo." And alot more bullying scenarios ending with "copy and paste this in your bio if you are against bullying." For some reason every sentence was in a different font.
I remember someone made a great parody (I wish I could find it) about "Pokebullying", like "that Houndoom you called ugly? He got those scars saving his owner!"
I hate those ones so much, there was a percy jackson one that I saw everywhere (even though I've never indulged in anything percy jackson related in my life), and it sounded exactly like that
I remember seeing that one all over roblox for some odd reason. It would be under the clothing items, which I think was originally supposed to be for players opinions on the item but devolved into almost nothing but chainmail. It was also common to see on user profiles. I had a friend who even had that as their bio.
As someone with extreme anxiety, seeing these nowadays still freak me out. Like I know they’re bullshit, but there’s a small part of me that’s still terrified. I remember reading the Clarissa one when I was like 11 and I told my mom that I was certain I was going to die.
@@rolboo6158 i honestly felt so relieved about the turtle for some reason. i KNOW its bullshit, but as someone who is very paranoid, and who suffers psychosis, the turtle made me feel a lot better.
@@poni_poki Duuude I feel this. For the longest time I couldn’t even listen to the Lavender Town theme without getting freaked out and clicking away. Which SUCKED considering a lot of RUclipsrs I liked would use it was background music.
I’d love to hear you cover some of the internet’s really early baby creepypastas! Stuff like the “We don’t have a clown statue” story or the dog licking the girls hand story. It’s such an interesting era of content and I have passionate thoughts about children’s love for horror.
it's really fun to read about those kinds of stories in connection with folklore of the past few centuries!!! humanity always makes scary stories and bogeymen and it's amazing to watch them evolve!!! also i just thought of the clown statue story as that bit in 'alien', when the xenomorph appears as part of the scenery and it's written off as just set dressing by the viewer. like, the presence of something that is Not Supposed To Be There, but since it's only seen from an outsider's perspective, nobody realises something's up and now i'm thinking that the kids in the clown story were kind of stupid
Thank you for mentioning the OCD thing, I never believed these things truly, but I used to do it anyway because it'd feel insanely wrong not to, like it was true while I knew I was being lied to- but that's the thing with OCD, you know you're being irrational, but you have no choice. These really sucked on a whole other level for that reason for me, even as I got older
Yeah I have ocd and anxiety. I remember seeing one about a dead person or a demon being under your bed. I didn't send it to anyone and seriously thought I was gonna die that night. It was the first time I ever pulled an all-nighter. The next night I slept in my parents' bed...
That’s the same thing that happens to me. I know that it’s fake but I also kinda believe it in a weird way? It’s like two parts of my brain are debating whether to send it or not even if I don’t believe it and I feel bad if I don’t do it.
when I was like 10-14, I had really bad untreated schizoaffective disorder and ocd. I saw so many of these and my brain would basically make them come true (I would hallucinate the spooky ghost ppl who were going to show up at 3am or convince myself that I had bad luck). I was kinda self aware about it though so i would make a point to seek them out and see if they would come true lol. was not good for my mental health but kinda funny looking back on it lmao
I'm surprised I'm not the only one who had this issue, but in my case I ended up seeking them out because I wanted friends even if they were ghosts and I never realized it was fake. I'm, very glad I've gotten past that, but I'm really sad to see I wasn't alone and I hope you're doing better now
Yeah though not as severe I was always very scared of that even in acid trips or night terrors lmao. That thumbnail made my heart skip a beat. Trauma lmao literal trauma I have PTSD & that didnt help!
Wow, I’m schizoaffective with OCD too. Literally the second I read the first chain letter, I thought “that just sounds like some sort of weird magical thinking compulsion”. Sorry you had to deal with that tho. Glad you are a bit better!
i remember my mom helping me write an email to send to a friend asking her to please stop sending me these because they “made me scared and shakey” ahh… good old undiagnosed childhood panic disorder
My mum had to talk to my school about kids purposefully telling me scary urban legends and putting fake chain letters under my pencil case when I wasn't looking.
Me too 😭 I always shared the ones that were like “share this or your mom will die” because I got so scared, now I’m diagnosed with generalized anxiety and ocd
i really appreciate you starting this with one of those “u are immune to all chain posts” things, bc i have OCD and tbh i think those immunity frogs/etc are the reason im not bothered by chain mail anymore. even though i’ve never believed in anything like ghosts, i still had so much trouble not reposting those things growing up, and it’s super helpful to have something coming from the same source as the chain mail saying “nah that can’t hurt you” - it’s kind of like saying “well i’m IMMUNE to lasers” in a game of pretend, but like !! it works !! because your mind is playing pretend whether you want it to or not
I love safety turtle and similar posts. He uses of the logic of chain letters to defeat them. If all it takes is reading a chain letter for something bad to happen, then reading a picture of a funny little animal saying you’re protected is all it takes to prevent it. What a hero.
I swear to God I'm not that old but back in the late 90s when I was about 12 or so, I received an actual chain letter in the mail. A physical piece of paper in a physical envelope sent through the US Postal Service. I didn't know the person it came from, never found out who it was. Freaked me right out!
Once as a 8 year old kid living out in the country (before we had internet) I got a several page handwritten letter from some guy In Russia claiming he was The Messiah. I still have no idea how that guy got my name and address as a little kid but it was super freaky
I remember getting hit with a Clarissa or something similar when I was quite young, maybe like 11 or 12. It was the same archetype of "creepy girl will kill you" but I think this one threatened that she'd be on my ceiling while I slept if I didn't forward it to five friends. I remember being quite convinced by it and definitely scared of it, but choosing not to forward it because I realized the moral thing to do, if the threat was real, was to cop the scary girl and get killed, rather than put more people at risk by forwarding it. Yeah I dunno, little me was very concerned with morality. Anyway I didn't get killed and was much more confident about supernatural claims being bullshit after that.
honestly good on you, you were brave. even though it wasn't real you really thought it could be so that was pretty cool of you to try and spare your friends like that
I remember I got the entire “Smile DOG” creepypasta in my email. Yes, someone literally copy pasted the whole thing into an email & attached the image too. I was convinced it was real & immediately felt anxiety. You were brave, I remember I got so scared I almost immediately forwarded the email to everyone in my contacts. I can’t look at the image of that creepypasta to this day, it makes me really, really uncomfortable :((
They said she’ll be on your ceiling while you slept, they didn’t say anything about her killing you. She’s just there. Make her a cup of tea or something.
The one I remember the most was the dumb "Don't use my pictures/info/whatever" chain that went around Facebook like 10 years ago. People honestly believed that they could post a bunch of random official sounding nonsense to their wall and it would stop facebook from gathering their info. It was a wild time.
I remember in sixth grade we had a big group chat (50+ kids) and kids were constantly spamming it with chainmail 💀 it got so out of hand we just created a new one but then that one got overridden as well
When I was 11, I used Pinterest for all of my social media. Let me tell you, between 2016 tumblr posts, stolen art from deviantart, and SO many chain mail pins, it was a constant sensory overload. Being young on Pinterest is uniquely its own culture. I remember going on the baking pins and there was a feature where you could “try” pins and upload a photo to the comments. There were always either copy pastas, pictures of 5 year olds who took their own selfie and uploaded it to the comments, or pictures of random house appliances. Pinterest was like facebook, but instead of 60 and 70 year olds, it was instead made up of 4-12 year olds who could now take pictures and repin every copy pasta that came up on their dashboard.
when i was younger, like 10-11, i got sent a carmen winstead voice message on whatsapp. that some shit me up. then a few days later i was listening to music on my shitty android and it was on shuffle. somehow the voice message had automatically saved to my music. i literally shat myself and deleted whatsapp. that was probably the most terrifying chain mail i ever got sent
yesss, The Carmen Winstead one was the worst, it got sent to a FB group chat for me and my phone also did that thing of autosaving ( cause idk why that preset was on) when i saw it was in my music I cried lol
Brooooo nooo lmfaooo Carme Winstead gave me actual PTSD before I actually had it lmfao A voice message!? I had a text message with music & picture lmao.
THANK YOU for touching on the fact these things can trigger OCD, i have it myself and as a teen i was Super affected by them, i'm medicated and in therapy now so i know better how to handle this stuff but back then it was horrible for me and i'm sure a lot of others too. Love your content btw! i'm a new viewer but the stuff i've seen from you is all so in-depth and well done
@WhyAmIsoIconic-ArianaKamado If it helps, statistically plane travel is the safest mode of travel! accidents Can happen but the staff on the plane are equipped to handle that. you're gonna be in good hands and things will be ok :)
Not really a chain letter, but I remember something similar happening back when comment signatures were still a thing. They were very much along the lines of bob the stickman and the like
Genuinely thank you for mentioning OCD. The disorder itself is already hardly taken seriously but those "repost or die" spam posts are frustrating and on a bad day they can even be panic inducing for some. TikTok became so ridden with those posts that I had a hard time using the app at all. I feel like a total weenie about it sometimes but compulsions are definitely not based on logic or reason. So, thanks for acknowledging us. I love your videos, they're thorough, well written, and entertaining. Keep up the great work!
@@purpleguyfromfnaf Not at all! Our fears may not be rational but our brains think they are. Your feelings are totally valid and you have every right to be afraid of those posts.
these have never really bothered me but the whole "do this this and this to not be cursed" is so dangerous as it could cause new intrusive thoughts and compulsions that lead people to treat you as "just gullible" for me, the religious ones do stress me out as someone with religious based intrusive thoughts/possible ocd. the one that kinda became a meme was oddly comforting in a way that i can't explain
growing up with OCD made this era particularly challenging. I used to refused to go to sleep at night because I was terrified of this shit, I started struggling at school and in general so bad I had to see a therapist cus my parents didn't know what the fuck was wrong with me lol. good times EDIT: yoooo just finished the video and you actually brought that up! it's wild bro. hope you're doin okay!!!
yo!! i came here to mention having OCD made it way worse for me too! i kept obsessing over them but i was almost always too terrified to also send them to my friends and "give the words power". my mom also didn't know why i couldn't just ignore them
OCD is a whole trip I swear, I’m glad my symptoms came around a time that wasn’t full of these chainmail things, though a few of the religious ones did make their way to me and yea lol my moral ocd brain just couldn’t resist reposting it
I remember getting lots of texts saying “we’re trying to create the Guinness world record’s longest text chain so add your name and two emojis and text to 10 friends!” Also, I’m realizing that instagram’s recent feature on stories of “add your own” pictures is kind of like a modern chain mail, but usually more wholesome lol
I remember feeling so smug for never believing these as a kid. I'd reply to these with like "you know it's fake, right?" or just straight up laughed and moved on. It made me feel so smart and mature, but I probably wasn't the only one with enough fantasy vs reality awareness to figure that out. 💀
same here, but sometimes there was a "but.... what if?" in the back of my head lol. i felt kinda bad for not sending those "SEND TO 10 PEOPLE YOU LOVE, INCLUDING ME, IF YOU LOVE ME" back to my friends who sent them to me, i worried they'd think that i shared it but not with them and think i didn't love them
I did this too but as a facade bc I actually secret believed them but I never had enough friends to send them too so I hoped if I said I said they were fake out loud I would be safe 💀💀
I remember being scared shitless by the creepypasta chainmails and those ones that were like "send it to 10 of your friends or else your mom will die tomorrow!!! " whenever I saw one of those my heart would just fall out of my ass and I was in cold sweat and shaking and I couldn't even sleep peacefully at night, being afraid that something bad will still happen, even tho I alway shared these chainmails wild times
I have OCD these things screw me up every time I cross them- except I also have social anxiety so I just end up breaking down over whether to give into an impulse and be judged for posting these awful things and annoying people or deal with the anxiety attack of not giving into an impulse. I hate them.
I have a dumb chain letter story. Kind of long-winded, but here goes: When I was a kid (let's say 10-12, give or take), my brother started dating someone. Hotmail was the hip thing to use back then, and they decided to introduce little child me to the wonders of email and instant messaging. Not bothering to ask for my parents' permission, they helped set up my account, told me not to give away personal info (they weren't THAT irresponsible with me) and they became my first friends, along with her little sister. Pretty fun times. Later on down the road, big bro's GF started sending out all these chain letters. They started harmless enough, typical "forward this for good luck" sort of stuff. Then they started diving into more of the creepypasta territory. Keep in mind, I was a stupid gullible kid at the time, but also, I'd always had, for lack of a better term, a nervous disposition. Also also, I was heavily addicted to soda back then, and would almost go through an entire two-liter bottle a day by myself. Let's do some math: active imagination of a child + anxiety about literally anything bad that could happen (real or not) + more caffeine than any kid should have = terrifying times. My mom eventually had to tell her to stop sending me these things, as I was starting to have frequent nightmares. Recalling all this has been a bit of a laugh, so thanks for giving me a reason to chuckle about stupid little child me for a bit.
I think my favorite part about the one at 11:12 is that it doesn't even give any indication that the "girl named Catrin" is a ghost or going to do anything harmful to you. For all we know, either you'll get asked out, or some stranger will break into your house to use your bathroom and then leave.
I wanna ignore it just to see what happens with Catrin in my bathroom. Is she on the loo? Does she need a tampon? Does she like the decor? Can I impress her with my skincare routine? Can I get a creepypasta gf?
This video unlocked a core memory for me, When I was maybe 11 years old, I saw a bunch of chainmail and firmly believed it. I was in a groupchat on Instagram with a bunch of older girls who reposted it, so I was convinced. One day someone sent me a chainmail of some girl named Teresa Fidlago. It said if I didn't repost then my mom would be dead in my room, and I had an entire breakdown. I went crying to my grandma thinking that I would end up as a murderer of my own mother just because I didn't copy & paste a message from a stranger. Looking back I see just how much these chainmails spread and changed peoeple's views on the internet.
In the early 2000s, my “Clarissa” was a clown that would unalive your whole family if you didn’t forward to 50 people and it had a picture of a scary clown standing over a bed with a knife in the e-mail. Chain mail was only sent by e-mails, so it was your friends and family forwarding it to you. The clown one came from my cousin and I cried because I didn’t have 50 people’s emails so my mom had to call my uncle and tell them not to send me stuff like that.
That sounds honestly horrifying. In middle school, I’d get texts from friends about a girl laughing in an all-white dress in the corner of my room where she'd then kill me. That always scared the shit out of me. The one you were sent is more creepy than it needs to be.
@@forTehMemes ooh I think I remember getting a few of those once I got a cell phone! But luckily, the clown email when I was young really proved to me those were fake. Some of those chain mail ones were so scary for absolutely no reason and it would be your own family/best friends putting you in danger!! Hahaha.
The Carmen Winstead one actually caused me to switch which bathroom I used in my house to shower because every time I went in the old one I thought about her ghost coming out of the shower or toilet to get me. I've been using the different bathroom for 9 years now because of a chain mail text I got in 6th grade.
The probably most famous chain mail in Finland was called "Teresa Fidalgo". It was the basic chain creepypasta copypasta. It was supposedly written by a ghost and if one didn't send it to seven other people, the ghost would come to one's room and ask them to say their last words and then kill them. I always wondered what would happen if you wouldn't say anything? Would the ghost of Teresa Fidalgo keep company for the rest of your life? That actually inspired me to design a plot for comic, but I never actually drew it, just made some sketches. Also, by this point, I should have been killed by Teresa Fidalgo, Santa Claus, a vengeful scissors spirit and my house should have been invaded by a unicorn. Yeah, chain mails are garbage. Also, "read/repost this or something bad happens" is such a cheap form of horror. Instead of actually making quality creepypasta, people scare other by making indirect deat threats.
Woah, Teresa Fidalgo was always a famous chainmail here on Latinamerica as well as Spain I think, didn't know it was so famous in other countries outside of Spanish-speaking ones
that one scared me so much as a 10-year-old haha i remember googling 'Teresa Fidalgo' and all the results came up with yahoo answers where people were asking if she was real too, and that's when i knew she was fake. still reposted it to be safe lol
Chainmails always spooked me. But I remember when my friend and I were recreating the picture of Teresa Fidalgo. By taking a picture of our faces, colouring the background black and making our faces green.
I’m old enough to remember kids shows (Blue Peter in particular) having mini “Chain letters aren’t cursed” PSAs when I was a kid. They were a massive thing in the mid 90s.
personally even if it doesnt technically count, my favorite "chain letter" is friendship bread, which i think also saw a small comeback during the pandemic for obvious reasons. if you haven't heard of it, its basically a specific starter recipe that you take care of over a few days according to the recipe, and after some time you split the batch into a few small batches and give away all but one of them, each with their own copy of the recipe. from there you can keep repeating this process over and over until you've burdened everyone you know with taking care of this starter, and you have two freezers full of baked bread and still 10 bags of this damn stuff on the counter. i think my family lost friends during that time because my step father was too stubborn to just stop. at least that chain got you bread, and i remember it actually being REALLY good. if anyone else wants this burden you can find recipes for it very easily online.
Omg my mom got some of that from a friend at the beginning of the pandemic and she kept it going for months but kept forgetting to give away the new starter bags so at the peak she ended up baking like 25 loaves in a day, passed it out to random people at church, and vowed never to let it go this far again
being diagnosed with pretty debilitating OCD as a child and constantly receiving these chain mails from friends during elementary/middle school def had me stressed all the time 😢
As someone else with OCD, your point at 19:50 is so true!!! Even as an undiagnosed 12 year old scrolling Instagram I got legit freaked out by the creepypasta-type posts and relied on those "safety" posts as a way to ward off the "evil magic" that my brain is naturally predisposed to imagining.
I’m diagnosed as well and those always were something that made it flare up, thankfully by the time they came around it was pretty well managed, so I was able to resist the compulsion
@@maskettaman1488 she meant that at the time she was a 12 year old with undiagnosed ocd but now she is older and diagnosed, her account was created in 2013 and i highly doubt it was created when she was 3 years old
@@maskettaman1488 I’m an adult and professionally diagnosed with OCD. This was an earlier symptom before my diagnosis because it affected me to a greater degree than if I didn’t have it.
The idea of 18th century chain letters is so funny to me for some reason. I'm glad you talked about OCD affecting it. I have an anxiety disorder and I used to be really affected by those creepypasta chain letters when I was a kid. I lost so much sleep over those "a dead girl will appear in your room" ones. I don't know if anyone else remembers these, but the worst ones for me were those "your mom will die if you don't repost this" chain letters, I would get so scared I'd feel physically ill. Also, I actually saw that Clarissa copypasta just last week on a fanfiction site asdfghjkl, I couldn't believe I was seeing it in The Year of Our Lord 2022.
Omg the "your mom will die" was the worst one for me. I'm supper close to her and I would just burst into tears, run n hug her and sleep in her bed out of fear that that was the last time I'd see her alive : (
holy shit same, i have ocd and I've had anxiety ever since I was a kid and those chain letters always haunted me. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who had that experience
Yeah, it really messed with both my ocd and played on my paranoia and hallucinations; i remember one that was like "if you don't repost you'll hear a bunch of knocking on your door, and if you open it she'll GET YOU" and for the next like hour i was going crazy because i just kept hearing the most violent knocking on my door. Thankfully my mom was around and helped me realize it was just a hallucination, but when i was even younger that stuff was worse and even more widespread, i was basically constantly terrified and hearing/seeing shit with no way to repost any of the letters (no social media and no friends to text). I'm glad that shit died down
as someone who grew up in the early to mid 2000's, i distinctly remember getting religious chain emails CONSTANTLY. It always said "if you dont believe you are destined for bad luck". and it used examples of like how the titanic sank because they said god couldn't sink the ship and god took that as a challenge so he sank it or something. And i was both raised christian and a HUGE titanic nerd back then so i was like "oh yes of course, that definitely had something to do with it owo". Creepypasta chains always scared the heck out of me, i have severe OCD and believed in the supernatural wholeheartedly, so even if i shared links, i'd still have many sleepless nights and anxiety attacks. I think nowadays, the only chain post i have seen in a long while is a youtube comment reposting the old "this is bob, bob wants to take over youtube, copy and paste to help him out" meme
No cap as someone who’s been homeless, abused and in many bleak situations, I still fall for the good luck chain posts just bc sometimes when you’re desperate you’ll do anything.
I have had extreme OCD my entire life that iv'e only just recently been able to get better control of.These chain mail things would panic me so badly as a kid and if I didn't do the ritual I legitimately thought that I was going to die. I cannon't describe the pure and true fear it would bring me. It was extremely distressing. That was definitely a strange era and I'm so glad the internet as a whole is mostly past it.
That's called being an imaginative kid lmao. Not really related to OCD in any way. A relation to OCD would be a need to complete it, not a fear of the spooky story.
@@maskettaman1488 I encourage you to learn more about OCD, as there is a lot of misconceptions.. and if you read my comment you would see that I stated that I needed to complete the ritual.
CHAINMAIL USED TO EXIST PRE-EMAIL?!? People were seriously out here sending physical shitposts in the mail, I’m in shambles over this fact 😂 I think I’m gonna mail one home to my parents house, I’m sure they’ll enjoy the nostalgia
@@KanadaJin yeah I was just thinking about that the other day. How superstitious people still are in 2022! But no matter how technologically advanced we become and how much society advances human nature stays the same.
I'm Mexican and I remember a chain mail that said something like "The king of [Insert a far away unknown country] is looking for a medic for his son who has a deadly desease, the king said he will share his fortune with everyone who re-send this E-mail if he finds the doctor who can cure his son" Also here in Mexico we had an alt version of the ghost girl. It said that "She was a Japanese girl who horribly died and if you didn't pass the chain she would appear in your closet and tear up your skin" Ah the good ol'days
My favorite chain messages are the ones where it's some kind of animal and they want you to send it out that they can "see the world". There was a cool one where it was a hedgehog (If i remember correctly) that had the name of every subreddit it's been to. It just shows the collaboration of strangers online, and I think that's really cool
i was on tumblr when i was about 12 or 13 and i remember getting both the “reblog this to avoid bad luck/get something really lucky”, the “send this to a bunch of your favorite friends” (which i still see a fair amount) AND the “reblog if you aren’t homophobic/any other type of discrimination”. always hated seeing them, they clogged things up for miles
wasn't the most popular "reblog if you aren't homophobic" post that infamous miles long one with every rainbow and sherlock gif known to mankind? i can see it in my mind right now lol
@@feykingjulian im sure there was more than just one of those. i as well can see the endless destiel images with various pride flags in the background consuming my screen.
Ugh, there's a special place in my garbage for "reblog or you're a bigot" posts. I consider X PEOPLE MUST REBLOG, even when appended to an otherwise reasonable post, to be a kind of chain mail/reblog begging and ignore them on principle
@@MolecularMachine god yeah, i especially find posts that have smth like "if you scroll past this you might as well just unfollow me" add an extra layer of icky bc it's just guilt trippy LMAO, even if it's for a good cause
Growing up with (and still dealing with) mental disorders that trigger paranoia and extreme anxiety, these type of email chains were a total nightmare to receive, I hated them. Thank you for the turtle! I still had a hard time watching this tho. I'm glad now they're mostly used as meme material.
Exact same for me, untreated anxiety as a child made these hit so hard, I still remember my first all mightier was because I read one in like sixth grade and couldn’t let myself sleep. Which is really counterproductive since lack of sleep can cause hallucinations lol
One time in elementary school, some kid sent one on the class group chat that was like: "This is me, God. If you don't send this to 15 friends I will punish you" or something like that. I told them it wasn't real, but one girl was like " I asked my mom and she said it was real" I wonder what was going through her mom's head lol
I'm so glad to hear this kind of thing from another person with ocd. I used to hear so many people joke about this sort of thing and make fun of people who believed in it and it really invalidated the genuine terror I used to feel as a kid when my friends sent me these. Especially once I started going to exposure therapy and I learned that reposting them was going to reaffirm my compulsions. Thank you for this. I got misdiagnosed a lot when I was little due to general practitioners not understanding the severity of ocd because of so much joking misinformation. Really means a lot to hear some one else's experience and know that there are people out there spreading awareness so kids like me don't have to feel ashamed of themselves and can get help. :)
I remember making up a chainmail WhatsApp message with my friend as a joke. (with the typical "dead girl will either harm or protect you" thing we used to see a lot) a month or two later I saw someone from the Netherlands send it in a group chat full of people I didn't even know. I live in Belgium. I felt kinda proud to know my shitty chainmail story went all the way to the Netherlands and got back to me via a complete stranger lmao.
as someone on the schizophrenic spectrum, chain letters absolutely tormented me growing up. i have extreme paranoia and would genuinely believe that i would be killed by whatever nasty character someone would conjure up in these things, no matter how ridiculous. it cost me a lot of sleep and at one point had me in a month long episode where i couldn't sleep without every light in my room on or someone in the living room checking up on me. seems overly dramatic i know, but that's the nature of the illness i deal with. now that i'm older i've learned to regulate it and realize "wait these are all bullshit" but i still get a little itch whenever i see ones talking about good luck or bad luck, as i'm paranoid about those things in particular. it can be difficult to deal with at times, but now i can look back and laugh at a lot of them.
I remember during my edgy teen years when I would purposefully ignore those "share for God, ignore for Satan" posts and I'd feel like the coolest person 🤣
I actually kept getting those a lot on Snapchat and I remember that I got so fed up because they would use real people who died from suicide or they got murdered. I then posted on my story “ if anyone keeps sending me more of these I’m latching out” and they stop sending me those so I’m happy now :] but people need to realize that depression or any mental health is not a cute aesthetic or something you use for clout it’s not funny or cute. And also plz don’t use real people who actually died irl because I think that even if we don’t know them that well they should still be respected!🙌🏼
I will always remember that one time that I was at a sleep over with some classmates and some of us received a creepy copypasta. We sat on a sofa crying that we were going to die because we didn't have enough friends to share, we needed like 45 or something Good times
i remember getting one that said if i didnt send to 10 friends my mom would die, i only had 6 and i sent my mom a message apologizing for killing her 💀💀💀
holy crap I remember doing these all the time on Pinterest and Google+ when I was like 7? They terrified me and I really thought Bonnie from fnaf was going to be at the end of my bed at night
Hah, that reminds of the fnaf "repost if you're a fnaf fan" and "repost if you'd go to foxys birthday party" kind of posts I'd see on Pinterest and stuff lol
Omg those remind me of those old copypastas abt like keeping fandoms alive and stuff, smthn like “Freddy Fazbear doesn’t want fnaf to die! Copy and paste this around if you’re a true fnaf fan, ignore if you don’t care!” God that was nostalgic I used to copy+paste those everywhere as a “not like other girls” RUclipsr bait indie game obsessed iPad kid.
Izzzyzzz, I have never been someone who wears makeup. I'll put it on for weddings, funerals, I did for prom and stuff back in high school, but it's rare. However, seeing how amazing and unconventional your makeup looks, it kinda makes me want to get into makeup. It's amazing. And I totally respect more traditional makeup artists obviously, they do some amazing work. But your non traditional makeup is so much more exciting to me, I didn't know this was an option😂 I hadn't considered this kind of makeup! Just wanted to let you know I appreciate your style ❤️ I work outside a lot (and in a very hot environment), so because of sweat I don't think I'll be doing makeup any time soon on a regular basis. But if I do, I'll experiment more!
to get a better fixation, use a "primer" product before and/or a "setting" product after. I sweat a lot too and it helps in some measure, but what really helps is finding products or brands labeled as long lasting, "tattoo" or similar. No ads, but Maybelline Superstay and Superstay Matte Ink lipsticks can only be removed with oily stuff and no amount of sweating or rubbing can remove them in at least 6 hours. Some Revlon Colorstay and Loreal Infallible products can also last and last and last. Of course better brands last longer but they're too expensive to play artist lol it's also nice to experiment with cheap non-toxic gouache, watercolors, clown/theatre stuff, sharpies, charcoal, talcum, glue, clay, latex, toy makeup, oil pastels, vegetable juices, vaseline, cooking oil, clear gloss...
I’m a guy but I love her makeup for every video. Her style is so unique and adorable. I do love makeup and always try to add that to whoever I’m drawing
I have a vivid memory of receiving a chain text about a girl crawling out of my closet if I didn’t share the text within 48 hours. Just so happened that my phone was confiscated and I barely saw the text hours after the 48 hour window. I was crying, shaking, throwing up. And to make it worse, my mom worked graveyard shifts and we were kinda latch key kids so there was nobody home. I did not sleep that night 🥲 traumatic af
I absolutely despised those bad luck/you’ll die ones. I have OCD and as a kid seeing those gave me huge anxiety, and still do now. Thank you for covering this.
When I was a little kid, my friend received a horror chain email (about a little boy ghost ripping our eyes out) on her family laptop. We were so freaked up but neither of us knew how to send an email, so we printed out copies of the chain mail and passed them around like flyers.
I remember a few times I got a chain email that was a "petition" that would be sent to disney to convince them to make a bald princess "so little girls with cancer can feel beautiful" i also stumbled across a lot of the creepypasta ones in youtube comment sections before I had my own account (and so couldn't repost them) and i always lived in fear for the next 9 days or whatever the specified time frame of doom was
Shouldnt we be making more diverse characters anyway? I would love to see a bald princess, and long and she was a compelling and well written character
i had incredibly bad anxiety and undiagnosed autism when i was a kid and i ended up reposting pretty much all of the chainmail i received. i convinced myself that something bad would happen and would have anxiety attacks when i didn't send them on, pretty sure my classmates then started sending chainmail to me because they thought it was funny to see me panic. i also remember getting them giving me an ultimatum where i either stop sending them chainmail or they kick me from various gcs, then i spent weeks in fear of the demons and ghouls and the like that i pissed off from not sending them. i'm still incredibly gullible but i do now know that no monsters are going to hunt me down (hopefully). i do, however, feel incredibly guilty for causing my friends any potential grief even though they all most likely knew it was bs
I remember getting one that wasn’t one of those “forward to ____ amount of people or something bad will happen!!1” Instead it turned out to be a crappy PSA against abortion that used scare tactics and pulled on your heart strings. It kind of traumatized me because I was only in middle school and it started out as a really cute little story with the POV of the little baby in the womb. It said things like “Momma! It’s been ___weeks and I can already move my fingers! I love you momma! I can’t wait to meet you!” It went on like that all cute, but then it ended with “Momma! I’m almost ready to meet you, I’m so happy! Wait, what’s this needle thing? OUCH MOMMA IT BURNS! WHATS HAPPENING? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME? I LOVE YOU! I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME TOO!” Needless to say I detest those kind of scare tactic PSAs to this day. They’re so scummy manipulating emotions to push their agendas like that.
that's definitely horrifying, there were PSA that would literally scar me for days. most being the smoking PSA's where they have a wide hole in their neck, and also ones about drugs. shit is awful :(
@@ohokeyiguess35 i remember seeing the anti smoking PSA that put in an cigar packages. It’s an image of an infected lung or something, sometimes is an image of an man with hole in his neck, or something.
I've actually seen what you're talking about and it always disgusted me to read because back then, my fear and bad mental health would make me want to compulsively read these copypastas for a multitude of reasons, and I saw this *multiple* times because I live in a Christian majority area. I guess I'm at least glad I wasn't the only one upset by it but the fact it existed is just gross and appalling 💀
The emotional-bait one that traumatized me was about a girl who gets hit by a drunk driver and there was this whole poem about her putting "daddy's girl" on her grave and oh my god as a little kid reading that I was so upset.
I remember those. They were so disgustingly manipulative. I remember they frequently capped off with the baby in heaven and Jesus explaining abortion to them and the baby just bein like “why didn’t you want me mommy 🥺” Pro lifers were on something crazy.
I remember getting sent a ton of these through snapchat messages. Definitely fueled my anxiety at the time but I was kinda forced into ignoring them because I didn’t have enough friends to send them to lmaooo
I was hella terrified too as a young dumb child but I don't want to bother anyone and as an introvert I prioritised that more lmao forget Clarissa or whatever ghost who will haunt me at night
I definitely remember getting chain messages like the "send to 10 friends or a dead girl will do ____ to you" and I really hated them because I don't think I ever had 10 people to send them to 😂
I like the ones on Tumblr that just share love and positivity. I also like the "tag games" ones where someone tags you to list, say, your five current favorite songs, and then you tag other people to do the same. Those ones are harmless fun and can make your day. There's definitely more negative ones on Tumblr but I mostly see the nice wholesome harmless fun ones there.
I remember seeing a bunch of these on various sites. Depending on the night, it would either roll off me like water off glass or it would really, really, really, really bother me. More so the "bad luck" or "worst week" especially when paired with "your crush will love you" because I was a very lonely teenager who couldn't decide if they were superstitious or not Also, top notch makeup and outfit in this vid!!
im surprised that you didn’t mention the ‘momo’ chain letters, i saw a LOT of those in 2017-2018. apparently some kids found them so scary, that when my school decided to do some sort of ‘learn how to work with social media’ things, they had to make a separate segment of the presentation. one of my friends also sent a lot of the posts you mentioned in the creepypasta copypasta section (or similar ones) to me on WhatsApp, needless to say, my tween brain was freaked the fuck out by them.
OH MY GOD THIS JUST UNLOCKED A MEMORY........... i remembered being scared of the picture of momo but this comment made me remember that there was chain mail attached! iirc i was very glad i dont have whatsapp so i wouldnt get those
for the most part, as a kid, i ignored them. however when i got a voice clip in my dms of a text to speech chain letter i got so paranoid i wasn't able to sleep at all that night. i think it was the uncanny feeling that got me
I have OCD as well and the some of the images on the creepy chain letters would make their way into my intrusive thoughts and definitely reinforced my paranoia about ghosts and demons. thankfully all the exposure to them eventually made that stop, but holy shit it got bad. I had nights where i would lay there sobbing because i couldnt get the visual of the chain letter creatures brutally attacking me over and over and over again out of my head. not sure how, but i still get a sense of nostalgia when i think about them Edit: I somehow completely forgot about how badly the religious ones triggered my OCD as a child. I used to frequently experience religious OCD triggered by "share or you dont love god" posts - I would have to spend an hour repeating to myself that an all-knowing being wouldn't need a facebook post because it knows everyone's true thoughts, or that something so powerful could not possibly be offended by someone not sharing a post on social media. I haven't encountered any of these in ages and I'm no longer Christian, so I've got no idea how or if these would affect me at this point
When I was a kid they were still sent in texts. There was this one I VIVIDLY remember scaring the shit out of me, because you'd open it up, read it, it would be about this dead girl found in the sewers, and then SOMEHOW in the middle of reading it, an image of some sort of body part in the street next to a storm drain would pop up and scare the everliving shit out of you
i know this comment is kinda old but what do you mean it would ''pop up'' while reading the text? like im genuinely curious about that one, sounds scary but i would love to look up some example of it!!
@@lhvy5066 Tbh I have no idea how they did it. A the time I was using an old qwerty keyboard phone called the Voyager. As I was reading the text it would automatically scroll down to a photo at the bottom as you were halfway through with it and "popping up", and it was extremely startling. There was that horror webcomic that did something similar and jumpscared a lot of people and I think thats the one thing that I can compare it to (that I can think of)
ITS THE END OF COCKTOBER...... BUT THAT MEANS ITS THE BEGINNING OF HOEVEMBER!!!! (insert a long string of emojis that have no bearing whatsoever to the copypasta as if an a.i. chose them at random)
izzy, I love ur videos so much. as someone extremely neurodivergant I really love your deep dive style and the amount of effort and attention to detail you put into these videos. They're sort of like capsules of hyperfocus onto a fixation and its just really fun to hop into that space with you and hear the way you explain it. You're comprehensive and interesting and your speech patterns and mannerism just make me feel like a friend is telling me about their latest hyperfixation. Thank you for the work you put into this and the place you hold for weird internet-raised 2000s kids, its a space I didnt know we needed and I'm very grateful you've created 🖤🖤🖤
Dude, the dead girl one scared me so much as a child. I would see a stack of clothes and think it was a ghost after not emailing them to people because I didn't have any of my friends emails. Great work as always!!!
As someone with somewhat bad anxiety, i absolutely despise chainmails and copypastas. Ive never copied and pasted any before but they still make me scared something bad will happen. The only time ive seen one kinda recently is when i first got discord one of my newest online friend sent me one and after a reading it and at least a minute of a panic attack i asked them to at least cencor it or something (which they did thankfully). I also remember being on tiktok and seeing so many of them. I had to unmutual so many people just because they saw reposted them often. But anyways, i haven't seen any since i got a new discord and moved from tiktok to tumblr so yeah, but anyways moral of the story, dont fall for them bc their not real and can cause some serious harm to some people :p
god these were so bad for my OCD; i genuinely appreciate people who make those posts like the turtle you put at the beginning of the video because as silly as it is, it really helped alleviate some anxiety for me.
As somebody with bad paranoia, this stuff genuinely upset me. I'd have terrible breakdowns because my cousin sent me the one about Teddy. I was honestly terrified, though nowadays I willingly avoid them. They still periodically irritate me, but not as bad as before. Though I'm commenting a month later because I had to work up the courage to watch this video lmao
another type of chain mail is tiktok sounds. a couple months back, there was this "im so lucky lucky" sound that ran so insanely rampant. a lot of people with ocd and paranoia were genuinely upset about it and so was i. i had like 100 drafts on tiktok because i was worried my partner would leave me.
Same here i have ocd and that audio was a nightmare for me a literall ptsd fuel i still have shit ton of drafts with that song its such a shame that a normal song got turned into a chain mail type of thing
A similar thing happens with those instagram sticker/notes things(?) that one person starts and multiple people can share on their stories. And most of them are about “share this or you faii” and shit and everytime I see them I avoid sharing them (as much anxiety it gives me to think I failed my exams because I didn’t share an instagram story), I just know in the long run it causes more people to feel stressed.
I remember receiving the "this teen fell down a open manhole " or "she was shoved down one and died" chainmail texts when I was in middle school a few times. It freaked me out back then but I didn't bother sharing it and I'm still alive.
This video just unlocked a memory of me when I was young: sometimes I would be able to tell that a comment was a copypasta before I started actually reading the first few words and I would intentionally avert my eyes so that I wouldn't be required to do what it said just because I read the first word. I think it was usually pretty easy to tell because there's a lot of numbers towards the end of these kinds of posts so it kind of stands out in that way.
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I’m so old, chain mails were literally made out of paper when I was young. They were the basic kind: “send this to friend for good luck _or else,”_ sort of thing. They were just handed to us by classmates at random. I found them to be a burden since I was too young to understand if this was a game or not and since the paper didn’t belong to me I’d just pawn them off to someone else and forget about it.
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I like the ones that are just like a picture of a frog and "this is [name] he wants to travel. share him to show him the world" they're very friendly and non threatening
Okay now I'm upset I've never seen this one..
i saw this one a reddit once, and decided to share them to my friend (they love frogs)
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i remember bob!! omg that stockman :))
@@willowoodz the one from roblox?
In the past year or so I’ve noticed chain messages taking a darker turn. I’m always seeing on Instagram the whole “repost if you’re against racism/rape 😔” and it’s so fucking gross. Like it’s simple but it tries to guilt gullible audiences into reposting. Not to mention it makes light of the topics and turns it into a fun little trend
i see this kind of stuff on tumblr all the time "if you can't reblog this unfollow and block me/we can't be friends/we can't be mutuals/etc."
This reeks of Tik Tok garbage
Omg yes! A while ago there was a “share yours” type of sticker on Instagram that said something along the lines of “share your photo if you’re against racism & support BLM” followed by “I CAN SEE WHO SKIPS 🚫👎”
My instant response was: wow… threatening people much?!
oh gosh- i hated those since they're just demonizing non-sharers instead of addressing the issue being shown. even worse when it says "i can see who skips" like wtf, no one has to share/repost that something just to prove they dont support it or it means they're a bad person for not sharing , it just comes off as performative activism tbh..
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 I'm sorry but this was far before tiktok lol, in late 2015 to early 2016 I was already coming across deep fried chainmails on pinterest.
I think the one chainletter that stuck with me after all these years wasn't even a classic chain letter. It was just:
"We know of you, and we approve.
-The Gnomes of Zurich"
To this day I still have no idea what to make of it.
It's so vague it's almost ominous
well at least we know they approve!
I got that too, turned out to be my friend 💀
The only valid chain letter
"gnomes of zurich" seem to originate as a 1960's british nickname for swiss bankers, the brits thought these bankers were messing with the economy or whatever. swissland banks used to be like rich and secretive or something and they still are wealthy but not as secretive bc the eu got sus.
As a 10 year old kid I would get sent the "13 year old girl" ones occasionally by my friends. The oddest part was we never spoke about it lol. I would get sent one, send it to other people nonchalantly and never bring it up again.
On a side note, I could never fully participate in these cause I had like 4 friends to send these back to and I was not about to text my grandma that "her crush would kiss her in the next 48 hours"
My sis sent the “crush will kiss you” into the family group chat 💀
Whenever kids who hadn’t bothered to text me in years sent me these I would delete the conversation 💀
poor grandma missed her chance to kiss her crush... why would you do this.
@@phantomology13 Good for you. /gen
Was your granny already married?
I remember the first time I got a haunted chain text
Back when Motorola Razors were the big thing and chain texts had weird formatting that sorta looked like emails.
I got one from a new friend about some girl who died in a sewer I think? And if you didn’t send to 10 more friends she would come kill you next
I just burst into tears because I fully believed it and I couldn’t believe my friend put me in danger like that 😭
First Webkins, now chain texts... Damn Rea you really can’t catch a break with these horror stories, huh?
Edit: Mixed up Neopets with Webkins.
i think that was carmen winstead or something like that😭😭
I think I also had a friend who was constantly sending me chain texts. there was one that said I would get stuck down by lightning or smth lmao
I think I remember that one. I think I saw it in a deviantart comment section and I was terrified for the whole night.
what was it, Carmen Winstead?
As a kid with anxiety growing up, these chain letters were terrible but without a doubt the ones I really REALLY fell for were the ones that wanted you to prove something, like "share 10 times if you love your dad" or "tag 5 friends if you think she's beautiful". Idk I guess younger me wanted to prove i was a good kid by sharing this stuff
OMFG same here. I’d always get gotten by those ones that were like ‘share if you’re against cancer’ because I was worried people would somehow see that I saw it and didn’t share and they’d think I was pro-cancer or something.
@@kirahoney2068 "pro-cancer" 😭
Literally or the “share if you hate racism, ignore if you’re racist” like wtf 💀
Yeah, that kind of shit is brutal on my OCD. I've had to take multiple breaks from social media because of it.
FOR REALLLLL
I remember having a chain letter that was literally just about sending sticker sheets to your friends and nothing else. You’d get a letter and a sticker sheet and it’d have you send sticker sheets and copies of the letter to your friends. No curse, no scary BS. Just stickers. That was a wholesome one.
Though most I see these days are just like twitter ice breakers.
Oh that's so cute! I love that!
i remember that. i did it. never got any stickers back lmao
@@4eyedecker neither did I but it was probably one of the most wholesome chain letters circulating around the time. No bad luck clause, no strings attached, just stickers.
Yeah, we did this when I was like 6 in my jr girl scout type group! Except we all just ended up sending them to each other bc we were like 6 and didn’t really get how it was supposed to work haha. Still, we all got a bunch of cute stickers!
Ooh that sounds super fun! I love having pretty sticker but i dont know when to use them so this would be fun to do!
I really appreciate you mentioning how much stress these can cause people with OCD, I used to have really severe panic attacks caused by these especially when the death of a loved one was involved. I remember having to go so far as to put in my deviantArt about me section that posting any sort of curse/death/ghost copypasta to my page would earn an immediate block. In retrospect they’re really silly but I lost a LOT of sleep over these as a kid.
I’m 2 years late, but I really relate to this a lot as a person with OCD. I have vivid memories of huge panic attacks as a kid where my mom would try and reassure me that the message wasn’t real, but the paranoia was intense and I definitely felt like I had to partake in sharing or whatever the message told me to do. I would have anxiety for weeks because I would think I did something wrong and it would kill me/my family ):
i dont think its silly. i dont have ocd but i understand why theyd cause so much stress. i deal with a lot of severe anxiety and paranoia and these sorts of things would freak me out too, even if logically i knew it was the fakest sounding thing id ever heard. when it comes to irrational fear, logic doesnt matter. its really annoying to deal with but its not stupid, its real. dont let anyone make you feel bad for it.
I literally used to have frequent panic attacks and manic episodes over stuff like that.
I used to see a TON of them on tumblr back when I was on there like a decade ago. I had a friend with OCD who would reblog every one even though she hated doing it because her OCD made not doing it feel even worse. It always made me really upset on her behalf, so whenever I saw she was online I'd find one of those "this lil guy will protect you from all chain posts!" type images and post it so that she'd see it and feel safe. I'd also tell everyone I knew who I caught posting them to cut it out. Most ppl weren't taking them seriously and were just doing it for memes, but it genuinely upset some people so I got pretty passionate about stamping it out from my social circles, lol
That is genuinely so sweet of you, as someone with ocd, i'm glad you did that
you're a great friend, i feel like most people do that without thinking because they all think ocd is wanting everything to be clean/even 😭😭
Yep. They were fun for us but people with OCD or a psychotic disorder will think they are real even into adulthood
I absolutely hated them because lots of them are so malicious.. like it's whatever if the punishment is like your crush won't like you back or you'll fail your exams.. but lots of them are YOUR MOM will DIE, your LOVED ONE will DIE. It's honestly so mean even if it's not real
that's so sweet, you're a great friend.
An interesting thing is how this has actually evolved onto Tiktok. There are a lot of viral tiktoks out there that are like "use this sound and something amazing is gonna happen to you!" or "Use this sound on a video and you'll manifest (etc..)" Not necessarily a "chain letter" but by people seeing it and making their own video with the sound it sorta turns the sound itself into the "letter" that's being passed around.
Oh god I knew I was right to be worried about "manifesting" being a bullshit trend
Exactly what i was thinking about commenting. It's sososo dumb.
I've seen it on tiktok as well especially with "use this sound for good luck" quickly became teens saying things like "I skipped the song and I got dumped and my dog died" while using the sound to scare others into using it
That’s what I expected them to say in the video! Very similar to the Twitter thing of course but definitely is its own thing where you can SEE how many people fall for it
Yeah, and the “Like, share, and repost for ______.” It’s very similar and could maybe be classified as a chain letter if you consider that you have to send it to someone (which boosts it in the algorithm and etc.)
Story time. About 10-12 years ago there was a copy-paste going around FB that something like "FB is going to start charging for their service. Repost this and your avatar will glow blue at midnight, indicating that you are an original user. Original users will not be charged". My grandma showed me this. I laughed. She was furious. She took it 100% seriously. This turned into a screaming match where she threatened to take away my computer if I did not repost that thing, because she refused to pay for FB. Sobbing, I had to comply. FB friends teased me for "falling for it".
Moral of the story, boomers should not be allowed to be online.
That's a _broad_ definition of "boomer," but I get your point! Facebook was especially susceptible to those kinds of things because they were the first service we all used who _would_ radically change things overnight and _never back down_ even if the change was for the worse. (I miss you, "[Username] is..." status prefixes.)
Boomers should definitely not be allowed online
oh my god, i'm sorry that happened to you.
@kristopher i've never seen anyone refer to someone as 'cousin' as in bro/sis that's so cool
@@shuasapphic I've thought about this a few times before, because I wish I had better ways of addressing people. I sometimes call people 'friend' when talking about something emotional, but that easily sounds sarcastic/condescending because of the way people say "hey buddy, hey pal" when they're annoyed.
It's quite common in some cultures (I'm thinking of UK afro/caribbean culture) to call people 'cuz' as in cousin, which I always thought was rather nice. It's also common in a lot of Asian (and other) cultures to call any older person you're friendly with brother/sister, aunty/uncle or grandma/grandpa, which also seems quite nice to me. I'm not from those cultures, so I don't wanna just take their customs, but I also feel like it's something really lacking in (white) western culture. I hope it's ok to try something similar, as long as we acknowledge the source... especially in queer spaces where we're making our own culture & experimenting with language, and where we really need solidarity. But it's not for me to make that decision, I'll just keep talking about it and see what various people think.
There isn't a good non-gendered alternative for older relatives in English though. (Well, I'm nonbinary and I personally don't like the existing terms like.... 'pibling'.... which sounds like a mix between 'piffling' and 'dribble'. Surely we can do better than that.) I do like cousin, it has that feeling of universal friendliness/solidarity without being gendered, it's not overly familiar (can be used with strangers) and I guess it can technically work for any age?
I distinctly remember one that I got as a kid that absolutely terrified me to the point that I couldn’t sleep for days. It was about a little boy named “Teddy” who had no arms or legs (disability = scary apparently?), who would come into your room at night and kill you if you didn’t share the email. What really terrified me was the story about what had happened to someone who had allegedly ignored the email; their parents discovered the bathroom covered in blood, with their child’s skin plastered all over the walls, including a message written on the ceiling- the contents of which escape me now. I was PETRIFIED.
I was the kind of kid who was afraid of everything, so those emails always terrified me. The moment I began reading one and realized what it was, I had to back out ASAP in fear AGDKGKFHJK
How the hell would he enter the room? Would he just roll in?
Literally came here to comment about Teddy. God that one was horrific. Miss him xx
@@GreenChillZone imao
@@SizzlingSocks : "imao"
The translation: "had"
I love how the "if you don't repost this a girl named catrin will be in your bathroom tonight" post didn't even specify anything creepy about the girl, just that her name is catrin and she will be in your bathroom if you break the chain. that almost makes me want the letter to be real so I can break the chain. who is this catrin. i wanna know her story.
She just like wants pizza and has a DVD of Spongebob and a sleeping bag with her
Look, if some random girl can teleport into people's bathrooms, I want to sit her down and have a nice long talk about quantum physics. Holy crap.
@@FelisImpurrator Kinda like Hanako, but more chill?
Counts me in.
You go into your bathroom and Catrin is just like “who are you?? How did I get here??”
catrin will be in your bathroom using your toilet whenever you need to pee
I've struggled with OCD and psychosis and these were the bane of my existence as a kid. Even "good luck" ones would send me spiralling. Even now they still trigger me a tiny bit when I see them
im neurotypical and even i had a hard time ignoring those when i was a kid... it would just make me feel extremely anxious, i cant imagine how you felt XD
Same. I've got bipolar and ocd and really bad anxiety, so these things really were awful. They also sometimes get me a little bit today, even if I can tell they're not real.
same here with the psychosis (i'm also ND), nobody understood why i was so freaked out by them but i'm glad i wasn't alone
As an autistic I never fully believed them but they would still, just for a moment, panic me
I was a easily frightened kid after my mother made me, her and my older brother binge watch Dr.who haha
So ghosts and stuff weren't spirits of dead people or demons but things in the shadows.
Unexplainable and scary.
I used to hallucinate sometimes as I barely slept at that age which, as you can guess, made things worse.
I never spared the good luck ones a second glance despite the threat of bad luck.
Maybe it's just a kid thing tho- we're all scared of smth-
@ SoloDnD ha ha so funny. we love mocking mental illnesses and possibly triggering ppl. /s
Broke: believing creepy chain letters
Woke: not believing creepy chain letters
Bespoke: reading a ton of creepy chain letters at once so the internet ghost girls have to hold a fighting tournament over who gets to kill you
What category does ‘saw the golden monkey’ go in?
@@Salithin well umm I think it means you were in China?
Someone needs to make a story of the bespoke one
@@Fluffkitscripts have you not seen that image?
Holy shit someone need to make an story about this
Was an artist on Instagram back in 2014, these were everywhere in fandom communities. I remember a bunch of “furry pride” or “tag your pack and your loyal members will do the same” ones. Today, I see a lot of more interactive ones that are like, “draw a horse in your style and tag 3 friends to do this challenge too!” with Instagram stories, which are pretty cute and fun IMO :)
Ohhh yeah tag games! Tag games technically aren't that since most people use them as a little icebreaker, like they'll have one post asking a question and then they'll tag their friends, so on and people will join in and learn more about each other and learn more about their mutuals.
I see tag games msot often on Tumbkr and its reslly fun tbh
Humans really haven't fundamentally changed much since we became human. One of my favorite things I learned while getting my Anthropology degree was about a cliff carving that was so high up on the cliff, the humans that once inhabited that place MUST have built a ladder or something to get there. Once we got access, we realized it was Viking and we translated the carvings, and it essentially said, "This is very high" 😂
That is so innately human, and it would barely surprise me if there were more examples if things like this out there.
The graffiti wall in Pompeii is also great. Basically no different than a modern bathroom stall wall, with toilet humor, prostitute recommendations and lots of bragging about genitalia size.
@@esl4287 Yup. Its a wonder to me why people put ancient cultures on such a pedestal without weighing their accomplishments against their very crude, soundly human nature. Obscene graffiti, funny remarks like the one in the comment above and tasteful nudity have always been a part of our culture, present and past. Its so interesting how much has changed and how much has remained exactly the same.
@@moleperson i love that kind of nonsense like Shakespear plays were vulgar lowbrow humor like biting you at some one was basically the flipping some the middle finger of the time
we miss alot of it now cause were missing the contacts everyone would have back then
@@kendradupree1094 Absolutely! Fantastic example you brought up. Shakespeare was a fantastic writer and extremely gifted in insults, wordplay and deeply interesting plays… but these plays would have one fifth the charm if performed without the fantastically low brow humour.
As someone who’s always struggled with intense paranoia and intrusive thoughts due to an unholy combination of anxiety, OCD and ADHD, these letters always freaked me the fuck out
Same, it was always so terrible to find them and the paranoia just makes my brain feel like shit.
exactly!!! I know these are fake and not real but I'm always like...what if I don't share and I DO go to hell? or my parents get killed and it's because I didn't repost??? so I hate these with a burning passion tbh
man, my intrusive thoughts and paranoia luckily didn't bother me when it comes to chainmail (granted i did have to pray when i saw the religious ones or repost) but i can't imagine how much of a disaster my social media would be with the amount of chainmail i came across as a kid,, ocd is a bitch
@@mammoneymelon do you still have the urge to pray? Are you not religious now? (this isn't meant to be interrogative btw, just wondering because i kind of feel like religion messed me up lol)
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 i am still religious! fortunately, getting older and learning more about the world helped me to learn to think for myself so even though those posts occasionally give me a bad feeling, i'm able to reassure myself that my faith isn't reliant on a social media post. i do struggle with religious trauma (probably related to my ocd now lol) but it's something i've actively been trying to come to terms with and work through.
I knew someone in highschool that tried to quietly go offline entirely because of how severely distressing it was for her OCD and psychosis. Even the "positive" ones are harmful.
@beyond your imagination you can't pay me to click that
I had a friend who stopped using email for this reason. A lot of these letters were so graphic and intrusive
I have OCD and i hate doing these and when i do them people call me stupid :(
That's so sad. Did that special snowflake melt when summer came around?
@@maskettaman1488 wow dude, you're so edgy and cool.
as a kid i had crippling anxiety, OCD and intrusive thoughts so needless to say the chainmail in the eary 2010s made me so so scared, the first time i got chain mail about this creature will appear in ur room at 3am if u dont send this to 15 people, i nearly shat myself. my poor friends on instagram had to deal with me sending that to them because i was legit scared it would happen because i had thoughts in my head like: "if you dont turn the lights on and off 3 time your entire family will die". looking back i can laugh at these chainmails but at the same time its a bit sad how thoughts like this ruled my life as a child.
Most of the chainmail I saw was this one specific chainmail that went along the lines of "that girl you called fat yesterday? She's on a diet. That girl you made fun of for being bald? She's on chemo." And alot more bullying scenarios ending with "copy and paste this in your bio if you are against bullying." For some reason every sentence was in a different font.
Seen that one but with “Repost/share if you against homophobia/racism”
I remember someone made a great parody (I wish I could find it) about "Pokebullying", like "that Houndoom you called ugly? He got those scars saving his owner!"
I remember having that chain letter posted on a board in my high school.
I hate those ones so much, there was a percy jackson one that I saw everywhere (even though I've never indulged in anything percy jackson related in my life), and it sounded exactly like that
I remember seeing that one all over roblox for some odd reason. It would be under the clothing items, which I think was originally supposed to be for players opinions on the item but devolved into almost nothing but chainmail. It was also common to see on user profiles. I had a friend who even had that as their bio.
The poor kid who thought they'd get a cat from a copypasta. Must've been heartbreaking to wake up with no cat box next to your bed.
*wakes up next to Schrödingers cat*
If I saw you on Reddit, I'd say "r/Profilepicchecksout".
As someone with extreme anxiety, seeing these nowadays still freak me out. Like I know they’re bullshit, but there’s a small part of me that’s still terrified. I remember reading the Clarissa one when I was like 11 and I told my mom that I was certain I was going to die.
I still kinda I'm freak out for it, thank god Izzy gave us the turtle xD
@@rolboo6158 i honestly felt so relieved about the turtle for some reason. i KNOW its bullshit, but as someone who is very paranoid, and who suffers psychosis, the turtle made me feel a lot better.
@@corgi8418 i agree :3 it was honestly a sweet feature before diving into all of it
Creepypastas f-d me up too when I was like 10, especially that Lavender Town one 🥶
@@poni_poki Duuude I feel this. For the longest time I couldn’t even listen to the Lavender Town theme without getting freaked out and clicking away. Which SUCKED considering a lot of RUclipsrs I liked would use it was background music.
I’d love to hear you cover some of the internet’s really early baby creepypastas! Stuff like the “We don’t have a clown statue” story or the dog licking the girls hand story. It’s such an interesting era of content and I have passionate thoughts about children’s love for horror.
it's really fun to read about those kinds of stories in connection with folklore of the past few centuries!!! humanity always makes scary stories and bogeymen and it's amazing to watch them evolve!!!
also i just thought of the clown statue story as that bit in 'alien', when the xenomorph appears as part of the scenery and it's written off as just set dressing by the viewer. like, the presence of something that is Not Supposed To Be There, but since it's only seen from an outsider's perspective, nobody realises something's up
and now i'm thinking that the kids in the clown story were kind of stupid
The phrase "we don't have a clown statue" awoke so much repressed trauma you have no idea
@@Iotuseater "We don't have a clown statue"?
"or the dog licking the girls hand story." The what?!
@@Most-sane-deltarune-fan look up “humans can lick too”
Thank you for mentioning the OCD thing, I never believed these things truly, but I used to do it anyway because it'd feel insanely wrong not to, like it was true while I knew I was being lied to- but that's the thing with OCD, you know you're being irrational, but you have no choice. These really sucked on a whole other level for that reason for me, even as I got older
Totally! I thought I was so dumb most of my life despite decent achievements, because i would have meltdowns over, even for the time, obvious bait💀
Yes, that's true! I remember one chain message ruining my sleep for two days!
Yeah I have ocd and anxiety. I remember seeing one about a dead person or a demon being under your bed. I didn't send it to anyone and seriously thought I was gonna die that night. It was the first time I ever pulled an all-nighter. The next night I slept in my parents' bed...
“you know you’re being irrational, but you have no choice” that is *exactly* how i felt about chain mail with my ocd
That’s the same thing that happens to me. I know that it’s fake but I also kinda believe it in a weird way? It’s like two parts of my brain are debating whether to send it or not even if I don’t believe it and I feel bad if I don’t do it.
when I was like 10-14, I had really bad untreated schizoaffective disorder and ocd. I saw so many of these and my brain would basically make them come true (I would hallucinate the spooky ghost ppl who were going to show up at 3am or convince myself that I had bad luck). I was kinda self aware about it though so i would make a point to seek them out and see if they would come true lol. was not good for my mental health but kinda funny looking back on it lmao
wow that's awful, so sorry you went through all of that. ppl are cruel as hell
I'm surprised I'm not the only one who had this issue, but in my case I ended up seeking them out because I wanted friends even if they were ghosts and I never realized it was fake. I'm, very glad I've gotten past that, but I'm really sad to see I wasn't alone and I hope you're doing better now
Yeah though not as severe I was always very scared of that even in acid trips or night terrors lmao. That thumbnail made my heart skip a beat. Trauma lmao literal trauma I have PTSD & that didnt help!
@@shonenjumpmagneto dude seeing something scary when you have night terrors is the worst!!!
Wow, I’m schizoaffective with OCD too. Literally the second I read the first chain letter, I thought “that just sounds like some sort of weird magical thinking compulsion”.
Sorry you had to deal with that tho. Glad you are a bit better!
i remember my mom helping me write an email to send to a friend asking her to please stop sending me these because they “made me scared and shakey” ahh… good old undiagnosed childhood panic disorder
My mum had to talk to my school about kids purposefully telling me scary urban legends and putting fake chain letters under my pencil case when I wasn't looking.
Me too 😭 I always shared the ones that were like “share this or your mom will die” because I got so scared, now I’m diagnosed with generalized anxiety and ocd
i really appreciate you starting this with one of those “u are immune to all chain posts” things, bc i have OCD and tbh i think those immunity frogs/etc are the reason im not bothered by chain mail anymore. even though i’ve never believed in anything like ghosts, i still had so much trouble not reposting those things growing up, and it’s super helpful to have something coming from the same source as the chain mail saying “nah that can’t hurt you” - it’s kind of like saying “well i’m IMMUNE to lasers” in a game of pretend, but like !! it works !! because your mind is playing pretend whether you want it to or not
I love safety turtle and similar posts. He uses of the logic of chain letters to defeat them. If all it takes is reading a chain letter for something bad to happen, then reading a picture of a funny little animal saying you’re protected is all it takes to prevent it.
What a hero.
Nice profile picture
🐢
@@RandomPerson12434 nice name
I swear to God I'm not that old but back in the late 90s when I was about 12 or so, I received an actual chain letter in the mail. A physical piece of paper in a physical envelope sent through the US Postal Service. I didn't know the person it came from, never found out who it was. Freaked me right out!
I would be terrified
I’d put it on my fridge
Once as a 8 year old kid living out in the country (before we had internet) I got a several page handwritten letter from some guy In Russia claiming he was The Messiah. I still have no idea how that guy got my name and address as a little kid but it was super freaky
THAT SOUNDS SO SCARY
@@paranormeow I'd just keep it and sometimes read it and stuff.
I remember getting hit with a Clarissa or something similar when I was quite young, maybe like 11 or 12. It was the same archetype of "creepy girl will kill you" but I think this one threatened that she'd be on my ceiling while I slept if I didn't forward it to five friends. I remember being quite convinced by it and definitely scared of it, but choosing not to forward it because I realized the moral thing to do, if the threat was real, was to cop the scary girl and get killed, rather than put more people at risk by forwarding it.
Yeah I dunno, little me was very concerned with morality. Anyway I didn't get killed and was much more confident about supernatural claims being bullshit after that.
honestly good on you, you were brave. even though it wasn't real you really thought it could be so that was pretty cool of you to try and spare your friends like that
I remember I got the entire “Smile DOG” creepypasta in my email. Yes, someone literally copy pasted the whole thing into an email & attached the image too. I was convinced it was real & immediately felt anxiety.
You were brave, I remember I got so scared I almost immediately forwarded the email to everyone in my contacts. I can’t look at the image of that creepypasta to this day, it makes me really, really uncomfortable :((
I did a similar thing, but in my case I just made fake profiles and forwarded it to them instead lmao??
They said she’ll be on your ceiling while you slept, they didn’t say anything about her killing you. She’s just there. Make her a cup of tea or something.
Yeah same here
The one I remember the most was the dumb "Don't use my pictures/info/whatever" chain that went around Facebook like 10 years ago. People honestly believed that they could post a bunch of random official sounding nonsense to their wall and it would stop facebook from gathering their info. It was a wild time.
I remember in sixth grade we had a big group chat (50+ kids) and kids were constantly spamming it with chainmail 💀
it got so out of hand we just created a new one but then that one got overridden as well
i think this is a universal experience but this same exact thing happened to me in 6th grade 😭
@@avao3612 fr 😭 those group chats are the worst
yep lmao
SAME!! Mine was closer to like 20 tho lol
I HAD THIS TOO i actually wanted to talk to people but no one would respond and just continued sending chain mail 😭
When I was 11, I used Pinterest for all of my social media. Let me tell you, between 2016 tumblr posts, stolen art from deviantart, and SO many chain mail pins, it was a constant sensory overload. Being young on Pinterest is uniquely its own culture. I remember going on the baking pins and there was a feature where you could “try” pins and upload a photo to the comments. There were always either copy pastas, pictures of 5 year olds who took their own selfie and uploaded it to the comments, or pictures of random house appliances. Pinterest was like facebook, but instead of 60 and 70 year olds, it was instead made up of 4-12 year olds who could now take pictures and repin every copy pasta that came up on their dashboard.
oh thank god theres someone else who also experienced the hell of the Tween Pinterest Experience
I remember seeing these everywhere on Pinterest
i almost forgot tween pinterest. how could i
This was me as in my early teens and now I'm having flashbacks
It still exists surprisingly
when i was younger, like 10-11, i got sent a carmen winstead voice message on whatsapp. that some shit me up. then a few days later i was listening to music on my shitty android and it was on shuffle. somehow the voice message had automatically saved to my music. i literally shat myself and deleted whatsapp. that was probably the most terrifying chain mail i ever got sent
yesss, The Carmen Winstead one was the worst, it got sent to a FB group chat for me and my phone also did that thing of autosaving ( cause idk why that preset was on) when i saw it was in my music I cried lol
@@Celly_No YES it was so terrifying
Brooooo nooo lmfaooo Carme Winstead gave me actual PTSD before I actually had it lmfao
A voice message!? I had a text message with music & picture lmao.
THATS SO FUNNY OMFG.
What did the the audio file say?
I _remember_ the voice messages! Christ that was a time
THANK YOU for touching on the fact these things can trigger OCD, i have it myself and as a teen i was Super affected by them, i'm medicated and in therapy now so i know better how to handle this stuff but back then it was horrible for me and i'm sure a lot of others too. Love your content btw! i'm a new viewer but the stuff i've seen from you is all so in-depth and well done
@WhyAmIsoIconic-ArianaKamado If it helps, statistically plane travel is the safest mode of travel! accidents Can happen but the staff on the plane are equipped to handle that. you're gonna be in good hands and things will be ok :)
Not really a chain letter, but I remember something similar happening back when comment signatures were still a thing. They were very much along the lines of bob the stickman and the like
I miss comment signatures tbh
☻/ This is bob. Copy and paste him so he can take over RUclips.
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@@levil.2734 I remember when it was common on forums to have your Smash main in a little banner, back when Brawl came out.
@@levil.2734 Same; I used to make ones for every month, with holiday themes. Good times.
@@K4rm4ttack For some reason that just made me think of the good old "Chairzard is broken" meme. Good times.
Genuinely thank you for mentioning OCD. The disorder itself is already hardly taken seriously but those "repost or die" spam posts are frustrating and on a bad day they can even be panic inducing for some. TikTok became so ridden with those posts that I had a hard time using the app at all. I feel like a total weenie about it sometimes but compulsions are definitely not based on logic or reason. So, thanks for acknowledging us. I love your videos, they're thorough, well written, and entertaining. Keep up the great work!
I don't even have it, yet this hits home. I can't even imagine how it feels for non-neurotypical people.
I have OCD and I thought that I was just a crybaby for being scared 😭
@@purpleguyfromfnaf Not at all! Our fears may not be rational but our brains think they are. Your feelings are totally valid and you have every right to be afraid of those posts.
these have never really bothered me but the whole "do this this and this to not be cursed" is so dangerous as it could cause new intrusive thoughts and compulsions that lead people to treat you as "just gullible"
for me, the religious ones do stress me out as someone with religious based intrusive thoughts/possible ocd. the one that kinda became a meme was oddly comforting in a way that i can't explain
god, agreed. I'm really glad OCD was mentioning
growing up with OCD made this era particularly challenging. I used to refused to go to sleep at night because I was terrified of this shit, I started struggling at school and in general so bad I had to see a therapist cus my parents didn't know what the fuck was wrong with me lol. good times
EDIT: yoooo just finished the video and you actually brought that up! it's wild bro. hope you're doin okay!!!
yo!! i came here to mention having OCD made it way worse for me too! i kept obsessing over them but i was almost always too terrified to also send them to my friends and "give the words power". my mom also didn't know why i couldn't just ignore them
OCD is a whole trip I swear, I’m glad my symptoms came around a time that wasn’t full of these chainmail things, though a few of the religious ones did make their way to me and yea lol my moral ocd brain just couldn’t resist reposting it
as someone with ocd i’m so glad people understand
Yep this definitely did not help my OCD and anxiety as a youngin. It's really funny looking back, though!
I remember getting lots of texts saying “we’re trying to create the Guinness world record’s longest text chain so add your name and two emojis and text to 10 friends!” Also, I’m realizing that instagram’s recent feature on stories of “add your own” pictures is kind of like a modern chain mail, but usually more wholesome lol
I remember feeling so smug for never believing these as a kid. I'd reply to these with like "you know it's fake, right?" or just straight up laughed and moved on. It made me feel so smart and mature, but I probably wasn't the only one with enough fantasy vs reality awareness to figure that out. 💀
same here, but sometimes there was a "but.... what if?" in the back of my head lol. i felt kinda bad for not sending those "SEND TO 10 PEOPLE YOU LOVE, INCLUDING ME, IF YOU LOVE ME" back to my friends who sent them to me, i worried they'd think that i shared it but not with them and think i didn't love them
Same. But also I prayed for protection just in case. 😂 I thank God for getting rid of my silly fear at least.
Same. But also I prayed for protection just in case. 😂 I thank God for getting rid of my silly fear at least.
I did this too but as a facade bc I actually secret believed them but I never had enough friends to send them too so I hoped if I said I said they were fake out loud I would be safe 💀💀
I had unmedicated psychosis as a kid so these chain mail creepypastas really did a number of me! The others I have weird nostalgia for
yeah i got paranoid and panicked a few were real myself.........i have mixed feelings on these.
That would mess me up, I’m sorry you had to deal with that
Same
I remember being scared shitless by the creepypasta chainmails and those ones that were like "send it to 10 of your friends or else your mom will die tomorrow!!! "
whenever I saw one of those my heart would just fall out of my ass and I was in cold sweat and shaking
and I couldn't even sleep peacefully at night, being afraid that something bad will still happen, even tho I alway shared these chainmails
wild times
I have OCD these things screw me up every time I cross them- except I also have social anxiety so I just end up breaking down over whether to give into an impulse and be judged for posting these awful things and annoying people or deal with the anxiety attack of not giving into an impulse. I hate them.
I have a dumb chain letter story. Kind of long-winded, but here goes:
When I was a kid (let's say 10-12, give or take), my brother started dating someone. Hotmail was the hip thing to use back then, and they decided to introduce little child me to the wonders of email and instant messaging. Not bothering to ask for my parents' permission, they helped set up my account, told me not to give away personal info (they weren't THAT irresponsible with me) and they became my first friends, along with her little sister. Pretty fun times.
Later on down the road, big bro's GF started sending out all these chain letters. They started harmless enough, typical "forward this for good luck" sort of stuff. Then they started diving into more of the creepypasta territory. Keep in mind, I was a stupid gullible kid at the time, but also, I'd always had, for lack of a better term, a nervous disposition. Also also, I was heavily addicted to soda back then, and would almost go through an entire two-liter bottle a day by myself. Let's do some math: active imagination of a child + anxiety about literally anything bad that could happen (real or not) + more caffeine than any kid should have = terrifying times. My mom eventually had to tell her to stop sending me these things, as I was starting to have frequent nightmares.
Recalling all this has been a bit of a laugh, so thanks for giving me a reason to chuckle about stupid little child me for a bit.
I think my favorite part about the one at 11:12 is that it doesn't even give any indication that the "girl named Catrin" is a ghost or going to do anything harmful to you. For all we know, either you'll get asked out, or some stranger will break into your house to use your bathroom and then leave.
Catrin just appears, barges in, uses your bathroom for 15ish minutes, and leaves.
I wanna ignore it just to see what happens with Catrin in my bathroom. Is she on the loo? Does she need a tampon? Does she like the decor? Can I impress her with my skincare routine? Can I get a creepypasta gf?
@@estherstreet4582 now this is the true mindset
My gay butt thought is this how I get a gf
I can imagine the novel title
"Help! My gilrfriend is a chain mail ghost girl i ignored!"
Kinda related but I loved all the copy and paste messages in RUclips comments like "Bob"
Are you real
Bob
I would love it if Izzzy did a video on Bob
Back in the day, literally nothing was funnier than randomly saying "Bob"
☻/ This is bob.
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He has not forgotten what you have done.
This video unlocked a core memory for me, When I was maybe 11 years old, I saw a bunch of chainmail and firmly believed it. I was in a groupchat on Instagram with a bunch of older girls who reposted it, so I was convinced. One day someone sent me a chainmail of some girl named Teresa Fidlago. It said if I didn't repost then my mom would be dead in my room, and I had an entire breakdown. I went crying to my grandma thinking that I would end up as a murderer of my own mother just because I didn't copy & paste a message from a stranger. Looking back I see just how much these chainmails spread and changed peoeple's views on the internet.
In the early 2000s, my “Clarissa” was a clown that would unalive your whole family if you didn’t forward to 50 people and it had a picture of a scary clown standing over a bed with a knife in the e-mail. Chain mail was only sent by e-mails, so it was your friends and family forwarding it to you. The clown one came from my cousin and I cried because I didn’t have 50 people’s emails so my mom had to call my uncle and tell them not to send me stuff like that.
That sounds honestly horrifying. In middle school, I’d get texts from friends about a girl laughing in an all-white dress in the corner of my room where she'd then kill me. That always scared the shit out of me. The one you were sent is more creepy than it needs to be.
@@forTehMemes ooh I think I remember getting a few of those once I got a cell phone! But luckily, the clown email when I was young really proved to me those were fake. Some of those chain mail ones were so scary for absolutely no reason and it would be your own family/best friends putting you in danger!! Hahaha.
I don’t even know 50 people-
you don't have to say unalive in the comments jdsflhjdfskllskjdfljksfd people only say it in videos to not get demonitized
awww NOOOOOOOO that clown sounds so sick but I'M SORRY YOU WENT THROUGH THATTT
Man, I love these simple little pieces of internet fiction. I wonder how many young authors got their start crafting these.
Yeah!
@Jurassic World A wild copypasta in action!
Why did the safety turtle mean so much to me 😭🐢
Truly same 😭 🐢 💕
He is a good friend
Same😭🐢
*Hugs the safety turtle*
thank u safety turtle
The Carmen Winstead one actually caused me to switch which bathroom I used in my house to shower because every time I went in the old one I thought about her ghost coming out of the shower or toilet to get me. I've been using the different bathroom for 9 years now because of a chain mail text I got in 6th grade.
The probably most famous chain mail in Finland was called "Teresa Fidalgo". It was the basic chain creepypasta copypasta. It was supposedly written by a ghost and if one didn't send it to seven other people, the ghost would come to one's room and ask them to say their last words and then kill them. I always wondered what would happen if you wouldn't say anything? Would the ghost of Teresa Fidalgo keep company for the rest of your life? That actually inspired me to design a plot for comic, but I never actually drew it, just made some sketches.
Also, by this point, I should have been killed by Teresa Fidalgo, Santa Claus, a vengeful scissors spirit and my house should have been invaded by a unicorn. Yeah, chain mails are garbage. Also, "read/repost this or something bad happens" is such a cheap form of horror. Instead of actually making quality creepypasta, people scare other by making indirect deat threats.
Woah, Teresa Fidalgo was always a famous chainmail here on Latinamerica as well as Spain I think, didn't know it was so famous in other countries outside of Spanish-speaking ones
that one scared me so much as a 10-year-old haha i remember googling 'Teresa Fidalgo' and all the results came up with yahoo answers where people were asking if she was real too, and that's when i knew she was fake. still reposted it to be safe lol
Chainmails always spooked me. But I remember when my friend and I were recreating the picture of Teresa Fidalgo. By taking a picture of our faces, colouring the background black and making our faces green.
the teresa fidalgo one was actually kind of true since it was inspired on a real incident
Oh I remember that one!! I had this one friend who would ALWAYS send my copypastas like that lol
I’m old enough to remember kids shows (Blue Peter in particular) having mini “Chain letters aren’t cursed” PSAs when I was a kid. They were a massive thing in the mid 90s.
Link!?!?
@@shonenjumpmagneto google
personally even if it doesnt technically count, my favorite "chain letter" is friendship bread, which i think also saw a small comeback during the pandemic for obvious reasons. if you haven't heard of it, its basically a specific starter recipe that you take care of over a few days according to the recipe, and after some time you split the batch into a few small batches and give away all but one of them, each with their own copy of the recipe. from there you can keep repeating this process over and over until you've burdened everyone you know with taking care of this starter, and you have two freezers full of baked bread and still 10 bags of this damn stuff on the counter. i think my family lost friends during that time because my step father was too stubborn to just stop. at least that chain got you bread, and i remember it actually being REALLY good. if anyone else wants this burden you can find recipes for it very easily online.
Ah, yes, the 'nutty buddy' bread. Yeast is an amazing thing.
I remember... so much bread...
In the Netherlands we had a cake like that called Herman
Omg my mom got some of that from a friend at the beginning of the pandemic and she kept it going for months but kept forgetting to give away the new starter bags so at the peak she ended up baking like 25 loaves in a day, passed it out to random people at church, and vowed never to let it go this far again
We called it Amish Friendship Bread!! It was kind of cinnamon sugary!
being diagnosed with pretty debilitating OCD as a child and constantly receiving these chain mails from friends during elementary/middle school def had me stressed all the time 😢
As someone else with OCD, your point at 19:50 is so true!!! Even as an undiagnosed 12 year old scrolling Instagram I got legit freaked out by the creepypasta-type posts and relied on those "safety" posts as a way to ward off the "evil magic" that my brain is naturally predisposed to imagining.
That's not OCD. That's you being a normal 12 year old.
I’m diagnosed as well and those always were something that made it flare up, thankfully by the time they came around it was pretty well managed, so I was able to resist the compulsion
@@maskettaman1488 Wow you just diagnosed someone over the internet from a single sentence
@@maskettaman1488 she meant that at the time she was a 12 year old with undiagnosed ocd but now she is older and diagnosed, her account was created in 2013 and i highly doubt it was created when she was 3 years old
@@maskettaman1488 I’m an adult and professionally diagnosed with OCD. This was an earlier symptom before my diagnosis because it affected me to a greater degree than if I didn’t have it.
The idea of 18th century chain letters is so funny to me for some reason.
I'm glad you talked about OCD affecting it. I have an anxiety disorder and I used to be really affected by those creepypasta chain letters when I was a kid. I lost so much sleep over those "a dead girl will appear in your room" ones. I don't know if anyone else remembers these, but the worst ones for me were those "your mom will die if you don't repost this" chain letters, I would get so scared I'd feel physically ill.
Also, I actually saw that Clarissa copypasta just last week on a fanfiction site asdfghjkl, I couldn't believe I was seeing it in The Year of Our Lord 2022.
Omg the "your mom will die" was the worst one for me. I'm supper close to her and I would just burst into tears, run n hug her and sleep in her bed out of fear that that was the last time I'd see her alive : (
holy shit same, i have ocd and I've had anxiety ever since I was a kid and those chain letters always haunted me. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who had that experience
Yeah, it really messed with both my ocd and played on my paranoia and hallucinations; i remember one that was like "if you don't repost you'll hear a bunch of knocking on your door, and if you open it she'll GET YOU" and for the next like hour i was going crazy because i just kept hearing the most violent knocking on my door. Thankfully my mom was around and helped me realize it was just a hallucination, but when i was even younger that stuff was worse and even more widespread, i was basically constantly terrified and hearing/seeing shit with no way to repost any of the letters (no social media and no friends to text). I'm glad that shit died down
I had bad insomnia due to my anxiety and chain letters made it a tad bit worse.
me learning about the existence of 2022 copypastas ⚫__⚫
as someone who grew up in the early to mid 2000's, i distinctly remember getting religious chain emails CONSTANTLY. It always said "if you dont believe you are destined for bad luck". and it used examples of like how the titanic sank because they said god couldn't sink the ship and god took that as a challenge so he sank it or something. And i was both raised christian and a HUGE titanic nerd back then so i was like "oh yes of course, that definitely had something to do with it owo".
Creepypasta chains always scared the heck out of me, i have severe OCD and believed in the supernatural wholeheartedly, so even if i shared links, i'd still have many sleepless nights and anxiety attacks.
I think nowadays, the only chain post i have seen in a long while is a youtube comment reposting the old "this is bob, bob wants to take over youtube, copy and paste to help him out" meme
Can we all agree that the titanic sank bc someone aboard got religious chain mail and didn't pass it forward? Lol
RIP Bob. He sacrificed himself to destroy the tyranny of Google Plus.
No cap as someone who’s been homeless, abused and in many bleak situations, I still fall for the good luck chain posts just bc sometimes when you’re desperate you’ll do anything.
I have had extreme OCD my entire life that iv'e only just recently been able to get better control of.These chain mail things would panic me so badly as a kid and if I didn't do the ritual I legitimately thought that I was going to die. I cannon't describe the pure and true fear it would bring me. It was extremely distressing. That was definitely a strange era and I'm so glad the internet as a whole is mostly past it.
I have mild OCD and these letters freaked me out too.
That's called being an imaginative kid lmao. Not really related to OCD in any way. A relation to OCD would be a need to complete it, not a fear of the spooky story.
@@maskettaman1488 dude here's that attention you wanted you can stop posting this everywhere
@@maskettaman1488 I encourage you to learn more about OCD, as there is a lot of misconceptions.. and if you read my comment you would see that I stated that I needed to complete the ritual.
CHAINMAIL USED TO EXIST PRE-EMAIL?!? People were seriously out here sending physical shitposts in the mail, I’m in shambles over this fact 😂 I think I’m gonna mail one home to my parents house, I’m sure they’ll enjoy the nostalgia
The 1700s!! It actually makes those people sort of endearing lol. Humans have always been humans.
The 'nigerian prince' scam also had a physical version way back when. Called the Spanish prisoner letter if you want to look in to it!
I mean yeah there was chainmail, pretty heavy though. Imagine having to wear that shit for a whole battle
@@KanadaJin yeah I was just thinking about that the other day. How superstitious people still are in 2022! But no matter how technologically advanced we become and how much society advances human nature stays the same.
ikr.
I'm Mexican and I remember a chain mail that said something like "The king of [Insert a far away unknown country] is looking for a medic for his son who has a deadly desease, the king said he will share his fortune with everyone who re-send this E-mail if he finds the doctor who can cure his son"
Also here in Mexico we had an alt version of the ghost girl. It said that "She was a Japanese girl who horribly died and if you didn't pass the chain she would appear in your closet and tear up your skin"
Ah the good ol'days
Appear in your closet and tear up your skin- holy darn that’s dark
Jokes on her, teenage acne already tore up my skin years ago!
At least that girl has a specific way yk, she's got goals.
My favorite chain messages are the ones where it's some kind of animal and they want you to send it out that they can "see the world". There was a cool one where it was a hedgehog (If i remember correctly) that had the name of every subreddit it's been to. It just shows the collaboration of strangers online, and I think that's really cool
i was on tumblr when i was about 12 or 13 and i remember getting both the “reblog this to avoid bad luck/get something really lucky”, the “send this to a bunch of your favorite friends” (which i still see a fair amount) AND the “reblog if you aren’t homophobic/any other type of discrimination”. always hated seeing them, they clogged things up for miles
wasn't the most popular "reblog if you aren't homophobic" post that infamous miles long one with every rainbow and sherlock gif known to mankind? i can see it in my mind right now lol
@@feykingjulian im sure there was more than just one of those. i as well can see the endless destiel images with various pride flags in the background consuming my screen.
@@feykingjulian absolutely, GOD i still see those posts sometimes and some of them have so many notes they've clearly been around since forEVER
Ugh, there's a special place in my garbage for "reblog or you're a bigot" posts. I consider X PEOPLE MUST REBLOG, even when appended to an otherwise reasonable post, to be a kind of chain mail/reblog begging and ignore them on principle
@@MolecularMachine god yeah, i especially find posts that have smth like "if you scroll past this you might as well just unfollow me" add an extra layer of icky bc it's just guilt trippy LMAO, even if it's for a good cause
Growing up with (and still dealing with) mental disorders that trigger paranoia and extreme anxiety, these type of email chains were a total nightmare to receive, I hated them. Thank you for the turtle! I still had a hard time watching this tho. I'm glad now they're mostly used as meme material.
Goofy ahhh paranoia 💀💀
@@SteelPoleSeranWrap you literally smell like beef 💀
Exact same for me, untreated anxiety as a child made these hit so hard, I still remember my first all mightier was because I read one in like sixth grade and couldn’t let myself sleep. Which is really counterproductive since lack of sleep can cause hallucinations lol
One time in elementary school, some kid sent one on the class group chat that was like:
"This is me, God. If you don't send this to 15 friends I will punish you" or something like that. I told them it wasn't real, but one girl was like " I asked my mom and she said it was real" I wonder what was going through her mom's head lol
"hey yeah its me god, forward this to everyone you know or ill do the boogie woogie on you"
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@@TheAmazingDoorknob your pfp is a door Handle not a knob just thought I’d let you know
@@TenNineD yeah I get that alot but I don't really have any doorknobs in my family
its like no God isnt gunna punish you for not posting something, im promise were not all like this 😭
I'm so glad to hear this kind of thing from another person with ocd. I used to hear so many people joke about this sort of thing and make fun of people who believed in it and it really invalidated the genuine terror I used to feel as a kid when my friends sent me these. Especially once I started going to exposure therapy and I learned that reposting them was going to reaffirm my compulsions. Thank you for this. I got misdiagnosed a lot when I was little due to general practitioners not understanding the severity of ocd because of so much joking misinformation. Really means a lot to hear some one else's experience and know that there are people out there spreading awareness so kids like me don't have to feel ashamed of themselves and can get help. :)
I remember making up a chainmail WhatsApp message with my friend as a joke. (with the typical "dead girl will either harm or protect you" thing we used to see a lot)
a month or two later I saw someone from the Netherlands send it in a group chat full of people I didn't even know. I live in Belgium. I felt kinda proud to know my shitty chainmail story went all the way to the Netherlands and got back to me via a complete stranger lmao.
Oh my god, I live in the Netherlands and I remember getting lots of those types of messages on WhatsApp. Maybe I got yours too one time hahahah
thats hilarious
as someone on the schizophrenic spectrum, chain letters absolutely tormented me growing up. i have extreme paranoia and would genuinely believe that i would be killed by whatever nasty character someone would conjure up in these things, no matter how ridiculous. it cost me a lot of sleep and at one point had me in a month long episode where i couldn't sleep without every light in my room on or someone in the living room checking up on me. seems overly dramatic i know, but that's the nature of the illness i deal with.
now that i'm older i've learned to regulate it and realize "wait these are all bullshit" but i still get a little itch whenever i see ones talking about good luck or bad luck, as i'm paranoid about those things in particular. it can be difficult to deal with at times, but now i can look back and laugh at a lot of them.
I remember during my edgy teen years when I would purposefully ignore those "share for God, ignore for Satan" posts and I'd feel like the coolest person 🤣
NAURRRR
god yeah
I remember doing that too!
... Until I started seeing those kind of posts so often I started ignoring them because I genuinely didnt care
Me joking with myself that I was already aligned with Satan bc my birthday is June 6 lmao
I did that too but only because I’m not religious-
I actually kept getting those a lot on Snapchat and I remember that I got so fed up because they would use real people who died from suicide or they got murdered. I then posted on my story “ if anyone keeps sending me more of these I’m latching out” and they stop sending me those so I’m happy now :] but people need to realize that depression or any mental health is not a cute aesthetic or something you use for clout it’s not funny or cute. And also plz don’t use real people who actually died irl because I think that even if we don’t know them that well they should still be respected!🙌🏼
I will always remember that one time that I was at a sleep over with some classmates and some of us received a creepy copypasta. We sat on a sofa crying that we were going to die because we didn't have enough friends to share, we needed like 45 or something
Good times
i remember getting one that said if i didnt send to 10 friends my mom would die, i only had 6 and i sent my mom a message apologizing for killing her 💀💀💀
holy crap I remember doing these all the time on Pinterest and Google+ when I was like 7? They terrified me and I really thought Bonnie from fnaf was going to be at the end of my bed at night
Hah, that reminds of the fnaf "repost if you're a fnaf fan" and "repost if you'd go to foxys birthday party" kind of posts I'd see on Pinterest and stuff lol
Omg those remind me of those old copypastas abt like keeping fandoms alive and stuff, smthn like “Freddy Fazbear doesn’t want fnaf to die! Copy and paste this around if you’re a true fnaf fan, ignore if you don’t care!” God that was nostalgic I used to copy+paste those everywhere as a “not like other girls” RUclipsr bait indie game obsessed iPad kid.
Izzzyzzz, I have never been someone who wears makeup. I'll put it on for weddings, funerals, I did for prom and stuff back in high school, but it's rare. However, seeing how amazing and unconventional your makeup looks, it kinda makes me want to get into makeup. It's amazing. And I totally respect more traditional makeup artists obviously, they do some amazing work. But your non traditional makeup is so much more exciting to me, I didn't know this was an option😂 I hadn't considered this kind of makeup!
Just wanted to let you know I appreciate your style ❤️ I work outside a lot (and in a very hot environment), so because of sweat I don't think I'll be doing makeup any time soon on a regular basis. But if I do, I'll experiment more!
I was the same way, but using it a fun art canvas allows me to express myself!
to get a better fixation, use a "primer" product before and/or a "setting" product after. I sweat a lot too and it helps in some measure, but what really helps is finding products or brands labeled as long lasting, "tattoo" or similar. No ads, but Maybelline Superstay and Superstay Matte Ink lipsticks can only be removed with oily stuff and no amount of sweating or rubbing can remove them in at least 6 hours. Some Revlon Colorstay and Loreal Infallible products can also last and last and last. Of course better brands last longer but they're too expensive to play artist lol it's also nice to experiment with cheap non-toxic gouache, watercolors, clown/theatre stuff, sharpies, charcoal, talcum, glue, clay, latex, toy makeup, oil pastels, vegetable juices, vaseline, cooking oil, clear gloss...
I’m a guy but I love her makeup for every video. Her style is so unique and adorable. I do love makeup and always try to add that to whoever I’m drawing
The thing she does with her lips is so cool! Reminds me of the days of the homestuck people.
Same! I'm a total beginner when it comes to makeup but I'm really inspired by Izzy, I wanna do such cool makeup too (*ˊᗜˋ*)
I have a vivid memory of receiving a chain text about a girl crawling out of my closet if I didn’t share the text within 48 hours. Just so happened that my phone was confiscated and I barely saw the text hours after the 48 hour window. I was crying, shaking, throwing up. And to make it worse, my mom worked graveyard shifts and we were kinda latch key kids so there was nobody home. I did not sleep that night 🥲 traumatic af
I absolutely despised those bad luck/you’ll die ones. I have OCD and as a kid seeing those gave me huge anxiety, and still do now. Thank you for covering this.
When I was a little kid, my friend received a horror chain email (about a little boy ghost ripping our eyes out) on her family laptop. We were so freaked up but neither of us knew how to send an email, so we printed out copies of the chain mail and passed them around like flyers.
How did the neighbours react
I LOVE THIS I WANNA DO THIS BUT I CANT BE THAT BIG OF AN ASSHOLE...........unless 😳
Points for ingenuity, I guess...
I remember a few times I got a chain email that was a "petition" that would be sent to disney to convince them to make a bald princess "so little girls with cancer can feel beautiful"
i also stumbled across a lot of the creepypasta ones in youtube comment sections before I had my own account (and so couldn't repost them) and i always lived in fear for the next 9 days or whatever the specified time frame of doom was
oh my god the first one is so nostalgic it was everywhereee
Shouldnt we be making more diverse characters anyway? I would love to see a bald princess, and long and she was a compelling and well written character
i had incredibly bad anxiety and undiagnosed autism when i was a kid and i ended up reposting pretty much all of the chainmail i received. i convinced myself that something bad would happen and would have anxiety attacks when i didn't send them on, pretty sure my classmates then started sending chainmail to me because they thought it was funny to see me panic. i also remember getting them giving me an ultimatum where i either stop sending them chainmail or they kick me from various gcs, then i spent weeks in fear of the demons and ghouls and the like that i pissed off from not sending them. i'm still incredibly gullible but i do now know that no monsters are going to hunt me down (hopefully). i do, however, feel incredibly guilty for causing my friends any potential grief even though they all most likely knew it was bs
I remember getting one that wasn’t one of those “forward to ____ amount of people or something bad will happen!!1” Instead it turned out to be a crappy PSA against abortion that used scare tactics and pulled on your heart strings. It kind of traumatized me because I was only in middle school and it started out as a really cute little story with the POV of the little baby in the womb. It said things like “Momma! It’s been ___weeks and I can already move my fingers! I love you momma! I can’t wait to meet you!” It went on like that all cute, but then it ended with “Momma! I’m almost ready to meet you, I’m so happy! Wait, what’s this needle thing? OUCH MOMMA IT BURNS! WHATS HAPPENING? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME? I LOVE YOU! I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME TOO!”
Needless to say I detest those kind of scare tactic PSAs to this day. They’re so scummy manipulating emotions to push their agendas like that.
that's definitely horrifying, there were PSA that would literally scar me for days. most being the smoking PSA's where they have a wide hole in their neck, and also ones about drugs. shit is awful :(
@@ohokeyiguess35 i remember seeing the anti smoking PSA that put in an cigar packages.
It’s an image of an infected lung or something, sometimes is an image of an man with hole in his neck, or something.
I've actually seen what you're talking about and it always disgusted me to read because back then, my fear and bad mental health would make me want to compulsively read these copypastas for a multitude of reasons, and I saw this *multiple* times because I live in a Christian majority area. I guess I'm at least glad I wasn't the only one upset by it but the fact it existed is just gross and appalling 💀
The emotional-bait one that traumatized me was about a girl who gets hit by a drunk driver and there was this whole poem about her putting "daddy's girl" on her grave and oh my god as a little kid reading that I was so upset.
I remember those. They were so disgustingly manipulative.
I remember they frequently capped off with the baby in heaven and Jesus explaining abortion to them and the baby just bein like “why didn’t you want me mommy 🥺”
Pro lifers were on something crazy.
I remember getting sent a ton of these through snapchat messages. Definitely fueled my anxiety at the time but I was kinda forced into ignoring them because I didn’t have enough friends to send them to lmaooo
aaagh same. I can do the 50+ family member thing though. B|
I was hella terrified too as a young dumb child but I don't want to bother anyone and as an introvert I prioritised that more lmao forget Clarissa or whatever ghost who will haunt me at night
I definitely remember getting chain messages like the "send to 10 friends or a dead girl will do ____ to you" and I really hated them because I don't think I ever had 10 people to send them to 😂
I like the ones on Tumblr that just share love and positivity. I also like the "tag games" ones where someone tags you to list, say, your five current favorite songs, and then you tag other people to do the same. Those ones are harmless fun and can make your day. There's definitely more negative ones on Tumblr but I mostly see the nice wholesome harmless fun ones there.
Ugh, that copypasta with the demonic girl picture gave me NIGHTMARES. I thought they could somehow see me through the computer as a kid. 😭😭
SAME. That picture was creepier than the chainmail to me
I remember seeing a bunch of these on various sites. Depending on the night, it would either roll off me like water off glass or it would really, really, really, really bother me. More so the "bad luck" or "worst week" especially when paired with "your crush will love you" because I was a very lonely teenager who couldn't decide if they were superstitious or not
Also, top notch makeup and outfit in this vid!!
im surprised that you didn’t mention the ‘momo’ chain letters, i saw a LOT of those in 2017-2018. apparently some kids found them so scary, that when my school decided to do some sort of ‘learn how to work with social media’ things, they had to make a separate segment of the presentation.
one of my friends also sent a lot of the posts you mentioned in the creepypasta copypasta section (or similar ones) to me on WhatsApp, needless to say, my tween brain was freaked the fuck out by them.
OMG MOMO… i think that deserves an entire video tbh
jesus i forgot about the momo thing. i didnt even know it was international
@OPHANIM47 tbh it does, it was such a phenomenon
OH MY GOD THIS JUST UNLOCKED A MEMORY........... i remembered being scared of the picture of momo but this comment made me remember that there was chain mail attached! iirc i was very glad i dont have whatsapp so i wouldnt get those
So it was a chain letter?
for the most part, as a kid, i ignored them. however when i got a voice clip in my dms of a text to speech chain letter i got so paranoid i wasn't able to sleep at all that night. i think it was the uncanny feeling that got me
I have OCD as well and the some of the images on the creepy chain letters would make their way into my intrusive thoughts and definitely reinforced my paranoia about ghosts and demons. thankfully all the exposure to them eventually made that stop, but holy shit it got bad. I had nights where i would lay there sobbing because i couldnt get the visual of the chain letter creatures brutally attacking me over and over and over again out of my head.
not sure how, but i still get a sense of nostalgia when i think about them
Edit: I somehow completely forgot about how badly the religious ones triggered my OCD as a child. I used to frequently experience religious OCD triggered by "share or you dont love god" posts - I would have to spend an hour repeating to myself that an all-knowing being wouldn't need a facebook post because it knows everyone's true thoughts, or that something so powerful could not possibly be offended by someone not sharing a post on social media. I haven't encountered any of these in ages and I'm no longer Christian, so I've got no idea how or if these would affect me at this point
When I was a kid they were still sent in texts. There was this one I VIVIDLY remember scaring the shit out of me, because you'd open it up, read it, it would be about this dead girl found in the sewers, and then SOMEHOW in the middle of reading it, an image of some sort of body part in the street next to a storm drain would pop up and scare the everliving shit out of you
Yeah man Carmen Winstead scared the hut out me too. Her skinned face omfg
i know this comment is kinda old but what do you mean it would ''pop up'' while reading the text? like im genuinely curious about that one, sounds scary but i would love to look up some example of it!!
@@lhvy5066 Tbh I have no idea how they did it. A the time I was using an old qwerty keyboard phone called the Voyager. As I was reading the text it would automatically scroll down to a photo at the bottom as you were halfway through with it and "popping up", and it was extremely startling. There was that horror webcomic that did something similar and jumpscared a lot of people and I think thats the one thing that I can compare it to (that I can think of)
@@CrazyNuggetLady youre thinking of The Bongcheon-Dong Ghost i believe :3
@@RainbowwVomit I'm not actually. Since this was a text message and not a webcomic. There were no drawings. Only a picture
I think my favorite chain/copypastas were the hypersexualized, emoji filled, holiday themed texts that people would send as a joke.
YES I LOVED THOSE
I still love those
ITS THE END OF COCKTOBER...... BUT THAT MEANS ITS THE BEGINNING OF HOEVEMBER!!!! (insert a long string of emojis that have no bearing whatsoever to the copypasta as if an a.i. chose them at random)
@@niksooxyz I have never seen these before, but these seem great
Loved ‘em.
izzy, I love ur videos so much. as someone extremely neurodivergant I really love your deep dive style and the amount of effort and attention to detail you put into these videos. They're sort of like capsules of hyperfocus onto a fixation and its just really fun to hop into that space with you and hear the way you explain it. You're comprehensive and interesting and your speech patterns and mannerism just make me feel like a friend is telling me about their latest hyperfixation. Thank you for the work you put into this and the place you hold for weird internet-raised 2000s kids, its a space I didnt know we needed and I'm very grateful you've created 🖤🖤🖤
Dude, the dead girl one scared me so much as a child. I would see a stack of clothes and think it was a ghost after not emailing them to people because I didn't have any of my friends emails. Great work as always!!!
As someone with somewhat bad anxiety, i absolutely despise chainmails and copypastas. Ive never copied and pasted any before but they still make me scared something bad will happen.
The only time ive seen one kinda recently is when i first got discord one of my newest online friend sent me one and after a reading it and at least a minute of a panic attack i asked them to at least cencor it or something (which they did thankfully). I also remember being on tiktok and seeing so many of them. I had to unmutual so many people just because they saw reposted them often.
But anyways, i haven't seen any since i got a new discord and moved from tiktok to tumblr so yeah, but anyways moral of the story, dont fall for them bc their not real and can cause some serious harm to some people :p
god these were so bad for my OCD; i genuinely appreciate people who make those posts like the turtle you put at the beginning of the video because as silly as it is, it really helped alleviate some anxiety for me.
As somebody with bad paranoia, this stuff genuinely upset me. I'd have terrible breakdowns because my cousin sent me the one about Teddy. I was honestly terrified, though nowadays I willingly avoid them. They still periodically irritate me, but not as bad as before. Though I'm commenting a month later because I had to work up the courage to watch this video lmao
another type of chain mail is tiktok sounds. a couple months back, there was this "im so lucky lucky" sound that ran so insanely rampant. a lot of people with ocd and paranoia were genuinely upset about it and so was i. i had like 100 drafts on tiktok because i was worried my partner would leave me.
hi fellow homestuck fan
what exactly was the trend i'm not on tiktok much
Same here i have ocd and that audio was a nightmare for me a literall ptsd fuel i still have shit ton of drafts with that song its such a shame that a normal song got turned into a chain mail type of thing
A similar thing happens with those instagram sticker/notes things(?) that one person starts and multiple people can share on their stories. And most of them are about “share this or you faii” and shit and everytime I see them I avoid sharing them (as much anxiety it gives me to think I failed my exams because I didn’t share an instagram story), I just know in the long run it causes more people to feel stressed.
I remember receiving the "this teen fell down a open manhole " or "she was shoved down one and died" chainmail texts when I was in middle school a few times. It freaked me out back then but I didn't bother sharing it and I'm still alive.
Carmen Winstead. The thumbnail of the ghost girl lmao bruh. Trauma lmao my heart skipped a beat seeing this videos thumbnail
This video just unlocked a memory of me when I was young: sometimes I would be able to tell that a comment was a copypasta before I started actually reading the first few words and I would intentionally avert my eyes so that I wouldn't be required to do what it said just because I read the first word. I think it was usually pretty easy to tell because there's a lot of numbers towards the end of these kinds of posts so it kind of stands out in that way.