Those who have been Conditioned to Accept Horror in Web Originals.
- Pidanayana Buddhism in the dystopian science fiction work Ad Astra Per Aspera is a corrupted form of Buddhism that teaches that suffering is the key to Enlightenment.
- The Cinema Snob:
- Played for laughs. At this point, when he shuts his eyes and thinks of something happy, he sees the village-burning scene from Cannibal Holocaust — not because it cheers him up, but because he's seen so many disturbing films that it's his baseline. (The scene also comes to him unbidden when he listens to beautiful music.)
- In the Atop the Fourth Wall movie, he brings Salo to Linkara's movie watching party and is clearly having the time of his life while everyone else is horrified beyond words.
- In the third campaign of Critical Role, Fearne Calloway was raised by a powerful hag in the middle of a nightmarish bog in the Feywild. As a result, her conception of what is normal or comforting is wildly skewed by the standards of the rest of the party. This is in contrast with Laudna, whose own Nightmare Fetishist tendencies are the result of trauma and isolation.
- Daisy Brown's first video shows her casually illustrating how she feeds Alan, a Body Horror monstrosity made by her father. Her third video has her explain she didn't realize that monsters weren't exactly commonplace, hence her calm demeanor around Alan. For the most part, his weirdness doesn't really affect her. Well, until he starts growing, at least.
- Unlike most Analog Horror series, where the episode either show the horror happening in real time, in Gemini Home Entertainment, the horror already happened. As soon as "World's Weirdest Animals" begins, we're thrusted into a world of people who know exactly what is happening and are still trying to function in a new and corrupted reality, where very bizarre plants, animals, and other... things have already settled down.
- How to Survive Camping: Kate has been prepared to take over the campsite her whole life, which, combined with the monstrous beings and occasional casualties she has to deal with on a regular basis, has left her mostly unfazed by most of the horrors occurring around her. Even having to commit murder herself appears to be an unfortunate necessity at worse for her.
- This actually plays out in her favor when facing the master of the vanishing house, after it has assumed the form of a monstrous, mutilated human-deer hybrid, with a gaping, slimy mouth splitting its body:The master: Do you fear me now?
Kate: Buddy, you are asking the wrong person. I have a dead girl knocking on my window every single night and every morning I get to listen to her be dragged off by a monstrous beast. And that’s probably among the least of the horrific things I’ve witnessed.
- This actually plays out in her favor when facing the master of the vanishing house, after it has assumed the form of a monstrous, mutilated human-deer hybrid, with a gaping, slimy mouth splitting its body:
- Agents in LISDEAD are conditioned right down to their exact personality and while some like Dramatic Detective don't entirely seem to like it, they at least put up with it because it's useful.
- THE MONUMENT MYTHOS: The world, and the USA in particular, seem entirely used to and worryingly familiar with catastrophic supernatural events. If you have a relative that was fed to the creature under the Statue of Liberty you may be entitled to financial compensation, people are entirely aware the Grand Canyon is full of walking headless corpses and giant, rotten flying heads, and when the Suez Canal Crab crisis happened, people weren't terrified of a gigantic crab-like monstrosity emerging from the canal, but rather pissed off at the USA for waking it up with all the hands-off outrage of a Twitter hashtag.
- The Music Video Show had some spades of this. In Episode 3
, the host was scared of the stop motion, smaller version of Soulja Boy. Cut to the Big Bad Wolf episode in the music video. Averted in the Final Thoughts...maybe"So this is what a midlife crisis feels like..." - The Nostalgia Critic's Dark and Troubled Past has caused him to be biased in this way, like when he's telling off the boy in North for having a panic attack because apparently every set of parents violently argue at the dinner table.
- Not Always Right: This kid was way too calm considering his mother went psychotic earlier.Writer: Little boy, how are you just so calm in all this?
Customer's Son: This isn’t the first time this has happened. Last time, she kicked someone where it hurts a lot, ’cause he fell over crying and stuff. - The protagonists of Twig are artificially created children who hunt mad scientists in order to help maintain the information monopoly of an Academy of Evil, and so they are often deceptively cheerful in going about their business. They're having fun, challenging themselves, and fulfilling their intended purposes, after all - why wouldn't they be happy?
- Vita Carnis: Society at large apparently accepts the Crawl and its various non-violent spawn as a part of everyday life. Some people even keep Trimmings (which resemble a cross between a giant grub and a skinless raccoon) as pets, and Meat Snakes are incorporated into the waste disposal industry as helpful tools due to their docile nature and willingness to consume any dead organic material. Mimics, while dangerous, are treated mostly like other apex predators such as bears and cougars in the tapes. Of course, then we find out that there are things even more dangerous to people than mimics, and that the government and media don't want us to know some things about them.
- Welcome to Night Vale:
- Night Vale's citizens are totally aware of and undisturbed by the maniacal City Council, the possibly demonic mayor, the Sheriff's Secret Police, the vague, yet menacing government agencies, the sinister Hooded Figures, the Alien Geometries of the dog park and radio station, and countless other vaguely Lovecraftian horrors. If you see something, say nothing and drink to forget.
- Two-parter episode The Sandstorm reveals that Night Vale's seemingly pleasant and cheerful rival city Desert Bluffs is actually even worse, both in terms of horror and in terms of their acceptance of it.
