The Bizarre World of Fake Psychics, Faith Healers and Mediums is scary because it's full of Realism-Induced Horror, that being the destructive world of pseudoscience and psychics who prey upon vulnerable people seeking comfort for their daily horrors. It's also one of the few episodes with a content warning. Most of the horror stems from the fact that not only are some of the psychics terrible at their jobs and are often caught on live television, they still end up being massively successful, with cable networks constantly backing them up and reintroducing them to a new audience. Then there's the fact that thousands of people have destroyed the lives of themselves and their children with the pursuit of alternative medicine instead of traditional medicine and used psychics in "solving" missing person cases. The fact that the ongoing pandemic has made matters even worse is not helping things, with Wolf even stating at the end that "if we can't decide what to believe in, what hope do we have".
What the Internet Did to Garfield might be the scariest episode yet. That includes the videos focusing on fake healers and mediums, or any of the ones about horror media in general. It's an hour-plus-long essay about the existential, depression-inducing nightmare of Jon Arbuckle, as well as the Lovecraftian cosmic horror fan art inspired by his parasitic relationship with Garfield. A lot of it is Wolf speaking with incredulity that someone could turn something so mundane into something so scary.
Arguably the scariest aspect of the episode is "Sex Survey Results", a 4+ hour video where Jon repeatedly answers the door, only to find a mannequin version of himself telling both their name and number of sexual partners. This goes on mind-numbingly long and slowly distorts and becomes something much more disturbing until Jon answers the door one last time and sees himself. The focus now switches to the "other" Jon who ages several decades in seconds. What comes after that is... nonsensical to say the least, but let's just say that the final scene is so disturbing it's a miracle that Lasagna Cat, the account behind said video, got away with the otherwise strict user terms of YouTube.
John describing his experience with the "Garfield Effect". Where if you go looking for Garfield, you will find Garfield. Seeing him in TV shows, social media, news articles, even when watching the newest Dexter: New Blood episode, Garfield was there. All of it culminating in a conversation with his mother where she mentions finding an old picture of John with his Garfield doll. John didn't believe that as he claimed he couldn't remember growing up liking Garfield, only to show the picture and confirm that is him. Garfield has somehow reached into the past.
The Influencer video gives us a more lowkey type of horror with its anecdote about how you, as a smalltime YouTube content creator, could and will get destroyed by the culture it brings. Celebrity Is Overrated does not begin to describe what happens — while you start out innocent enough, the dopamine rush of people liking and reacting to your content makes you seek out their attention; makes you hyper aware of all the faceless, sneering "Andrews" that only grow in number the more famous you are, who then start networking and joining together in their hatred of you; makes you try to adjust your content to better fit what they like and what will get more hits, rather than what you want; makes you paranoid when the haters start getting more personal (like telling you they know where you live); and most of all, makes you alienated from the struggles of both your fans and your inner circle, while all of them think you still have it made. Worse yet, you haven't actually become your own person — your boss is just YouTube itself, a silent, looming robotic entity that dictates how much money you earn and if your content gets seen at all, but will never tell you how to succeed let alone talk to you.
The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games covers some rather disturbing media one after another, such as the Lacey Games, Valle Verde, and the artwork of horror creators such as @ghostgods or @plastiboo (most notably Vermis I for the latter). The terrifying imagery or jumpscares by Nightmare Faces in these works, plus their intentionally cryptic nature as walkthroughs/screenshots/guides of horror games that do not exist and are implied to be more than just games, which are all topped off by John's ominous and suspenseful analysis of all the creepy details and the background music... definitely not a video to watch late at night.
