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Vibing Leaf is obviously, a horror content creator. So, naturally, most videos tend to be either chilling or downright terryfing.


  • Starting with the doomed. series, we have Sleepy Hills.mp4 and LandingOnVoid.mp4. The first video has Sonic running through a level called "Night" (which is Green Hill Zone but at night) where at the very end of it we see black filth stuck on the level's background near a cliff, on which Sonic jumps off. Even before that, we see withered flowers possibly dripping said black filth and a chunk of the level grounds is missing, giving the implication that something is off. Then, in the LandingOnVoid.mp4 video, we see Sonic land in a level called "Where". It's a black void with red mountains and rings and, as with the "Night" level, is also missing a good size of the ground.
  • HiddenFootages.mp4 starts with the footage of an empty room with a table while offscreen, we hear two people arguing (One of them is called Michael). Then we get to hear the audio of what can best be described as a demonic whisper, that only ends when we hear said entity's evil laugh and another audio of someone with a deep menacing voice, saying:
    • And the scariest part of the video is what comes next. Suddenly, we get footage of a dark room with an old tube television, showing gameplay of Sonic running through a fiery apocalyptic hell. The television malfunctions and everything goes full pitch black. We then hear the same laugh before the television turns on again... playing the famous drowning music. And as if it wasn't enough, we then get to see a beautiful image of Sonic.exe smiling with captions below, saying: "BAD JOB".
  • UnfoldingThePast.mp4. After the reveal that this entity is actually a malevolent artificial intelligence named doomed, we get a jumpscare of, you guessed it, doomed itself for a split of a second. The rest of the video shows the progress made through the early builds of the ROM until we get a message of doomed talking about how this was the moment they start to grow. Then we see Sonic running in what appears to be a desert, before multiple heads of the entity doomed start appearing all over the screen.
    • And then the grand finale, we see doomed floating in the same fiery hell of Hidden Footages, staring directly at the viewer, before the flames are extinguished and doomed distorts its face, after repeating YOU ARE SUCH A FOOL over and over again.
  • UnwantedReminder.mp4 doomed reminds Nick about how his friends are not safe, and that something will be after them sooner or later. And speaking of nightmare faces...
  • LostRelative.mp4 An Apocalyptic Log about how Michael made a Deal With The Devil to find his brother Oliver while in the background there's a pale human-like corpse staring at us, without any eyes. Suddenly, the corpse's face distorts into the silhouette of doomed, with a Wham Line from doomed itself:
  • Red Mist Re-Take, Vibing Leaf's Breakthrough Hit. The fact he managed to turn one of the worst, laughable creepypastas of all time into a realistic depiction of struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts is surreal.
    • The video starts out fairly normal, until the fish that shows up at Squidward's door suddenly turns creepy, begging Squidward to save himself from the Red Mist, however Squidward ignores the warning. After he yells at SpongeBob and Patrick for being annoying, they briefly turn ominous as the music briefly glitches.
    • After Squidward shoots himself, we then hear the audio of SpongeBob repeating Squidward's name, before seeing his corpse, screaming his name as Squidward's face appears in a burning background and with most of his head censored.
    Squidward? Squidward? SQUIDWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
  • This Man Re-Imagined Despite the whole video being about just a normal man trying to find his wife through the world of dreams, it does not become any less scary, especially with that Slasher Smile.
  • The same thing happens with HEROBRINE. Despite the happy ending, the whole video has an unsettling supernatural aura in it.
  • The Grieving Re-Take. Oh boy... where do we start? With the scene where Gumball grieves over his siblings' deaths? With the scene where Darwin finds Anais's head decapitated? The scene where we see Darwin himself get decapitated? The scene where we see what decapitated them? The scene where Gumball hangs himself? This video got so much Nightmare Fuel that it would probably fill up a whole car!
  • Mario19 is about someone playing a strange Japanese Super Mario Bros kaizo fangame. Even before the true horror starts, the title screen feels off, as it has a reddish palette with Japanese words.
    • The video starts fairly normal with Mario stomping goombas and jumping through floating platforms. At one point we see a grey plane-shaped? object floating across the screen. The player follows the strange object, while part of the scenario becomes glitchy, with floating Koopas and pipes. Then, when the player encounters a single goomba wandering, the goomba stops and its head explodes out of nowhere. Then the true horror begins.
  • The retake for Mouse.avi is also scary. It starts with Mickey falling out with Minnie and then seeing her go out with someone else, making him sad as he starts walking down a street like in the original pasta, but then a picture falls in front of him, reminding him of a friend he lost to a shipwreck. This makes him Laughing Mad before he continues walking down the street as a smile grows on his face until it becomes a full Slasher Smile as the city starts to burn until he collapses, while he ends up going to heaven and seeing his deceased friend, it then cuts back to his dead body in the burning city.
  • deadplants.mp4 is VibingLeaf's most popular video to date as of this writing, and while it ends off genuinely sweet, the journey to that ending is nothing short of terrifying.
    • The Zomboss battle. From the start, the roof has gone purely dark, haunted by a red sky. Then when Zomboss finally steps in, he starts placing down zombies... with completely darkened faces and creepily darkened eyes, while the music has been replaced with an eerie bell tune. Eventually, Zomboss lowers his Zombot's head to reveal that he and the head he pilots have become incomprehensibly grotesque. After his defeat, the video starts stuttering rapidly as the Zombot explodes, and the player is "rewarded" with a photorealistic skull.
    • The level after the Zomboss battle starts with a mother talking to her presumed daughter, offering her one more level before she departs. The level starts off normally enough... until a third of the field is shrouded in darkness, and a deathly white Peashooter emerges from within, followed by even more of the freakish zombies from the previous level. They eat plants in a single bite, with each plant appearing in the darkness, the same deathly white as the Peashooter and floating in death. The mother then rants about how her father abandoned his entire family...
    ''"Your father once told me "Some sacrifices has to be made"... I and your dad was a family, Dinara. All of the names on the graves are the names I remember of ones he left to die. Haven't you recognized them and ever questioned why did they die? He left me to die, left my sister to die, left my brother to die, left my mother to die, left my family to die. All for a stupid war.
  • Cancelled Pingu Finale ending. It starts off more on the somber side, with melancholy music playing as Pingu struggles to sleep. He remembers a moment between him and Pinga, who's presumably dead here, and he starts hitting his head on his bed, which seems to be either frustrated Head Desk type venting, or thrashing out of struggle. That is, until he hits his head hard enough to split it open, revealing that he committed suicide! The description of the video gives context to the whole thing, revealing that Pingu and Pinga were playing on a trampoline, until Pingu accidentally turned on a ceiling fan and got Pinga's head sliced open as a result. The head splitting turned out to be, as the description puts it, Pingu "finishing his punishment". The video is short, but easily one of the most effective videos VibingLeaf ever made.
  • Mario World: Ignited Hatred is Leaf’s take on I HATE YOU and it truly does the original pasta justice. Things go about the same as they did in the original story but then it shows a alternative route where if Mario touched the smiling mushroom, it states a new path has opened and thanks Mario for the blood donation. Mario then encounters his brother who can’t go through with hurting him. Mario then tries to follow him before the game crashes and that’s how the video ends.
    • The chilling scream Luigi makes when he burns to death doesn't help either. And let's not get started on his corpse in the aftermath of said incident. What the everloving FUCK.
  • Continuing the trend of Leaf reimagining classic creepypastas, False Pokémon Copies News Report appears to be a new take on Lavender Town Syndrome and BURIEDALIVE. The video opens on a Japanese news report about a boy committing suicide after playing a mysterious Pokémon game. The news then shows what happened when people investigating the case tried playing his game.
    • The player is subjected to a Hopeless Boss Fight against a creature known as "HEPBURN", which resembles the Lavender Town ghost. Its appearance isn't too creepy... but when it starts sending out its "Pokémon", things quickly go south. Each of them resembles a vague smokey figure with pixelated static resembling eyes all over their body. Worse, watchers quickly realized that the names of the creatures (DER, EMIL, and ELUB) are "Red", "Lime", and "Blue". With the player of the cartridge being named "GREEN", this suggests that these things might be HEPBURN's previous victims, now made into his minions.
    • DER and EMIL are defeated very easily, but ELUB is significantly worse. It's too fast for any of GREEN's team to get off a single hit, and it spams a move only called "???" each turn, which instantly defeats whatever it's used on. Each time the move is used, the animation is different; first, it uses the animation for Lick (the only damage-dealing Ghost-type move in Generation 1), then it simply shows a black screen the second time. The third, nothing happens at all, and for the fourth, the screen simply goes white without ever showing what happens to the Gengar it was used on. The vague name and inconsistent animations suggest some form of You Cannot Grasp the True Form is at play, with the game struggling to even display what ELUB is doing.
    • Once all of GREEN's Pokémon have been defeated, another horrifying creature appears - possibly HEPBURN's true form with all the cartooniness disappeared. Instead, it resembles a ghost with a screaming, eyeless human face on it. It commands the player to "LISTEN"... And then the video ends, leaving the player with no answers for what just happened.
    • The video lacks any kind of music outside of a faint buzzing noise - reminiscent of the high-frequency tones that supposedly killed people in the original Lavender Town Syndrome story. Worse, if you have a quick eye, you can see a frame of the ghost from the end commanding you to listen at the very start of the video, implying that the sounds were being played the entire video, and broadcasting it live on television may have spread the infection and killed an enormous amount of people.

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