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OH CRAP SHE HAS AIRPODS ON SHE CANT HEAR US
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Enough miles per gallon to eternally run away from whatever lame garbage is haunting you!
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And you call him Dead Bart despite the fact he is obviously Homer.

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literally just me testing things and using weed as an example.

Are you sure it's just you?

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the guys on the right look like they're on weed tbh

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they clearly lit up too much 420-J

  • Oh FREAKING HELL, the "weed" folder. It starts off with the word "weed" at varying indentations, and ends with the old jumpscare image of SCP-1875, with the caption on how it's the aftermath of SCP-420-J providing next to little-to-no help on allieviating the horror when you scroll too slow.

⬆️ you're welcome —Freecom (edit: pilfered a less creepy image from /r/dankmemesfromsite19)

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SITEA
"Estas son las dos caras de un mismo problema. Cuando tomás alcohol en exceso, el alcohol te toma a vos."Translation 
Tagline from their infamous mask advert.
SITEA (Sistema Teleducativo Argentinonote ) was an Argentine state-owned educational television broadcasting company created by the country's Sistema de Medios de Comunicación. The network's purpose was to air Public Service Announcements about education, ecology, maternity, healthy eating, cholera prevention, addictions, alcoholism, road safety, home accidents, sports violence, and consumer rights.

The network's ads aired in over-the-air TV networks during commercial breaks and became notorious in their home country for featuring fictionalized and highly-dramatized real-life scenarios to raise awareness about these issues, making them a rife source of Nightmare Fuel, especially the infamous anti-alcoholism advert.

Compare to similar campaign Luchemos Por La Vida.

SITEA's ads provide examples of the following tropes:

  • Harmful to Minors: While the ads from the "Maternidad sin Riesgos" campaign are tame, SITEA launched two harrowing PSAs about drinking/smoking while pregnant; they start with a woman smoking/drinking, which then cuts to a newborn baby in front of her. When it cuts back to the woman, she proceeds to blow smoke at the baby or empty a can of beer into a sippy cup before fading to black with the caption, "Would you do this to a newborn?" Then the ad fades back to a smoking/drinking man before the camera pans left to show the woman next to him smoking/drinking as the camera pans down to reveal she's pregnant. The ad fades into black again with the caption, "Then, why do this before it's born?".
  • Nightmare Face: The infamous mask advert features a Monster Clown with a scary grinning mask, laughing as he drinks alcohol. Later on as his laughter start to distort into what sounds like crying, he turns back to reveal an equally creepy mask with a sad expression.

Check the final image in the SCP article, it's changed from the original, making it negative 50% less terrifying.

If you look up the filename of the photo the SCP-1875 image was edited from, it's actually kind of funny. It's a Wikipedia photo of two women riding on Wild Mouse at Aussie World.

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I'll need you to install this driver.

     literally me just copying and pasting removed sections from the Nickelodeon Nightmare Fuel page because I can 
  • Foul Facts. Most of them have so much gross-out humor, you may want to stay away from these shorts.
  • This video involving the Nick splat logo transforming into various objects (including a jack-o-lantern, an electric guitar, a chattering teeth toy, a skull, etc.) against a black background. The music cues (even the ones that try not to sound creepy) are all a bit unsettling and/or eerie in one way or another, and the darkness, quick animations, and rather fast zooming of the splat don't help.
  • The "Compilation" bumper features characters and scenes from a lot of Nickelodeon's even older bumpers. While many consider this an awesome bumper, there's so much weird noises and crap flying at you that a few children were profoundly creeped out by it.
  • This 1988 Nickelodeon bumper (also shown in the UK during closedown) is creepy in its own rights, with wolves howling "OOOOOOOOHOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" on a solid white background with an eerie noise.
  • This one has very soothing music and creepy claymation kids.
  • While not aired on Nickelodeon itself, an ident on Nicktoons Network in 2004 named "The Dancer" could qualify. Its dancers that are always up in your face and the loud, fast-paced wonky music probably spooked more than a few younger viewers. The fact that it would air at unexpected times during the commercials didn't help, and it can probably be considered a Jump Scare for some who don't expect it. YMMV, as some may find it nostalgic.
  • Just... this. The girl's sounds, the shape of the splatter, the "Psycho" Strings. Words simply do NOT do it justice!
  • For some, the Nickelodeon haypile logo seen at the end of several VHS tapes and DVDs can be scary. Not only because of the dark background and the (sometimes) silence, but the haypile itself looks unsettling. Nobody can really tell what is supposed to be. Special mention goes to the variant at the end of The Wild Thornberrys Adventures Down Under, where it appears directly in and out of nowhere, but then it stays on screen for a whole minute. It's enough to send chills down your spine. Another variant has the haypile, but no copyright notice. And it was seen on Nick Jr. tapes. This fanfic based on the logo tells the story about the haypile escaping from the TV, and trying to kill the narrator.
    • The worst example is from the early seasons of Rugrats, where it would have bizarre and sometimes frightening noises playing. Including one that was just muttering followed by a sharp screech.
  • There is an ident from Nick Jr. in 2006 which starts normal but then seconds later, the Kooky Kid from Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! appears out of nowhere and say "KOOKY" in your face. This ident has scared some children.
  • The sign off bumper for Nickelodeon Junior (Nick Jr. in France) in 2011. The bumper features a nighttime background with Dora sleeping at the bottom. Though there is soothing music, the realistic sounds played in this bumper is what makes it just unsettling and eerie. The baby laughing sound effect in this bumper doesn't help.
  • Though most find the Noggin bumpers from 2002-2009 to be creative, some find them to be a bit unnerving.
  • After Noggin showed it's "Done Day" song, there was a countdown clock with a disclaimer screen on a brick wall background with birds chirping (Yes, the same bird chirping sound from the Rugrats episode "No Place Like Home") and winds blowing that sound like they were from a horror movie. The worst part however, would be the 2003/2004 variant of the bumper . After 10 seconds of chirping birds, there would be a female announcer voice coming out of nowhere going "It is now 6PM. Noggin is over for today. But you can see more Noggin tomorrow and every day from 6AM to 6PM on TV and any time on Noggin.com". Thankfully, in 2005, they changed the bumper and excluded the announcer. It was probably due to some kids being frightened by the bumper.
  • Nick Jr.'s idents aren't normally freaky, with the exception being the so-called Spooky Night, involving a scared boy hiding under his cover, noticing an angry cat arching its back and a bird flying past his window, accompanied by suspenseful music until the boy notices two cats under his bed (an orange cat with "NICK" on it and a blue cat with "JR." on it). The cat's screeching doesn't help either, with it sounding WAY too loud. It was SO loud, that the bumper ended up being canned by 1992. Had the cat been screeching like the cat in the bumper, it'd probably wake up the whole town.
  • The Nickelodeon Productions "lightbulb" logo, seen at the end of most of Nickelodeon's live-action programming from 1996 through at least the mid-2000s, can be rather unsettling, especially to younger viewers, as it's essentially a glowing orange lightbulb on a black background with the Nickelodeon wordmark on it as sounds of electric current can be heard.
  • On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, was arrested after being accused of buying something with counterfeit money. Though he did not resist arrest and was willing to walk into the police car, the officers held him down and strangled him to death by kneeling on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, inspiring outrage across the United States. Nickelodeon released a Public Service Announcement supporting an end to Police Brutality, symbolically running an ad for the same amount of time that Floyd was asphyxiated for. The result is absolutely haunting, being nothing but a black screen, a countdown, text saying "I CAN'T BREATHE" and a cause to support, and the sound of breathing. It got the point across. Nickelodeon's variation only used an orange background with a line of text scrolling up the screen (possibly to avoid frightening children).
    • Apparently, Nick Jr., their channel for preschoolers wasn't as lucky as they got the "I can't breathe!" advert.
  • This video involving the Nick splat logo transforming into various objects (including a jack-o-lantern, an electric guitar, a chattering teeth toy, a skull, etc.) against a black background. The music cues (even the ones that try not to sound creepy) are all a bit unsettling and/or eerie in one way or another, and the darkness, quick animations, and rather fast zooming of the splat don't help.
  • To some, Face, the Nick Jr. mascot from 1994 to 2004, was a prime source of Accidental Nightmare Fuel. He's essentially a talking, Kirby-esque face that takes up the entire TV screen and makes weird faces and sounds in front of a color-changing background. Many of these children are still scared of him as adults.
  • The "Me and My Friends" Backyardigans pilot. The costume character designs can look way too disturbing and goes too much to the Unintentional Uncanny Valley for most people.
  • The animation in the "Spongebob's Nicktoon Summer Splash" block. The Flash-like animation is so cheap that it's a bit unnerving to very few people.
    • The same style is also used in the "Astrology with Squidward" shorts.
  • "Worldwide Day of Play" was a yearly event in which all Nickelodeon programming was shut off for a few hours. Each channel (Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nicktoons, and The N) had a different display to tell you to go outside, which felt more like an emergency broadcast:
    • The main Nickelodeon channel had a man repeating a message telling you to turn off your electronics and go outside. The pauses in his speech are rather unnerving.
    • Noggin's is arguably the scariest. After the mascot tells you that he's going outside to play, he walks offscreen and you're treated to hours of a school background. The ambient noises are creepy, consisting of water drops, squeaking, and kids cheering. Yes, Noggin, the preschooler's channel, had this one.
    • Nicktoons has a completely black screen with the Worldwide Day of Play logo. Below that is a scrolling message saying that you should go out to play because the message will keep repeating.
    • The N's screen isn't completely black like Nicktoons, but it does have some strange ambiance, consisting of muffled childrens' voices, birds chirping, and occasional screams of excitement.
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But when it turns to face you, you'd rather be elsewhere. Its perturbing expression, a sight too much to bear.

^ who is this worm looking mf i like their vibe

  • lou reed "metal machine music" its just a guitar for like 3 minutes. Scary!

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