Things that scare most people, but not you

This is a place to list things that most people find creepy, but you don't. To avoid excessive complaining, please try to focus more on the positive side (i.e. "I like this thing because...") than the negative side (i.e. "I can't believe people actually find this scary.")

I've seen a lot of people call this PSA creepy across multiple uploads of the video, including this version where the pitch is lowered to give you an idea of what the original voices sounded like.

I wasn't born in the 80's, but this still makes me feel so nostalgic. I've always loved puppets, and the jazzy piano tune feels so relaxing to me. The singers are really good too. Even the "old TV" quality is more comforting than scary to me.

Edited by DrNoPuma on Dec 30th 2023 at 10:39:01 AM

Some people have called this PSA creepy? Uh, that's odd. I've always found that PSA more adorable than creepy, to be honest.

Edited by Coock-atoo on Dec 30th 2023 at 6:05:21 PM

I'm not really scared by bugs unless they're actually dangerous and in close proximity to me. When I was a kid my older sister would always run to a different room whenever a large bug came in and tell me to kill it.

Sounds like me and my younger brother. I remember him being horrified of arthropods and I’m not.

Most horror tropes in general tbh, lol. Like I can't find it in me to be scared of monsters, or slasher villains, or even most types of gore. This isn't me trying to be edgy, rather I think I'm just so disconnected from the work that while I do find it interesting and fun, I don't have the personal stake in it to find it scary. This is why I think Realism-Induced Horror and Psychological Horror work so well on me; it just feels less fake.

Makes it hard with NF images for me, since some of the stuff people find frightening has no impact on me and vice-versa.

Edited by WarJay77 on Dec 30th 2023 at 1:14:27 PM

Many things, really. When it comes to "scary animals" in particular, I don't find them nearly as scary as most folks say they are.

Even with the ones that can be dangerous in real life, it's still more of a matter of "I wouldn't want to freely interact with this particular animal" than anything.

Dunno if this counts, but I remember that the scene with the bear from Balto didn't scare me. Instead, it made me feel really sad and I even cried when the bear drowned. I felt way more bad for the bear than the heroes, even. From that point on, I couldn't stay in the room whenever the movie was shown at school, and I probably haven't seen it since around 2011 for that reason.

I was a weird kid.

All of Meat Canyon’s videos. I find them so desperate that they come off as boring.

I'm not scared of snakes, but maybe that's just because I live in New Zealand where there aren't venomous (or any) snakes.

I also never found "Mr. Friend" from Rugrats scary.

spiders. honestly id keep one as a pet if i actually bothered

PSAs and PIFs in general, really. Including the "we're not candy" one.

I've watched a lot of horror movies so I'm desensitized to a lot of "scary" PSAs and PIFs. Some of the ones about animal abuse get me because I'm a softhearted animal lover, and there's one rejected PSA about safe sex that has an animal abuse scene that's a hard "hell no" for me, but other than that, a majority of the ones I watch are pretty tame to me.

Clowns.

Non Ironic, Monstrous, Sad, I tend to like them all. I find clowns super endearing regardless of what kind they are, something about their whimsy is just pretty captivating. The ambiguity of their true nature may unnerve some, but I think it adds to their charm. I'm inofficially an enthusiast of clowns and the circus (or aesthetic thereof) as a whole, I'd like to go to one officially someday.

simp tirade incomingI'd go as far to say that I find some clown dudes attractive, a personal sentiment which I've expressed abundantly several times before 😅. Making the Laughing Jack work page was definitely the instigating effect, as I was otherwise indifferent towards clowns until then. It kinda helps that I'm also a Nightmare Fetishist, but again, genuine clowns still intrigue me, even if I lean towards the monstrous ones, especially if they still act like clowns.

Edited by BlackFaithStar on Jan 2nd 2024 at 8:58:28 PM

Somehow, when I was a Pokémon-loving kid, when I played Pearl, I wasn't scared of the Old Chateau. Even the ghost girl didn't scare me. The music was creepy, but I somehow didn't notice it until I heard it again in Turnback Cave. I was 9-10, as opposed to 6, though, so that might be a reason.

All this said, the Galactic HQ's lab area did creep me out, which it continued to do for years afterwards.

Edited by KingofNightmares on Jan 2nd 2024 at 5:53:48 AM

I remember not being all that scared of Lavender Town or the Tower.

Lavender Town and The Tower never bugged me, I do think Old Chateau gave me some creeps, not major but the ghosts gave me some chills. I think the Weird House in Unova is the best though.

Oh yes, that place in Black 2 and White 2 was creepy.

People say they were scared of the extreme closeups of Wormy from SpongeBob SquarePants, but I never found the closeups scary (though I understand why other people do).

I always found Wormy's close-ups hilarious due to how sudden and out-of-place it looks compared to the rest of the episode. That being a Medium-Shift Gag mostly works.

Yeah, that's part of why it just amused me.

And I've never been scared of the "walk cycles" scene from "The Sponge Who Could Fly", it's just goofy and the music is a real bop.

I've never found either scene scary.

I remember having more good laughs than scares at the Gross-Up Close-Up scenes in the Rapid Aging episode of Duck Dodgers. XD

I've never been scared of any scene from SpongeBob, though "The Splinter" did gross me out.

I've never been scared of snakes and spiders. I don't get why so any people have such violent reactions to just seeing online footage of them.

A lot of people talk about being disturbed over the opening of the Ark of the Covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but I never found it off-putting at all. The Nightmare Retardant (at least as far as I'm concerned) is probably the fact that it was the Nazis who were on the business end of God's wrath.

I’m also a big fan of those. :)