Follow TV Tropes

This is based on opinion. Please don't list it on a work's trope example list.

Following

Nightmare Fuel / NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD

Go To

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/welcome_to_the_internet_angels_stream.png
Welcome to the internet angel's stream!note 

From the get-go, it's clear that Ame's not the most well-adjusted person, but you can delve into some dark paths and take her streaming career in creepy directions.

WARNING: All spoilers ahead are unmarked, as per Nightmare Fuel guidelines!


  • The various scripted events that play out when Ame's stress levels go too high for the first time. It really makes you not want to break her because these scenes are unpleasant.
    • First time stress level 80+: Ame abruptly starts the day with an ominous red background and distorted music as she asks P-Chan to cut her arm. After a few cuts she streams with "An Important Message" that gets the viewers a little concerned and her stress significantly drops afterwards, but the Mood Whiplash is off-putting at minimum.
    • First time hitting the 100 stress cap: The screen and background music distorts, and once they go back to normal, then tells P-Chan that she wanted to die. Later on she streams with the title "a" where she breaks down and tells people to kill her, accompanied with a deranged sound track. The stress level will cap at 120 after this, but she would break down a lot more easier.
  • If you bring both Ame's mental darkness and affection high enough, she will look very deranged on her webcam, and instead of walking off-screen when you order her to, she hunches her way through.
  • When Ame's mental darkness reaches 100% and she takes a Magic Grass, there is a very low chance that the screen will distort VERY rapidly, followed by the text "DELETE IMMEDIATELY" flooding it and the game kicking you back to the title screen. note 
  • The "There Are No Angels" ending sees Ame succumb to despair after failing to reach half her goal, and so she goes out with a bang by livestreaming her suicide. Even the in-game chat is panicking.
  • The "Needy Girl Overdose" ending when you answer Ame's questions incorrectly and/or fail to provide a 100-character paragraph with the word "Ame" on it note . The whole screen will turn red and the music will become distorted, and Ame will keep spamming "you don't [love me] do you" as the screen goes redder. This ends with Ame stabbing her PC with a knife, with pink, blood-like liquid staining it and the cracked screen, the implication being she was having a meltdown right in front of her screen talking to herself.
  • The "Internet Overdose" ending is a very long and drawn-out ending where you are robbed of any proper agency while Ame succumbs to stress and the game goes off the rails. The interface begins breaking down and Ame greatly overdoses on her meds while undergoing a Sanity Slippage. It caps off with what was implied to be a hallucination of KAngel streaming while covered in blood and holding a funeral photo of Ame with no negative comments, indicating that whatever sanity she had in that ending, it was gone for good.
    • In Day 27 of this sequence, the last Vanity Search floods the whole interface with numerous pop-ups that start with a bunch of creepy eyes that stare at you, and once the eyes on these pop-ups open, they turn into all sorts of inflammatory comments about her puking or sarcastic remarks involving her real name or her real-life location. And once you close every single one of them, the furthermost pop up is a massive warning window titled: "DIE" with only 2 options: OK. Afterwards the actual breakdowns start for real.
    • Her first stream after overdosing is titled "DIE" and has her screaming hysterical and insane things against her fans combined with absolutely unhinged expressions, pointing to that she isn't even trying to be sane anymore. And it just becomes even worse from here.
    • After that stream, she's just cowering in fear while the doorbell is constantly ringing. She's been doxxed and swatted — or at least she thinks she is — and the anxiety in the situation is palpable. Then the game suddenly gives you movement and a strange pop-up appears, which brings us to....
    • The final breakdown sequence. From that point on the screen is filled with eye-like bubbles, various distortions, the background music being replaced by some disturbing and loud noise, Ame acting completely off-rail on the webcam and her JINE messages / Tweeter posts degenerate into insane and incoherent ramblings, with P-Chan's dialogue deteriorating in the same way as her. Based on how P-chan is implied to be Ame making stuff up, this is wholly justified.
    • Her last stream, "Diagram of the Body," is just nasty. Not only the wall of her home is splattered with blood and most of the decor on it are displaced, her Dissonant Serenity is incredibly off-putting, and her viewers are rightfully worried and terrified about her mental health.
      • The blood itself might add to the horror, or at least the amount does. It could be from Ame, but it would be hard to hide the wounds which result in that much blood, even with a costume. In one off-hand conversation however, at least one stray cat was mentioned, and she also rambled about making curry and a cat prior. Was she so insane that she killed that cat to make curry?
    • Gameplay-wise, it also does an excellent job in catching you off guard. When it triggers at Day 25, it doesn't look any different from a normal free day. Your sole warning that you had fatally mismanaged Ame by that point is all free activities you can otherwise take are greyed out, at which point the only thing you can do is to enjoy the pleasant sight that takes place afterwards. The whole sequence of events are also scripted to play out in the same pattern, although one might not notice it at the first time they're around.
    • The official anthology manga provides a possible aftermath to this ending, and it's far from pretty. The good news is Ame regains the ability to think or act coherently. The bad news is she's now jailed and isolated from the outside world and the internet, taking the full brunt of what can be summed up as her worst nightmare. Given how Ame relies heavily on the Internet or whatever little human interactions she could come across, this is not good for her sanity and if her sentence even ends, she would be scarred for life.
    • However, in general, the terror of this ending comes from how painfully realistic it is. Nothing outlandish or exaggerated here — it's simply someone gradually losing her own mind and breaking down in and out of stream over a real-life social problem. There's a very unsettling factor about seeing a live person break down completely on stream, and then it's another thing to hear your favorite streamer suddenly went onto a series of breakdowns, get doxxed because of it, then positively ramps up the scale within a week...and she ends up either dying to drug overdose, being incarcerated or became so insane that she was rendered catatonic. All the while when people are laughing at her behind her back or wondering if it's just a bad LARP.
  • A later update introduces another ending that is one long gruesome sequence. Hit one million subs with 120 stress or higher, and instead of the usual "Internet Angel 5" stream you'll get a special stream where KAngel streams with her usual outfit but with Ame's black and red coloration while a distorted version of the "Do You Love Me?" BGM plays and she starts spouting some absolutely spiteful words against her viewers and the internet while making deranged expressions like in the "Internet Overdose" ending. The stream on the day after is even worse. KAngel lifts off her sleeves and shows the wristcut wounds on her arm to her streamers while making her deranged rant, then slits her neck with a cutter on stream with pink blood splattering the interface. The BGM when the suicide stream plays out? The 8-bit version of INTERNET OVERDOSE.
  • At first glance, "INTERNET YAMERO", a song made to promote the manga, is just a cheery and catchy pop song with references to many ancient Japanese internet memes... but the lyrics are about the internet as a destructive addiction with references to suicide and substance abuse thrown around. The MV is also largely consisted of heavily distorted, flashing and horrific imagery. Given Ame being a mentally disturbed, suicidal drug addict who's also perpetually addicted to the internet as an escapist mechanism, it can't be any more fitting note .

Top