When the Creepypastas/video games that Mutahar reads or plays isn't trying to scare you or make you laugh, it tends to fall under here.
- The main character of Belief in Oneself
Mark is diagnosed with schizophrenia and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, having lived with hallucinations for his entire life. His older brother was leaving for college when he decides to give Mark his Nintendo GameCube and collection of games, to let him experience video games for the first time (which he couldn't because he was "mentally unfit". Mark ends up playing through the collection and enjoying it, until with the help of his brother he comes across a game he hadn't played before: SuperSmashBrosMelee. Mark gives it a try, but when he dies the game wouldn't let him continue. He tries to pass it off as a hallucination, but couldn't get passed the continue screen which eventually just showed the word "Nobody". He then finds similar problems with other games in the collection until he figures out each of them was conveying a single message: "Nobody Believes You". Whether he tries to get a friend or family member to experience what he had (including recording footage) no anomalies would show, and they never did believe him. As the feeling of mistrust and strange occurrences began to further frustrate him, he takes the games' advice and tries to kill himself, but it fails when his dog wakes his parents up before he could die, and is sent to a mental hospital.]- To top it all off, the story never makes it clear whether he was actually hallucinating the events in the games, or the games were toying and tormenting him endlessly.
"Because in the end, the game was right. Because it was real. It was real to me." - Lavender Test is, as you would expect, about Pokemon. The story starts off as a nameless trainer sleeping in a hotel with his prized Poliwag named Whirly. When the character reawakens, he finds himself trapped in a desolate purple room without his Pokemon. As the wails from other inmates around him sound off (the end reveals that many of them were Driven to Suicide) the infamous Lavender Town theme blares out from speakers, which causes the surviving inmates panic and disorder. This goes on for an unknown length of time, with the music on an endless loop. At some point, Whirly is tossed to him. In the log documenting the events of the test, the very end of the story tells us that he suffered a Heroic BSoD and devoured Whirly from lack of food, having passed the test for being in Team Rocket.
- Eric is based around Animal Crossing: Wild World where a young man is suddenly greeted in his town by another player simply known as Eric who appears in his town and, among other things, ask if he has a globe. The two spent some time together, with Eric helping out with a debt he owed in-game and sending letters written with poor grammar and spelling. However, the protagonist thinks that he had started to become a nuisance with bothering his neighbors, and freezes when he gets a letter outside of the game from Eric. The tear-jerker comes right in the ending where their final encounter has the protagonist sick of the damage Eric has done, but Eric gives him one last letter simply reading "its hot here so hott" before his avatar leaves and isn't found in either his town or the writer's. The next day, his mother hands him a newspaper with the headline reading that a nine year-old boy named Eric Thompson died in a house fire, and that he was the narrator's cousin. The narrator makes the connection and checks on his game to see that Eric had left another note saying that he had a lot of fun and wished that they could have kept playing. In memorium, the narrator ends up buying a globe like Eric asked he had when they first met.
- I Won't Leave You is about two Pokemon, Tyrin and Lonliness meeting each other, with the latter needing consult (it was implied that he was Driven to Suicide in his introduction, and Word of God confirms it) and the two ended up becoming close friends in a short time span. This friendship is soon broken up by an unexplained ghastly force that starts to torture poor Lonliness to death, full of Gorn and Eye Scream and party possessing Tyrin before Lonliness has his head painfully removed from his shoulders with a grieving Tyrin. The dialogue was written by two different people to give their conversations a realistic and emotional depth.
- Even worse, what is written so far of the sequel is that Lonliness didn't just die, he was trapped in the blank void that took his body in the end, fully conscious and that the only way for the curse to be removed from him (and revive him) is if Tyrin takes up the mantle and become the living embodiment of grief himself, which he accepts and is turned into a Axe-Crazy Blood Knight with Lonliness becoming his Living Emotional Crutch.
- Even worse, what is written so far of the sequel
- Just a "Nightmare" follows the story of a man (from the perspective of you) going through his daily ritual of going to work. The story gives us the exposition that his wife had recently passed away, and he had no family to consult to and his friends are not exactly the best help. The story makes it clear that he is suffering from depression, and is looking for a way to break out of the habit. It is mentioned that he brought a "surprise" to work. The "surprise" is revealed to be a gun, which he takes out in front of the crowd and, after the crowd tries to persuade him into putting it down, he kills himself. Then, without warning, the story repeats the first paragraph word for word, implying that he's stuck in an endless loop... The fact that the story realistically depicts depression and suicide in a relating way got to some people.
- Mutahar's "R.I.P. Etika" video, where he discusses his feelings and thoughts on the passing of Etika, who tragically passed away after committing suicide. Not helped where Mutahar calls out the more toxic side of Etika's fanbase who simply encouraged Etika's unstable behavior (and ripping into people over the "clown" meme that spammed Etika with it).
- Mutahar once discussed living in a post-9/11 world, describing how he was judged due to his ethnicity...but to him, he didn't let it break him. He instead pushed himself to be better and to show everyone he is what he is. Despite his fury about how the world, in his view, became exactly what it was to him growing up (in his view, "getting mad for being mad). It does go into heartwarming territory when he tells his audience that they are the best example of being good people and not give into fear and hate, and how he knows people can be good and better, if they were to just not give into fear and anger.
