I came across a bunch of those recently, which is how I came up with the idea for this, as a parody :)
Internet horror is disappointingly un-creative. I have no idea why the weakest works (sonic.exe, anti-piracy, kill screens) always end up becoming huge trends, or why so few people try to put a significant twist on said trends.
I think it has to do with the age of the target audience? I remember being absolutely terrified and morbidly fascinated by sonic.exe and similar when I was in middle school. What might seem weak/shallow/uncreative to an adult might actually be extremely interesting to someone younger.
I clicked on this because I thought it was gonna be a spoopy jumpscare anti-piracy screen but I was pleasantly surprised.
There are a disturbing amount of little kids posting homemade anti-piracy screens for things that are free.
I came across a bunch of those recently, which is how I came up with the idea for this, as a parody :)
Internet horror is disappointingly un-creative. I have no idea why the weakest works (sonic.exe, anti-piracy, kill screens) always end up becoming huge trends, or why so few people try to put a significant twist on said trends.
I think it has to do with the age of the target audience? I remember being absolutely terrified and morbidly fascinated by
sonic.exeand similar when I was in middle school. What might seem weak/shallow/uncreative to an adult might actually be extremely interesting to someone younger.