Internet Chain Letters And Copypastas: A Retrospective
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Today let's take a look back at some of the internet's most classic chain letters- from 'A LitTle GhOsT GiRl WiLl ApPeAr iN Ur rOoM At 3aM!!!' to irritating Facebook boomer friendship chains to all of the deep-fried Instagram 'good-luck' chain posts. Chain letters and copypastas are the bread and butter of the internet- so let's take a look at how got they started, how they infested the internet, and where they've gone in recent years.
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@Don't Read My Profile Photo 🥱
the cases look really pretty and i was thinking of buying one but 55 is a bit much for a phone case…
EEEEK
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Clout chasing is apparently on notice and I couldn’t be happier.
I’m so old, chain mails were literally made out of paper when I was young. They were the basic kind: “send this to friend for good luck _or else,”_ sort of thing. They were just handed to us by classmates at random. I found them to be a burden since I was too young to understand if this was a game or not and since the paper didn’t belong to me I’d just pawn them off to someone else and forget about it.
Great Stuff, as always!
I like the ones that are just like a picture of a frog and "this is [name] he wants to travel. share him to show him the world" they're very friendly and non threatening
Okay now I'm upset I've never seen this one..
i saw this one a reddit once, and decided to share them to my friend (they love frogs)
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i remember bob!! omg that stockman :))
@@willowoodz the one from roblox?
In the past year or so I’ve noticed chain messages taking a darker turn. I’m always seeing on Instagram the whole “repost if you’re against racism/rape 😔” and it’s so fucking gross. Like it’s simple but it tries to guilt gullible audiences into reposting. Not to mention it makes light of the topics and turns it into a fun little trend
i see this kind of stuff on tumblr all the time "if you can't reblog this unfollow and block me/we can't be friends/we can't be mutuals/etc."
This reeks of Tik Tok garbage
Omg yes! A while ago there was a “share yours” type of sticker on Instagram that said something along the lines of “share your photo if you’re against racism & support BLM” followed by “I CAN SEE WHO SKIPS 🚫👎”
My instant response was: wow… threatening people much?!
oh gosh- i hated those since they're just demonizing non-sharers instead of addressing the issue being shown. even worse when it says "i can see who skips" like wtf, no one has to share/repost that something just to prove they dont support it or it means they're a bad person for not sharing , it just comes off as performative activism tbh..
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 I'm sorry but this was far before tiktok lol, in late 2015 to early 2016 I was already coming across deep fried chainmails on pinterest.
As a 10 year old kid I would get sent the "13 year old girl" ones occasionally by my friends. The oddest part was we never spoke about it lol. I would get sent one, send it to other people nonchalantly and never bring it up again.
On a side note, I could never fully participate in these cause I had like 4 friends to send these back to and I was not about to text my grandma that "her crush would kiss her in the next 48 hours"
My sis sent the “crush will kiss you” into the family group chat 💀
Whenever kids who hadn’t bothered to text me in years sent me these I would delete the conversation 💀
I really appreciate you mentioning how much stress these can cause people with OCD, I used to have really severe panic attacks caused by these especially when the death of a loved one was involved. I remember having to go so far as to put in my deviantArt about me section that posting any sort of curse/death/ghost copypasta to my page would earn an immediate block. In retrospect they’re really silly but I lost a LOT of sleep over these as a kid.
Broke: believing creepy chain letters
Woke: not believing creepy chain letters
Bespoke: reading a ton of creepy chain letters at once so the internet ghost girls have to hold a fighting tournament over who gets to kill you
What category does ‘saw the golden monkey’ go in?
@@Salithin well umm I think it means you were in China?
Someone needs to make a story of the bespoke one
@@Fluffkitscripts have you not seen that image?
Holy shit someone need to make an story about this
The poor kid who thought they'd get a cat from a copypasta. Must've been heartbreaking to wake up with no cat box next to your bed.
*wakes up next to Schrödingers cat*
I distinctly remember one that I got as a kid that absolutely terrified me to the point that I couldn’t sleep for days. It was about a little boy named “Teddy” who had no arms or legs (disability = scary apparently?), who would come into your room at night and kill you if you didn’t share the email. What really terrified me was the story about what had happened to someone who had allegedly ignored the email; their parents discovered the bathroom covered in blood, with their child’s skin plastered all over the walls, including a message written on the ceiling- the contents of which escape me now. I was PETRIFIED.
I was the kind of kid who was afraid of everything, so those emails always terrified me. The moment I began reading one and realized what it was, I had to back out ASAP in fear AGDKGKFHJK
How the hell would he enter the room? Would he just roll in?
Literally came here to comment about Teddy. God that one was horrific. Miss him xx
@@GreenChillZone imao
Was an artist on Instagram back in 2014, these were everywhere in fandom communities. I remember a bunch of “furry pride” or “tag your pack and your loyal members will do the same” ones. Today, I see a lot of more interactive ones that are like, “draw a horse in your style and tag 3 friends to do this challenge too!” with Instagram stories, which are pretty cute and fun IMO :)
Ohhh yeah tag games! Tag games technically aren't that since most people use them as a little icebreaker, like they'll have one post asking a question and then they'll tag their friends, so on and people will join in and learn more about each other and learn more about their mutuals.
I see tag games msot often on Tumbkr and its reslly fun tbh
I remember the first time I got a haunted chain text
Back when Motorola Razors were the big thing and chain texts had weird formatting that sorta looked like emails.
I got one from a new friend about some girl who died in a sewer I think? And if you didn’t send to 10 more friends she would come kill you next
I just burst into tears because I fully believed it and I couldn’t believe my friend put me in danger like that 😭
First Webkins, now chain texts... Damn Rea you really can’t catch a break with these horror stories, huh?
Edit: Mixed up Neopets with Webkins.
i think that was carmen winstead or something like that😭😭
I think I also had a friend who was constantly sending me chain texts. there was one that said I would get stuck down by lightning or smth lmao
I think I remember that one. I think I saw it in a deviantart comment section and I was terrified for the whole night.
what was it, Carmen Winstead?
As a kid with anxiety growing up, these chain letters were terrible but without a doubt the ones I really REALLY fell for were the ones that wanted you to prove something, like "share 10 times if you love your dad" or "tag 5 friends if you think she's beautiful". Idk I guess younger me wanted to prove i was a good kid by sharing this stuff
OMFG same here. I’d always get gotten by those ones that were like ‘share if you’re against cancer’ because I was worried people would somehow see that I saw it and didn’t share and they’d think I was pro-cancer or something.
@@kirahoney2068 "pro-cancer" 😭
Literally or the “share if you hate racism, ignore if you’re racist” like wtf 💀
Yeah, that kind of shit is brutal on my OCD. I've had to take multiple breaks from social media because of it.
FOR REALLLLL
I’d love to hear you cover some of the internet’s really early baby creepypastas! Stuff like the “We don’t have a clown statue” story or the dog licking the girls hand story. It’s such an interesting era of content and I have passionate thoughts about children’s love for horror.
it's really fun to read about those kinds of stories in connection with folklore of the past few centuries!!! humanity always makes scary stories and bogeymen and it's amazing to watch them evolve!!!
also i just thought of the clown statue story as that bit in 'alien', when the xenomorph appears as part of the scenery and it's written off as just set dressing by the viewer. like, the presence of something that is Not Supposed To Be There, but since it's only seen from an outsider's perspective, nobody realises something's up
and now i'm thinking that the kids in the clown story were kind of stupid
The phrase "we don't have a clown statue" awoke so much repressed trauma you have no idea
I remember getting a creepy copypasta as an 11 year old. I had less than 10 contacts at the time, so I spent that night contemplating my incoming death via supernatural entity.
I think the one chainletter that stuck with me after all these years wasn't even a classic chain letter. It was just:
"We know of you, and we approve.
-The Gnomes of Zurich"
To this day I still have no idea what to make of it.
It's so vague it's almost ominous
well at least we know they approve!
I got that too, turned out to be my friend 💀
The only valid chain letter
"gnomes of zurich" seem to originate as a 1960's british nickname for swiss bankers, the brits thought these bankers were messing with the economy or whatever. swissland banks used to be like rich and secretive or something and they still are wealthy but not as secretive bc the eu got sus.
I love how the "if you don't repost this a girl named catrin will be in your bathroom tonight" post didn't even specify anything creepy about the girl, just that her name is catrin and she will be in your bathroom if you break the chain. that almost makes me want the letter to be real so I can break the chain. who is this catrin. i wanna know her story.
She just like wants pizza and has a DVD of Spongebob and a sleeping bag with her
Look, if some random girl can teleport into people's bathrooms, I want to sit her down and have a nice long talk about quantum physics. Holy crap.
@@FelisImpurrator Kinda like Hanako, but more chill?
Counts me in.
You go into your bathroom and Catrin is just like “who are you?? How did I get here??”
catrin will be in your bathroom using your toilet whenever you need to pee
as a kid i had crippling anxiety, OCD and intrusive thoughts so needless to say the chainmail in the eary 2010s made me so so scared, the first time i got chain mail about this creature will appear in ur room at 3am if u dont send this to 15 people, i nearly shat myself. my poor friends on instagram had to deal with me sending that to them because i was legit scared it would happen because i had thoughts in my head like: "if you dont turn the lights on and off 3 time your entire family will die". looking back i can laugh at these chainmails but at the same time its a bit sad how thoughts like this ruled my life as a child.
i really appreciate you starting this with one of those “u are immune to all chain posts” things, bc i have OCD and tbh i think those immunity frogs/etc are the reason im not bothered by chain mail anymore. even though i’ve never believed in anything like ghosts, i still had so much trouble not reposting those things growing up, and it’s super helpful to have something coming from the same source as the chain mail saying “nah that can’t hurt you” - it’s kind of like saying “well i’m IMMUNE to lasers” in a game of pretend, but like !! it works !! because your mind is playing pretend whether you want it to or not
An interesting thing is how this has actually evolved onto Tiktok. There are a lot of viral tiktoks out there that are like "use this sound and something amazing is gonna happen to you!" or "Use this sound on a video and you'll manifest (etc..)" Not necessarily a "chain letter" but by people seeing it and making their own video with the sound it sorta turns the sound itself into the "letter" that's being passed around.
Oh god I knew I was right to be worried about "manifesting" being a bullshit trend
Exactly what i was thinking about commenting. It's sososo dumb.
I've seen it on tiktok as well especially with "use this sound for good luck" quickly became teens saying things like "I skipped the song and I got dumped and my dog died" while using the sound to scare others into using it
That’s what I expected them to say in the video! Very similar to the Twitter thing of course but definitely is its own thing where you can SEE how many people fall for it
Yeah, and the “Like, share, and repost for ______.” It’s very similar and could maybe be classified as a chain letter if you consider that you have to send it to someone (which boosts it in the algorithm and etc.)
i remember my mom helping me write an email to send to a friend asking her to please stop sending me these because they “made me scared and shakey” ahh… good old undiagnosed childhood panic disorder
My mum had to talk to my school about kids purposefully telling me scary urban legends and putting fake chain letters under my pencil case when I wasn't looking.
Me too 😭 I always shared the ones that were like “share this or your mom will die” because I got so scared, now I’m diagnosed with generalized anxiety and ocd
I remember getting lots of texts saying “we’re trying to create the Guinness world record’s longest text chain so add your name and two emojis and text to 10 friends!” Also, I’m realizing that instagram’s recent feature on stories of “add your own” pictures is kind of like a modern chain mail, but usually more wholesome lol
The one I remember the most was the dumb "Don't use my pictures/info/whatever" chain that went around Facebook like 10 years ago. People honestly believed that they could post a bunch of random official sounding nonsense to their wall and it would stop facebook from gathering their info. It was a wild time.
I remember having a chain letter that was literally just about sending sticker sheets to your friends and nothing else. You’d get a letter and a sticker sheet and it’d have you send sticker sheets and copies of the letter to your friends. No curse, no scary BS. Just stickers. That was a wholesome one.
Though most I see these days are just like twitter ice breakers.
Oh that's so cute! I love that!
i remember that. i did it. never got any stickers back lmao
@@4eyedecker neither did I but it was probably one of the most wholesome chain letters circulating around the time. No bad luck clause, no strings attached, just stickers.
Yeah, we did this when I was like 6 in my jr girl scout type group! Except we all just ended up sending them to each other bc we were like 6 and didn’t really get how it was supposed to work haha. Still, we all got a bunch of cute stickers!
Ooh that sounds super fun! I love having pretty sticker but i dont know when to use them so this would be fun to do!
I've struggled with OCD and psychosis and these were the bane of my existence as a kid. Even "good luck" ones would send me spiralling. Even now they still trigger me a tiny bit when I see them
im neurotypical and even i had a hard time ignoring those when i was a kid... it would just make me feel extremely anxious, i cant imagine how you felt XD
Same. I've got bipolar and ocd and really bad anxiety, so these things really were awful. They also sometimes get me a little bit today, even if I can tell they're not real.
same here with the psychosis (i'm also ND), nobody understood why i was so freaked out by them but i'm glad i wasn't alone
As an autistic I never fully believed them but they would still, just for a moment, panic me
I was a easily frightened kid after my mother made me, her and my older brother binge watch Dr.who haha
So ghosts and stuff weren't spirits of dead people or demons but things in the shadows.
Unexplainable and scary.
I used to hallucinate sometimes as I barely slept at that age which, as you can guess, made things worse.
I never spared the good luck ones a second glance despite the threat of bad luck.
Maybe it's just a kid thing tho- we're all scared of smth-
@ SoloDnD ha ha so funny. we love mocking mental illnesses and possibly triggering ppl. /s
THANK YOU for touching on the fact these things can trigger OCD, i have it myself and as a teen i was Super affected by them, i'm medicated and in therapy now so i know better how to handle this stuff but back then it was horrible for me and i'm sure a lot of others too. Love your content btw! i'm a new viewer but the stuff i've seen from you is all so in-depth and well done
@WhyAmIsoIconic-ArianaKamado If it helps, statistically plane travel is the safest mode of travel! accidents Can happen but the staff on the plane are equipped to handle that. you're gonna be in good hands and things will be ok :)
Ive not gotten any chain emails, or copypasta posts online in the modern day.
I remember being on Amino at 13 years old, and getting a comment (that now looking back on it was an obvious copypasta) on a post about an OC info sheet I had made and I remember being genuinely terrified from it. Amino was my first "introduction" to internet chat rooms, online fandom's,and generally the internet as a whole beyond the frame of using the internet to look up images of memes, cute animals, and character fanart from series like "Percy Jackson", "Hunger games", ect. Anyways the comment went as follows:
"What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?
I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.
You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my words.
You think you can get away with saying shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life.
You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your ass off the face of the continent, you little shit.
If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your tongue. You didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo."
Being a 13 year old having been on the internet for like 6 months at the time, I was terrified that the dude would auctually go through with this. I replied to the comment saying how 'sorry I was that I somehow offended him, That whatever I did I was dearly sorry and didn't want the us army to kill me. That I was new to Amino and the internet as a whole, begging for the guy to call off the strike, ect.' I think the guy auctually responded with something along the line of 'dude chill it's a copypasta, it's fake.'
At the time my little 13 year old self was so relieved that I wouldn't be completely obliterated, even tho I had no idea what a copypasta was. Was just happy to not be hunted down, you know?
Now I kind of look back at it being somewhat funny how terrified I was over a copypasta because that was my first interaction with them, like ever.
That one copypasta was also my first time encountering one too! I was about 12-13 when I began using the internet with Google+ in particular, and I remember someone posting that in a post I made, although in Spanish. Needless to say, I was terrified for a few days at the prospect of the entire US Marine Corps being sent over by a top sniper knowledgeable in gorilla warfare. It's so funny to look back at it, never fails to make me laugh when I see it nowadays.
Gorilla warfare 💀
Lol that's my favorite copypasta. Such a classic
Oh nooo AHAHAHHA
I'm sorry but the mental image of a child being scared shitless of a copypasta that now is commonly recognized as a meme will never leave my mind and make me laugh :,)
I used to be scared of Copypastas back then.
Now I use them purely to piss people off.
Thank you for mentioning the OCD thing, I never believed these things truly, but I used to do it anyway because it'd feel insanely wrong not to, like it was true while I knew I was being lied to- but that's the thing with OCD, you know you're being irrational, but you have no choice. These really sucked on a whole other level for that reason for me, even as I got older
Totally! I thought I was so dumb most of my life despite decent achievements, because i would have meltdowns over, even for the time, obvious bait💀
Yes, that's true! I remember one chain message ruining my sleep for two days!
Yeah I have ocd and anxiety. I remember seeing one about a dead person or a demon being under your bed. I didn't send it to anyone and seriously thought I was gonna die that night. It was the first time I ever pulled an all-nighter. The next night I slept in my parents' bed...
“you know you’re being irrational, but you have no choice” that is *exactly* how i felt about chain mail with my ocd
That’s the same thing that happens to me. I know that it’s fake but I also kinda believe it in a weird way? It’s like two parts of my brain are debating whether to send it or not even if I don’t believe it and I feel bad if I don’t do it.
Most of the chainmail I saw was this one specific chainmail that went along the lines of "that girl you called fat yesterday? She's on a diet. That girl you made fun of for being bald? She's on chemo." And alot more bullying scenarios ending with "copy and paste this in your bio if you are against bullying." For some reason every sentence was in a different font.
Seen that one but with “Repost/share if you against homophobia/racism”
I remember someone made a great parody (I wish I could find it) about "Pokebullying", like "that Houndoom you called ugly? He got those scars saving his owner!"
I remember having that chain letter posted on a board in my high school.
I hate those ones so much, there was a percy jackson one that I saw everywhere (even though I've never indulged in anything percy jackson related in my life), and it sounded exactly like that
I remember seeing that one all over roblox for some odd reason. It would be under the clothing items, which I think was originally supposed to be for players opinions on the item but devolved into almost nothing but chainmail. It was also common to see on user profiles. I had a friend who even had that as their bio.
I have OCD these things screw me up every time I cross them- except I also have social anxiety so I just end up breaking down over whether to give into an impulse and be judged for posting these awful things and annoying people or deal with the anxiety attack of not giving into an impulse. I hate them.
The Carmen Winstead one actually caused me to switch which bathroom I used in my house to shower because every time I went in the old one I thought about her ghost coming out of the shower or toilet to get me. I've been using the different bathroom for 9 years now because of a chain mail text I got in 6th grade.
As someone with extreme anxiety, seeing these nowadays still freak me out. Like I know they’re bullshit, but there’s a small part of me that’s still terrified. I remember reading the Clarissa one when I was like 11 and I told my mom that I was certain I was going to die.
I still kinda I'm freak out for it, thank god Izzy gave us the turtle xD
@@rolboo6158 i honestly felt so relieved about the turtle for some reason. i KNOW its bullshit, but as someone who is very paranoid, and who suffers psychosis, the turtle made me feel a lot better.
@@corgi8418 i agree :3 it was honestly a sweet feature before diving into all of it
Creepypastas f-d me up too when I was like 10, especially that Lavender Town one 🥶
@@sydneyw7375 Duuude I feel this. For the longest time I couldn’t even listen to the Lavender Town theme without getting freaked out and clicking away. Which SUCKED considering a lot of CZcamsrs I liked would use it was background music.
I love safety turtle and similar posts. He uses of the logic of chain letters to defeat them. If all it takes is reading a chain letter for something bad to happen, then reading a picture of a funny little animal saying you’re protected is all it takes to prevent it.
What a hero.
Nice profile picture
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@@RandomPerson12434 nice name
being diagnosed with pretty debilitating OCD as a child and constantly receiving these chain mails from friends during elementary/middle school def had me stressed all the time 😢
Back when I was 12 I didn’t share these and then failed two exams. I was convinced it was because I didn’t share the chain letters. No it’s cuz I spent that time reading creepypastas instead of studying for an algebra exam lmao
Humans really haven't fundamentally changed much since we became human. One of my favorite things I learned while getting my Anthropology degree was about a cliff carving that was so high up on the cliff, the humans that once inhabited that place MUST have built a ladder or something to get there. Once we got access, we realized it was Viking and we translated the carvings, and it essentially said, "This is very high" 😂
That is so innately human, and it would barely surprise me if there were more examples if things like this out there.
The graffiti wall in Pompeii is also great. Basically no different than a modern bathroom stall wall, with toilet humor, prostitute recommendations and lots of bragging about genitalia size.
@@esl4287 Yup. Its a wonder to me why people put ancient cultures on such a pedestal without weighing their accomplishments against their very crude, soundly human nature. Obscene graffiti, funny remarks like the one in the comment above and tasteful nudity have always been a part of our culture, present and past. Its so interesting how much has changed and how much has remained exactly the same.
@@moleperson i love that kind of nonsense like Shakespear plays were vulgar lowbrow humor like biting you at some one was basically the flipping some the middle finger of the time
we miss alot of it now cause were missing the contacts everyone would have back then
@@kendradupree1094 Absolutely! Fantastic example you brought up. Shakespeare was a fantastic writer and extremely gifted in insults, wordplay and deeply interesting plays… but these plays would have one fifth the charm if performed without the fantastically low brow humour.
I used to see a TON of them on tumblr back when I was on there like a decade ago. I had a friend with OCD who would reblog every one even though she hated doing it because her OCD made not doing it feel even worse. It always made me really upset on her behalf, so whenever I saw she was online I'd find one of those "this lil guy will protect you from all chain posts!" type images and post it so that she'd see it and feel safe. I'd also tell everyone I knew who I caught posting them to cut it out. Most ppl weren't taking them seriously and were just doing it for memes, but it genuinely upset some people so I got pretty passionate about stamping it out from my social circles, lol
That is genuinely so sweet of you, as someone with ocd, i'm glad you did that
you're a great friend, i feel like most people do that without thinking because they all think ocd is wanting everything to be clean/even 😭😭
Yep. They were fun for us but people with OCD or a psychotic disorder will think they are real even into adulthood
I absolutely hated them because lots of them are so malicious.. like it's whatever if the punishment is like your crush won't like you back or you'll fail your exams.. but lots of them are YOUR MOM will DIE, your LOVED ONE will DIE. It's honestly so mean even if it's not real
that's so sweet, you're a great friend.
I actually kept getting those a lot on Snapchat and I remember that I got so fed up because they would use real people who died from suicide or they got murdered. I then posted on my story “ if anyone keeps sending me more of these I’m latching out” and they stop sending me those so I’m happy now :] but people need to realize that depression or any mental health is not a cute aesthetic or something you use for clout it’s not funny or cute. And also plz don’t use real people who actually died irl because I think that even if we don’t know them that well they should still be respected!🙌🏼
I just spent 5 minutes facing my fear screaming at that face of Carmen Winstead (which was an SCP charactee originally apparently! She was always OP! Were doomed!)
I'm genuinely shook up. I haven't seen that picture that harmed me so much in so many years. I ruined me as a kid and into early adulthood even it kept me awake whenever I thought of it
As someone who’s always struggled with intense paranoia and intrusive thoughts due to an unholy combination of anxiety, OCD and ADHD, these letters always freaked me the fuck out
exactly!!! I know these are fake and not real but I'm always like...what if I don't share and I DO go to hell? or my parents get killed and it's because I didn't repost??? so I hate these with a burning passion tbh
man, my intrusive thoughts and paranoia luckily didn't bother me when it comes to chainmail (granted i did have to pray when i saw the religious ones or repost) but i can't imagine how much of a disaster my social media would be with the amount of chainmail i came across as a kid,, ocd is a bitch
@@mammoneymelon do you still have the urge to pray? Are you not religious now? (this isn't meant to be interrogative btw, just wondering because i kind of feel like religion messed me up lol)
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 i am still religious! fortunately, getting older and learning more about the world helped me to learn to think for myself so even though those posts occasionally give me a bad feeling, i'm able to reassure myself that my faith isn't reliant on a social media post. i do struggle with religious trauma (probably related to my ocd now lol) but it's something i've actively been trying to come to terms with and work through.
@@mammoneymelon I see. I'm glad you're working through it. I'm proud of you for what you've accomplished already, and I wish you all the best in your journey towards a better quality of life. As someone who also has OCD and religious trauma, I see you and I believe in you, truly.
Why did the safety turtle mean so much to me 😭🐢
Truly same 😭 🐢 💕
He is a good friend
Same😭🐢
*Hugs the safety turtle*
thank u safety turtle
This video unlocked a core memory for me, When I was maybe 11 years old, I saw a bunch of chainmail and firmly believed it. I was in a groupchat on Instagram with a bunch of older girls who reposted it, so I was convinced. One day someone sent me a chainmail of some girl named Teresa Fidlago. It said if I didn't repost then my mom would be dead in my room, and I had an entire breakdown. I went crying to my grandma thinking that I would end up as a murderer of my own mother just because I didn't copy & paste a message from a stranger. Looking back I see just how much these chainmails spread and changed peoeple's views on the internet.
I have a vivid memory of receiving a chain text about a girl crawling out of my closet if I didn’t share the text within 48 hours. Just so happened that my phone was confiscated and I barely saw the text hours after the 48 hour window. I was crying, shaking, throwing up. And to make it worse, my mom worked graveyard shifts and we were kinda latch key kids so there was nobody home. I did not sleep that night 🥲 traumatic af
Story time. About 10-12 years ago there was a copy-paste going around FB that something like "FB is going to start charging for their service. Repost this and your avatar will glow blue at midnight, indicating that you are an original user. Original users will not be charged". My grandma showed me this. I laughed. She was furious. She took it 100% seriously. This turned into a screaming match where she threatened to take away my computer if I did not repost that thing, because she refused to pay for FB. Sobbing, I had to comply. FB friends teased me for "falling for it".
Moral of the story, boomers should not be allowed to be online.
That's a _broad_ definition of "boomer," but I get your point! Facebook was especially susceptible to those kinds of things because they were the first service we all used who _would_ radically change things overnight and _never back down_ even if the change was for the worse. (I miss you, "[Username] is..." status prefixes.)
Boomers should definitely not be allowed online
oh my god, i'm sorry that happened to you.
@kristopher i've never seen anyone refer to someone as 'cousin' as in bro/sis that's so cool
@@shuasapphic I've thought about this a few times before, because I wish I had better ways of addressing people. I sometimes call people 'friend' when talking about something emotional, but that easily sounds sarcastic/condescending because of the way people say "hey buddy, hey pal" when they're annoyed.
It's quite common in some cultures (I'm thinking of UK afro/caribbean culture) to call people 'cuz' as in cousin, which I always thought was rather nice. It's also common in a lot of Asian (and other) cultures to call any older person you're friendly with brother/sister, aunty/uncle or grandma/grandpa, which also seems quite nice to me. I'm not from those cultures, so I don't wanna just take their customs, but I also feel like it's something really lacking in (white) western culture. I hope it's ok to try something similar, as long as we acknowledge the source... especially in queer spaces where we're making our own culture & experimenting with language, and where we really need solidarity. But it's not for me to make that decision, I'll just keep talking about it and see what various people think.
There isn't a good non-gendered alternative for older relatives in English though. (Well, I'm nonbinary and I personally don't like the existing terms like.... 'pibling'.... which sounds like a mix between 'piffling' and 'dribble'. Surely we can do better than that.) I do like cousin, it has that feeling of universal friendliness/solidarity without being gendered, it's not overly familiar (can be used with strangers) and I guess it can technically work for any age?
I knew someone in highschool that tried to quietly go offline entirely because of how severely distressing it was for her OCD and psychosis. Even the "positive" ones are harmful.
@beyond your imagination you can't pay me to click that
I had a friend who stopped using email for this reason. A lot of these letters were so graphic and intrusive
I have OCD and i hate doing these and when i do them people call me stupid :(
That's so sad. Did that special snowflake melt when summer came around?
@@maskettaman1488 wow dude, you're so edgy and cool.
I have OCD and back when I was a kid those stupid chain mails used to literally give me panic attacks 😀👍
I'm so glad to hear this kind of thing from another person with ocd. I used to hear so many people joke about this sort of thing and make fun of people who believed in it and it really invalidated the genuine terror I used to feel as a kid when my friends sent me these. Especially once I started going to exposure therapy and I learned that reposting them was going to reaffirm my compulsions. Thank you for this. I got misdiagnosed a lot when I was little due to general practitioners not understanding the severity of ocd because of so much joking misinformation. Really means a lot to hear some one else's experience and know that there are people out there spreading awareness so kids like me don't have to feel ashamed of themselves and can get help. :)
I remember feeling so smug for never believing these as a kid. I'd reply to these with like "you know it's fake, right?" or just straight up laughed and moved on. It made me feel so smart and mature, but I probably wasn't the only one with enough fantasy vs reality awareness to figure that out. 💀
same here, but sometimes there was a "but.... what if?" in the back of my head lol. i felt kinda bad for not sending those "SEND TO 10 PEOPLE YOU LOVE, INCLUDING ME, IF YOU LOVE ME" back to my friends who sent them to me, i worried they'd think that i shared it but not with them and think i didn't love them
Same. But also I prayed for protection just in case. 😂 I thank God for getting rid of my silly fear at least.
Same. But also I prayed for protection just in case. 😂 I thank God for getting rid of my silly fear at least.
I did this too but as a facade bc I actually secret believed them but I never had enough friends to send them too so I hoped if I said I said they were fake out loud I would be safe 💀💀
I remember in sixth grade we had a big group chat (50+ kids) and kids were constantly spamming it with chainmail 💀
it got so out of hand we just created a new one but then that one got overridden as well
i think this is a universal experience but this same exact thing happened to me in 6th grade 😭
@@avao3612 fr 😭 those group chats are the worst
yep lmao
SAME!! Mine was closer to like 20 tho lol
I HAD THIS TOO i actually wanted to talk to people but no one would respond and just continued sending chain mail 😭
i really do enjoy that you gave us an immunity toad. i know i used to get so anxious about these things that i would throw up, so i feel like that had soothed my inner child. thanks iz.
My favorite chain messages are the ones where it's some kind of animal and they want you to send it out that they can "see the world". There was a cool one where it was a hedgehog (If i remember correctly) that had the name of every subreddit it's been to. It just shows the collaboration of strangers online, and I think that's really cool
when i was younger, like 10-11, i got sent a carmen winstead voice message on whatsapp. that some shit me up. then a few days later i was listening to music on my shitty android and it was on shuffle. somehow the voice message had automatically saved to my music. i literally shat myself and deleted whatsapp. that was probably the most terrifying chain mail i ever got sent
yesss, The Carmen Winstead one was the worst, it got sent to a FB group chat for me and my phone also did that thing of autosaving ( cause idk why that preset was on) when i saw it was in my music I cried lol
@@Celly_No YES it was so terrifying
Brooooo nooo lmfaooo Carme Winstead gave me actual PTSD before I actually had it lmfao
A voice message!? I had a text message with music & picture lmao.
THATS SO FUNNY OMFG.
What did the the audio file say?
I _remember_ the voice messages! Christ that was a time
When I was 11, I used Pinterest for all of my social media. Let me tell you, between 2016 tumblr posts, stolen art from deviantart, and SO many chain mail pins, it was a constant sensory overload. Being young on Pinterest is uniquely its own culture. I remember going on the baking pins and there was a feature where you could “try” pins and upload a photo to the comments. There were always either copy pastas, pictures of 5 year olds who took their own selfie and uploaded it to the comments, or pictures of random house appliances. Pinterest was like facebook, but instead of 60 and 70 year olds, it was instead made up of 4-12 year olds who could now take pictures and repin every copy pasta that came up on their dashboard.
oh thank god theres someone else who also experienced the hell of the Tween Pinterest Experience
I remember seeing these everywhere on Pinterest
i almost forgot tween pinterest. how could i
This was me as in my early teens and now I'm having flashbacks
It still exists surprisingly
i had incredibly bad anxiety and undiagnosed autism when i was a kid and i ended up reposting pretty much all of the chainmail i received. i convinced myself that something bad would happen and would have anxiety attacks when i didn't send them on, pretty sure my classmates then started sending chainmail to me because they thought it was funny to see me panic. i also remember getting them giving me an ultimatum where i either stop sending them chainmail or they kick me from various gcs, then i spent weeks in fear of the demons and ghouls and the like that i pissed off from not sending them. i'm still incredibly gullible but i do now know that no monsters are going to hunt me down (hopefully). i do, however, feel incredibly guilty for causing my friends any potential grief even though they all most likely knew it was bs
No cap as someone who’s been homeless, abused and in many bleak situations, I still fall for the good luck chain posts just bc sometimes when you’re desperate you’ll do anything.
I think my favorite part about the one at 11:12 is that it doesn't even give any indication that the "girl named Catrin" is a ghost or going to do anything harmful to you. For all we know, either you'll get asked out, or some stranger will break into your house to use your bathroom and then leave.
Catrin just appears, barges in, uses your bathroom for 15ish minutes, and leaves.
I wanna ignore it just to see what happens with Catrin in my bathroom. Is she on the loo? Does she need a tampon? Does she like the decor? Can I impress her with my skincare routine? Can I get a creepypasta gf?
@@estherstreet4582 now this is the true mindset
My gay butt thought is this how I get a gf
I can imagine the novel title
"Help! My gilrfriend is a chain mail ghost girl i ignored!"
I remember getting hit with a Clarissa or something similar when I was quite young, maybe like 11 or 12. It was the same archetype of "creepy girl will kill you" but I think this one threatened that she'd be on my ceiling while I slept if I didn't forward it to five friends. I remember being quite convinced by it and definitely scared of it, but choosing not to forward it because I realized the moral thing to do, if the threat was real, was to cop the scary girl and get killed, rather than put more people at risk by forwarding it.
Yeah I dunno, little me was very concerned with morality. Anyway I didn't get killed and was much more confident about supernatural claims being bullshit after that.
honestly good on you, you were brave. even though it wasn't real you really thought it could be so that was pretty cool of you to try and spare your friends like that
I remember I got the entire “Smile DOG” creepypasta in my email. Yes, someone literally copy pasted the whole thing into an email & attached the image too. I was convinced it was real & immediately felt anxiety.
You were brave, I remember I got so scared I almost immediately forwarded the email to everyone in my contacts. I can’t look at the image of that creepypasta to this day, it makes me really, really uncomfortable :((
I did a similar thing, but in my case I just made fake profiles and forwarded it to them instead lmao??
They said she’ll be on your ceiling while you slept, they didn’t say anything about her killing you. She’s just there. Make her a cup of tea or something.
Yeah same here
I sent a snail mail chain letter based on a book I was reading when I was young and got in kid-trouble for it. You'd think there'd be no way to know it was me, but...I'd been taught in school that you _had_ to put a return address on it, or the post office wouldn't send it. :D
(I find the phenomenon of Christian chain letters so weird, because the concept of a chain letter is in direct opposition to actual Christian beliefs.)
As someone who spends most of their free time on tiktok I think it has been hit the worst. At first, it started as those manifestation/girl boss posts telling you to use the sound for good luck and to "claim" all the good things that the video promised, but as it became more and more saturated they started getting darker. Some people will go as far as to say "omg I didn't use this sound when I first saw it and then my parents got into a car accident and my sister got monkeypox." Now there are even self-proclaimed witches saying not to ignore sounds like that because they are embedded with powerful energy and will bring you misfortune if you don't use them. I think the worst one I found brought in the "Santa Muerte"-- a Mexican cult and highly condemned religious figure-- saying that if you didn't use the sound she will come to visit you and kill you later that night. What didn't help was that anytime I see her statutes in Mexican markets my parents refuse to tell me anything about her and just say that it's "a bad symbol" and that I shouldn't look into it. I get paranoid pretty easily so my private videos are mainly me staring in annoyance and dread to said sounds.
I had unmedicated psychosis as a kid so these chain mail creepypastas really did a number of me! The others I have weird nostalgia for
yeah i got paranoid and panicked a few were real myself.........i have mixed feelings on these.
That would mess me up, I’m sorry you had to deal with that
Same
growing up with OCD made this era particularly challenging. I used to refused to go to sleep at night because I was terrified of this shit, I started struggling at school and in general so bad I had to see a therapist cus my parents didn't know what the fuck was wrong with me lol. good times
EDIT: yoooo just finished the video and you actually brought that up! it's wild bro. hope you're doin okay!!!
yo!! i came here to mention having OCD made it way worse for me too! i kept obsessing over them but i was almost always too terrified to also send them to my friends and "give the words power". my mom also didn't know why i couldn't just ignore them
OCD is a whole trip I swear, I’m glad my symptoms came around a time that wasn’t full of these chainmail things, though a few of the religious ones did make their way to me and yea lol my moral ocd brain just couldn’t resist reposting it
as someone with ocd i’m so glad people understand
Yep this definitely did not help my OCD and anxiety as a youngin. It's really funny looking back, though!
As somebody with bad paranoia, this stuff genuinely upset me. I'd have terrible breakdowns because my cousin sent me the one about Teddy. I was honestly terrified, though nowadays I willingly avoid them. They still periodically irritate me, but not as bad as before. Though I'm commenting a month later because I had to work up the courage to watch this video lmao
When kids my age first started getting cell phones in jr high and unlimited texting became a thing, these were sent around constantly over text. I definitely remember Clarissa. They always seemed to have unnecessarily upsetting pictures attached, too.
I swear to God I'm not that old but back in the late 90s when I was about 12 or so, I received an actual chain letter in the mail. A physical piece of paper in a physical envelope sent through the US Postal Service. I didn't know the person it came from, never found out who it was. Freaked me right out!
I would be terrified
I’d put it on my fridge
Once as a 8 year old kid living out in the country (before we had internet) I got a several page handwritten letter from some guy In Russia claiming he was The Messiah. I still have no idea how that guy got my name and address as a little kid but it was super freaky
THAT SOUNDS SO SCARY
when I was like 10-14, I had really bad untreated schizoaffective disorder and ocd. I saw so many of these and my brain would basically make them come true (I would hallucinate the spooky ghost ppl who were going to show up at 3am or convince myself that I had bad luck). I was kinda self aware about it though so i would make a point to seek them out and see if they would come true lol. was not good for my mental health but kinda funny looking back on it lmao
wow that's awful, so sorry you went through all of that. ppl are cruel as hell
I'm surprised I'm not the only one who had this issue, but in my case I ended up seeking them out because I wanted friends even if they were ghosts and I never realized it was fake. I'm, very glad I've gotten past that, but I'm really sad to see I wasn't alone and I hope you're doing better now
Yeah though not as severe I was always very scared of that even in acid trips or night terrors lmao. That thumbnail made my heart skip a beat. Trauma lmao literal trauma I have PTSD & that didnt help!
@@shonenjumpmagneto dude seeing something scary when you have night terrors is the worst!!!
Wow, I’m schizoaffective with OCD too. Literally the second I read the first chain letter, I thought “that just sounds like some sort of weird magical thinking compulsion”.
Sorry you had to deal with that tho. Glad you are a bit better!
on sketchfu ~2009 i got one of the little girl ghost ones, and made myself physically sick with worry over it. i really thought i would have to subject others to a potential death or soldier on to an assured one of my own. I cried and sent it to someone, and the first person I sent it to was upset with me, but frantic responses mustve clued the user in that i was a kid bc they actually walked me thru the concept of chain mail, how it was all fake, and how i learn to spot stuff like this in the future. that one conversation did more for my internet&scam literacy than school or parents in the 2010s did. and i would need that skill for the brony creepypastas to come...
izzy, I love ur videos so much. as someone extremely neurodivergant I really love your deep dive style and the amount of effort and attention to detail you put into these videos. They're sort of like capsules of hyperfocus onto a fixation and its just really fun to hop into that space with you and hear the way you explain it. You're comprehensive and interesting and your speech patterns and mannerism just make me feel like a friend is telling me about their latest hyperfixation. Thank you for the work you put into this and the place you hold for weird internet-raised 2000s kids, its a space I didnt know we needed and I'm very grateful you've created 🖤🖤🖤
One time in elementary school, some kid sent one on the class group chat that was like:
"This is me, God. If you don't send this to 15 friends I will punish you" or something like that. I told them it wasn't real, but one girl was like " I asked my mom and she said it was real" I wonder what was going through her mom's head lol
"hey yeah its me god, forward this to everyone you know or ill do the boogie woogie on you"
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@@TheAmazingDoorknob your pfp is a door Handle not a knob just thought I’d let you know
@@TenNineD yeah I get that alot but I don't really have any doorknobs in my family
its like no God isnt gunna punish you for not posting something, im promise were not all like this 😭
Genuinely thank you for mentioning OCD. The disorder itself is already hardly taken seriously but those "repost or die" spam posts are frustrating and on a bad day they can even be panic inducing for some. TikTok became so ridden with those posts that I had a hard time using the app at all. I feel like a total weenie about it sometimes but compulsions are definitely not based on logic or reason. So, thanks for acknowledging us. I love your videos, they're thorough, well written, and entertaining. Keep up the great work!
I don't even have it, yet this hits home. I can't even imagine how it feels for non-neurotypical people.
I have OCD and I thought that I was just a crybaby for being scared 😭
@@purpleguyfromfnaf Not at all! Our fears may not be rational but our brains think they are. Your feelings are totally valid and you have every right to be afraid of those posts.
these have never really bothered me but the whole "do this this and this to not be cursed" is so dangerous as it could cause new intrusive thoughts and compulsions that lead people to treat you as "just gullible"
for me, the religious ones do stress me out as someone with religious based intrusive thoughts/possible ocd. the one that kinda became a meme was oddly comforting in a way that i can't explain
god, agreed. I'm really glad OCD was mentioning
On TikTok there's a LOT of copypastas where they go "interact 3 times to claim" promising good grades and crush confessions and whatnot, it's both hilarious and confusing each time I open the comment section and see people actually trying to claim it 😭
I get those all the time, it’s so annoying because it’s so obviously for shares but there’s just something (anxiety) stopping me from not doing what they say 😅 I also see a lot of “apparently if you don’t use this audio you get bad luck” and it’s so embarrassing posting those as well but it always works 😅
@@vivialanis9521 I get what you mean, I also used to listen to them due to anxiety but at last I managed to train myself into thinking that they only wanted shares and have no more power than I do to give bad/good luck, thankfully
@@el-im5du that’s really good for you, but honestly since I made this they made a return. I cant scroll twice without seeing “OMG I SKIPPED THIS SOUND AND MY HOUSE CAUGHT ON FIRE” lol
i can only imagine how unappealing the “you will get kissed/asked out” chain letters were to aromantic people
Whenever I was sent one I would send back one of those “this is frog, frog will protect you from chainmail” things.
as an aromantic, childhood me would much rather deal with the bad luck over get kissed by some rando I didn't like lmao
plus i didn't have much friends to send these chainmails to so I didn't have much of a choice to begin with
As someone else with OCD, your point at 19:50 is so true!!! Even as an undiagnosed 12 year old scrolling Instagram I got legit freaked out by the creepypasta-type posts and relied on those "safety" posts as a way to ward off the "evil magic" that my brain is naturally predisposed to imagining.
That's not OCD. That's you being a normal 12 year old.
I’m diagnosed as well and those always were something that made it flare up, thankfully by the time they came around it was pretty well managed, so I was able to resist the compulsion
@@maskettaman1488 Wow you just diagnosed someone over the internet from a single sentence
@@maskettaman1488 she meant that at the time she was a 12 year old with undiagnosed ocd but now she is older and diagnosed, her account was created in 2013 and i highly doubt it was created when she was 3 years old
@@maskettaman1488 I’m an adult and professionally diagnosed with OCD. This was an earlier symptom before my diagnosis because it affected me to a greater degree than if I didn’t have it.
I remember being scared shitless by the creepypasta chainmails and those ones that were like "send it to 10 of your friends or else your mom will die tomorrow!!! "
whenever I saw one of those my heart would just fall out of my ass and I was in cold sweat and shaking
and I couldn't even sleep peacefully at night, being afraid that something bad will still happen, even tho I alway shared these chainmails
wild times
for the most part, as a kid, i ignored them. however when i got a voice clip in my dms of a text to speech chain letter i got so paranoid i wasn't able to sleep at all that night. i think it was the uncanny feeling that got me
the last year ive seen like maybe 2 of those copypasta letters on tumblr still, but those were only the popular ones and it had an immunity dog or turtle already attached to it. i remember one from like 6 years ago that was popular where i lived about receiving a dead crow in your bed. i had to talk my friend out of being scared of it happening for days even when she had already reposted it lol
Man, I love these simple little pieces of internet fiction. I wonder how many young authors got their start crafting these.
Yeah!
@Jurassic World A wild copypasta in action!
I have a dumb chain letter story. Kind of long-winded, but here goes:
When I was a kid (let's say 10-12, give or take), my brother started dating someone. Hotmail was the hip thing to use back then, and they decided to introduce little child me to the wonders of email and instant messaging. Not bothering to ask for my parents' permission, they helped set up my account, told me not to give away personal info (they weren't THAT irresponsible with me) and they became my first friends, along with her little sister. Pretty fun times.
Later on down the road, big bro's GF started sending out all these chain letters. They started harmless enough, typical "forward this for good luck" sort of stuff. Then they started diving into more of the creepypasta territory. Keep in mind, I was a stupid gullible kid at the time, but also, I'd always had, for lack of a better term, a nervous disposition. Also also, I was heavily addicted to soda back then, and would almost go through an entire two-liter bottle a day by myself. Let's do some math: active imagination of a child + anxiety about literally anything bad that could happen (real or not) + more caffeine than any kid should have = terrifying times. My mom eventually had to tell her to stop sending me these things, as I was starting to have frequent nightmares.
Recalling all this has been a bit of a laugh, so thanks for giving me a reason to chuckle about stupid little child me for a bit.
I like the ones on Tumblr that just share love and positivity. I also like the "tag games" ones where someone tags you to list, say, your five current favorite songs, and then you tag other people to do the same. Those ones are harmless fun and can make your day. There's definitely more negative ones on Tumblr but I mostly see the nice wholesome harmless fun ones there.
My favorite chain post, if it counts, was this post I saw a bit ago on tumblr that went something like "Every reblog removes one HP from the queen"
holy crap I remember doing these all the time on Pinterest and Google+ when I was like 7? They terrified me and I really thought Bonnie from fnaf was going to be at the end of my bed at night
Hah, that reminds of the fnaf "repost if you're a fnaf fan" and "repost if you'd go to foxys birthday party" kind of posts I'd see on Pinterest and stuff lol
Omg those remind me of those old copypastas abt like keeping fandoms alive and stuff, smthn like “Freddy Fazbear doesn’t want fnaf to die! Copy and paste this around if you’re a true fnaf fan, ignore if you don’t care!” God that was nostalgic I used to copy+paste those everywhere as a “not like other girls” CZcamsr bait indie game obsessed iPad kid.
I’m old enough to remember kids shows (Blue Peter in particular) having mini “Chain letters aren’t cursed” PSAs when I was a kid. They were a massive thing in the mid 90s.
Link!?!?
@@shonenjumpmagneto google
In fifth grade we had big problems with these weird chain letters. Many kids were easily intimidated by these threats and for a good reason.
The letters had gore pictures attached to them which traumatized a lot of us. I am glad I never received them but my prayers go out to all of the people who were not so lucky
Haha!! I remember Carmen Windstead floating around MySpace bulletin boards when I was a kid! I also remember seeing them a ton all around the web. I feel a kind of nostalgia for the old horror chain letters, but I also remember getting freaked out by some of them and staying up all night for some ghost or creature to get me.
as someone who grew up in the early to mid 2000's, i distinctly remember getting religious chain emails CONSTANTLY. It always said "if you dont believe you are destined for bad luck". and it used examples of like how the titanic sank because they said god couldn't sink the ship and god took that as a challenge so he sank it or something. And i was both raised christian and a HUGE titanic nerd back then so i was like "oh yes of course, that definitely had something to do with it owo".
Creepypasta chains always scared the heck out of me, i have severe OCD and believed in the supernatural wholeheartedly, so even if i shared links, i'd still have many sleepless nights and anxiety attacks.
I think nowadays, the only chain post i have seen in a long while is a youtube comment reposting the old "this is bob, bob wants to take over youtube, copy and paste to help him out" meme
Can we all agree that the titanic sank bc someone aboard got religious chain mail and didn't pass it forward? Lol
RIP Bob. He sacrificed himself to destroy the tyranny of Google Plus.
Growing up with (and still dealing with) mental disorders that trigger paranoia and extreme anxiety, these type of email chains were a total nightmare to receive, I hated them. Thank you for the turtle! I still had a hard time watching this tho. I'm glad now they're mostly used as meme material.
Goofy ahhh paranoia 💀💀
@@SteelPoleSeranWrap you literally smell like beef 💀
Exact same for me, untreated anxiety as a child made these hit so hard, I still remember my first all mightier was because I read one in like sixth grade and couldn’t let myself sleep. Which is really counterproductive since lack of sleep can cause hallucinations lol
Several years back, I participated in one "send someone a book - receive back 10 books" chainmail. Needless to say, I'm still waiting for my books :(
I remember seeing a ton of these on the internet when I first started getting into internet creepypastas when I was like 11. They used to scare the heck out of me, but after nothing happened, I was like "I must be an exception, I don't have ten friends." 😂
personally even if it doesnt technically count, my favorite "chain letter" is friendship bread, which i think also saw a small comeback during the pandemic for obvious reasons. if you haven't heard of it, its basically a specific starter recipe that you take care of over a few days according to the recipe, and after some time you split the batch into a few small batches and give away all but one of them, each with their own copy of the recipe. from there you can keep repeating this process over and over until you've burdened everyone you know with taking care of this starter, and you have two freezers full of baked bread and still 10 bags of this damn stuff on the counter. i think my family lost friends during that time because my step father was too stubborn to just stop. at least that chain got you bread, and i remember it actually being REALLY good. if anyone else wants this burden you can find recipes for it very easily online.
Ah, yes, the 'nutty buddy' bread. Yeast is an amazing thing.
I remember... so much bread...
In the Netherlands we had a cake like that called Herman
Omg my mom got some of that from a friend at the beginning of the pandemic and she kept it going for months but kept forgetting to give away the new starter bags so at the peak she ended up baking like 25 loaves in a day, passed it out to random people at church, and vowed never to let it go this far again
We called it Amish Friendship Bread!! It was kind of cinnamon sugary!
I will always remember that one time that I was at a sleep over with some classmates and some of us received a creepy copypasta. We sat on a sofa crying that we were going to die because we didn't have enough friends to share, we needed like 45 or something
Good times
i remember getting one that said if i didnt send to 10 friends my mom would die, i only had 6 and i sent my mom a message apologizing for killing her 💀💀💀
The kind of chain posts I saw the most when I was a tween were about WhatsApp updates.
Things about the app starting to charge, the logo changing colors and you loosing all your messages/your phone stopping working or whatever if you didn’t do *insert generic chain mail instructions*.
They relied on you not wanting your friends/family getting hit by the consequences of not knowing about the secret update... 11 year old me fell twice and I still haven’t gotten over the shame.
My cousin sent me a chain letter in the post when I was a kid in the 90s. I don't remember it having anything creepy or luck-related, I think it just said it was a challenge to see how far kids could spread the letter. So I sent it on to some of my friends, but the letters all got sent back to me with a really angry note from Royal Mail telling me that chain letters were not allowed. It scared the hell out of me! It's the first time I remember having bad anxiety and those things have made me anxious ever since 😅
i was on tumblr when i was about 12 or 13 and i remember getting both the “reblog this to avoid bad luck/get something really lucky”, the “send this to a bunch of your favorite friends” (which i still see a fair amount) AND the “reblog if you aren’t homophobic/any other type of discrimination”. always hated seeing them, they clogged things up for miles
wasn't the most popular "reblog if you aren't homophobic" post that infamous miles long one with every rainbow and sherlock gif known to mankind? i can see it in my mind right now lol
@@feykingjulian im sure there was more than just one of those. i as well can see the endless destiel images with various pride flags in the background consuming my screen.
@@feykingjulian absolutely, GOD i still see those posts sometimes and some of them have so many notes they've clearly been around since forEVER
Ugh, there's a special place in my garbage for "reblog or you're a bigot" posts. I consider X PEOPLE MUST REBLOG, even when appended to an otherwise reasonable post, to be a kind of chain mail/reblog begging and ignore them on principle
@@MolecularMachine god yeah, i especially find posts that have smth like "if you scroll past this you might as well just unfollow me" add an extra layer of icky bc it's just guilt trippy LMAO, even if it's for a good cause
The Carmen Winstead one brings back so many memories😭I remember one of my friends sent me one when I was like 11 and I was so terrified to go to sleep…I was so convinced I would wake up with all my skin peeled off lmfao
as someone with ocd i can say that these chain letters were absolute HELL
Kinda related but I loved all the copy and paste messages in CZcams comments like "Bob"
Are you real
Bob
I would love it if Izzzy did a video on Bob
Back in the day, literally nothing was funnier than randomly saying "Bob"
☻/ This is bob.
/▌
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He has not forgotten what you have done.
When I was a little kid, my friend received a horror chain email (about a little boy ghost ripping our eyes out) on her family laptop. We were so freaked up but neither of us knew how to send an email, so we printed out copies of the chain mail and passed them around like flyers.
How did the neighbours react
I LOVE THIS I WANNA DO THIS BUT I CANT BE THAT BIG OF AN ASSHOLE...........unless 😳
Points for ingenuity, I guess...
The best chain things are the Twitter ones who go like "Rt this if you wanna die", is like the reverse of this letters and i love it
I definitely haven't received any chain emails in a long time. I do remember when I was a freshman in high school and Instagram started, those tagging and sharing posts were huge! Great video as always Izzy, also the makeup looks dope 🤘
CHAINMAIL USED TO EXIST PRE-EMAIL?!? People were seriously out here sending physical shitposts in the mail, I’m in shambles over this fact 😂 I think I’m gonna mail one home to my parents house, I’m sure they’ll enjoy the nostalgia
The 1700s!! It actually makes those people sort of endearing lol. Humans have always been humans.
The 'nigerian prince' scam also had a physical version way back when. Called the Spanish prisoner letter if you want to look in to it!
I mean yeah there was chainmail, pretty heavy though. Imagine having to wear that shit for a whole battle
@@KanadaJin yeah I was just thinking about that the other day. How superstitious people still are in 2022! But no matter how technologically advanced we become and how much society advances human nature stays the same.
ikr.
I have had extreme OCD my entire life that iv'e only just recently been able to get better control of.These chain mail things would panic me so badly as a kid and if I didn't do the ritual I legitimately thought that I was going to die. I cannon't describe the pure and true fear it would bring me. It was extremely distressing. That was definitely a strange era and I'm so glad the internet as a whole is mostly past it.
I have mild OCD and these letters freaked me out too.
That's called being an imaginative kid lmao. Not really related to OCD in any way. A relation to OCD would be a need to complete it, not a fear of the spooky story.
@@maskettaman1488 dude here's that attention you wanted you can stop posting this everywhere
@@maskettaman1488 I encourage you to learn more about OCD, as there is a lot of misconceptions.. and if you read my comment you would see that I stated that I needed to complete the ritual.
I remember being a kid and sending each and every one I saw to other people. They never stopped in my country, but me, being a teen, stopped sending them, cause "ugh, so dumb, why would anyone believe this?" and now I see people making memes out of chain letters/copypastas or some aunts and grandmas sending them to me on facebook. I forgot to add, people in comments on instagram also post these, but I just never even read them.
thank you so much for uploading. i know you put a lot of work into your content and it is always wonderful to watch.