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Traumatized a fake mobile game ad!! Sleeping is now VERY difficult!

UberScout

UberScout

Please Don't Be Mad At Me 02/09/1996
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The other night at about 3 am (ha, oxymoron), I was watching Vinny (Vinesauce) run through a Playlist of awful mobile game ads. Pregnant cartoon women chasing after their cheating husband's with scissors, a heavy-metal vampire dude eating a live pig (er, more like, mouthing it?) then becoming homeless after police run him out and having to build an entire city to survive... yeah. But some of these ads, while some weren't explicitly horrific, one of them chose that direction and stomped on the gas.

A cartoon horse, poorly and crudely drawn in what could have been MS Paint or Flash, is standing rigidly in a barn during night time (the windows are drawn to show stars and a moon in a night sky) with crates holding hay (huh?) And a barrel in the corner. In the barrel there is a wooden handle for some kind of tool. The horse is drawn to have a wide, popped-out eye making it look like it was traumatized or was extremely nervous about something. It even talked in a very, VERY low-pitched and eerily toned Microsoft Sam-like voice. When it did, it only ever said insults and complaints to whoever was supposedly playing.
The minute the video starts, the horse speaks:

"It's like you've never even cared for a horse before." His eye turns red and waters up. "Great, I need to blink. Can't you see? Click on my eye so I can blink." A cartoon hand made to represent tapping on a screen moves around and eventually comes in front of the horse's eye before stopping.
"I can't believe I'm stuck with you as my caretaker." The hand pinches the eye and the horse blinks, to which the eye then goes back to normal color.

"This must be Hell, and you are my tormentor..."

Good God! Where the hell did THAT come from? I mean I know the poor thing had dry eyes for a second but that's all I've seen wrong at this point...

The horse continues to belittle the unseen player. While he does so, the hand drifts over to the barrel with the wooden handle. It grabs it and pulls it out, which plays a live recording of something wooden being taken out of a container. The horse then says "What are you doing now?" The hand, with what is now revealed to be a hairbrush in it, zips at the horse's neck at breakneck speed. "My hair isn't even tang--" Before the horse can finish his sentence, the hand touches the horse's neck with the brush and then immediately stops....

Without any warning. Any sort of animation any transition whatsoever, the horse immediately turns into a photo realistic horse skeleton, and the video plays a GOD-AWFUL, loud as heck noise that is either police sirens over bass-boosted white noise or an excessively echoed, viciously-messed-with sound of a horse winnying in agony, possibly reverbed and overbass-ed making it sound crackle and static-y. The barn scene's lighting then follows suit by becoming very dark. The screen goes black and after Vinny finishes reacting I am able to faintly hear what sounds like Frank Sinatra Jr's "That's life", muffled and slowed, but playing backwards. While this is happening there is now an image of a horse skull with a halo over it, sitting over what appears to be a painting of the "pearly gates" entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven.

I have literally lost the ability to sleep at all. If I AM able to, I have nightmares. Horrendous nightmares that wouldn't even pass clearance for a movie theater in public, the whole video from start to finish just makes you feel like it was made by some messed-up 12 year old kid in middle school who was so bored he decided the best way to entertain himself was to make some kind of deep-web prank video and just leave it up for someone to find and have their whole day thrown off. I don't know if this is part of an ARG or if it was something on the Deep Web or Dark Web, but whoever made it, I hope they have diarrhea so bad one day that they have to call the CDC to have his bathroom flash-fired.

Seriously though, I'm not even joking. Whatever this was supposed to be has left me scarred. Seriously scarred. Every time I close my eyes I have to wrestle myself to the ground to stop hallucinating skeleton horse's and now I may have an irrational phobia of horse's not being able to blink on their own.
 
I really don't know what to say, have never been in a situation like that... I do try to watch my viewing habits, and your story makes me realize why...

Try to focus on something nice? cute?

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Holy crap, that would've haunted my nightmares too. I'm super careful about what I watch on Youtube and on TV but occasionally things pop up that really disturb me as well.
I've made a few status posts on here before about my struggles with Youtube pushing weird or disturbing content at me. Fortunately some people suggested things that have helped take care of that.

In this case, it doesn't sound like the problem would be solved with using an adblocker or a VPN or deleting cookies, or signing out of Youtube, since it was something that you chose to watch. But I would offer the suggestion of ignoring feelings of morbid curiosity (even though it is a common human desire) and not clicking on things that are potentially going to scare you. I had to learn this the hard way.

A lot of times (but not always) I can tell from the thumbnail if a Youtube video is going to be scary.
You probably know this but if you hover your cursor over the thumbnails of the videos on the Youtube homepage, it shows a preview of the video and you can actually watch parts of it without clicking on it, and it often has subtitles. Sometimes I skim videos this way so I know not to actually watch them if the content appears to be heading in a direction that is upsetting.
If you don't want Youtube to keep recommending videos that are similar, sign out of your account and watch videos anonymously.
Hope this info helps.

Think about happy puppies and kittens instead.
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I've had some seriously traumatic experiences like this, too. I'd show you what did it for me, but obviously I don't want to trigger you just in case you have the same vulnerabilities that I did!

One of them was actually a stunt created by Sega on the internet that I found when I was younger (I think I might've posted about this once or twice before). It was such a crazy rabbit hole that messed me up for weeks (I had no idea I had ASD at the time, but that was my first run-in with long-lasting panic), but again, I shouldn't say what it was just in case.
 
I think you are putting too much into this and wildly overthinking it. It was just something someone made, an ad or a game. It means nothing. It's just a drawing on a computer screen, you seem to be working yourself into a frenzy over it, it really is nothing to think about.
 
Forest Cat said:
I think you are putting too much into this and wildly overthinking it. It was just something someone made, an ad or a game. It means nothing. It's just a drawing on a computer screen, you seem to be working yourself into a frenzy over it, it really is nothing to think about.
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You're right. I guess I was just overreacting. It's just the way it happened. It's like that horse was watching a floating hand get ready to brush It's hair and within a split second it goes from a horribly drawn cartoon horse to d e m b o n e s in like a second.

I think what really got me wasn't the horse being "killed" but the "game-over" screen which had the skull with a halo over a stairway to Heaven. Well, at least I thought it was. The horse skull was taking up the whole screen save the background and it blocked whatever was in the middle, but looking past the jaws you can see carpeted stairs sitting on clouds, so it has to be some representation of the afterlife, at least however it's interpreted for animals.

You know how earlier I thought it might be an ARG? I'm starting to think that might actually be the case (read: ARG videos usually make things look like a creepypasta or what may be commonly known nowadays as "analog horror"). Something about this doesn't seem like it was done *entirely* on purpose. I've got a strange feeling that whoever made that video was being forced to, for something.


***This part of my post assumes you have watched the video, though I HIGHLY do NOT recommend it.***


- The horse is always saying negative, insulting things when he talks. Assuming the unseen player character is supposed to be a farmer, but is never actually seen because the player is the one doing everything but tapping the screen, it's possible that the "story" is that the horse was being abused by the player ("This must be hell and you are my tormentor!") or at least neglected ("It's like you don't even know how to care for a horse")
- Why would a virtual pet game of any kind require you to manually perform all the horse's bodily functions? Instead of common needs like "Hungry" "Clean" or "Tired", there is instead status markers for "BREATHE", "BRUSH" "METABOLIZE", "MILK" and... wait, milk? You have to milk a horse?! Oh God!!
- Notice how the horse barely reacts to anything at all except by talking. He never expresses any other kind of emotion other than what appears to be trauma or a constant thousand-yard-stare, but this doesn't explain what has him so bugged out. The barnyard scene in the video looks fine and actually well-kept, and the horse himself doesn't even look injured or sick or starving. So why is he being so hateful to the player? Unless this animation was made by someone's demand, which seems like a very probably hint coming from the horse's remarks, this animation seems like it has almost no purpose other than shock value.

- I just can't help but feel like whoever made this was NOT willing to do so at all, and whoever was forcing them found them making the horse speak insults and complaints as a way to hide a call for help by the horse's speech, and a text to speech voice was used probably because whoever is in this situation, allegedly, most likely didn't want to get caught trying to make an escape. As for the skeleton scene? I don't think it requires too much thinking; the author of the video was most likely killed during or after this was uploaded, seems closer to happening afterwards because of the horse skeleton scene, or it could be that the supposed criminal who forced this to be made simply added that part in after disposing of their victim.

Funny thing is, on YouTube I can only find about three uploads of this video plus a Minecraft animation parody of it. It's also on tiktok buuut, um, I'd be careful about clicking those. There is the mention of, um, *anatomy* in some of them. Reddit has a thread titled "what is this horse's problem" and of course this has been replied to with jokes, but it's still the same video


I cannot find any information at all about who made this or uploaded it, where it came from, or what it even is supposed to be. Not to mention who is this intended for?

This whole thing seems too strange to shrug off as some kind of meme.
 
I think that it was created purely for shock value with the intention to scare people, which is exactly what it did here.
I have unfortunately run across things like this online too and they did scare me. Admittedly it also took me some time to get over it.
Probably best not to continue researching it and re-triggering yourself.
 
UberScout said:
You're right. I guess I was just overreacting. It's just the way it happened. It's like that horse was watching a floating hand get ready to brush It's hair and within a split second it goes from a horribly drawn cartoon horse to d e m b o n e s in like a second.

I think what really got me wasn't the horse being "killed" but the "game-over" screen which had the skull with a halo over a stairway to Heaven. Well, at least I thought it was. The horse skull was taking up the whole screen save the background and it blocked whatever was in the middle, but looking past the jaws you can see carpeted stairs sitting on clouds, so it has to be some representation of the afterlife, at least however it's interpreted for animals.

You know how earlier I thought it might be an ARG? I'm starting to think that might actually be the case (read: ARG videos usually make things look like a creepypasta or what may be commonly known nowadays as "analog horror"). Something about this doesn't seem like it was done *entirely* on purpose. I've got a strange feeling that whoever made that video was being forced to, for something.


***This part of my post assumes you have watched the video, though I HIGHLY do NOT recommend it.***


- The horse is always saying negative, insulting things when he talks. Assuming the unseen player character is supposed to be a farmer, but is never actually seen because the player is the one doing everything but tapping the screen, it's possible that the "story" is that the horse was being abused by the player ("This must be hell and you are my tormentor!") or at least neglected ("It's like you don't even know how to care for a horse")
- Why would a virtual pet game of any kind require you to manually perform all the horse's bodily functions? Instead of common needs like "Hungry" "Clean" or "Tired", there is instead status markers for "BREATHE", "BRUSH" "METABOLIZE", "MILK" and... wait, milk? You have to milk a horse?! Oh God!!
- Notice how the horse barely reacts to anything at all except by talking. He never expresses any other kind of emotion other than what appears to be trauma or a constant thousand-yard-stare, but this doesn't explain what has him so bugged out. The barnyard scene in the video looks fine and actually well-kept, and the horse himself doesn't even look injured or sick or starving. So why is he being so hateful to the player? Unless this animation was made by someone's demand, which seems like a very probably hint coming from the horse's remarks, this animation seems like it has almost no purpose other than shock value.

- I just can't help but feel like whoever made this was NOT willing to do so at all, and whoever was forcing them found them making the horse speak insults and complaints as a way to hide a call for help by the horse's speech, and a text to speech voice was used probably because whoever is in this situation, allegedly, most likely didn't want to get caught trying to make an escape. As for the skeleton scene? I don't think it requires too much thinking; the author of the video was most likely killed during or after this was uploaded, seems closer to happening afterwards because of the horse skeleton scene, or it could be that the supposed criminal who forced this to be made simply added that part in after disposing of their victim.

Funny thing is, on YouTube I can only find about three uploads of this video plus a Minecraft animation parody of it. It's also on tiktok buuut, um, I'd be careful about clicking those. There is the mention of, um, *anatomy* in some of them. Reddit has a thread titled "what is this horse's problem" and of course this has been replied to with jokes, but it's still the same video


I cannot find any information at all about who made this or uploaded it, where it came from, or what it even is supposed to be. Not to mention who is this intended for?

This whole thing seems too strange to shrug off as some kind of meme.
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I don't know what ARG or creepypasta is unfortunately, but I think you should just keep in mind that what you saw wasn't real. Nothing happened. Someone made a drawing or game or whatever it was, nothing to think about, there's no deeper meaning or anything behind it, it's just the internet. No reason to be scared or worried.
 
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Everyone else has provided some great happy content! A few things I've learned about avoiding certain thoughts:

You can't "avoid" a thought by trying not to think about it. You have to actively choose something else to think about.

When my children were younger, they would often come to me at night time and tell me they were afraid of something they saw, heard, or thought about that day and they couldn't sleep.

So, I would tell my kids, "If I tell you not to think about the pink elephant, not to picture it in your head - what are you thinking about?" Of course, the answer is the pink elephant. The more you try not to think about the pink elephant, the more you're going to think about it.

Then I would tell them, "Now, let me tell you about the purple rhinoceros. It has a ballet tutu on, and it's doing the macarena. It has a hat on the ground for people to put money in." (I would go on and make up other details). "Now what are you thinking of?" They would answer, "The purple rhinoceros." I said, "And you forgot all about the pink elephant, (until I mentioned it), because you were thinking about what size tutu would fit a purple rhinoceros and why it needs money."

Then I would pick a topic that the kids like and talk about it for 5 - 10 minutes, until they forgot whatever scary thing they couldn't stop thinking about.

To break it into steps:

1) You can't live a negative. "Don't think about this" and "Don't do this" doesn't work. You have to actively pick something else and say, "I'm going to think about that" and "I'm doing that." This is even more powerful at subconscious levels. In Primary Process thinking, the type of thought we have while we're asleep, negatives don't work. If you go to sleep saying, "Don't think about the pink elephant", your brain will drop the "don't" and you will dream about the pink elephant.

2) You have to put more work into whatever alternative you select. You (maybe unwillingly) put a certain amount of focus into something you don't like thinking about. You have to put more focus in whatever you are using to drive those thoughts out. Choose something that is easy for you to dive into and add more detail, really dig into it!

3) It helps to have something picked out ahead of time. For me, it's easy because I always have something related to my special (autistic-obsessive) interest to think about.

It's funny because I do the exact same thing as my kids - when I go to bed at night, the most shocking, disturbing, or vulgar thing I saw that day comes to my mind and demands to be processed. I've learned to be very careful with the media I take in.

And I always have a few things picked out and ready to think about. For me, it's usually math problems. I always have my handy dandy distractions ready.
 
I guess it takes a lot to disturb me. Surrealism pushes my buttons. I think it was Eraserhead that really did it, combining the surreal and horror. I don't know what was worst, the baby or the woman in the radiator.
 
It's starting to affect me less and less. Only source of anxiety right now is our friends are staying over but they're bickering like cats and dogs -_-

'Ts all good though, ol' Hershey No-Bones ain't coming back for a while. Heh.
 

I don't know what's worse... the horse, or the HAND!

Dear God, j-just LOOK at the thing...!
 
I'm looking through the comments for this nightmare and other places and nobody seems to even know if it's a real ad or something someone just made as a weird meme or something.

Also that ending is like a one-way ticket to Nope Town.
 
If I ever got a horse and discovered it could talk and it said stuff like this.... yeah no.
 
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