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This can be [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. Maybe the artist intentionally created ugly, dissonant sights or sounds to beat up the viewer, but the end result is actually pretty cool.

* A growing problem with widespread adoption of [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie 3-D films]] and TV sets is that they have a tendency to cause eye strain and even motion sickness in a large minority of viewers.

* The phrase 'ear rape' actually originated on {{Website/YTMND}} before Youtube picked it up. The Forgot Poland Army was infamous for making these sites, and the user Psychocola is credited with inventing the 3500Hz square wave, supposedly the most annoying sound to the human ear. [[http://gentlesinewave.ytmnd.com Listen at your own risk]].

* [[{{Room101}} Room 23]] from ''Series/{{Lost}}''. It's so bad [[spoiler: it's designed to literally erase the short term memory of the unlucky victim]].

* Many {{Youtube Poop}}s, wherein it is called "ear rape". Some noteworthy ones:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/geibuchan Geibuchan]]'s Poops have a lot of sound bits intentionally amplified to loud noise levels for virtually no other reason than this.
** Creator/CartoonLover98 is another infamous example. Two of the biggest are "DON'T FORGET TO WRITE!" in the taken-down ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Friendship is Political Bullshit]]'' (this clip is featured in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWVtSXzypLw mock Nostalgia Critic review]]) and [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob]]'s reaction to thinking he became manager of the Krusty Krab 2 in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPmsjcjqGNY SpingeBill Travels Half the Globe for a Hat]]''.

* "[[https://youtu.be/ZsSYase1hJI Lower State of Consciousness]]" by ZZT. Harsh UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} style bleeps and buzzes set to techno beats.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has an example of this in the episode "Adventures In Light Distortion". The episode had been largely humorous before, as the gravity engine on the Roaming Eye messed with the proportions of the HardLight-bodies of the Gems. However, when Steven shuts it off on accident and everyone gets pinned to the walls, the environment turns red and everything gains an effect much like watching a 3D movie without 3D-glasses. The fact that everything starts shaking as well does ''not'' help.
* From the show ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' there is the episode ''Operation: A.R.C.H.I.V.E.'', which details the creation of adults and the war that children and adults fought so that both could get their respective rights. Granted, the thing is controversial since [[AudienceAlienatingPremise it should be separated from the general continuity of the series in order to get the maximum enjoyment out of it]], but that is not what makes it this trope. What makes it this trope comes after the narrator (Numbuh 1) proves that adults and children do not live happily by using a TheEndOrIsIt styled motive and showing after it the presence of schools which should let children forget about everything, after which you get disturbing image after disturbing image with narration detailing how gruesomely children are getting brainwashed by them until the teacher for which the speech is given demands that Numbuh 1 stops speaking so that he can give him a [[FMinusMinus triple F minus]] for all of the (InUniverse) alleged lies he taught to those children. The show was already known for [[NightmareFuel/CodenameKidsNextDoor its outright gruesome imagery and themes]], but this is unbelievably hard to watch even by the standards of the very show.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz''. The whole thing has no grasp on the idea of "Dominant Color" and is regularly seizure inducing with its trippy visuals and butt-ugly design. If you have sensitive eyes, or any eyes at all for that matter, you won't after watching this. Webvideo/RebelTaxi said it best:
--->'''Pan-Pizza: ''' Your average LCD TV can display over 16 million colors, and by golly ''The Problem Solverz'' is going to do just that.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' likes - nay, ''loves'' - to explore all the myriad ways of making its audience's eyes bleed. One example is when Cartman is told to close his eyes to find inspiration, cue a montage of [[MediumBlending real life footage]] of NightmareFuel, including {{family unfriendly death}}s, {{gorn}}, and ''a lab mouse eating another one's brain.'' There is also random footage of a severely starving African man in a parody commercial for Towelie products.

* ''WebVideo/LinusTechTips'': In-Universe. In "[[https://youtu.be/DwDWQyBF9II?t=229 This was all a waste of money.]] (about Website/YouTube's shoddy HDR support), an example is a cutaway of a hypothetical scene of an LTT employee looking at an HDR TV when it's tuned to "an even worse version of the Vivid mode in the Best Buy showroom" (meaning way too bright). The video itself is in SDR, so the excessive brightness is incapable of reaching the audience.

** Music/{{Squarepusher}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/uyw-_JxwFPY Steinbolt]]". Good song, but definitely an acquired taste. Even a Website/YouTube comment claimed that the song sounds like dubstep having a stroke.

* The Website/YouTube video [[https://youtu.be/P5eOrcfisEg Luna's Royal Voice]] takes Princess Luna's [[NoIndoorVoice Royal Canterlot Voice]] from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' to its logical conclusion...

* In various ''Website/GoAnimate'' [[YouAreGrounded "Grounded"]] videos, one of the many [[HumiliationConga "Punishment Day"]] punishments is to force the punished person to listen a song very loudly. Many videos ''do'' warn viewers to turn down their volumes since they know it's going to be insanely loud.

Note: This ''must'' be intentional on the part of the creators, otherwise it's just DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible. This is ''not'' the same as StylisticSuck. However, they can overlap.

* Llamasoft's ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'' is an incredibly trippy experience, with bright flashing colors throughout. As an added bonus, the game is VR-supported...but don't be surprised if you feel motion sick playing in VR.

* ''Advertisement/Snickers'': One Snickers Ice Cream Bar advertisement, (Which is a Beach advert for Snickers Ice Cream Bars) contains nothing but a screaming nightmare. Welp, here the part where the chaos infinites...

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' likes - nay, ''loves'' - to explore all the myriad ways of making its audience's eyes bleed. One example is when Cartman is told to close his eyes to find inspiration, cue a montage of [[MediumBlending real life footage]] of NightmareFuel, including {{family unfriendly death}}s, {{gorn}}, and ''a lab mouse eating another one's brain.'' There is also random footage of a severely starving African man in a parody commercial for Towely products.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyGoldfishIsEvil'' episode "Goldfish Teriyaki" Admiral Bubbles uses a device he invented to zap the host of a Japanese cooking show who wanted to eat him. When he does this there are strobe effects of black and white for approximately 4 seconds.

* Music/{{Nirvana}} has "Endless Nameless" on the album ''Music/{{Nevermind}}'', and "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" and "Tourette's" on their followup ''Music/InUtero''.

* ''Adverrisement/Snickers'': One Snickers Ice Cream Bar advertisement, (Which is a Beach advert for Snickers Ice Cream Bars) contains nothing but a screaming nightmare. Welp, here the part where the chaos infinites...

* Every. Single. Creator/TerminalMontage. Video. Expect ''very'' loud screaming and ''very'' unsettling expressions in most of them.