You'd think someone like PewDiePie wouldn't give people nightmares. To quote the man himself, "That's where you're wrong, BITCH!"
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Thumbnails
- His Crooked Man series thumbnails. The first thumbnail has Pewds menacingly staring at the viewer. Not too scary, right? But then in the thumbnails for the videos to come, his skin gradually turns paler and his neck gets more and more elongated as his eyes turn to black and his head topples over. It's just as horrific as it sounds. Funny enough, this actually Justified, as the Crooked Man is able to tilt his head to unnatural extents.
- The thumbnails for his two Don't Starve Screecher videos are pretty horrific. "IT WILL MAKE YOU SCREECH" has whatever the fuck that is
◊, and "THEM JUMPSCARES" has that.◊ The fact that you have no clue what they are makes it all the more nightmarish. - His "Insanity" video thumbnail shows him with wide eyes and a Slasher Smile while holding a gun to his head. You could interpret this as showing that Pewds has been going insane from all those horror games.
- Pizza Delivery's thumbnail◊ video shows Pewds as a delivery boy, holding a pizza and smiling, oblivious to the Eldritch Abomination standing right behind him.
- His DON'T EVER LOOK AT HER video shows a scared Pewds with what looks like Samara behind him.
- All of his Night of the Sacrifice (Ikenie No Yoru) video thumbnails count as this.
- Parts 1-3 all have this strange girl with a Ghostly Gape.
- Part 4 has Pewds with the gape.◊
- Part 5 has Pewds and Marzia with the gape..◊
- The thumbnail for his "Eyes" video shows him screaming with red bleeding eyes as a ghost stands behind him in the darkness.
- The thumbnail for his Crashtastic video is terrifying and has absolutely nothing to do with the video. What do you think this thumbnail shows? If you guessed Body Horror, you are right. Again. See for yourself◊, if you dare.
- The thumbnail for his 2nd Impossible Quiz video is super creepy, depicting a smiling man giving a thumbs up while hanging. Yeah.◊
- The thumbnail for "HOW TO SMILE!" seems a bit...off.◊
- Slight Nightmare Retardant when you look closer at the hands forcing the smile. How sweet of Marzia (judging by what looks to be a french manicure) to help with the thumbnail!
- This is why you should never let Pewds be a lumberjack.◊
- The thumbnail for NEVER HAVE I EVER... is the common stock photo of two women gossiping...altered to have multiple eyeballs or mouths covering their whole faces. Very inducing of the jibblies if you have trypophobia or just Body Horror fears in general. He does this again with the thumbnail for HAIL TO OUR NEW LORD AND SAVIOR with eyeballs all over Kim Jong-Un's face.
Let's Play
- He has played his fair share of horror games, so it makes sense that jump scares are abound, so the viewer(s) will often get as scared (if not more scared) than Felix.
- Have you ever wanted to see the face of a pug on the body of a little girl?
- His Spore videos, where Felix ramps up the Body Horror for his creations.
- His Surgeon Simulator 2013 eye transplant video. Long story short, God bless Bob's eyes. You could see how utterly disturbed Felix was as he was playing. The next one he does is the teeth transplant.
- In one particular Amnesia episode, a certain German creator of custom stories for Felix has the statues greet him. "HALLO FREUNDE!"
- The Minecraft Let’s Play Series has some pretty clear-cut examples of AndIMustScream.
- Not only was Water Sheep trapped in an enclosed pit where water flows infinitely into a wall, but Pewds also enclosed him in a steel cage where he was forced to listen to a loud bell ringing right next to him, and he later forced three pistons in three directions on him, which ended up killing him.
- Bone-Joergen was left alone at the bottom of the ocean with no signs of Pewds returning to rescue him. Due to his nature as an undead horse, he cannot die. He also cannot despawn due to the name tag placed on him. Though some fans have argued that he is safer that way rather than being brought back with Pewds.
Other
- Felix himself can stray into this territory sometimes. Particularly when he gets very frustrated with games like Unfair Mario or The Impossible Quiz, which paves way to some Sanity Slippage, whether for laughs or for real.
- In one of his Pewds Does Everything videos, he reads a tweet from someone that wants him to smile at them.Pewds: IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED?◊
- Equal parts Nightmare Fuel and Tear Jerker; in this Pewds Does Everything video, Felix admits that the last time he tried doing a PDE video culminated in him having a panic attack from all the stuff he was doing at once coupled with not eating anything. He distanced himself from the series after that for obvious reasons.
- One time he did a tape challenge in which he had to apply a strip of tape to his face for every death he got in a rage game. Te result leaves his face covered in tape. Its worse than it sounds.
- His "loading screen" face◊ is likely to at least creep you out.
- His Twitter cover photo can be pretty unsettling. It shows Pewds and Puga with swapped eyes, noses, and mouths. Buzzfeed even included it as part of its "30 scariest face swaps of 2012" list (although it only placed at #20).
- His Fabulizer videos are pretty disturbing:
- His Fabulizing of Miley Cyrus was nothing short of frightening. He put her head on a turkey, gouged out her eyes, made her cry tears of blood, had her holding someone's face, and to top it off he put her inside a Satanic pentagram and lit her on fire.
- Marzia's Fabulization. He decides to put a nipple on her head. He later chooses to Photoshop another nipple in her mouth, but decides to give her a nipple for a nose. When Marzia says she wants to see it via Facebook, he tells her it's not Facebook friendly. She still thought it was fabulous nonetheless.
- His Fabulization of Tom Cruise in the 3rd installment. At the end of that episode, after Pewds did his brofist, a Record Needle Scratch and a short drum loop is heard and it cuts to the fabulized Tom while creepy distorted noises play in the background.
- His Fabulization of Kanye West, where the top half of his head is just the bottom half inverted, and there are two long tongues coming from each mouth to touch. And he's crying.
- Megan Fox's fabulization is either this or Bloody Hilarious. If you look hard enough at her face, you can very vaguely see a skull...
- The Photobooth tag video delves into the Uncanny Valley with its means of nightmare fuel. Seeing the faces of Marzia and Pewds bend and contort and shrink and enlarge is funny but also kind of creepy...
- The sheer idea of the Catacombs Challenge alone. You're alone, with not much light, navigating through the dark and eerie Paris catacombs (yes, the ACTUAL catacombs), with a horrific sense of paranoia that someone will pop out in front of you or be lurking behind you.
- Having to reach into a container with bugs inside to advance.
- There are multiple instances where you can see someone following Felix without him noticing, and you just feel as if they are going to scare him, but they don't...
- In this video, one of things Felix discusses is the at-the-time extremely-popular ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. He states that the challenge is something of a simulation of what it feels to have ALS, and he then proceeds to go into a description of the disease's effects that makes it sound just as horrific as it probably is."Just imagine yourself, your fingers stop working, you lose the ability to speak, your arms stop working, you can't walk, you can't do anything yourself, and your mind is still clear, but you're trapped in this body that you can't move. It's just awful. And...after that, you die."
- 10 Things You Should Never Google. It sounds disturbing enough, but the fact that Felix added a warning of the gross content in the video in the title is more than enough. We then see tons of Nausea Fuel images of intestinal diseases, skin diseases, and more while Pewds is barely able to refrain from vomiting and gets progressively worse over the course of the video, especially when he sees 2 Girls 1 Cup and almost vomits.
- Pewds attempts (to no success) to face his Trypophobia (for those who don't know, it's a fear and/or revulsion of clusters of small holes, bumps, etc.) by looking at some damn crazy shit, even for those who don't have the phobia. He starts off with pretty damn gross (he starts off watching a documentary clip of a Surinam Toad, known for storing its young in its hole-riddled back), to seriously damn freaky (a gif of an edited human face with hundreds holes moving across it). He then moves on to an absolutely horrifying video that he recommends you bail before you're scarred forever. For the understandably squeamish: It's a video of a mangoworm removal operation from an afflicted dog, in Africa. Mangoworms are the larval stage of the parasitic Mango Fly, native to Africa, which embeds its eggs in soil or feces, and damp clothing and bed linens; after which the maggots lie in wait for something with exposed skin so that it can then burrow itself into its victim. Without tools, the only way to have the larvae removed is to apply a massage to squeeze the maggots out, leaving open weeping sores. It's horrible enough for Pewds to scream, and cause him to (jokingly) want to jump off the balcony when he sees it again during editing. Sweet dreams.
