Social Anxiety Horror

Welcome to my deep dive into Social Anxiety Horror. Enjoy! Or Don't! It's a weird video!

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Jeff Jeffs Bizarre Adventure Anime Podcast:
(but also anywhere you can get podcasts)

The two anime I talk about in my Tales of Social Anxiety Terror: Serial Experiments Lain and Paranoia Agent.

Thumbnail art: @Skutchdraws

Trailer Credits:
Voice Actor: @frankielollia
Animation: @TerracotaScarf
Backgrounds: @SilssP
Storyboard: @brobexx

Sources/ Research:

Depersonalization:

Studies:

Stanford Film Experiment

Information Cascade (bell experiment)

Ostrictation:

General reading on social anxiety:

[supereyepatchwolf]

Hello friends. Been a minute. Sorry about that.


Just want to thank everyone for the patience and support, this was a weirdly complicated video to put together, especially with life shit firing off during the production. I dont really know how i feel about the video now, but I do know it’s time to move on and make other stuff.



That’s all. You have my word the next video will be out way sooner than this one. Stay safe out there guys.

[arkay]

"Jackson was born in 1916 and in time would stop being a baby." This is the kind of powerful writing that makes this channel so beloved

[ryansch]

"British people die in fire because they didn't want to leave without paying the bill" reads like a Monty Python sketch

[RomanticSwordsman]

"Ah, Perry the Platypus, you're trapped... by societal convention! Look, we're in a fine dining enviornment, everyone knows not to throw a scene in a fancy restaurant! That's right, you're trapped, sit down."

[thSaturn]

“That probably doesn’t sound like much after everything we’ve talked about.” My brother in Christ, if that happened to me, I would be driven to mind-shattering madness.

[justas]

I think the most fucked, meta-horror element of "All my friends hate me" is that the main character is actually a bit of a douche. The horror goes from "Oh god, I hope my friends don't hate me like they hate the main character" to "Oh wait, the main character is kind of a douche" to "Oh god am I a douche and everyone is just putting up with me but secretly hates me?!"

[Luipaard]

For anyone wondering, the guy who was doing the abuse phone scams is named David R. Stewart. He was prosecuted but the prosecution shit the bed and he was acquitted. They found the phone cards he used to make these scam calls as well as the police uniforms that he wore to buy the phone cards. The scam calls stopped after he was arrested.

[HeisenbergFam]

"imagine you're sitting alone in a room full of strangers"

The scariest horror is realistic horror

[misteraskman]

Two things

First, This is the most horrifying video I've seen of yours. I have anxiety, and just that moment of "nobody laughing at my joke" really got me, and it was just the beginning. This is my new favorite video of yours.

Second thing: Once there was a fire outside of my school and it was just creeping in, and NOBODY seemed to care but me; it drove me crazy telling my few friends that we should tell the principal or something and they just saying "it's alright". I can proudly say that I did tell the principal (who was just mildly concerned but at least reacted) and I just got out of the school. Later my friend sent me a message saying that I was right, that they ended up evacuating the whole school because just the smoke was already to heavy to be safe (my school is pretty open, so imagine). I can say confidently that I'd exited that room.

[theultimategamer]

"one of the cruelest things you can do to a person is take away their perception of themself" I felt it to my core

[ttamecco]

can't believe the most horrifying thing I've heard in a minute was John reading a list of restaurants

[nicoleemenhiser]

Speak No Evil is an immaculate breakdown of abuser behavior. Slowly, carefully encroaching on your boundaries, slowly escalating to abuse you can't recognize because your boundaries have become mush. And all the while they make room for you to feel you let it happen. Making you feel that you allowed the abuse, or even that you deserved it. Instead of seeing yourself as a kind person being socially accommodating or a loving partner trying to compromise and empathize.

[Sloster]

The best lesson my grandfather ever taught me was:
"no matter what happens, as long as you're certain you're right. Keep walking forward even if everyone you see walks in the opposite direction."

[natmorse-noland]

While watching your segment on the experiments on social conformity, my first thought was, "I wouldn't be so cowardly. I'd stick to my guns." But then I started thinking about the times when I should've spoken up, but didn't, because I was afraid of getting hurt, or merely afraid of making a scene. None of us are immune to social pressure.

But then I thought further about the times I DID speak up, about the times I physically intervened when people were being harassed or assaulted. Conforming to social pressure is real, but it's not inevitable. We can all stand up for what's right at least some of the time, and that isn't nothing. So take heart y'all. You don't need to be brave every time. You just need to be brave once.

[stefanocer]

This video reminded me of a story told to me by my mother, and I think it fits the mood perfectly. This happened to her decades ago, on the eve of her 18th birthday, all of a sudden, a full week before the day itself, her friends start to act weird around her. They begin to avoid her, they constantly ask her if she's got plans for specific days, they visibly exclude her from conversations and street get-togethers. Everyone does this, including the one who would become my father. She has no idea what's going on, she thinks she might have wronged them in some way, but does not ask, because she has no one to turn to for explanations, it's all subtle behaviour, even her childhood closest girlfriends. This goes on until her birthday, where, from her perspective, no one gave a shit about her the entire day, no one wished her happy birthday and no one gave her a gift. Defeated and beyond pissed at this point she goes back home in the evening, where everyone is there, wishing her a happy 18th, with a surprise birthday party. I don't think the english language can adequately convey the scenario she described to me, but let's just say that she told them off. Since everyone there is a southern italian the humor flows, jokes are cracked and everyone (presumably, she does not remember much from the party itself) has a good time. They even gave her a cute ring. To this day she still remembers the hushed tones and skittish looks, not the cool party, and to this day she gets irrationally angry when she catches you hiding secrets from her, even banale shit. They are all still very chill, but what a number they pulled.
Excluded, but at the center of attention, ignored, but also having your every move scrutinized and questioned. I don't know if the party was worth it lads.

[Laughability]

your personal story at the end was genuinely so haunting that I kept expecting you to say "that wasn't real, i just made it up for the video" LOL

[einekartoffel]

Nothing worse than being an outcast and finding a group of fellow outcasts who all bond over things you relate to and making a space for people like you to exist.

And then they cast you out.

Because you were too them for them.

[georgespiggott]

I think what's so disturbing about the stepford wives in particular is that, for a period of time, women and girls with mental health issues and/or mood disorders were routinely lobotomized against their will if their husbands or fathers wanted it.

[jusonali]

"why are you doing this?"
"because you have let me."

still brings me to tears. i will never recover from this cruel and terrifying movie.

[noriringtail]

As a man with paranoid schizophrenia, I have the following to say to you:
It's okay. You're fine. People like you. They wouldn't waste their time if they didn't. You don't have to worry. I know I'm just a stranger, but in a way, we're all strangers. No one can truly know someone else, not totally. But we all experience humanity, and it really is going to be okay. We beat these demons one day at a time, by trusting people we care about and doing things we love. Hang in there.