I'm sure most of you (who am I kidding, no one reads this stuff) recognize this maze, or at least the screaming exorcist girl who appears right before you finish it. This is some OG internet shit. But in the early days of my internet life, instead of laughing at numa numa guy or ultimate battle of ultimate destiny, I was shitting my pants screaming at this fucking maze prank. Basically this was my 9/11. Okay that's insensitive, this was more like my Oklahoma City bombing. You see, up until I experienced this, I would have never imagined some asshole could or would create an entire fucking game just to have something scary pop out at me in the end. It was a loss of innocence, you know? Like the kind of metaphor a shitty pretentious film student would make a movie about. And after it happened, after the shock dissipated, I awoke to a different world, full of evil internet terrorists coming up with new ways to scare me, like a certain Korean Webcomic that still gives me nightmares. And although cheap horror flicks use the same strategy, at least I know I'm watching a scary movie and am not caught completely unaware. Myself and millions of others now have to cautiously lower the volume and look at the corner of our screens when sifting threw new flash files, gifs, webms, etc. when online. I'd start a Tumblr about getting triggered and having jump scare PTSD, but I bet you $20 that there's already an unironic one in existence.
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