Lately I've been seeing how some FNAF games try to generate terror from the bizarre and the poorly done, the stingray virus is a good example, but I've realized that in these games that try to pass themselves off as viruses or imitate a virus, for me the main characteristics: use of Arabic writing, very loud and uncomfortable sounds, poor optimization, oversaturation of text objects on the screen, poor design of the entire game and a "copy and paste" mentality.
>>715579231 (OP)I appreciate the attempts at making the malware seem like real sketchy malware (i.e. looking like shit and being Arabic) but the effort to make a game is what really throws it off for me for believability. I know it's just a Creepypasta but the malware part of the FNAF horror trend was lame. At least it brought out some good retakes of the original like Graveyard Shift, Marco Antonio's FNAF 1 Remake, and Freddy's: Reanimated.
>>715579670I don't like marco antonio he draws way too much mario.exe
zoomers yearn for mathrus
It's interesting how timeless the "my video game is haunted" trope is. We've been doing it ever since video game forums first came into being and yet it keeps being revived for different eras of the internet.
>>715579231 (OP)So have "zoomers" actually seen real malware? Seems like it would be hard to get past 1) windows defender (assuming they even use a PC) and 2) every other popular thing they like coming from an app store like Google Play or the Apple Store. Meanwhile my dumb kid ass had to fight off a fake antivirus that had cyrillic text as its process name in the task manager in like 2006. Or deal with some random program inserting advertising links into web text.
>>715583858There have been a number of TikTok trends that involve kids tricking each other into downloading ransomware
