There’s Another Jump Scare Ad Going Around

tekki-chan:

takeabreathandsmile:

takeabreathandsmile:

Remember Unfriended? The horror movie that came out a couple years ago that had ads all over Youtube featuring unskippable jump scares?

Well, it’s back with a vengeance – or actually, a sequel:
“Unfriended: Dark Web”

And as you can imagine, the ads are just as bad and anxiety-inducing as before. I’ve come across two separate ads already (one of which was in the middle of a video and happened while I was on fullscreen) so here’s what you need to watch out for:

TRAILER #1 begins with a logo for a chatroom and within the first few seconds you’ll see a guy’s face pop up on a skype-like screen.
Don’t worry – THIS IS NOT THE JUMP SCARE, it’s just a normal-looking chat screen. During this time you’ll want to exit full screen if you’re in it, and then scroll down until all that’s visible is the “Skip Ad” Countdown and about an inch of the bottom half of the video. Then wait and press Skip when you’re able.

This ad DOES NOT have a pre-skip jumpscare, so you’re okay to wait. (Unless your screen shows a “video will play after ad” note instead of a skip function, in which you’ll want to scroll until you can barely see the video and hit mute.) 

TRAILER #2 is the one you need to be wary of.
It begins with about 3 seconds of a black screen and faint, eerie music. If you’re in fullscreen and you see this – COVER THE SCREEN, EXIT, AND SCROLL DOWN QUICKLY. I’ll be honest, I did not see what the image that showed up was (because I followed the aforementioned procedure), but judging by the accompanying sounds and the dialogue that followed:
“Dude, that looked way too real.”
“I think it was real.”

…I’m pretty sure it’s fair to assume that it’s not something you want to be caught off-guard by.

Again, scroll so that you can only see the bottom of the screen and wait for the Skip button to load. Then skip immediately.

There might be other ads going around, but these are the only ones I’ve come across so far. 

If you want to play it safe: Every time slot for an ad on a youtube video is marked by a small yellow square on the time bar (not sure if that’s the official name, but that’s what I’m calling it.) At the beginning of every video and any time you see one of those yellow squares coming up, exit fullscreen and scroll down before it plays. You can also usually see what’s being advertised in the box above the recommendations section.

If you see other ads going around that you feel people should be wary of – or if you have any specific warnings to issue regarding the two I mentioned – please feel free to ad them to this post! 

STAY CALM, BE SAFE, AND BROWSE WISELY, GUYS!!

Yeah, so-

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

Not long after posting this, guess what ad showed up on my dash as one of those “Sponsored” posts?

Be careful scrolling, guys. If you see the word “Sponsored” in grey at the top of a post, slow down and scroll carefully to see what it is. If you see flashing, glitching, a black screen, or what looks like a Skype chat – scroll back up and refresh.

Or just scroll very quickly down, but be very careful in doing so.

I’m getting bombarded with these things, so keep an eye out and spread the word to make sure everybody’s aware.

And this is why people use adblocks: because advertisers are perfectly ok with putting freaking JUMPSCARES in their ads.

thankyousirmayihaveanother:

trishmishtree:

marauders4evr:

You notice how Trump demolished the food safety laws and now, in the past month, we haven’t been able to eat lettuce, eggs, Tyson chicken, and watermelon because there are huge bacteria outbreaks? 

Interesting… 🤔 🤔 🤔 

lettuce (x)

eggs (x)

chicken (x)

watermelon (x)

and here’s a link to an article talking about the changes trump has made to food safety protections

alienfishbabe:

@sponfawn why bring this up tho if you’re not blaming the victims? theres quite literally no reason to point this out. Bowie fucked minors and he never said anything against the allegations. a young girl wearing makeup to look older still looks like a young girl. also, those “cultural elements” are still in place. pedophiles in power have been encouraging this kind of thing forever.

like, I honestly don’t understand why youd reply to a post talking about Bowie being a pedophile with “well the culture encouraged it at the time!!!!” if ur not trying to excuse him or blame the victims for “approaching sexual predators”

he was a rock star they looked up to and he used that power to take advantage of them. they didn’t know he was a sexual predator and they were KIDS approaching a man they admired. they did nothing wrong, even if they overtly flirted/stated they wanted to have sex it is still NOT THEIR FAULT because they were children and Bowie was a fully grown adult and he should have fucking known better

I was not victim blaming. I literally said culture made it more unsafe for girls and encouraged kids to approach sexual predators, which is in no way the fault of kids who can’t consent. It is on adults’ shoulders to not fucking molest children. I literally said Bowie is shit trash. And a pedophile. The point of talking about the culture is to see a more complete picture put in cultural and historical context, which I think makes it more fucked up, cuz people like him were (and are) so enabled to abuse and prey upon literal children. I think context is really important. It helps us draw parallels to our current society, and see how those similarities can be incredibly damaging and toxic. I can see upon rereading it was poorly worded, and I apologize for that. People usually say I ramble too much so I’ve been working with my therapist in trying to cut down my word count, and clearly I fucked up with this one. But my intention was to point out that Bowie was only one of way too many predators who no doubt took advantage of these girls who didn’t know better and couldn’t consent. Bowie was a terrible symptom of a greater disease that we still haven’t gotten rid of

Gender neutral options for addressing a crowd

what-even-is-thiss:

Guys, gals, and non binary pals

Ladies, gentlemen, and variations thereof

Folks

Distinguished guests

Members of the jury

Comrades

Fellow Americans

Citizens of the solar system

All y’all

My dudes

Those who must be stopped

Persons of the audience

Brain owners

Sentient beings of the audience

Bitches

People with PHDs and people without PHDs

All you who got dressed up for no reason

You people

Humans

Lovable idiots

Ladies, germs, and non binary worms

Mouth breathers

Everyone except (insert name here)

I Never Thought I’d Have To Do This

urbanspellcraft:

justatransgirlwitch:

So long story short, I live in a hate filled angry hostile abusive household and I’m trying to move out and basically between college and trying to pay my own bills so I can get used to it and can save the extra to get a car and get out of here but I got “relieved” of my job for being trans and I can’t do anything about it and while between jobs I am actively searching for a new one but my bank account is currently empty after last months bills which screws me over quite a lot, so I set up a PayPal and anything is appreciated. It’s paypal.me/justatransgirlwitch (please ignore the location and birth name) and for the time being I will be treating any $3 dollar donations as a yes no pendulum reading so just message me if you did and I’ll do one for ya, and anything $5 or up as a three card reading just as a thanks for the help. Wish me luck with the job searching!

Hey everyone, help a friend out if you can. She is amazing and I adore her, but even if you can’t donate then at least reblog to spread the word. ❤️