Growing Up In Silent Hill : The Eerie Comfort of Y2K Era Horror 

Same. I mentioned it to one of my friends, and they thought I was weird

@@mak_attakks Horror has an element of mystery behind the danger. Real daily life dangers have long become mundane and repetitive, to the point some stop thinking that dying would be so bad. The spike of a danger you don't understand or of a sudden horrendous monster awakes the dormant primitive instinct, of wanting to survive no matter what, and also a sense of spirituality. Because the saddest part of realizing demons didn't exist was understanding that neither did angels.

@@mak_attakks I mean they’re not wrong, but I think we were all kind of weird back then. Hell, we’re all probably weird now and will subsequently wind up having weird kids who will take what they inherited from us and make things even weirder (fingers crossed 🤞🏻)

@@buntado6 nothing exists beyond what we choose to breathe life into.

Glad I’m not alone. Idk why I feel most alive in the dead of night, but I do

Guess that explains why I’m drawn towards horror content 😅

And it's not about being married or in couple. When I was happily married, I still was drawn to horror. Actually we both were, we found horror movies... absorbing. Maybe that's why we divorced 🤣

Yep. Me.

This bloke can WRITE. He's like a triple threat. Good speaking voice, good editing, good writing.

Nightmares are comforting in a world of evil

I’m glad to hear he’s made a full recovery!

So thankful your son has made a full recovery. It is funny how horror becomes cathartic in these times of grief and fear.

Akira Yamaoka's music will do that to you.

I'm glad to hear that he's okay

Wow, hope you're all doing well

Yeah there were a lot of lines like this. Instantly subscribed.

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I really love the way you describe this as a poem. I think this is a perfect description :)

This should be the first pinned comment. If this is not poetry, what is?

I am almost 42 but it feels like yesterday morning I was 14 and reading Lord of the Rings in bed, hearing my mother in the kitchen cooking up some breakfast.

I think it qualifies as some sort of Mandela Effect. I feel like time has moved very quickly since the year 2000.

I’m the exact same way with nostalgia dude.

Look at every eras horror films and the fears of their time. It is a commonly accepted thing that horror stories reflect the fears of their time.

Turns out, we were right to be afraid.

@@RevCo78 fun fact, torture porn is a direct response to 9/11

Memory is like wandering a dilapidated building filled with rooms Some memories are comforting with welcoming furnishings Other rooms are dark, dank with foreboding contours

I’m also a child of ‘87. Good vintage. I think the burgeoning existence of the internet helped give me form to the lonely horror that otherwise manifested as boredom in my life. It’s weird to have nostalgia for the quiet terror of loneliness and isolation.

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"I guess the tech industry really worked insanely hard to fully fix the bug before it happened." That was precisely it. When Y2K came and went, and all the news reported that it had been a bust, that nothing of particular note happened, and all the jokes began, it was all down to years of preparation, patching, and execution. It was known to be an issue decades prior, but many vendors didn't bother making fixes for it because nobody expected critical systems to be running on 10/20/30 year old hardware by the turn of the millennium. By most accounts, those who worked on Y2K compliance, many deployments went down to the wire, and many were done years ahead of time. Some systems got patched in '98 or earlier, some got patched in '99, and some only got patched in December of '99 or even December 31st. All the credit for nothing of note happening comes down to the IT workers who worked their asses off to get every major system into compliance on a worldwide scale. In the end, Y2K amounted to: A few US Spy satellites stopped working for a few days until a fix was implemented. A few people were born, according to the computers, at 100 years old. The US Naval Observatory dropped out of time synchronization with the rest of the US Navy. This was fixed within an hour of being reported. Other scattered, trivial issues. The next major issue of this type will occur in 2038, when systems using an unpatched UNIX operating system will overflow the 32-bit signed integer for UNIX Time. It will occur at 03:14:07 UTC on 19, January 2038, and all affected systems will revert to 20:45:52 UTC, 13, December 1901. In reality, this particular problem SHOULD just go over without any effort on the user's (or sysadmin's) part, as most operating systems have been developer much more proactively against issues like this to avoid another Y2K-like scramble to fix everything. The only things that will be affected by this, in all likelihood, are ancient software packages which are quite old even today.

I'm an '87 kid, too. The thing about Y2K was that it never even was an issue, at least not at the 1999-2000 switchover. Computers have never been in base-10 (the number system we use), so that clock ticking over for us meant nothing. Computers at the time were made using a 32-bit numbering space, meaning that the issues described in Y2K wouldn't have happened until January 19, 2038 at 03:14:08 AM. And that's assuming nothing was done (which it has; computers are 64 bit now, increasing that max year exponentially from 2038 to the year 292,277,026,596). Y2K was solely people (including the government) freaking out because they didn't understand how computers worked. Granted, it pushed the introduction to 64 bit, but the kerfuffle was only fearmongering. I even recall hearing about the 32-bit issue mentioned above very briefly on the news when they interviewed an expert. I remember thinking "Oh, yeah. This dude is right." No one listened and immediately started freaking out again. Edit: And if any system is still running in 2038 that has the 32-bit spillover issue mentioned above, it deserves to crash.

@@Kyrrial The risk wasn't in consumer equipment, and when dealing with consumer equipment, it was largely relegated to software. The one of the big risks was on systems which truncated the first two digits of the year, e.g. 12/31/99. This was done to save memory on early computer systems, and many of those early mainframes were still essential to a great number of businesses and government entities. When the year 2000 happened, if unpatched, these systems would have flipped over to reading 1/1/00, reading as 1/1/1900. This is one example out of many. What you've failed to account for is the fact that while hardware that the average person was using at the time was largely immune to this issue (outside of software problems), the decades old mainframes, and programs running on those mainframes (databases, for instance) we not. Nobody expected them to still be in place 30 years later, let alone running the same code they were when they were introduced. Much like with your edit, everyone SHOULD HAVE seen it coming, and fixed the issues in the decades prior, it having been a known issue since 1958, but the reality is that people don't like spending money rewriting a program that still works for issues that will exist in the distant future. Mark my words, we will PROBABLY see some news articles about some forgotten mainframe breaking an essential program in 2038. Legacy machines don't go away, many big businesses still rely on them, or forget about them entirely because they still just work. There's a ton of ancient IBM mainframes still running in the banking industry, and there's a HUGE demand for COBOL programmers because these systems need to have software updated still. Don't mistake the lack of figurative fireworks during Y2K as evidence that it wasn't a major issue. It absolutely was, and many of those doomsday scenarios may have played out had everyone NOT taken steps to mitigate it, albeit several decades later than they should have. It wouldn't have been the end of the world, but it would have been BAD. By the time December of 1999 came around, it was absolutely overblown (because most vulnerable organizations had patched in the year or two preceding), but it was absolutely a valid concern. Something like that doesn't turn into a firestorm within the industry if it isn't a big deal.

Art disturbs the comforted and comforts the disturbed.

I, too, have felt the same way wandering my town as though lost in a fog and wandering around like a ghost Horror for me has always been appealing for being a comfortable nightmare that I can slumber inside

I added video to favourites instantly!

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He's such a talent. I'm honestly in awe.

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Well said

The transitions really did have a hypnotic quality to them

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When I was a kid there's always been a creeping sense of dread starting around 1993 with the Ebola scare all over the news and the 1994 giant asteroid Shoemaker Levy that broke into three parts. I remember rumors claiming the chances of Earth getting hit was highly probable and if not for Jupiter taking the hit it would have been the end of mankind. And of course in school we were taught there was a hole in the Ozone layer that would melt the polar ice caps by 2000 and submerged the Earth underwater. For an 8 year old this felt like a nightmare and probably one of the reasons I developed anxiety at age 23 because I have long memory and was not able to shrug some bad memories off. By late 90s everything seemed to cool off sadly before 9/11 happened many people did feel this was a peak in good times.

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A lovely recollection! I'm especially touched by "it never used to be this way." I seem to be slightly older than most of these comments and you might be slightly younger but i kinda think the phenomenon the video is about is how "it never used to be this way" accelerates it's creep into the background of everything. Things lose meaning by losing context (ask a century of post-modernism) and so we find our own wonder or horror...

Something like that yeah lol. I still go into SH2 VR world and just sit there at the bar, or in the hotel.

The world was heading for disaster. That was true. But it was saved by programmers working tirelessly on ancient code. It's kind of funny that the only time the world experienced anything like you see in those disaster movies, the way it happened was so boring and obscure that these days people think there really wasn't anything to it