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Yeah, many users have been reffering to screamers and are being scared by them recently... here are simple methods to avoid a screamer. This is a section of the group of four threads.

Table Of Contents:
1 - Games
2 - Videos
3 - Illusions/Pictures (Coming soon)
4 - Scratch Projects (Coming soon)

2 - Videos
Probarbly the most important section in the group, there are more video screamers on YouTube than anywhere else. Here are my tips on how to avoid them. Similar tips may also be located in the Games section.

1. Comments.
Yep, the number one tip, whichever section it's in. READ THE COMMENTS PEOPLES!! If they are 1. Saying they are scared of the vid 2. Showing dislikes to the user or 3. Disabled for the video, then it is likely to be a screamer.

2. The video length.
Look at the video length. If it is shorter than 0:30 (even though it could still be any length) don't watch.

3. Hunts are runts.
Yep, a slogan I made, I know it's not the best. But if the vid asks you to 'Find Waldo/Wally or find what is wrong with a picture, X out!

4. The bottom of the screen.
If you are suspicious, turn your computer down to low sound, but not quite off, and scroll down so you can see the video time and just the very bottom of the video, and watch. You can easily detect a screamer without being scared. If you see something that looks a bit like a white circle with hair, you're seeing the bottom of the famous 'Exorcist Scary Face' and if you see a flash you've got a screamer too. Also, if you listen you'll haer a tiny scream, since your volume is very low. (NOTE: Screamers are not always at the end).

5. Text and music.
If the music is very quiet on neutral common volume or the text is small on non-full screen, don't watch. If you do, don't go into full screen to read the text and don't look closely, and keep the volume down. Right down.

A good example is the 'Super Mario 64 New Realm' prank. The vid is 5:00 long, but the last two minutes are credits. It instructs how to get to the new realm and get 150 secret stars in 'Super Mario 64 DS' but the two realms themselves are fake. There is no new realm. In the first two minutes it shows access to a fake new realm and graphic effects turn all the walls different colours to show it really looks like a new world. At 2:45 it says 'The sign says to kick the back wall, and this is what happens...'. Mario walks up to the wall, causing you to look closely. The music is very quiet at this point too, to make you think it's for excitement and turn up the volume. When he kicks the wall, so does the screamer.

6. Once sometimes isn't enough.
Yep. One is bad, but two is worse.

Sometimes, quite close to the end of a vid, a mild scream with a not-so-scary face appears. It says 'Gotcha!' Of course that would not be scary. But then, right at the end, the real screamer is hiding. If you see a not scary screamer, X out immediatly to avoid the bad screamer!

Sometimes, vids actually have two screamers, both BAD, but the second is even louder. Watch out, one screamer sometimes isn't enough.

Section 3 coming soon!