A Twitch
fad started by
popular streamer Jerma985 and since picked up by several other streamers, where live feed of "the horror" is occasionally put on screen during a regular stream, such as
gaming or chatting. Anyone who
sees "the horror" finds it extremely funny, with laughing fits sometimes lasting hours, but every
time it is shown, one of the viewers dies from unknown causes. Finding victims has proven difficult due to the global
nature of Twitch viewership, and as such only 6 out of the estimated 70 victims of the trend have been identified and located, with the subsequent autopsies yielding no conclusive results as to the cause of death. This effect is only observed during the live streams; Twitch clips or externally recorded footage of "the horror" have been confirmed to not produce the same reaction, and were instead found by viewers to be mildly unsettling but otherwise uninteresring, with no fatalities recorded. While the
nature and origin of "the horror" are currently uncertain, the current theory suggests a ▉▉▉▉▉ ▉▉ ▉▉▉▉▉▉ ▉▉▉▉▉▉
I'm not gonna
peep the horror, chat. I'm not doing it! We've killed, what, eight
people today? *reads chat* "Do it again, you pussy"? You know what, you guys are assholes. Okay, fuck it. You wanted it, here it is. *"the horror" appears on screen, killing ▉▉ year old ▉▉▉▉▉ ▉▉▉▉▉▉▉ from ▉▉▉▉▉▉▉, ▉▉, USA*
-recorded during Jerma985 stream on 11.▉▉.
2021