#if this was 2009 murder drones would be a movie that disney would put on tv during Halloween after monster house and before hocus pocus

[weird-hoodie-kid]

one of my many goals in life will always be making children's horror

i dont think there has been any cartoon recently that really touches on horror topics, takes itself seriously and its directed at children, the last ones i can think of are genuinely Monster House(2006), Coraline(2009), Frankenweenie(2012) and ParaNorman(2012) and all of these are from when I was a child, the absolute DROUGHT in horror directed at children specifically is awful

there is a reason children are so attracted to horror topics and it's because children are curious of all this horrific things that happen to people and horror allows them to explore these topics in a safe way, from the safest point of view of things that never happened, fiction is the safest way to explore this kind of topics from

that's why things like fnaf, poppy playtime, rainbow friends(roblox map) and doors (also roblox) are so popular, because they can absolutely disengage from this in the blink of an eye, you can stop seeing this stuff by shutting off your electronics

you know what is the most popular thing among 7 year olds that i know??? fucking. siren. heads. why??? i have no fucking idea

and meanwhile i contribute a lot of things to the recent popularity of The Amazing Digital Circus (the animation lay offs, the fact that it has integrated audio switch for different languages and the fact that it just fucking slaps) we cannot ignore the fact that its becoming popular with the same public that fnaf was getting popular in 2014, children

do i think TADC is necessary horror? nope, it is a dark comedy, but holy shit that the concept is absolutely horrifying, it is a scary thing to happen and children would believe it could happen, like, back in 2014 i was 10 and i believed the purple guy was real and lived in my little latin american town

this and the fact that TADC looks so nice, has this amazing lovable characters, the acting is amazing and the bright colors that basically yell at you to look at it, children feel invited to watch it, even if they dont understand it

yk who of the kids i babysit liked it the most?? the six year old, she didn't understand shit and she loved it

and its because its an unlikely scenario and its safe to explore it, its safe to think about putting on a headset and end up in a game from before they were born

that's what has contributed to the rise of things like this through all this time, dark AUs of MLP, TMNT, TAWOG, etc, the idea of creepypastas, whatever the FUCK are ARGs the fact that its a safe place where you can explore horrible and scary subject from a curious stand point with nothing happening to you

TL;DR: children's horror is important because children need to satisfy their curiosity without being in danger