Seriously, I see it and go. "Ok then, random dog with human teeth."
Why is it scary?
why are people afraid of (non poison) spiders? they're small, they won't hurt you, but they're still afraid of them, it's irrational,
I find it very scary, something about seeing gums and teeth together in such a menacing way is scary.
Boo!
It's not really scary, but I've never read the story about it. Can someone give me a tldr version of it?
It's because it's [i]wrong[/i]
Our brains are perceived to link what we know is right to good or familiar feelings and what's wrong to bad.
Smile dog is just wrong on a base level. Dogs don't look like that. They don't smile like that they aren't that colour they don't stare at you like that. The logical parts of our brain are overwhelmed by the older, more archaic parts that scream at us "This is wrong, this is unnatural, this is a violation of my perception of this world BE AFRAID OF IT."
[QUOTE=Mobile_Person;26169341]It's not really scary, but I've never read the story about it. Can someone give me a tldr version of it?[/QUOTE]
some guy saw the picture and went crazy. ya know, the basic framework of every creepypasta ever made.
Even though after i reached a certain point in that article describing the image, I'm still having fucking nightmares about that dog...
someone post this smile dog please
[QUOTE=Telepethi;26169396]It's because it's [i]wrong[/i][/QUOTE]
When ever I hear someone say 2+2=5, it gives me chills.
[img]http://www.aetherparanormal.com/smile.dog.jpg[/img]
Here you go.
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FUCK some idiot on telepethii's link made the image look all weird and now I'm gonna have fucking nightmares.
oh
I thought was going to be this
[img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:KgKQ0yPEmbIBpM:http://yorgie.com/webclass/ex_downloads/images_animalsmile/dog_smile.jpg&t=1[/img]
I would have said wow you guys are faggots
[QUOTE=Marnetmar;26170142][img_thumb]http://www.aetherparanormal.com/smile.dog.jpg[/img_thumb]
Here you go.[/QUOTE]
That's the fake apparently.
[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;26170198]That's the fake apparently.[/QUOTE]
Actually this version is considered the fake:
[img]http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:a4qJGfOdAVARXM:http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/599/smiletq0.jpg&t=1[/img]
I think people mostly consider it scary because of the creepypasta accompanying it. I have to admit, it was pretty well written and gave the dog thing quite a menacing character. It's probably the only creepypasta I liked. TLDR version of it, a reporter catches wind of a bunch of suicides or something and decides to investigate. He finds out from some woman that they all saw a picture of the dog, herself included. She explains to him that whoever sees a picture of it is repeatedly visited by the dog in vivid nightmares in which it instructs the person to show the picture to more victims in order for it to leave them alone. Most of the people go insane and kill themselves and it's implied that even after showing more people the picture, the dog still torments them.
Some of that might be off though because I haven't read it in a while but that was the jist of it as far as I remember.
clearly they can't both be fake.
[QUOTE=FuckaNinja;26170256]clearly they can't both be fake.[/QUOTE]
It's a creepypasta. Both of them ARE fake.
The second one that was posted (the "non-fake" one) is actually kind of unsettling. Imagine that shape coming to your house in the middle of the night and just staring at you until you leave...you come back later and it's still there staring.
[QUOTE=Blockjuice II;26170133]When ever I hear someone say 2+2=5, it gives me chills.[/QUOTE]
I meant wrong as in unnatural, not wrong as in factually unsound. :colbert:
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God damn it WHY THE FUCK AM I LOOKING AT THIS THREAD I WANT TO SLEEP
:ohdear:
[editline]19th November 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=Trainbike;26170254]I think people mostly consider it scary because of the creepypasta accompanying it. I have to admit, it was pretty well written and gave the dog thing quite a menacing character. It's probably the only creepypasta I liked. TLDR version of it, a reporter catches wind of a bunch of suicides or something and decides to investigate. He finds out from some woman that they all saw a picture of the dog, herself included. She explains to him that whoever sees a picture of it is repeatedly visited by the dog in vivid nightmares in which it instructs the person to show the picture to more victims in order for it to leave them alone. Most of the people go insane and kill themselves and it's implied that even after showing more people the picture, the dog still torments them.
Some of that might be off though because I haven't read it in a while but that was the jist of it as far as I remember.[/QUOTE]
I saw smile.dog before I saw the creepypasta and it still scared the shit out of me.
[editline]19th November 2010[/editline]
But yeah no thanks for making sure I don't sleep tonight Trainbike
[editline]19th November 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=mrryanchisholm;26170824]The second one that was posted (the "non-fake" one) is actually kind of unsettling. Imagine that shape coming to your house in the middle of the night and just staring at you until you leave...you come back later and it's still there staring.[/QUOTE]
Shut up shut up shut up
