Hope you’re ready to get weird
2011. A year when the Lavender Town creepypasta is brewing and getting ready to take over the internet. Coincidentally, also the year when several girls in Le Roy New York began to experience a bizarre illness that seemed to come out of nowhere.... And as fate would have it, both incidents share a disturbing thread when you look at the psychology behind what was happening. Today on Psych of Play, we’re talking Nocebo, Mass Psychogenic Illness, and Illusory Truth. Strap in, this one is a bit spoopy. Support Daryl Talks Games on Patreon! ▶▶ https://www.patreon.com/daryltalksgames Bonus content, early access, YOUR name at the end of videos, and more all for $1/month! ▶Games Shown Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020) - Square Enix Pokemon Red & Blue2 (1996) - Game Freak Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (2018) - Game Freak Resident Evil 3 (2020) - Capcom ▶Clips/Movies Shown Kaguya Sama: Love is War (2019) Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai (2019) Dragonball Z (1989) Naruto (2002) SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) Knowing (2009) Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1998) The Dark Knight (2008) The Big Bang Theory (2007) The Notebook (2004) The Fairly OddParents (2001) Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Fist Fight (2017) Transformers (2007) Psych (2006) One of the harry potters, half blood prince? 2010? My Hero Academia (2016) Ed, Edd n Eddy (1999) Veggietales (2002) - yes I did, name another creator that would use fucking VEGGIETALES CLIPS Rounders (1998) Memento (2000) Looney Tunes (1930-69) Other Videos Referenced/Included: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwABHajSLTc992BYJ3I3VQ7fxGiQk3I4Z ▶Music Sources: Animal Crossing - K.K. Cruisin' True Remix BACKWHEN - Dreamcatcher Himel Anthony - Dark Scary Ambient Music dontaskalex - out of the blue KE$HA - TiK ToK (InstrumentalKaraoke) manitee - Seafloor a conscious cloud - Pokemon Lavender Town Remix (Creepypasta Song) Stiig - Gently Pass Stiig - Going Home Pokemon Ruby OST - The Drought Tokyo Rose - End Game TRVTH - Lost ▶Research Articles Cited Original Twitching Story: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/teenage-girls-twitching-le-roy.html Twitching Follow-up: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-students-twitcnew-york-h/schools-end-clears-up-new-york-students-mystery-twitching-idUSBRE85M0DF20120623 Twitching In-Depth Explanation: https://youtu.be/ZvLtO6ObLsw How Mass Hysteria Is Related to Groupthink https://www.verywellmind.com/understanding-groupthink-2671595 Epidemic Hysteria: A Review of the Published Literature https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bc21/5cfdd576f3b74c73e08653e0b049ddc931c9.pdf What Is Mass Psychogenic Illness? https://www.aafp.org/afp/2000/1215/p2655.html https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200001133420206 Lavender Town Syndrome https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Lavender_Town_Syndrome https://kotaku.com/pokemons-creepy-lavender-town-myth-explained-1651851621 Illusory Truth Effect: https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/illusory-truth-effect/ Knowledge Does Not Protect Against Illusory Truth https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/xge-0000098.pdf Original pastebin post: https://pastebin.com/f71e6728f Nocebo Effect: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/protean-nature-of-mass-sociogenic-illness/2BDC2262E104B8A33F3DD49773DA0D8B https://www.bmj.com/content/332/7546/886?view=long&pmid=16520326 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22336767/ **All images, graphics, and fonts created or found with postermywall.com, Pexels.com, Videvo.net, and Lightworks v14 editing software. All gameplay footage captured with Elgato 60FPS recording device** #PsychofPlay