This “traumatizing” game will “make you want to delete all of your social media”.
The Facebook game became popular in 2011 but was so creepy that it left some people “traumatized for life”.
A YouTuber known as ButtersonTV has revisited the “spooky” game called Take This Lollipop, reminding everyone of just how scary it was back in the day.
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On his channel, @ButtersonTV, the YouTuber explained the history of the game, which people would need to give permission to access their Facebook information in order to play.
He explained that by doing so, it would be “secretly opening a loophole that exposes your private information to the developer who will then play a creepy video that makes you want to delete all of your social media starring a man straight out of nightmares you would have as a child.”
The video shows the man logging onto Facebook but “when you get closer you see that he's actually logged into your Facebook profile examining everything that you have posted, viewing your friends and building a parasocial relationship with you and obsessively staring at all of your photos, glazing right into the camera lens”.
Things take a turn for the more terrifying when it cuts to Google Maps as the man slowly zooms into your location.
ButtersonTV continued: “All of a sudden, you see him driving with a photo printed out on the dashboard of you, all for him to get out of the car as the screen fades to black.”
At the time, the game left people petrified that someone had stolen their information.
In 2020, the game resurfaced as an updated and scarier version of the original.
This time, players would need to pay $3 to enter what appeared to be a chat room where you end up on a video call with three other people.
But all is not what it seems. One by one, creepy things start happening to the other people.
For one woman, a man appears behind her and the lights in one person’s room turn red.
In your webcam, a blurry figure becomes visible. The final girl on the screen starts to cry before slowly morphing into the man from the original 2011 game.
ButtersonTV said: “After that beautiful jump scare you're all alone again on the call and your address pops up on the screen.
“It just feels like a bad horror film more than a social media awareness campaign. In 2011, Take This Lollipop was sort of revolutionary and exposed what could happen if you're not careful with your data on social media platforms.
“A creepy man can stalk you and stare at all your photos and come to where you live by just looking through your profile.”
Taking to the YouTube comment section to share their thoughts, one viewer said: “It’s like paying 3 dollars for having your private information leaked.”
Another wrote: “Lmao the paywall is 100% just there for them to try to spook you with your billing information.”
And a third added: “Really glad that I didn't come across that game in 2011.. I'd be traumatized for life.”