How to Frighten the New Generation

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HOW TO FRIGHTEN THE NEW GENERATION, PUT THEM IN A ROOM WITH FUNNY THOUGHTS AND JOKES

HOW TO FRIGHTEN THE NEW GENERATION, PUT THEM IN Davey Jones' locker UNDER AN OCEAN FUNNY THOUGHTS AND JOKES PUT THEM IN A ghost ship WHERE THE DOOR HAS BEEN WELDED SHUT. THERE ARE NO WINDOWS. THERE IS NO WAY SEE ANYTHING = THERE IS A mast ON THE FRONT OF THE Ship THERE IS a kraken TRYING TO RIP APART THE ship

HOW TO FRIGHTEN THE NEW GENERATION, PUT THEM IN A ROOM WITH NO FURNITURE FUNNY THOUGHTS AND JOKES A LOCKED METAL DOOR, METAL WALLS, AND A CONVEYOR BELT FLOOR THATS COVERED IN SANDPAPER AND MOVING 24/7

HOW TO FRIGHTEN THE NEW GENERATION, PUT THEM IN A SUBMARINE UNDER AN OCEAN OF BLOOD FUNNY THOUGHTS AND JOKES PUT THEM IN A SUBMARINE WHERE THE DOOR HAS BEEN WELDED SHUT. THERE ARE NO WINDOWS. THERE IS NO WAY SEE ANYTHING= THERE IS A CAMERA ON THE FRONT OF THE SUBMARINE THERE IS SOMETHING TRYING TO RIP APART THE SUB

HOW TO FRIGHTEN THE NEW GENERATION, PUT THEM IN A ROOM WITH NO DOOR FUNNY THOUGHTS AND JOKES PUT THEM IN A ROOM WHERE THE DOOR HAS BEEN WELDED SHUT. THERE ARE NO WINDOWS. THERE IS NO WAY TO KNOW THE TIME. THERE IS ONLY A MIRROR IN THE CORNER. THERE IS SOMETHING SCRATCHING AT THE WALLS.

HOW TO FRIGHTEN THE NEW GENERATION, PUT THEM IN A ROOM WITH A ROTARY PHONE, FUNNY THOUGHTS AND JOKES AN ANALOG WATCH AND A TV WITH NO REMOTE. THEN LEAVE DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO USE IN CURSIVE.

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How to Frighten the New Generation is a catchphrase used in a series of recaption memes based on an image macro of The Muppets character Statler captioned with suggestions on how to scare the younger generation. Spawned by a viral edit of a Facebook meme in 2020, the format has since been used to reference video games and other media.

Origin

On October 19th, 2019, the Facebook^[1] page More Crazy Stuff posted an image macro starting with the question, "How do you frighten this new generation?" and suggested putting them in a room with a rotary phone, an analog watch, a TV with no remote and instructions written in cursive. The post (shown below) garnered over 22,000 reactions and 381,000 shares in four years.

HOW DO YOU FRIGHTEN THIS NEW GENERATION? MoreCrazyStuff PUT THEM IN A ROOM WITH A ROTARY PHONE, AN ANALOG WATCH AND A TV WITH NO REMOTE(ADD RABBIT EARS FOR FUN). THEN LEAVE DIRECTIONS FOR USE IN CURSIVE.

Following a period of viral spread of the macro and its copycat versions, on September 25th, 2020, the Facebook^[2] page Funny Thoughts and Jokes posted an image macro of The Muppets character Statler captioned with a similar suggestion. The post (shown below) garnered over 2,100 reactions and 4,400 shares in three years.

Spread

On June 1st, 2022, Redditor FiddlerOfTheForest posted a recaptioned version of the meme in the /r/ComedyNecrophilia^[3] subreddit that gained over 6,200 upvotes in one year (shown below).

On June 23rd, 2022, Redditor doledickard posted a cropped version of the meme that garnered over 1,800 upvotes in /r/okbuddyretard^[4] one year (shown below, left). On July 28th, 2022, an unknown Redditor then posted a Five Nights at Freddy's version of the meme that received over 3,800 upvotes on the /r/okbuddyretard^[5] subreddit prior to deletion (shown below, right).

HOW TO FRIGHTEN THE NEW GENERATION. PUT THEM IN A ROOM WITH NO DOOR FUNNY THOUGHTS AND JOKES

HOW TO FRIGHTEN THE NEW GENERATION. PUT THEM IN AN OFFICE WITH TWO DOORS IN A CHUCKY CHEESE- ESQUE ESTABLISHMENT FOR FIVE NIGHTS EBAXVMEKLICHTS 210TUIS ALSO THERE ARE 4 AGGRESSIVE ANIMATRONICS WHO HARBOR THE SOULS OF DEAD CHILDREN THEN HIRE A "PHONE GUY" TO LEAVE DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO SURVIVE "FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S made with mematic

The macro maintained its prevalence as a recaption format through 2022 and early 2023. For example, an Iron Lung version of the meme posted by Twitter^[6] user @neoncaelestis on August 4th, 2022, saw particular virality.