The Mass Hysteria Iceberg Explained

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I love how the female-only hysterias range from biting and meowing, to laughing and twitching for no reaosn, and then the male-only hysteria is just "dick broke"

“Everybody gangsta till the nuns start meowing” -Sam O’Nella

the story about the goalie casting a spell is the most true thing i’ve ever heard, here in brazil, fans will say anything about the enemy team if it means they lose and their team wins, it’s hilarious

I was a victim of my own hysteria when I was like 13. I was becoming more aware of my health and therefore more aware of what I eat, and I somehow convinced myself I had diabetes because of how much sugar I had. Now if you don’t know one of the symptoms of diabetes is extreme thirst which causes them to drink a lot and of course having to pee a lot. Suddenly when I convinced myself I had diabetes I was going to the toilet like every hour. I wasn’t thirsty at all and yet I was going every hour. My mum took me to the doctor, they did a lot of tests and they said that I did not in fact have diabetes but they also couldn’t find anything wrong with me that could have caused me to go the bathroom that many times. Then after like 2 weeks of this and I was 100% sure I did not have diabetes it completely stopped and it hasn’t happened again since. I was convinced I had some other illness but looking back I think I was just super anxious, which is what my mum and the doctors suggested it was. Also didn’t help that I didn’t drink much water during the time cause I was so sick of going to the toilet I stopped drinking so that probably confused my body even more

“The government is trying to hide the Monkey Man.” Is honestly just a hilarious sentence

"stop fucking meowing its annoying" "meow" is just mass hysteria virgin vs chad

My grandad is one of the kids who helped start the Liverpool Leprechaun rumour. He was about 14 or 15, hanging out at a park with a friend, and they decided to tell some younger kids they had seen a pixie or a leprechaun or something, and it spread from there. He kept it up and told my mum and uncle when they were young that he'd seen them. It was only when they were older he said "oh yeah, I made it all up back then to mess with some of the other kids". Gotta love your family legacy being mass hysteria 🤣

There really was more explanation for the Belgium Cola Hysteria. People can read more online but when they dug into the details they found that of the original complaining kids, most were from a school and region and families that rarely allowed the kids soda pop. Each child was allowed a single can of coke. A number of students did not want to drink the coke and gave it away to some students who, in particular boys, were delighted to quickly guzzle their extras or just all their cans. 1 boy had drank 3 cans of coke within 30 minutes. However, even the children who'd only drank their own single can were found to have never drank any kind of soda pops ever before and were surprised to burp. Others a sugar high and otherwise a very standard case of what mom warned you about if you gobbled sugar.. the standard sugary upset tummy. Happens every halloween a million times too.

being a nun seems so crazy. meowing, biting each other; they're just religious catgirls

I think the meowing nuns one is my favourite. We all know someone who has done that - meowing in response to normal questions just to be an obstinate little shit. The idea of a whole convent just deciding to act like stubborn kids meowing at everything until they're threatened with punishment has me cracking up.

" Remember those 4 Frenchmen you warned me about, don't worry we got all 67 of them" I spit my jello out I laughed so hard

I remember after 9/11 everyone was freaked out about anthrax being sent through the mail. I'm a New Yorker, so I was already experiencing some PTSD, but I was completely freaked out if I saw any kind of powder anywhere or even just smelled something odd. I don't think anthrax even has a smell, but you know how you'll be sitting in a room and smell something and not be able to figure out where it's coming from? Well, post-9/11, my brain automatically went to "we're all going to die" whenever that happened. You hear some of these stories and wonder what the people were thinking, but it really doesn't take much. We were all in a heightened state of panic and it escalated quickly.

My favorite genre of mass hallucinations or haunting has to be the ones where people would see “specters” at night, that all mysteriously disappeared once we stopped lighting our homes with vast amounts of odorless gas

When Wendigoon says "that'll probably be a future video I talk about", I'm so happy he really means it

A common misconception is that y2k "didn't happen" or was an overreaction. That is a huge annoyance with older IT people . They will tell you it took a lot of work and time and crunch to make sure "y2k did not happen". It would have been a real disaster. Not mass hysteria.

The laughter epidemic reminds me of this girl i grew up with that would sneeze an insane amount of times nonstop, she once sneeze like 62 times in a row . The teacher thought she was faking but she literally had tears coming from her eyes.

I remember the mass hysteria surrounding Talking Angela where people claimed that Angela's eyes were secretly cameras for child traffickers. It was so obviously fake but there were so many people hyperanalyzing the app and zooming in to Angela's eyes to see camera lenses. Honestly, it was pretty entertaining

the meowing nuns thing is absolutely hilarious to me, cause obviously it wasnt involuntary because they stopped after being threatened with punishment. they all just agreed to do this for seemingly no reason, definitely sounds like something a group of students would do.

There's Paris shock syndrome, which is kind of like a mass hysteria lite. Japanese people who go to Paris are often so shocked between their expectations and reality and can become really depressed. From Wikipedia: The syndrome is characterized by a number of psychiatric symptoms such as acute delusional states, hallucinations, feelings of persecution (perceptions of being a victim of prejudice, aggression, hostility from others),[1] derealization, depersonalization, anxiety, as well as psychosomatic manifestations such as dizziness, tachycardia, sweating most notably, but also others, such as vomiting.[2]