in quotes because none of this is really traumatic (except maybe #3) but that's what everyone else calls it so i'm going with it. things that scared/upset me as a little kid (ages 4-12)

• other mother from coraline
• this one psa where a guy abuses his wife (over pizza of all things) and their kid sits on the stairs hearing it happen (i won't be linking to it here)
• that one image of jeff the killer (you know the one.)
• this one scene from the goosebumps show where a girl (pretends to have) got her foot bitten off
• pingu. just pingu in general (not the fuckign walrus!!!)
• bendy and the ink machine
• the "HEY YOU GUYS!!!" parts in the elctric company reboot (too loud for my autistic 8 year old self)
• del tha ghost rapper from gorillaz
• the beginning of the spongebob theme song (the "OOOOHHHHH" would make me leave the room)
• dumb ways to die
• nomad of nowhere episode 5
• that one nickelodeon ident with the fish floating up to the screen (not the lies version of it. just the regular ident)
• the scene from enchanted where giselle gets sent to new york
• the scene in the ni hao kai lan halloween special where rintoo finds out he can't go trick or treating and starts crying
• the "viewers like you, thank you" screens on almost every single pbs kids show (thank you scigirls for not having one (iirc))
• the us national anthem (😭)
• the muddy hand from diary of a wimpy kid
• mr. meaty
• the scene in mr. peabody and sherman where peabody gets mad at sherman for flying da vinci's plane
• the calvin and hobbes strip where calvin's dad yells at him for being awake in the middle of the night