SOCIAL NETWORKS – Today, when you want to shiver, you no longer need to read a Goosebumps or look for a horror film: just go to YouTube or on TikTok to find happiness. From paranormal to true crime, there are as many formats as there are content creators, and they do a little bit of everything: creepy fiction on TikTok, of the testimony or urban exploration in places “haunted”.
As you can see in our video above, HuffPost spoke with several of them to question their relationship to the horrific stories they tell, to fake paranormal videos or the race for sensationalism. Among them, the Grand JD, whose ghost hunts are followed by nearly 4 million subscribers on YouTube, Sylartichot, known for his decryptions of unexplained legends, or even Antton Racca, TikToker specializing in fiction and short films.
Sometimes followed by very young viewers, these content creators navigate the new codes of online horror, while juggling the increasingly blurred border between fiction and reality. In this ferment, they are at the same time creators, passers-by and safeguards. A mission they can choose to accept (or not).
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