You're playing solitaire to make her house better.

And I guess like the inciting incident is that she walked in her husband drinking her friend's breast milk.

That seems totally fine and normal, actually, for a solitaire game.

Yeah. Terry.

Maybe you've had this experience.

You're scrolling through social media or watching YouTube, and suddenly an animated ad appears on your screen.

What you see next might shock you, disgust you,

creep you out, or at least profoundly confuse you. If you stick around until the end of the

uncanny slop fest, you'll see that the advertisement is for some simple little game you play on your phone, one that often has very little to do with the sick and strange cartoon that may go on to haunt you for the rest of your life.

This is the world of mobile game ads, a world I have wanted to pull you poor souls into for years now,

and I finally found the right way to do it. This episode is a collaboration with The Boys,

the Boys, the Boys from the Panic World podcast that covers internet-fueled moral panics.

Together, we watch a sampler platter of the weirdest ads I have discovered over time.

Describe the horrors to you, analyze the advertising psychology behind these productions,

and look at the long history and progression of

these kinds of click baity internet marketing tricks for long time listeners this will definitely

remind you of the elsigate episode we made back in 2021 a great companion to what you are about to hear.

Listener beware, this episode contains all manner of uncomfortable and upsetting subject matter,

and may not be appropriate for anyone who is a living, breathing, human being.

I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American

Hysteria. So I want to start things off with a question that I've been dying to ask other

internet professionals

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