Every Fear Begins in the Uncanny Valley

Ambiguity is what makes things both interesting and terrifying. But why? Maybe the uncanny valley can tell us.

Video heavily inspired by the legends Ro-Meister and the Why Files:
   • WHY do we fear the Uncanny Valley?  
   • Uncanny Valley Explained | Why Robots, Dol...  

Best Clip on the entire internet (Chad Anakin)
Janobot -    • The Rise of Rizzwalker  

Music:
The Backrooms - Myuu
   • The Backrooms (Original Song by Myuu)  
Dino Piranha - Super Mario Galaxy
   • Видео  
'Backrooms' - Konor Music
   • 'ＢＡＣＫＲＯＯＭＳ' －Ｋ０Ｎ０Ｒ (𝘕𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘔𝘜𝘚𝘐𝘊) | ...  
Hawaiian Skies - CYBEREALITYライフ
   • Hawaiian Skies  
Fallen Down - Undertale
   • Fallen Down  
War - Low Rider (instrumental)
   • War - Low Rider (instrumental)  
Scent of Night - Myuu
   • Scent of Night - Myuu  
Bowser's Road
   • Super Mario 64 Music - Bowser's Road EXTENDED  
Ecco the Dolphin - Ice Zone
   • Ecco the Dolphin - Ice Zone [EXTENDED] Music  

Research
Angela Tinwell Mismatch Hypothesis
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Cannibalism in early humans?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc....
Neanderthal puncture wound
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19615...
Neanderthals moved differently
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Neanderthal and Human Sexy times
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
Is the uncanny valley universal
https://essay.utwente.nl/77172/1/Koop...
Pathogens created morality?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18302...
And influenced the evolution of personality?
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
MHC Genes and Human Mating
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
Sweaty T-shirt smell test
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7630893/
Averageness is one of the hallmarks of attraction
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...
Sclera and human communication
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...
https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/news/a-sixt...
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/E...
Uncanny Speech
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
How prediction errors in different systems generalize into other senses
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4200...

Clips
Nordin Walks
   • Scary Forest in Sweden - Night Walk (4K, A...  
Ijsaac
   • Walking Home Alone at Night  
USC ICT
   • High Resolution Face Scanning for "Digital...  
Mecharithm - Robotics and Mechatronics
   • Robot Mimics Human Expressions  
mrhorseshoe
   • Ronald McDonald insanity  
Cícero Moraes
   • Homo neanderthalensis - 3D forensic facial...  
calzino esotico ENG(exotic sock)
   • Richard Watterson Gigachad glow up |Gigach...  
ikinamo
   • Utterance robot finally got the same voice...  

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