Anti-Cthulhu PSA for young netizens

I don't know anything about this PSA advising young people to stay away from chat rooms lest the cute boy on the other end turn out to be Cthulhu, waiting to take their sanity, but I certainly support its message.

Cthulhu PSA

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Nadreck

So, is His Facebook page called “The Wall of Cthulhu”?

Reminds me of the Marella Sands story in the “Cthulhu’s Heirs” anthology wherein the Elder Gods, not wishing to wait until the “stars are right” in meatspace, hack into a WOW type VR and start rearranging the little marble sized stars up above that landscape.
Anonymous

“Elder gods with many tentacles need love too!”

Go find yourself a Japanese high school, you tentacle endowed freak, and leave poor, Caucasian Stacy Griffith alone!
VICTOR JIMENEZ

I remember seeing him(her/it) in “To Catch an Elder God”…

Chris Hansen and Professor Armitage where quite disappointed to find him again luring minors into madness.
raincoaster

I blogged that back in January, having gotten it on a Tumblr link via Twitter. Sadly, I don’t know enough about Tumblr to trace it any farther back. The links:

http://raincoaster.com/2009/01/03/internet-safety-101/

and

http://data.tumblr.com/uFlnyxJUFfh8qa6lLjfK3pqWo1_500.jpg
thequickbrownfox

In the Bethesda game “Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth” you get this condition called “sanity failure”.

Everything gets increasingly blurry and forward movement is impeded. Can be overcome by using a trainer (Cheat utility).

Brilliant game, regardless.
Evil Jim

Shit! They’re on to us!
Anonymous

To Anonymous Post # 3 YET !
phisrow

http://www.cthulhulives.org/shoggoth/Byakhee.mp3
efergus3

Cory! All is forgiven, come home!
Anonymous

Anonymous *IS* Cthulhu.
Anonymous

No, it’s not, it’s Bill Nighy as Davy Jones from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie.
Anonymous

If I knew that was the way to summon a great old one I would have posed online as a 15 YO girl years ago.
Agies

They should also stay away from the libray just to be safe. Too many musty old books.
nanuq

Elder gods with many tentacles need love too! Maybe I, er, I mean He is just misunderstood. Did you think of that?
GiantSnowman

It’s a bit like the old online predator poster:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/online%20predator%20poster%20bear%20type/d1dave/BearsType.jpg
Anonymous

Oh god, this is funny. Anyone have a “safe for work” version? I really, really want to print this out and post it in my office since we sometimes get the other, really stupid, “every straight male on earth wants to rape your pre-teen daughter and we won’t even begin to think about what the gays will do.” type of PSA stuff.
MrJM

Finally, someone is taking a stand against those weirdos in NAGOOBLA.

They’re ruining the internet for mortal pervs…

– MrJM
Anonymous

sanity is like virginity, only valuable if you have it.
Anonymous

Awesome,
well not for stacy obviously, but for once, an advertising firm actually managed to do something intelligent

respect
Anonymous

Psa’s are better when the message comes from parents and teachers http://www.theonion.com/content/news/lovecraftian_school_board_member
Anonymous

And Cthulhu has awful, awful breath. *shudder*
Waltb555

This may be the single funniest thing I have ever seen.
Anonymous

While of course people should be careful I think it is stupid to tell them that everyone they meet online is some kind of evil predator. I’ve met up with literally dozens of people from more than half a dozen countries based on internet conversations. Some were even young women. To date, I haven’t raped or murdered any of them.
octopod

seriously, what’s with all the hating? it’s like something from the 1920′s.

typical fundamentalist right wing christian BS, what happened to understanding, compassion and a basic understanding of unspeakable terrors from beyond the grave?

next they’ll be running the lame old bathroom ads ‘zomg mommy, there was a polypous interdimensional horror in teh restroom at school today’
jimh

So I can’t get past Cthulhu going to the mall. I’ll bet he digs Hot Topic and Cutlery Corner. Ia Ia!
Lupin Yonsei

@JIMH: Don’t forget the umlauts!

IÃ¤! IÃ¤!
Anonymous

There’s a Shadow over Innsmouth!
But since it’s a tiny fishing village, I don’t think they have any Internetz, so it’s okay.
noen

Ahhh… so that’s where Takuan has been.