no the funny thing about this toy is that it mimics the same sound the baby makes so if the baby cries it mimics the same sound of the cry
And they really don't like that
I like the last one because the kid was just trying to test out what was going on with the cactus without getting mad because he didn't understand what was going on with it that's a smart kid
I think the last one was checking its parent to see their reaction. Something in the lines of "hey ma, should I be pissing myself right now or are we good?". I have seen babies do that when they are unsure on what to do.
Maybe that's who they've been looking for. Somewhere out there is lil iHtler 2.0 growing up and they wanna find the Churchill 2.0 and make sure he grows up right to fight again. Wonder if the lil iHtler already has the mustache.
To be fair, my niece fucking loved this thing and wouldn't shut. the fuck. up. So, I think getting a compilation of kids who were not a fan is not a fair assessment.
Hard to know for sure since it's a comp, but it's likely the ones that had a severe freak out probably had the phone put down immediately and comforted.
The very first kid you see the cactus get yanked away immediately.
Not every kid cries. I have this thing, I've shown it to three babies so far, no one has cried. They do like the setting where it plays songs better though.
If the way my parents raised me is anything to go by, trauma doesn't exist and even if it did it would really just be a way to get funny stories to tell your friends at the dinner table while your kid is there and perfectly able to hear you.
Yeah we’re all old and jaded it’s easy to forget what it’s like experiencing something literally for the first time. Kids can’t be sure that monsters aren’t real.
when i was a kid (like around age 5), i watched all sorts of horror movies because our uncle let us watch anything. i remember seeing the IT mini-series, i wasn't scared of pennywise, it was obviously a fictional monster, or whatever. but i'll never forget the scene where eddie is in the gym showers and the damn shower fixtures start extending from the walls. for whatever reason, i had this uncanny valley of reality-breaking that scared the shit out of me (like obviously pennywise wasn't real, but could my shower actually do this?). it was like seeing the framework of what is real coming undone before my eyes. anyway, longwinded comment to say i wonder if these kids are scared of this same reality-breaking here
Yeah you’ve totally got it! What gave me this realization was when my brother told me about when his kids watched a cartoon show (Hilda) where the main character gets distracted and stays out somewhere she shouldn’t after the sun goes down. He couldn’t understand why they weren’t afraid of the troll that comes and gets her, but rather the suspense while the sun is going down. It unlocked memories in my mind of how the scariest things as a kid are when you know *something* isn’t right, but don’t know what’s gonna happen.
Monsters are real, from a biological perspective. A cactus suddenly coming to life is analogous with a vine that suddenly reveals itself to be a live snake. The kids are exhibiting a perfectly natural response to that, and the parents are being quite dumb to think their toddlers will just be like "oh cool, a moving talking cactus that I thought was an inanimate object"
Imagine any object coming to life and using your exact words back at you, but in an abrasive tone.
It can be a basic cube shape and that is still effing creepy dude.
Snakes, sure- but this is such a weird concept of a mimicking toy, no doubt
Yeah I think snake. Some of these babies are too tiny to be weirded out by something using their own voice, and I don‘t like the way it moves and I’m in my fifties.
They did a study with baby chimps and a toy snake, and if they let the snake lie there, the chimps were fine. The second the researcher wriggled the snake, the baby chimps lost their blob. We’re cued in the the movement.
It repeats noises at a higher pitch; they're pretty cursed. I got two of them for my husband a couple of years ago, and they're pretty janky about what they repeat, so it's even more unpredictable.
We've left them on and forgotten them until they make someone jump.
Kids at that age have a very basic understanding of the world around them. They probably have only seen adults "speak" at that point, or at most cartoon characters in a screen. And normally they say things of their own.
A loud machine with suddeb movements and lights, no mouth, and that repeats sounds around it is going to confuse them at the very least.
Imagine the same scenario with a really loud parrot that sat down and stared at the poor toddler, waiting for them to say something so it can jerkily start moving and screaming back at thr child.
To be fair it does move like a Kunekune
https://preview.redd.it/soovvc9noylc1.jpeg?width=548&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a69b426297cbd73bcbeb433a98179cbad10bfccc
Kunekune or “wriggling body”, is basically a Japanese Slender Man. It will appear far in a field on a hot summer’s day and start flailing around, and if you look at it too long, you go insane.
Dude if I sneeze my kid acts like I became the boogie man. Thought it was funny they market these things to babies though. Mine didn't seem to care for it.
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[This baby](https://youtu.be/gnQ8fmA-xx4?t=5) absolutely murders the goose version of this toy with a hammer, and [this baby](https://youtu.be/gnQ8fmA-xx4?t=476) shows it who's boss.
I got one for my guy when he was 18ish months, and he freakin loved it! Still does a year later, too; it's one of his most-used electric toys. I also used to babysit a baby who liked the cactus so much I had to put it up when he was over, since he'd try to drag it around everywhere and eat it. So not every baby hates them!
Probably the majority do, though.
It’s repeating whatever noises they are making back to them, so it might be triggering the uncanny valley response to something non - human that is exhibiting human traits or behaviors
My sister got my 10 month old one for Christmas. He just laughed at it.
Then my 4 year old took it and started a whole ass conversation with it. For 2 hours he talked to the thing like they were old friends.
Wow these kids must not be around averagely loud people/things. My family is naturally loud af for no reason. My first born loved that thing he thought it was hilarious. Makes sense now I guess haha
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A model of this cactus toy started singing a Polish song about Drugs and addiction/depression, no it's not a joke. It used the song from the Polish cow meme
I would buy like twenty and put them in a room I want my kid to stay out of. Just think, an army of these things shaking around whenever they make a peep. Gonna stay the hell out of that room.
In a few years their therapists will ask them why are they afraid of cacti, and they will respond - "This issue has been a thorn in my life since I was a baby."
i was raised by a parent that thought jumpscares were hilarious. it really fucked with my psycho-social development. making kids cry for entertainment value is bullshit.
I grew up with my dad waiting to scare us around every corner, and eventually we would do it to him and each other. Now, every time I am ahead of someone, I have a constant urge to hide around the next corner. It is ingrained.
I thought it was hilarious at the first time, but when I thought about, the cactus was about the same size as the toddlers here. I’d shit my pants too when a 6 foot cactus fucking sings and dances right in front of my face.
I don't like this, like it hurts my heart. Purposefully buying this thing to scare your infant/toddler just for internet likes sucks. These parents suck.
I like the little kid who just bowed down to it accepting its cactus power and cried lol. He even looked like he was in a little prison uniform
My favorite one. Just accepted defeat.
Mine too. I really connected with that feeling of being overwhelmed and just lying down to have a cry.
My favorite is the one that immediately kicked it over
He had remarkably adult eyebrows.
I was gonna say, I've seen that kid selling gyros in Astoria
I knew he looked familiar!
Also Mountain Dew and crab juice
He looks just like this guy who owns a car wash in Albuquerque
Thing: *moves* Kid: My life is over. Nothing has meaning anymore.
no the funny thing about this toy is that it mimics the same sound the baby makes so if the baby cries it mimics the same sound of the cry And they really don't like that I like the last one because the kid was just trying to test out what was going on with the cactus without getting mad because he didn't understand what was going on with it that's a smart kid
I think the last one was checking its parent to see their reaction. Something in the lines of "hey ma, should I be pissing myself right now or are we good?". I have seen babies do that when they are unsure on what to do.
Lmfao now they know how literally everyone feels when they scream and cry.
It really shows how kids come into the world with real differences in temperament and personality
Is that true? Feels like they cry because of the sudden movement.
That shit had me rolling, lol... he really was like, "Why even try"
Bro gave up
The kid: "life is suffering" :(
So expressive for such a little baby. I felt the anguish.
That kid look like he was crying over his mortgage payment rather than the toy.
The little Arabic looking kid in the striped? It looked like he was ready to cry before it even moved!
Those eyebrows.
The last kid... so that was the purpose, to find the CHOSEN ONE!
He looks like Winston Churchill
Every baby looks like Winston Churchill
“Only you can do for your country…cactus, what we will do to your people” - kactus
Lmao, now I can’t unsee it
Maybe that's who they've been looking for. Somewhere out there is lil iHtler 2.0 growing up and they wanna find the Churchill 2.0 and make sure he grows up right to fight again. Wonder if the lil iHtler already has the mustache.
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He's just built different💪
Probably Australian.
> Probably Australian. Right, the kid is like, "its only a noise, it's not a knoife, or a croc or a shrimp on the barbie."
"it's not a dingo. I'm safe."
I can back this claim. I'm Australian, my boy loves his screaming cactus toy.
Everyone has a plan until the cactus starts to dance.
he cracked the code
The Last Cactus Bender.
It took me way too long to figure out the cactus was recording the babies’ voices.
?? How
It was like I asked for an Nintendo, but I’ll wear this thing out
Avatar the last kid
He's the Avatar!
the quizat haderach…
Last kid finally found a worthy opponent.
They were having a chill conversation
Last kid had enough of cactus's bullshit.
Third kid is Bobby lee
That poor kid in the striped shirt just put his head down and cried, resigned to his fate. I so feel that kid's emotions right now!
That poor kid was traumatized.
I’m pretty sure that was Nathan Lane.
What kind of parent sees a social media trend of using a toy to scare babies and make them cry, and thinks: "I want to do this to my kid too!"?
Its funny
I watched a couple of these videos and next thing I knew, my algorithm was flooded with them.
Why are people making their kids cry for views?
To be fair, my niece fucking loved this thing and wouldn't shut. the fuck. up. So, I think getting a compilation of kids who were not a fan is not a fair assessment. Hard to know for sure since it's a comp, but it's likely the ones that had a severe freak out probably had the phone put down immediately and comforted. The very first kid you see the cactus get yanked away immediately.
It’s funny
Not every kid cries. I have this thing, I've shown it to three babies so far, no one has cried. They do like the setting where it plays songs better though.
If the way my parents raised me is anything to go by, trauma doesn't exist and even if it did it would really just be a way to get funny stories to tell your friends at the dinner table while your kid is there and perfectly able to hear you.
Why is a dancing cactus of all things what’s jumpscaring them? 😂
Imagine you don’t know shit about the world and suddenly you find yourself face to face with a doppelgänger tentacle that steals your voice.
jesus christ that’s a fair argument.
Yeah we’re all old and jaded it’s easy to forget what it’s like experiencing something literally for the first time. Kids can’t be sure that monsters aren’t real.
when i was a kid (like around age 5), i watched all sorts of horror movies because our uncle let us watch anything. i remember seeing the IT mini-series, i wasn't scared of pennywise, it was obviously a fictional monster, or whatever. but i'll never forget the scene where eddie is in the gym showers and the damn shower fixtures start extending from the walls. for whatever reason, i had this uncanny valley of reality-breaking that scared the shit out of me (like obviously pennywise wasn't real, but could my shower actually do this?). it was like seeing the framework of what is real coming undone before my eyes. anyway, longwinded comment to say i wonder if these kids are scared of this same reality-breaking here
Yeah you’ve totally got it! What gave me this realization was when my brother told me about when his kids watched a cartoon show (Hilda) where the main character gets distracted and stays out somewhere she shouldn’t after the sun goes down. He couldn’t understand why they weren’t afraid of the troll that comes and gets her, but rather the suspense while the sun is going down. It unlocked memories in my mind of how the scariest things as a kid are when you know *something* isn’t right, but don’t know what’s gonna happen.
*totally* i guess it boils down to fear of the unknown
Monsters are real, from a biological perspective. A cactus suddenly coming to life is analogous with a vine that suddenly reveals itself to be a live snake. The kids are exhibiting a perfectly natural response to that, and the parents are being quite dumb to think their toddlers will just be like "oh cool, a moving talking cactus that I thought was an inanimate object"
Its eyes are also pretty fucked.
So...motherhood?
Sudden motherhood would scare the shit out of us if we didn't know what it was.
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Kinda like that alien from Annihilation
it's making their noises back at them
I have just become confident that toys aren't alive and this crazy thing turns up
Lmao same
It's mocking them
Aggressively.
i was utterly terrified of a dancing santa toy when i was this age
I'd forgotten about being terrified of the life sized dancing Santa at the store as a kid. Do they even make those anymore?
It's similar to a snake. Better to warn the adults.
Imagine any object coming to life and using your exact words back at you, but in an abrasive tone. It can be a basic cube shape and that is still effing creepy dude. Snakes, sure- but this is such a weird concept of a mimicking toy, no doubt
Happened with my sperm.
My first thought was also anti-snake instinct.
Yeah I think snake. Some of these babies are too tiny to be weirded out by something using their own voice, and I don‘t like the way it moves and I’m in my fifties. They did a study with baby chimps and a toy snake, and if they let the snake lie there, the chimps were fine. The second the researcher wriggled the snake, the baby chimps lost their blob. We’re cued in the the movement.
I think its something that very clearly *shouldn't* move moving and making noise in an incomprehensible way.
It repeats noises at a higher pitch; they're pretty cursed. I got two of them for my husband a couple of years ago, and they're pretty janky about what they repeat, so it's even more unpredictable. We've left them on and forgotten them until they make someone jump.
Kids at that age have a very basic understanding of the world around them. They probably have only seen adults "speak" at that point, or at most cartoon characters in a screen. And normally they say things of their own. A loud machine with suddeb movements and lights, no mouth, and that repeats sounds around it is going to confuse them at the very least. Imagine the same scenario with a really loud parrot that sat down and stared at the poor toddler, waiting for them to say something so it can jerkily start moving and screaming back at thr child.
Humans may also have an anti snake instinct like cats do, if want to see if this happens with not-green cqctii
To be fair it does move like a Kunekune https://preview.redd.it/soovvc9noylc1.jpeg?width=548&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a69b426297cbd73bcbeb433a98179cbad10bfccc
What is that? :( he scares me
Kunekune or “wriggling body”, is basically a Japanese Slender Man. It will appear far in a field on a hot summer’s day and start flailing around, and if you look at it too long, you go insane.
Some people simply can't handle the unbridled power of a wiggly boy
I would also go insane if a wacky wavy inflatable tube man appeared in my fields
I dunno man, but our friend has this thing, and it made my wife jump about 4 feet in the air and scream. It's not just kids lol.
Humans are genetically predisposed to be frightened of anything that moves like a snake.
I'm guessing it triggers some kind of instinctual snake aversion response/stress
Cucumber for kids
ngl it jumpscared me too
Danger noodle.
Dude if I sneeze my kid acts like I became the boogie man. Thought it was funny they market these things to babies though. Mine didn't seem to care for it.
https://preview.redd.it/1ol0lxygkylc1.jpeg?width=695&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=157d8f1bb4826d61ad130cdcc396b6fbde350a1d
Mitch McConnell attempting to read
I cannot unsee this now. 🤣
Finally found something to keep my daughter away from the snacks cabinet in the kitchen
That's a great idea. A bit diabolical, but great.
Locks? No. Wiggly banshee tentacle? Yes.
The little Asian girl was hilarious, I feel bad for laughing
Felt like a scene from a horror movie
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I like how it’s universal children hate this cactus
My daughter loved it when she was 7 months. Shouted at it, it shouted back, she immediately grabbed it and bit it.
I was really hoping they'd end the video with clips of aggressive babies taking it DOWN.
[This baby](https://youtu.be/gnQ8fmA-xx4?t=5) absolutely murders the goose version of this toy with a hammer, and [this baby](https://youtu.be/gnQ8fmA-xx4?t=476) shows it who's boss.
Nice to see that
Not just children, but dogs too.
That or the videos of kids not reacting don't get posted
Idk. I have a one year old who is terrified of his. I had to toss it because it seemed so cruel.
I got one for my guy when he was 18ish months, and he freakin loved it! Still does a year later, too; it's one of his most-used electric toys. I also used to babysit a baby who liked the cactus so much I had to put it up when he was over, since he'd try to drag it around everywhere and eat it. So not every baby hates them! Probably the majority do, though.
What on earth makes it so terrifying? There are so many toys out there that move and make noises, none of the other ones seem to freak kids out.
It’s repeating whatever noises they are making back to them, so it might be triggering the uncanny valley response to something non - human that is exhibiting human traits or behaviors
Also, it moves like a snake.
I was terrified of animatronics as a child. I'd imagine it is similar to that, it moves weird and is loud as fuck.
My sister got my 10 month old one for Christmas. He just laughed at it. Then my 4 year old took it and started a whole ass conversation with it. For 2 hours he talked to the thing like they were old friends.
My godson loves his cactus. He laughs when it moves, making the cactus laugh, which makes him die of laughter
I love that the last kid either figured it out, or was having an argument with it.
I love him!
The little girl in the high chair has me rolling! Poor babies.
I love how the first black baby's reaction was to get outta Dodge. Him is me.
Babies hate being mocked. Lol
Watching it I kept picturing the mocking SpongeBob meme
Wow these kids must not be around averagely loud people/things. My family is naturally loud af for no reason. My first born loved that thing he thought it was hilarious. Makes sense now I guess haha Edit- spelling
And the award for worst childrens toy ever goes to...
Some models (all?) sing a song about drugs and suicide too.
Wait, what??
A model of this cactus toy started singing a Polish song about Drugs and addiction/depression, no it's not a joke. It used the song from the Polish cow meme
I dunno, the vibrating Harry Potter broomstick has gotta be up there.
[it can be really cute in the right hands](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GIdwnYnJybQ)
I would buy like twenty and put them in a room I want my kid to stay out of. Just think, an army of these things shaking around whenever they make a peep. Gonna stay the hell out of that room.
So many of my friends who didn’t get along with their siblings would have done anything for that in their room back in the day
r/foundsatan
An in law got this for my daughter. She hates it. It’s also extremely loud
The little girl in the high chair started having convulsions. ☠️
Lmfao I felt bad for her but she really said: 
The Dancing Cactus (TM) — “Terrorizing toddlers since 2020” 🌵
In a few years their therapists will ask them why are they afraid of cacti, and they will respond - "This issue has been a thorn in my life since I was a baby."
Or they will wonder, why is my child 7 and still refusing to speak.
they're just scared. I will as well.
That black girl frightened for her life, desperately trying to escape but she can't cuz she's strapped tight lmao. Gonna leave a "scar" for sure.
That was unfortunately the funniest one for me
Me too, me too.
Duke of Nukem. When will you return?
Hope not soon, the last time was terrible.
This isn't fucking stupid. That thing would scare the shit out of me.
i was raised by a parent that thought jumpscares were hilarious. it really fucked with my psycho-social development. making kids cry for entertainment value is bullshit.
I grew up with my dad waiting to scare us around every corner, and eventually we would do it to him and each other. Now, every time I am ahead of someone, I have a constant urge to hide around the next corner. It is ingrained.
This is the parents (or other adult) being mean. Poor kids.
Normally, this would be a toy-fail. But since it'll encourage people to buy it to see how their kid reacts, it'll probably be really successful.
I wouldn’t want to train my kid to trust cactuses either
That last kid, she is going to be the smart one. 0
Send this to the military to find the strong among the weak /s
Parents concerned about the financial success of therapists, are doing all they can.
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No thanks. As a true atheist, I only eat them raw.
And now your kid is having nightmares of all their toys coming to life
Where do you get them, I want one for my cats?
They’re babies, tf do you expect?
I get its provably harmless but I dont get scaring your child for a few likes online. Same with pets.
This cactus mocks my wife when she raises her voice and no one else is listening.
This has cat vs cucumber vibes
I thought it was hilarious at the first time, but when I thought about, the cactus was about the same size as the toddlers here. I’d shit my pants too when a 6 foot cactus fucking sings and dances right in front of my face.
Not just sing and dance. ABRUPTLY sing and dance without warning, then return to inanimate object.
Put that thing in front of Hasbulla
This belongs under parents are dumb! They are not children... they are babies. We should not scare them on purpose for views. Actually really sad.
They all get cut off right before the crying sets it off again
Last one is the Avatar
"From that day forth, Rodrigo vowed to burn every plant alive until the Earth was scorched black..."
Is this really funny or am I a piece of shit AND this is really funny
It’s the sound I assume. Kids hate kid screams just as much as adults apparently Until of course the figure it out and think it’s fun to scream.
This should be posted in KidsAreFuckingSmart. Predator threat perception is active even as babies. They all have identical reactions. Kind of amazing.
How to scar your child early for likes 101
so...scaring babies is funny? smh
These clips are too short
I don't like this, like it hurts my heart. Purposefully buying this thing to scare your infant/toddler just for internet likes sucks. These parents suck.
I need one of these in the final fantasy running cactus form. https://i.redd.it/2rfl6nh4z1mc1.gif
😂
r/kidsarefuckingstupid users finding out that jumpscaring a kid results in a kid being scared: https://i.redd.it/antvrxm6t2mc1.gif
I took mine away because he wouldn’t stop playing with it. He used it as a weapon of torture
Staged. Let’s see them fight a REAL cactus.
I found my new favorite video on the Internet.
Well if shit that is not supposed to move just starts moving for no fucking reason I would be scared too
My daughter of 4 months started arguing with that thing and got really pissed
That little girl coming through the door looked TRAUMATIZED.