For people still thinking she's faking it or this reaction is about promoting their channel (this is reaching conspiracy levels now), she gave a lengthy response in the comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6urJejluX44&lc=z13gxzkx3vmwwv1kl23ah1daykmnjplgk04
Renate Meyer 5 hours ago (edited)
+Messofanego "Hi! Renate here. VERY long explanation incoming: I can say for sure, that this is 100% real. I have never ever been this scared my entire life. What people might not see or understand, from what I have read in comments, is that it does not look scary and what is the fuzz about and that I am exadurating. I truly understand where they are coming from, seing the whole thing from the outside and I was laughing until I cried cause it was so silly. I will try and explain every detail to my reaction. I am the kind of person who really reacts and freak on everything. I am a chicken and a scardypie. When it comes to games, I dont play them, I LIVE THEM. I have always been super immersed in everything I do and one could say I never really grew out of my childhood hehe. I used to buy horror games when I was younger, and have my pals play them for me, cause I did not dare to do so myself. I would be so agitated and tense I would jump and scream at the most random things, wich made them more scared of ME than the game itself. I managed to have my neightbour almost call the police when I was a teenager cause she heard me scream across the street, having met T-rex for the first time in the very first Tomb Raider game. I am en extremely lively person who really do immerse myself into everything I do. Anyone who knows me can confirm this.
So with this being said, Ill try and explain what is going on in my head during this movie. As I said I am a scardypie, so all I knew was that it would envolve shooting. This alone made me nervous, cause I am a terrible aimer and shooter. And the second the game started I was not sure what to expect, I kinda thought things would come running towards me in high speed so I started turning frantically around trying to find anyone ramming me, but when nothing happened I had time to really take in the whole situation and I really started to freak. So when I then finally HEARD the first monster, I got scared but braced myself and was gonna take it down, and when I started shooting, I kept missing, and it came closer.. that was when I started realising I was not gonna be able to make it.. so I started shaking. And the more my hands were vibrating, the harder it was to aim, and hit.. hence it came closer, and then I heard something behind me. And this is one of the things that might be hard to understand watching the video. But the sounds.. oh the horrible sounds of something wet and slimy creeping nearer behind me, knowing I still had one in front of me I could not kill... insert coin for panic mode here
Well bascially I completely freaked, and I forgot it was a game. People think it's weird that I just stand there and not take off the VR, but as I said earlier, I dont play a game.. I live it. I was there and it was so real. Poor graphics and fake monsters or not, it felt real, my brain thought it was real and I just lost it. They came closer and closer and there was more and more of them, and I keep missing and go out of ammo, and the reloading was soooo slow, I freaked and the fight or flight mode activated for real and I start screaming and I seriously throught I was goiung to die. Even if I knew somewhere in the back of my mind it was just a game. It might sound weird to some, but I just started blasting as much as I could in pure panic turning and twisting, not thinking rationally or logic (not that I ever do anyway) I just shoot, for my dear life, hope Ill hit SOMETHING. And one of them get close, and I shoot it, I see it die, and I am soooo scared now, that when I turn shoot something else, turn back, and the body is still in my sight I freak out even more, cause I JUST KILLED IT WHY IS IT STILL HERE OMG OMG Omg omg.. yeah you know the phrase by now. And when I fnally managed to get through it I was so dissapointed I had survived, because I could NOT go through that again. Another thing that does not show on the video, but, I was so stressed, my body was so warm I was steaming. My back was moist and sadly (well thankfully
) I had a white shirt on, so it does not show, but my pits were soaked and my heart was coming out of my mouth. And I was so relieved to get out of it. (If I had been faking, or acting, I would most likely be living in Hollywood in a mansion, having hundreds of Oscars by now, but alas.. I was lucky to afford a Vive ) Some will probably still find it fake, and I am Ok with it. Everyone is different. Some people might just shrug and go eh.. while otehrs, maybe not to the same extreme as myself, will freak out. I find the whole discussion very interesting cause I do understand both sides here, but hope that everyone can agree that we are all different and react in different ways =) And I want to conclude with thanking everyone who called me brave!"
