Individuals displaying mischievous, spiteful, or teasing behavior in a playful manner, rather than engaging in genuinely cruel actions.
It’ll make you hallucinate hearing someone call out your name from somewhere behind you, but it’s barely audible and comes at unpredictable intervals, and you’re not sure if you even heard it really.
Which I guess kinda resembles mild schizophrenia ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
When I read this, I thought it meant computer virus, and I kind of have already. It’s not technically a virus, because it doesn’t spread, but back in the Windows XP era I made a program called Teddy Bear. It would install itself when you plugged in a USB stick and log the user out. When they logged back in, a teddy bear would ask them to play a game. The user had a beat the computer at pong before they got their computer back. It would block task manager too, even. It did that by turning the task manager window invisible when it opened, and returning focus to the game. It also worked in Safe Mode, so there was not really an easy way to bypass it.
I found a reference to it on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20071022180854/http://sciactive.com/
a batch script in autostart that kills itself in over 90% like 98. in the rest it either starts desktop goose after 30 to 200 minutes or shuts the pc down after again, a random amount of time.
Edit: Desktop goose trailer: https://piped.video/watch?v=EQx6fyrZDWM (use piped for privacy focused people bt you still can open it on youtube freely)
And i thought PC virus, sorry