Jimmy Kimmel doesn't even need to ask for videos of kids crying on Halloween anymore

Every year, Jimmy Kimmel caps off the Halloween season with footage of crying children. Parents send in videos of them lying to their kids about having gobbled up all of their Halloween candy and a nation laughs at the subsequent tears. It’s really weird! I don’t get it. It would fuck me up to know my parents made me cry to get on a TV show.

Anyways, Kimmel appears to be developing some sense of self-awareness about this twisted tradition, telling viewers this week that the “kids have suffered enough” and that he had planned to take a year off from encouraging parents to satiate his thirst for child tears. The monster he’s created, however, no longer needs him. Hundreds of parents, acting independently of Kimmel, sent along videos of their leaking spawn for the public’s enjoyment.