DigiShield Kids - Halloween 2025 Digital Safety Resources
Free online horror trends overview, a terminology 'cheat-sheet' and ready-made newsletter inserts
Online horror has been popular since the internet began, however, the trends in 2025 with regards to children and teenagers show specific emerging risks and threats. The explosion of generative-AI content, the development of multiple ‘child-friendly’ platforms and the constant blurring of child/adult content to name but a few.
In our free Halloween 2025 pack we offer educators, safeguarding leads and parents the information and resources needed to understand and manage these growing online risks.
What’s inside?
Online 2025 Horror Trends Briefing (PDF): A short overview on the emerging and developing genres and risks of "‘children’s horror’ content. Includes: mascot horror, generative-AI content, discussion of Roblox, YouTube, TikTok and other platforms.
Terminology/Trends Horror ‘Cheat-Sheet’ (PDF): A one page list for staff and teams working with children/teenagers, offers clear definitions of current memes, games, online media mechanisms and any relevant risk information.
Redy-Made Halloween Newsletter Inserts (PDF): One page of short, newsletter-friendly paragraphs covering relevant digital safety topics during Halloween. These can be copied directly or paraphrased into newsletters, updates or bulletins.
About DigiShield Kids
We are a recent UK online-safety initiative focused on digital threats and risks to children, in particular through children’s content online. We offer up-to-date open source research and analysis, as well as promoting digital literacy, privacy awareness and family safety.
We provide news and research via our free newsletter, as well as workshops and reports for organisations and schools. Please contact us for more information:
Email: info@digishieldkids.com
Website: www.digishieldkids.com