Do you like exhaust fans and which is you favorite ones? Also, were you ever afraid of it as a child?

Since I was afraid of some of them as a child. The metal NuTones with open metal grille used to scare me. I used to watch Sesame Street and there was a segment on making pasta that had one and it scared me, and I was always afraid there would be one in a restroom. I did end up seeing one in a bathroom once on a trip, but it was off. That one had plastic blades though and as I was leaving I turned it on, but it was pretty quiet. I also remember a Subway restaurant having one in the restroom, and I wouldn't go in there because of it.

In college, the restroom in the cafeteria had a Zephyr exhaust fan, but they replaced it with a NuTone, that had a grille like those old ones, but in white plastic. It was pretty noisy, but I wasn't afraid of it anymore.

Now, I kind of like them. Now, the plastic exhaust fans never scared me, just the big old metal ones.

This is like the NuTones that scared me, but usually they had a round grille and on the ceiling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7xJD65Ts7Y

The noise of the Nutone fan hears like that of most elevators fans and household exhaust fans here in Israel.
Here is a thing that scare me much more than this: https://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-156889

Never been really into it, but i do like the Venta flange fans from the 90s (still made today) - with metal body painted Black, and only the blades made of Plastic

https://www.venta.co.il/shop/אוורור-למפעלים/מפוחים-ציריים-דו-כיוונים-למקלטים/

This model is intended for air raid shelters and other underground spaces. It is high power, and comes with a controller that enables changing speed (with a "dimmer" like circuit) to tune it down to moderately quiet operation, and change direction

As a kid i liked the sound of regenerative braking from the motor in those fans, when the speed is tuned down or direction is changed when the fan is working