Nexpo/YT Horror Channels - Do they all suck

The only ARG part of it in the very most loose sense was the YouTube video replies (remember when that was a thing?) from their second channel totheark, that they pretended was real. Also Marble Hornets has aged horribly.

I mean, yeah, there was totheark but totheark wasn't interactive in anyway, it just had some secret/obscure messages.

Even the creator of Marble Hornets said it wasn't meant to be an ARG and just a webseries at one point I'm pretty sure.

I'll say it, Marble Hornets straight up sucked after the first batch of videos. They got way too up their own ass. It was better when they were just trying to make spooky videos. It's sad how much influence they had (still have?) with how so many of these series/ARG's just end up stagnating because nobody would make up a plan.
 
zoom zooms seem to not realize that the point of an ARG is that....you don't know it's an ARG. it is supposed to be some weird shit that people start noticing or finding on different sites and piecing together connections or figuring out wtf is this thing, like it took /x/ with meatsleep a few years. Its not like oh heres my new series art projects its an ARG because it s a shitty low budget youtube horror series. thats not how that works
 
I'll say it, Marble Hornets straight up sucked after the first batch of videos. They got way too up their own ass. It was better when they were just trying to make spooky videos. It's sad how much influence they had (still have?) with how so many of these series/ARG's just end up stagnating because nobody would make up a plan.
It (and many others) did end in a massive asspull. The longer any series goes on the more I resign myself to the fact it'll either just become longer and longer between updates til they just stop, or the ending is going to be pasted on because they never had a storyline to start with.
 
I know I just created my account, but I’ve been lurking here for awhile. Just read thru a good chunk of this particular thread a couple nights ago cause I watch a lot of horror YouTube channels. I’d been wondering about PlaguedMoth and MamaMax’s bs for awhile now.

But anyway, anyone here watch Eudoxia Mysteries? I thought of this thread while watching his newest video. It was…. kinda cancer. Barely watchable because of his shameless self-censoring. Sick of these asspickles shilling Patreon for uNcEnSoReD content. I think we’ve all realized YouTube is shit for horror content and other platforms are better. YouTube isn’t a fucking job, unless you’ve got over a million subs. Get off your ass and get a real job, keep YouTube a hobby until you actually make it big.

Oh and his new avatar sucks dick.

Self-sperg over.
 
My personal favorite Night Mind moment is when he covered Eroda, and was like "NO GUYS, THIS IS A REAL ARG NOT VIRAL MARKETING FOR HARRY STYLES"

And when it was revealed that it WAS viral marketing for a Harry Styles album he got SO pissed and never covered or talked about it again.


Seeing his smug know-it-all ass get owned by the dude from One Direction was so satisfying.
Lmao, fucking gold
 
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Everyone is hoping to discover the next Marble Hornets, so they latch on to whatever weird video they find and go "IS THIS AN ARG??" I think a lot of people are forgetting that the most successful recent ARGs had media tie-ins and marketing companies dedicated to developing them and the fan bases to sustain them. Marble Hornets was an outlier and many have tried to emulate their success, but they pretty much all fizzle out once they start gaining attention.
How the Blair Witch Project did its marketing was pretty cool, for 1999. All these ARGs are very low quality content that would not hold any interest on their own without a gay easter egg hunt.
 
I know I just created my account, but I’ve been lurking here for awhile. Just read thru a good chunk of this particular thread a couple nights ago cause I watch a lot of horror YouTube channels. I’d been wondering about PlaguedMoth and MamaMax’s bs for awhile now.

But anyway, anyone here watch Eudoxia Mysteries? I thought of this thread while watching his newest video. It was…. kinda cancer. Barely watchable because of his shameless self-censoring. Sick of these asspickles shilling Patreon for uNcEnSoReD content. I think we’ve all realized YouTube is shit for horror content and other platforms are better. YouTube isn’t a fucking job, unless you’ve got over a million subs. Get off your ass and get a real job, keep YouTube a hobby until you actually make it big.

Oh and his new avatar sucks dick.

Self-sperg over.
Yea the censoring bullshit is really annoying and has turned me off from so many videos. It makes them legit unwatchable. Like you are the one who chose to talk about true crime or horror shit yet you wont fucking say murder, rape, suicide, or even assault etc. Me thinks you kinda signed up for this buddy when you chose the topic. I mean its all about muh add sense and muh money anyway.
 
Mamamax is the most annoying when it comes to this shit, instead of just censoring the words he censors entire sections of the video. Instead of having maybe like a 5 second card that says that the part was censored for whatever reason, its like 2-3 minutes of a blurry screen and muffled audio with text basically saying "sowwy i dont want to get banned :(" Even then, he shouldn't be censoring that much of the video, it basically feels like an actual chunk of the video is locked off to premium payers for his edgy patreon.
 
Mamamax is the most annoying when it comes to this shit, instead of just censoring the words he censors entire sections of the video. Instead of having maybe like a 5 second card that says that the part was censored for whatever reason, its like 2-3 minutes of a blurry screen and muffled audio with text basically saying "sowwy i dont want to get banned :(" Even then, he shouldn't be censoring that much of the video, it basically feels like an actual chunk of the video is locked off to premium payers for his edgy patreon.
Thats just so scummy for so many reasons.
Anyway even though I would perfer no censorship I do like Dylan the night owl does his. He just scrambles the word but you can make out what it is and it doesnt really break the flow of the sentence. I hate the censorship because guess what, these are real people who had these real bad things happen to them and you are trying to silence their trauma and profit off it so dont act al high and mighty.
Mamamax is a fucking loser for sure.
 
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I mean, yeah, there was totheark but totheark wasn't interactive in anyway, it just had some secret/obscure messages.

Even the creator of Marble Hornets said it wasn't meant to be an ARG and just a webseries at one point I'm pretty sure.

I'll say it, Marble Hornets straight up sucked after the first batch of videos. They got way too up their own ass. It was better when they were just trying to make spooky videos. It's sad how much influence they had (still have?) with how so many of these series/ARG's just end up stagnating because nobody would make up a plan.
Many ARGs these days would be better off as just simple web series. It's incredibly hard to make an ARG (especially these days) where you don't immediately think "Yo this is an ARG", let alone a good one.
Marble Hornets aged terribly, and you can tell since the ending is a huge asspull. It's kind of like ARG Jeff the Killer or Sonic.EXE; People liked it a the time, it set a lot of genre cliches, but is generally poor quality.


Thats just so scummy for so many reasons.
Anyway even though I would perfer no censorship I do like Dylan the night owl does his. He just scrambles the word but you can make out what it is and it doesnt really break the flow of the sentence. I hate the censorship because guess what, these are real people who had these real bad things happen to them and you are trying to silence their trauma and profit off it so dont act al high and mighty.
Mamamax is a fucking loser for sure.
This shit makes me so angry. Eudoxia does it too, and I just can't stand it.
 
Many ARGs these days would be better off as just simple web series. It's incredibly hard to make an ARG (especially these days) where you don't immediately think "Yo this is an ARG", let alone a good one.
Marble Hornets aged terribly, and you can tell since the ending is a huge asspull. It's kind of like ARG Jeff the Killer or Sonic.EXE; People liked it a the time, it set a lot of genre cliches, but is generally poor quality.

Yeah, I fell off on following ARG's/Webseries a while ago. Now I just check them out when someone does a synopsis or when they're done.

I remember liking EverymanHybrid at the start. They really seemed to try to do it with the whole hidden packages and the game where people would have to post videos of them doing stuff. But I also remember the whole thing dragging on forever to the point that I stopped paying attention. I actually thought it had been abandoned till a year or two ago when someone told me they finished it in like 2019. I guess things dragging out and taking forever is to be expected if you don't have the backing of a major production studio and you're just some dumb college kids.

It blew my mind to just find out that people *still* follow Marble Hornets because the one dude apparently makes/license out comics based on it? It kind of blows me away how far people follow these webseries. Even in my late teens/early twenties I thought they were just timewasters at best but some people get really into this shit.
 
I know I just created my account, but I’ve been lurking here for awhile. Just read thru a good chunk of this particular thread a couple nights ago cause I watch a lot of horror YouTube channels. I’d been wondering about PlaguedMoth and MamaMax’s bs for awhile now.

But anyway, anyone here watch Eudoxia Mysteries? I thought of this thread while watching his newest video. It was…. kinda cancer. Barely watchable because of his shameless self-censoring. Sick of these asspickles shilling Patreon for uNcEnSoReD content. I think we’ve all realized YouTube is shit for horror content and other platforms are better. YouTube isn’t a fucking job, unless you’ve got over a million subs. Get off your ass and get a real job, keep YouTube a hobby until you actually make it big.

Oh and his new avatar sucks dick.

Self-sperg over.
I felt a lot better after reading this thread because so many people seemed into Mamax and Plagued Moth but they both gave me a weird vibe so I ignored them. Turns out it's not just me; they are, in fact, obnoxious weirdos.

I watched very little of that Eudoxia video. I got to the part where he was talking about that old news, Blood Over Intent, and said he couldn't show footage that everyone else in this thread has seen other YouTubers show casually for like two years now. Then I just left. I was already feeling unamused by him so my patience was short to start with.
 
I felt a lot better after reading this thread because so many people seemed into Mamax and Plagued Moth but they both gave me a weird vibe so I ignored them. Turns out it's not just me; they are, in fact, obnoxious weirdos.

I watched very little of that Eudoxia video. I got to the part where he was talking about that old news, Blood Over Intent, and said he couldn't show footage that everyone else in this thread has seen other YouTubers show casually for like two years now. Then I just left. I was already feeling unamused by him so my patience was short to start with.
I actually really enjoyed his Disturbing Parts of the Internet series he used to do. It featured a lot of videos and things I’d never seen before. The channels definitely gone downhill since he stopped the series.

I really enjoy this channel. I’m guessing some people may not like his deep SP00K-E voice, but his content and video style is really enjoyable to me. Some of his videos aren’t about horror topics.


(Not sure why it doesn’t let me embed the video but here’s the link.)
 
How the Blair Witch Project did its marketing was pretty cool, for 1999. All these ARGs are very low quality content that would not hold any interest on their own without a gay easter egg hunt.
I remember being quite young when Blair Witch came out and seeing a segment on it during the morning show my mum watched before school where they were treating it as found footage/real. Scared the ever loving shit out of me since adults on the news show were giving it credit. :story:

Sadly I don't know if that kind of thing is possible anymore just because of how online the whole world is. :( I would love to be proven wrong, though I think the Cloverfield universe did some pretty cool and interesting ARGs however not on the same level.
 
I know I just created my account, but I’ve been lurking here for awhile. Just read thru a good chunk of this particular thread a couple nights ago cause I watch a lot of horror YouTube channels. I’d been wondering about PlaguedMoth and MamaMax’s bs for awhile now.

But anyway, anyone here watch Eudoxia Mysteries? I thought of this thread while watching his newest video. It was…. kinda cancer. Barely watchable because of his shameless self-censoring. Sick of these asspickles shilling Patreon for uNcEnSoReD content. I think we’ve all realized YouTube is shit for horror content and other platforms are better. YouTube isn’t a fucking job, unless you’ve got over a million subs. Get off your ass and get a real job, keep YouTube a hobby until you actually make it big.

Oh and his new avatar sucks dick.

Self-sperg over.
I agree 110% of everything you say. If I could I'll give you a fair handshake for doing the Lord's work for exposing these grifters just want to sit on their ass all day making water down horror content with more censorship than national TV. I'm hearing rumors that Susan Wojiski (CEO of YouTube) is going to put even more guidelines for the platform and actually glad that that's happening just to get people to start abandoning this corporate gulag of a site and move to somewhere like Bitchute or Odyssey to do your more riskier content.

You took the words out of my mouth when describing how they want to make this their livelihood and become the next Big e celeb when in reality they should just stick to flipping burgers at McDonald's or stocking shelves at their local Kroger until they get enough subscribers that they can start doing it part-time and then eventually once they get big enough then they can go full-time not when you only have 10,000 to 100,000 subscribers.

Trust me I could go all day and night ranting about these creators and what they can do to make their channel better but they are too Helen Keller tone death to a scrub like me. Fuck all those channels hopefully the site gets to the point where they are forced to get on to the assembly line or better yet the unemployment line.
 
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Mamamax is the most annoying when it comes to this shit, instead of just censoring the words he censors entire sections of the video. Instead of having maybe like a 5 second card that says that the part was censored for whatever reason, its like 2-3 minutes of a blurry screen and muffled audio with text basically saying "sowwy i dont want to get banned :(" Even then, he shouldn't be censoring that much of the video, it basically feels like an actual chunk of the video is locked off to premium payers for his edgy patreon.
Eudoxia is doing that now, where he leaves out entire sentences with a little snarky :) caption and blurs the screen. Like how can you expect ANYONE to understand what the fuck you’re saying? People come here for horror content, and you put trigger warnings (like Internet Investigator) and censor out half the vid cause you’re scared you may hurt YouTube’s and viewers feefees.
I felt a lot better after reading this thread because so many people seemed into Mamax and Plagued Moth but they both gave me a weird vibe so I ignored them. Turns out it's not just me; they are, in fact, obnoxious weirdos.

I watched very little of that Eudoxia video. I got to the part where he was talking about that old news, Blood Over Intent, and said he couldn't show footage that everyone else in this thread has seen other YouTubers show casually for like two years now. Then I just left. I was already feeling unamused by him so my patience was short to start with.
I left by the Blood Over Intent part. Honestly, Eudoxia has been getting on my nerves since that Bianca Devins video he did. That’s just a case that makes my blood boil when people get the info wrong (like he did). Another thing was I saw in the comments of his new vid someone talking about how his Discord is for “younger people”. I think that’s a little fishy. But once a YouTuber sets up a discord server their content goes to shit. Almost always.
I agree 110% of everything you say. If I could I'll give you a fair handshake for doing the Lord's work for exposing these grifters just want to sit on their ass all day making water down horror content with more censorship than national TV. I'm hearing rumors that Susan Wojiski (CEO of YouTube) is going to put even more guidelines for the platform and actually glad that that's happening just to get people to start abandoning this corporate gulag of a site and move to somewhere like Bitchute or Odyssey to do your more riskier content.

You took the words out of my mouth when describing how they want to make this their livelihood and become the next Big e celeb when in reality they should just stick to flipping burgers at McDonald's or stocking shelves at their local Kroger until they get enough subscribers that they can start doing it part-time and then eventually once they get big enough then they can go full-time not when you only have 10,000 to 100,000 subscribers.

Trust me I could go all day and night ranting about these creators and what they can do to make their channel better but they are too Helen Keller tone death to a scrub like me. Fuck all those channels hopefully the site gets to the point where they are forced to get on to the assembly line or better yet the unemployment line.
As much as I’d like to see YouTube go, I think it would set a bad precedent for future video sites. Eventually redditors and e-celebs will get tired of the censorship cause they can’t talk about their dildo collection anymore and take their bullshit to another site. Like what happened with Tumblr and Twitter.
 
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