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
Yeah, people have completely forgotten what an ARG is actually supposed to be. It's not just creepy YouTube videos and websites, it blends into real life (hence the "alternate reality" part). The Beast, the tie-in for the movie A.I., had clues hidden everywhere in the advertising that actually took digging to uncover the story, in trailers and print advertisements that led to phone numbers, email addresses, websites and faxes, and puzzles that had to be solved, including one hidden in sheet music for the lute. It wasn't just sitting and speculating and waiting for the next video to drop. The Halo 2 ARG I Love Bees involved figuring out where payphones were located in order to receive calls at specific times.
Part of the allure of ARGs like those as well as ones like the Lost Experience, the Cloverfield ARG, and the one mostly forgotten for The Ring is that they weren't really always directly tied to the source material. They were parallel storylines or backstories that built on the world in which they were based, which made it seem like more than just a TV show or movie--it really was like you were delving in to an alternate reality.
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.
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.
I liked the older stuff alright too but the melodramatics are something else. He makes community posts about how he can't show this super dark terrible thing on YouTube or whatever a lot. Disappointing.
Debunk does some interesting stuff. Sometimes, I just want to hear about stuff that's just weird, and he's got some of that type stuff.
Debunk is good. He’s one of the few horror youtubers I can stomach anymore. He covers some more unpopular cases. That fake deep voice he does though is kinda annoying, but at least he’s naturally faking it and not using a modulator like MamaMax does.
Yeah, people have completely forgotten what an ARG is actually supposed to be. It's not just creepy YouTube videos and websites, it blends into real life (hence the "alternate reality" part). The Beast, the tie-in for the movie A.I., had clues hidden everywhere in the advertising that actually took digging to uncover the story, in trailers and print advertisements that led to phone numbers, email addresses, websites and faxes, and puzzles that had to be solved, including one hidden in sheet music for the lute. It wasn't just sitting and speculating and waiting for the next video to drop. The Halo 2 ARG I Love Bees involved figuring out where payphones were located in order to receive calls at specific times.
Part of the allure of ARGs like those as well as ones like the Lost Experience, the Cloverfield ARG, and the one mostly forgotten for The Ring is that they weren't really always directly tied to the source material. They were parallel storylines or backstories that built on the world in which they were based, which made it seem like more than just a TV show or movie--it really was like you were delving in to an alternate reality.
This conversation would be incomplete without pointing out that keeping it mostly to one medium or limit real world involvement is okay, as long as you proportionally reduce the scope of the ARG. I feel like the Portal series/Borealis really got the mixture right of not going too far while still making something awesome out of the medium they used. Most of the time it is poorly abused to increase runtime.
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.
College kids running out of time to run their ARG halfway through seems to be the trend. Makes sense.
Marble Hornets got raped after it finished, did you ever see the movie tie in that has basically one missable reference to the series and that's it? Pretty funny stuff.
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.
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.
ARGs just can't be given the "is this real?" treatment anymore, its the same as videogame updates being datamined before release (MMO games) because of how widespread the information age is, pretty sad.
Maybe it's different for normies but every time i see a string of numbers or any sort of cipher an ARG is my first thought, but maybe in the internet's nascent days some of the ARGs now would make me shit pant.
Max has been inactive for a while, but it seems that recently he has been making a new video. This link was posted to his Patreon (thanks kemono.party!), video is archived below. Only thing of note is that it has le spooky and demonic audio at the end.
I've done more research on Max since my last post about him, and have some interesting things to share. I found in the video "Who are you?" where Max shows him in OCP's holding a DoD card. The image is not censored to well, and after a bit of editing one can kind of see in it that his last name starts with a "J". In a DM with Oliver Wang (one of his ex's, follow up section about her), she shared with me that his last name is Jackson, and while that would match up with the DoD card, it would not line up with the BCT shirt. However, after I showed Oliver the shirt, she acknowledged that the name wasn't on it and maintained his name is Jackson.
(Sorry for including my YouTube player lol) It can just barely be seen
Here is an example DoD card that would have been issued at the time he was in BCT
The BCT shirt, as a refresher
I also discovered a good post on Steam by Max (page 5) - an image of a Swastika followed by "Post this swastika on 5 other profiles to keep Steam properly gassed".
Max used may have used Doxbin for a period of time as well, but only to faildox a "pedo tranny". The Doxbin account Ewa was created under the email 777a777a777ax@gmail.com, as shown in the Doxbin database leak (it is important to note that Doxbin accounts don't require email verification). This account only made one post, which was an IP address faildox. I reached out to Akira, the person who was doxed, and they said that a group raided their discord, hacked an old account, then posted it on "doxxbin". In an interesting twist the discord account that doxed Akira accepted a friend request I sent to it, and kindly responded with "Who the hell are you anyway?".
For the last part of this post I've made two more spoilered sections, one for gf's and some more archives I made.
Perhaps the reason Max was inactive recently was because he caught Corona?
And another interesting post.
I have not seen her post anything after this, maybe she coofed too hard and died lmao.
Oliver Wang is one of Max's ex-girlfriends. She is addicted to the internet (and male attention) because she lacks a social life, being a repulsive cunt and all. The rest of her identity revolves around being born shit-colored and liking Pokemon. Here are some archives of her posts.
(If you needed any more proof his YouTube voice is fake)
Person in Max's arm is Paulina. Only other person of note is Prox, the skin-and-bones Asian manlet second from the left. He is buddies with Max.
He appears in this video, nothing important though.
I've been lurking on this thread for a while and all I have to say is I want to like Eudoxia and Internet Investigator but God is the constant censoring, Patreon shilling and in the case of Eudoxia getting basic info wrong is just really grading and annoying. Also the latest Internet Investigator video being her just reading a Wikipedia entry in it's entirety with minor changes just shows her fucking laziness.
I've been lurking on this thread for a while and all I have to say is I want to like Eudoxia and Internet Investigator but God is the constant censoring, Patreon shilling and in the case of Eudoxia getting basic info wrong is just really grading and annoying. Also the latest Internet Investigator video being her just reading a Wikipedia entry in it's entirety with minor changes just shows her fucking laziness.
Obvious autism. There's a movie reviewer called Steve Reviews who ends his sentences the exact same way she does by putting unneeded emphasis on the last syllable. It honestly becomes insufferable very quickly.
The voice never got to me, but it probably doesn't help that she's British. I wonder how much of the research is hers and how much is the patreons who help her with the script and probably do most if not all the research.
I've been lurking on this thread for a while and all I have to say is I want to like Eudoxia and Internet Investigator but God is the constant censoring, Patreon shilling and in the case of Eudoxia getting basic info wrong is just really grading and annoying. Also the latest Internet Investigator video being her just reading a Wikipedia entry in it's entirety with minor changes just shows her fucking laziness.
I loved Internet Investigator’s vids when she had ~3k subs. She mostly did icebergs then and Reddit mysteries. But she’s gotten lazy since she’s gotten more popular and set up ugh, Patreon. Her voice grew on me, but at first I thought she was Scottish or something. Turns out she’s from Yorkshire, and afaik, most Yorkshire people don’t talk like she does. Probably autism.
@Not Based or Redpilled he's been inactive because SOMETHING is going on-his patron discord is closed. Apparently it has been "causing too much stress for the team to keep running" and he can't run it himself.
@Not Based or Redpilled he's been inactive because SOMETHING is going on-his patron discord is closed. Apparently it has been "causing too much stress for the team to keep running" and he can't run it himself.
There’s just…. so much wrong with that screenshot. Mama’s Womb? Incredibly beautiful people? Maybe I’m just thinking too deeply but this could all turn out to be very interesting.
There’s just…. so much wrong with that screenshot. Mama’s Womb? Incredibly beautiful people? Maybe I’m just thinking too deeply but this could all turn out to be very interesting.
This is purely anecdotal, but I'm pretty sure he met his current schizo gf in his own discord. Sux that he won't have a space to groom his fans into relationships any more, but I'm sure where there's a will, there's a way!
There’s just…. so much wrong with that screenshot. Mama’s Womb? Incredibly beautiful people? Maybe I’m just thinking too deeply but this could all turn out to be very interesting.
he used to run an ARG in his discord too, about an AI taking on his personality-"purgatorio" was the name. The discord sidebar has a gif of him beating up someone with a code (a scene from one of his videos I THINK) and the icon is a creepy mask.
I love Shrouded Hand. I enjoy that he doesn't only do true crime stuff and when he does, it's neither a rehash of the same old shit nor "THE WORST MOST UNSOLVABLE CRIME EVER! (so gross and awful I got demonetized just for googling it!!)"
He's just a guy with interesting stories and a calm delivery.
he used to run an ARG in his discord too, about an AI taking on his personality-"purgatorio" was the name. The discord sidebar has a gif of him beating up someone with a code (a scene from one of his videos I THINK) and the icon is a creepy mask.
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.
