Nexpo/YT Horror Channels - Do they all suck

[DenseDeerFather]

Late but wanted to feel included;
Why does a good chunk of female horror / true crime creators insist on putting their mugs next to some "le spoopy" random images that may or may not pertain to whatever the topic is? It's distracting and it's low-key narcissistic.

Why does Hannah's hair look like a wig?

I can only think of one male content who puts his face next to pictures of murder victims (as distasteful as that is) and that's Simon Whistler over at his weird podcast/commentary true crime let's read whatever the fuck channel.

In regards to the backrooms, I agree that the best horror came from the concept of being trapped in this endless liminal space while your sanity slowly chips away.

For some reason, it made me think of the Portal games and Rattman's eventual mental decline through the power of paranoia and isolation.

I will admit that I'm not opposed to the idea of monsters being introduced if we absolutely have to expand on it but it's a slippery slope that could easily lead to things being done in a retarded manner. That's unfortunately the reality we live in these days.

I think it would be pretty scary if we got the monsters but they were like constructs of a declining mind or playing with the line of what's real and what's a figment of the imagination and generally uncanny.

You know, keep the mystery going without having to overexplain everything.

 

[Active User]

I think the face shots in thumbnails are a Youtube algorithm/SEO thing. Thumbnails with human faces tend to do better or something.

 

[The Skeksis Emperor]

Late but wanted to feel included;
Why does a good chunk of female horror / true crime creators insist on putting their mugs next to some "le spoopy" random images that may or may not pertain to whatever the topic is? It's distracting and it's low-key narcissistic.

I can only think of one male content who puts his face next to pictures of murder victims (as distasteful as that is) and that's Simon Whistler over at his weird podcast/commentary true crime let's read whatever the fuck channel.

Because it gets more clicks. For some reason, don't ask me why. FWIW some of the most popular male true crime Youtubers do it too.



Also, wasn't Joshua Miles was on MATI once? I believe he himself sent Josh a video to discuss. I vaguely remember it was about two women, one of whom tried to destroy the other's life. Does anyone remember? Was it this video? I can't find the MATI episode.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

Because it gets more clicks. For some reason, don't ask me why. FWIW some of the most popular male true crime Youtubers do it too.

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Ironically I stopped watching ThatChapter when he started pulling Yikes! faces and click bait titles on his videos. One of those new thumbnails of his showed up on my feed once and I made the same face looking at it. It's one thing for a reaction channel to put a dumb reaction image of themselves playing/watching some spooky stuff, but slapping that on true crime just feels tone deaf and it's hard to take seriously. All in the name of the Almighty Algorithm(tm) I guess.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

Late I realize, but while I've yet to see any My Immortalesque fanfictions where the smiley monster is actually a "shy softboi uwu~", I will reveal that I have witnessed Backrooms pornography and it is far more terrifying than any of the other attempts to add to the mythos.

Backrooms porn is out there and it makes me grin like a lunatic.

Also I got an idea about a potentially Kubrik to the novel Shining Backrooms movie idea. I'm high as a kite and tired as hell:

Spoiler: Backrooms Movie Idea

Backrooms Movie Idea

A little girl wakes up but not in her room.
(Backrooms description)
She wanders the halls unsure of how she got there. After exploring room after room, she cries until a shout is heard. Cautiously, she follows until she stumbles on another person. A man, named Fred, is swinging a briefcase at something the little girl couldn’t see; invisible. After a bit, he settles down and the girl makes her approach.
(Introductions, Fred’s a teacher and has been mapping and marking places as he goes)
The pair set off on an adventure attempting to “solve” the back rooms. Whenever they get bored, they initially start contemplating why they don’t need food or feel hunger, why they never feel tired. The conversation turns toward death, but neither wants to acknowledge that potential option. Instead, Fred decides to teach the little girl as a reward for progress. Time had no meaning, they were either searching or teaching/learning. Fred taught the girl (insert foreign language), and many other skills. A revelation at last, Fred thinks he’s solved whatever Maze they’re in. Wouldn’t you know it, he was right!

A new level presents itself. It’s musty and the air is filled with the scent of mildew. An aura of dread was thick as molasses. They continue on and get their barings. Fred sees something, the little girl does not but plays along with Fred’s insistence. They both scurry around dodging Fred’s creatures while the rooms around them continue to decay and dissolve. The walls become more organic shapes and blobs than anything clear and the creatures seemed to have stopped. A bright light presents itself and they rush toward it. However, Fred pauses and looks up to see a riddle. The girl doesn’t see it. Fred’s riddle was solved in silence before he encouraged the girl to continue toward the light. She does.

The little girl wakes from a coma; Fred does not. Many years prior, Fred was drunk and driving causing an accident the little girl was victim to. She looks at the news reports of the accident and her situation, seeing no sympathy for Fred. However, she remembers and forgives. That’s the end.

 

[Vampirella]

This especially rings true in regards to horror. It's a big issue I have with the genre when people like Hannah try to cover it. Horror is meant to horrify you. That's the entire point of the genre... Whether it's shocking, disturbing, unsettling, creepy, etc... horror media is supposed to send shivers down your spine and make you feel dread and anxiety. What the fuck is the point of covering or consuming it at all when you remove all the controversial/"triggering" aspects? At that point it ends up becoming something more akin to "mascot" horror made mostly for kids, like Poppy Playtime or Hello Neighbor... Shit that's meant to be soft enough for them to handle but still make them feel as if they're actually watching something dark and morbid... except instead of being for kids, it's for trannies and terminally online, oversensitive mentally ill Twittards.

These are the same people that say all the movies that are filled with jump scares are the scariest ever, flashy jump cuts and loud sting music does not a horror movie make. And you know what, they did have good horror for kids back in the day. There are a lot of horror movies and shows that got made for kids back in the 80s and 90s. Sure you had things like Goosebumps and Are you afraid of the dark, you also had movies like The Gate that had a scene where a young kid thinks he sees his dead mother come back for him, runs to hug her and it ends up being a dead dog. There was also this

Horror can be made for kids, real horror not jump scares, and I think it can be a good for them to watch. Otherwise you get these grown adults that think that because they love things like FNAF and the Anabel they've seen REAL horror.

 

[Lucus Baker]

Backrooms is fucking gay. It's like TikTok kids and redditor saw the backrooms and was like "hey I like scp what if we make that, but put anime girl ahegao monsters and dumb stick figures boy that sure is spoopy huh?"

Backrooms quit being scary the moment everyone collectively decided they was going to make it into a somehow worse SCP shit. But the gimmick guys is that it's a video game basically so we're gonna write a Kotaku guide on how to beat this level and here's the enemies and what spawns in this level and what mobs drop etc etc. Like how the fuck do you take something that's supposed to be mysterious and creepy, and somehow over explain it more then SCP faggots who want to be the next Tolkien.

I swear man everything gets ruined by redditor and children.

 

[Epoch]

For some reason, it made me think of the Portal games and Rattman's eventual mental decline through the power of paranoia and isolation.

I am much more scared of the empty rooms in Portal, the Rattman dens absolutely terrify me, then any of the backrooms media. Portal's horror is what the backrooms is trying to be, but failing because they are trying too hard.

 

[AskeDead]

whoever recommended shrouded hand, please don't recommend anything else. this dude is a fucking SNORE.

 

[Shekelslovakia]

This is how you do a proper iceberg video. Long, filled with indepth details and most importantly, he's not afraid to say any of those "taboo" words (Suicide, Rape, Drugs, Abuse, etc...) that some certain video site deems "forbidden".

Give this guy a sub if you haven't already!!!

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

That’s a really cool box art, barring the kinda shit job they did with Mario. It nails that SNES mid 90s mascot design.

So much so that it reminds me of the 1990s version ofCcount Chocula.

 

[HumbleServantOfRizzler]

Shrouded hand is good, maybe you just got one of his less interesting videos. Try this one:

The "Cursed" Last Video of Oh In-Hye

After a Korean actress and vlogger died, fans noticed something strange in her final video....If you would like to donate to help support my channel, and get...

youtu.be

whoever recommended shrouded hand, please don't recommend anything else. this dude is a fucking SNORE.

 

[TokiBun]

Ironically I stopped watching ThatChapter when he started pulling Yikes! faces and click bait titles on his videos. One of those new thumbnails of his showed up on my feed once and I made the same face looking at it. It's one thing for a reaction channel to put a dumb reaction image of themselves playing/watching some spooky stuff, but slapping that on true crime just feels tone deaf and it's hard to take seriously. All in the name of the Almighty Algorithm(tm) I guess.

I can’t watch him anymore because of his shitty jokes and lack of respect for the cases he covers. Not saying you should sympathize with murderers but him trying to be snarky about that woman who killed her boyfriend with a suit case isn’t funny because she’s an alcoholic.
Also he says TREE instead of THREE which bothers my autism.

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

I can’t watch him anymore because of his shitty jokes and lack of respect for the cases he covers. Not saying you should sympathize with murderers but him trying to be snarky about that woman who killed her boyfriend with a suit case isn’t funny because she’s an alcoholic.
Also he says TREE instead of THREE which bothers my autism.

There was a video where he did some snarky, "Nawr, wrhy wood she wunt to goe and doo sumtin like dat?" and then he did a gay little disco dance while the words LIFE INSURANCE flashed on the screen in technicolor. That was when I was like, "Huh. Fuck this faggot."

 

[TokiBun]

There was a video where he did some snarky, "Nawr, wrhy wood she wunt to goe and doo sumtin like dat?" and then he did a gay little disco dance while the words LIFE INSURANCE flashed on the screen in technicolor. That was when I was like, "Huh. Fuck this faggot."

What is his accent exactly? Either way he’s part of my immense hatred for British sounding accents from YouTubers. I really wish these people would fake an American accent to spare my ears.

 

[Jazario]

What is his accent exactly? Either way he’s part of my immense hatred for British sounding accents from YouTubers. I really wish these people would fake an American accent to spare my ears.

I think he's Irish if I'm not mistaken.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

There was a video where he did some snarky, "Nawr, wrhy wood she wunt to goe and doo sumtin like dat?" and then he did a gay little disco dance while the words LIFE INSURANCE flashed on the screen in technicolor. That was when I was like, "Huh. Fuck this faggot."

He's so uwu quirky I'm convinced he's hiding some bad shit

 

[skykiii]

So Mr Nightmare made an autistic decision in his latest video

So rather than just have a blurb about his sponsor from the beginning, he instead sprinkles references to it throughout the video. Already the comments are either complaining or turning it into a meme.

I've already downloaded this one because I suspect this is gonna be one of those he takes down and edits, just like the killer in Dead by Daylight Mobile takes your life.

It winds up sounding a lot like the Juno gag from Blogger Beware, except its not trying to be funny.

 

[Shek$il]

So Mr Nightmare

Mr Nightmare is probably the worst case of content drop-off I've experienced in this sector. He went from having some great, albeit nearly mundane stories about psychopaths on craigslist showing up with a pistol to entertaining ghosts and goblin tales.

I get that he just rips things off his subreddit without much quality control, but he's went from highly binge-able background narration to instant avoidance.

Even his fans agree with you:

 

[Vampirella]

So rather than just have a blurb about his sponsor from the beginning, he instead sprinkles references to it throughout the video. Already the comments are either complaining or turning it into a meme.

I use the addon Sponsor block because of things like this. For anyone that doesn't know it skips over sponsors, filler, ect. It also shows the new play time with out things skipped over, as you can see it cuts off more then a minute. Green is for sponsors. He really is plugging that isn't he.