Nexpo/YT Horror Channels - Do they all suck

[Captain Manning]

Now that I think about it, Smile Guide also didn't took itself seriously, yet it was successful in freaking people out.

Oh, Smile Guide/Kraina Grzybów was fucking amazing.

I also liked Daisy Brown. The one about the girl with the plant monster, Alan.

But those are all old now. The current crop of analog horror? Utter crap.

I think @The Bovinian Derivative is on to something when he suggests the emphasis is now on overwrought complicated narratives that serve as fodder for commentary channels.

 

[Din Djarin]

Is it just me, or was it all downhill after Local 58?

I loved Local 58, but everything after seems like try hard crap. I don't get the appeal of Mandela Catalog or Monument Mythos.

I really need to watch Local 58 now

 

[Captain Manning]

I really need to watch Local 58 now

You should, if you haven't before. It won't take very long to get through.

Do so, and then tell me it's not better than Mandela Catalogue or Monument Mythos.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Is it just me, or was it all downhill after Local 58?

I loved Local 58, but everything after seems like try hard crap. I don't get the appeal of Mandela Catalog or Monument Mythos.

Gemini Home Entertainment is another good series that I am surprised not being mentioned in this thread.

I also have a soft spot for Eventide Media but the creator rage quit and deleted all his stuff over the backlash over a plot point that the goverment covers up a paranormal event at a school by saying it was a school shooting.

Here's the archive of his stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQgwS8ZY-72xmqFQFt08Ndg

 

[Gondola Enjoyer]

backlash over a plot point that the goverment covers up a paranormal event at a school by saying it was a school shooting.

So called "horror fans" when something actually horrific is implied to have happened in a horror story:

 

[Slav Power]

But those are all old now.

I'm hopeful for Stribog's new project, Indistinct Chatter.

However from what I understand, it's way more ambitious and he plans to release a single episode per year, with Episode 1 already being over a year old.

It seems very interesting, and with Małgosia's appearance by the end, it's possible that he wants to allure that Smile Guide were broadcasts from an alternate universe that manifested in ours by the Indistinct Chatter phenomenon.

To be fair, Stribog's work is unique, because as he said in the interview on public TV, he's an actual educated artist, and he got his education specifically in the modern culture. He wanted to make something that would become viral, and he did succeed, to the point where his work got attention outside of his target audience. He also mentioned that the series had no true meaning, because that led people to come up with creative interpretations.

Growing up in Poland, a country with a rich culture probably also helped a lot to create something unique compared to what the US culture creates and exports, but that's just my opinion.

Yes, it's all in Polish, obviously, and unfortunately there aren't any English subtitles. It's a very good interview where he goes in-depth into his creative process, his inspirations, his work and talking about his work for other artists.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

I also liked Daisy Brown. The one about the girl with the plant monster, Alan.

I wasn't engaged with most of the story, but that moment where the puppet suddenly reveals he can stand up is the only time any of these internet horror series managed to scare me.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

ARGs were neat to actually pretty good when they were done by autists who never ended up interacting much with the community they built up
Once you got people who went full force into being cults of personalities or had people making gay OCs is when alot of the magic started dropping off

 

[Slav Power]

ARGs were neat to actually pretty good when they were done by autists who never ended up interacting much with the community they built up

ARG's were neat to actually pretty good when they were actual ARG's and not a shitty little web series where there's nothing to dig through. Yes I will continue to hammer this point down because it genuinely infuriates me how this term got completely bastardized.

Anomidae's Interloper is the closest a modern spooky horror series has gotten to being an actual ARG. Under the latest video he left an archive with dumps of the mysterious Source engine demos for people to look through to find clues. The series will only continue once people find out the tidbits he left there, there's direct community engagement in solving the puzzle.

It's not some faggot posting a spooky video, people commenting about "muh lore" and then another video coming up just like that. That's what all the zoomers and alphas call an "ARG" nowadays and it boils my fucking blood because I remember following Valve's MvM and Meet the Pyro ARGs and I thought they were the coolest shit ever.

Someone really needs to step this up and make an ARG where you send your viewers out on a goose chase across different websites and services like FTP servers. Maybe even Tor, like the ARG Death Grips did to promote their album "No Love Deep Web". It's such a robust and creative art form in the modern day and it's being killed by insipid cunts.

 

[The REAL Hatsune Miku]

I really need to watch Local 58 now

It's actually pretty good, it has a tight focus but wide manifestation is how I'd put it. There's not really a lot of different stuff going on you just see it from a bunch of different perspectives and the story falls into place.

 

[Carpenter Trout]

I legitimately don't understand censoring every little word that might upset the algorithm for ad revenue. "Commit unalive, 'doing bad things with children', ab*se, r*pe," etc.
Motherfucker, you have links to Patreon, Ko-Fi, SubscribeStar, BuyMeABlowjobFromSadieEnwardDownTheStreet or whatever and that's still not enough for you?
How fucking greedy are you, exactly, that you have no qualms compromising your content you supposedly worked so hard on in this way? Do you take any pride in your work, or has your desk just become a slightly more bearable wagie cage?
Have some fucking dignity and integrity, god damn.

It's because if your video gets demonetised you get much less views, hence, less potential patrons. Even if you don't plan on using youtube's shit monetization and ad-revenue, the video still has to follow those spastic guidelines so advertisers are happy and the algorithm can shove down your throat more shit videos while distracting you from the real horror that is real life.
Seriously, if you take some of those conspiracy theories and make an anal horror about it, you'd be basically be set for life since you don't need to write lore.

Also fuck monument mythos, literal goyslop.

 

[Lei Wulong's Left Leg]

I'm starting to pine for well executed web series that were just a bunch of retards wandering around in the woods like The West Files now.

 

[Nick Obre]

ARG's were neat to actually pretty good when they were actual ARG's and not a shitty little web series where there's nothing to dig through. Yes I will continue to hammer this point down because it genuinely infuriates me how this term got completely bastardized.

Anomidae's Interloper is the closest a modern spooky horror series has gotten to being an actual ARG. Under the latest video he left an archive with dumps of the mysterious Source engine demos for people to look through to find clues. The series will only continue once people find out the tidbits he left there, there's direct community engagement in solving the puzzle.

It's not some faggot posting a spooky video, people commenting about "muh lore" and then another video coming up just like that. That's what all the zoomers and alphas call an "ARG" nowadays and it boils my fucking blood because I remember following Valve's MvM and Meet the Pyro ARGs and I thought they were the coolest shit ever.

Someone really needs to step this up and make an ARG where you send your viewers out on a goose chase across different websites and services like FTP servers. Maybe even Tor, like the ARG Death Grips did to promote their album "No Love Deep Web". It's such a robust and creative art form in the modern day and it's being killed by insipid cunts.

I remember this one called the Dionaea House, a story about a "house" that was actually some kind of entity that lured people and consumed them, then used their hollowed out bodies as meat puppets to attract more.
You had to follow several people's blogs to get the story, including blogs that were completely unconnected to the main characters', and everything was posted in "real time" to the story. If I recall correctly, one of the secondary characters' blog was posted (or made to look like it was posted, I don't know if the capability was there) months before the main characters' blogs.

That was a great one, done by I think one guy.

Shit nowadays is, like you say, just one channel posting stuff episodically. No research to do, no posts somewhere else to find the hard way, no disparate points to connect. At most they'll reply to comments to the videos in character.

 

[Fields Of Rye]

i think liminal spaces tap into some buried memories of the fear we experience as children when the world feels overwhelming and filled with unseen dangers, which is why they're often malls and swimming pools and supermarkets
but i dont piss and shit myself and scream when i see empty rooms and places like zoomers do because liminal spaces are, at best, slightly unsettling

As someone who once underwent the extremely unpleasant process of getting lost in some weird ass building with a broken leg after falling asleep on pain meds, 3-4 in the morning, no clue what time it was or where I was, it's the kind of unsettling that gnaws at the back of your mind. I can only compare it to the first time I was in alaska the first time the sun went down that year. Like yeah, the sun just went behind the mountain, but I'm watching a wave of black advance wondering what the FUCK is happening. It's a genuine horror, a very nuanced horror, it's a shame it's used primarily by tumblr esque shit

You gotta realize, Zoomers have been exposed to superhorror since they were kids. Literally endless streams of it. The only thing left is a fear of the brain saying "shit's weird, academics please advise"

 

[Colon capital V]

As someone who once underwent the extremely unpleasant process of getting lost in some weird ass building with a broken leg after falling asleep on pain meds, 3-4 in the morning, no clue what time it was or where I was

Nigga what were you doing beforehand to get you there?

 

[Fields Of Rye]

Nigga what were you doing beforehand to get you there?

. I was working on an extended stay maintenance crew, the house we were staying at was like 3 houses that had been built together. I shattered my ankle the day before. We all slept in the lowest room since it was the only one with AC. Some dude kept snoring, I said fuck it, and apparently left my crutches and boot, team said I just walked out like nothing was wrong at like 12. Fell asleep with the lights on on like, a bare mattress.

Woke up when the pain meds started to go in a strange room with the lights on, can't find my crutches, Pick the wrong door. eventually find a box cutter and start forcing entry into random shit. Maybe 20-30 minutes of crawling around and forcing locks before I found a window and realized I was just being retarded.

The moment I went through some weird off white hallway with and exit sign, pushed in the knob thing and found, I shit you not, a fucking chair and a book on birdwatching from the 1970s I had decided I completely understood the concept of liminal horror. Everything about that house was wrong. Also a giant safety violation.

 

[AMHOLIO]

The moment I went through some weird off white hallway with and exit sign, pushed in the knob thing and found, I shit you not, a fucking chair and a book on birdwatching from the 1970s I had decided I completely understood the concept of liminal horror. Everything about that house was wrong. Also a giant safety violation.

This was a more engaging saga with a satisfying ending than 90% of youtube horror. We need more "And in that moment, I realized both I and the people who made this house were both retarded," horror.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Hot take:

Args were never good.that format might have had some novelty in the 90s or early 00s, nowadays is turbogay. They all suck, none of it is good, its low effort content farm crap made by tryhards.

Analog horror is lame and is just zoomers being scared of tech that isnt a smartphone.

Lost media is zoomers being scared of searching something online and not getting instant gratification.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Horror in general started going downhill once SCP was hijacked by faggots and creepypastas started getting "communities" and content creators build around them. I think that was ground zero, the "modern ARG" that has nothing to do with the original term is the end result of these people yearning for more. Thus, goyslop started to be made as demand grew.
You know what's scarier than most of these video series? Real shit you find on the web, like the dark web sites, forgotten websites with creepy stories around them, viruses you can get from them ect. I know Mutahar used to do Dark Web Exploring and Virus Investigation series but I am not sure why he stopped.

 

[I'm Really Feeling It]

Spoilered my take regarding modern audiences since it goes on a bit too long.

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I get that this thread has a lot of older souls who miss the horror from their own childhood, so I don't understand the idea of blaming "muh zoomers" for the state of horror. They're much younger (obviously) and the sort of things which were terrifying back in the day are now bombarded to them on a daily basis. They're more likely to come across a gore/snuff video on their Telegram or Discord server than 20+ years ago where it was relegated to 4chan (and before that, forums you had to go out of your way to search for). They're desensitized, and the scariest, most taboo crime one can commit on the Internet right now is being a transphobe.

I can see why they'd find an "interactive" story ala ARG, or aesthetics preceding them by decades ala VHS videos or cassettes interesting and bizarre. The bigger problem in my eyes is the fact that this has all gone mainstream, regurgitated by YouTubers looking for the next thing to latch onto and milk videos from, or by "creators" looking to imitate the success of predecessors, making everything synthetic. A larger-than-ever crowd now follows this stuff too, which means you get tons of annoying eggs - "zoomer" or not - begging for the Thing to cater to them like just another mainstream piece of mass media like a Hollywood movie or TV show.

Sorry for the ramble. This thread is just turning a tad too echo-chamber yelling about audiences who are growing up with this content and know horror as what it is right now (not what it used to be), and not enough about uncreative hacks infiltrating the space and shitting it up. If SCP for instance had stayed how it used to be at my current age, I'd have been deep into horror of that sort - but it got destroyed much before that, so outside of archives and older videos I can't get into it. If we were given a chance, we wouldn't be disappointing you.