Nexpo/YT Horror Channels - Do they all suck

[Sunflower Samurai]

Fuck you nigga, Duendes are nostalgic early Latin american "horror" kino.

(Horror adjacent i guess?) There was a famous shock video in youtube called "EL Clavado" (High dive) or something like that, I have never seen it because i don't like gore but it was about some dude high diving and missing the water or something like that.
Sadly for us, Spanish speaking content doesn't have deep dives about the origin of horror/shock media (and if there are any, they're translations of already existing content in English). And sometimes the origin and folklore surrounding horror and shocking media is more interesting than the media itself (The Grave Robing for Morons video that someone posted early in the thread or Ahoy documentary on Polybius for example).

I actually saw a couple videos that translated Latin American and Mexican lost media, its true that the lost media and creepypasta shit was taken over by hacks like Drozz and there is simply not that much info in their native lengauges, usually its up to spanish speakers bringing it up to EN communities

Spoiler: Videos

Also i dont disagree dundes arent horror kino, early shitty ads and content in the spic-verse were fucking classics compared to Anglo screamers, shit was peak autism

 

[Lurker Child]

Recently I was watching a video on the "No Players Online" ARG since I was curious, and when it came to the moment of returning the third flag, I started bursting out in laughter. Why? Well, I made the edit below so you hear what I imagined:

 

[Shekelslovakia]

Why are zoomers always holding their microphones like they are news reporters or something. Don't they know there's already a hands free option oh I don't know A MIC STAND! or even better how about a LAPEL CLIP MIC?!

 

[BirdUp]

Why are zoomers always holding their microphones like they are news reporters or something. Don't they know there's already a hands free option oh I don't know A MIC STAND! or even better how about a LAPEL CLIP MIC?!

this guy spends five minutes talking about the "background" like you don't know what the backrooms is but clicked on the video anyway
why does every single video essay waste your time like this

 

[Rembrandt]

If the speaker is sitting in a corner of his room trying to sound creepy or standing in front of a green screen with microphone in hand, the video can be safely discarded. They're all so mind-numbingly predictable

 

[Tablet County]

Don't they know there's already a hands free option oh I don't know A MIC STAND! or even better how about a LAPEL CLIP MIC?!

If the speaker is sitting in a corner of his room trying to sound creepy or standing in front of a green screen with microphone in hand, the video can be safely discarded.

If the ethanisonline style of video essays were a person I would have tires stacked around them and set them on fire.

 

[KingLiberty76]

Duendes are nostalgic early Latin american "horror" kino.

remember the Gnome siting in Argentina legitimately one of the earliest memories I have was watching it on YT before going to school

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

Recently I was watching a video on the "No Players Online" ARG since I was curious, and when it came to the moment of returning the third flag, I started bursting out in laughter. Why? Well, I made the edit below so you hear what I imagined:
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I know the game has been updated with a full version/sequel or something, but I remember how hilariously bad the first one was when, after building up some decent atmosphere, you just suddenly get hit with John the dev just suddenly cutting in to say "This video game is actually a machine made to revive my dead wife, but it'll only work of you don't win the game!".

 

[Chromeo]

Imma be real, I hate jump scares. I'm the autist that spergs out from sharp, loud noises, and avoid anything that has them.

We need them back.

I still remember my cousins showing me The Maze Game, and that fucking scream. I remember one of them telling me to really focus on that last moment, that bitch! From then on, nothing was safe.

Jumpscares suck because you're not even being scared, you're being startled. There's a difference between "I won't be able to sleep tonight" and "ugh that made me jolt and spill my popcorn." It's an annoying way to scare people in a movie. It works in a haunted house because you have to physically retreat, but when you know nothing will physically get you it's just stupid. I don't trust the mouthbreathers online making horror to use jumpscares. I get that they should still be around, but especially after FNAF they don't need to be in every single horror thing.

 

[RandallBoggs]

Jumpscares suck because you're not even being scared, you're being startled. There's a difference between "I won't be able to sleep tonight" and "ugh that made me jolt and spill my popcorn." It's an annoying way to scare people in a movie. It works in a haunted house because you have to physically retreat, but when you know nothing will physically get you it's just stupid. I don't trust the mouthbreathers online making horror to use jumpscares. I get that they should still be around, but especially after FNAF they don't need to be in every single horror thing.

I’m somewhere in the middle on this. I completely agree that cheap jumpscares are absolute dogshit (and screamer links gave innocent naive 10 year old me goddamn heart attacks ) and jumpscares in general have to be done sparingly, because at some point they stop being effective altogether. I actually find this problem less in YouTube horror*, and more in film and video game horror.

In my opinion, a good jumpscare needs to be the climax of tension. You know it’s gonna happen, you’re fully expecting it, but it still gets you because the build up did its job.
*I don’t believe YouTube horror speds actually understand this and are better at horror, I think the far likelier option is their medium (“analog”/VHS) works really well this way by nature, and they don’t even realize it. Every analog jumpscare is the same: cheery infomercial music suddenly stops, you’re left with only the humming buzz of the VCR, and cryptic slides of text lead to one another until finally the jumpscare (climax) happens.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

I hate how YouTube is already poisoning the Splatterpunk community by crying about the books going too far. Waiting for Wendigoon to milk the attention that the playground was getting. If you want a good beginner book for splatterpunk I recommend the groomer. It's about an anti-hero vigilante named Andrew McCarthy who took down a local pedophile ring producing CP by using torture and raping said pedophiles. The book name-drops Fornite and discord as hubs of grooming and the main character later finds out a conspiracy relating to the FBI being the biggest manufacturer of CP in the world. Andrew McCarthy vows to save as many children as he can, no matter how many pedophiles and groomers have to rape to death along the way. Or read a book from the fat fuck cannibals sub genre like the slob or all you can eat.

 

[Shek$il]

this guy spends five minutes talking about the "background" like you don't know what the backrooms is but clicked on the video anyway
why does every single video essay waste your time like this

This video is brought to you by the same people who explain what an iceberg is on every one of their multiple iceberg videos.

Come to think of it I think it would be funny if someone made a circa 2010 RE: video screaming at a bad webcam how they watched a four hour iceberg and never got the concept explained to them.


"I BEEN WATCHING THESE FUCKING ICEBERG VIDEOS AND NOT ONCE, ONCE, DID THE CREATOR EXPLAIN WHAT THE FUCK AN ICEBERG IS! WHAT THE FUCK, WAS IT MADE BY A FRIGGIN' JUSTIN BEIBER FAN!?"

 

[KingLiberty76]

FBI being the biggest manufacturer of CP in the world

This one is actually somewhat true the FBI took control of the CP website playpen and then proceeded to run it for nearly 2 weeks, you heard me right your tax dollars supported the FBI running a Child Porn site.
anyways fuck the FBI

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

I still find it fascinating how little shit game journalists or publishers give about using real gore photos for game graphics. It's still regular practice today. Especially Activision censoring anyone telling the LGBT community to leave kids alone, stop supporting BLM rioters or promoting drug use in official Call of Duty events. Activision patched in graphics from 2009 MW2 after one game journalist from IGN was offended on behalf of Muslims, but World at War using real WW2 firing squad footage remains uncensored so far. As for the evil stick. After the evil stick incident, I am a little surprised that weird, questionable or scary dollar store toys haven't become a YouTube subgenre.

 

[RandallBoggs]

It's about an anti-hero vigilante named Andrew McCarthy who took down a local pedophile ring producing CP by using torture and raping said pedophiles. The book name-drops Fornite and discord as hubs of grooming and the main character later finds out a conspiracy relating to the FBI being the biggest manufacturer of CP in the world.

Was gonna say based until I read this part,

Andrew McCarthy vows to save as many children as he can, no matter how many pedophiles and groomers have to rape to death along the way.

Now he just sounds like mamamax (so, an insufferable faggot.)
At least he actually rapes and tortures the pedos instead of only LARPing Batman to an audience of genderspecials, so I’ll give him a pass.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

but World at War using real WW2 firing squad footage remains uncensored so far.

IIRC The game has a censored mode and I think even presents the option along with a warning when you start the campaign which is a quality of life feature I am fine with.

 

[Mrsneksnekson]

Nick Crowley and Nexpo talking about the video of the Taiwanese/Chinese fishermen shooting the unidentified people while they were floating in the sea.

Found a cut down version upload of the original if you want.

Spoiler: shooting video if you want to ruin your day!

The weirdest thing I noticed about the video was he isn't do that stupid long pauses during talking which was noticeable (in a good way) immediately. Its even more pronounced when Nexpo's section started as he cant help slide into it every so often.

 

[Shekelslovakia]

After the evil stick incident, I am a little surprised that weird, questionable or scary dollar store toys haven't become a YouTube subgenre.

Shut up, don't give these brain dead zoomers and analog horror loving troons anymore ideas. Sounds good on paper but we can't let it happen. Sorry. LOL.

 

[MISTER-CREEPMAN00]

Is Creepypasta as a genre still covered by YouTubers or is it dead?

 

[Shekelslovakia]

Is Creepypasta as a genre still covered by YouTubers or is it dead?

It's pretty much on life support any new story that comes out it's either going to be some haunted cartridge sonic.exe fanfiction or something relating to an analog horror series.