Nexpo/YT Horror Channels - Do they all suck

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

Do you ever think of a horror idea that geniuely scares you?

I personally dread the trope of 'the flesh betrays you'.
Just regular body horror but your mind is intact. Just existing and being perfectly conscious of what something or someone else is doing with your body or how it twists and reshapes it for its means.

There are two extremes with this:
The benign is that simply some other intelligence occupies your body and uses it. Perhaps in some fart-huffing, slow burn, genre-defining story involving concepts of Jungian philosophy about the self. Could be worse, it could be like weird shit you can find on Deviantart or weird tags on your hentai site of choice.

The other extreme could be something like your usual Junji Ito's transformation story (more Gyo, less Slug Girl) or something even like Callum Diggle's Humanity Lost that is ultimately more hopeful.

I think most people struggle to imagine something as massive as true cosmic horror, but all you need is a couple of minutes doubting your own body to go insane without anything actually happening. If you saw an absolute, incomprehensible whirl that is sucking everything, you may just accept it and die. If you are trapped in your body and know it, you think you have a chance to fight back.

Am I saying one is better than the other? Fuck no, most people are scared of spiders and snakes or big carnivores, I'm scared or fledglings, baby rats and maggots. I'm sick in the head.

 

[Toolbox]

The photographer was hired at a very short notice, forgot her spare cameras/parts/kit in her car because she was careless, unprepared, nervous, or some other circumstance, and she was lucky to leave the tower before the attack. Then she asked the people who knew about her to keep her name a secret, because of survivor's guilt or just because, this being the biggest incident in recent history, it had the potential of drawing too much attention to her and she wanted some fucking privacy.
The company may not have had the photos or records about her employment because it was such a last minute thing, and given the circumstances, they probably disregarded anything about the photoshoot. Bigger things to deal with at the time.

That's where it should end, but no, it's a mystery, and there has to be some dark or profound reason why she left the building and she's unknown.

That's mostly reasonable, but again how much time did she have to leave the tower? It's interesting not just because the photographer is mostly an unknown, but because they somehow made it out and then went the extra step to get the photos developed, was that also cause she'd have felt more guilty if she didn't give the family of those in the photo one last picture to remember them by? We hear all these stories of people who missed being in the tower at all that day, but fairly few that actually managed to get out of there alive, the planes not even having hit yet. Most people do in fact find that interesting, and I'm unsure where you got the assumption that people actually presume something dark or profound was going on, there didn't need to be.

 

[Nick Obre]

Rn I'm currently dealing with an allergic breakout on my face. My skin feels scaly and it itches around my mouth. Really sucks, but then I thought about that concept and it gives me the creeps. Just the thought of something alive on a microscopic scale crawling and burying itself in your skin, especially your face. Jesus...

I really hope you're already aware, but that's most likely exactly what's happening on your face. They're usually harmless mites called Demodex, but if they overpopulate, they cause various sorts of skin issues. If that's the case, you'll need some kind of acaricide (essentially insecticide but for tiny little skin buggers) ointment or gel.

I'm unsure where you got the assumption that people actually presume something dark or profound was going on, there didn't need to be.

From the whole "why did she leave, it can't possibly because of the equipment malfunction!"
Yes, it was because of that. It happens.

 

[Toolbox]

From the whole "why did she leave, it can't possibly because of the equipment malfunction!"
Yes, it was because of that. It happens.

It's just an assumption they left due to an equipment malfunction, sure it's a logical route, but it's not the only one. Doesn't mean that anyone's saying there's some dark thing this random camera woman was trying to hide. And again, not the only reason why people are interested in the topic.

 

[PandaChai]

The benign is that simply some other intelligence occupies your body and uses it.

So, this old ZP intro?

 

[Atatata]

That's mostly reasonable, but again how much time did she have to leave the tower? It's interesting not just because the photographer is mostly an unknown, but because they somehow made it out and then went the extra step to get the photos developed, was that also cause she'd have felt more guilty if she didn't give the family of those in the photo one last picture to remember them by? We hear all these stories of people who missed being in the tower at all that day, but fairly few that actually managed to get out of there alive, the planes not even having hit yet. Most people do in fact find that interesting, and I'm unsure where you got the assumption that people actually presume something dark or profound was going on, there didn't need to be.

I would be pretty interested in hearing her experience. Imagine walking out the front door, ready to get to your car, only to get jumpscared by a massive plane slamming into the building behind you, right where you were just a bit ago and realizing all the people you walked past on the way down are mostly dead.
Or, if she was still in the building, the reactions on lower floors as people felt the crash and questioned what it was.

 

[RandallBoggs]

Do you ever think of a horror idea that geniuely scares you?

Themes of being stuck and helpless, mentally or physically, always get to me. I realized thinking on it that most of my favorite SCPs follow in that vein in some regard. It’s a very basic survival instinct so I guess that makes sense. I don’t really have an irrational fear of something tangible like clowns or spiders.

Uncanny valley is also one of my all time favs but I don’t know how much it horrifies me so much as deeply unsettles me.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Themes of being stuck and helpless, mentally or physically, always get to me.

Not horror, just the tragedy of life but this is the very reason why dementia and paraplegia terrify me on an existential level.

Anyway new Dire Trip! Featuring murderous lesbian minors.

Spoiler: Thoughts

I do feel really bad for Anna. She got abandoned by her mom, got mentally screwed over by her foster parents' divorce, got some deeply troubling and scarring trauma, had a limited social life, getting railroaded by some other thot pushed her into murdering her mom.

What she did was wrong, obviously, but clearly the poor girl did not get a good start to life and never got the help she needed.

 

[HumbleServantOfRizzler]

There was a very short horror video game that played with this setting. Another one with a similar theme but with a parasitic twin is Covetous, a flash game where you play as the tumor. Body horror is something that evokes disgust, fear and morbid curiosity and can be quite effective at being terrifying.

Edit: Found it, it's called "Discover My Body".

You know, sort of off topic, but visual novels are a great untapped source of horror stuff. I always wanted to make some but it costs more money than I have right now and also needs writers and I am only good at brief concepts for stories. There were hundreds for the super nintendo and original nintendo and Playstation 1 in Japan.

They’re just interactive books. They should be made more.

 

[piombo]

You know, sort of off topic, but visual novels are a great untapped source of horror stuff. I always wanted to make some but it costs more money than I have right now and also needs writers and I am only good at brief concepts for stories. There were hundreds for the super nintendo and original nintendo and Playstation 1 in Japan.

They’re just interactive books. They should be made more.

not to shill, but unless you mean western VNs (which in that case it's mostly centered around slay the princess), there's a fair amount of (relatively) modern horror VNs for pc as well, examples that come to mind are the umineko series, higurashi when they cry, saya no uta, totono (spits on DDLC any time of the day), the kara no shoujo series and tokyo necro.

there's even more, but the annoying part of it is that there's a lot of jap VNs that didn't get an official nor a fan translation, which makes a lot of content mostly inaccessible to non-japanese speakers.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

saya no uta

Saya no Uta is barely more than a porno, to be honest. I know that they had to do that because otherwise they wouldn't have sales and whatever, but it gets really weird once you know how Saya really looks (and really degenerate if you look at how the "normal" Saya looks like)

 

[piombo]

Saya no Uta is barely more than a porno, to be honest. I know that they had to do that because otherwise they wouldn't have sales and whatever, but it gets really qeird once you know how Saya really looks (and really degenerate if you look at how the "normal" Saya looks like)

can't deny that statement, all of the sex scenes in this game are absolute fubar if you get to read the plot of it, and i don't remember if there's an option to just censor them, but they're sadly still part of the plot due to them eldritch themes in it, to which it's also similiar in totono and tokyo necro since they come from nitro+ as well, but it's either more "normal" in totono, or more absurd in necro iirc, they're still a fun read if you can get through these scenes though.

 

[Chromeo]

Themes of being stuck and helpless, mentally or physically, always get to me. I realized thinking on it that most of my favorite SCPs follow in that vein in some regard. It’s a very basic survival instinct so I guess that makes sense. I don’t really have an irrational fear of something tangible like clowns or spiders.

Uncanny valley is also one of my all time favs but I don’t know how much it horrifies me so much as deeply unsettles me.

Helplessness to abject cruelty is something that terrifies me. There was a video a while back of a (large) kid beating up an old man in the hospital bed next to his, and I can't imagine how horrific it was for that poor old man. You can't move, you can't run, you can't fight, all you can do is lay there and suffer, and even if you were able to cry or scream or beg nothing would change the attacker's mind. They just wouldn't stop, they just want to inflict cruelty. It's demonic.

Worse than that even is when it's the people in charge who want to hurt you. When it's another hospital patient, or another person on the street, or what have you, there's a small reassurance that maybe they'll get in trouble, maybe someone will intervene, maybe you'll be saved, but when it's the nurses torturing a dementia patient or a babysitter raping the toddler or a fucked up kid microwaving a hamster, there's none of that. The person in charge of keeping you safe is actively hurting you, nobody's holding them accountable because THEY ARE the one who would be holding people accountable. It's hopeless and terrifying and makes me want to scream even though I'm just sitting here in my computer chair.

 

[PandaChai]

Going on a wikipedia dive as one does, I ended up here. Pretty interesting selection the wiki editors whittled it down to, imo.

• No Through Road - wiki | yt​
• Local 58 - wiki | yt​
• CH/SS - yt​
• Archive 81 - wiki | sc​
• Marble Hornets - wiki | yt​
• Gemini Home Entertainment - wiki | yt​
• The Walten Files - yt | thread​
• The Mandela Catalogue - wiki | yt​
• The Smile Tapes - yt​
• The Monument Mythos - wiki | yt | thread (tangent)​
• Midwest Angelica - yt​
• Backrooms - wiki | yt | thread (wider category)​
• Skinamarink - wiki | site​

Given how many trannies there are in the Analog Horror """community""" I'm probably missing a thread or two about the creators.

 

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[Demetrius I of Bactria]

Wake up kiwis it's time for the weekly analogue horror/urbanspook discourse:

TL;DW
1) A 16 minute intro explaining what analogue horror is (in the year of our Lord 2024)
2) Uses WAY too many anime clips for no apparent reason
3) The usual takes on Urbanspook and the usual takes on other popular analogue horror series (nothing really of note you haven't heard a thousand times)
4) A bizarre segment were he says the killer in Urbanspook makes no sense because he has no motive (so far) and compares him to Kira Yoshikage from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (lol)

So basically It's your run of the mill "generic analogue horror #298 (that is not scary) le good, generic analogue horror #764 (that is also not scary but has controversial elements) le bad".

One of the only good comments

Urbanspooks comment (buried under 400 other comments )

 

[Red flaming panda]

Can someone like Bigbunjee shit on all these faggots obsessing over urbanspook already.

 

[Cave Fisher]

Wake up kiwis it's time for the weekly analogue horror/urbanspook discourse:

I swear to god you guys and the horrorslop youtuber of the week are the only people who autistically follow the urpanspook discourse THIS much.

 

[Itterasshai]

Westside Tyler (10K subs), a leftist streamer, accused The Lore Lodge (495K subs), a true crime channel, of plagiarism. They then had a screaming match about it on stream (50 minutes):

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Westside Tyler (10K subs), a leftist streamer, accused The Lore Lodge (495K subs), a true crime channel, of plagiarism. They then had a screaming match about it on stream (50 minutes):

Isn't Lore Lodge one of Wendi's IRL friends? I guess lefties saw what happens when you take a swipe at Wendi and are now trying for easier adjacent targets.