Nexpo/YT Horror Channels - Do they all suck

I think I would rather eat my own shoes
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Creator of that "scary creepy pasta" makes videos like this


Also i scanned through the entire thing for like 5 minutes as most of the series is just text slides in a fucking terrible font.

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Walt's brother dies in a mickey mouse costume and they just dump his ass in a dumpster lmao, then the story becomes just a ripoff of FNAF with the whole "his corpse is in the suit and killing people oooooh scaryyyyyyy"

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I don't get what makes it creative in the slightest but its just some autist fucking around so i can't hate it too much, its better than him making mickey mouse porn or whatever the fuck.
 
The book is even worse than the video. Stupid theories aside, the author just repeats the exact same retarded conceptual nonsense over and over and over again, and he just does it in the most insufferable and pretentious ways...even if it could have been a neat concept he rapidly smothers it to death. The book is so poorly written that it is almost painful to follow. Passages are outright repeated dozens of times throughout the whole thing and it all just reads like some wannabe intellectual horror author sat down with a thesaurus and a pound of weed one day and rambled out loud to a ghostwriter for 5 hours.
 
This is without a doubt one of the dumbest fucking things I have ever seen in my life. Someone take that sandnigger's thesaurus away, please.

You know what actually is kind of creepy though? There was a story about this oil pit in a car production factory that had some kind of squidlike creature in it that was surviving off the oil or grew from within it. Not sure if that’s in the video, but I always thought that was an interesting story.


If it was a mutated bacteria, imagine what that could do if it somehow infected a person or something. There are bacteria that are visible to the naked eye which is kind of creepy in itself, hard to explain why though. I guess it’s also creepy in the same way that bacteriophages are. They look uncanny. Huge bacteria looks like something that should not exist, and bacteriophages look like small robots.
 
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You know what actually is kind of creepy though? There was a story about this oil pit in a car production factory that had some kind of squidlike creature in it that was surviving off the oil or grew from within it. Not sure if that’s in the video, but I always thought that was an interesting story.


If it was a mutated bacteria, imagine what that could do if it somehow infected a person or something. There are bacteria that are visible to the naked eye which is kind of creepy in itself, hard to explain why though. I guess it’s also creepy in the same way that bacteriophages are. They look uncanny. Huge bacteria looks like something that should not exist, and bacteriophages look like small robots.

Yep. I remember that. That was a really cool story.
 
Well kiwis, I think I got a treat for you. One that puts the arguments of analog horror and AI to bed, and the best part is that if you are sick of analog horror there's plenty to go around that isn't.


This guy puts out a ton of content. I like the quality I just don't know how he can put out so much content unless he's got a team behind him or he's lifting it from somewhere else.
Credit where credit is due. This channel was already shilled once in this thread, but the poster only got one sticker besides mine and there's so much stuff to talk about now that is warranted.

4.n0m4ly_ (yes the name is obnoxious but the guy behind this held a vote to change the spelling and the original stuck around) is a Chilean channel that unlike every single analog horror you may know and despise runs multiple different series at the same time, that in on itself is a plus but I think that those among you that liked the first two or three series of SCPs or just fans of dry horror in general are going to enjoy the presentation.

One of the main things I enjoy about this channel is the flexibility of its presentation. If you have seen analog horror series its usually stuck on a format throughout (recovered lost media, instructional video, presentation made by a civilian, Powerpoint) until it becomes a crappy short filmed in digital with some grain filters, with very little consistency (MC, Vita Carnis and MM are my go to examples for this), not to mention that the world breaks once you imagine some randy in the 20th century had enough knowledge to make what is by all means a non-interactive text adventure using blank VHS tapes (pick your own example for this one, once you look for it is even harder to take analog horror seriously).

How does 4.n0m4ly_ address this? Although some stories form part of a larger narrative, all individual videos have a clearly set perspective and format. Some take documentary footage and put it together, some are interviews, some are first person accounts but what keeps it cohesive is that the channel itself acts a sort of repository for this kind of media. You don't have to suspend your disbelief because a considerable amount of what this channel makes is made in a similar vein as those creepy channels of yore talking about conspiracies and urban legends and is done with enough care that half of the fun is willingly rolling with it. 4.n0m4ly_ has its Etsy store and Patreon shilled very clearly but it is way easier to take the videos seriously compared with the larping by Kister, Casanas and the Walten Files guy.

So how's the channel itself? While the most well-known projects by 4.n0m4ly_ are the explicitly analog horror series, most of the backlog are stand alone concepts. Most of them original creepypastas, which believe it or not works in its favour. Most of the concepts developed by 4.n0m4ly_ feel like old school creepypastas and at that like Series 1-2 SCPs minus the glowie organization keeping everything in check. My personal introduction to the channel was The elephant man of Warsaw but the true breadwinners of the channel are the storylines, almost all of them analog horror. I'll give you my personal ranking and a brief description without spoilers.

6. Babylon. For those of you complaining that MM and MA barely use their religious iconograhy, I raise you the story of how the world powers created a fake moon after finding out the original was cracking and how that brought an old Biblical tale to the 1996 Atlantic Seaboard. Monument Mythos but good. The lowest rated because it just sort of ends.
5. Hani. The title of the first video gives you the premise here. The Koreans made an AI in 1986 and in 2 videos you get to hear what happened with it. It doesn't overstay its welcome but the Korean-made in 1986 is as original as it gets.
4. Tax-free market (Deep web). Just two videos of anomalous listings in a shady af website in the deep web. What puts it as 'best of the worst' for me is that it feels straight up like it came from SCP Series 2.
3. Casa da bruxa. A sect of African animism in Brazil that wards old gods in a dilapidated house. This one gets carried because it technically crossed over with one of the top dogs but part of the mystic is that it feels grounded if it makes any sense.

The 2 top dogs are hard to rank so I'm going to present them in the order I watched them and you tell me which one tickles you fancy.
M'rohoj: A story about a cult, its god and how they spread its word. By far the most popular thing 4.nom4ly_ has created and with good reason. We've eldritch horror at home.
Season 1, Season 2, Season 3 and Season 4.
The Real: It is just what you can't understand but imagine that is powerful enough to corrupt what you can see and strip it of subjectivity. Your first thought seeing this one prolly will be 'this is like the Mandela Catalogue but good?', then you will think its just taking laps on Kister's career, then it will convince you he is a fraud while giving you something that doesn't need religious imagery, stretched faces and suicide to crawl under your skin.
Season 1, Season 2 and Season 3.

So with all of this said, why isn't 4.n0m4ly_ more talked about? It has more fans than Midwest Angelica or Arcadia TV or any other 'underrated' analog. Well, 4.n0m4ly_ is a litmus test of sorts and is probably where the analog horror community (just a longer and convoluted way to say retards) draws the line in the use of AI. If you were to play the videos I linked or just visit his YouTube page you are going to automatically know the guy uses AI for visuals. Honestly my first thought was that he was some sort of content farm or satirical channel considering he presents his videos like clickbait.
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This channel to me feels like being read articles from the same tabloids of the Men in Black movies.

If you watch the videos you will notice he uses AI voices too, which empowers 4.n0m4ly_ to have audio in different languages and sell the idea that the documentaries are sourcing stuff from all over the world. French and Spanish are two of the most used languages and fittingly 4.n0m4ly_ has a very diverse fanbase because of it.

This of course has lead to some people believing that everything done for 4.n0m4ly_ is AI made. So I will let the man himself explain how the channel actually works.
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Which still makes his output pretty impressive since he has been coming up with good stories consistently for a whole year. This is some Tamers12345 work ethic ngl. These are the right ingredients to make something almost completely anaslop fan proof so if you aren't completely burned out on it or want to add some fresh blood to your creepypasta narration playlist, 4.n0m4ly_ might be your best option.
 
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So with all of this said, why isn't 4.n0m4ly_ more talked about? It has more fans than Midwest Angelica or Arcadia TV or any other 'underrated' analog. Well, 4.n0m4ly_ is a litmus test of sorts and is probably where the analog horror community (just a longer and convoluted way to say retards) draws the line in the use of AI. If you were to play the videos I linked or just visit his YouTube page you are going to automatically know the guy uses AI for visuals. Honestly my first thought was that he was some sort of content farm or satirical channel considering he presents his videos like clickbait.
he churns this slop out once every few days so i'm betting he's using AI for the scripts to some extent
 
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New Creepcast just dropped.
Wendigoon seems weirdly off in this one to me, kinda gave me the feeling that he didn't even want to be there for the episode.
 
Can the backrooms just die already
The funny thing is that, no matter which angle you come from, the Backrooms has been thoroughly trashed by its community - at first, it was a neat little thing where the idea of horror born from isolation and occasional entities was the main draw, but then a bunch of elitists swooped in when people tried to have fun with the concept and create their own levels and stuff. Due to the elitists gatekeeping and shitting on anything that wasn't made by Kane, it led to this sort of blowback effect, since instead of continuing to make the same stuff they had been making before, said creators decided to add more and more outlandish, non-horror content and started going off the same 'safe space horror' trappings that infest the Analog Horror subgenre.

This got further exaggerated over the last few years, and the Backrooms mythos has now been thoroughly transformed into a shittier version of the SCP Foundation, with all the ridiculous characters, nebulous agencies, poorly-written 'lore' and gatekeeping (ironically coming full circle) that you'd expect from SCP.
 
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