Nexpo/YT Horror Channels - Do they all suck

Mrsneksnekson said:
Edit 2: Does he have a black eye? I skipped ahead cause he mentioned a special announcement and at first I thought it was just bags under his eyes or weird lighting but that really looks like a black eye!
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He has had it for a while now.
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You can see the black eye in his last video too.
 
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Sunflower Samurai said:
the next segment was about The Mexia Supermarket
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It's rather funny seeing the Mexia Supermarket case covered in Nexpo's faux-horror style; while yes, the exact details of the case are pretty gross, on the scale of horrific things it's pretty low down. The worst thing about it (other than the decay and the toxic gases coming out of the building as everything rotted inside) is the sheer waste of money and useful goods that it entailed because the owners decided to flee for the border instead of donating or selling everything off before they left. Other than that, no human lives were lost, no serious crimes were committed (surprisingly, the building went more or less untouched for the time it stood before the clean-up crews entered, with the exception of police catching trespassers, and one intruder who was trying to carry a cash register out) and there weren't any accidents other than the aforementioned spoilage.
 
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Mexican_Wizard_711 said:
Didn't Mandela Catalogue go through multiple revisions already? It's sad to think that wendigoon thought this series was good
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The first two were fine, the issue is most analog horror now is divided between either leaning too heavily into miming Local58/EAS/mascot shit and being made by 12 year olds, or creators thinking they're above it all and trying to copy Kane Pixels and make 'high art' which is just as bad.

Big reason stuff like Valle Verde and Shipwrecked64 work is because they both had clear ideas of what they want to be and had original ways of executing them within what is a pretty tired trope of haunted video games. Not really a big fan of Kane's stuff outside of the technical aspects, but his latest series is good and in general he is the trendsetter a lot of creators in the space try to mime - after The Oldest View the community perception seems to have become old AH tropes are gay and you need to shoot everything like Kane does now, even though TOV isn't even AH.

The genre in general is going through the same mistakes and death throes that the Slenderman community did a decade before when TribeTwelve, EMH and the Marble Hornets dudes just got too high on the feedback loop and pumped out absolute convoluted dogshit (Clear Lakes 44 lol). On top of being a weird troon Alex clearly takes any criticism about Mandela hard and is doing everything he can to distinguish it away from the AH genre. The Monument Mythos dude retcons and reuploads shit more than GameDude at this point and clearly had some sort of psychotic break after his dad died and went from making stuff in memory of him to being convinced he was some mega abuser.

In the end there's only so far you can go with this sort of shit because its being made by terminally online headcases who do it for the dopamine feedback loop and not for the sake of making something good.
 
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Guiron said:
It's rather funny seeing the Mexia Supermarket case covered in Nexpo's faux-horror style; while yes, the exact details of the case are pretty gross, on the scale of horrific things it's pretty low down.
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It's more eerie than scary/horrific. An abandoned supermarket just isn't something you hear about everyday, or really often at all. With it being old with only images and a few videos available, it gives off that liminal feeling and seeing the few clips is surreal.
I don't think something like that would happen again anytime soon.

Also dayum this is the first time I saw a video made by Nexpo in years, he's literally became a copy of Nick Crowly except his narration is worse. I was a fan of his back when he had only three videos and went by Nightmare Expo, I wish he didn't try to take this "soooper serious" spook approach.
 
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deermeat said:
It's more eerie than scary/horrific. An abandoned supermarket just isn't something you hear about everyday, or really often at all. With it being old with only images and a few videos available, it gives off that liminal feeling and seeing the few clips is surreal.
I don't think something like that would happen again anytime soon.

Also dayum this is the first time I saw a video made by Nexpo in years, he's literally became a copy of Nick Crowly except his narration is worse. I was a fan of his back when he had only three videos and went by Nightmare Expo, I wish he didn't try to take this "soooper serious" spook approach.
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i miss his disturbing videos on the internet series, especially the older videos, even when most of the stuff was from reddit. now he just covers shit that everyone else has already covered a long time ago.
 
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Guiron said:
It's rather funny seeing the Mexia Supermarket case covered in Nexpo's faux-horror style; while yes, the exact details of the case are pretty gross, on the scale of horrific things it's pretty low down. The worst thing about it (other than the decay and the toxic gases coming out of the building as everything rotted inside) is the sheer waste of money and useful goods that it entailed because the owners decided to flee for the border instead of donating or selling everything off before they left. Other than that, no human lives were lost, no serious crimes were committed (surprisingly, the building went more or less untouched for the time it stood before the clean-up crews entered, with the exception of police catching trespassers, and one intruder who was trying to carry a cash register out) and there weren't any accidents other than the aforementioned spoilage.
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It was seemingly only included because some of the footage is missing and le "lost media". Because otherwise i agree, it fits more as a case study or a curiosity more than shoving it as spooky topic
 
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Sunflower Samurai said:
Because otherwise i agree, it fits more as a case study or a curiosity more than shoving it as spooky topic
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You can definitely play with it and have fun making it spooky. An abandoned super market is unique and eerie so a slow build up before a rather bland reveal would fit. There is certainly more to it than the fucking paranoia.com episode which the "mystery" is obvious if you know even a little bit about how corporations aquire web domains.
 
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Guiron said:
It's rather funny seeing the Mexia Supermarket case covered in Nexpo's faux-horror style; while yes, the exact details of the case are pretty gross, on the scale of horrific things it's pretty low down. The worst thing about it (other than the decay and the toxic gases coming out of the building as everything rotted inside) is the sheer waste of money and useful goods that it entailed because the owners decided to flee for the border instead of donating or selling everything off before they left. Other than that, no human lives were lost, no serious crimes were committed (surprisingly, the building went more or less untouched for the time it stood before the clean-up crews entered, with the exception of police catching trespassers, and one intruder who was trying to carry a cash register out) and there weren't any accidents other than the aforementioned spoilage.
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Watching through that section of the video annoyed me. Not because of the subject but because it was Nexpo narrating it. It was just a supermarket that got abandoned and had a BSL-3 level kind of biohazard containment going on. Nexpo was narrating it like dozens of people died from the fumes or something. I'm so sick of 'darkest' and 'disturbing' because these people absolutely obfuscated such definitions.

He really is sounding more like a Camp Consular that tries to sound as scary as possible telling le 'frightening story' in the campfire.
 
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Blue Gem Muslim Queen said:
In the mother of all coincidences Rob's Media, who makes videos on lost media and lolcows, also made a video about Mexia Supermarket.
I would compare their approaches if it weren't because that means I've to give Nexpo any kind of attention.
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I didn't watch Nexpo's vid, but this one appears to be a retelling of the Lost Media Wiki's article on this case.
Very lazy.
 
Blue Gem Muslim Queen said:
In the mother of all coincidences Rob's Media, who makes videos on lost media and lolcows, also made a video about Mexia Supermarket.
I would compare their approaches if it weren't because that means I've to give Nexpo any kind of attention.
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After the Mexia video (not bad but I'd just read the lmw page and was hoping for more) I kind of thought it was going to be another retread of all the generic lost media and reddit post narration channels but this channel has all kinds of shit. Video list looks like throwing a handful of darts at a random user's watched threads on here. I've never come across it before and I'm always down for a fresh voice talking about internet drama and weird shit while I clean, thank you for linking it.

Comments are pretty funny on some of his videos too. From one of the other lost media ones:
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Shekelslovakia said:
Can someone give me a serious answer why do they hold their microphones like that? Ever heard of a complicated little invention called "a stand"?!
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It's became a trend that I thinkkkk originated on TikTok? I think. Similar to why everyone for while had that neon dim purple light dark bedroom background setup. I've seen people hold those weird wired earbud things to talk in when narrating. Then seen people use mics to talk into while holding onto it.
That's my guess. Could be wrong.
 
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Chuck Shiesty said:
The Monument Mythos dude retcons and reuploads shit more than GameDude at this point and clearly had some sort of psychotic break after his dad died and went from making stuff in memory of him to being convinced he was some mega abuser.
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Don't forget that he trooned out after getting accused of being an emotionally abusive partner.
 
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