Nexpo/YT Horror Channels - Do they all suck

[Jazz never died!]

Find Nexpo content entertaining with the communitty having the best editing on youtube as a whole. Really watch it with my brain off because if its on i just see a loser sponsering crap i don't care about with ads every 1 sec and a need to protect the kiddies and say this is scary don't watch when really it's no more scary than a video made by Whang a guy who gets sponcers for covering weird shit on the internet 15 years ago. Serrosly think Mamamax is specialneeds as he must protect the kidies from cults and pedorings and dont worry daddy max will protect you just ignore this small thing going up your ass. In conclusion just a bunch of lolcows taking it too serossly and thinking there audience is kids when really its late teens early 20s. The only way to do it right is like Whang or Metokur does it and that is by not taking it seriously and just having fun alongside it.

 

[Shek$il]

Who knows, for all we understand Ryan could be running a gay op on /x/ to rebrand as a pedophile.

That would technically make him more interesting.

 

[Grim Reaper Gutters]

Jim Can't Swim is amazing for interrogation analysis, and That Chapter does a really good job of breaking down the cases without just rambling on.

Hell YES!!

ShroudedHand - has a deep kind of mong voice but it grows on you, the stuff he covers is all over the place, depressing accounts of murder, experiments on animals, then something he found in the dailymail that day that he thought was funny.

I recommend ShroudedHand too! The true crime cases that he covers are nice and disturbing (just how I like my YT content) and the horror stuff is all interesting IMO

The Paranormal Scholar
Beyond the Dark
The Crime Reel (crime obviously)
Brief Case (mostly crime)
Dark Curiosities
Obsolete Oddity

ALL of the above mentioned are interesting horrorish type channels... Atrocity Guide & Bedtime Stories I saw mentioned in this thread are dope as well. Two that come to mind I highly recommend are Horror Stories and Dark n Grim. The entire reason I started watching YouTube regularly was for the “horror content” so this thread really made me realize how shitty the popular channels in that genre have gotten. I find myself watching a shit ton of true crime vids b/c the really fucked up shit happens IRL worse than stuff people can make up lol

 

[Phineas Waldorf Steel]

Horror content on YouTube has been on a downward spiral completely and utterly. MamaMax isn't a fucking badass for pedobaiting when people have been doing it for eons. He doxxed like, what, two kidy touching sicko faggots? And he thinks he should be spotlighed for it, with his gay ass Hotline Miami bullshit.
The rest of Horror Youtube is either dyke, gay tumblrina witch shit like ReignBot or smaller competent channels like Nick Crowley. I liked Nexpo's Alantutorial video though.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

I recently remembered "Top 5s" this morning and am catching up on his videos.

He included this into one of his Top 5s as a real case, I mean, come on, at the bottom of the page was the link to Kickstarter!

Otherwise, I think, horror on YT reached post-ironic phase or whatever you call it. I mean, it's not about finding and presenting scary stuff, it's about either making it up or doing incredibly bad fact checking. This video sums it up perfectly.

And then there is someone like Shieeeets, who puts obvious CGI bullshit in his top-somethings and forgets to cut three bad takes in a row, and his viewers pretend to be scared.

 

[Phineas Waldorf Steel]

his video sums it up perfectly.
(barely sociables newest pile of shlock)

I used to fucking love ARG synopsis videos and shit. Like Meatsleep, Marble Hornets, etc. But now? It's just retarded explorations of dead websites made by schizoids from 1934. Yaawwn.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

I used to fucking love ARG synopsis videos and shit. Like Meatsleep, Marble Hornets, etc. But now? It's just retarded explorations of dead websites made by schizoids from 1934. Yaawwn.

Well, you should've watched the video before posting this, because it perfectly sums up situation around that "mystery" - no one was giving a fuck enough to spend couple of hours and check anything or at least read the damn article till the end, so they kept repeating bullshit about thousand of affected groups on Usenet and connection to a real spy. Same for Mortis.com or Key Lime Pie.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Well, you should've watched the video before posting this, because it perfectly sums up situation around that "mystery" - no one was giving a fuck enough to spend couple of hours and check anything or at least read the damn article till the end, so they kept repeating bullshit about thousand of affected groups on Usenet and connection to a real spy. Same for Mortis.com or Key Lime Pie.

To be honest, the Key Lime Pie one gets a pass from me because it's just so fucking bizarre, and harmless.

It's not about a "cult", or dead children, or anything edgy like that. It's literally just about some fucking weirdo sperging about how much he liked this defunct restaurant's key lime pie. That in it of itself makes it better than 95% of all other internet mysteries and ARGs out there.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

To be honest, the Key Lime Pie one gets a pass from me because it's just so fucking bizarre, and harmless.

It's not about a "cult", or dead children, or anything edgy like that. It's literally just about some fucking weirdo sperging about how much he liked this defunct restaurant's key lime pie. That in it of itself makes it better than 95% of all other internet mysteries and ARGs out there.

Well, looks like it was really just a guy trying to use search engines for his upcoming business. Then when this stuff became popular, people just started spamming other sites with it.

 

[Orc Girls Make Due]

I use Youtube horror readers as asmr. For stuff to fall asleep to, I recommend Corpse Husband, Let's Read, King Spook, and Dr Creepen. Dr Creepen sounds like agent 47 and his buttery smooth voice is audio melatonin.

Muta and retsuprae were my gotos for crappypasta reading. Unfortunately, Muta only does rant videos now and doesn't do crappypasta reading. Retsuprae is tragically no longer a thing because of Slowbeef being a crazy person.

Late reply, but have you tried Lazy Masquerade for some ASMR stuff? Plus his stuff is good, he knows he's cringey but he sticks to his chops.

 

[Mary Magdalene]

Horror Stories posts super irregular but his videos are interesting and short enough to not go on my nerves. He sounds like that burger king foot lettuce guy though, so I can't stand him for longer than one video at a time

 

[Abomidable Hoe-Man]

NationSquid - his earliest videos are rough and give off the aura of someone trying to break into the youtube business, including putting jumpscares in random parts of the video, but i think he's grown a lot. some of the b roll footage he uses is genuinely beautiful and he doesn't generally cover stuff that's already been discussed to death, watch his metafiction theatre videos.

Pseudiom - not really a horror channel, more about intriguing stuff in culture, language, history, art, music, media, etc. i like his video on the album artist for Blue Oyster Cult.

ShroudedHand - has a deep kind of mong voice but it grows on you, the stuff he covers is all over the place, depressing accounts of murder, experiments on animals, then something he found in the dailymail that day that he thought was funny.

Tara A Devlin - she covers japanese horror, ancient legends, new urban legends, ritual stuff, indie games that she translates, internet mysteries from the japanese net, 2chan, futaba, etc. She speaks japanese, so she brings up stuff that no other channel really covers. watch her bizzare crimes and disappearances and internet mysteries playlists.

Toxicologist - an /x/ user, he started making videos because another /x/ user, Exer Erb, mysteriously disappeared. i like his occult history videos, comfy text-to-speech voice, watch out for the demiurge.

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these are channels haven't uploaded in 6-7 years, but i'm still subscribed to them out of nostalgia for the old type of videos that didn't continuously break the viewer out of their immersion with royalty free music and endless shilling intros for patreon, merch, or sponsorships

creepypaste - an old /x/ user who used to go by shirtfag (or someone impersonating them), just comfy old source videos

theLittleFears - old classic creepypasta read with video accompaniment, pleasant voice

Shrouded Hand can be hit or miss, but I like his channel overall. His Datura Trip Stories and Mentally Ill Artists videos are my personal favorites as well as his most popular. The only thing that can be annoying or funny though is that he doesn't show a shred of skepticism. A few of his videos are full of clearly fake things that aren't really worth talking about, but he's still my favorite sad welsh man.

 

[big potato]

Shrouded Hand can be hit or miss, but I like his channel overall. His Datura Trip Stories and Mentally Ill Artists videos are my personal favorites as well as his most popular. The only thing that can be annoying or funny though is that he doesn't show a shred of skepticism. A few of his videos are full of clearly fake things that aren't really worth talking about, but he's still my favorite sad welsh man.

Shrouded Hand is one of those channels that are hit and miss but the charm keeps you interested. He feels like a grandpa telling me spooky stories on a camping trip, rather than an egotistical twenty-something with something to prove, so the obviously fake stuff is amusing more than anything.

 

[Orc Girls Make Due]

Do channels covering horror movies count as relevant? Dead Meat is the obvious one; I like James though he's quite SJW-flavored in his podcasts, and I'll usually put all the Saw or Elm Street killcounts on in the background while doing something tedious. Though since he refuses to cover more disturbing/infamous movies I prefer SpookyRice cause he does full breakdowns of films James won't touch with a 10 foot pole; he glosses over a lot of details sometimes and inserts a lot of guesswork in trying to figure out the themes and plot of what's usually just mindless gore porn, but I like how he can make even the most scarring movie feel like a cozy experience with his sense of humor.

(Also speaking of cozy, and since I've seen them mentioned before, MichaelLeroi/Bad Creepypasta is still one of my favorite channels for background noise and just when I want to laugh. Some of the jokes are hit or miss, especially if you don't get the reference or aren't familiar with UK-centric humor, and I admit they can come off as spergy sometimes but mostly it just feels like three friends (recently 4 with the addition of Gemma) goofing around. I just avoid the videos with Patreon "cohosts" who clearly don't know what they're doing so all in all it's a very comfy experience for the likes of moi )

If you're gonna go over horror movie reviews, MistaGG and Elvis the Alien are must and fun watches.

 

[Gig Bucking Fun]

They only ever cover surface-level ARG’s that are common knowledge to anyone on the internet. I think the only interesting one of these videos I’ve seen is MamaMax’s faux-documentary on the Japanese cult Aum Shinriyiko.

Although the video game mentioned in it was just a parody of some sort made by some rando Jap dev, it was interesting learning about this cult and their leader.

 

[Gar For Archer]

My top 3 are probably Inside a Mind (he? she? just has such a soothing voice and accent), That Chapter and Barely/Slightly Sociable.

Barely/Slightly gets a special nod because he actually bothers to do some cursory investigation into these supposed Internet "mysteries" and arrive at either an obvious answer that's been ignored, or a believable rational explanation. For example - mysterious gelatin blobs raining from the sky that got people sick? Apparently it's some medicine for trees originating from a nearby plant/farm. Biggest consumer of glitter in the world? Apparently it's for boat coatings, cuz rich people like glittery boats or something. Keylime Pie schitzoposter? literally just the old crazy owner of the shop.

A lot of other channels seem content just leaving the mystery there without digging any deeper into it, probably because it requires actual effort rather than just writing a script based off the narrative everybody already knows.

 

[Orc Girls Make Due]

My top 3 are probably Inside a Mind (he? she? just has such a soothing voice and accent), That Chapter and Barely/Slightly Sociable.

Barely/Slightly gets a special nod because he actually bothers to do some cursory investigation into these supposed Internet "mysteries" and arrive at either an obvious answer that's been ignored, or a believable rational explanation. For example - mysterious gelatin blobs raining from the sky that got people sick? Apparently it's some medicine for trees originating from a nearby plant/farm. Biggest consumer of glitter in the world? Apparently it's for boat coatings, cuz rich people like glittery boats or something. Keylime Pie schitzoposter? literally just the old crazy owner of the shop.

A lot of other channels seem content just leaving the mystery there without digging any deeper into it, probably because it requires actual effort rather than just writing a script based off the narrative everybody already knows.

The issue with Barely Sociable is he's part of the main four (five?) Of horror tube.

Nexpo, MamaMax, Nightdocs, Mutahar and Sociable. While they're all talented, they get lukewarm in certain areas by their own right and sometimes own admission. They can be entertaining though, but those are some of the big dogs these days.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

They only ever cover surface-level ARG’s that are common knowledge to anyone on the internet. I think the only interesting one of these videos I’ve seen is MamaMax’s faux-documentary on the Japanese cult Aum Shinriyiko.

Although the video game mentioned in it was just a parody of some sort made by some rando Jap dev, it was interesting learning about this cult and their leader.

Honestly it was decent but MamaMax's censorship over certain words for the sake of monetization made watching the video not worth it and he also tried to act like a badass in it, which is genuinely annoying.

 

[firestoopscience]

They only ever cover surface-level ARG’s that are common knowledge to anyone on the internet. I think the only interesting one of these videos I’ve seen is MamaMax’s faux-documentary on the Japanese cult Aum Shinriyiko.

Although the video game mentioned in it was just a parody of some sort made by some rando Jap dev, it was interesting learning about this cult and their leader.

Cults are an interesting thing to research up on and Aum Shinrikyo was basically how massive nerds can become threatening with the right motivation. The Last Podcast on the Left did pretty good research on the cult and was goddamn funny in the episode as well. XD Would recommend. Will give credit to Mama Max, he did sorta tell is that the game isn't anything other than Retro 90's shitposting, which was a pretty big mystery when I first stumbled on the game.

 

[Ma_Hooty]

I found ARGs to be interesting, but what really killed it for me was the fiasco around Fantastic Daily-

Basically, some boomer filmmaker wanted to try to make an ARG of his own, but the crowd he attracted were the type who thought the paranormal "happenings" going on around him were actually real instead of...you know, it being a spooky story. Don't know how because I was subbed to him back then and it was clear that the channel was a vehicle for the story he wanted to tell.
The sad thing about it was that the plot actually sounded really cool (the creator talks about it in the video I posted). Can't have anything nice these days...

Anyway, the major ones I listen to - Bedtime Stories, Let's Read, Lazy Masquerade, Barely Sociable, BlameItOnJorge, JCS, etc.- have already been covered, but there's one smaller YouTube channel called Beyond Creepy that covers some rather niche topics that have scratched that itch for new paranormal/supernatural content. Because sometimes you get really tired of skinwalker and wendigo shit and accounts of mannequin people and tentacle UFOs sound insanely interesting.

Also enjoy /x/ narration channels like Chass and Gaunt, there's something more visceral about 4chan spooky stories that Reddit can't match.