Analog Horror/World Building general - A tranny boys club deciding what should and shouldn't scare zoomers + geek out about cool projects made by people with real talent

[FILTH Tourist]

The term "Analog horror" always just felt like a way to distance yourself from the term creepypasta and all its baggage while still using all the same tropes. I'm sure there specific points differentiating both "genres" but from a casual viewer it just seems like even more derivative marble hornets or ben drowned but people don't want to invoke the stigmas of things like "hyper realistic blood" or "labelless garage sale videogames"

Its a catch all term now for anything with a grainy camera. But, when it started it was more like an off shoot of found footage but instead a home recording, it's stuff ment for public consumption (Public access TV, Educational tapes, news reports, emergency alerts).

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

The term "Analog horror" always just felt like a way to distance yourself from the term creepypasta and all its baggage while still using all the same tropes. I'm sure there specific points differentiating both "genres" but from a casual viewer it just seems like even more derivative marble hornets or ben drowned but people don't want to invoke the stigmas of things like "hyper realistic blood" or "labelless garage sale videogames"

You and @FILTH Tourist are both right, creepypasta had a very similar schism about what is and isn't appropriate. You may even say that the cringy yung 'eens of creepypasta became the elders of analog. I'm considering explaining my understanding of this in more detail in the future.

How do people get this definition wrong, even? It's in the fucking name. "Analog" horror. That means anything relating to digital shit isn't included. If you're going to include that, just call it "cyberhorror" or something equally-as stupid but descriptive. I dunno.

Blud I didn't even mention how half of analogs end up having at least one episode being awful live-action, with CA acting and recorded in digital with some grainy filter. MC downright uses Vine now. The whole mystique of analog is that most of the audience and creators have an intrinsic fear of analogue media, is like the phobia version of anemoia, they can never describe it outside of it feeling off. Is like how some people come from hearing EATEOT and think that the point is old shit becomes spooky rather than dementia distorting your memories until they become almost unrecognizable from what they were. I don't suffer from this zoomer retardation because I grew up with a concept that there was a time before I existed and there will be time after me.

Is there a group of retarded analog horror purists who share my definition that I can go grump around with?

It depends.

Both Woodlands National Park and White Stag Entertainment have received the KF sign of approval. Both are almost exclusively live-action but there's a bigger care on the video actually being low-fidelity rather than just slapping distortion filters.

Vita Carnis has the excuse that in-universe it was made by middle schoolers but still looks pretty solid. Is the most 'analog' so to speak so bear that in mind.

Midwest Angelica does have the attention to visual style of the 90s, great sound design and is more active but I can see how it anime references may sour people on it. The series takes place in the Midwest during the late 90s, yet it sometimes straight up copies shots and lines from seinen shows. If you aren't a weeb or don't read the comment section is way better.

Arcadia TV has the TV angle working on its favour, good sound design, most of the mystery is by implication. Imo is the closest to hitting the same spot as L58 and GHE. Legit one of the few times I could see what the creator's was trying to do.

If you don't mind AI art, 4.n0m4ly_ is solid for what it is. The guy creates fake documentaries, interviews, entire organizations and cults just to make creepypastas. There's about 7 different concepts and several stand-alone stories that are like elaborate creepypastas of yore.

These are the only ones I can really recommend among the ones I've watched and I've watched a lot of this crap.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Fantastic OP, really summarises the autism in the community perfectly. Analog Horror is just the modern Youtube iteration of low quality horror media such as found footage, but appealing to the zoomers incessant need for "deep lore", safe edginess and bizarre fetishization of the 80's that their parents kept telling them was the best time to be alive.

urbanSpook is the best case of the community showing how vindictive and echo chamber safe space it is

 

[Reminmyster]

Some of it is interesting like Local 58 or monument mythos but most of this shit just becomes the same crap spooky scary faces or the devil/evil christianity recycled into something else.

 

[Coolio55]

Has anyone seen Angel Hare?
It's pretty much

but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Some mildly spooky things happen but it's mostly just a cute little story.
It's also popular for fairly self-evident reasons.


Anyway, I just find it nice that The East Patch are able to find success making something that's a bit different ...even if half of it is probably for the wrong reasons.

Ps. Would "unfiction horror" be a better thread name?
You've got stuff like all the "Lacey" games which attempt to pastiche mid 2000's "little girl" flash games but the art style is unmistakably troony.

There was also this one guy that's literally just making a fictional Y2K video game franchise but I can't remember the name.

 

[Dunkin DoNUT]

You've got stuff like all the "Lacey" games which attempt to pastiche mid 2000's "little girl" flash games but the art style is unmistakably troony.

Man, I really dislike the Lacey games when youtube is trying to spoonfed me in the recommendation tab. yes, the troon artstyle gave it away. it also reeks of being a tryhard depressing horror about abuse or something. the creator couldn't be arsed to make it look like it's actually drawn and made in flash in its respective decade

 

[Whatevermancer]

Has anyone seen Angel Hare?

I watched it, it was disappointing. The protagonist discovers a completely new lifeform that only exists on a TV screen, but instead of investigating how they came to be, he just goes:

Uooooohhh, my hare waifu! You're finally back!

Which pissed me off so much, you wouldn't believe. And then the hare waifu disappears again, but it turns out that she's just trying to be a heckin' wholesome chungus and help all the kids on the internet. Meh.

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

Has anyone seen Angel Hare?

I swear ON GOD (fr fr) that I was going to include it in the OP but I was lost on my train of retardation and forgot it.

monument mythos

Uh boi, I've a long ass post in the Wendigoon thread trying to explain the lore of that one. Casanas has a legit talent to put interesting ideas and either forgetting them or retroactively saying they don't matter. Sadly, unlike that fan series that continued the monument aspect while Alex fucked off to talk about evil Apple and Egypt, we never got someone taking all the axed plotlines into its own analog.

 

[Registration]

As someone from the third world, I always find amusing people creating these "scary" stories when the real world, depending of where you live, real stuff happens so frequently that these type of content just feels devoid of any sense of horror.

And seeing the first post and the definition of safe horror makes sense.

I guess this is why I just can't like supernatural horror that much, knowing how real people are scarier kinda makes it silly in retrospective lol

 

[UnregisteredHypercam2]

I was a fan of these at the beginning of their popularity, but no matter how hard I try I can't stick with them. All of them seem to have the same problem: interesting premise that draws you in, but quickly becomes over complicated and loses any scary factor once they become well known.

Have you read a story from a young teenager who likes to write? Their stories (usually) aren't just simple things, they are overly complicated and poorly put together, which makes them nearly impossible to understand. Dozens of named characters, factions of people, strengths and weaknesses of groups that are hard to remember but key to the plot, it's the other side of the horseshoe from overly simple. Every one of them wants to make an 8 book epic series and assumes their readers will instantly understand everything, despite the writer not even knowing all the answers.

A LOT of these analog horror series are the exact same. Monument Mythos was pretty good for a while, then this overly complicated shit happened. If you dont know, the early summary is that all the major US monuments are secretly alters or tools for some force or being we aren't allowed to know about. The statue of liberty is some type of mass sacrifice ground, the Washington monument is for ritualistic killings, the Lincoln memorial is a torture chamber, ect. All kinda edgy but easy to understand and you have a lot to work with.

Instead if sticking with this, they make a hard right turn into multi-dimensional bullshit, time travel, and massive government cover-ups of monsters. You would need several spreadsheets and time lines to keep track of this, and at the end of the day the story just isn't that great.

This naturally leads to people like Wendigoon summarizing everything in a 6+hour long video, which creates an ouroboros of content:

Analog horror creator makes their series overly complicated > youtuber creates video to explain it > the explanation drives people back to the original content and raises the views > they can't understand it as we're so deep into the series > youtuber makes follow up video 12 months later to explain the update. Rinse and repeat until some part of this implodes.

I did like Angel Hare because it was so simple and actually positive, but I haven't kept up on it so it might have turned to shit. The creators being V-Tubers certainly didn't help.

 

[Viper the rappah]

Analog horror trannies are so dumb that i expect one day a post that reads like this:

"Alex kister is racist. Clearly he based the alternatives on nigger caricatures.

"This shows hidden agenda that mandela catalogue is white supremacist propaganda that pushes the idea that poc's (alternatives) are trying to replace the white men (citizens) by acting like them but theu get recognised by unnatural features (big nose, big lips) while making them super violent and only way of attacking is by breaking in #ALEXOVERPARTY!"

Spoiler: Thread tax

i hate almost every single analog horror media. I watched so much of it and almost every single one of them is boring and unoriginal. Either it's good idea that is executed badly or shitty imitation no in between. I hate walten files the most. It is just annoying and everyone orbiting around it is some troon that thinks it's "peak" or something for just making millionth fnaf but this time it's just random ocs. Worst part is not ironically in show but outside of it. They are doing those palestine grifting stream. I think it was called something "fighting or saving palestine" i don't remember or that va for one of characters had breakdown and started crying that maxG i think pronounced his surname as nigga or something as a joke. Just why? You want ro watch horror but can't stomach a joke.

 

[Coolio55]

That Y2K game I was talking about is called "Nebula & Quasar".

There's also Chezzkids which I feel should be self-explanatory:

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

He fucking sucks. Stop pretending like just because retards don't like him doesn't mean his work is any good. It is edgelord garbage that should be mocked and disregarded as such.

His series sucks a big time - it's just graphic descriptions of brutal murders that would be impossible to commit by a regular person and - at least at the beginning when I was willing to give it a try - no lore or intrigue.
Still it doesn't mean the guy needs cancelling. If he continues he'll either improve or unintentionally create a funny meme at some point.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I sent this to OP, but god this series is dog shit

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

 

[PeachDream]

As someone from the third world, I always find amusing people creating these "scary" stories when the real world, depending of where you live, real stuff happens so frequently that these type of content just feels devoid of any sense of horror.

And seeing the first post and the definition of safe horror makes sense.

I guess this is why I just can't like supernatural horror that much, knowing how real people are scarier kinda makes it silly in retrospective lol

/r/morbidreality and liveleak had more disturbing content by far

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

I sent this to OP, but god this series is dog shit

I linked the whole channel in the part making fun of how everything is an analog (DC Comics). Thread was getting too long to include examples so my apologies. The 'everything can be an analog' quote I found in a Black Panther analog.

I really, I mean REALLY wanted to make fun of the the Batman one in particular but I already wrote a review of it and picking just one video was a Sophie's Choice situation. Like, which one do you pick just for the Batman one? Le Bat Incident, the one that looks like it came from the MC by using bathroom icons with a Batman cowl or the one that is titled JimGordonAudioLoglive.mp4 (1960)? Then you've shit like Aquaman Prevention (1964). I just couldn't pick one, is all so retarded. If you guys want an in-depth review of this one and other analogs, I can do it.

There's also Chezzkids which I feel should be self-explanatory:

I admit halfway through writing I forgot the Walten Files guy and this one were two separate people. I owe youse a spiritual OP sequel for in-depth coverage of that too.

A LOT of these analog horror series are the exact same. Monument Mythos was pretty good for a while, then this overly complicated shit happened. If you dont know, the early summary is that all the major US monuments are secretly alters or tools for some force or being we aren't allowed to know about. The statue of liberty is some type of mass sacrifice ground, the Washington monument is for ritualistic killings, the Lincoln memorial is a torture chamber, ect. All kinda edgy but easy to understand and you have a lot to work with.

Instead if sticking with this, they make a hard right turn into multi-dimensional bullshit, time travel, and massive government cover-ups of monsters. You would need several spreadsheets and time lines to keep track of this, and at the end of the day the story just isn't that great.

This naturally leads to people like Wendigoon summarizing everything in a 6+hour long video, which creates an ouroboros of content:

Analog horror creator makes their series overly complicated > youtuber creates video to explain it > the explanation drives people back to the original content and raises the views > they can't understand it as we're so deep into the series > youtuber makes follow up video 12 months later to explain the update. Rinse and repeat until some part of this implodes.

Spot-on. I almost want to quote you for the OP but I hope people give you enough stickers as is.

The MM case was fucking hilarious because Wendigoon came to the conclusion that it was covering two separate universes based on how much shit was going on and Casanas clarified on his own Discord that it wasn't the case yet refused to streamline the timeline.

Spoiler: What I remember of this trainwreck

To go into more detail about the MM:

• It did start being about the government using monuments to conceal anomalies. The Statue of Liberty hides a giant and deformed George Washington that eats migrants. The Washington Monument covers one of these things called 'special trees' and has made people phase out of reality for about 200 years. The Lincoln Memorial is a torture chamber, the POTUS picks someone they hate to be trapped in it during their tenure. That's how you are introduced to this story if you watch it in the playlist order.
• The reason Wendi believed the MM covered two separate universes is because there are 3 videos back-to-back that make the jump to 2003 and are centred on an 'infection' of special trees. What it means beyond making it so the US is organized into 3 regions instead of states isn't explained. The infection was triggered by a fringe conspiracy group called ADA and a supernatural entity that transcends time and space referred to as Angel.
• There's a big emphasis on Indigenous American stuff in this world (the capitals of the 3 regions are named after how they were called by their original inhabitants, Washington is called Horned Serpent, the world is constantly called an egg) and that gets dropped after the soft reboot in favour of a made-up faux Egyptian creation myth. There's a ton of inclusion for relatively obscure historical figures (like Ed Wright being the first man on the Moon) and many celebrities end up being important historical players (Disney exists in every universe and has hospitals, Rockefeller became President and was responsible for giving laser-armed zepellins to the Germans in WW1).
• The monument aspect of the MM takes a backseat to these players, alongside the Statue of Freedom (which is a living being made out of the remains of the people it has killed and carries the souls of Thomas Crawford and his fictious daughter Nina) and James Dean, who became the 37th President of the US and goes on to accelerate social and technological change for America. Since Dean being alive and a President became the first official change compared to our universe people went on to call the MM continuity as a whole as the Deanverse and our own as the Nixonverse, this latter became redundant as Casanas made a series with that name where Nixon is God, Jesus and Superman.
• The closest thing to a protagonist group we have is the Arnoldson (yes, this is one of the many big brain ideas of Alex no one bothered to ask about) family, they further helped people believe the MM covers more than one universe as Virginia (another big brain idea for a name) Arnoldson has one confirmed child, Everett, but there are two separate adults with the same last name, Maya and Nathaniel, that don't fit in the timeline as Virginia was raptured from her original universe in the 30s, had Everett with a fed and then was raptured again to another universe while being pregnant of Everett, losing him, died mad in the 80s and reappeared in 2003. What relation if any Virginia has with Maya and Nathaniel is never explained.
• Maya is sent to the Grand Canyon to be decapitated by the Statue of Freedom (long story) around the mid 70s under Dean but she is forced by Reagan to be trapped inside the Lincoln Memorial. Freedom happens to brand a sword made out of a special element that doesn't kill you when you are decapitated by it, it just inflates your head to the point it becomes swollen and floats unless you are given some vinegar. This is important because it means that Maya was considered enough of a threat to be given a literal lifetime of suffering (begin decapitated by the gay sword makes you immortal) but we never get a clue as to why. Brother Nathaniel larps as a horror YouTuber, dies and his two children are executed the same way their aunt did.
• Most of Season 2 is spent jumping to Egypt in a sort of return to good ol' monument horror, but also explain the magical thing Freedom's sword is made out of, the existence of other living statues, a massacre over free goods, hammering your head about Dean being the Antichrist and setting up evil Apple. Only one of the plot lines was continued.
• The analogue aspect can be explained as evil Apple using special trees and they corrupting electricity, as they use lightnings to zap you to other universes. Everyone in this universe uses a radio based version of Twitter that somehow supports video. This wasn't the plot line Alex chose to continue.
• Wendigoon covers the MM.
• Alex chickens out and ends the whole thing. Freedom and the Angel, a being made out of dead soldiers that died in Egypt, fight and destroy the universe. The Alcatraz infection that everyone had forgotten about actually killed off the universe too. Not Mr. Squirrel nor the Delaware Double were able to save the Deanverse in the end. Despite this the biggest cope was trying to connect everything to his cornerfolk video.
• Alex goes into making even more schizo things like reinventing the DC universe into his image. Nixon is tricked by the US Army into 'saving' Vietnam, then gets brainwashed by the Queen of the Moon into destroying the English language, loses an eye and the universe is saved by the dark version of Nixon who does look pretty sick and tells the Queen to fuck off. Nixon turns into a giant monster that may destroy reality and the only way to stop him is Ed Wright turning him into a comic book character.
• A story about the Manhattan project turning things invisible and Oppenheimer being at the Roanoke colony that he deletes. Making a series that was supposed to be a homage to his late father about a house in the ocean that included old unlisted shorts he made, delete it for artistic reasons and then upload it again. A short lived experiment about a Japanese cryptid.
• Returns to the MM reinventing shit. Dean is exposed, we get a new actor President, people are being forced into leaving the US, there's a 2edy4me God-like character talking directly to the characters about how fed up he is with everything. This time Everett, who has been mutated to look like a tree after a lifetime trapped where they came from, sets up in a mission to stop Freedom and Angel from fighting through the power of friendship. They fusion dance and become Mister Manticore, the oldest thing Alex never deleted from his channel. The only thing consistent throughout the whole series is 'don't let grief turn you into a monster'.
• Makes a shitpost version of his own story in the modern day where for some reason analogue tellys and audio co-exist with smartphones and digital cameras, all his characters have been re-invented to be played by friends of his. Trump cries blood, Pattinson becomes President and a schizo, Mickey Mouse rules the DNC while Virginia rules the GOP. Fails miserably. Tries to backtrack to dropped plot lines. Either deleted them again or unlisted them.
• Now is making a third series about what happened to the two or so universes he has killed that is also probably going to be unlisted/deleted the moment he runs out of meds.

 

[Autistic Gunspergings]

That Y2K game I was talking about is called "Nebula & Quasar".

The whole premise seems kind of neat, I guess. Lost media stories IRL are always an interesting read, but I get the impression that they don't know if they want to be scary or not. It just kind of feels like they're laying the tracks while the train is moving.
not to say that it needs to be scary, but I just don't want another "ghosts in the machine" type of story if it chooses to be horror. So much analog horror media loves that trope, but that shit's been done to death even BEFORE the genre got popular.


tax: I guess calling this analog horror is kind of a stretch but ill mention it here anyways. Theres this minecraft ARG/analog horror series called "Minecraft Alpha 1.10.16 versions".
the elevator pitch is that it is a bunch of guys figuring out the secrets of old, never-before-seen versions of minecraft alpha. This one stuck out to me for being, IMO, very high quality in its execution.

Story wise, It is NOT another "le spooky machine goost" story, at least, as far as i can tell. the series pretty quickly explains that away. I haven't kept up with it lately, but AFAIK: its a giant mystery surrounding a company that splintered off of mojang, developing the game their own way using Minecraft alpha as a base. the "ghosts" were actually developers watching and documenting playtester behavior, Im not really sure why. How it ends is yet to see (unless it already has and I never knew), but im captivated by the mystery so far.
Content wise, the creators have made a modded, downloadable client of Minecraft alpha that you can play. not only did it have a total redux of the game's textures & few custom mechanics added to it, but it was an essential part of progressing the ARG.

RetroGamingNow has made a few videos summarizing the story so far. Worth a watch if you're interested but don't want to dive too deep into it.

(pt. 1)

(pt. 2)

Overall, i think its a pretty refreshing take on analog horror media. Frankly, I'm just glad it put more effort into its story than just "le spooky Minecraft ghost!".

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

I know I've larped as a mod long as it is but I want to establish the ground rules of the thread, since I was retarded enough to not include them in the OP:

• This is now the containment thread for anything you think is too specific for the YouTube Horror thread. You know about something that is cool or lulzy and want to share with the Farms what you know about it? This is your place.
• I meant this thread for world building general so we can discuss stuff that is in the same vein but wouldn't be talked about in YouTube Horror or any other thread. Internet age or not, you know something cool or lulzy that doesn't already have a thread because is too niche? This is your place.
• People in YouTube Horror loved Midwest Angelica while Wendigoon thread regulars thrashed it. Not consensus. Strive to have your own taste. Don't fear the autism sticker. This is your place.
• Let this place be a place to laugh at tired zoomer analogs but also a place where you can showcase and celebrate what you like. ARGs, finished series like the ones mentioned in the first part of the OP, metafiction, multimedia projects, you name it sister. This is your place, I don't think we ever had one for this.
• And yes, you may use this thread for your own world building projects. To share and learn. I've been exposed to so many movies, vidya, books, resources and even lifestyle ideas because of this site. This is my thank you. This place welcomes you.

 

[Inside your walls]

Kiwi Farms users have found a myriad of ways to say that analog horror isn't scary but the truth of the matter is that anything can be an analog horror series as long as you don't understand or care how analog media works. Jurassic Park, Godzilla, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic The Hedgehog with PETA, Tom and Jerry, Doctor Who, Adult Swim and even a dog.

Now also featuring Steven Jewniverse too!


I can't take this seriously because the main scare of the video literally looks like a character that
would be in a background gag for Smiling Friends.