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

[Grog]

Analog Floyd

 

[CracklerGrackler]

I really liked Serina (probably just cause I like birds tbh), but the transgender disabled tripod fish deer made me laugh out loud. Completely broke my immersion, that's something only a human could come up with.

 

[Your Local Paleofag]

I really liked Serina (probably just cause I like birds tbh), but the transgender disabled tripod fish deer made me laugh out loud. Completely broke my immersion, that's something only a human could come up with.
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I have not kept with Serina in so long, the what

 

[brownsuagrbubbletea]

Random question but do you guys think this whole community will eventually collapse on itself one day? Like it happened to many ‘horror’ communities like the slenderverse for example

 

[Grog]

Random question but do you guys think this whole community will eventually collapse on itself one day? Like it happened to many ‘horror’ communities like the slenderverse for example

Something else will take over when this stops being the new thing. It happened to backrooms, haunted video games, SCP, and it will happen to anal horror.

Speaking of which, the whole reason I read this thread is because I saw the "my niggas will eventually find you" video and wanted to see what the source was, leading me here. It all seems very similar to SCP, with supernatural stuff happening and a secret organization researching it, in almost every one of these series.

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

I have not kept with Serina in so long, the what

I'm going to expand on this and will try to give youse an abridged on Serina's final chapters because is what I originally wanted to complain about. I'm starting around the time of the last Curious Archive video on Serina with some additional context.. Strap in because this will be tardy.

Assuming you are caught up to speed with the woodcrafters (fish deer) and gravediggers (bird badgers) becoming friends, the woodcrafters dying out, the gravediggers going out to sea and meeting the daydreamers (bird dolphin 1) and engaging with one variety of them on a conflict over if luddies (bird dolphin 2) should join the ranks of sapience or become cattle. All bird dolphins band together against bird dolphin 1 blue edition because they are attacking them in a holy war our heroes win. All daydreamer factions join as one and make an ecologically concious alliance with the gravediggers and luddies.

Their civilization remains for roughly 20 million years in which they have domesticated several species. All goes to shit the moment a single sophont blue-tailed chattaraven and his brainlet albino brother are excluded from their flock and befriend a herd of wooly wumpos (the bird elephants who for some reason aren't acknowledged in the bird religion), they use fire to genocide a species they don't like and the brainlet albino drops a torch on a giant reserve of peat moss accumulated for over 200 million years. Bird God breaks the fourth wall and gives the three civilized species a chance by making a duplicate world that has existed outside of canon ever since while the wumpos die horribly and the sophont chattaraven lives the rest of his life drowning in guilt.

The massive burn of peat moss undoes the ice age and spazzes volcanic movement back to life. Serina is humid and miserable. All species dependant on the civilized birds die out or become ecosystem engineers. One of them, the reaper (a seagull food disposal unit) creates a religion and one of them befriends a living probe that was sent by whatever took the civilized birds. Bird God comes back to be born as a fish owl thing.

295 million years post-establishment, three different sapient species appear. The sylvanspark (sedentary octopus-faced birds that domesticated bird horses), the slaughtersprinter (steppeaboo octopus-faced birds that befriended bird panthers) the whisperwing (ancap hipster birds that no one trusts) and on their own, 5 million years after there's the leucrocottas (hipster fish horse), who have received way too many additions to their lore considering the saga they are supposed to be in hasn't started. They have multiple variants and professions that make them feel like My Little Pony.

 

[When will it begin?]

Random question but do you guys think this whole community will eventually collapse on itself one day? Like it happened to many ‘horror’ communities like the slenderverse for example

I think it already has collapsed. I wouldn't even call most of the stuff being released now Analog Horror. I'd call it Analog AU Fanfiction. The only difference between this and a high school au is less gay sex.

 

[DapperShark]

SpecEvo and globohomo sensibilities

Damn that's a shame, I really like both Kaimere and Serina though I haven't kept up with either for a while, I'm disheartened but not surprised that troonshit has infected them, autists are particularly vulnerable to troonery after all.

Continuing with spec evo, I'd like to recommend Kappa: The World of Turtles. Its similar to Serina but with turtles instead of birds, only five episodes so far and they take quite a while to come out but that's because they're very high quality and its a single dedicated autist working on it. No troons, no communism. Only turtles.

Curious Archive

This is another channel I used to like, until for whatever reason he stopped covering spec evo and instead started doing videos where he rambles about random bullshit.

 

[Chuck Shiesty]

Random question but do you guys think this whole community will eventually collapse on itself one day? Like it happened to many ‘horror’ communities like the slenderverse for example

It's already in the same death spiral the Slenderman community was in around 2011/12. Nobody is producing analog horror anymore, just their perception of what it is while apeing aesthetics and ideas from Kane Pixels (who has never been AH) and other series. Slenderverse died because everyone made long convoluted series trying to capture what MH did right and it all became shit and tedious. Even MH was a fluke judging by how badly everything else they attempted afterwards went.

AH's biggest issue as a genre is sustaining a long narrative just destroys any suspension of disbelief, its why stuff like Local58 and White Stag (RIP) worked well - you could sustain a narrative because disjointed tapes/recordings tell the story better than jumping around six different media types within an episode of MC. Right now the bulk of it is bad FNAF clones, """spooky""" takes on existing IP or stuff like MC/MM which are desperate to escape the tropes and criticisms of the genre and in turn sink their own projects going into narrative areas and ideas they clearly aren't equipped to write for.

Only person really doing anything original anymore is the Valle Verde guy - it works well because it's just a collection of tapes from an FBI investigation, and the AI generated stuff works in its favour since AI is the overarching storyline in the series. Gemini/Morley Grove were good too but it seems like Remy hasn't had a PC capable of editing for a year+ now so who knows when those are coming back.

All you have left are bad FNAF ripoffs and an audience of 15 year olds and troons telling you its the best and spookiest thing ever, and you'll enjoy it.

 

[Whatevermancer]

AH's biggest issue as a genre is sustaining a long narrative just destroys any suspension of disbelief

The biggest thing that destroys my suspension of disbelief is the fact that nobody's even trying to pretend that the depicted events are real. For example, an episode ends, and in the end you see the credits with a link to the creator's Twitter. Or how the channel posts videos shilling merchandise.
It's like if scenes in a movie also included a guy with a boom mic recording the actors' performance. And if you criticize it, you're treated like some kind of weirdo, cause what's the point of moving the boom mic guy outside the frame if everyone already knows that the movie's fictional anyway?

 

[Chuck Shiesty]

Or how the channel posts videos shilling merchandise

Yeah this one is the most egregious one outside of narrative structure to me, and it's created a spawn of kids thinking they can create an AH mascot and make money. The Foxymations shit is probably the natural endgame of everything wrong coming together for the genre.

 

[brownsuagrbubbletea]

The biggest thing that destroys my suspension of disbelief is the fact that nobody's even trying to pretend that the depicted events are real. For example, an episode ends, and in the end you see the credits with a link to the creator's Twitter. Or how the channel posts videos shilling merchandise.
It's like if scenes in a movie also included a guy with a boom mic recording the actors' performance. And if you criticize it, you're treated like some kind of weirdo, cause what's the point of moving the boom mic guy outside the frame if everyone already knows that the movie's fictional anyway?

Honestly Yeah, I don't mind if ppl made merch off their projects bc it's obvious that half of these characters we have in the analog horror community just ooze with "Make merch of me" energy.

I guess a a good example i see of a horror project where the creator revealed themselves would the daisy brown creator

 

[Coolio55]

The biggest thing that destroys my suspension of disbelief is the fact that nobody's even trying to pretend that the depicted events are real. For example, an episode ends, and in the end you see the credits with a link to the creator's Twitter. Or how the channel posts videos shilling merchandise.
It's like if scenes in a movie also included a guy with a boom mic recording the actors' performance. And if you criticize it, you're treated like some kind of weirdo, cause what's the point of moving the boom mic guy outside the frame if everyone already knows that the movie's fictional anyway?

This is happening with that Interloper ARG and I fucking hate it. Slowly traveling from believable and creepy to constant winks at the camera and fan interaction.
Same thing happened with that "Lilypad Minecraft" ARG too but quicker.

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

I wanted to make a post about how merch is handled by some of the people we've talked about so far in this thread but the first example I was going to use 4.n0m4ly_ nuked his Etsy store before I had a chance to buy myself some Mhoroj goodies. Instead the guy self-published a selection of his work in book form to attract a new audience. Quite a bold strategy and since it claims it includes some expansions and details on his process and inspirations I might do a review soon.

More traditional merch can be found attached to Neural Viz. Tees, hoodies, mugs, stickers. They aren't exactly the pinnacle of originality but The Monoverse has a unique enough style and visual identity that they can work pretty well on their own if you ask me.

These two are references but tell me if they aren't head turners on their own.

Nothing I've written about so far is original but it blows the real analogs out of the water when you consider how many of them got fucking plushies with Makeship. Assuming you aren't a seasoned fellow Quintstorian like me, Makeship is a Canadian plushie company that partners with just about any influencer to turn them into a very basic template that makes YouTooz seem daring. They cornered the market with analog horror as they made several designs for Mandela Catalogue, Monument Mythos, Walten Files and at least one for The Man in the Suit, the Boiled One, Vita Carnis and Gemini Home Entertainment. There are even resellers selling this shit at the original price.

 

[I_Lurk_Here]

I know it's been talked about in the thread already but would anyone want to shill to me some of the few ARGs that are enjoyable or actually scary?

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

I know it's been talked about in the thread already but would anyone want to shill to me some of the few ARGs that are enjoyable or actually scary?

The Kiwi Farms analog/arg aproved list:

• White Stag Entertainment
• Woodlands National Park
• Arcadia TV
• Midwest Angelica (with some reservations)
• 4.n0m4ly_ (perhaps my most contentious shill)

If you want a literal ARG and live in the American Southeast, So Joana.

The Nightmind Index is a good place to look for new stuff even if Nightmind is a furfag and a good deal of the entries on the index are retarded.

 

[Horpach]

I know it's been talked about in the thread already but would anyone want to shill to me some of the few ARGs that are enjoyable or actually scary?

I'm really enjoying Briscoe Park. It's quite subtle and atmospheric and hits all the right notes on my favorite theme of vague Cold War shady shit agency exploration logs. I also cannot for the life of me tell what is going on there from the technical side–the environment is too detailed and viscerally realistic to be CG, but the locations are too specific/surreal to be live sets. Very cool

 

[TalmudicKetamine]

I'm still waiting for GREYLOCK TAPE 013. It started alright but 012 sold it to me. Great stuff.

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

Dedicated to @Tri-Tachyon'sClown who asked me to watch this a month ago and being the retard I am I decided to get two jobs instead.

It's time. I've to get back to summarizing analogs for the amusement of others. This time around I'll write about Prehistoric Emergence, an analog I was aware of but never checked on my own.

Like anyone with a working brain and some child-like wonder left in them, I love prehistoric animals. Chances are most of youse do, because the only think cooler than animals today is animals from the past. Do you remember those documentaries and books that were pretty much a 'who wins'?

Prehistoric Emergence sorta feels like that except in this case it happens with the help of hollow earth logic. 'Holes' (because saying portals makes us think of Rick and Morty) are opening in such a way that ancient animals are coming back and wrecking havok. That's right fuckers, Pellucidar is coming on our ass. This event is the Prehistoric Emergence (I got that reference) and it has people panicking to the point they are spawncamping. It isn't bad but it takes a bit to do much with the premise other than 3-4 iconic animals from before civilization have returned to their original ranges and are destroying the environment.

Is very hard to not go akcsually on this one. Why animals that went extinct millions of years ago are OP enough to threaten established populations of modern day animals? They spawn where they lived but where they lived doesn't look the same today, so they should have a massive handicap considering most of them are also megafauna. Some animals spawn to counter others but I still don't see how that solves half the problems. Like, there are places these animals called home that no longer exist. Do they spawn in Doggerland for instance? Do the fish that swam in the Great Plains millions of years ago spawn just to die?

I also don't like that for some reason people in this world aren't really able to do anything about these animals except for wholly mammoths, they can capture those. There's also a brachiosaurus rights activists that don't want them killed even though they are eating out The Garden of the Gods. Just because an animal eats plants doesn't mean it is pacific, in fact those tend to have a shorter fuse. All of these animals seem to have a collective intelligence that wires them to inflict harm on other lifeforms, make it make sense.

I think this is a very interesting idea but it could benefit from "downsizing".
Like, let's say that this story takes place on an alternate timeline post-war period or during the dust bowl. Bring some specific keystone species from relatively recent extinctions that have a chance to survive and fit an ecological niche. People are excited because some of them were actually necessary like bringing back massive herds of bison and flocks of passenger pigeons. Then you bring things like jaguars to the South and they have no concept or fear of humans. Add some sort of event that further sets at least one part of the United States back to the stone age (like a solar flare or EMP) and the series is the historical archive of the survivors.

Or, have a story of people wising up too late that something is disturbing the Great Coral Reef, it turns out that things from the Great Dying have spawned on current day and carry some sort of agent that carried the extinction with them. The series chronicles the efforts to stop 97% of all life on Earth from dying.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Dedicated to @Tri-Tachyon'sClown who asked me to watch this a month ago and being the retard I am I decided to get two jobs instead.

Thanks baby. Wish I could have two jobs but it's a struggle to even get the first one.