Wendigoon Thread

[Maniacal Foreigner]

Has Wendi lost weight, or is the lack of beard making him look skinnier?

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Has Wendi lost weight, or is the lack of beard making him look skinnier?

Apparently that's why he's beardless, he's lost weight and wanted to see how it looks.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Yeah, I think it was specifically his wife's idea, or at least she put the idea in his head, since neither of them had any idea what was hiding beneath the beard. The moustache makes me laugh every time I start a new video and he still has it



Some kind of problem with YouTube for the new CreepCast. I'm not sure if by checks they mean money or if they uploaded it and youtube has to check the file to make sure it's good



The episode is up on Spotify though. Deepwoods, same author as Borrasca. I'll hope it doesn't end with a rape factory this time around since I enjoyed the actual writing of Borrasca. The thumbnail has a spoopy gargoyle so hopefully there's an actual (non-raping) monster and not just humans were the real monsters all along



Apparently they have a set now, does that mean they're doing it in person or do they just have their own sets in their homes/studio space like Meat has for his videos? I haven't heard them talking about it and I have no idea where Meat lives so I don't know how feasible them doing in-person episodes enough to justify such a thing is. It would definitely help the audio problems though

And as a final thing they will be uploading a version of the live show for sure

 

[Godchu]

Apparently they have a set now, does that mean they're doing it in person or do they just have their own sets in their homes/studio space like Meat has for his videos? I haven't heard them talking about it and I have no idea where Meat lives so I don't know how feasible them doing in-person episodes enough to justify such a thing is. It would definitely help the audio problems though

I feel like that's a joke for the hotel room they're recording in or something like that, but we probably won't know until tomorrow. They live in different states so it'd be logistical nightmare to get together every other week solely to record a single episode.

 

[Meth Dick]

Yeah, I think it was specifically his wife's idea, or at least she put the idea in his head, since neither of them had any idea what was hiding beneath the beard. The moustache makes me laugh every time I start a new video and he still has it

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Some kind of problem with YouTube for the new CreepCast. I'm not sure if by checks they mean money or if they uploaded it and youtube has to check the file to make sure it's good

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The episode is up on Spotify though. Deepwoods, same author as Borrasca. I'll hope it doesn't end with a rape factory this time around since I enjoyed the actual writing of Borrasca. The thumbnail has a spoopy gargoyle so hopefully there's an actual (non-raping) monster and not just humans were the real monsters all along

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Apparently they have a set now, does that mean they're doing it in person or do they just have their own sets in their homes/studio space like Meat has for his videos? I haven't heard them talking about it and I have no idea where Meat lives so I don't know how feasible them doing in-person episodes enough to justify such a thing is. It would definitely help the audio problems though

And as a final thing they will be uploading a version of the live show for sure

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Maybe the rape monsters were the humans all along (and the friends we made along the way)

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I figured they might have decided to set aside a day or two once a month for one of them to fly out to just crank out some recordings and do whatever other weird collabs they come up with for their main/side channels but hanging out in a hotel room and calling it a set while they're on tour would be a solid gag

That does make sense for "Checks are taking forever" if they're trying to upload from a new location and hitting some kind of snag where the two-factor isn't wanting to work or something like that

 

[Meth Dick]

This isn't so much a Wendigoon thing it's more of Meat nitpick on his Papa Meat channel, especially rewatching the 31 Days of Horror video and I also noticed it on the sponsor bits of Creep Cast done by Meat, but it's his old 80s-90s VHS effect when doing them with the compressed audio. Do sponsors actually want that? If I'm gonna pay a guy to do an advertisement for my product, I don't mind the artistic license, that's what I'm paying for in the end, but I'd want the visual and audio done in a way that isn't muffled/garbled/muddied since I'd like my product to be clear and not so much overshined by the effects.
It's like if I asked you to repaint my ceiling and I come home and you've done the Sistine Chapel up there. Yeah it's cool but it's a bit overkill.

I wouldn't fire Meat over it but I'd have a word.

 

[scallion]

This isn't so much a Wendigoon thing it's more of Meat nitpick on his Papa Meat channel, especially rewatching the 31 Days of Horror video and I also noticed it on the sponsor bits of Creep Cast done by Meat, but it's his old 80s-90s VHS effect when doing them with the compressed audio. Do sponsors actually want that? If I'm gonna pay a guy to do an advertisement for my product, I don't mind the artistic license, that's what I'm paying for in the end, but I'd want the visual and audio done in a way that isn't muffled/garbled/muddied since I'd like my product to be clear and not so much overshined by the effects.
It's like if I asked you to repaint my ceiling and I come home and you've done the Sistine Chapel up there. Yeah it's cool but it's a bit overkill.

I wouldn't fire Meat over it but I'd have a word.

It's Bad Dragon, just saying their name is enough to get the message across to most people, especially Meat's audience.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I like the mic shadow on Wendi's chin, if he wants to keep the 'stache he should have a disconnected goatee to go with it. Makes him look like a douchebag hipster type but he's nice enough to get away with it


lmao, the check must have been from a sponsor. They have a placeholder 'b-roll' screen during the sponsor spot, they must have had to edit in a new sponsor last minute and their editor wasn't available until this morning

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

Episode up on Youtube

 

[Rick The Stick]

I wouldn't fire Meat over it but I'd have a word.

Ignoring the fact Meat is a faggot who advertises dildos, if you're going to this dude for sponsorship you already know what you're getting. It's like Internet Historian's overly complicated ads for his sponsors or Dankula's barely disguised "this is shit don't buy it" pitch for Raid. These companies only care about getting their shit out there.

Still think a live version of creepcast is a shitty idea. Especially if you're gonna just give it away for free anyway. Every live podcast I've listened to was nothing more than the regular version but with a laugh track.

Oompa seems like a Dummy to me.

He wears it on his sleeve and I appreciate that.

Wendigoon's version is superior for having an actual example of the mechanisms with guns, unlike that funny island Dankula's on.

But is that the only improvement on Danks video? Cause I already know how the shit works, so if that's all he adds I'll pass on this.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

But is that the only improvement on Danks video? Cause I already know how the shit works, so if that's all he adds I'll pass on this.

Pretty much. It's not like there are too many new things to say on the subject. Also there is no mystery or speculation, the only question was whether the perpetrator had a point or was he full of shit and managed to find the one group of bankers that aren't assholes.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Part 1 of Deepwoods was really good but not great. I liked the in-person shenanigans and it sounded great

They go back to remote for Part 2 and Wendi's audio issues immediately pop up and they're really bad. I can deal with the weird crunchiness/robotness that he had in the Greylock episode but there's periodic hissing that's just awful, and there's almost a pattern to it. I thought it might have been some kind of interference on my end based on it being so predictable but it's only ever on his audio, never Meat's

Part 2 has the protagonist being a retard, but I guess that's fair given the scenario and the fact that she takes her daily dose of xanax and ambien with booze. The spoopy demon eats people's histories/existences and basically makes it to where they never were, so her having trouble remembering the other guy despite remembering him might be an intentional plot device rather than just irritating writing, even if it's irritating in the moment

It is at least definitely a supernatural story. The jury is still out on creepy rape stuff, the protagonist directly referenced 50 Shades which isn't a great sign

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

Part 1 of Deepwoods was really good but not great. I liked the in-person shenanigans and it sounded great

They go back to remote for Part 2 and Wendi's audio issues immediately pop up and they're really bad. I can deal with the weird crunchiness/robotness that he had in the Greylock episode but there's periodic hissing that's just awful, and there's almost a pattern to it. I thought it might have been some kind of interference on my end based on it being so predictable but it's only ever on his audio, never Meat's

Part 2 has the protagonist being a retard, but I guess that's fair given the scenario and the fact that she takes her daily dose of xanax and ambien with booze. The spoopy demon eats people's histories/existences and basically makes it to where they never were, so her having trouble remembering the other guy despite remembering him might be an intentional plot device rather than just irritating writing, even if it's irritating in the moment

It is at least definitely a supernatural story. The jury is still out on creepy rape stuff, the protagonist directly referenced 50 Shades which isn't a great sign

The ending breaks them and it's eather really annoying or really hilarious depending on how you look at it.
I thought it was funny.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

If the ending is retarded I'm sure I'll be absolutely delighted

 

[The Crescent King]

I feel vindicated - I've written before that I thought Borrasca was terribly constructed on every level, and was massively overrated by the boys and the creepypasta community, and this episode clearly exposes C.K. Walker as a Wattpad-tier writer with a more disturbed imagination.

Borrasca and Deepwoods overlapped heavily in their tropes - a completely inept protagonist, a bait and switch ending, child characters, poorly-written expositional dialogue, being riddled with plot holes, unbelievably one-dimensional villains and absolutely ludicrous action sequences that make John Wick's exploits seem believable. Walker has a lot of good ideas in her writing, but that's where her talent begins and ends. She can't seem to spot the core of her story or understand what makes narratives compelling. In the first part of Deepwood, I enjoyed the concept of a juvenile misadventure resulting in total catastrophe - it's a great foundation for a compelling character arc that reminds me of Metro 2033, which is a fantastic book. What makes Artyom sympathetic as a protagonist is that he understands the magnitude of what he has done and tries to fix a mistake he committed out of ignorance, whereas Katie imperils herself and others at every turn with seemingly no regard for the consequences. It takes away any feeling you may have had for her and only highlights how bad the rest of the story is - are we supposed to believe a teenage boy who lived in an abandoned church for years and survived solely by stealing became a police officer with no prior records of his existence? And that this rapidly aging guy became a rich man's lackey by defeating his other guards in a mortal kombat tournament? The author even establishes that the demon has targeted Katie and James since childhood, so why would the demon be satiated by them sacrificing Scott to him when Scott has been "feeding" him for years? How could a demon that can travel across time and space be trapped anywhere? Like what the hell

In some ways Borrasca might be slightly better than Deepwood in the sense that its villains were embedded in the narrative from the beginning, and there were plenty of hints pointing towards the big reveal. The addition of Jameson Scott ruined the forward momentum of the plot - like the boys mentioned, evil rich guy sacrificing people Bathory-style to a demon is a tired trope at this point, and ties back into what I said above that CK Walker doesn't seem to understand why anyone would find this story memorable. A sequel where Katie goes back to Pennsylvania to both rectify her mistake and make sense of her past could be really well done, and I think the Jameson character could have had potential if he were actually Jamie as the boys suggested as opposed to a red herring. There's a great tragedy in two friends suffering the same trauma and confronting it in diametrically opposing ways that sets them on a path to mortal conflict that sullies the memory of their childhood affection, but the author (like most modern writers) is so mesmerised by the nihilistic cynicism permeating modern culture that they lack both the language and the confidence to tell an engaging story containing a moral that would appeal to a reader on the human level. Such writers are reduced to deconstructing tropes, bait and switch style shock value twists and quip-machine characters as they are incapable of writing anything with actual sincerity.

 

[PaleTay]

CK Walker doesn't seem to understand why anyone would find this story memorable.

At first I was excited they were doing something I hadn't read, they got to the church and I remembered that it just wasn't that memorable.

 

[Godchu]

Lot of interesting thoughts here. In a way, this story is kind of an inverse of Borrasca. That entire story reads like it only exists for that final note at the end. I imagine the author probably got up one day and tried to come up with the most fucked up thing she could imagine, and Borrasca was what came out of that exercise. It's a little ridiculous and cartoony, sure (especially compared to the shit Epstein and Diddy got up to), but it was well-written (for the most part) and every part of it contributed to the whole in some way. The entire "series" is just one big jigsaw puzzle, and I think that's why it was so well received. With Deepwood, the first part is so well-contained I can only believe the author wrote that piece as a simple one-shot, and seeing its well-deserved success, tried to make a sequel to it and failed spectacularly. I refuse to believe the ending of part 3 wasn't just her giving up on the story and going full on marvel with it just to get it over with. Hell, parts 2 and 3 are so barebones plot-wise they could have just as easily been merged into one and nothing would be different. It already feels like it to me, and I've only just got done listening to it.

I'm sure you could write a good sequel to part 1, and she had a good start with that Jameson character that could have been a good catalyst for a new horror story. I'm imagining it would not be some kind of mysterious supernatural thing, but more of a conspiracy-type horror story, where a good chunk of it is Kate figuring out the true scope of what Jimmy is doing, as well as the conflict that results from that (so basically Borrasca but with less incest). The problem, for one, is she didn't capitalize on that idea as people say—the way that twist came out of nowhere almost seems like she chickened out at the last minute (maybe because the story she had in her head was too close to 50 Shades I imagine). And for two, this is really only the starting point for this sequel, there's still a whole story left to figure out, and the greatest tragedy here is that it ended before it had time to even begin with any of that.

Besides that, my only real nitpick with part 1 is that the transition from them setting out and finding the church feels really abrupt. Like they get on the rails and talk and suddenly they see the church without any kind of buildup or description of their journey and what was around them or anything else that would ease the transition in any way. Otherwise, it was a really great little story and it will forever be that way to me.

 

[Rick The Stick]

Why am I not surprised that the author of the cringey, incestuous-rape fantasy Borrasca is a woman?

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

Why am I not surprised that the author of the cringey, incestuous-rape fantasy Borrasca is a woman?