Wendigoon Thread

[Aunt Carol]

The way Flesh Pit is presented by its creator is absolutely fantastic for youtubers to examine and explain in a more clear way, while also having enough there for a passerby to look at some interesting things and maybe keep up with it.

Maybe that's what it comes down to, the potential layers of engagement. It's been said that "the kids love lore," but really, doesn't everyone? Is there a psychological difference between "backstory/lore" and "gossip?"

"The kids" just haven't learned yet that it's more satisfying when you can poke around looking for it, revealing things to yourself. They're still at the stage where they're enjoying getting a five-hour video that lays everything out in a straightforward manner.

Wendigoon would probably really enjoy going to a Meow Wolf installation.

 

[THEbobby]

Hunter and Isaiah have remarkably low reading comprehension for normies while also needing to play the game of being an influencer. The reaction to Tommy Taffy was both performative and caused by them not being able to consume the work without feeling the performance was necessary to preserve their reputations.

The dad in the story is a victim of Tommy and represents adult male survivors of sexual abuse but they shit on him for not fitting their preconceived notion of what a father and a man is. This happens even though it's blatantly clear that the dad is a victim of Tommy, that there is no solution to Tommy and that the dad's presence is what mediates the damage Tommy can do. Their "solution" would be a performative faux masculine emulation of the masculine protector, without considering the horrible consequences of what would happen to the family WITHOUT the dad there if he died trying stop Tommy.

That's cool and all, but the problem is that Tommy is a real physical entity, in the story, that we, as human beings, naturally will try to come up with ideas on how to annihilate him.
While the story is supposed to represent the whole cycle of abuse (which they both understood), the story is still supposed to make sense regardless of what it tries to represent.
In the story, the only attempts to stop Tommy was by the mom and the town during the dad's story while honestly they could have done so much more to stop the horrific things that Tommy did, from happening.
And would you as a father really just let this go by, and not even try to save your kids from him?
Not trying to moralfag, but I kinda get where they are coming for, although they do treat the dad waaaay too hard.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

A three and a half hour show today.
I'll save it for before-bed listening.

Got through the first story. Goon stopping and explaining every paragraph is kinda ridiculous when it's totally understandable to modern readers. I read the story few years back and it's alright, the usual case of a story making ground breaking tropes that are standard today.

It got me thinking, is the protagonist of King in Yellow the first first modern literary Chris chan equivalent?
* Crazy about a work of media to the point it runs his life.
* Family watching in horror but enabling it.
* Gets used by others for their gain.
* Has hang ups about not being an alpha male.

 

[The Bogwater Rises]

It got me thinking, is the protagonist of King in Yellow the first first modern literary Chris chan equivalent?
* Crazy about a work of media to the point it runs his life.
* Family watching in horror but enabling it.
* Gets used by others for their gain.
* Has hang ups about not being an alpha male.

The color yellow.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The color yellow.

Imagine if the signet of the Yellow King was the Sonichu medallion

 

[TerminalTryHard]

That's cool and all, but the problem is that Tommy is a real physical entity, in the story, that we, as human beings, naturally will try to come up with ideas on how to annihilate him.
While the story is supposed to represent the whole cycle of abuse (which they both understood), the story is still supposed to make sense regardless of what it tries to represent.
In the story, the only attempts to stop Tommy was by the mom and the town during the dad's story while honestly they could have done so much more to stop the horrific things that Tommy did, from happening.
And would you as a father really just let this go by, and not even try to save your kids from him?
Not trying to moralfag, but I kinda get where they are coming for, although they do treat the dad waaaay too hard.

And that's why Tommy Taffy doesn't work for me. The metaphor is so on the nose that it doesn't make sense in it's own story. So the grandpa tried to kill the monster and got killed for it, so what does that mean within the metaphor? Trying to break the cycle of abuse only makes things worse?

 

[Aunt Carol]

Imagine if the signet of the Yellow King was the Sonichu medallion

Who's to say it isn't?

But that'd be a fun short story, see how long before the reader realizes it's an unreliable narrator and he serves the King in Yellow, and then how long before the reader realizes the narrator is Chris-Chan.

 

[ruckingfetard]

The dad in the story is a victim of Tommy and represents adult male survivors of sexual abuse but they shit on him for not fitting their preconceived notion of what a father and a man is. This happens even though it's blatantly clear that the dad is a victim of Tommy, that there is no solution to Tommy and that the dad's presence is what mediates the damage Tommy can do. Their "solution" would be a performative faux masculine emulation of the masculine protector, without considering the horrible consequences of what would happen to the family WITHOUT the dad there if he died trying stop Tommy.

I did not expect this serious and genuine reading of the story response, but fair enough. I just wanted to mock the fat retard having a meltdown over a story about a rape dummy.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Hunter and Isaiah have remarkably low reading comprehension for normies while also needing to play the game of being an influencer. The reaction to Tommy Taffy was both performative and caused by them not being able to consume the work without feeling the performance was necessary to preserve their reputations.

The dad in the story is a victim of Tommy and represents adult male survivors of sexual abuse but they shit on him for not fitting their preconceived notion of what a father and a man is. This happens even though it's blatantly clear that the dad is a victim of Tommy, that there is no solution to Tommy and that the dad's presence is what mediates the damage Tommy can do. Their "solution" would be a performative faux masculine emulation of the masculine protector, without considering the horrible consequences of what would happen to the family WITHOUT the dad there if he died trying stop Tommy.

One of the things that really irked me in the story is the implication of "if you were abused as a child don't procreate else you risk abusing your children in turn". If anything it's one of the worst morals you can give that defines those people by their past (especially as it's doubtful the ones that care about such thing will grow to be abusers).

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

Creepcast: Spire in the Woods

It is seven hours long, and comes with a big “this will get deleted because it has been taken down everywhere else” disclaimer at the beginning, with a trigger warning about rape in the description. Though the taking down everywhere else seems to be more of a copyright issue.

Wendigoon does not know how to say “Nashua”, my God.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

That's......
That's actually very insightful and makes a ton of sense.View attachment 7277368
Are you sure you're on the right website?

Oh, and when my dumbass says Tommy was representative of how an abusive parent can be viewed as the 'other mommy/daddy' I was called a retard. If you need me, I’ll be in the Angry Dome.

Side note, a seven hour podcast is not a creepypasta that’s an audiobook. We are eating good this week.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Wendigoon does not know how to say “Nashua”, my God.

How do you say it? I want to be sufficiently mildly annoyed and self righteous while listening

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

How do you say it? I want to be sufficiently mildly annoyed and self righteous while listening

Either Nash-u-ah, or if you’re feeling lazy, Nash-wa, but definitely not Na-shah.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Downloaded a copy, will do the needful if it comes down to it

 

[a hapless toad]

Downloaded a copy, will do the needful if it comes down to it

God bless you. I was imagining getting halfway through and it disappearing.

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

I hate copywrite almost as much as I hate ads, kinda for the same reason.
Who the FUCK are you to tell me what can and cannot be in my brain? Who the FUCK are you to tell me I can't read a thing that exists on the Internet if I so choose, just because some faggot in some office somewhere now owns that idea?! I want you rubbed with sandpaper and bathed in lemon juice you copywriting no fun having potatoheaded FAGGOTS.

 

[a hapless toad]

"Grin-witch".

Wendi I can't with you.

Like I know it's spelling pronunciation due to learning words via reading and it's nothing to be ashamed of...up to a point. But bro, you're coming up on 30, it's time to learn how to say words.

 

[Aunt Carol]

"Grin-witch".

Wendi I can't with you.

Like I know it's spelling pronunciation due to learning words via reading and it's nothing to be ashamed of...up to a point. But bro, you're coming up on 30, it's time to learn how to say words.

This is his full-time job, too.

I think it's reasonable to expect anyone at this level to sit down before they record and look up pronunciation of the proper nouns in a piece. Occasional mistakes are funny; constant ones make it seem shoddy. And in Current Year there are all those "how to pronounce" videos to skip the weird notation (and blame if you get it wrong).

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

I find it funny how Wendigoon is thinking “Peter Paul Rubens” level of thick and Hunter is thinking “Gorlock” in regards to the goth chick. And it is an important distinction, the line for tasteful thickness is very fine.
And homeboy got one kiss from a leggy Slav and immediately fell into conniptions. I understand, makes the story relatable and real.

 

[PrettySneakyCis]

A 7 hour podcast episode, and a good half of it is either Wendigoon defending a pumpkin-headed female JD Vance edit or calling out men for not liking it when women cheat on them. Even some of the normally obsequious fans in the YouTube comments are asking how in the Hell consequences of extreme infidelity in a horror story are "misogynistic."