Columbine - DOOMs Most Controversial And Disturbing Mod

[@Midnighthalo]

Hello my friends, I hope your day has been great so far. For obvious reasons, this video took me a LONG time to put together, what to say, what not to say, how to say it, you name it. So if you enjoy this type of videos, please leave a HUGE like and a comment for the algorithm gods. My sanity would greatly appreaciate it :']

[@Arc1ous]

Good Video Midnight 😸

[@LeggyMcBendy]

Woohoo! midnight yay! midnight is the best! Midnight had awesome videos! Midnight has a cool voice! YEAH OH YEAH. But no fr. You put out good content my guy. Keep it up. Be well😎

[@thebreakers5889]

Midnight I love your vids and thank you because you have gotten me hooked with Doom.

[@MarquisDeSang]

Who cares if some random rich kids shoot some random rich NPC. Its just a simulation. What we call real life is just a game inside a simulation, exactly like DOOM.

[@marcohezmicider9637]

One question, why every time you upload a controversial Doom mod video, there's a "Most" in the title?

[@drokus]

I was a sophomore when columbine happened. Scared me to death. Was very angry when the media blamed the music and video games that I listened to/played

[@-Joyfull]

I was a 9th grader just beginning to learn how to make my own WADs and how to edit HTML pages for advertising them.

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

I mean in one way yeah I can understand it but also yeah that is really sad and sucks

[@TheTartKnight]

Ah yeah, I remember when people blamed videogames for violence and weren't considered better than a toy... Good times!

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

@HalfLifeRebel Well said and W name

[@TheArmoredScarecrow]

School banned trench coats on us, in freaking Canada. Meanwhile sad guy 1 and 2 wore hip hop gear all the time.

[@huntercoleherr]

About a year before Columbine, I created a DOOM map of my own school. I wasn't planning anything sinister, it was just a place I went to a lot and was a fun project. I deleted that thing so goddamn fast once the shooting hit the news.

[@jimijenkins2548]

It's strange how tools become sinister.

[@defaultchannel0]

Do you still have the .wad file

[@SAZERU]

@@defaultchannel0 did you not read the part where they deleted it

[@LordTrashcanRulez]

Were the voices whispering "become his successor"?

[@defaultchannel0]

@@SAZERU never asked you

[@mattmarkowitz8894]

A suicide was blamed on judas priest and if this tragedy happened in the 1960s the media would have blamed wild west movies. The media is always scrambling for a scapegoat instead of looking at oblivious parents. Even today I hear (from my friends who have kids) that if they're troubled they should talk to a guidance counselor, teacher, or a goddamn police officer...literally the three worst options.

[@noone2706]

One of the columbine dudes had a mom that insists shes not to blame for her sons actions, yet she abused him.

[@ItsJustAdrean]

Exactly. Those are the options when your parents have utterly failed you. This is what happens when the government raises your kids!

[@Toyota9993-m6g]

​@@ItsJustAdreanNobody cares and go to school already

[@Toyota9993-m6g]

​@@ItsJustAdreanAverage corrupted kid. Get lost corrupted kid.

[@comercole1940]

​@@Toyota9993-m6glol are you mad?

[@CleaningCaptain]

Minor correction: One of the bombs set by the killers actually did go off, but it was just a decoy set in a nearby field; It went off so soon before the shooting began that it all it did was indicate to authorities that *something* wasn't right.

[@judgedreadloomy2889]

You have no idea bud

[@jeffjefferson3183]

@@judgedreadloomy2889 you flaunt an empty achievement

[@tdestroyer4780]

Another one also went off in Dylan's car but the dummy set the clock timer for PM instead of AM.

[@Mdmbchdr]

@@Stone-facedno u haven’t

[@judgedreadloomy2889]

Lol this threads funny lol

[@hq9684]

9:01 This Is Not Eric's Voice. The "Swallow This" voice clip comes from a scene from Evil Dead where Ash kills a Deadite with a sawed off double barrel shotgun. On a side note, Dylan used a sawed off shotgun too during the shooting. This could mean nothing in the grand scheme of things but maybe it was foreshadowing.

[@thejamsheddotnet]

Evil dead 2, the clip in question kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXqcaWSobt5shc0si=j1Idl2S2xlzJrkk1

[@Midnighthalo]

Thanks for clearing it up. I deadass believed it was Eric's voice haha

[@lunakey1389]

hail to the king baby

[@megaton_a]

Scrolled down to see if someone commented this. My initial thought was "No way that's a 16 year old kid" then "Wait, isn't that Ash??"

[@OniNetizen]

I was checking to see if anyone else commented that

[@lihtan]

I remember watching a documentary a while back on how the architecture of schools has changed in recent years as a response to school shootings. It's common now to have features like bullet resistant doors, and alcoves in hallways where you can shelter yourself from bullets. In a very strange irony, real world school buildings are now incorporating design features that are typically seen in the virtual environments of deathmatch arenas.

[@Flightsuit]

Oh wow what a though 😮

[@AgentWolnyTyl3k]

Jacob Geller also did a pretty good video essay on this

[@Slimpicken]

Can confirm. I love metal ballistic plates on windows...its always uncanny.

[@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky]

Speaking of death matches, me and my friends, as kids, had a nerf fight near an elementary school. We were dumbass kids and didn’t realize the societal taboo of guns in schools. And our dumbasses thought the school was closed, because our middle schools let us off earlier. (This was 2019 by the way) then we were politely asked to get off the property, or we’d get arrested. But yeah, the punchline of my story is, schools INDEED make good TDM maps.

[@anonamatron]

And all they'd have to actually do is have halfway useful guidance counselors, and also not involve themselves in fake government ops and this would never happen anyway.

[@darkscion1]

I was made fun of a lot in high school and had no friends. The day after Columbine happened, my assistant principal pulled me out of class and asked if I was feeling ok. I later found out he went around and did that to every student that was bullied on a regular basis. You can tell he was trying to prevent an incident like Columbine from happening. As much as I was harassed and bullied, I never dreamed of doing something this horrible. I knew that High School was a meaningless bump in the road of life. Totally forgot about all that til watching this video. Anyway, glad I watched this. Definitely an insightful dive into someone's deteriorating mental health. It's still wild to me how all the signs were there and no one took notice until it was too late.

[@dominicrusso3025]

damn. hats off to your principal for single handledly stopping all future school shootings from happening though

[@Mr.catin123]

This sucks, I’m sorry that happened mate. It’s seems that people only care about others when they believe them to be threat.

[@ozzcoremidmx8287]

Even If I don't know the whole context on your story what I can say is that it sucks that principals know about guys who get bullied but then they decided to not do anything to prevent it until something horrible happened.

[@dominicrusso3025]

@@ozzcoremidmx8287 Yeah... The principal should have helped him because he needed help. Whether or not the principal decided to do anything about his bullying doesn't matter at preventing something horrible happening because the OP doesn't seem to want anything horrible to happen. I can't speak for him obviously, but in this post it seems like he just wants to live his life.

[@karlsparx9077]

​@dominicrusso3025 except it's rarely about the bullying. Hell Eric WAS a bully..

[@gelatinous6915]

The terrifying thing about the WAD is that it's VERY accurate to the Columbine layout and the architecture/quirks of Jeffco high schools. It couldn't have been made by a random person on the internet, it was someone who had been inside the school long enough to get the details down (i.e: the weird curved glass wall next to the administrative offices, the raised squared windows set in stucco, etc.) it all feels way too familiar. I didn't go to columbine but I went to one of it's sister schools that was built at the same time (and reused a lot of the same architecture, including a clone of the main entrance section) and that WAD is terrifyingly uncanny.

[@ilearncode7365]

Dang, that sounds super spooky!

[@gelatinous6915]

The thumbnail literally made me choke because I thought it was my school. @@ilearncode7365

[@CleverWheels]

Gave me chills when I saw that wad.

[@valhalladante9859]

It's not made by anyone who has been to Columbine. Forgot the guy's name, but this WAD was meant to be made as a 3D remake of "Super Columbine RPG". It was made by some Doom modder in Germany. The layout isn't really as accurate either. The library is right above the cafeteria, but that isn't the case here.

[@Ghosty6464]

@@valhalladante9859You can’t put rooms directly above eachother in the original Doom + Doom2 engine. Because of how the rendering works, they’d be occupying the same space. Therefore, this is likely caused by a quirk of the engine, not the author’s knowledge.

[@Adventureapproved]

I ran into Eric and Dylan a few months before Columbine happened. They came into my Subway at night with a girl and I talked to them for about 30 minutes. I had KMFDM on the stereo and we talked about the band for a bit. Eric wasn't super friendly and didn't say much but Dylan was. I remembered them well and blew my mind when it happened. Crazy

[@prinbot]

I remember reading that after they had their friend buy the guns for the shooting they later went to go eat (subway). The friend was a girl named Robin. It would be crazy if it was that exact day. Was the girl blonde?

[@Spodogo]

I'm a bit curious, do you think you have, like a mental transcript of what was said?

[@xcrack6364]

Man, I remember watching all this on the news. Had my family not moved us to California in 1998, this is the school I would have been in during this time. It’s trippy to think about.

[@Leatherface123.]

Jesus

[@1758]

and there were a dragons flying around

[@Nahnbie2223]

Guess you got extremely lucky then

[@Thevirtualguy-zu2be]

I’m happy god had other plans for you

[@Leatherface123.]

I literally have no words for this comment Like God Damn You were literally spared by god himself

[@ChiefleafKazuki]

>“I will approach the topics mentioned with great respect” >Immediate Gamer Supps ad with “fart and piss” flavors as an incentive

[@Sarah-qx4vz]

This is the modern man now 😭

[@super1512]

not to mention how he recorded himself playing and shooting people in the doom wad lmao

[@chownful]

He meant great respect to the trench coat mafia

[@zdip2341]

“Guys, this is a really sensitive topic, so if you want to see more SMASH that like button!”

[@A_Marker]

I literally just made a comment about thus. Just fuckin embarrassing like Jesus christ. He also deleted my comment, ik he would, what a coward

[@UponDemise666]

@8:50- So, I’m certain the audio heard firing the BFG isn’t Eric Harris’ taunt voicing the iconic line: “Swallow This…” In fact that was a snippet of the One-&-Only Bruce Campbell as “Ashley (Ash) Williams” of The Evil Dead Franchise. Specifically “Evil Dead: II-Dead By Dawn-(1987)” […The More You Know💫]

[@Kenshiro3rd]

Literally was getting ready to type that, but checked first to see if anyone else had mentioned it. Than thanks for not disappointing. Henrietta: "HEY! I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL! I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL! I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL! I-AUGH..." Ash: **Steps on Deadite Mom's Neck & Points Boomstick at her head.** Ash: "Swallow this." **BOOM**

[@UponDemise666]

@@Kenshiro3rd well said

[@Chaingun]

The zombiemen scattered around the map are because whoever modified the original mod changed all the 3D models.. so they turn to zombiemen on default.. The zombie men are actually 3D model sinks, toilets and in the parking lot they are light posts.. It was a guy called Trevor4 something who edited the original and his computer couldn't handle 3D models so he took them out.. That seems to be the one that mass circulates and isn't the original.

[@johnnyrocketsttv]

Finally a comment that makes sense! I knew this couldn't be the real wad Eric made.

[@RustyShackleford556]

This! I found this version and have been looking for the original for a while. Do you know where I might find the original? Who is this Trevor4 guy?

[@Chaingun]

@@RustyShackleford556 I am not sure where the original is, but trevor was some kid that would edit other peoples mods and release unofficial versions without permission. he is also the one who removed the hud faces, made the cars get knocked around with no weight, turn the tec9 into an automatic uzi and put in the muscular sprites of eric and dylan, even though the original mod had them being more thin like they were suppose to be.

[@relic374]

@@johnnyrocketsttv its 10000% not. the actual maps he made were more on par with 16 y/o billy's first map, not as complicated as this one at all

[@MorbidB187]

​@@Chaingun I have the Original still somewhere around on my drive,with a couple of other versions too.might upload them somwhwere.

[@bobanimationz4062]

Midnight, this is the 4th time you presented "Dooms most disturbing mod", but now I can assure you cant get anything more disturbing.

[@Midnighthalo]

Fine, I'll do the most disturbing DOOM mod myself.

[@bobanimationz4062]

@@Midnighthalo thats the most impossible..

[@piru_sound]

@@Midnighthalo holy shit

[@uhhidke]

​@@MidnighthaloHDoom

[@alphaisdank42069]

either HDOOM or the christchurch wad...

[@SeggyCute]

Guys welcome to this video, it's SUPER serious guys... but FIRST a word from our sponsor! Sorry, I just always found transitions like that kinda jarring and funny.

[@weaponizedestrogen]

i always found it so disrespectful when youtubers use youtuber tropes like "YO WHATS UP GUYS" or using spooky ass voices talking about serious topics like this. If there's one time you should drop the youtuber face it's now.

[@wishdankpods]

i’m just surprised gamer supps verified this video as okay to sponsor

[@mrglasselijahpriceownsahar8261]

Midnight presenting one of the most darkest doom mods to ever scale the community. Thank you midnight for your brave heart.

[@ashblue777]

its fun tho

[@i-never-look-at-replies-lol]

so brave, so bold

[@FayeFaye-]

I mean... theres also this straight up racist mod for doom with monkey sounds, so...

[@Goon_Lagoon69420]

​@@FayeFaye-MoonMan? Or wat is it lol

[@TheArmoredScarecrow]

Were is the Florida or Texas school mods. Colombine is so last generation.

[@Landser]

Whats crazy is that the police were notified of many hints before the Columbine shooting from a guy whom knew the two, and they didn't do anything. Neither did the parents too at the time, and the mom tried making it a whole fantasy type story and getting money from it. Nice video, btw.

[@zombieoutbreakprod]

Tale as old as time now, theyre always known to the authorities and nothing is ever done about.

[@paulwoodford1984]

That’s why they desperately wanted the basement tapes destroyed. Eric a dylan we’re discussing the police in the footage

[@UrbanfloraWalker]

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[@UrbanfloraWalker]

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[@MichaelLovely-mr6oh]

From what I understand; Dylan's mother Sue Klebold has not made a dime off of her book "A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy" or from her Ted talk. Ted does not pay their speakers aside from covering travel and lodging accommodations. Sue has donated all proceeds from her book to various mental health charities and suicide prevention organizations aside from all reasonable expenses.

[@AddieWalker-wb6lt]

So, about the "1:1 Columbine remake in Doom" I sure do have quite a story to tell. I wasn't alive when Columbine happened but when I was 16, I made a 1:1 recreation of my school in Minecraft with a good friend of mine. Shortly after a school shooting in my state in early 2023 that left 3 people dead, I was arrested and charged with terrorism because I had blueprints of my school but ultimately the charges were dropped because there was not enough evidence to prove that all the videos and blueprints on my phone were for committing a shooting but instead, it all aligned with my story. The case never went to trial but I was never able to go back to a school in the US again. My case was even in the news and it feels so bizarre reading them all and seeing how blown out of proportion everything was. I spent my 17th birthday in a Juvenile detention center over the ordeal. Believe me, the FBI is very serious about these kinds of things. Ultimately, I graduated in June 2024 from an online school and even earned a full 2-year scholarship in the process. I now work at a Dollar General in the town I was accused of terrorizing and I still have yet to have somebody walk up to me and accuse me of being a psychotic mass killer. Everybody knew it was bullshit and it's fascinating because I was quite popular at my school, on the football and Wrestling team and attending after school events with the "cool kids". It's just unbelievable to me that all actually happened and it disgusts me that our nation treats youth like this without first asking questions. Creating a familiar location in a video is a flex, not an act of violence. I've created my own house in Minecraft, does that mean I'm gonna kill my family? Never made sense to me of how hard I was robbed of having a normal childhood over the FBI's negligence.

[@codeinexrist]

this is actually an insane story, im so sorry you had to go through that! hope things have improved since then

[@_marlene]

What an awful story! When 3d was new, EVERYONE created familiar locations in their computer. There were softwares made for this purpose, for example a home-building software for building 3d models to match your house. It is a very common impulse which happened in a mass sort of way around 1996.

[@user-ct8my8rv9c]

There are most likely some missing details to this "I got blueprints and made my school in minecraft and was arrested" story.

[@SDChargers93]

@@user-ct8my8rv9cI don’t believe the story Show proof of it’s a load of bunk

[@long_dennis]

@@SDChargers93how exactly do you expect them to provide proof? Do you want the photos of the blueprints or something?

[@notrealqq]

I’ve played various of doom mods and never felt like guilt or wrong, but watching this Mod (only watching it) made my Blood curdle, knowing the fact that this is based of a real event and innocent people actually died… Rest in Peace to all of the Victims, Cassie Bernall Steve Curnow Corey DePooter Kelling Fleming Matt Ketcher Daniel Mauser Daniel Roughbough Rachel Scott Isiah Shoels John Tomlin Lauren Townsend Kyle Velasquez Dave Sanders 🕊️

[@crabsinyourshoes]

Lost too soon. R.I.P also hats off to you for going through the affort to write each victim's name to remember them 🙏

[@chownful]

RIP Trench Coat Mafia

[@tom_sha]

@@chownfultrolls💀

[@HughJayness-pd5hn]

@@chownfulRIP Trenchcoat mafia

[@mdswitchy378]

Ripperoni in pepperoni

[@Dr.Qux3]

8:51 I’m pretty sure that is a voice line from Evil Dead 2. During the movie, the main character Ash kills a demon and before he does, he says that line.

[@vintageblast9232]

I thought so too

[@IndigoVoidigo]

Specifically Henrietta

[@BoyOHBoy123]

The 'REALDOOM' WAD is probably a remake, if this wad was made in 1996, then these parts wouldn't be possible. 15:52 Those footsteps are from Half-Life (1998) 16:02 That shotgun is from Counter-Strike (2000) 16:09 That Knife is from the Doom mod Twilight Warrior (1998) 16:20 The text for the library center was 100% made in MS Paint, but it's antialiased, and antialiasing was only added to MS Paint in Windows 7 (2009)

[@onewey00]

You are very knowledgeable!

[@mikel5163]

When a commenter did the research that should have been in the video

[@onewey00]

@@mikel5163 the commenter must be a connoisseur and maybe was around at that time. And the KZbinr is younger and hadn't been born at that time

[@BoyOHBoy123]

i just notice details bruh

[@jlewwis1995]

I'm.frankly surprised someone hasn't done a legit vanilla compatible realdoom remake by now and edited the modified date on the file to try and pass it off as the original, I wouldn't think it would be too difficult especially considering that the idea that the map is "completely 1 to 1" with the school is almost 100% likely complete and utter BS since we're talking about mid 90s mapping standards, there's no way the real version is even that realistic and everyone saying it was is just being hyperbolic because almost no one who had actually seen the real version at the time had probably ever played a single game in their entire life 😂 So you could just completely half ass it and as long as it even looks remotely similar you could pass it off as the OG

[@0thers1d3]

RIP to all who perished at the hands of those two psychopaths.

[@DylanKlebold_VoDkA]

Psychopaths? Please go and look at some psychological studies about it I know that person with username after Dylan is not someone who should write you this but really go look at it Dylan Klebold was not psychopath and Eric Harris was also not psychopath but he had some things that are common about psychopaths but we all have some things common with psychopaths you should really look at some studies about them maybe watch some documentary read some book about it idk but really at first educate yourself about this topic and then write something as this I know that psychopath is used for describing "bad people" but it's cringe and stupid

[@DylanKlebold_VoDkA]

Like I know the fbi said that he was psychopath and the mind behind it but it's old it was really soon into all that there are more studies that are much but much more deeper and better than the old ones about them

[@thomasparkes5707]

When mental health struggles go untreated

[@Toyota9993-m6g]

Nah and get lost.

[@amade_8919]

*Sociopaths

[@bunnybreaker]

Good god this is disturbing. Also extra sad that he could have leaned into his creativity and become a famous modder instead of an infamous killer 😥

[@OpenMawProductions]

He wasn't that good. His maps were middling. He tried to get a job based off his work, and they told him they weren't doing DOOM stuff anymore. People act like he was revolutionary. By 1996 the BBS were FULL of wads for Doom and Doom 2.

[@Randomlad56]

@@OpenMawProductions true that, though it would still be infinitely better for him to be a mid game dev than what he decided to be 😢

[@Jay34k]

​@@OpenMawProductionshe might have found a way to further develop his if he had the opportunity, game development had a waaay to go back then, he could have found something

[@robynsegg]

EXACTLY! I was thinking the same thing!

[@vulturetf3857]

these suck anyway

[@Deliryvm]

I too have dicked around with this WAD, and I think that this is a patched version of REALDOOM, or a "fangame" of sorts. While, yes, a lot of the evidence points out that it could've been made by Eric, given the whole thing of it being made to represent the exact layout of the highschool, but there's some flaws within it that leaves me to believe otherwise. The footsteps come from Half Life, a game that came out months after the shooting. Several weapon sprites were ripped from Counter Strike, which had initially come out around 2000. And the main, key piece that leaves me to believe this is a fan project is the quality. Eric's quality when it came to doom has always been shitty, the most technical aspects being sound replacements. The idea that he could implement his own gore effects years before modding could even reach that point is giving him way too much credit. Another fantastic video as always, and I'm sorry for writing a whole ass essay lol.

[@waynesolo]

I saw much the same.

[@Keznen]

Knew that step sound was familiar! It sounded just like the one in Gmod (which used to be a Half Life mod, of course).

[@lil_thang]

The gore and general quality of the WAD was miles ahead of the others, definitely seems like a late 2000's 4chan mod. Were the elusive 'Tier' WAD available I'm sure comparatively the difference in quality would be night and day.

[@alaskanhybrid1845]

I cant believe anyone would lie about the release date for Half Life cause its November 19, 1998 and Columbine happened on April 20th, 1999.

[@Dzaimon8562]

in his country?@@alaskanhybrid1845

[@sonicexereaper6814]

This one’s not as brutal, nor severe, like Brutal Doom, Grezzo Due, Rootpain, etc. But what made it truly disturbing from the rest of the WADs was the fact it’s all based on the actual plan from the shooters in an actual location. Can’t imagine playing it myself and getting the feeling of what I’m doing is exactly what the shooters planned to do. Also, gotta say, humanity really does have its f*cked up side when the shooters gain vile imbeciles to praise their actions. Man, what a truly dark world we live in.

[@DeezNuts-cs7bn]

It’s not really a dark world there’s sadness and happiness in the world that’s what it’s all about. You just look at things which are dark.

[@TheGamingMotionTGM]

There was also one other doom mod about abortion when the fetus's health point was the numbers you get if all the alphabets forming "abortion" gets converted into numbers, and that map alone was based on real life events of countless procedures, but fictionalized for entertainment. Unfortunately the maker got negative receptions online and was pressured towards giving an apology because these people are just too soft to get triggered. Oh wait you've mentioned Rootpain already.

[@sonicexereaper6814]

⁠@@DeezNuts-cs7bn Hate to break it to you, but there is always darkness in this world. You can try and go full Maruki of Persona 5 Royal to pretend there is 100% good in this world, but sooner or later, that barrier will break down once reality comes striking down, and it comes in many forms than just this controversy. As for sadness, some will take it out on others due to their depression evolving into hatred or enragement in narcissistic form while others do the unthinkable and twisted to continue coping within their delusional minds to be happy again. Don’t get me wrong, but I enjoy my life with my family being around my parents and my siblings. However, I fear what’s going to happen to one of them. For example, every time I drop my sister off to school, I always think of making sure her school doesn’t becomes a hunting ground for the mentally insane nor she gets harassed and mocked by the f*cked up egos of others being better than her. And everyday when she comes home, I’m grateful and happy that nothing bad happens to her. Now, as for work, not only am I cautious with my own life, but also, with my coworkers around me whom I’ve been friends with and gotten to know well. And during my year working at a store in a mall, I’ve dealt with the incident of a fight breaking out in AMC till someone pops off a gun, then another incident where teen mobs of lowlife uneducated scums start attempting to loot and run before the cops came and swarm in. Even tho I’ve stayed chilled during those moments, I’ve made sure my coworkers feel alright as they did the same for me. So, from what I’ve learned, I can’t always ignore the dark side of this world. When something bad goes down, I can’t always treat it as imaginary and think it’s all a “myth”. Anyway, wherever happiness or sadness is, there’s always the dark and twisted side of this world, either visible or beneath us.

[@sonicexereaper6814]

@@TheGamingMotionTGM Yea, Rootpain was a disturbing mod to experience, but it was reasonable with intent since the whole purpose was the creator just making an uncanny edgy experience out of it. I feel like many are taking it WAY too seriously as if they’re New Zealand trying to outlaw and ban Postal 2.

[@kubaoko008]

that's sanic.

[@ducksauce1290]

5:28 Wuss as in Wussy. We used to say that back in the 90's It was like a non cuss version of calling someone a pussy.

[@ImperatorGrausam]

I'm hoping this doesn't get striked. I recorded a playthrough of this WAD (no commentary, just the game) in 2017 and it got taken down and I got a community strike. You've got balls making a video on this WAD.

[@ascjosh]

I think these WADs are a good representation of Eric’s deteriorating mental health.

[@vladcrow4225]

Well, there was a reason for this. Other, than games.

[@Zaps64]

@@vladcrow4225he played doom in real life….

[@Hammerhead547]

He wasn't crazy, just pure evil.

[@hauntaholic0]

@@Hammerhead547pure evil doesn’t exist you are a fool

[@Palach624]

@@Hammerhead547 This. Some people aren't evil because they are bullied, ignored by society or whatever. They are just evil, and Eric was one of those people.

[@SirDirk79]

This modern "edgy" mod isn't nearly as eerie as the "School Doom II" wad released over 20 years ago. School Doom left me with a really uneasy feeling, yet I couldn't stop playing it. It later became a base for the Corporate Doom wad.

[@RealBadGaming52]

Link ?

[@Bearly_A_Gamer]

For those who don't know the "swallow this" line for the bfg is from the 2nd evil dead movie

[@Midnighthalo]

Im an idiot xd

[@ejmrulz]

“I’m worried about the integrity of my channel after posting this.” Proceeds to do a terrible gummy ad in a video about a school shooter.

[@carterpochynok4874]

This also kind of brings to light another part of the tragedy of this incident: these guys would probably be multi-millionaire game development legends if they would have been able to conquer their inner demons. Some of the stuff they did was really ahead of its time in the dev/mod world. Hopefully the next tortured genius finds help before they do something stupid. The world lost all kinds of potential in this incident.

[@BakuganBrawler211]

That’s the reason I am for treatment of mental health whether you’re having trouble or not we all need somebody to talk to once in a while. They had potential but sadly like so many they fell off the rails and blew up on others. Still to this day schools ignore threats and so do police departments…

[@ShowerOnceYearly]

nope eric just made some mediocre doom maps which arent hard to make at all. Any of us could spend a couple weeks learning the handful of tools and make the same subpar maps.

[@1roundleft821]

​@@ShowerOnceYearlyremember, this was baxk in 96

[@Ah_Yote]

@@ShowerOnceYearly today yeah it’d be easy as fuck, in the 90’s absolutely not

[@TacSon]

@@ShowerOnceYearly Standards for video game modding was low back then.

[@zetabrew1825]

I know its just a game, it's nothing but 0's and 1's, but the possibility, the slight chance that this is actually the infamous WAD file that is a exact copy of something that is real is what makes it so disturbing. Good work, hermano!

[@Midnighthalo]

Even if it's the one or not, it's still pretty f'ed up that this exists. Thank you!

[@boofingenthusiast]

This is definitely not the original one. Too many things are based off of events/circumstances that could not have been planned.

[@Thecactuar]

it isn't the real one. pk3 files weren't made until Quake3 in 1999. so this is either intended to be a recreation of the wad or an edgy mod.

[@WolfyRed]

Every single thumbnail with this guy: "THIS IS ILLEGAL!!!'1!1!1!1!111one!"

[@BreathFreeAndRemainNameless]

I remember seeing something on the news in early 2007, about a game called Super Columbine RPG. They interviewed the creator and I remember thinking it was messed up. If I remember correctly, it was like an SNES turn based rpg, one of the random battles was against "preppy girl". Just cold and heartless.

[@christopherhughes3895]

I was a senior in high school when this happened. Midnight, you did a great job covering this 👍

[@Midnighthalo]

Glad you liked it :]

[@Hollowed_Trinity]

Jesus, I never thought anyone who survived that would be on the internet

[@nickelakon5369]

​@@Hollowed_TrinityI don't think he meant he went to columbine. However, I do recall a 4chan post where a guy who was in Eric and Dylan's class did a QnA (he used a time stamp and his yearbook as proof) It was a pretty interesting thread as it kind of disproved a lot of the narrative that had gone around about the shooting (mostly just that Eric and Dylan were bullied and ostracized, when the reality of the situation was that they separated themselves out and were dicks to anyone who tried to say anything. Which is basically what was happening with that dude Eric said he especially wanted to kill.)

[@nickelakon5369]

@Intheendyourlifeisnothing and? It's all very he said he said, could it be a self fulfilling prophecy that a couple of edgelords set themselves apart and acted like assholes so everyone responded in kind? Could they have become aasholes as a result of bullying and ostracization? Or maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle? No one but the kids at that school then really know the truth, and even then maybe less than half would really know.

[@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650]

⁠@@nickelakon5369I mean to be fair public school is literally hell from the Bible.

[@pgj1997]

15:30 Considering that PK3 files didn't exist back in 1996, yeah I doubt that.

[@kennycheramie1255]

Jesus… Only 30 seconds in and you already feel unready for this video.

[@googleisevil8958]

Can you ever be ready for diving into the mind of a psycho killer? I don't think you can...

[@w00llee14]

Not to take any attention away from the horrific events of that day, but this Daily Mail headline ( 0:19 ) featuring a brief banner about an article on journalist Jill Dando is chilling as she would also be murdered outside her home six days later..

[@Zure-rf1fj]

I grew up in the town were Columbine happened, I have grown such a big fear of high school. Once i reached high school, I would go online so i could mentally finish school. Thank you for making a video on this topic, and showing how wrong it is

[@ethanhernandez9889]

Bot

[@destynova4512]

What that doesn't even makes sense.

[@jamesbeckett-y9m]

I actually found this and in the text of the mod it actually and I quote "it is very important to know that this was NOT made by Eric Harris." It was "made by someone on the 4chan's/VR/board." It goes on to say that it puts you into the shoes of the two shooters of that day. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. It also goes on to say to people not to spread misinformation by saying it was made by Eric Harris.

[@aguyfromflorida4842]

the vibe lf this video is all over the place like you have 2013 creepy pasta story telling music over this playing the whole time but the tone of voice and whats being said and done isnt serious at all and then like clips to some meme image like this is insane to watch

[@AvoidingHumanSociety]

I have 3 versions of this mod. You’re not using the proper launcher for this WAD. The most complete one has a a moving face of whatever character you use, innocents are walking and running around the school and after you kill a lot of them you go outside and cops are there with cop cars.

[@adamb89]

It wasn't "rebidomaker" it was "rebldomaker." As in "rebel doom maker." He and Dylan used to go on what they called "rebel missions" which is where they'd dress up in all black and just go sneaking around the nighborhood, basically trespassing for the thrill. 9:00 That wasn't Eric's voice, that was Bruce Campbell from Army of Darkness.

[@tonyLasagna284]

We had the columbine panel come to my highschool. Survivors of the shooting. And they were talking about the map they made of the school in Doom. I always thought it was just bullshit. Thanks for the video dude.

[@zorbarob]

Moon Man been real quiet ever since this dropped.

[@Midnighthalo]

Bruh hahaha

[@spookycat4620]

yeh moon man is nothing just some edgy trash made by some racist guy this however is actual evil created by an evil person

[@jamesoniris2647]

9:02 That is definitely not Eric's voice. That is definitely a soundbite from Evil Dead 2 of Ash saying "Swallow This."

[@stylintylin77]

You definitely didnt destroy your channel making this video. Ive never heard of you and youtube recommended this vid to me and i highly enjoyed. Thank you midnight!

[@joannes4321]

>video about a mod based on mass murder of highschool students >"BUY MY SUPPLEMENTS, DO IT NOW, MONEY MONEY MONEY"

[@gabrielarchange4680]

Tone deaf at best. Messed up at worst.

[@HalasterBlackmantle]

Having recently seen a report of the shooting, this made me feel very sick. Brought tears to my eyes, and I am normally not the squeamish type. Thanks for covering this, it's important history.

[@zzseta]

I thought this was an informative video but nope... I was hoping to see something more serious than this. Such a disappointment ,

[@xXgmaildotcomXx]

Thats midnight for you, terrible clickbait content

[@youngthug5678]

What do you mean

[@zzseta]

@@xXgmaildotcomXxyeah lol

[@zzseta]

@@youngthug5678exactly what you read , I was expecting to see some “educational” video but all I see are memes on a topic that’s very delicate

[@heroknite898]

This took some real nuts to cover. Most will call you a madman. But it takes a genuine hero to brave the worst of the worst for the sake of greater learning. To bury history, is to guarantee we will repeat it. If there's even a single thing to learn about how we could have prevented this, how we could have seen it coming; it's worth the endeavor into madness.

[@diabeticmonkey]

Couldn’t have said it better. When we forget, the same bad things happen. It’s important to remember the bad with the good in equal measure.

[@WokioWolfy]

Didn't MumkeyJones have his channel deleted because he talked about Elliot Rogers and figuring out what made him do what he did?

[@blueberrimuffin6682]

nuts

[@defauItpfp]

this one is so reddit

[@jaymoor8995]

Thank you for doing these. Even though the content is not DIRECTLY related to Columbine, it’s important that events such as these are not left to fade into obscurity. Know your history, lest you be doomed to repeat it.

[@SeanStrife]

I mean... REALDOOM I remember hearing was supposed to be a 1:1 recreation of Columbine High School in the Doom engine, so... in a sense that IS directly related to Columbine and was sort of a magnum opus of Eric Harris.

[@Marcelelias11]

"Lest you be doomed to repeat it"? History repeats every goddamn week in your godforsaken country.

[@alteredizzy]

If you want there's a columbine simulator game. There all done

[@TheCGMM1776]

​@@SeanStrife right, he said right when it started that the FBI established it as a training module for what they intended to do.

[@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky]

History repeated itself a LOT since then.

[@Hoffy1138]

Hmm... The combat shotgun sound at 4:43 is recorded directly from Terminator 2 when the T-101 walks out of the bar in the beginning and a guy fires a shotgun blast in the air and says, "Can't let you take the man's wheels, son." if you listen carefully, you can hear a tiny bit of "Bad to the Bone" in the background.

[@RipperCyclotron]

What I find interesting is that the initial mods he made were all death matches almost like he was reaching out for friends.

[@voxvolhynia5400]

Makes sense, since he was focusing on multiplayer-only maps, but maybe he just wanted to fight real people. In deathmatches, you kill human marines controlled by real humans, instead of demons controlled by your CPU, and that would certainly fit his desire to fight, hurt, and kill people.

[@TheWarlockGamma]

I went to high school a few towns over, one of my English teachers worked at columbine back then. He was one of the teachers tasked with calling families, he said it was the hardest thing he’s ever had to do.

[@philsteinberg6985]

This guy is running ads on a tragedy

[@RodgerYoung2024]

Ikr

[@superman5150]

Report it and notify the sponsor

[@philsteinberg6985]

@@superman5150 you do it if you think you are so smart

[@Fullmetalballsz]

Womp

[@ravenID429]

Oh shut up

[@RedHatGuyYT]

2:26 just a reminder that this guy used columbine as leverage to ask for likes and subscribers. let that sink in

[@jesselawrence3011]

"Swallow this" is definitely Bruce Campbells voice from Evil Dead 2 or army of darkness

[@unvaxxeddoomerlife6788]

I was looking for this comment.

[@YorkieChannelYT]

I had a police officer point an AK at me in the middle of the night once, that filled me with dread for a week. I can only imagine how those in columbine feel having witnessed the depravity of April 20th

[@elrobert2858]

The truth and events of columbine is a deep rabbit hole. That kind of thing was never heard of back then and the whole country was scared and in shock. Is a truly sad and dark story.

[@littykitty040]

I believe the "swallow this" is a voice clip pulled from Evil Dead II, right before Ash executes Henrietta

[@Bacon__SteezBurger]

5:28 Wuss (short for wussy) is just older American slang for calling someone a baby/pu$$y/soft/a “chicken”/scared

[@gregatim]

i don't think REALDOOM was actually columbine, out of 11 (told by eric) maps 7 have been recovered, 3 are confirmed lost, 1 is unconfirmed to ever exist, in my assumption the Columbine could only be the map eric never released to the public, and it would make sense to not release it since it would attract attention to a dual that already had attention beforehand. Realdoom in my opinion was just what eric himself said, a patch for doom, probably one with gory and better blood or maybe stock photos of real people instead of doom enemies. although the possibility that eric didn't even created a one-to-one recreation of Columbine is more possible to me

[@aanproduction1516]

>might be a real deal >wad uses modern gzdoom physics seriously?

[@user-uo8ny1kj4c]

yeah, this is obviously a recreation as we know GZDoom didn't exist back then

[@Treevors30]

9:07 no that is Bruce Campbell from Evil Dead 2 I'll swallow your soul I'll swallow your soul swallow this come on bro

[@jet6283]

i think its impossible for this to be real since the civilian sprites are the BoB crew from marathon 1 and that was a mac exclusive, i highly doubt they would be able to rip that on their own to add to another game engine at the time (marathon had its own and it was lightyears ahead of doom's engine)

[@SeanStrife]

It's very possible this could be a recreation, because I remember hearing about REALDOOM even before I started getting into the realm of Doom WADs; it was supposed to be a recreation of Columbine High School. Of course, it's VERY likely the actual thing is gonna be lost media just based on the fact that the creator is dead.

[@kaisersoymilk6912]

​@@SeanStrifeit could be in the archives of the FBI

[@javierpaz7954]

New fan over here! I've already watched like 10 videos and I didn't know doom wads had this level of depth. Keep it up!

[@Midnighthalo]

Welcome! Yeah, despite its simplicity, DOOM as a creative medium is extremely deep.

[@AProbablyPostman]

Doom is my go to for explaining why game engines need to be open source

[@TreeFiddy-1337]

The "Swallow This" audio clip is ripped from Evil Dead. Bruce Campbell, our lord and savior.

[@Avliv_Satan]

This has to be the most controversial DOOM wad there is, like for example the moon man mod is controversial as well, but at least it's not based on real events/things that actually happened. I also appreciate that you took the time to give a proper backstory to this WAD and analysing what went through the minds of the people that carried out the attack.

[@SeanStrife]

Yeah, as much as Moon Man leaves a bad taste in my mouth, THIS is the most controversial Doom WAD ever made and I don't think anything's gonna touch it any time soon.

[@WolfyRagnarok]

What's controversial about Moon Man?

[@WolfyRagnarok]

Nevermind! Just watched his video on it. 😂

[@ilearncode7365]

Wait, what is moon man? Update, just saw it and its fucking hilarious. The fact that this guy says he lost sleep over it is even more hilarious 🤣

[@Vermilleno]

This actually is the scariest and disturbing mod, knowing its origins and what it entails...

[@manwithamic2372]

Bro, that picture of yourself is not funny, and each time you put it up, it gets worse

[@junk89722]

yea, why is he putting his face in a serious video regardless his content is still good

[@MeBeingGoofy]

so?

[@dragoneye6229]

You are a real man of class Midnight. You covered this far better than the media, government or parents of the school kids involved. To this day it disgusts me that parents would politicize the death or trauma of their own children.

[@diabeticmonkey]

Doesn’t surprise me though. You’d be disgusted by the amount of people who will use tragedy to their own ends, even if it’s their own personal experience. It’s gross.

[@KopperNeoman]

"Oh hey a psychopath shot up a school, lets take guns away from people who've been very responsible with them." It's never "lets take guns away from crazy assholes who execute people for electing a cheeto"

[@Toyota9993-m6g]

​@@diabeticmonkeyGet lost

[@MichuuuuFTW]

@@Toyota9993-m6gFor what? Telling the truth? Parents have been monetizing off of their children’s suffering since the dawn of time.

[@skandto]

ehh... the video is monetized and they just keep memeing around the whole time...

[@AUWRECKU]

*Columbine is doom's most controversial and disturbing?* *GREZZO 2* : *allow me to introduce myself*

[@rebd00mer93]

This is not the actual REALDOOM wad. Its very obvious. The title screen uses a photo from the Zero Hour movie which didnt come out until eric and dylan were dead. So this WAD was just made by a columbiner who loves Doom.

[@itoyokocho.mp4]

even the wad file was made from 1996?

[@vulturetf3857]

@@itoyokocho.mp4metadata is easy to tweak

[@StrawberryCocoaPowder]

@@vulturetf3857 True but the eerie thing here is that the school in the mod is an exact model to the point where it would be impossible to replicate unless if you were Eric himself. My theory is that it was the real deal but someone else found the file later and modded it to have those sound effects.

[@CruelestChris]

​@StrawberryCocoaPowder You'd be wrong, it's easy to get hold of floorplans and photos. There exists no evidence that the Harris WADs ever contained a recreation of the school aside from one of the surviving students claiming Harris had _said_ he'd made such a level: if he did, it was never online. This is just a fake trying to trade on an urban legend.

[@ziongarner4485]

@@StrawberryCocoaPowder Bullshit, there's FBI reports available online that shows the entire layout of the school. It's just some modern edgy .wad that the sensationalist spic in the video tries to pass off as real.

[@spicybigdad8569]

I remember scrolling on social media back in the day, and I came across a video of this WAD being played. I don’t think any sort of gameplay vid has left me feeling disgusted since.

[@the_supern0va238]

I live in Denver, Columbine High school is only about 10 miles from my house. I pass by it pretty often and I can only think about what back then despite me not being alive at the time. I don't get genuinely disturbed that easily but this is definitely one of those things that does so.

[@adam7365yy]

The fact there's fan pages for these guys is probably the coldest thing I've ever heard

[@ElmStreet]

Not really surprising though look at Jeffrey Dahmer, he received tons of letters from fans and nude photos of women who admired him

[@SolidBren]

That was incredibly disturbing. But this was good faith preservation of history on your end. A well put together video that was handled in a mature and respectable manner. Kudos for your efforts and may you have a Happy Halloween! Cheers!

[@TheCGMM1776]

Mature and respectable?

[@SolidBren]

Okay maybe a little bit immature at times, but it all could've been handled way worse.@@TheCGMM1776

[@YussefAscar]

Esperaba este video hace tiempo, pero supuse que las versiones originales estaban perdidas, gracias por tanto Midnight. Gracias por los comentarios en español, hacen mi día, saludos rey.

[@klaalter69]

What always makes me sad and angry, is that parents still think video games make you violent. Like, my own parents always tell me shooters are bad and they shouldnt exist because "you willingly shoot people and kill them". I played some shooters at my friends house and im calmer than ever. I dont think shooting people in real life is good, shooters arent real life though.

[@austinabbott1120]

I graduated from Columbine almost a decade after the incidident, and I will say that its definitely not 1:1 from my time there. Outside was weird AF, along with the view of going down the cafeteria stairs. Though they had the locker configuration pretty on point going down the North hall, minus the two sets of doors partway down. Auditorium was pretty accurate as well. Semi intrigued to check this out just for the sake of confirming whether or not whoever made it had actually spent significant time there, or just went off pictures on the web.

[@zummie6334]

Capitalizing off of death is a bad trait

[@SuperNerd000]

5:28 'wuss' is slang for coward or wimp, like calling someone chicken, not as common today but was much more prevalent in the 80's and 90's.

[@JustYourLocalGuyWhoPostClips]

17:30 just like the original postal game (which came out 2 years before the shooting) also ... there's a level in the original postal game ... where you go to a elementary school but thankfully nothing happens... as i said 2 years before but i hope everyone on that tragic day rest in peace

[@nickwells20]

I'm sorry but the fact that gamers use pre workout sups is frickin hilarious to me.

[@ryanberki195]

The bfg saying swallow this is not Eric’s voice it’s ash from evil dead 2 9:00

[@citymorgue629]

8:51 when you're shooting the BFG, the voice clip isn't Eric. It's Bruce Campbell from Evil Dead 2. In the scene, Bruce's character Ash encounters a deadite who repeats "I'll swallow ya soul!" So he says "Swallow This" (clip used in game) and blows her head off

[@vtubersilvionimbus7542]

Unfortunately it's not possible for the file that 14jammar uploaded to be Eric's work. Some of the signs in the school (visible at timestamp 17:49) were written in the "Calibri" font, which was not available until the mid-2000s, long after the shooting.

[@Midnighthalo]

1000000 observation my guy

[@dyshoriasoftware6380]

The wad used a ton of zdoom effects that didnt exist then

[@AVGFurri]

I actually liked the Hitman For Hire tape. It made me remember some of the friends I used to play around with when I was younger. Silly and up for a laugh.

[@insane671]

Thank you for taking the time to read our comments!

[@CoralCopperHead]

Love the clickbait and fearmongering. Keep it up, you'll be a full-fledged corporate media shill in no time.

[@ReaperX7]

Doom wads are a very interesting dive into the mentality of the creator behind them. Not all mod creators are as deranged as Eric, but still it is a window into his mind, and kind of scary.

[@Iceman_plays_]

0:48 my mom left that school a couple of days before.

[@ditrihimmortal5792]

It's really disturbing, but also really interesting video, great work as always!

[@Tondars]

Fascinating bit of tragic history. Thank you for putting this together.

[@420mydudeglazeit]

These did not get released. Their hard drives, along with their cassette tapes were destroyed. I used to be super edgy, you gotta trust me here when I say these were made by someone else in 2016/2017. They went into a file editor to change the dates, its not hard.

[@spookybones7218]

9:10 is not eric's voice it is Bruce Campbell's from The Evil Dead 2

[@OpenMawProductions]

4:47 Yes, it actually literally does. He took the sound of a shotgun from a movie. Terminator 2, specifically. 9:08 It's Ash from Evil Dead 2. Holy shit, man. 11:15 No. That's literally all it is. 2 years is a long time. You're trying to hype this up and it's really disrespectful. Eric and Dylan were both dealing with a lot of shit, and his gaming hobby was not in anyway part of the issue. None of his levels from 1996 have anything to do with Columbine. His medication and his frustrations with life (including not getting accepted to work at id Software, his dream) lead him down the rabbit hole of hate. 14:12 Yeah, that's because you can't. The Basement tapes are not available. The transcriptions are all anyone has ever seen. 15:33 No. It is not the "real deal." At all. It was made by a German modder years ago.