There Is NO Cure For This DEADLY Disease! | The Smile Tapes (Analog Horror)

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The Smile Tapes is an analog horror series that has been recommended for us to react to for a LONG time, and now we're finally getting around to it! Everything that I've heard about this series has been fantastic and I LOVE a good analog horror series. Let's dive in together friends and always... remember to smile :)
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[@jwd1681]

Hi!

[@wolfo8077]

First comment on this

[@Reapersouls339]

E

[@Mangsterade]

2 days ago on a < 1 min video? Oh yeah schedules

[@Samy856]

Mention me plz

[@SavannahJones0218]

38:06 I put the red code through a shift cipher then a ceaser cipher. The code translates to "WE ARE A FAMILY"

[@flamable2596]

Puttin in the hard work 💪 thanks man for the effort :D

[@Mr.A34x]

Thanks for saying that i would never figure that out

[@HxH_Weeb-]

WE ARE FAMILY 🤣

[@thegreenguytheories]

@@HxH_Weeb- i got all my sisters with me

[@benneeds_a_name7398]

My mama sister and me 🎶

[@tsuyuasui3793]

I always think about the fact that I have a chronic allergic fungal sinusitis, meaning I can’t be infected with any other mold or fungi. So I’d survive both the cordyceps virus and this. It makes me feel better sometimes

[@maidouniu]

[System: You are the main character. Do not share this information with others. You now cannot die without revival. You must save us. Good luck, buddy]

[@ginniegill1026]

That seems like main character material right there

[@mookosh]

Kinda makes the whole plot to the last of us seem contrived. We could all just infect ourselves with whatever it is you have.

[@Anonyomus_commenter]

@@mookosh It’d take too long and also I’m pretty sure it can still be bad for you long term. It’s another fungi that kills other fungi- and can apparently lead to blindness and the disgusting sounding “eyeball displacement” if left untreated

[@mookosh]

@@Anonyomus_commenter whatever medical complicated may occur are nothing compared to becoming a zombie. The plot to the last of us is literally them trying to find a cure. Whenever the cure comes into existence, it'll be useful. Such a simple cure, a competitive fungus that can outcompete the cordyceps would completely solve the crisis.

[@idkwhatimdoing5840]

real missed opportunity to write "(happen't matpat noises)" at 26:52

[@nutsi3]

That makes me very happn’t

[@connt1nu3]

That’s how I spelt it too!

[@NekohaSnak]

Make this the most replayed section in the video lol

[@autumnblaze6267]

I'd think it's supposed to be "happyn't", even if the pronunciation doesn't make sense, but that's normal for English

[@dldiaz]

I was going to say the same loll

[@kadensyco5618]

Mat, Flour is just how what was tossed was described. I think the fungus just looks like flour and he just had a bag of the stuff tossed in his face.

[@foxtrot3791]

Yeah I'm thinking it was not literally flour lol, that is probably just what he assumed it was

[@neolithiumproduction]

Or it came out of his mouth when the boy wasn't looking, so he thought the man 'tossed flour' at him when it was spewing spores.

[@Casta2]

I was thinking similar to this but maybe they didnt "throw" the fungus spore bu "ejected" the spores from the mouth or something. Any normal person would assume "flour" and "throwing" over spores and ejecting/vomiting if they got hit with it without seeing it happen themselves.

[@hmm6261]

yea i thought so too but also from his mouth

[@umbreonjmj5647]

It was flour however the flour had contracted the fungus... people have always had trouble keeping flour from contamination by various things

[@Euu-eu4qh]

"How do you ensure your safety outside?" "Wear sunscreen." (EDIT 1: OMG 930 LIKES???)

[@beeeeens0034]

i mean, he isn’t wrong

[@The_Hunta62]

And bring your sidearm

[@matthewwriter9539]

A long sleeve shirt will protect you as well as most sun screen.

[@kalemerahenryharrithkimera8241]

Don’t forget smiling creepily wards of people

[@Cinnaschticks]

Mosquito bracelet :]

[@cocodevs]

The code at 18:54 says "SMILE" in Hexadecimal. The E is cut off, but E in hexadecimal is "45"

[@kagesong]

Oh good, I'm glad I'm not the only one. You see people getting whole sentences? Although, with the last 5 cut off, making it cypher, apparently, to "We are family" combined with the hexadecimal...

[@Alex-oy5pr]

​@@kagesongthats at 38:25

[@kagesong]

@@Alex-oy5pr oh man I don't know if I would have preferred not having that pointed out. To be fair I have slept about 4 hours in the past 4 days I'm struggling

[@DivaQuinzel]

How do you find that answer?

[@cocodevs]

@@DivaQuinzel I'm interested in ARGs and Roblox Myths, so I quickly recognized it as hexadecimal. There's a lot of Hexadecimal to ASCII converters out there, so I tested if it were hexadecimal and turned out I was right.

[@-arthur-]

Love how the dream man is just an edited photo of the "have you seen this man?" Creepypasta, where the same face appears in thousands of unrelated ppls dreams.

[@raychwagner3657]

Omg I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought of that!

[@SpawnOfTartarus]

Ash fan club unite!

[@teally-bop]

UNITING COMMENCES

[@3DOM_]

Ay!

[@meise6871]

Nah I’d fail

[@meise6871]

Before bots, remember that matpat is staying here. Yoo I stopped the bots once again

[@Azalea-cx2uk]

In this household we believe in Ash Supremacy

[@stellart5664]

Personally I interpreted the "a guy threw flour on me" as that not actually being flour, but rather the spores this man was releasing. That's where it connects to the other case because in the antopsy they said they thought a gas had been released but really it was spores. I can't remember if they mentioned the color but I always imagined the gas to be a pale gray, kinda like flour.

[@JadeGemini123]

That’s crazy, I didn’t even think about that

[@-Kyle404]

You're never fully dressed without a smile.

[@paigemorabito4770]

True

[@IsaacHardy-js2pt]

Alistair, i swear! Just because you recovered doesn't making fun of it OK

[@averybanks6330]

Man... How have I not been arrested for public nudity yet then?

[@user-ft3fj3kh8r]

Me: *pulls a jeff The killer* I am NOT getting arrested for nudity!!!- (Also thats a good song ngl.)

[@whalesharks]

hello, dolly!

[@indys9005]

When MatPat made the joke I thought Ash was going to say they felt "s-poorly" about it 😂

[@thequimsnaim]

Ash uses They/them

[@indys9005]

Sorry I didn't know. I changed it

[@thequimsnaim]

@@indys9005 👍

[@sheridanwolf]

Pretty sure she/they is fine I did look it up, I am correct Ash uses She/They

[@rnggaming1060]

@@sheridanwolfquick question, does she/they mean it’s acceptable to use everything associated with female pronouns (pronouns her/she/hers) and also NB pronouns? (They/them/their)

[@Karry-on_Krow]

four minutes and thirty seconds in, and matpat who is retired is STILL teaching me more than school itself. AND ITS ABOUT CHOCOLATE!!! i will never stop loving gtl lol

[@kathrynkelly454]

*than

[@Gabrielle-pk3xy]

Not grammar lol

[@Karry-on_Krow]

@@kathrynkelly454 Fixed it. Thank you for boosting my comment and fixing my grammer!!

[@surprisedadrianlol]

​@@Gabrielle-pk3xy Yes, grammar lol

[@HAN-7]

@@Karry-on_Krowlove ur energy mate

[@obsidianluna1597]

I am really doubting that it was flour, maybe Shaun thought it was flour but it was really spores.

[@worknotinprogress7172]

That's what I thought too. That might be what happened to the dog too which is pretty sad.

[@Endertazer]

@@worknotinprogress7172I think since he was entering the violent stage that he killed the dog unconsciously since he states the dog was just fine the day before

[@cupcakefunnyface1393]

@@Endertazeri always thought the more shaun got sick, the more it “spread” to the dog, which killed it after a while. Shaun was conscious the entire time he was sick he just fell into insanity before new years

[@juan.2513]

it might be just flour mixed with the spores

[@pasteldoll2756]

how can the "you do realize that lunch is the most important meal of the day" guy be missing lunch??

[@djkzrocksta]

"My friends say I look a lot happier recently. I am not. Behind this forced smile I am suffering"- Unknown That quote hit hard man

[@farawayxgalaxy]

I wanna make this into one of those sad instagram quote photos now and see if anyone gets it

[@EspectadorEntrometido]

Acetylcholine is the neurotransmitter in charge of opening the channels for the synapsis to have place. If this channels want to be closed, the body produces an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase, which degrades acetylcholine. This enzyme is produced on a set amount, intended to be fully consumed in the degradation. If the amount of acetylcholine increases drasticly, the body will not be able to produce enough acetylcholinesterase to degrade it all, leaving the channels open. If this happens to occur anywhere inside the limbic system, let's say, the amygdala, it can produce a constant, uninterrupted state of intense euphoria and irritability.

[@EspectadorEntrometido]

TL:DR, this people REALLY did their homework.

[@HxH_Weeb-]

​@@EspectadorEntrometido really interesting os there an article on more of it?

[@EspectadorEntrometido]

@@HxH_Weeb- It's basic synapsis process. Go into Google Scholar, it's the search motor for science and academics with verified information. Just search any introduction to neurology textbook or article.

[@TheCyberKid707]

⁠@@EspectadorEntrometido “Not to be that guy, but… people is plural, person is singular.” - 🤓

[@revron9683]

​@@TheCyberKid707tbf, they're a spanish/Portuguese speaker

[@kagesong]

53 4D 49 4C 45 S M I L E Also, apparently without the last 5, someone used a cypher to get "We are family". That could be intentional, but man what a deep cut circumstance to create, or even notice.

[@jakethemaximus8812]

S M I L E

[@LittleDragon548]

at 38:06 is where it says "We are family" it's a different code btw so it isn't about the 5 at all also there might be a 5 but matpat just went a lil too back

[@kagesong]

@@LittleDragon548 yeah I've been told a few times I feel properly embarrassed for my mistakes LOL

[@Aliex.backward]

I think the reason that the police report goes crazy at the end of vol 1 is because of what happened to the original patients. When patient two died, 30 mins into the autopsy they spewed out spores. I think that the police officer that unalived gomez got some spores and during the write up they kicked in, leading to the tangent about smiling.

[@sydneyhobbs9817]

I like this thought

[@linkin0983]

That would make sense too.

[@user-vw4xp5nt9f]

*killed

[@Aliex.backward]

@@user-vw4xp5nt9f I wanted to be safe, I wasn't sure if it would flag and delete my comment because you know, youtube filtering isn't great.

[@Moongirlgacha_roblox6643]

@@Aliex.backwarddon’t worry it won’t flag you, you can say whatever you want, you can say bad words and stuff, so you won’t get flagged

[@aaliyah1546]

Can we PLEASE talk about that awesome sweater he’s wearing? The colors and flowers are so pretty!

[@elephants_are_awesome4990]

I was thinking the same thing! I absolutely love it!!!

[@Professor_Brie]

33:16 Microbiology major here, just have to correct when he distinguishes fungi from viruses and bacteria as living, bacteria are also living things, they’re prokaryotes and are very much living cells. Based on what you go on to say, I think the term that would more accurately describe what you’re trying to articulate is that most fungi are usually multicellular organisms, which makes them more complex Edit: Even a single cellular fungi species would be more complex as it is a Eukaryote, and Eukaryotes are more complex cells compared to Prokaryotes (larger cells, membrane bound organelles like the nucleus, etc…)

[@georgefiddes7034]

Sweat

[@bwingbwinggwiyomi]

Gotta make use of your degree somehow, huh 😂

[@user-vw4xp5nt9f]

@bwingbwinggwiyomi i know this and i don't have a biology degree

[@Professor_Brie]

@@bwingbwinggwiyomi I don’t have a degree yet, I’m still a college student. And it’s not some sort of useless degree either, so this comment confuses me?

[@flookkt]

The "You know how that makes me feel Matthew?" and matpat knowing exactly what ash was gonna say 34:32 i love gtlive so much 😭😭

[@prehistoricblob783]

i dont get the joke :(

[@kingstonlovely7404]

Happen't

[@flookkt]

​@@prehistoricblob783 its funny because ash was referencing the joke she made earlier in the video with the "happent"

[@Vermasium]

im pretty sure the face at 18:15 is the man from the "EVER DREAM THIS MAN?" phenomenon

[@starinthecirclestudios5840]

Yes that’s right, I couldn’t remember the name of the survey, I kept coming back to happy valley dream survey but I think that’s something different, but that is the picture that appeared on the posters asking people if they had dreamt of the man being depicted.

[@Blahydra]

Yep pretty sure thats on the money.

[@The_Hunta62]

I’m surprised Matpat didn’t recognize the face of HIM

[@AyameMitzuki]

You are all correct, that man is stereotyped to be a menace to peoples dreams so him being part of the story is like that anime that actually had miku be part of the plot.

[@viatheanimator]

@@The_Hunta62he did recognize him, that’s why he was talking about the “viral marketing technique.” that’s where that picture came from

[@Glitch180]

17:15 - I think the man actually coughed up spores and the person thought is was flour. Especially since the fungus produces so many, it could seem as though is was flour. Also, poor doggo got infected with spores.

[@Amarianee]

32:41 "Um, actually" to Matt's "Um, actually": They never called the fungus a disease, and (as mentioned by Ash) fungi can cause disease. The disease here is the smile and aggression symptoms - which "they" are concerned could emerge in different variants. Yes, you are at risk of contracting the "fungus" within 10ft, but by proxy, if you contract the fungus, you are also at risk of contracting the unknown disease. Therefore, use of the word "disease" when describing the symptomatic problem, is actually correct 😋

[@georgefiddes7034]

Sweat

[@Sen-ki-]

I may have misunderstood what you just said but to my knowledge a disease is what causes the symptoms, not the symptoms themselves. You can't say a migraine or a cough is a disease, however the flu is.

[@eugeniovita9010]

Neeeeeeeeeeeeerds

[@DelaynaBailey-ng6ne]

@@eugeniovita9010this is a haven for nerds.if you ain’t then go away

[@Memezndreamz]

Did you even watch because when the scientists are fearing the chance of mutation it says that they fear the chance of multiple variants of the "disease".

[@BelfrostStudios]

So the music that plays at 17:00 is pavane pour une infante defunte also known as Pavane for a Dead Princess. It is basically a piece that is played when someone you love or someone you care about is about to die or has died and you want one final moment with them even though the situation is helpless. According to myth, the piece got its name from being played during the time a princess was dying/dead and the people mourned her with this song.

[@doublescoopovanilla5835]

It caused me physical pain when he called it "Muzak."

[@Daniel-zx4tg]

I think Matpat would like EMESIS BLUE by Fortress Films. Especially with the sequel coming out.

[@HarryTheMeatball]

YES

[@universaltoons]

yes

[@Daniel-zx4tg]

This is also my third week of asking

[@theawesome5496]

Since when was there a sequel announced?

[@The_normal_BOI]

YESSSS

[@CIA_XIAN]

31:04 "We've still yet to decipher these cryptic messages" Captions: 🗿

[@rosalindmccollum6012]

At 25:52, I was reminded of a story of a Japanese woman/spirit with a carved open smile who would approach and ask if you thought she was beautiful. The only way to live was to say you had a partner.

[@XxXRingoXxX]

Or to say you were late to a meeting or something

[@AyameMitzuki]

Isnt that what that random curse Geto had with a domain that attacked toji? Im talking about inspiration? Or it might be from another thing thats similar

[@rosalindmccollum6012]

@@AyameMitzuki No, this is a Japanese folktale, I have no idea what you're talking about? The Kuchisake-Onna.

[@AyameMitzuki]

@@rosalindmccollum6012 if i recall. The curse im talking about (im talking about jujitsu kaisen btw) is a referance to a folklore or myth about something similar, but instead you need to say shes pretty

[@rosalindmccollum6012]

@@AyameMitzuki With no hesitation, or else she cuts your mouth as well. You can get out by saying she's average.

[@caitlinb1657]

Unrelated to anything, BUT I love Matpat fits. Out of all the Matpat fits, this jacket is my favorite ❤

[@megatronusorionpax4900]

Right??? I'm trying to figure out where he got the jacket from 😅

[@Akademi_123]

@@megatronusorionpax4900it’s from theory wear

[@HxH_Weeb-]

I think he made it lol​@@megatronusorionpax4900

[@mei.hogaraka]

Very cotton candy ☺️

[@krystalingram]

It reminds me so much of one of the Lumen jackets they announced during their fashion show recently! I wonder if it’s like a product sample or something… Or it could just be a really cool jacket that’s not related to Lumen! I’m not sure lol

[@lmw4780]

26:52 the editor missed a massive opportunity to have those captions say happyn't matpat noises

[@mildlycornfield]

I love Ash tormenting Mat with Gen Z meme slang construction

[@cassiejohnson9410]

Matpat: Is this related to smile? The joker: Am I a Joke to you?

[@MKG-2033]

2 years late, but it’s still cool to see them cover my favorite analog horror.

[@bwingbwinggwiyomi]

Matt's retired, I'm pretty sure these are just old videos reuploaded?

[@Morbid_magician]

​​@@bwingbwinggwiyomi he still does new gtlive videos, he's only retired from the theory channels

[@Con2much]

@@bwingbwinggwiyomi not sure if you payed attention, but he mentions the fact that he is retired in the video

[@TheFrenchNarrator]

​@@bwingbwinggwiyomiHe has only retired from appearing on the theorist channels. He's still very active and consuming content on GT Live!

[@thesilvishow29]

16:04 didn't see him mention this but acetylcholine helps activate muscles for voluntary movement. Too much would overactivate it

[@lavenderyip]

Mat's ears going all red after the unsuccessful choc snapping is everything

[@Snoorlacks]

This probably isn’t much but I noticed at about 22:05, when the person says “I am not.”, obviously stating they are not happy but notice there is a period there. Then the phrase “Behind this forced smile” appears implying they might just be putting on a happy face. But notice when that phrase appears, the period in the phrase before disappears. That would make the full phrase “I am not behind this forced smile” implying that they aren’t controlling it, and after the next phrase appears, the period reappears. We obviously already know that they aren’t controlling the smile but it’s a nice detail that, if intentionally put there to mean that, I found pretty cool lol

[@forfathom]

13:05 patient 2 been going through it, I noticed on week 2 he lost his hair.

[@Moongirlgacha_roblox6643]

Yeah i think the fungus are a bit harsher that it gets rid of hair OR someone (for some reason) shave his head

[@evangeliaiviioannou8405]

Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter involved in muscle contraction. So it seems like the facial muscle spasms are due to the acetylcholine, and the same substance is somehow affecting the amygdala and making the people aggressive

[@HelloIAmAnExist]

34:34 this joke was absolutely sporrific, just sporrible

[@HxH_Weeb-]

I'm laughing way too hard it's not even than funny

[@lemonnarrations8012]

19:06-19:11 I’m sorry but that chord progression is beautiful. I can’t stop replaying.

[@lemonnarrations8012]

I wrote this comment before he talked about the music lol

[@moonwing4729]

Pavane for a Dead Princess is one of my favorite songs. It’s so beautiful.

[@ika9216]

Song being played is Pavane for a Dead Princess if anyone was interested. Not really sure if it has any deeper meaning tho

[@Robert_T0]

I am hella interested, ty so much m8!

[@moonwing4729]

I’ve been trying to learn it on the piano, it’s absolutely gorgeous!

[@jetaimesooshi]

the comeback of happyn't after sporifice was hilarious

[@AshutoshMohapatra-uk3zd]

During the signal received part in the second part if you turn on auto generated captions it will actually tell you what that voice was saying

[@Ori_wisp_wc]

"Fungus AMONG US" - Matpat 2024 32:25

[@NikkiTheViolist]

9:00 speaking of dark alleys, one time I went down one. Spooky dark alley. Only one place the whole alley had its lights on. The door was wide open, the windows were perfectly clear, nobody inside was visible and there was no furniture except for a single tiny painting on a wall that I had nightmares about for weeks, and there was chanting and drums coming from somewhere inside.

[@shadow-ld7ib]

the guy named "him" was a real life dream phenominon where people all over the world dreampt of this one man

[@emmathornley4745]

It was actually, as Matt called it, a viral marketing campaign for a movie(?) in the form of an unfiction project

[@AIexander5566]

There's this guy at my favorite restaurant who keeps serving us who like unnervingly looks so much like the dream man

[@AIexander5566]

​@@emmathornley4745people most likely saw it and their brain fabricated it into a memory kind of like deja vu

[@ThatOneGuy0006]

It was a viral marketing campaign for a movie that never came out.

[@shandke]

By the “Him” is actually a man in a dream who lots have been seeing. Sometimes he is nice, but other he acts maliciously. I have actually seen him in one of my dreams.

[@MoltenG3ar]

32:25 Matpat talking about differences between fungus and a disease Then the video title referring to the fungus as a disease

[@hmm6261]

27:32 i think what happened was that the flour affected the dog and then the dog affected Shaun. though i think the "flour" was probably actually a cloud of spores that came from his mouth. also the whole "only happens at night" thing checks out bc he said he was walking at night right?

[@krystalingram]

32:30 THERES A FUNGUS AMONGUS 🙌🙌🙌 Edit: I immediately thought of Evan & Katelyn’s play through of a crafting forest game a while back where they said this a lot lol. If we ever get a MatPat/Theorist + Evan & Katelyn collab I would SCREAM it would make me so happy!!

[@krystalingram]

I also bring this up because I noticed they went to MatPat’s retirement party hosted by KZbin 👀 Who knows, maybe they will collab!

[@Goat.Kin.]

If you pay close attention to the spam of random letters in the second video, they translate (in Caesar cipher) to “WE ARE FAMILY” when it moves 11 :P

[@PrincessLelouch]

I really thought after “sporifice” Ash was going to say they felt “sporrible”

[@Guaardii]

The Amazing Digital Circus ep 2 is out!!

[@user-ks8xx6wh5w]

jax was an asshole in the episode !! BUT still my fav character

[@themoocow7718]

More lore!

[@Villainlover1]

It was good but also sad

[@holdmyteaimbusyscreeching6135]

9:12 when i was a junior and senior in high school (im a girl) i worked for my local fair as an agriculture ambassador (i worked in the barn/animal area, like giving out ribbons telling people where to go and just helping) anyways point being at this point in my life i didn’t own a car so i used to be forced to walk home,, and as local fairs are this one was in like a park but off a highway and the fastest way to get home was ducking between dark alleys in miami,,, it was so scary i met many a sketchy characters luckily nothing ever happened more than just druggies having strange conversations with me. but yea

[@sofiakuchner6371]

The man at 17:44 is known to be seen in multiple people’s dreams, there have been signs in different countries in Europe that have been asking who the man is. No one knows who he is but a lot of people have seen him in the dreams before seeing a picture of him. This picture is a bit different than the man that I think of though but I think that they took inspiration from him.

[@phoenixmarktwo]

The real life version was a social experiment, not a real phenomenon.

[@neolithiumproduction]

In the Last of Us game...its the spores in the air. The fungus zombies even develop bits that specialize in producing and distributing the spores into the air. Many parts of the game require you to wear a gas mask to avoid said spores. In the tv series, they changed it to being in the bread because having the actors in gas masks would make it hard for the audience to relate to what they were seeing on tv.

[@iwanderkinderen6790]

honestly matpat doing greylock and finishing monument mythos would be amazing

[@chicknbisque]

i don't think they'll come back to monument mythos because of the creator

[@immyg_563]

@@chicknbisqueI haven’t watched any monument my this stuff outside of matpat and one other KZbin video what happened?

[@iwanderkinderen6790]

@@immyg_563 i looked it up the guy was abusive in a past relationship

[@Thatscrazy_anyway]

Greylock would be amazing!

[@themoocow7718]

Greylock is a good one.

[@japbstudios]

9:30 Well if you think about it, the only reason a dark alley is a threat is because there's already dangerous humans in the dark alley, those are the people with the instinct to go into the dark alley, so if you're with someone who has a sudden urge to enter the dark alley you happen to be next to, maybe you should begin distancing yourself from the individual.

[@sketchingdetails]

There are some incredible analog horror series getting a lot of love on the Internet. The Smile Tapes is one of the series I find the most terrifying.

[@Danby-ig1bp]

The code at 18:55 is HEX and it spells out "SMILE"

[@paulytheking7365]

This video cured my problem with being happn't all the time.

[@manuapplejuice]

YES! I was waiting for you guys to watch this for so long I ended up forgetting!

[@jenniferhinshaw8164]

MATPAT THE DUDES FACE ON 25:58 IS UNBLURED

[@HoodieHorizon]

YES SMILE TAPES! Been WAITING for this one!

[@Notyour-Aki]

Omg you’re continuing Smile Tapes!?!? Best birthday everrr

[@kathrynkelly454]

Happy birthday 🥳

[@umbreonjmj5647]

Happy birthday

[@r.i.p.t.i.d.e]

Congrats making it around the sun once more🎉

[@kzkaa.]

Happy belated day

[@bearnbee]

SMILE TAPES MENTIONED FINALLY!!! I watched this on my own before the full compilation came out and thought it was so goofy, but its honestly so good

[@aceisaperson]

FINALLY HE REACTED TO THE SMILE TAPES YESSSS I’m so glad to see it given some attention!

[@fractured_crystal7004]

signal numbers themselves sounded like 2, 18, 26, 15, 19, 26, 9, 20, 13, 18, 8, 25, 4, 8, 19, 2 No clue what they mean tho Since they don't go above 26 i suspect the first conversion is to standard letter which gets you BRZOSZITM RHYDHSB But i got no clue where to go from there

[@zhenshei9398]

I tried the same thing and came up with the same result. Definitely these numbers. Not sure what else it could mean. I might cross reference it to the Periodic Table. That’s the only other thing I could think of

[@--FI--]

Hey Matt! I noticed that at around 26:04 the Shaun Gomez's face unblurs and it looks equally cool and disturbing, I think you should check it out!

[@lostsghostz]

BEEN WAITING FOREVER FOR THIS AAA

[@PhoenixFlight8D]

Ive been waiting FOR SO LONG for his reaction to this OMFG

[@jaiplier]

The hell is a chocolate knife I have never heard of one in my entire life before?!?!

[@richardking4125]

the one piece anime has the SMILE fruits, artificial devil fruits, that make you smile and laugh uncontrollably after consumption if that fruit is a failure and you do not receive some kind of power

[@annie.mation]

Oh my god, I’ve been waiting for this series to come here since forever now, so happy they finally got to it!

[@sfreeland701]

18:56 that code is ASCII (hexadecimal) and is says “SMILE” assuming the part cut of the end was the 5 in 45

[@Sanriolover1111]

Who else came here after tadc?

[@Hungariangirl]

😊

[@Hungariangirl]

😊

[@cockroach24]

me: oh hey, I haven’t seen this one before 10 MINUTES AGO !?!?

[@cenobittten]

Oh man i can relate to the chocolate addiction. The struggle is real. I hadnt heard of this series, so it was fascinating to have a good look and Matpats & Ash's perspective/banter on it. Its a very cool well-written little series, if dark.

[@nekoplayz1501]

19:40 MatPat mentions the background music of Shaun's log. I don't know if it was mentioned yet, but the piano piece being played during these logs is named "Pavane pour un infante défunte" (Pavane for a Dead Princess) by Maurice Ravel. One of my favorite, somber and emotional pieces to perform. I don't know exactly the significance of its use in Smile Tapes, but it could either be: 1. The name, suggesting/hinting towards Shaun's eventual succumbing of the fungus and death or perhaps, 2. While the name implies that Ravel wrote the piece to mourn a loss, it was actually a simple musical number for an actual princess to perform in court, similar to a ballet. Shaun is an important character to the series in some regard, and could be seen as the catalyst/main actor for the New Year's Day mass homicide of '95. But hey, that's just a theory, a film theory iirc Can't wait to see part 2!

[@UnitedCookies101]

We are talking about analog horror today! Also them: start talking about chocolate and their habits of eating it

[@MooMooMellow]

Matpat, you should react too the new the amazing digital circus episode that came out!!!

[@DecklanFagerlind-vl9nr]

30:00 with captions it says a series of numbers that are probably a code

[@weirdsock]

oh em gee i love this analog horror series!! glad to see ash and matt react to it ^_^

[@bamgm14]

Pretty sure this is the Joker Toxin

[@user-fp2rs5wk8h]

I had that same thought

[@Lol_l0s3r]

YALLLLL DIGITAL CIRCUS EPS 2 IS UPPPPPPP WE GOTTA HAVE A RE ACTION VID

[@Joeys_acc]

Finally, I’ve been waiting so long for him to talk about the smile tapes!

[@kevinhernandez9626]

Did not expect one of my favorite pieces ever, pavane pour une infante defunte, to show up so prominently in a gtlive episode.

[@jonleonard1555]

26:25 I feel like "happened" as related to "happy" could be more like "I was happy, but not now." being happy was a thing, but that's in the past.

[@PorcupineTheOneandOnly]

happen't is how I imagined it. I looked up on merriam webster to see a close word antonym to saddened which is gladden or gladdened in this case. So...yeah. Weirdly, the past tense of happy is happied. No one ever says that.

[@sheridanwolf]

The Happiness ended

[@NoxBing]

SANTI WE NEED A FOOD THEROY ON HOW TO CUT CHOCOLATE THE RIGHT WAY!!!!!!!!

[@thatoneperson12]

underrated comment

[@mishifishi6640]

tf is a theroy

[@bwingbwinggwiyomi]

He's retired, did you not hear, kid?

[@thepinkcoin1512]

@@bwingbwinggwiyomi did you not read the literal first word of the comment

[@Borisgotothenorris]

It took mat getting retired but he finally reacted to it boys. WE WINNN

[@OwlWitch5141]

tbh i only really watched gt live vids so I'm glad you are still doing them!

[@thatdudebroyayy]

If you're wondering who "Shawn" is, I'm pretty sure he is the guy who killed the first zombie guy, because it says earlier, "Including Shawn" under casualties at one point.

[@andreas.2494]

Comment PSA: If you see a single comment swarmed by bots please ignore and report! Thank you!

[@TideManReal]

AH HELL YEA! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!

[@Echo339]

happy that ur doing gt live

[@ColtSmith-fu7uv]

If you are reading this then have a amazing day

[@H1V3_B0M8]

Thanks, you too!

[@somethingmundanethen]

The fact they obviously cut out the process of Matt looking up the definition of Senescence, saddens me. 😢That's what I'm here for. The banter.

[@chicknbisque]

i mean he's a science guy so i wouldn't be surprised if he just actually knew it off his done

[@googoogaga7986]

Me at 2:10am rn doing my last lil bit of college artwork before my writeups and watching this in fear but also kinda feeling cozy?! I love analog horror to death honestly I think it’s the 7+ years of fnaf fixation in my veins

[@YourclassicTherian]

0:00 I love your jacket/sweater mat! 0:32 again love it!