Strange sightings on an Alpha Minecraft channel

There is a bizarre channel on KZbin that appears to show Minecraft anomalies. But it's a lot deeper than it may appear - join me as we explore the oddities of Mark101.
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[@RetroGamingNow]

So sorry for the delay between videos - hopefully this one is worth the wait. Did you find this video interesting? Join the discussion at discord.gg/retrogamingnow

[@thatmangoman]

Worth the wait! Love your content!

[@null12mc]

amazing

[@sweetlifealley]

I understand why people love to make Minecraft creepy content in Alpha, but why not beta or release? I can see possibilities with those versions

[@flandyc4513]

Happy Holidays, Retro!

[@litteral2x497]

Yay you uploaded! Quality over quantity!!

[@adzz296]

This story was FNAF'ed. What started as a genuinely eerie, horror story turned into another inter-galactic story about saving the world.

[@xdrastig_4207]

fnaf got ruined so fucking much, honestly the smaller a creepypasta about some monster is, the scarier it is, atleast for me with the exception of few cases

[@1_SANDY_5]

Matpad

[@1_SANDY_5]

WELCOME TO GAME THEORY

[@user-mn7dk2mt8j]

Dude it was more original than others,tf you talking about?

[@adzz296]

@@user-mn7dk2mt8j Yeah it was, but I miss old creepypasta-style stories, and this story started as one of those. Eventually, when multiple entities were introduced, it lost it's shine- in my opinion.

[@tizzymuncher]

I like how it went from "yay I got tones of diamonds!!" to the moon crashing on the moonbase

[@vortexxx___7185]

-casually plays minecraft -gets scared -gets his existence denied -refuses to elaborate further -leaves

[@Horns897]

Immersion for me was lost when they got into the moon arc

[@vii-ka]

@@Horns897 for me it was at the end when the whole thing was denied existence

[@tigerriderminecraftjava5097]

It literally went for scary sighting video to lore video

[@quetzalcoatl974]

The J.A.F.F.A. would be proud

[@decract]

This turns to "creepypasta" to "horror story" to "goofy movie". Literally.

[@HelGlorbtr-pf4qw]

Yeah, pretty weird, It was creepy, then it just turned into a fucking “Hero Vs Villain”

[@EmiWi]

but where else could this possibly go, you can't just perpetually sustain the eerie environment with no climax, if you think it could be done better why don't you do it yourself?

[@catscanhavelittleasalami]

@@EmiWiwhat do you mean? The best horror stories are the ones who know where to end. They're the ones who have no clear ending. What we make up in our mind will always be more scary than reality, which often ends up underwhelming. You absolutely can sustain an eerie environment with no climax.

[@EmiWi]

@@catscanhavelittleasalami I agree, but horror these days, especially mainstream, is about the narrative, the conclusion that it brings at the end. I also enjoy the horror with no clear conclusion as well, but that’s not what horror is about in recent times. Though, it does seem that people are starting to make vague horror stories like that again.

[@NawrasAlhawa]

Im the 666th liker

[@jkterjters]

The thing about this ARG is that it’s concept is taken to it’s ‘logical conclusion’ which means it inevitably stops being scary in favor of an actual narrative.

[@prismatica_official]

Yea but the actual narrative is kinda goofy and poorly written.

[@flamingdog9207]

This wouldn't be a problem if the actual narrative was good. However it's... Mediocre at best.

[@catscanhavelittleasalami]

yeah because the orignal story was sooo scawwy. oh no there's a red dot on the moon im scared!!

[@sarge1408]

​@xn6963 still better than a high stakes "Gotta save the world" thing.

[@Fortunedoeseditz]

​@@catscanhavelittleasalamistill better than most Minecraft creepypastas

[@LeeGoGators]

This is like if an AI wrote a Minecraft creepypasta and this group is acting it out

[@MCAlexisYT]

Ever heard of ChatGPT?

[@ryanhernandez8324]

@@MCAlexisYT no

[@LeeGoGators]

@@MCAlexisYT yes lol

[@The_Redstone_Robot]

Accurate.

[@stanleybochenek1862]

@@MCAlexisYT nah i remember AlongCameJosh tho

[@delxmos]

These ARGs describes perfectly the feeling of Minecraft in development when you start to play it

[@swiftsword6489]

What’s an ARG?

[@erickjoestar1561]

@@swiftsword6489 "Alternate Reality Game"

[@mosshivenetwork117]

I disagree. This is very strange and bizarre. Scary, even. Sure, Minecraft can be scary sometimes, but not it's not like this.

[@rotisseriepossum]

@@erickjoestar1561 it’s ‘augmented reality game.’ not sure why the ‘alternate’ misconception has caught on

[@devpoodle]

@@rotisseriepossum No, augmented reality games and alternate reality games are two different things that happen to have the same acronym. Augmented reality is when a game adds something to a real-life image, like Pokemon Go. Alternate reality is when a game uses the real-world as a platform to tell the story.

[@MrKennyUwU]

This story felt like it started good and then... the silly entities happened to exist. It's like playing the first hour of any F.E.A.R game only for it to lose all the horror and starting a CoD campaign

[@wood7395]

happens when you abandon a good idea for child engagement

[@Andux]

nuh uh FEAR 2 is my favorite game I will not accept any criticism of it

[@cdm966]

“Any FEAR game” implies that the series has any cohesion at all, which it doesn’t. What you’re describing sounds most like F3AR, the worst one. IMO the original fear was genuinely good at mixing action and horror, and managed to at times make you feel anxious in spite of the firepower you had.

[@EPICNESS2008]

400th like

[@drillbit8280]

except FEAR’s combat is interesting and dynamic

[@ChatookaMusic]

Love how the void beings very obviously went from either some kind of imposed image or manipulated texture of something that looks super uncanny in minecraft to silly not entirely out of place looking in game entities

[@lordnautilus6519]

I think he specifically choose slimes as the monsters Markus killed, because their spawn chances in Minecraft are dependent on the moon phase fitting the theme of the series. Nice touch

[@RetroGamingNow]

Nice catch!

[@maqma_2118]

Unfortunately this is not true in this case as slime's spawn rate is only influenced by moon phase in swamps, and the slimes spawning in Markus' mine is the slime chunk method of spawning.

[@EE-wr7lm]

@@maqma_2118🤓🤓

[@Space_Pencil]

@@maqma_2118 Still quite neat, either way!

[@lordnautilus6519]

@@maqma_2118 Yeah I'm not saying the exact method is the same but it's still linked to it

[@discipleofdagon8195]

The least believable part of this is how many diamonds Markus has Edit: I hereby condemn this reply thread with a terminal case of r/redditmoment

[@tenidiotaodpizzy4603]

Trueee

[@Waffle_enjoyer]

Emeralds*

[@Death_Itself0]

Yeah and you know what it is

[@not_d4rky578]

You mean the most beliveable?

[@Titan_Tvman-3.0]

@@Waffle_enjoyer it's daimonds not emaralds

[@lockjaw8378]

What a disappointing route this ARG took. It started off being genuinely terrifying. The sounds made me curl up in my chair, the scenes of panic from Markus were infective and genuinely made my heart race. Even the entities and unexplained world changes were creepy and gave me chills. But as soon as the Sector 4 and everything with that got introduced, it got genuinely less creepy. It felt more like some strange intergalactic fanfiction. The entities were still kinda creepy at that point but the more they got explained and the more time we spent in the Moonbase and Adminspace the more value they lost as horror creatures. I hope with the next installment of this series they stick to the horror and leave out the frankly unnecessary Admin and Dev stuff.

[@Textago]

The author self-insert is what ruined it imo

[@SorryForBecomingHumanAgain9819]

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[@Vlumpty_Vonty]

​@@SorryForBecomingHumanAgain9819I agree

[@wahdermehlan]

​@@Vlumpty_Vontyfr fr

[@fanOfMinecraft-UAs_channel]

For me it stopped being scary after first two white rooms things with star and then the second player guy after that. Then I thought that they both maybe are trying to stop the anomalies that are spreading from some another world but even they are failing with their command server becoming destroyed too. Then the weird dimention travel began. And finally it kind of was confirmed to be not real inside it's own universe, making it less real than my imagined multiverse, where it's canonically real inside itself, while being a world below this one in hirerarchy No, they just made basically everything a story in it's lore, which was even worse that becoming a science fiction. And to add to it, I'm one of the people who liked backrooms more as another universe than a creepy place, so me not liking this story really shows that it wasn't a good plot twist

[@Speed-TV]

I find it funny how whenever an entity is around, they drop the framerate to make it easier to edit the entity in

[@volden4902]

Yeah, and it even works 😂

[@BierBart12]

That kinda concept of the frames dropping when something terrifying is near has been a thing in text creepypastas for over 10 years tho

[@dyjhjfrtt6607]

The beginning: Ooh thats spooky The end: I have no idea what is even happening anymore.

[@browniepotato]

haha legit

[@koboldwizard]

Before: oh yeah weird entities got it. After: a collective group of conscious ai working to either destroy their own world or save it whilst dealing with a random group of people who entered into their secret world then it turns out the secret of the arg was that the world is an arg. honestly i have no clue what i just said or if its even accurate

[@dashybois]

​@@koboldwizard You're mostly right on that. Though, what's even more confusing now is the identity of the author. Not sure if you've seen the latest videos on this series (they're on The Let's Play Archive channel), but The Author certainly isn't a human being. Not sure if they're a part of the "void beings" since there's some contraditions to that but at this point I am running with it for now lol.

[@rsqwuk]

Beginning: Oh a random minecraft alpha mystery.... that's *interesting* End: *WHAT THE FUCK* did I just watched

[@equilibrum999]

Genezion: Yeah a minecraft letsplay and seeying weird anomalies, also moon became redmarked Finalion: The moon houses teh adnuinspace console, destroctrion of void, arg knowing it being an arg

[@derezzed5588]

I SERIOUSLY missed this kind of creepy minecraft found footage type stuff. This is the kind of stuff that gave me nightmares as a kid.

[@Mentelgen-1337]

God I miss herobrine lol

[@becon8575]

@@Mentelgen-1337 i miss the monster school without the cringe 😔

[@TheWhiteSpy]

roblox footage archieves are more scarier.

[@jegersvart6138]

@@TheWhiteSpy No, not really. Roblox is a game where you are usually filled with other people in the game. Minecraft is empty. Nobody. "Single"player. The world is so incredibly vast, and you are the ONLY sentient being in the world. Are you sure? Is there something else out there? You can't know.

[@cryscrows]

Still does. never playing Minecraft lol

[@ItsameArtic]

55:56 why am I thinking of that void entity just having the text of “Fruit Loops, NOW”

[@Stehvee]

Yo ill make the image for you

[@jadonherr6469]

35:24 The absolute buildup to this joke is amazing, i freaking love it.

[@ZGamer911_]

same

[@derekrequiem4359]

aeiou

[@ivy_47]

John Madden. Football

[@sticc.5483]

The character of Markus must be the bravest man in the world. If I saw anything that could qualify as an anomaly in my world then I would leave and never touch the world again.

[@memelordmarcus]

He deadass told Star "I'm not afraid of your noodle friends" referring to the void entities, he's a badass

[@rocco5361]

Heh. In a bedrock world a while ago, I had this weird glitch where a roughly 18 block tall, 12 wide, 1 thin wall of dirt, stone, or other blocks with some tall holes in it would appear out of the ground and occasionally would disappear after relogging. I called the “entity” that made it “Factoryman” because the wall kind of looked like an old factory wall. If I had seen this video I would have left the world and never returned, but nothing ever happened other than the walls.

[@firemayro]

well also because i doubt anything in a fictional game could really harm you in reality

[@AntarcticAnimations]

@@firemayro The highest damage I think a fictional game can cause is mental trauma

[@blackneos940]

Put the Hard Drive that has the affected world on it in the Microwave and turn the Microwave on

[@MKsunmoon500]

These stories are everything young me ever feared while playing Minecraft. Weird entities, unexplained world changes……. This video would have terrified me

[@lucastheunfunnyguy]

My friend sayed he saw like a doom boss in the void💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@Forcoy]

Yeah but at this point its getting cheesy

[@mikeobannion2129]

Bro this is like the same exact thing for me! Lol

[@mikeobannion2129]

@@lucastheunfunnyguy They were probably lying btw. Man I remember saying lies similar to this to my friends during like elementary school and stuff and they believed me... Good times.. But I still feel like there is probably some entities that are in Minecraft that aren’t lies.

[@notaidannotcarlson7107]

@@mikeobannion2129 except its a game so no there are not

[@cheezkid2689]

I'm so tired of cool stories like this becoming so insanely goofy.

[@Adam_GamesHD]

Yeah, the more and more VoidExp became a major part, of this the more exhausting it got to keep up with it.

[@258thHiGuy]

The moment I saw that “entity sliding out from behind the block” was actually just a png being click-and-dragged into frame, I knew where this was going.

[@TyDoT22]

This guy is the equivalent to a professional movie director

[@thatmangoman]

Ya

[@Raichu159]

The voices

[@Memory_Burner]

Facts

[@thumbgoblin4716]

rgn or mark101?

[@HelloIAmAnExist]

@@thumbgoblin4716 pretty sure the comment meant rgn but honestly they're both incredible story tellers

[@NinetyUnderScore]

30:27 Actually this is a bug in old versions where if you walk down a staircase of blocks, not touching each step for long enough to create a footstep sound, it will play every missed footstep sound in quick succession once you do stand on a block long enough again.

[@earlywizard9085]

OH MY GOD thank you, I was just playing Alpha 1.2.3 and had this EXACT bug happen to me while walking down my mine stairs, and I tried looking it up to no avail, but I still kept this video in my mind. Now I know what it is

[@redranjer]

now that i think of it, it still happens to me sometimes in multiplayer

[@Rocco-tb9ih]

@@redranjer that's just lag, not a bug

[@beegboi6421]

So it gets delayed when walking and touching each step. It just counts it and waits until you stand on a block.when you do, the step sounds plays at once.

[@Bonk...3]

"actually" - 🤓

[@ItsameArtic]

I actually got spooked in the beginning, but it ended so badly

[@user-uk9cl1gc8s]

The beginning was peak horror but then it turned into a goofy save the world movie

[@kingoscar5447]

This started off as a interesting creepy pasta but then introduced a bunch of characters and a new plot that I think didn't really need to be added to the story

[@doktawhawee9870]

Indeed. I think that such is often the unfortunate case for a lot of ARGs. They are made by story writers who get too caught up in plot development, and they often forget about what made them scary in the first place.

[@latteteaa]

Yeah, i think people like psi and star mightve been needed but like markus’s friends, checkmark, void entities probably should have had more purpose, maybe these will have more of a purpose in act 2 but idk

[@someobscuremusicchannel]

I agree, it stopped being scary but it was still interesting nonetheless

[@coreo6688]

It's the I need to overexplain my plot points syndrome, just like any creepypasta/backroom type shit it needs to get shit explained for no reason instead of leaving the unexplainable unexplained or vaguely explained just like the first 15 minutes of this video, giving characters emotions and thoughts is bad because the viewer can imagine something far beyond what the writer's comprehension is, at least FOR HIS OWN entertainment (which is actually the CORECT way to write stories like these if you want most positive feedback). It's exactly like the what's in the dark dillema. You and your friend are taken by force to an undisclosed location and put in 2 different rooms, in the corner of your rooms, total darkness. Your friend gets told that there is a person holding a knife there, he is distressed but you are being told that there is something there in the shadows waiting, no matter what, you will ALWAYS think that the unknown is scarier because your brain makes you the special monster that it knows it will scare you, it's the same with this, those characters could be anyone your brain thinks there is , the monsters could be coming from a lot of places, if it gets explained it stops being a creepypasta/horrorARG and it starts being a basic sci-fi horror-like story. I understand there are ARG fans that like this type of stuff where there are crossovers but I find them overused already.

[@IngeniousNinja]

@@ige_3599 The metafiction stuff is super cool but there needed to be a bunch of more intrigue and middle section between the two. You can have "spooky alternate reality invasion through minecraft" and "the whole thing is metafiction that technically IS affecting reality in a memetic way" at the same time... but not if you just brush off the first part and jump into a bunch of weird character narrative and skip to the end point. It weakens the metanarrative punch tons too, IMO.

[@MiloMurphysLaw]

It’s so interesting seeing KZbinrs make series like this. It’s like the Minecraft equivalent of analog horror videos

[@_MrOtto]

that's actually becoming a new genre of horror, called digital horror

[@jasonthebeast1454]

Digital Horror, to be exact (I’m a nerd🤓)

[@jasonthebeast1454]

Now what is: 7 • 7 = ?

[@MiloMurphysLaw]

@@jasonthebeast1454 49.

[@jasonthebeast1454]

Bruh really?

[@Idkwhatimdoingwiththisname]

The starting was so scary but at the end it turned into a goofy moon story

[@thebowz998]

I love the first part of this story, the unnerving transformation of the moon, the low bitrate footage of weird, spindly anomalies, the creepy sounds, and even the premise of *something* messing with your Minecraft world and leaving strange images/videos on your computer while you aren't looking is wonderfully chilling. Also I am pretty sure the structure at 17:18, is where the "example of an anomaly" image on the minecraftanomolies website was taken. The picture is very difficult to make out, but you can see a floating grey structure, falling snow, some ice near the bottom, and even what seems to be Markus's house in the background. It is possible the image was not *of* an anomaly, but rather taken by one (probably ☼, since they've been using Mark's account and were shown to have control of the website at 34:00). That may also explain the cave system below (18:30); ☼ could have dug the hole leading down there and created the holes in the bedrock as another entry point for the void beings.

[@volden4902]

Very good outlook, but what if Marcus is being called the anomaly here? Since in the picture his house is there almost near the center, star had ability to make a void trojan in the script, which caused void beings to appear and then star helped these anomalies get past the bedrock, it could be that Markus was created by star to be a puppet of his, but he learnt a lot possibly due to star's mistakes behind the scenes, and Markus disobeyed star in the end, in my opinion Markus is an anomaly made by star (which explains why star didn't try to manipulate other players like how he did to Markus).

[@thenasiudk1337]

I'm an adult, but this kinda scares me because it reminds my old fear of playing Minecraft survival alone, because I watched too many Herobrine, Entity 303, and Null videos on KZbin when I was a kid , it's a weird feeling of a nostalgia

[@maranne_]

Same!! I couldn't even play in pacific

[@mimaii]

HAHAHAHA MY GUY SAME

[@mimaii]

Although only Herobrine convinced me, the others are cringe imo ever since i learned abt coding

[@HolyMerryChristmas]

Bro even me when i hear cave sound then i leave so fast when i was kid i think it was entity

[@memesbymcdonalds2228]

As an ass this dosent scare me

[@whitted2799]

Just imagine what would happen if Markus and all his friends were in a voice call

[@IvanoktVan]

Chaos.

[@Amogusrath]

Just incoherent screaming and chatting

[@isle-unto-thyself]

​@@Amogusrath "I'm gonna put my cat on the mic"

[@ongod366]

@@isle-unto-thyself *MMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW*

[@sh0tsumedits]

"MARKUS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING" "ima troll this star guy real quick, watch me"

[@DakotaTheIronSpider]

The cosmic entites in my minecraft world haunting me to insanity watching in horror as i type /gamemode c:

[@PrismTheRaptor]

The entities looked way scarier at the start then they just turned into the weird backrooms creatures. Sad to see where this went

[@alexoctobrg]

the beginning was actually quite creepy but then it turned into the goofiest story ever

[@bropels]

True like i'm sad about how they changed the entity design like at first it looked TERRIFYING but then it just got turned into a "oooohhhh spooky horror mod"

[@tl1882]

@@bropels just once i'd like to see a realistic arg

[@bropels]

@@tl1882 yeah but for me I would actually like to see an arg that actually makes me terrified for the night and the next day dude

[@memelord6335]

​@@tl1882 I wouldn't say these ones are realistic but these ones are damn near perfect stories adult check out some Team Fortress 2 ARG the to that I recommend are bad water 2009 and Gunslinger Pro 2009 I don't want to spoil the story so I'm only going to give you the one gimmick that make sure you stories interesting, the rag doll characters with in the game of Gmod in these stories are alive and sentient

[@HediBleats]

True

[@drtygan4870]

scariest part is 3:13 where Marcus uses a lever to open a wooden door

[@pentaawesome]

i cannot sleep anymore after this realization.

[@alfredoainurahman1342]

@@pentaawesome Same

[@tracyhardy1310]

This made me sleep in my moms bed 😳

[@amongusfeet3842]

@penta same sadly

[@GuganilsonYTP]

It’s kinda scary because sound

[@ultimatequeenofdeath666]

i loved the way they integrated lag into the beginning, plus the low quality look really made it feel like one of those found footage things, when all dev stuff started happening it just looked kinda ridiculous, not to mention the spindly monster things just look like those kinda bad minecraft mods from the first peak in popularity, overall it aged pretty poorly past the first few markus things

[@Darth8888]

I came here to watch a minecraft alpha creepypasta, but this turned into a story where the real world is at risk because a minecraft entity 💀

[@krisfedora8316]

13:58 imagine being chased by a weird creature in Minecraft and the framrate is so low you can barely run from it.

[@andrewduncan6972]

Id actually be smashing the whole setup, nah you know what… demolish the whole house, wipe the ip, move countries, change names and live my life in the trees somewhere in vietnam alone.

[@krisfedora8316]

@@andrewduncan6972 LOL i would actually do the same

[@insertnamehere1258]

@@andrewduncan6972 respectable

[@tashkent561]

It's like these dreams where you have to run but struggle to move your legs.

[@rubenofficialclips2738]

@@tashkent561 or when you get kidnapped, and you can't scream

[@forg4446]

I loved the part where Mark said “It’s Markin time” and proceeded to Mark all over the place.

[@Raichu159]

I killed them all

[@zombie2356]

kinda kinky

[@unintelligible-synapse]

It's Marking time

[@forg4446]

It’s Marking time

[@atomictransfusion]

It's Markin time

[@iselfdestrukt7338]

I know that this ARG got FNAF'd a ton, but I feel like its the same reason why I loved the Godzilla NES Creepypasta so much, its just very interesting to me for some reason, but I dont know why...

[@tristanwelke7827]

Okay, those void spaghetti shadow demons were actually kinda creepy. Mostly because of how hard they contrast the Minecraft art style. If it had stuck with that angle and followed the more "traditional" corrupt and/or haunted game motif it could have probably been better overall. That second half kinda derailed the plot into some other dimension of absurdity.

[@GSFigure]

I'm really losing faith in the SCP company to actually secure and contain these creatures.

[@DinoPlaysRoblox]

The SCP Foundation Aint A Company Its A Foundation

[@DinoPlaysRoblox]

Ämöng Üs

[@Journey_Awaits]

They “guarantee safety and peace” until they hear you say that, haha

[@operatorblartz3337]

This is all because of the damn 05-13 he nuked the entire site

[@dagsertr]

theres an sco that is actually stuck in minecraft and is contained in minecraft

[@241Cookies__]

I love how this ARG, in some weird way, is a love letter to online story telling and the nature of ARGs themselves. It’s lowkey poetic, but at the same time, amazingly confusing and kinda ridiculous. As a fellow author, it is amazing to see everyone’s creations come to life in such unique ways. Absolute banger of a video, worth the wait, and a solid 11/10

[@ericr.malice318]

420 likes

[@mrbrightsidetf2]

I completely agree, a very well made ARG that manages to go meta in its unique way, kudos to THE author

[@szeretemahansant226]

man named himself an author💀💀💀💀

[@BlazerMinecrafter]

I find it an interesting parallel to the actual minecraft end poem, which touches on the nature of creating.

[@Stagcraftstream]

@@szeretemahansant226 Brian Griffin headass

[@TBgamer4]

I really like the scribble monsters in the first half, some guy figuring out whats going on. the adminscape half of the story is where it fell off a little bit for me

[@momos4173]

The heginning got me, it got kinda goofy and unserious after players started joining but, good ass video!

[@65Mystery]

Loving the name changes. "Mystery of Mark101" "Layers of the void" "Strange sightings on an Alpha minecraft channel"

[@Bananappleboy]

"65Mystery"

[@troywilten5732]

"65Mystery"

[@HassleHoffer372]

"65Mystery" idk what this means, but continue the chain

[@ic0nic707]

“65Mystery” also no idea what this means, but continue the chain

[@DanielleIsBroken]

"65Mystery" I in truth as well have no idea what this means but the chain must continue

[@fishgirlviolet6502]

I always thought it was weird how the moon being scary is such a common trope in internet horror. From this to HIS THRONE from Local 58 to the Crescent king from the Monument Mythos to Neptune from Gemni Home Entertainment.

[@toranziancentralnetwork]

Maybe if it didn't have that spooky face lookin thing on it, it would be less creepy.

[@jackturner3867]

Humanity is beginning to sense the sentience emanating from the moon

[@mastercheif878]

The moon has always been a symbol of mystery in many cultures. Not really strange to see its representation in this way in horror

[@muddskipper]

Yeah it's a lazy horror cop-out imo

[@mikeyaftony2464]

@@muddskipper So with that logic anything paranormal is also a cop-out? If it were lazy then they would all be the same. I admit they have similar themes but all twist it in their own way. It's all about how it's executed.

[@jneptuna412]

30:27 I think that is the footstep audio. In this old version, walking on the side of blocks would cause the footstep audio to not play and queue, stacking it, causing them all to play at once when you move off the side.

[@chillstorm2341]

This is as much of a wet fart as the Godzilla NES creepypasta. Such is life, I suppose. (Good start, bad development, you get me?)

[@BrimmFate]

"a mother giving birth to her child" is the scariest line given the context because there's so little and it's just so random

[@1.and.0nly]

probably the void giving birth to void beings

[@shellder_gaming]

Mate i see a man on a hill 🗣️👤🗣️🫁🫁🫁

[@BrimmFate]

Huh

[@Zenith9485]

I really love the beginning with the creatures and fear of the unknown, but i feel it all goes downhill after they go to the white area.

[@oki5297]

yeah, i agree. i was seriously scared in the first part and was literally watching with my eyes closed

[@danizk0]

Same. Part 1 was absolutely horrifying, it reawakened my childhood terror of Herobrine I haven't felt since 2012 in a matter of seconds. The way Markus was fearfully looking out into the distance hit very close to home and the unexpected noises & weird changes to his world are the exact things I was scared of encountering back then. The presence of backrooms-like monstrosities only amplified the fear of the unknown. And then we see a bunch of guys shooting arrows at the Moon. What an extreme letdown.

[@danizk0]

There used to be lots of Minecraft clones on a Russian social network. I don't remember the name, but one of them had much more realistic graphics than the rest, with players having actual human models from Unity put into a blocky world. It also had a legend about a tall, black "observer" entity that stalked players from the mountains at night. Some people posted (obviously edited) screenshots that showed it looking at them from afar. Coupled with how uncanny the graphics were, it was probably even more creepy than Minecraft's legends. That's what Part 1 reminds me of. The legend is, of course, nothing original and it was probably just taken from Garry's Mod, but we had no idea. There was also the possibility of it being a real thing, since the game was so niche and there was basically no info you could possibly find about it.

[@derpychicken2131]

I do like both parts, but the first definitely is better. I feel like part two would’ve worked pretty well as its own project/act that can go deeper into lore without ruining the wonderful and terrifying simplicity of part 1

[@captaindragon133]

I actually liked the admin stuff, Mark’s group exploring adminspace reminded me of those old multiplayer minecraft stories like Shadow of Israphel or Mianite. The Meta stuff in the recent act 2 kinda derails it though.

[@Allunary]

Honestly, what a fascinating series of videos. I really like some of the concepts the creator was running with. Capturing that 2011 minecraft feel with the usernames and skins and crusty video editing- it was also fun to see a bit of proper modding going into the series to make it feel all the more real. I was definitely spooked the first time the moon disappeared lol, like MAN. It brought back all of the fears I had playing minecraft in early beta. The meta ending isn't my cup of tea, but I loved the concepts of the admins running things from behind the scenes and having their own devlog type videos that are clearly not meant for our eyes.

[@SVN_ETR]

The Moon base alpha killed me lmao

[@elsleazo9592]

If the ARG peaked at a planet-sized monster shedding the moon as its shell and trying to inhabit earth, I think it would have been much better.

[@DoktrDub]

Like Local58?

[@entransnake]

Holy shit this would be scary

[@mrvespuccia.k.ameganite1747]

Yeah and star couldve either been one of the moon’s minions or some anomalous entity trying to warn Marcus into deleting the game or something to stop it

[@russianconservative]

Dead space vibes

[@Chunga9]

Isn’t that the dont look at the moon mc arg

[@toastergaming7783]

The ARG went from classic "There is something wrong with my Minecraft world" creepypasta to fucking Third Impact

[@maxohara6684]

"it all, returns, to bedrock, it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down"

[@buleczkaaa]

get on the game shinji

[@flowerthencrranger3854]

Oh my god, evangelicals mentioned

[@anotherswordsmachine]

shinji, get on the skybox shinji

[@flamingdog9207]

Get in the moon Shinji

[@Twistingmymelon]

This is sooo cool! I keep on coming back to it as well as your other mc vids, they are just so fascinating! And also the massive change from an almost downright cryptic mystery , to so much character development with ⭐️ and the void beings!

[@vasilikivasiliki984]

Untill 14 minutes this was actually creepy and disturbing after 14 minutes it got so goofy

[@MalcolmKeithGaming]

I think this is one of the most high-quality args I've ever seen. When I first started watching this video, my original thought was "Ah, it's another mysterious dark creature in the distance arg," and then I saw that this video was A FULL HOUR LONG. I knew there must have been a reason you made a full-length documentary on this, and I was not disappointed in the slightest. Thank you for making your awesome videos, RGN. :D

[@Robert-mn1uw]

I’m only now seeing it’s an hour long, at the end of the video. It felt like 20 minutes to me

[@MalcolmKeithGaming]

@@Robert-mn1uw Same, that hour went by fast. 100% worth it.

[@AverageUsernames]

@@MalcolmKeithGaming I liked the arg however the admin stuff and star ruined the mystery and the explaining stuff.

[@RetroGamingNow]

Seriously! It continued to surprise me as it went on, and it's only Act I!

[@Burgerand_olive]

You should watch “garfilled” ‘exploring abanded servers.’ It’s still one of my favorites to this day

[@caringheart34]

Also for what I understand, Markus became the new star because the author put him in "star"'s body and made him "go forth and wreak havoc". The author essentially wants a loop to happen

[@olzhas1one755]

It's a really interesting way to commentate on the nature of ARGs, their popularity, and the follow-ups. There have been many "creepy Minecraft entity" stories and ARGs but this one really stands out because of this, because it can imply that Markus could be Herobrine itself stuck in this loop of "inspired by" media, which like I said, is an interesting way to commentate on the nature of Internet legends and storytelling as a whole. Even if you see it as a "cop-out" then it's a damn good one.

[@concept5631]

That's what I thought too.

[@TacoBaco123]

It got less eerie when they introduced the sector stuff but it was still pretty interesting

[@graysonmiller5615]

You know shits boutta happen when there’s a noise and a gap in the footage

[@bluejay117]

This genre of horror is something that is specifically effective to us as its not just something we fear out of instinct, but out of experience. We lived out these fears back in the day and seeing them again like this only adds to our "fond" memories

[@Bikr740]

I hate creepy creatures

[@contraxius2956]

Analogue horror

[@contraxius2956]

Analog horror is what it is called

[@bluejay117]

@@contraxius2956 analog horror is horror captured with analog technology, I'm talking specifically minecraft based horror

[@contraxius2956]

@@bluejay117 oh okay but the beggining of it was kind of in the analogue genre

[@dragthecrowman]

Holy crap... a couple of weeks ago I found the video from 26:54 in my recommended, watched some snippets of it and looked at the channel, found it weird, then moved on with my day because I didn't understand anything. I seriously didn't know I stumbled upon a wild ARG, feels wild to me.

[@thegoodboi]

Part way through I wondered how confused someone would be if they stumbled upon some of the videos, it’s something I find funny about these channels.

[@brokenflyingcat4213]

✺?

[@benjam910]

*founds a wild ARG* *wild battle music kicks in* "What will drag do?" *selects run* "Got away safely!"

[@NeverEndingFire13]

@@brokenflyingcat4213 probably not, cause the moon was affected too

[@brokenflyingcat4213]

​@@NeverEndingFire13 ✺.

[@mangomayos]

I love this, the story design and the commentary is amazing

[@scottyboy_145]

I was actually very into this at the beginning but once the admin space stuff started happening it just seemed to basic? I guess? Idk but near the end it was just a story of fake characters finding out they’re fake which I’ve seen done 1000 times over

[@Typicalpixelated16]

Fun fact: The moon with red eyes was actually a feature notch discussed on 4chan where in the night the moon would have a chance of a red eye in the middle. However the feature was never added. Also more features were discussed here is a list of them: Crystals - Diamonds and emeralds Hatchet - Axe Sky - old sky demension that was removed Order of the stone-The original title of minecraft

[@eyelessdemo8713]

this fills me with pure sadness that it was never added My sadness is immeasurable and my day is ruined

[@PILLOWKVLT]

Stop lying

[@Dark_Fox97652]

​@@PILLOWKVLTits true squidward

[@PILLOWKVLT]

@@Dark_Fox97652 Yeah, Notch talked about a feature on 4chan, a site where every user is anonymous and it's therefore impossible to determine who's posting, right

[@Cageab2]

​@@PILLOWKVLTits not too far off, while i cant verify the validity of OPs claims, notch actually used 4chan to promote the game and update features on /v) a LOT

[@TheWaffleLord6787]

Jumpscare timestamps: 3:24, 6:39, 9:08, 13:53, 19:51, 22:16, 25:26, 32:25, 41:38, 41:47, 49:06, and 49:58

[@bettercalldelta]

my dumb ass clicked on a timestamp while at high volume knowing damn well there is a jumpscare 💀💀💀💀

[@zelokorLocalGodOfChaosAndBread]

thanks!

[@kollyr5524]

Our saviour

[@shrill1736]

based comment

[@toritori64_]

king

[@JadeiteMcSwag]

the idea of some force joining your single player server and sending messages in chat like "come here" is genuinely beyond terrifying

[@ScrungleGaming]

this feels like they tried to get chat gpt to finish the rest of their minecraft alpha story about creepy stuff appearing in low quality footage and it just went WILD

[@maxwellhowland8246]

30:25 this was actually just a bug in older versions of Minecraft! :) If you crouch-walked for a long time, and then stood up again, the game would play all of the un-played step noises in rapid succession!

[@exoticdachoo007]

I know that there is nothing to fear in singleplayer, but I ALWAYS have that slight paranoia that I will notice something changing in my world. It can be anything, from something subtle like door changing material, or my furnace and crafting table switching places. Or I could walk in my home after building something outside, and see that everything is missing inside. I first got this fear from seeing Herobrine videos back in the day, but it slowly faded out. That is until I played GMod for the first time, where playing multiplayer was fun and entertaining, playing singleplayer felt like being always watched. And my fear appeared once again.

[@verindictus3639]

You should check out "how Minecraft is secretly a horror game" by RandomSageless. It does a good job of explaining why you're paranoid in singleplayer.

[@ellzorel2ndaccount]

There was something in your world

[@someobscuremusicchannel]

It is this kind of insidious horror that is truly the scariest. Everything being normal except for one or two things you notice are off, like, you swear you closed the door behind you when you last left your house, or, you swear you never placed a torch over there, just little tiny things like that that give you chills up your spine.

[@weedboyjjofficial6350]

playing minecraft PE back in the day was really something else in creative singleplayer. it always seemed so eerie and quiet and everything seemed so... unfinished

[@fadillah6014]

@@weedboyjjofficial6350 yeah I remember how I spooked by an enderman and start observing on distance, then try to capture it just for teleport in front of me.

[@Dan_Heng_Supremacy]

Finally, someone talks about the first youtuber I ever subscribed to

[@aaaaaaronftw8548]

Is no one else worried about the guide on what to do if the anomaly has "gained sentience" on that website in the beginning?

[@blackzero786]

8 Beings gaining Sentience? Kinda like HB and Null eh?

[@hoboq7631]

6:34 seeing the ladders spaced like that just gave me so much nostalgia

[@mito_sis]

It started so fucking strong but then plummeted to its death for me when the characters started speaking in formal English

[@thatdovick29]

i like how stars attitude was passive agressive bro looked like he had a bad day and wasnt having it w/ markus

[@cryo1195]

Reminds me of an SCP involving an entity who tried to break into our reality, but landed in Minecraft instead.

[@maximumswag]

SCP FANS DO NOT SAY IT

[@EmbeddedWithin]

What specific SCP?

[@cryo1195]

@@EmbeddedWithin Here it is, SCP: 4335

[@EmbeddedWithin]

@@cryo1195 Thanks!

[@dataexpunged4784]

@@maximumswag Say what, exactly?

[@hihi-nm3uy]

The horror peaked by playing with the whole feeling of ‘there’s unknown entities in Minecraft’ angle. Everything after that was a different genre.

[@Lavatouille]

Thank you so much for making these

[@FranciscoCasteloBrancoBlixt]

These kinds of videos always show up when I am sick. And I just don't want these kinds to end. You deserve a star ⭐

[@frills333]

Not gonna lie once the admins and all the weird meta stuff got introduced my interest in the story itself dropped, but i kept going cause holy shit dude your presentation and ability to tell and explain the story of this weird tale are top notch! Despite the story kinda falling apart for me at the halfway point, god was the effort in this arg/story absurdly top notch!

[@borico62]

Spot on. The story started well, but later it just became unbearable because of the metaphysical stuff. Just like you, I only finished the video because of RGN's top quality presentation.

[@hamaczech13]

For me it was the opposite, before that it was "scary thing does boo" ,but then the story became interesting.

[@cat_here]

Opposite for me.

[@PeeperSnail]

My interest actually went through a rollercoaster. At first I was interested because it resembled the Alpha 16 ARG, then it dropped because it seemed to be "oooo spooky haunted minecrap oooo", then it went back up again when the story turned out to be about void creatures hopping through different universes' versions of Minecraft.

[@mickeymcflies]

I was really into it at the beginning, thinking of star, etc being the "parents" of some kind of digital parasite

[@noxmore]

30:27, I don't think that's part of the ARG. Old Minecraft versions had a bug where if you were walking while not on a block (Like shifting off the side of a block) it would continually add walking sounds, then if you stepped on a solid block, it would play them all in short succession.

[@beegboi6421]

Like I guess Mario 64 BLJ but without the jumping or something?

[@RetroGamingNow]

Nice catch - I didn't remember that bug!

[@GigglebunsUV]

yeah! i still play old versions and that bug constantly freaks me out

[@kaminathegreat7539]

This is actually kind of interesting, I think. It feels like it's, at least in part, a meta-exploration of creepypastas and ARGs. Mysteries left unsolved, questions left unanswered, stakes that escalate, worlds that aren't real even though we suspend our disbelief for the experience... I dunno, maybe I'm a weirdo nerd who reads too deep into these things. :v Thanks for the content and the experience, RGN!

[@Joey_Ferrari]

This is by far the strangest video I've ever scene. It genuinely freaked me out at first but then when there was this new texture packed world and new random characters came out of nowhere it became more like a blade runner or futuristic type plot. It was very interesting though, even when the plot completely shifted, it still was interesting, not very creepy though, just random. Overall, Good video

[@MaybeHarvey]

This started good but went from spooky to silly real fast

[@ScrewdriverGaming]

Tbh I'm just happy it was a neat story that didn't just scream at me for no reason

[@Trebronok]

@@ScrewdriverGaming like practically every analog horror ending

[@mikeock4924]

Yet another ARG thats creepy in the beggining but overexplains itself and throws away the horror Thank you ARG creators

[@12newangels]

still interesting...

[@ame72813]

Because this catches the attention of people. An ARG that is regularly updated and has actually good horror will not blow up because people nowadays would rather watch the same mainstream arg knockoff than actually something interesting.

[@mikeock4924]

@@ame72813 i will deffinitely miss ARG's like Petscop

[@scattergrunt]

I think this is to this ARG's benefit. The void monsters were gonna become stale eventually, so it became a lot more adventurous is too it's benefit for my enjoyment, at least

[@DoktrDub]

@@scattergrunt With this kinda thing I believe it’s always good to maintain a level of “fear of the unknown” They have the strongest impact in the long run.

[@dylpickle__]

started watching this while i was making an animation and got genuinely invested in the story

[@christopherthomason708]

The premise of the story: UwU the moon is evil BUT IN MINECRAFT Quality level of something Machinima would make and abandon in 2011

[@shloobington]

this was scary because of the fear of the unkown but then it got to the weird white world and other players started joining and all immersion was lost like bro one player has a endgame reference on their skin

[@MCTogs]

I agree but I have to say I LOVE the adminspace environment. It looks so vast and dreamlike. Almost like something I'd actually see in a dream

[@shloobington]

@@MCTogs looks very similar to like liminal space I agree

[@elliotepegs7369]

@@shloobington ye the start wass intresting but then it got too much stuff and stuff

[@KaRssssss]

Which player

[@shloobington]

@@KaRssssss one of the players has a infinity gauntlet I don't remember which one it was but it's there it's like a very modern skin

[@thuanantythieu2764]

It's funny how it went from unknown horror to adventurous.

[@The-Random-fool1697]

Back rooms be like

[@plantboy6249]

@@The-Random-fool1697 i think backrooms is a neat example of it actually working (keeping horror while also having indepth lore). This is not.

[@spanoguy2283]

@@plantboy6249 Backrooms also explains the monster while also not explaining it at the same time. Everytime it explains something, it introduces a new thing that it DOESN'T explain, and I like that

[@jaidyngx9023]

The thing that makes a good horror is leaving the unknown making the viewer think they might of experienced it or it could happen and And make it realistic as if it happens or happened or could and last but not least the most scary It's based on a true story

[@phuripongphansiri1740]

Same with NES godzilla

[@ylepser]

This is a GREAT video. Thank you so much for putting in a ton of effort.

[@horriblebeing]

"Dontlookatthemoondontlookatthemoomdontlookatth-" "SHUT UP ABOUT THE MOON YOU HEXAGON!"

[@HaunterHax23]

When I first started watching I assumed this was another "spooky shadow Boi crawls through the laptop and kills the author ARG" but I was pleasantly surprised by how well it was made , good video by the way

[@celestemangonya]

I think it's so cool how a lot of these sorts of "Minecraft found footage ARGs" often manage to appear as though they include actual old screen recordings of Windows 7 desktops, I have tried before, and it is very hard to accurately portray what appears to be a screen recording on some crappy desktop in 2010, they get the resolution, Aero being disabled due to low-end hardware, using Internet Explorer, and Windows Media Player, having realistic files on the filesystem, the date being set correctly, and so many other little details correct. I love attention to detail, especially in things like this.

[@Daemon4]

i really think they just get a really old machine and record the footage on it lol

[@nasanierulastname2997]

Unfortunately the Internet Explorer version is anachronistic: it looks like IE11, which was not released until 2013. This is basically unavoidable as I think most websites will refuse to connect a client running anything older than IE11.

[@Kawamagi]

they probably use some kind of virtual machine

[@SKCro.]

@@Daemon4 They also could have used a virtual machine, which would be easier to set up as it doesn't require a whole 'nother PC.

[@Franxy108]

At the start it was scary, But later, goofy. I think it's very strange

[@fitlexyt2600]

This is so nostalgic. I miss these type of videos

[@MinoriGaming]

this is nostalgic. Reminds me of the old Herobrine videos I'd watch the shit out of back in the early 2010s as a kid. Back when the scariest shit to me was herobrine, the daylight owl, and Music Disc 11. To this day I still adore Music Discs 11 and 13, they're such a fascinating left-field addition to the game that just ask so many questions.

[@Mentelgen-1337]

Finally! I found someone who remembers.. although the music discs have been debunked by matpat… honestly adding them to herobrines arg was really dumb… it has like nothing to do with it, and the fact that people didn’t thought of putting them together next to each other when played is really hurting my brain by it’s stupidity but sure.. old civilisation of builders and stuff.

[@MrDespair1983]

WHAT IN THE UNHOLY HELL IS THE DAYLIGHT OWL?!

[@MinoriGaming]

@@MrDespair1983 really old youtube webseries from the beta days of minecraft. the first season is really neat, it's similar to herobrine but with a more fantasy twist. seasons 2 and 3 shifted the tone to a Shadow of Israphel knockoff sadly

[@kacper531]

imagine if this arg was published in 2010, jesus, it would make people go crazy

[@beetheimmortal]

Old Minecraft before Microsoft took over and neutered it was really good.

[@jajajau9136]

I feel like the series got less scary as time went on. as it went on, it got more narrative-driven (which is fine, i thought the transition was smooth), but i wish it still kept its spookiness with its "fear of the unknown" throughout the whole thing. also, the pictures of the void beings in real life made me laugh out loud. in conclusion, its a good series, i just hope season 2 brings back the horror aspect

[@darthdump5440]

It’s like a Backrooms type thing, or to a lesser extent, The Mandela Catalogue

[@brovy953]

Wait plz timestamp the IRL void being photos

[@deathsquad8891]

​@@brovy953 11:33

[@renanaugusto1474]

​@@brovy953 the irl void being photos are on act 2 ep 2

[@leighchenilleescalante81]

@@darthdump5440The void guy looks like bacteria from backrooms, Tbh.

[@NEON_NUGGET116]

The sounds in the video honestly scared the crap out of me. The high and low pitch noises. Aint nothing like watching stuff thats "scary" on a computer in the pitch black darkness of my room

[@nekofrisk1005]

I feel like it lost its spook factor when instead of a game it goes as if their stuck in the game without anything to imply they can’t get up and walk away from the computer