The Faults of Analog Horror - gomotion

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"Espernadote" from Silent Hill
"NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A" from deltarune
"Your Name, Please" from EarthBound
"Rude Buster" from deltarune
"Mystic Cave Zone" from Sonic the Hedgehog 2
"Varan" from Godzilla: Monster of Monsters!
"Spiral" from Bomberman Hero
"Cavern" from 3D Dot Game Heroes
"Battle Against a Weird Opponent" from EarthBound
"The Lost Temple - Puzzle Maze" from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
"Spider Dance" from UNDERTALE
"Pepper Steak" from OFF
"World 1 - The Mushroom Plains" from New Super Mario Bros.
"Crossing the Waste" from 3D Dot Game Heroes
"Title Screen" from Silver Surfer
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00:00 Intro
01:27 Opera GX Sponsored Segment
02:36 Intro (cont'd)
02:50 Local 58
07:11 FNaF VHS
09:18 The Mandela Catalogue
12:37 The Backrooms
15:50 Conclusion
19:35 Outro
#analoghorror

[@gomotion]

graahhh BANG ROCKS TOGETHER with opera GX FOR FREE 2DAY!!!!!! also on mobile devices lolzor! ► mtchm.de/kj1eg

[@RyoshusShitposts]

I eat crayons for a living and snort crack in the sewers

[@draftymoon894]

@@RyoshusShitposts wow, me too!

[@kingoftehwalrus77]

@@RyoshusShitposts How’s the pay? Do they offer a 401k? Pension? Sign on bonus? Water? Medical spending account? Gas card? Transport? Crayons?

[@RyoshusShitposts]

@@kingoftehwalrus77 All of the above

[@SamuelNikoghosyan777]

Hey gomo i really love you're content but you forgot to talk about martin walls!

[@calibur4589]

The fact she didn't touch on scrimblo catalogue after Mandela is a missed opportunity, especially since its made by the same guy (yes Kister made a parody of his own web series). While mandela made me piss myself in fear, scrimblo made me piss myself in laughter

[@TomoLamp]

Piss

[@philipweber9545]

Mandela Catalogue = Among Us Reasons: Imposer ? Sus

[@CasperdaGreat]

Straight facts right here

[@conit4125]

Scrimblo catalogue is Mandela catalogue but based

[@dumpstercast-refuseradio8429]

consider diapers

[@Gabri_Lovecraft]

2012: “I’m gonna make this character scary by making their eyes bleed and they murder now” 2022: “I’m gonna make this character scary by making their mouth really wide and give them photo-realistic eyes”

[@CalzoneStudiozOfficial]

10 years later, and it's still generic

[@x-fun3149]

2012: hyper-realistic blood 2022: hyper-realistic eyes

[@catattack7639]

@@x-fun3149 hyperrealistic eyes were a huge part of old online horror. Look at Squidwards suicide, and then a lot of pastas based themselves on that too

[@errortryagainlater4240]

Don't forget the recycled premise of "does anyone else remember this lost episode/training tape/footage of Wacky Child-Friendly Franchise???"

[@sofaeth1459]

Another 10 years, and it's gonna be a photo realistic nose, mark my words

[@PIMKAMINA2]

I love that alternate gomie has some notable differences like the sweater strings and skirt, very clever

[@webfrosty]

oh i just noticed that! its such a cute lil touch

[@AzzyAzelf101]

There are other little details too. The hair is slightly different, the cell shading is done differently, I think even the smirk isn’t exactly the same. It’s amazing with all of the little details.

[@FreeWay1066]

Hello, I am kind of new to her channel (I watched that one popgoes video she made way back, and have watched very few of her newer videos). Is "gomie" a common nickname for her?

[@PIMKAMINA2]

Yes! She used to be called Gomo before she came out, now its Gomie, from the channel name gomotion

[@FreeWay1066]

@@PIMKAMINA2 thank you. Was it changed because "gomo" ends with o and names ending with an o are considered more masculine, and seeing as she is a girl, it would be unfitting?

[@StitchPen]

I've played enough Garry's Mod to know that overexaggerated facial expressions and body parts share more comedic value than horror.

[@rickanimationsnewchannel]

same goes for ren and stimpy but i did not see any ren or stimpy

[@chriscanul4075]

Literally all analog horror is "Instructional DVD at Smitty Whatsaburgers family diner, where oh no Smitty's face gets all scrungly and distorted"

[@daansstuff2952]

*most

[@radicaloranges]

wait this sounds interesting! what series is this, ive never heary of smitty whatsaburgers!!! (i know its a joke dont tell me im stupid i just seek validation online leave me alone)

[@drifterduckygaming4646]

Couldn't have said it better myself

[@Chaotic_Overlord]

@@radicaloranges here have a like and get your internet validation

[@radicaloranges]

@@Chaotic_Overlord THANK YOU 🙏

[@vivifoxysdaughterandchild544]

There are only so many ways to be innovative, I think that analog horror can still work using the tropes that's set up for them. Because if even analog horror parodies can be scary from time to time, the problem is more with how the tropes are handled as opposed to them just being overused. I'd like to see the analog format used for things other than horror as well.

[@arnahunas4048]

TBQH, I’d love to see a sci-fi/fantasy/adventure/whatever style analog story.

[@skelebonez1349]

I’ve been thinking on working on a semi 2D semi liveaction analog series on a fnaf character.. but it’s sorta where it’s like I wanna build up the actual horror throughout the story than it being completely horrific. Where it has these actual instruction and advert type videos.. I guess sort of like the walten files but with an add of more liveacfion? I’m still in the process of making the suit it I seriously am hoping that whatever I make is soemthing people would love

[@aaronymous9]

I feel like the most popular analog horror tends to be the most unique. Monument Mythos? The premise alone plus the windows movie maker episode. Walten Files? ( no matter how much I dislike it ) is unique in the sense that I believe it was one of the first analog horror with analog horror and the editing is a lot better than some others. Mandela Catalogue and the ones mentioned in the video are also some others. I just feel like throwing a wrench into a pile can be the best way to renew the genre.

[@aben1466]

Yeah I totally agree with this. Its super hard to be original nowadays, some would say damn near impossible due to the amount of creative people trying to make something. Think of a story in your head RIGHT NOW one that you made, it would probably sound extremely similar to another famous property because that’s just how things work. nothing is original at this point.

[@skelebonez1349]

@@aben1466 I think while that is true, I do believe as long as we’re able to find ways to make it unique even if some stuff has been done before, we can stand out. Sure it isn’t easy to make something original, but to me, as long as you can make something good and have the commitment to it with a good vision, i believe it’ll make things cooler. It’s ok to take inspiration from reallt anything, history of film has done it since ir was invented. As long as someone got a creative mind with a very intriguing and interesting story, even if it does remind us of something else, it’ll be ok as long as it does things that stands it’s own ground Sorry for the long ramble but I hope you get what I mean-

[@Saltydkdan]

Amazing Gomo video as per the usual

[@slabman6262]

The salt man

[@gomotion]

aw thank u salty

[@Axew325Ryan]

So glad to see Shen Comics interacting with other communities

[@matias3542]

Omg is the funny internet guy

[@garfel1834]

holy shit its the funny internet white guy! i love his trademark white man comedy!

[@CGFillertext]

Fun fact: the creator of Local58 also made the Candle Cove creepypasta

[@errortryagainlater4240]

I spent _way_ too much time trying to find real episodes from that show online when I was a small unsupervised child 😭💀 Then I read it again and was like _"ohhh"_

[@Z3RO5286]

Imagine if someone gives the candle cove creepypasta a sonic PC port treatment.

[@SwaggyG_2102]

Despite the over saturation of the genre, there's actually quite a noticeable number of analog horror channels that are very creative and unique, but they unfortunately don't get enough views. Channels such as Midwest Angelica, RICHLAND, and TRYRED WITNESS ARCHIVES are really amazing examples and should definitely get more views.

[@Yuripocalypse]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[@SwaggyG_2102]

@@Yuripocalypse Anytime!

[@simplymax1337]

It appears that most of the better analog horrors have some extraterrestrial shenanigans in them. This can't be a coincidence.

[@slotzoffuntrue]

Marking this for recommendations I'll also add the Tangi Virus universe (multiple analogue horror stories on one channel set in the same universe) is really really good. It stays very grounded and forgoes all supernatural video interference, so the horror is all in the narrative instead of spooky edits.

[@biptari]

agreed! monument mythos is one of my favorites because even if it falls into *le spooky thing* it never jumpscares and i think the stories themselves are a very fun idea. and gemini home has very high quality videos imo

[@bugman7077]

how the hell does monument mythos still fall under the radar absolute obtuse fucking masterpiece

[@thestardustblu]

true that shit is so good i have to build 20 mins of courage to watch it, something about it fucks me up man

[@yourbrainonegg159]

The series long buildup to what the fuck the lurker was is phenomenal

[@arnahunas4048]

@@yourbrainonegg159 *“THEIR DAMNED FOUNDING FATHER LOCKED UP IN MY FOUNDATION”*

[@i_drewproductions]

I just wish the internet would stop treating everything as a trend, placing a nonexistent expiration date on everything.

[@i_drewproductions]

It's either "making low effort oversaturated shit" or "straying away from the source material", why cant anything just be a timeless classic anymore?

[@antlace1780]

Thank you for saying this.

[@i_drewproductions]

@@antlace1780 thank you for agreeing with me on this too!

[@errortryagainlater4240]

You've just put my thoughts into words perfectly, thank you!! Like the point of art is that it doesn't HAVE an expiration date.

[@SenisPucker]

I agree in principle, but unfortunately, popular things on the internet are almost always trends. Something goes viral, everyone's talking about it for a while, then the novelty is exhausted and everyone moves on to the next new thing.

[@adriartilol]

A slight oversight: CH/SS was actually the first analog horror series on KZbin, Local58 just blew up and popularized the genre

[@wavewingman5993]

This was literally addressed in the video, it was said that Local 58 popularized the current trend but was not the first.

[@starchilde8698]

​@@wavewingman5993 True, though op has provided additional information by naming the genre's originator. That would've been useful in the video proper and it could be argued as a minor oversight or fault to not include it.

[@wavewingman5993]

@@starchilde8698 It's debatable whether you could even call CH/SS the first analog horror webseries. Remember kids, just because Daddy Nocturne said it doesn't mean it's always true :)

[@adriartilol]

@@wavewingman5993 Yes, it is mentioned in the video, but the examples provided (Such as Marble Hornets and the Blair Witch Project) fall more under found-footage than analog horror. And about CH/SS maybe not being the first analog web-series, it's very probable! CH/SS is the oldest analog horror series on KZbin, but it's very possible there was one even before it. It's all probability when we're talking about the internet Edit: When I said it was a slight oversight, I meant more that it was included in the batch of other series that 'copied' Local58

[@paybafpvzimp6296]

they said it wasnt the first but it was the populizer

[@gabbo7101]

Ive felt the same way for so long. Most trends like these will hop onto their respective trend without realizing what made the original great to begin with. Petscop wasnt just "spooky game with bad graphics", but that seems what 99% of people get from it.

[@johanhernandez745]

I think thats called the Seinfield effect, people copy the superficial stuff, and ignore the good stuff.

[@errortryagainlater4240]

Petscop seemed to have a lot of genuine effort and care put into it. The whole mystery behind the game involving children (and the protagonist not being a total moron) made it hit different. It sucks that people don't look any deeper.

[@AshVsEvilFred]

Petscop was another one where explaining it made it not scary

[@deantrail6789]

Petscop was always mid.

[@jobapplication9737]

Backrooms honestly got ruined when people started tossing in levels and monsters everywhere

[@incognito7609]

And fucking settlements too. Like the point is that you're all alone in there, no monsters, no humans.

[@errortryagainlater4240]

Yes, everyone is way too obsessed with "but muh deep lore" even for things that SHOULD be mysterious. Horror isn't scary anymore when it's over-explained. I honestly find the backrooms scarier with no monsters in them at all. Just an endless maze of disgusting carpet, identical hallways and buzzing lights, knowing that no one will ever find your corpse when you finally smash your head against a wall. That, to me, is true existential nightmare fuel.

[@isaiahsimmons5776]

it was never scary

[@pineapplepenguin1759]

Yeah, as far as Im concerned the orignal 4chan post is the only "true" backrooms canon. No levels or entities (Well, it implied some kind of monster, but still)

[@Snowstriken]

@@pineapplepenguin1759 new backroom: An area/liminal space with an "implied monster". A random monster shadow is on the wall some time.. but there's never a monster. And there is no monster,it's just a shadow. Nothing else

[@TheMadRatKing]

Thank GOD somebody else mentioned the whole "The less you know about something, the scarier it is" concept. I've lost so much fear and suspense of things like the Backrooms or FNAF or Local58 PURELY because too much of it was analyzed and deeply explained to the point where I was just more intrigued about the world itself or something. The Backrooms are now just a cool fictional world to explore. There's nothing fearful about it anymore. That's also why so many other things stopped being scary to me. People just tried to explain too much of it, and now I've lost any fear of the unknown that made those particular things so scary to me specifically in the first place.

[@errortryagainlater4240]

People mistake "mysterious element" with "plot hole" and rush to explain it as if they have to justify every part of a story's existence. Like, not everything _needs_ worldbuilding or lore, 90% of the audience probably didn't even ask. Can you imagine how weird it'd be if every person alive knew everything that'd ever happened in Earth's history? The characters in your story shouldn't know everything about THEIR world either.

[@jarrethoglesbee4596]

On one hand I personally agree with you personally on the other there is a certain catharsis to it. In real life the scary things are completely out of your control and there is so much in this world you can't possibly ever understand. To be presented with something that at first seems scary but then to explore and explain it so deeply you arnt scared anymore. It can be comforting to some.

[@DiamondWorldYoutube]

That's why I'm not with mine

[@rainbowdrinks]

The Backrooms are now so oversaturated, it's not even scary anymore, at the beginning it was just an extremely similar place with yellow fluorescent lights and wet carpets, with never ending series of corridors and rooms, making you slightly go crazy The Backrooms now is literally just SCP 2.0

[@cyanity1017]

"these cool metaphysical dopplegangers called alternates that you cannot kill" *NOT WITH THAT ATTITUDE!*

[@remediosdimaculangan2913]

Get in boys,TO THE ANGEL OF DEATH (the van)!

[@jockeyfield1954]

why do you think they reside in canada jr. then? if they were in texas, they would all be dead

[@Toby-Draven]

Try telling that to mark heathcliff

[@cyanity1017]

@@Toby-Draven *he was weak*

[@nevaeh9125]

@@cyanity1017 he didn't open the door, his mind, or his heart

[@scotginger4690]

It's all about that uncanny valley feeling, y'know? you think something's right there in the corner and then it's gone, faces that look just human enough to the point it's creepy that it isn't human. I think people watch analog horror for the humans though. You can have scary jumpscares and unsettling imagery all you want, but if your human characters sound like they're from Resident Evil 1 then it doesn't matter what the monsters look like or do.

[@AshVsEvilFred]

Imo voice acting is so hard to get right youre better off not doing it at all in these. Even fnaf vhs which has the best voice work out of all of these is still dangerously close to bad. Im surprised she liked mandela catalog becayse honestly it encapsulates everything she talked about before and has all the same tropes right down to fucking horrible voice acting. I watched all of it by myself dark room and all did not scare me. Exactly like every other analog horror thing

[@SwaggyG_2102]

While I'm not trying to demonize it nor belittle it, Mandela Catalog is definitely one of the reasons that I think led to the analog horror genre to get so over saturated and less original over time.

[@tasfiahaque1370]

It's like the Shrek syndrome with animated movies nowadays

[@shrimpyshrimp2243]

i thibk its bc what ppl think is scary about it is the liquify tool faces. theyre fairly low effort to make so it can be mass produced, and people dont take into account the atmosphere surrounding those faces when making their vids so its just a lot if the same thing

[@Xenobork]

It's just what happened with Ben Drowned, with a modern twist. History repeats itself

[@professornova1236]

I feel 333 made up for the first and second's flaws. Yes the liquid/meme faces can get a little bland and repetitive but the series has always had a good grasp on generating atmosphere to make up for it.

[@pumpklin9596]

@@Xenobork exactly, ben drowned may seem cliche now but it MADE the cliches. they were oooo haha look at this, it was scary as hell

[@anonymousoff-brand7538]

y'know, random idea: a meta-horror thing having the piles of tropey, gore and 'hyperreal' obsessed horror be the results of *something* poorly trying to understand people.

[@bruh-sd8eh]

that is actually a really sick idea. i’d love to see how that’d play out

[@STARGATORY_]

Literally doing that exact idea. Literalizing the tropes of horror as characters who have to deal with the fact they are clichés trying to become nuanced and developed. It's called "Kallyburn's Speak-A-Lot."

[@someabsolutepleb2228]

Analog Horror is just the 20’s version of CreepyPasta, change my mind

[@noahfan2719]

I agree with you strongly on this. Although I am a fan of analog horror, stuff like the Intruder is just going to be the new generation’s Jeff the Killer. That was our version of all this uncanny analog stuff back in the 2010s. What’s old is simply just becoming new again. It’s sad, really. The genre of analog horror could’ve been something wonderful and groundbreaking in the horror medium, but now it’s all just distorted faces and corrupting normal facets of everyday life to make them seem scary to a viewer.

[@VentA_7]

The more accurate point you’d want to make is analogue horror is the new popular format of horror; and being popular means all these caveats being complained about. This is the result of being popular horror, the fnaf coverage on this channel should make that clear.

[@arnahunas4048]

“Never before have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with.”

[@ProGremlinPlayer]

analog horror won't last as long as creepypastas.

[@someabsolutepleb2228]

@@ProGremlinPlayer true

[@rovko819]

I think one really amazing "analog" horror series on youtube at the moment is probably The Monument Mythos from ALEXKANSAS. I say analog horror in quotes because there are some points where it doesn't really feels like analog horror, more so an alternate history horror. It almost completely avoids all of the analog horror tropes attached to the genre while maintaining a really well made and cohesive story with great acting, imagery, and some comedic points to lighten the mood. Absolutely amazing series that I recommend anyone and everyone to watch.

[@fuzzy06_]

so i’m currently in the middle of watching the video and here’s what i think right now, we’re in the “dark age” of analog horror, there maybe good ones but there’s many bad ones. But eventually things will get better for Analog Horror in the future, we’re just in the “dark age.” right now i don’t know what to feel about my series i’m currently making, so i’m trying hard to make it original and mix it with controversial stuff to make it good. But in the end hopefully it’ll end up good.

[@carolrickroll767]

Yea! Eventually it’ll be good!☺️

[@mothmanmarcus346]

I know the backrooms seems really repetitive BUT one of my absolute favorite videos that twisted the concept of finding a monster there slightly is when the ‘monsters’ were replaced with living dinosaurs. Like on paper it sounds ridiculous but the concept implies the backrooms have existed for far longer than you could imagine and that anything could get stuck there and that’s a horrifying concept on its own not to mention when realistic t rex hunting behavior was implemented in said video on some poor cameraman. The video has a million views now but it still sticks in my mind as well as that clip of the anky effortlessly clubbing one of the backrooms monsters.

[@liketrainslol420funni]

Can i have a link

[@liamsgreatbitgaming]

Oh that’s wonderful, is there a link?

[@mothmanmarcus346]

@@liamsgreatbitgaming kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4TNqmClhJyJmtE

[@knightmare5097]

I think the fact that Gomo’s too scared to watch the Mandela Catalogue tapes doesn’t make her a wuss. It just means the whole horror aspect of the vids is working. Horror itself is designed to terrify you. To keep your light on when you go to sleep. Unfortunately, most horror in movies rarely uses its aspect to any effect, opting for cheap jumpscares instead. The same can be said for horror on the web, especially with Analog Horror and .exe games. The fact that TMC scares people like Gomo enough to keep them from actually watching is good. This means that TMC’s writing is so good that it actually elicits fear from its audience. And like I said, this doesn’t make Gomo a wuss. I get scared at shit too. Hell, I can barely watch a horror movie, no matter how bad it is.

[@skelebonez1349]

As a horror fan I honestly agree with both you and Gomo, I definitely think horror is something that should get people terrified of that it’s hard for them to sleep, as well as it needing a coherent story I’ve been slowly working on a analog horror vid myself, but wanna do things sorta differently.

[@mecrumbly429___4]

Why was I never scared by the Mandela Catalogue? I'm seriously not bragging here. I've always wanted a web series to scare me that much, but oddly enough, Nothing seems to get to me, and I'm sick of it. The only series that's gotten to me, however, is GHE. Literally the first video made me shout at the screen, and I haven't done that since I was a little kid. Serious props to Remy Abode

[@knightmare5097]

@@mecrumbly429___4 That’s okay too! MC’s not for everyone which is totally understandable

[@Toby-Draven]

Dude TMC scared the crap outta me when I first watched it so I completely understand being too scared to watch it (and btw I'm not scared to watch MC anymore, heck I just rewatched all of the volumes the other day)

[@frag2]

13:28 I completely agree with it being meant to be abandoned, and monsters do ruin the original concept. Thats why it shouldve stayed in an idea form and not be put into video, because what are you going to do in a backrooms found footage tape? just walk around I guess? theres not much you can do when taking the original concept and putting it into video. What kane is doing with his series is probably the way to go, hes adding something to it that isnt just scary monster roar. And im p sure evan royalty did a cool backrooms take a couple years ago.

[@pineapplepenguin1759]

I agree that the monsters kind of ruin it, but to be fair, the original story *did* imply the presence of monsters

[@justarandomyoutubecommenter728]

I don’t think the issue was the idea of monsters themselves, just how they’re presented, for example the wiki has pages upon pages of monsters with details surrounding them, while I think the best interpretations of the backrooms have monsters that are vague and rarely show up with little revealed about them.

[@ms.dr3amer]

I've once seen a really well made backrooms video (forgot the name and creator unfortunately) where it took the format of a journal. The protagonist accidentally clipped into the place and recorded his thoughts as he tried to find a way out and we could hear his sanity degrade with each entry. There was no monster but he swore he heard one, never realising that it was his own footsteps echoing. He was exhausted, delirious and mildly crazy by the end, when he managed to clip back into reality. In real r/im14andthisisdeep style the real monster was his own mind trying to make sense of that place all along.

[@frag2]

@@ms.dr3amer that sounds really cool, tell my if you remember the name

[@egg6144]

My favorite part of the whole Mandela Catalogue are the few videos before vol. 333 that parody the old “scary ghost spotted in real life” kind of videos from early KZbin. Other than adding onto the idea that people in their world are paranoid, it doesn’t show much. But it does have the VIBES. It shows Alex’s understanding for analog media other than vhs tapes and the like. So little analog horror unfiction/ARGs utilize different media like that and that’s what I love the most from Mandela catalogue.

[@certifiedboylover4398]

Honestly I’ve only limited myself to the basics like Walten Files, Mandela Catalogue, and Gemini so I haven’t experienced the extreme overexposure for this genre cause ive barely looked into anything outside of those 3 series. Although I do agree that the previous series that I mentioned are overrated, I still find them quite enjoyable.

[@MechanicalShockwaveBow]

I really love the style of early youtube content that Alex Kansas utilizes for horror in some of his videos, mostly in the house in the ocean series.

[@trilobitose]

there's no house in the ocean

[@timothylawrence8929]

Alex Kansas’s content is a new level of big brain, it’s phenomenal

[@alifakbar4232]

I missed The House in The Ocean series man

[@nilzerYT]

To me, Gemini is always going to be the most unique analog horror after local 58. It has almost never used jumpscares, but rather tense taking-place-over-time scares that are happening for much longer. I will admit however that it does play into the “spooky instructional video” trope

[@hamishstewart5324]

Yeah, Gemini Home Entertainment will always be peak analog horror.

[@mistermaxie6487]

The issue is that nothing is fresh forever. Eventually everything will get washed out, stale, and old as time goes on. Music, horror, living beings, it's just a fact of life that things become dried up once enough time passes. That's why I've started to analyze media in the long term, even though there are a lot of valid criticisms towards analog horror. Good video as always, Gomo!

[@imhappy7632]

I feel like trends that were super old would resurface and become "new" when reintroduced long after their novelty ran out. For example movies in black and white intrigue me more then the regular coloured once but people from that era would enjoy colour more. You can argue that it's more of a historical thing which yeah I guess so but it still enforces the idea that people like seeing things that they don't see often it's like an endless cycle of ideas

[@zluigi2816]

I feel like it’s more a fault of the human mind for finding things stale and not reality’s. (Kinda like how you can’t physically be in multiple places at the same time?) Or something? Idk I’m in late night tired plus existential mode and I don’t really get what you mean, kinda feels cynical for no good reason to me but might just be the sleepiness talking. Maybe I’m the one not making sense. Idk why I felt the need to comment, sorry.

[@_lukeinator_]

Have you seen The Monument Mythos? I think it's one of the more unique analog horrors series out there.

[@iHIMMA]

I feel like Monument Mythos did pretty well with itself

[@borisradojkov7051]

Honestly horror is just trauma based entertainment, the more you know how to cope with it and how it works logically it gets less scary over time

[@turantuladom9968]

My favorite analog horror right now is “TMK”, a horror series based on an old Kirby superstar ad

[@gameyfirebro9645]

Same.

[@Quackervoltz]

Eh, it's more animated series than analogue horror but it's pretty good

[@bloxsyoutubepage]

tmk my beloved!!!!!

[@themollyrhubarb]

Analog horror can be sick when done right like local 58 and gemini home entertainment but you can't just slap a vhs filter on a text to speech PowerPoint slideshow and expect it to be good

[@tiszach]

I really like the new direction of the Mandela Catalogue. It seems like it's doing something new and interesting with the already tired genre.

[@Toby-Draven]

I 100% agree, I love the new direction that mandela catalogue is going, especially after vol 333 came out

[@k3nshi704]

Honestly the best Analog Horror I could think of is Monument Mythos It's a really nice mix between Historical Fiction, unfiction, and the usage of the Analog style storytelling with a HUGE overarching story and universe.

[@megatennepster3833]

MM is my favorite of all these, even though I find it to be not very scary. It's kinda like how scream is my favorite horror movie despite it not being scary to me, because it is just *interesting*

[@A.MNeverP.M]

Your voice is so good! Its good to hear that you're doing well with your vocal training and still creating awesome content for us! :D

[@isaacbinder]

in 10 years, we will view analog horror as we do creepypasta now

[@thebreadman7454]

Analog horror make me go "AHH! I am very scared!"

[@Pater___]

‘The kid making this is sixteen’ > when I was sixteen I would barely draw a semi realistic looking face

[@mistertwister2000]

I think the FNaF VHS tapes, Mandela Catalogue, and Monument Mythos all do a really good job of staying original and fascinating

[@GriffRunning]

My favorite video about analog horror

[@BreedableVaporeon0978]

Wow what a great video… cant wait to watch the new mandala catalog live in 4 hours

[@Kermilesa2715]

me too

[@starcrossedother]

Alex has said that for Volume 333 he is moving away from the analog horror format and if it’s half as good as Volume 2 it will probably be my favorite analog horror series.

[@Daroachie]

feels like every "spooky scary EAS" video i get suggested to me is always the same exact concept of "everyone's about to die and also the background is red for some reason (because red is scary)"

[@amblingiris2875]

I don’t want to spoil things for anyone not at “that” part yet, so I’ll just say this: that was brilliant! In hindsight, I could’ve noticed the differences. Excellent work and thank you for another awesome video! (And I hope you enjoyed your pretzels.)

[@Venom-Boiii]

To me, The Smile Tapes is the scariest analog horror series. After the whole COVID pandemic, looking at people infected with a disease that turns them into invincible smiling monsters that ravage the world is just creepy in it of itself, but also the audio and imagery do a great job at enhancing it. Imagine dying a painful death at the hands of an invincible zombie, with the last thing you see being a demonic smile. Rewatch it. It’s worth it.

[@appledrawss1353]

i think, imo, the mandela catalogue is easily the scariest analogue horror series ive ever seen, and i think gemini home entertainment (while more recent than local 58) is still a rather creative series. i mean the woodcrawlers are just a fantastic idea, and the fact that theres a sentient planet and that there was a whole video game made for the series was just super cool and creative. calling ghe a copycat, again just my opinion, is rather uncalled for just cuz it does have a lot of creative ideas behind it

[@mildlycornfield]

The Internet is scared of the photoshop liquify tool now -- well done analog horror!

[@paragonrobbie9270]

I think what draws me into a lot of analog horror media is how they aren't the type of shock horror that I grew up with in the era of Slender game clones and jumpscare videos. A lot of analog horror prefers a slow and interesting approach to storytelling that adds a sort of unsettling feeling over time.

[@DrXaiver]

Honestly for the backrooms videos, you’re right about that. Personally I think if people or even just someone made a series of exploring the different levels with different characters to follow. It would be more interesting than just a monster chase because we’d see strengths of the levels people wrote for the purpose of it being horror. Plus you could really make the monsters special, there’s plenty of strange creatures in the stories written on the website. Instead of being a scary face, show the disturbing fates of the unlucky survivors

[@queercandy1]

i hate that the genre has just devolved to "look at the scary face!! look at the scary face!! it's scary and distorted look at the scary face!!"

[@dronkusdonkus9190]

Gemeni Home Entertainment will always stay the goat. dunno if it’s mentioned here but damn that series blew me away.

[@bunchesofbudgies]

I think the most creative "analog horror" series I've seen in a while is the June Archives and Resteration Project. I found it over on twitter, but it's on youtube too. It uses flipnote and nostalgia to tell what I believe is to be a *pretty interesting* story with it. While it's got some of your typical analog horror tropes, the concept itself is creative enough- to me at least- is enough to keep it afloat.

[@fazmade]

As someone in the comments of one of their videos said, it's more like digital horror and not analog horror

[@derpz5569]

fellow june archives enjoyer

[@rayepenber8945]

Holy shit I'm loving this new Era of Gomotion vids, very well made as always, keep up the great work Jodie :D

[@themountaindude3546]

GoMotion feels like a British Scott the Woz in terms of pacing and jokes and I mean that in a good way :>

[@therandomartist3201]

For some reason GoMotion holding a gun is god damn adorable to me. I don’t feel threatened I want to pinch their stretchy cheeks like the taffy their made out of!

[@alexathecoolperson]

never thought i'd love a gag of Gomotion spraying silly string on one of her cabinets but here i am

[@a_shiggy_person]

Oml i noted that the skirt was different but i just shrugged it off as a new sprite.

[@galactic-hamster7043]

4:20 YOU DID NOT HAVE TO GET ME WITH THAT JERMA BIT NO BAD GOMO

[@Kaiscoolness]

Can I just say I was a little disappointed with the direction NeedleMouse in particular went? Like, it was relatively generic in the beginning, but it carried out the usual analog horror tropes with a sense of uniqueness and flair to it, as well as a sense that nothing was really as it seemed. Now it’s a… shonen fighting anime? The second season is just a lot less horror, and a lot more exposition and fighting, which really takes away from the tension that the first season built up. Not to mention that the last few episodes are, in GoMo’s words, glorified PowerPoint presentations. Not to disparage the effort put into the videos at all, the art is the main reason I got into it in the first place, I was just very disappointed. EDITS: Elaborated on my point, grammar

[@kaxcommentssomethingREAL]

yeah, the way ShutUpJojo draws sonic and friends in these multiple menacing ways is very entertaining. my guess with the reason for shutup to do that is that they had a thought of: "i'm gonna try something new, maybe... maybe fighting scenes?" that's actually a neat idea, but things were just too fast to take in when it first happened

[@con5090]

I disagree with alot of this but I still think parts of the critique are valid.

[@Kaiscoolness]

@@con5090 That's completely fair. Despite the overall negative tone of my comment, I will say that I'm still enjoying NeedleMouse so far. There's a lot to like about it - I've already mentioned that I like the art style quite a bit, but the overall story, themes and ideas it presents to the viewer over the course of the series are also pretty interesting to me.

[@nazmee1964]

@@Kaiscoolness I think the reason shutupjoe stopped following the horror analog stuff is because shut up Joe literally announced that needlemouse will no longer be a analog horror series on twitter

[@Kaiscoolness]

@@nazmee1964 That certainly explains a lot

[@Snam___69]

Putting it back up is a based move

[@MysticSlime]

Wow this was a great video! I've only watched a few analog horror series but I never realized how overused tropes like stretchy faces and the general structure of these things actually are.

[@TheDarkLordK]

Heya gomotion! Just in the middle of this video, and I couldn't help but notice that my tape was in here? That caught me by surprise! But since I'm here, I might as well give my stance on my analog horror mindset. Back then, when FNAF VHS was this new concept that Junior 0437 and Squimpus brought to the table that "made FNAF scary again", I thought to myself; "...What if I tried out this VHS stuff?" And that led to the creation of my first VHS tape, "Freddy Endoskeleton Test". I will admit, this tape is pretty crap. Even though it was my first ever attempt at a old-fashioned VHS styled tape. A couple tapes later, and that leads to the well known "Voice Box Test". This tape alone has made me speechless of how widespread this stuff can reach out, even with the whole KZbin algorithm stuff. But, after releasing that, I realized that most of the tapes that were being uploaded were just starting to become carbon copies from each other, and if you ask me, I didn't want to be one of those "constantly copying another video just to get more views" people, I wanted to bring something new to the table, tell an interesting, terrifying story within these horror VHS tapes. I've studied the way of how the famous horror movies were portrayed, how the pacing was, writing, characters, etc. I want to accomplish all of this with my FNAF series. Hence why if you take a look at my latest tape, the Mangle one, you'll see a HUGE quality change between the Freddy tape, to that one. I've been attempting to improve my skills with story-telling, portraying these characters, all that stuff. I'm not perfect with this stuff, trust me, there are a lot of people out there that are more talented than me. I'm just one guy making these silly VHS tapes to entertain the audience. I'm not doing this just to get a quick buck or two, I'm doing this because this is what I enjoy, and I want to show the people what I have in store for them all.

[@bannles]

It’s all become cliché after cliché after cliché. The well has run dry.

[@llewelynshingler2173]

No well is ever dry forever.

[@bannles]

@@llewelynshingler2173 yeah

[@antlace1780]

Horror in general is about cliché. I don't see why analoge horror should die when other gender of horror still going after years with doing the same shit. (Exemple : slashers)

[@bannles]

@@antlace1780 fair. I’ve just seen so much of it in recent days.

[@afroscal]

I think this is my favorite video of yours in a while

[@henrygrey7857]

Yeah all analog horror is now is just those restroom people you see when you go to a off brand chipotle.

[@frozngrildtoast4665]

Not a lot of analog horror really does it for me, The only more recent series to affect me was the Tangi Virus, I found it to be fairly interesting because it wasn't just some spooky monster with a funky face screaming at me

[@CT-1118]

Your voice sounds great! An inspiration to all who need it.

[@discountedartificer250]

nice job on the video, and i love the analog horror genere so seeing this was a great supprise

[@OutbreakBoi]

I just wanna point out that I love how the video started from le spooky voice and became the most friendly voice I hav ever heard lmao

[@fwsimon110]

The fact that this was released on the same day as Mandela Catalog Vol 3 is perfect

[@loganentertainment1814]

Analog Horror is awesome. Sure it has some faults, but it's still enjoyable.

[@itsmemae]

I was listening to the "NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A" remix just before deciding to hop onto this video, only to hear the original version in the background. Perfection.

[@sidsvids574]

I love analog horror but watching your viewpoint is so entertaining honestly I think your videos are so underrated this is some great shit!!!

[@Com3tcandi]

I'm surprised a pop group analog horror doesn't exist. Like k-pop or something. A group of girls or guys could sign a "record deal" that's actually a soul-binding contract from some eldritch being or something and the only way they can be "freed", or at least they're told they could be freed, is to spread the message. They could do this through their songs and advertising or through safrifices, which would come easily because what fan would refuse their idol asking for them to come backstage for a "special" tour. Or something.

[@isaiahsimmons5776]

to be fair that is what sold to the idk backstreet boys fiction was truly about. true horror.

[@Kali_io]

The scrimblo catalogue is the best analogue horror series change my mind

[@maxrichards5925]

I'm happy you covered this topic. It's great and I love Mandela catalogue. I'm glad a lot more people like it especially with vol.333

[@Luna-0233]

My personal favorite analog horror series has gotta be Vita Carnis right now, they're working on a season two currently but boy was it so WELL-MADE considering the other things on the internet right now.

[@idoblenderstuffs]

14:01 well, the backrooms had monsters way before the found footage people got to it. whenever i see a non-backrooms-dedicated youtube channel mention the backrooms they basically say "well the backrooms was this one little post and nothing else UNTIL kane pixels and the lads came and did all this stuff!!1!" no, thats just objectively wrong. backrooms has been evolving by itself for a long time. just look at it's wikidot

[@henryentertainmentsystem9923]

Alternate Gomo: I'm going to have to ask you to kill yourself Gomo: *Kills Alt* does that count? Funniest thing I've seen all day, great video Gomo

[@kalosbaku]

I love that the Alternate Gomo actually has unique sprites, great attention to detail

[@ArshadZahid_nohandleideas]

can't believe you forgot to bring up the scrimblo catalogue, truly impeccable

[@_Dimentio_]

Analog used to be so great, but it's become so washed out and repetitive lately

[@aben1466]

Well that goes for literally anything, things will get repetitive no matter how original they may be. The only way to combat this is to literally make the thing you wanna make and then immediately move on not developing anything else beyond that. Its nigh impossible to make creative stuff over and over and over especially nowadays.

[@errortryagainlater4240]

@@aben1466 I don't think the problem is really "everything has already been done anyway", you can do a lot of creative stuff with the same formula. Just look at Harry Potter, Winx Club, and Earthsea. At their core, they're all about _"adolescent goes to magic school, goes on adventures and needs to defeat enemies"_ but they're still VERY different. The problem is low-effort ripoffs that don't understand why the original worked.

[@aben1466]

@@errortryagainlater4240 yeah i strongly agree with that statement. Im just saying that because alot of people say analog is repetitive and lacking on so many actually good analog properties that aren’t the big five

[@tripled2096]

I want one of these filmed entirely on a 3ds

[@isaiahsimmons5776]

I want them watched on a phonautograph, it be so quirky and unique. I would be scared that they even did it.

[@caleblolag1583]

Good to see you back Gomo!

[@Darthbuddy]

This video made feel pretty humber ngl

[@errortryagainlater4240]

No hate intended but analogue horror is basically just the new age of creepypastas, right down to "then the music went distorted and Scrimblo bled hyper realistic blood", nobody ever giving murder footage to the cops, and comments insisting that it's scarier than 100% of horror movies 💀

[@Youhadabadday2021]

Holy shit that moment where Gomo was swapped out with their alternate was so well executed I literally had to go back and see when the swap occured. The alternate looked practically identical, as they should, and I never noticed until the two were in the same room. Some of the differences include the tassles of the hoodie being longer and thinner, and the skirt having 2 layers of creases instead of 1. The swap happens at 13:54, btw.

[@nocturnumshkin]

I think Mandela catalog is the best example of a decent if not great analog horror the series started off with the sorta stereotypical format but than it changed in vol. 2 and so on. Vol 4 being the most unique analog horror i have seen so far usually analog horror never ever has live action segments but vol 4 is full of the live actors in a off putting green screen setting its so cool! It manages to ne different while still having the analog horror format!

[@jetpackblues9193]

I remember that there is a web show by one of the creators of Marble Hornet called eckva, you could probably also put that in the Analog Horror category and it even predates Local 58

[@skytheguy2.0]

0:33 For a little bit, it sounded like Gomo guy took over and possessed her

[@MaxtheCatto]

Thats because he's trans and doesnt like rule 34

[@Haunted_Plush]

Hey, I've heard the voice used in the intro in a few different places now, and I like it a lot. Could someone tell me where I could find it? Thanks :D

[@yoji5759]

The mario 64 memes that were going around also helped make the medium more popular

[@nocturne_imp2014]

Been thinking about making one of these for years now, don't have the stuff for it ever really haha but I love this video and it helps me on how to make something spooky or unexpected :3 also hope you get more pretzels

[@aydinmakesthings]

As someone who dreams on making analog horror series, this video helped so much, and I agree with 90% of what you said. I'm so tired of the FNaF VHS and Backroom videos. What made FNaF VHS was how it was it's own take on FNaF. It didn't follow the games overly complex lore. It was it's own more simple retake on it. The VHS tape's glitching and having the ghost take over the tapes at times was so cool. Kanes take, while ruining the idea of no-one knows how to get there, is so good. Not only for the pure production, but how it is a more simple take on it. There's no real levels, and there's only 1 monster we've seen. Things like Walten Files and Mandela I love for their disturbing tales. Walten Files and how the Walten family was ruined by one man's actions. Or how in Mandela, one Alternate can kill a whole house of people. But now people are just CTRL+C and CTRL+V stuff now. Oh look, scary FNaF, omfg it's a creepy 40 year old to represent Afton. Look, text on screen from the kids. Or the Backrooms, look, it's someone running from one of the same 5 monsters. Or look, hazmat people getting killed, so scary. The series I'm making is about a group of friends. 1 of them goes missing, and the friend group get's them selves into some paranormal crap trying to find that friend. But I fear I'll just repeat Mandela or Local58. Or that I'll not use the fact it's lost footage from the characters camera. I love analog horror, but it's very true that people are over saturating it.

[@kbab5329]

It annoys me to no end whenever anyone says "finally TRUE horror" or something of that sort because it implies the horror genre isn't comprised of dozens and dozens of subgenres and there's only one absolute way to do it right. Like people complain that more actiony adrenaline pumping horror is really bad at being psychological horror like that isn't calling an orange shit for being bad at being an apple. You see an endless number of people go "jumpscare bad" like they're the first one to ever have the thought, in my opinion if something can be done right (jumpscares CAN be used effectively, and are far more versatile then unga bunga jump in face and yell that everyone thinks they exclusively are) than people should be discussing how to properly utilize said techniques instead of trying to prevent anyone from ever using them just because they can be done poorly. It's that kind of sentiment that causes rapid oversaturation, because if people only care about horror when it scares them, than anything that doesn't scare them (or creep them out or unnerve them, atmospheric horror isn't exempt from this) is frowned upon. Because god forbid horror be used as anything other than a means to scare you. The new horror "genres" that come out feel old so quickly because most people don't actually treat them as genres they treat them as aesthetics, so they don't try anything different than the shit they did before, just present it to you in a slightly different way. TL;DR Treating horror like a binary "true horror/ bad, fake horror" seeks only to shun experimentation and turn the artform into something formulaic you can mathematically optimize. And of course shit is going to feel stale when everyone seems more concerned with presentation (both in regards to aesthetic and technique) than what's actually being said, what you're left with is essentially just a bunch of templates.

[@Namefag23]

Jumpscare bad hahhhahhha

[@TraceyIsTired]

I like how whenever you start talking abt spider webs, Spider Dance kicks up.

[@nostalgicedits426]

Amazing vid Jodie! I always thought the Mandela catalogue stood out among all the other analog horror series for the reason you described, the existential horror was more effective for me. And I tried to get into the backrooms like I did with SCP so many years ago, but as much as I fell in love with the original concept with the yellow walls and was drawn in by ‘the end is near’ empty library. I think that idea of levels that increase in difficulty with a near impossible escape is great! Adding hundreds of monsters into the mix ruined the dread of being left completely alone to wander until you die of starvation/dehydration.