The Inevitable Fates of Youtube's Fad Games (ft. Chazington)

Gotta give people their daily hit of nostalgia dopamine.
CHAZINGTON'S CHANNEL: / @chazington1073
FLAPPY BIRD DEATH HOAX: • The Flappy Bird Murder...
0:00 Intro
1:55 Flappy Bird
9:33 Baldi's Basics
15:59 Hello Neighbor
21:53 Slender
30:07 Outro
OTHER VIDEOS:
• Why Flappy Bird Was Re...
• Don't Listen (feat. @t...
• SYMPATHY FOR SLENDER M...
• [Vinesauce] Vinny - Tw...
• SCARY SLENDER MAN SIGH...

[@vinesauce]

Baldi blowing up was really surprising to me, blew my mind. Great video btw.

[@kanna-san.]

Ey vinny

[@jumbotron3842]

I love pepperoni pizza **Tony:** Ey, Vinny, you heard 'bout this guy, they call him the Fixer? **Vinny:** Yeah, Tony, I heard. Supposed to be some kinda magician, making things happen in Amerston Street. **Tony:** Yeah? I gotta meet this guy, Vinny. Got a little situation, ya know? **Vinny:** What kinda situation, Tony? You mixin' with the wrong crowd again? **Tony:** Nah, nah, Vinny, nothin' like that. Just got this business thing, need a little help, you know? Someone said the Fixer's the go-to guy for this. **Vinny:** Oh, business, huh? You gotta be careful, Tony. The Fixer ain't your regular consultant, capisce? **Tony:** I know, I know. But I heard he's the guy who can make stuff disappear or appear, you get me? **Vinny:** Yeah, yeah, like some kinda magician for wise guys. But you gotta be cautious, Tony. Amerston Street ain't no walk in the park. **Tony:** I ain't scared, Vinny. Just gotta make a connection, set up a meet, you know? **Vinny:** Alright, Tony, but if you're playin' with fire, don't come cryin' to me when things get hot. **Tony:** Vinny, I got this. I'm gonna find the Fixer, lay out my cards, and see if he's got the magic touch. **Vinny:** Just be careful, Tony. And if things go south, I got a cousin who knows a guy... you know how it goes.

[@hirshel820]

binyot

[@derekg5006]

bep

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

Same

[@HaunterHax23]

The fact that a game parodying "innocent games with deep lore" (Baldi's Basics) did its job so well that people still think that it was trying to be an unironic, is still funny to me

[@Azurethewolf168]

Yeah

[@shelbybunny]

its just like annoying orange. it was initially a parody of that kind of content, but eventually attracted genuine fans and thus itself became genuine

[@PotatoBruh64]

It annoys me relentlessly because as a shitpost game, it’s amazing, but the average viewer below the age of 10 (aka 90% of the fanbase of KZbinrs that play horror games) are incapable of detecting satire.

[@tristysstuff6664]

That's why I always say it's impossible to completely separate a product from it's fanbase. It will always influence your perception of the thing in question.

[@themc3140]

Exactly, makes me enjoy it way more, especially when I hear youtubers criticize it for the 'Innocent turned evil' aspect of it.

[@muchomuchoman6050]

Hello Neighbor being considered a horror game is a joke that writes itself. Literally all Mr. Peterson does is make you leave. Doesn't even call the police, no matter how many times you break into his house. For the main antagonist, he's a lot more chill than most people would be about having his home invaded.

[@theanubisfan10]

If anything the player is the antagonist for their constant trespassing. The whole thing could've been avoided if the main character just minded their own business.

[@orenges]

i think its the music and chases

[@derekg5006]

​@@orengesthe original chase music was pretty cool but they replaced it with a more generic one

[@marreco6347]

With Don't Breathe and The People Under the Stairs, you can't slack with this premisse.

[@CyberLance26]

It felt like a horror game when it was about sneaking around but not as much when it started to be about puzzles and platforming instead.

[@prismavoid3764]

Baldi's Basics is so funny because even once the "horror" part comes into view, it's still so obviously a shitpost. There are whiteboards with "Insert Lore Here" and "Sorry, forgot to write a story" written on them, its take on the FNAF-style "drop lore on you when you die" concept is to flash a fidget spinner on-screen sometimes after you die, and the true ending you get for sucking at math really hard is just some random guy saying "There's no hidden lore, I'm not a person trapped in the game, you should just delete it". Yet the desire to milk popularity was so strong that you had youtubers trying to analyze actual lore out of it when it's clearly all just meant to be silly nonsense making fun of the kinds of low-effort crap people churn out trying to be the next horror fad.

[@henrynelson9301]

The secret ending is literally just rambling about nothing with the mic being blown out, and people still speculated about what it meant for the lore

[@asteroidrules]

The creator also literally wrote in the ending that the game has no lore, will never have lore, and people should stop asking for it.

[@FanFookinTastic]

That honestly makes me respect the game a whole lot more now😂

[@exterminator9676]

The classic games. The full game will have a story and will be fun and engaging while still keeping that shoddy 90s edutainment look.@@asteroidrules

[@stray_cat87]

Lmao yeah, I still remember bright as day, people taking the shitpost of a game seriously like it was a Martin Scorsese movie.

[@Bruhlie]

The funniest part about the Game Theory vs. Hello Neighbor beef is that MatPat still makes fun of Hello Neighbor to this day. In MatPat's goodbye video he just posted, he casually mentioned how he knew that one of his successors would be right for the job after he read the entire Hello Neighbor book series in case they ever did a Hello Neighbor video. It's like learning about the Hello Neighbor lore was viewed as the least desirable job at The Theorists.

[@SpecialInterestShow]

Does he have, like, a specific successor planned, like someone else who works for the team? Or is he assuming someone else will randomly just spring up eventually as the new popular theory youtuber?

[@Citrusfemboy]

@@SpecialInterestShowHe does. I think his name is Jon or John.

[@sebastianherrera6514]

@@SpecialInterestShowhe has 4 different host for each channel, the one that will take over game theory is called Tom, the guy apparently grew up with game theory when he was young, I think he will be a fine replacement.

[@Citrusfemboy]

@@sebastianherrera6514 TOM, FOR FUCK’S SAKE.

[@go_golden]

​@@Citrusfemboyoh shit Jon Jafari let's go

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Slender, truly a product of its time. It ushered in an era of internet horror and open the doors for Creepypastas back in the early 2010’s. Only for both of them to die off due to over saturation, a real life murder attempt, and a crappy movie that was seven years too late.

[@matheuskirisame]

It's not even fun how those girls actually managed to sell this bullshit lie

[@danteburnside5421]

Seriously, I still can't comprehend what made them think "Hey, you know what would make a great movie? That one horror game that everyone played nearly a decade ago!"

[@leviticusprime4904]

there is another slender filmed just called slender, it was a cheap found footage horror film. However since Slenderman is copyrighted, they could never actually say the word Slenderman nor actually have him appear, so its basically like 2 hours of really unlikable characters harassing a woman who thinks her kids were abducted by Slenderman. This gets the point where our MCs decided to dress up as him and traumatize this woman in her kids old school, the film ends with everyone being implied killed. It is a really REALLY bad horror film

[@comixproviderftw_02]

@@danteburnside5421 The FNAF movie came out 9 years after the original game but at least that became a whole franchise that’s still relevant and still makes money. Slender on the other hand was not.

[@danielhanna19]

Murder attempts?

[@trogdorrules]

Skibidi Toilet's popularity truly proved that we live in a society

[@JonathanGaeta]

Skibidi Toilet will be the true downfall of humanity with Gen Alpha and Gen Beta

[@Santoryu90]

Meh

[@bocodamondo]

time is a flat circle

[@NotOnLand]

It's no different from classic Gmod humor, only with _much_ wider reach somehow

[@10011110011]

@@NotOnLand yeah! I remember the gmod videos of a decade ago having the same feeling. The reason for thenlaegwr reach is the short attention span of the "modern audiency" they wont watch a 30 min long Gmodidiotbox video

[@murisbukvic2496]

Slenderman being in this video has made me realize one thing: All the fads today are INCREDIBLY short lived, lasting a month or two. But Slenderman lasted for years before it unceremoniously bit the dust. All the older fads seemed to be long lasting, which made me remember two more fads: Downfall parodies and Angry German Kid parodies. both taking foreign made products in a foreign language, and adding fake subtitles to make them say different things than what was actually said. And all of them really went deep, making their own universes and everything. Especially Angry German Kid, whose original video was such a convincing fake that it basically ruined the creator's life. And both of those fads lasted for longer than today's fads.

[@ImpeccableExplanation]

Don't forget about El Risitas and Boemerang interview parodies, they're based on the same premise. Also, Sparta Remixes are still alive to this day, and long live they shall.

[@MrERJ1992]

@@ImpeccableExplanation Oh, god, the Sparta remixes.... How could I forget about those?

[@TSk-jd2il]

Hopefully AGK has become a rapper since 2018 and also a bodybuilder.

[@hexmaniac6810]

Memes are like that too, mlg lasted a couple of years while dr livesey lasted about a week, and that’s probably the last “recent” meme I can remember.

[@thegamingprozone1941]

Damm, I used to watch a alot of agk parodies back then

[@Aetharn]

To be fair to matpat, when hello neighbor was in the alpha stages they did put a bunch of references to "Faust" and the number 666 in the promo art. They basically got their time in the spotlight from promising lore, and they didn't deliver. It was supposed to be a cool game about a clever AI that was programmed to learn from your last attempts. Also, vinny vinesauce being the first step to baldy getting as popular as it is is so funny to me lmao

[@Aetharn]

Also if you ever want to make a sequel to this video you should do a bit about amnesia, one of the first bigger horror games

[@prismavoid3764]

The Hello Neighbor lore is so funny to me because they kept hinting at occult stuff all through the alphas and betas, only to basically drop it all in the final game. Really feels like they cared more about "surprising" people than actually telling a good story.

[@girlbuu9403]

Matpat suffered enough when the Hello Neighbor guy started borderline stalking him.

[@Tattootin]

⁠@@prismavoid3764i don’t know what the fuck happened though. Hello neighbor was the game I told fuckin EVERYONE about in alpha 1-3 and it was glorious….. then it came out in clown vision/ schizophrenic mode glitches galore. But then when it came out. I fucking hated it, and ya know what happened… my fuckin 3 year old daughter somehow became OBSESSED WITH IT. And she wasn’t watching KZbin shit…. That came 5 months into it when B I couldn’t handle her wanting to play it 24/7 I realized it’s child cocaine. Legit. Somehow someway, fucked up looking weird games really really attract kids? I don’t get it? I can’t wait till they grow up and we show em wtf they liked and I hope they all gag….

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

​@@prismavoid3764 Sounds to me like they didn't want to scare the new merchandise companies away with such stuff

[@Jackiedrewharbringer]

I cant believe Flappy Bird's creator made in one day the same amount Verbalase spent on that music video Edit: Why yall liking this it wasn't even that funny

[@jart1984]

verbalbros it's over

[@sentry_repair_mann]

I actually watched the vid on R34. It SUX! He went bankrupt for an absolute shit vid.

[@username-yc3bd]

@@sentry_repair_mann does it even have nsfw? i heard it’s pretty much just a music video that costs 50k

[@sentry_repair_mann]

@@username-yc3bd none to be found which makes me wonder what the point was? 50 grand for nothing?!?

[@beyondobscure]

According to the tags it's censored. I've seen clips, it's really well animated. I'd probably guess the majority of the cost went to rights... @@username-yc3bd

[@skraggity]

My one experience with Slender was trying to download it as a child, not knowing at all how indie game installations worked at the time, and giving my dad's work laptop ransomware that ended up bricking it.

[@Muttsoc999]

Did you get punished?

[@umairashraf5167]

Damn sorry for that man,hopefully ur dad wasn't all that mad

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

Good God that was probably a day to remember

[@victini7777]

I legit forgot Baldi's Basics existed until now. It was a fun game, deserved better.

[@JonathanGaeta]

That’s a name I haven’t heard since 2018. Jeez I’m old.

[@themc3140]

Honestly, It has probably ended up the best compared to most of the other viral indie/mascot horror games. Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered was really good, and BB+ is essentially taking the concept and making a roguelike out of it. The dev just seems to want to make fun games for his fans, regardless of if it's still a relevant topic.

[@yourmomisveryobese4418]

the thing that made baldis basics good is that it wasn't made for an algorithm, but it was made with the intent to create something fun, and even after the game's explosion the creator tried to keep his feet on the ground trying to not milk the series too much to be honest making another better version of the game.

[@victini7777]

@@themc3140 the creator was just having fun creating his joke horror game and didn't cared about fame n stuff like other games on the list. Mad respect

[@Cubeytheawesome]

I’m pretty sure there’s stuff in the works for it. I know a month ago a new character was revealed. His name is dr reflex.

[@Slenderquil]

As a kid, Slender was one of the first times I stopped being scared of something after a while. Kinda impressive it managed to still leave enough impression to get itself into my online name.

[@rubyy.7374]

For me that game was FNAF lmao

[@Brob2nd]

​@@rubyy.7374same lol

[@average4400]

I love baldi's basics so much for what it represented, i love how people would try to make ridiculous theories thinking its a fnaf game when 90% of the time its developer was just shitposting, also that game is still getting developed to become a bigger game so there is that which is awesome

[@monstercombo007]

Baldi: FOR THE LAST TIME, I DON'T HAVE LORE!! Theorists: Wow! Such deep Lore!

[@sitkinator]

I love how Vinny played Baldi completely unaware of the phenomenon it would become, and especially with him being the FIRST major internet personality to play it. Vinesauce just has this pattern of being at the forefront of popular memes or games, but with their name still being very niche and only recognized by few. Of course, Vinny has been getting more recognition in the past few years with him collaborating with more mainstream creators, but people like Joel for example rarely get out of their internet bubbles unless it's a very specific event, like Jerma's House Flipper competitions.

[@reddeadspartan]

Joel got a little spotlight in the Lost Media community for a little bit which I found hilarious. Joel accidentally caused people to go on the hunt for a "lost game" that never existed in the first place.

[@pauliedee1951]

​​​@@reddeadspartan dont forgot that mug, his jojo stuff, windows destruction streams, grand dad and bulk Bogan also became memes outside of Joel's bubble.

[@wilk746]

@@pauliedee1951 and who could ever forget the legacy of GRAND DAD?

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

probably because he does things that no one else does, like dumpster dives old games.

[@PestoPitaa44]

bonzibuddy anyone?

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

Its pretty sad how often children's mental health issues are ignored or not treated. Until it blows up in everyone's face anyways. Then it sure isnt ignored

[@nobodyinparticular9640]

Nah, then something else gets blamed for it. "He did a school shooting? It's because of all those newfangled vidyagaems that I don't understand, they're at fault" and other easy-blame arguments like those

[@ironmaster6496]

Except even when shit hits the fan people STILL ignore the child's mental health and go for a escape goat

[@diegodunn-humphrey512]

​@ironmaster6496 the same people who stress about the importance of mental health are the same ones who ignore everything around them except themselves

[@bossman-jk9tl]

@@diegodunn-humphrey512 Bruh chill. That's literally just a weirdly bitter generalization that ur probably basing on like one specific bad experience u had with someone.

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

@@diegodunn-humphrey512 damn son who hurt you

[@waterbears9874]

honestly, badi's basics is a game i respect. despite becoming a baby horror fad game i still respect how genuine and authentic it is to its source material

[@robotron6420]

I think is made just for satire

[@waterbears9874]

@@robotron6420 exactly, but it still remains authentic

[@robotron6420]

@@waterbears9874 Of course, i love the game too!

[@GigalassII]

Flappy bird is in every arcade, Baldi's Basics is still actively receiving updates, and Slender started an entire genre and generation of game designers. Fate is very complex.

[@henrynelson9301]

Slender The Arrival also got a 10th anniversary remaster update

[@GigalassII]

@@henrynelson9301 exactly

[@Syke7546]

and each of them still has a thriving fanbase even if it's not the whole Internet

[@dawg9585]

i hope all my friends make such an impact

[@HectorGonzalez-qx9nk]

I’m honestly surprised you didn’t mention Fall Guys. I remember it being huge for like 2 weeks during the pandemic, and then was immediately replaced with Among Us.

[@malmart0]

Speaking of Among Us, I recently started playing it again and it's insane how small the amount of people who play it now is. Like, I often find myself playing with the same people in a different lobby and finding a lobby is kinda hard sometimes too

[@notandum]

@@malmart0 as someone who found the game early into it's life, it's mainly just due to the updates - they really alienated a lot of older players like myself and a lot of what originally made the game enjoyable got steadily lost just off the top of my head: - switching from dlcs to in-game mobile currencies - completely gutting public lobbies and ruining the experience as a public host in general (this one i take extreme issue with as their reasoning was "in order to protect kids we've made lobby names randomly generated from a pool of words" but all it did was make it impossible to know what you're joining - thus making the issue worse) - the artstyle overhaul making the game just generally "safer" and more sanitized (kill animations and sounds were changed for example) - a shoehorned in friend system that does absolutely nothing it set out to do - honestly just a steadily removal of the vibe it originally had, it took itself and it's concept much more seriously in contrast to the art but all that really remains now of the original vision is the thing-inspired main menu music - the new method of cosmetics just overall, which went from simple and themed to just . whatever the fuck they feel like at any given time to the point you could hide your character's color entirely (that they then band-aid fixed by adding a color under name setting) i loved the game in it's early stages and was super happy when it got popular and could get more friends in on it but after awhile the direction they went just didn't fit for me and a lot of others, and we moved on to other games (unfortunate spacemen was great for a time but sadly it remains a much more niche title despite predating au)

[@SHAMURASBLOOD]

@@notandum jesus, i didnt realize how much they changed. it really sucks, because i found among us to be a really interesting game at first.

[@Windyyyyyyyyy]

I remember when Fall Guys came out, Hololive was playing that game a ton. They were probably some of the best streams for that game looking back.

[@reddeadspartan]

​@@notandumI fear that something like this will happen to Lethal Company over time, though this fear has no basis, I've just come to accept that eventually everything I enjoy will be sanitised to hell and back if it ever becomes too popular

[@Burbobz]

25:28 I’m so happy you used a clip from NintendoCapriSun. I never see anyone talk about him even though he was definitely one of the most real Let’s Players out there.

[@eyeguydojima7131]

He's still putting out LP's. In fact, I think he's doing Tears of the Kingdom right now.

[@jackmcglion8337]

Paul'sego did

[@mattthedoormat]

Still collabs with Jon and Emile on TheRunawayGuys too! (Dang, that channel's been running for almost 15 years now)

[@tjlnintendo]

He’s one of the OGs

[@redbulbuniverse]

I remember watching his plants vs zombies videos years ago as a kid.

[@guyonyoutube6565]

Slender the Arrival actually got a 10 year anniversary update where it was remade in Unreal Engine 5 and added a new chapter called Nightmare. The developers are also planning new content for the game like a multiplayer mode, three new chapters, a kit to make your own mods for the game, and even a new game called S: Lost Chapters.

[@WATCLysh]

It's a game I've definately debated buying over the years, is it worth buying now that the anniversary update is out?

[@guyonyoutube6565]

@@WATCLysh I’d recommend it, some of the difficulty was upped in some areas, it’s a lot less buggy compared to the original, and the game looks beautiful with the new graphics, as long as your computer is strong enough to play it, I was finally able to play it after putting a GTX 1650 in my PC and ran it with some of the game’s settings on medium and high, I tried running all the settings on ultra and it ran fine until the game crashed a few minutes into playing it. The new level takes a new spin on horror that wasn’t really seen in slender games back then, relying more on psychological horror than just jumpscares. I’m looking forward to seeing what Blue Isle Studios does with the game in the future with the new updates.

[@avadoksorem2854]

Slenderman didn’t cause an attempted murder. Oblivious parenting caused it. Keep in mind, if those two little psychos did not discover Slenderman, some other horror icon would’ve inspired them to do it instead. I don’t pin the blame on Slenderman at all. Just the two murderous fools whose parents failed in the end. The Ned Flanders meltdown for the Hello Neighbor intro was freaking Hilarious though. Totally killed me. XD

[@yourfatboy5359]

Both were also schizophrenic.

[@princembat]

this for real. bad parenting mixed with an unstable child that clearly wasnt being attended to properly really is a recipe for disaster. but people would rather not have the hard conersations and blame it on something impossible to blame, a fictional character and its popularity.

[@yourfatboy5359]

@@princembat it's the whole "tv/video games cause violence" all over again, people love blaming random shit instead of actually taking accountability.

[@princembat]

@@yourfatboy5359 exactly

[@yourfatboy5359]

@@princembat its just so weird, they're acting like this fictional thing from a message board from 2009 came to them and said "guys you should stab your friend" this is an insult to the poor survivor

[@PeterSpaghetti69]

I remember when Baldi's Basics used to be a fad back in like 2018. sad that it was just really a joke game to be honest.

[@stevestevensong3401]

looked preddy shid to me but i aint playe it

[@GlipGlig]

@@stevestevensong3401 No your observations were right it was a preddy shid game

[@Azurethewolf168]

@@GlipGligbut it was on purpose

[@GlipGlig]

@@Azurethewolf168 So? It's still a shid game, just because it was meant to be crap doesn't make it any less bad. Even if it was meant to be in that "cheap 90s crap game" sort of way there were much more creative ways of doing it I'm sure. It's just really bland

[@dirtypeasant6941]

Maybe if the creator didn't turn into a sellout by producing shameless merch of the damn thing like Tiny Build did with Hello Neighbor.

[@craftman_yt]

I'm glad Baldi's Basics is out of the public consciousness. It's got a small but passionate fan base which is much better than the entire Internet. BBCR is also much better than the original, and it's STILL free.

[@Glory2Snowstar]

Man, I remember when Vinny Vinesauce himself played Baldi’s back in 2017 before it got big and I instantly fell in love with the style, doodling Baldi everywhere on my Latin pages. Blew my mind to eventually figure out others knew the weird edutainment game too. I hope the creator’s doing well, they’re a fellow WarioWare DIY enjoyer.

[@planescaped]

Amnesia the Dark Descent lets plays were actually what started the whole trend, but Slender is where it really took off. And the issue with Slender The Arrival had nothing to do with the quality of the game itself, and more it being a victim of the deluge of Slender copycats. It took too long to come to market, and by the time it had come out people were gorged to excess on Slender-like's.

[@queenofnarnia1011]

"an egg in a business suit" is now my favorite description of slender 😂

[@Xbob42]

Nothing will ever be funnier to me than the fact that you brought on a Hello Neighbor "expert" to talk about the game but he talked about everything but the game. That's the level of respect Hello Neighbor deserves.

[@Larry]

Most excellent video Sir, If you ever do a follow-up, you must cover the REALLY early KZbin fad games like, "I Wanna Be the Guy" and "Happy Wheels"

[@brodietabernacki2026]

I would love a video, from anyone, that talks about games that just barely skidded by getting milked by the KZbin algorithm.

[@madeofmeats]

I’m surprised Iron Lung never reached that status since it’s such a meme to mention it sometimes. The gameplay is probably too boring for young kids to get into though

[@Aleuse]

@@madeofmeats it's simple really, "Can you make a marketable plushie off this?" If yes, then the shlop flood gates are open. Garten of ban ban is an uninspired, empty mess of a soulless game that got lucky and the devs are milking it in the laziest way possible, but since it got colorful blobs with eyes, kids love it. All an IP needs is marketable characters and the right concept.

[@nomihabo9752]

​@@Aleuse Hell sometimes you don't even need a concept, all you need is recognizable, easy to reproduce designs and a dash of algorithmic luck. No one actually knows or cares what ban ban is about, or if it's trying to be anything other than a blatant cash grab

[@odester]

@@madeofmeats i was just abt to say how i worried iron lung was going in that direction for a while but the dev is such a powerhouse he consistently releases bangers that kinda take attention away from eachother

[@austinreed7343]

@@Aleuse Which is how somehow we got Baldi’s Basics having a short-lived retail merch line.

[@monocheckers1659]

Including that clip of nintendocaprisun's majora mask lets play from 2009 brought me back man. Still a huge fan of him to this day

[@Guymanbot97]

Him and the rest of the runaway guys honestly feel like they are the last GREAT Let's Players.

[@eyeguydojima7131]

So i realized this like a week ago, but we're coming up on the 10th anniversary of THAT TRG Mario Party stream. I even find myself quoting Tim to this day.

[@cedaagent]

Holy fuck that was the first thing I ever watched on youtube when i was a kid

[@mattthedoormat]

@@eyeguydojima7131 Dang, has it really been that long? Didn't know Chuggaa has been doing Daisy on Hard for 10 years.

[@phoxphorus761]

Funny story too regarding the toy models. In a podcast/interview, I think it's LS Mark's podcast thing, he mentioned a story where he looked at his GOTTA SWEEP model in his office/room and he just thought to himself something along the lines of, "I just tricked a company into making a model of a broom". And it was just one of those moments he had of like, realizing that. I'm fairly certain the image for that broom is from an amazon listing too. Apparently in that interview too, the dev was at one point was approached by Matpat himself (somehow) and when like, getting advice for his game or something, Matpat suggested making Baldi have a release schedule like Bendy or Poppy, like chapter based release schedule for I'm gonna assume maximum relevancy and the dev didn't do that instead wanting release the game in its entirety. I want you to imagine a world where Baldi had the relevancy of Bendy or Poppy(?).

[@elesqueleto2010]

maybe the game would have an active fandom?

[@lexion8152]

@@elesqueleto2010 I never comment on this stuff, but any "fandom" or "community" is a joke.

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

​@@lexion8152 even if you believe that to be true. That is fame the game otherwise wouldn't have. That's kinda the thing with fandoms.

[@kota2373]

If that's true, good on him for doing what he wants and not compromising his vision for some more yt spam content. Episodic releases are garbage, sure they will make ppl talk about the game after each release and keep this illusion of "relevancy", but there's no way you can build a truly great game with a bunch of start and stop segments, when its the time for the game to be finally seen as a full coherent experience, it will always fall short bc the rush for chasing the trends will always end in a jumble of elements that do not flow together. But who I'm kidding, it's clear that most of the ppl that jumped on the mascot horror trend do not care about creating a game that will endure the test of time and only want to string the maximum of ppl along to sell some merch that will end in a landfill someday.

[@phoxphorus761]

@@kota2373 Link to the thing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/enKumX2MrJyoo7Msi=qWVJa57sjIRJpHQE&t=1876 One part I forgot was Matpat's suggestion to push some actual lore into the game, which they're taking up on that suggestion to some extent for BB+. The podcast is really interesting to watch through, talking about the whole development of making Baldi and the stuff that happened with from its success. Apparently the dev got an offer of like someone offering to make/do a Baldi movie/animation (And they had zero clue wtf to do.) And the company that made the broom that GOTTA SWEEP uses as a sprite tried to reach out to him to do some kind of partnership, and he didn't take it out of fears of copyright infringement.

[@MegadeathAdams]

I'm crusty enough to still vividly remember the fad era of poorly-designed "kaizo" romhacks. The rampant deluge of unregistered hypercams, Windows Movie Maker intros and chucklenuts with horrible microphones matched only by their equally milquetoast personalities. Good times. This video made me realize how much I appreciated the purity of cringy fun back then, before it went from simply being in on it to being a ratrace. Things get commercialized so fast now it's depressing. Either way guess some things will never change.

[@canaldohector]

kaizo fad? There are more kaizo rom hacks being released now that 10 years ago

[@GribbleGob]

@@canaldohector a fad ending doesn't mean it stops existing.

[@saber2802]

Wait that's how you spell milquetoast?" I've always thought it was Milk toast.

[@PointsofData]

Poorly designed? I feel like you couldn't get through the 20 Chain Chomps in a small room surrounded by fire and that's just a skill issue, Kaizo seperates the wheat from the chaff after all. 😂😂😂

[@EmployeeAMillion]

I can offer testimony regarding Flappy Bird mania. My school was obsessed with it for exactly one week. That week starting the day after PewDiePie played it (with so many kids in denial that he’s the reason they wanted to try it out), and ending when all the rumours about it getting someone’s brother killed started to circulate. You experience fads all the time as a kid. You just don’t know until they’re over.

[@mooj269]

i can't believe this guy strapped chazington to a chair and threatened his entire family by name until he talked about hello neighbor

[@SwaggyG_2102]

I remember hearing about Baldi's Basics back when it was new, and the several fangames that came after the game's success. Remember Viktor's Advanced Education?

[@kikigarza9092]

Yep

[@owenplays3770]

"30 seconds in the punishment room. You have 1 warning left"

[@4zy1]

That fan game was actually being updated a while after its popularity died surprisingly, though I think it's basically discontinued now unfortunately. Honestly one of the few horror fan games I look back on fondly.

[@SwaggyG_2102]

@@4zy1 It seems we meet again. Anyways, I remember being more scared of that game than Baldi's Basics itself.

[@shibainu2528]

Apparently, the developer of that game also made a game you may or may not have heard of if you watched Vinesauce, Spazmastic Banana, or The Librarian fairly recently. Voices of the Void. Basically, you are Dr. Kel, who is assigned to this private park-like location in a rundown building with computers that work just barely enough for you to get your job done. You get a signal from space, slowly download it onto your computer, drive out to Yankee on your ATV since the server went down, listen to that space-type beat you got from space, then put it onto a drive and sell it to HQ for profit!

[@suly5836]

Baldi's Basics is probably one of the few (if not the only) indie horror games from that era that made it big for being a genuinely well made simple game, and has aged like the finest wine, having new content being released to this day, and everyone still remembers it lovely. Be like Baldi everyone.

[@AluminumFusion22]

Turns out mystman had been working on games for the past several years; it's just Baldi's Basics took off because it was made during the Meta Game Jam. I remember watching Tech Rules's video on Baldi's AI and it's surprisingly sophisticated for a joke game.

[@TheSeriousPain]

Wasn't Amnesia the game that catapulted PewDiePie's career and started the horror LP trend on YT a year or two before Slenderman? I remember The Home Alone face thumbnails plaguing KZbin for a while before Slenderman became the new trend.

[@PointsofData]

You are correct. Amnesia was also the one that started the fad of showing your face so your audience could see how ABSOLUTEY _SPOOKED_ you were since it had very good atmosphere. I'm sure other people did face cams before that but that's where it became mainstream.

[@MillywiggZ]

There was a saying in the 90’s that was something like “catch the wave”. These fads are exactly that, just a wave you’ll forget once it hits the shore and there’s another on the horizon. Yeah, I know it was a surfing thing but it’s applicable ok?

[@picclejar]

wasn't that a max headroom ad for coca-cola?

[@Exmachinagamma]

​@@picclejarthat's how I know that😄

[@na-ky8ou]

This is actually a very good analogy.

[@rhythmandblues_alibi]

Esp relevant with the whole "surf the net" thing from back in the day.

[@FunnyStarRunner]

The Slenderman attempted murder and the Game of Thrones finale both had such a powerful impact in that once they happened, society collectively forgot about the source materials because they've been forever tarnished by something awful. Seriously, not even GoT gets referenced in pop culture anymore.

[@KaminoKatie]

Add in Star Vs' finale for good measure too

[@FunnyStarRunner]

@@KaminoKatie She killed millions.

[@doodlebebjoe6447]

@@KaminoKatiehow bad was it (I haven’t watch that show since 2015)

[@FillmGeekOfDoom]

@@doodlebebjoe6447 Star went full Thanos because "racism against monsters bad so magic's to blame for some reason". It was so badly written. Look it up.

[@JR-zi9vj]

Slenderman just died out tbh.

[@silvers_the_name]

Remember FNF? That game used to be on top of the world, it even got like $2,000,000 to make the final game, and the modding community was HUGE. Now I hardly ever hear about it at all, and it seems the final product is getting the Half-Life 3 treatment.

[@klonoafan2012]

Unfortunately the fandom ruined it and this isn't just oh no the fandom makes cringe stuff no I mean most of the popular modders for the game got outted for grooming and other such mess up cases and with the lack of updates and the aforementioned details the game popularity slided off the radar

[@Guymanbot97]

I remember actually being a part of that Kickstarter. I am still holding out hope for it since most of the time Newgrounds guys work hard on something it delivers, and I feel people just expected them to make two more levels and then release it at retail.

[@Teriiiyakiii]

Bruh I was a part of that Kickstarter and they STILL haven't shipped, or even surveyed things like shirt sizes most of the backer rewards yet. Luckily they do provide updates on development and kickstarter progress every few months, the last one in September. On the bright side, I kinda like how the fandom died down. That way when the full game eventually releases the fandom would have matured by then. Kinda like the Undertale/Deltarune and FNaF fandoms.

[@prismavoid3764]

That kickstarter had "scope creep" written all over it. Really seems like they just threw random stuff onto the stretch goals without expecting that they'd ever hit them - on top of the already full game they had planned, they made so much money that they're now obligated to add 35 extra weeks (a total of 105 extra playable songs on top of cutscenes, characters, etc), online multiplayer with a sharing network, ten extra playable characters, mobile builds, and fully animated cutscenes - on top of all the merch that was promised as backer rewards too. Trying to make a game like that is a fate I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy

[@Galvatron102]

@@prismavoid3764 Poor bastards...

[@noodleman4555]

One thing Slender The Arrival did very well that nobody gives it credit for is the soundtrack and atmosphere. It's also very fun to speedrun surprisingly. I can agree the game as whole is not very good though. Also wanted to note the devs did actually remake the game in Unreal 5 back in October, and are currently working on a sequel.

[@SwaggyG_2102]

Ooohh, what's this, another MagicMush x Chazington collab video? One more, and I might consider making a fanfic featuring you two...

[@Azurethewolf168]

WHAT THE HELLLLLLL AINT NO WAY

[@OscDaBoss]

Do it

[@DaquariousGooch]

do it

[@aWildRat]

do it

[@Sorrelhas]

​@@Azurethewolf168WHAT THE HEEEEELLL OH MAI GAWD NO WAYAYAYY

[@millennialchicken]

I was at college during Flappy Birds' popularity, and it is still to this day the only thing that got horse girls away from their horses. WILD.

[@henrynelson9301]

What are horse girls

[@miymoto128]

sounds like my ex

[@tristysstuff6664]

Donkey Guy plus Planet Dolan Guy is kind of an insane combination, but you two have been like my favorites right now

[@pudnik2410]

At least Baldi's Basics had and STILL has ACTUAL care put into it...

[@TheG_Boy]

I like that no KZbinrs caught on the secret ending of Baldi was parodying the people taking the game seriously

[@SomeBsMovieOfficial]

Given how mobile games use predatory practices today, the Flappy Bird dev deleting his game was actually the most based thing he could've done in that position.

[@dicapriodelorean2888]

man I liked Baldi's basics when it was just a joke game with minor horror things, till people tried making it like a super scary serious dark and deep lore game when I don't think the creator intended that

[@olivius8891]

A crossover I never knew I needed.

[@tristysstuff6664]

This is a replica of Andy's room from toy story

[@msb773]

Fr

[@olivius8891]

@@tristysstuff6664 real

[@exodusn2233]

I felt the slender the 8 pages game was actually really good for its simple concept. The stressful audio that kept building as you progressed, the really opressive and creepy darkness with the chance your flashlight could die permanently, and the ai for the monster worked in a simple but really scary way.

[@nado1908]

Something to note with Baldi is the game made a bit of a resurgence recently due to people finding out about and playing a mod for it called Raldi's Crackhouse.

[@mostverticalproductions4808]

Thank you for using Retsupurae on the Flappy Bird segment. I miss RP every day.

[@Calvin_Coolage]

We'll always have Rock Knight and Parrot Grass to remind of the good old days.

[@25thDaveWalker]

Eh-hey you missed, pal!

[@leviticusprime4904]

the best thing hello neighbor ever did is that it helped fund a really good mr.beast video, and that is it.

[@meowmeowmeowmeowcatoncomputer]

I don't know why stuff like Baldi's Basics and those GMod Nextbots scare me so badly. Like just looking at still images of them is fine but being actually chased by a stupid PNG is what scares me. Being chased by 3D models that emote and animate fairly well? Nope, not scary to me, only stupid PNGs that don't move or barely move. Something about that activates a flight or fight response in me and I don't understand why. I'm 22. I'm not supposed to be scared by these things.

[@jimmywarner7559]

When I was little my dad would stop the car when driving through the woods at night (PA Appalachias) and my sister would play the Slenderman static on her phone and I peed myself

[@AndresinReal]

When i got reminded Baldi existed, when I went to check how the game was doing. For some reason it has a final boss and a megalovania-like song. The song went so hard I thought it was a mod or something.

[@koiiblitz]

With the whole creepypasta fad I remember a whole bunch of RPG Maker games, and not like the horror games like "The Witch's House" or "Mad Father". A little game called "Creepypasta Land" blessed our little computer screens with how formulaic it played out with the references, and how it actually tried to use the turn based battle system it was so try hard, it's also hot garbage. And crazy enough it spawned clones.

[@Lar_me]

I remember Creepypasta Land! It had that classic Internet feel of being "silly edgy", like the scene of Jeff the Killer yelling "My insanity is over everything" while killing the devil. I still see the developer (RpgBlaster) in random comment sections occasionally.

[@bornana269]

Holy crap I had completely forgotten about creepy pasta land. I remember playing that game while I was home alone and then being unable to sleep for the next 3 days because I get seeing all those creepy pasta images whenever I closed my eyes lmao (I was also like 12 when I played it)

[@Rainok]

I know what you mean by saying Jeff The Killer is cringy and outdated, but I believe people are still looking for the un-edited original image

[@DanielSanchez-fs1nv]

Watching stuff like this makes my heart ache. As a kid, all I had was at most a 2 hour block of cartoons where my face was stuck on the TV screen, and probably asked my mom to buy me a toy based on a show and that's it. Kids today have an iPad on their face most of the day being fed nonsensical vomit, making an insane amount of money constantly for others. It's dystopian, it's weird, I don't like it.

[@matheuskirisame]

The guys from Marble Hornet really changed the internet huh

[@Scribble2345]

Like Slender, there's another incident that happened with Flappy Bird. It wasn't the official version, but a popular remake of the game made in Scratch. The Scratch Flappy Bird game was normal for the most part, however, a couple of years ago, a 4channer hacked the game to include a new impossible difficulty. And if you died on the impossible mode, a gif of ronnie mcnutt shooting himself played as Ruler of Everything played.

[@rosykindbunny1313]

Not the Ruler of Everything 😭

[@Scribble2345]

@@rosykindbunny1313 What's worse, is that bro started the song with "He shot at the sun with a gun"

[@rosykindbunny1313]

@@Scribble2345 THAT'S LITERALLY THE WORST PLACE TO START IT

[@budcat64xd88]

Only sh!t.... idk what else to say that is just absurd.

[@ab-gail]

2:11 Pet rocks 100% came because Mom and Dad didn’t want to get a dog. 😂

[@TheCatOfAges]

its a cool piece of pop culture.

[@Guymanbot97]

I honestly feel like an old man looking at a picture of them when they were younger anytime Slenderman is brought up. Its kind of a shame it ended not by slowly loosing popularity, but simply because of all of the controversies surrounding him. Thats not even counting the big one you covered in this video.

[@ProGremlinPlayer]

These retrospectives are so nostalgic. Keep up the great content.

[@ameerashourdraws4729]

Man, this alone was a memory lane. I still remember Baldi's Basics fondly, it was probably my favorite of the FADs here in the list

[@KrispyBread]

Been subbed to you both for over a year now crazy to see y'all collab! Great shit

[@ClaireZhasa]

I really appreciate how often Vinny shows up on this channel

[@A2music]

Raldi really brought Baldi back for me and I'm super into it again, just like I was when it first came out. There's even people that play random seeds on BB+ daily. I wouldn't say it's forgotten, but it for sure isn't as well known as it was before

[@artesemenrolacao2119]

Your videos are incredible. It’s always great to find that you posted a new one!

[@Arthur-uu3px]

I've never played any of the horror themed games included in this video, but you still kept me hooked watching it. Thanks for the video, man!

[@FloydianSystem]

The best things to come out of the Slender craze is saying "Collect my pages" and the "Holy shit, it's the Slenderman and he's cooking hotdogs on the stove!?"

[@7evenproductions271]

I know that he was essentially ruined by the Internet, but I still find slenderman kind of terrifying. Something about that blank face and the way he stalks you is really unsettling. I still rewatch all the old ARGs because of how good (most) of them are.

[@Ghost_Drive]

First video of yours where I remembered/knew about everything you talked about. Still learned a lot, though. As someone who got into KZbin through the old LP style, It's so interesting to remember a time where KZbin was almost all gaming content with the Slenderman KZbinrs, as well as thinking about where they are now. It's weird being reminded of what the guy who fought T-Series and the guy who made Unus Annus started out as.

[@ablosch2452]

For Flappy Bird, I also recall it erupting in ways like Warframe added a Flappy Bird clone in-game called Happy Zephyr. As well as Dave And Busters added a Flappy Bird Arcade machine too.

[@fattonyTV_]

Part of me can't wait until games like Doki Doki Literature Club or Yandere Sumulator ends up in these kind of videos like "hey remember when THIS game was super popular for awhile until the popularity started to fade from them cause well one of them had a creator who turned out to be a giant creep and no one started to really paid that much more attention to the other one?"

[@Calvin_Coolage]

There's already about a hundred videos on Yandere Simulator's multiple falls from grace, which makes it eve funnier. As for DDLC, it's mostly because the devs always intended it to be an ARG advertisement so after the rerelease I'm not surprised it's just kinda languished outside of the diehard fans.

[@Reallyidktbh]

Other things: The reason why these games are fads is because the lore isn't complex, it's hard to expand through fanfiction or fan art or mods, and the fandom isn't very fanatical. Video game fandoms like Half-Life, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, EarthBound, and The Undertale as the best examples of games that have complex lore, are easy to expand, and the fandom is very fanatical. The game's fandom lifespan could be as long as 40 years long.

[@PersonallyIdonthateyou]

undertale fandom....

[@nicksrandomreviews]

See, I was always annoyed at how neat in concept Hello Neighbor sounded. Like, a video game version of Rear Window? That sounds cool as hell.

[@TheNexDude]

I love how everyone of these feel the same. Most are general horror games the internet likes, people latch on and get annoying about it, explosion of popularity until it just fizzles out because people realize there is not left. FNAF and The Backrooms skirt around this because they became more community based.

[@CapitalTeeth]

There's one thing these fad games all have in common. They're all really, *_REALLY_* fucking annoying when they happen. Thankfully KZbin's algorithm is sophisticated enough these days to prevent showing too much of it to you, but dear fucking god I could not escape Hello Neighbor or Poppy's playtime when they first appeared.

[@Cake2019_6]

*newer fad games Slender was good

[@Lar_me]

I disagree on the algorithm being any better. I had my recommended section flooded with Amazing Digital Circus videos without watching anything Digital Circus related. It also still forces trends by recommending the same few videos to everyone (example: How to Train Your Dragon Recap, shown at 0:31).

[@radioreactivity3561]

​@@Cake2019_6No, lol.

[@Cake2019_6]

@@radioreactivity3561 Yes, lol

[@CLTurtle]

Oh shit, Chazington? I actually found both your KZbin channels around the same time, and both of you guys were making very entertaining content, it's amazing that you two are doing a collab video together!

[@versebuchanan512]

Pogs never stopped being fucking radical. They're gonna come back. You'll see, you'll ALL see.

[@betakale]

I remember being younger, and begging my mom to get me silly bands, and then I got them and then forgot about them in like a week

[@JDelwynn]

Thank god I'm too old to fall for these fads, but I'm not mad that there's horror games marketed to children. When I was a kid there was Are You Afraid of the Dark, it's not like children's horror is a new thing.

[@tvdvd8661]

Before that there was goosebumps courage the cowardly dog and lots of Halloween movies/cartoons that were before my time

[@JDelwynn]

@@tvdvd8661 Yeah, I chose AYAOTD specifically because as an European, Goosebumps isn't a thing from my childhood 🙂

[@Lucas-Omega]

I think a good video could possibly be fictional characters that got their reputations ruined. Like you said at the end with Slenderman after the stabbing and Amber from Danny Phantom.

[@2-Way_Intersection]

ohhh that could be really interesting. like, the character themselves cant be the main factor, it has to be from outside factors like a horrid fanbase or creator.

[@Lucas-Omega]

@@2-Way_Intersection exactly! glad someone else finds it interesting

[@gamer5ak]

Another example would be jack bright from scp. He used to be very popular, but after the author was revealed to be a pedophile, no one was willing to touch the character with a 10 foot pole.

[@liminal_head]

It's always a treat seeing you upload, keep it up!

[@TremiRodomi]

I think an important thing to note with Baldi, is that it literally made fun of all the flavor of the month horror game franchises that were just "what if this kid friendly thing was actually fucked up????". Then it became big. Then it became the exact thing it was making fun of with how much it sold out. It's hilarious and sad in hindsight.

[@Kitty255Again]

Yeah the algorithm sucks right now. I saw a video on the Verbalase situation and I CAN'T ESCAPE IT. I HATE VIVZIEPOP'S GUTS STOP RECOMMENDING ME HAZBIN STUFF!

[@anth636]

“But it’s so quirky!”

[@anth636]

Hazbin Hotel is the animation side of KZbin equivalent of Keemstar. Always popping up everywhere.

[@Kitty255Again]

@@anth636 It's super annoying, but ultimately I don't care. Maybe I'd like the show if I gave it a shot, but fandoms are super good at breeding prejudice. The Undertale fandom was agonizing back in 2016 and I hated Undertale for it though I liked it alot when I eventually played.

[@lazymansload520]

Everything dies, that’s a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.

[@LinktoLinkGamer]

Great song

[@krobuc27]

great video, loving those TTYD songs in the background

[@sorryshysleeper]

The fact that I heard about all of these “fads” and still remember them as memories is something else. That aside great video as always Mush!

[@Hepheat75]

I remember getting into KZbin when Plants vs Zombies was popular. Damn, I feel old and I'm not even old lol

[@Azurethewolf168]

Pvz is still around, still pretty popular, but not mainstream really

[@timmybimmers]

pvz is now in olive gardens lol

[@rashira9610]

I remember getting into KZbin shortly after KZbin became popular. I was already halfway done with being a teenager. You think YOU'RE old?

[@MiguelCorreiaDaCunha]

I went in shortly after it began. David at the Zoo and all, you guys didn't miss anything. I wans't a fan of poop channels and my family Internet was 600kps, I had to wait a lot to see short videos. Bigger ones crashed, so I used to download and store music clips, LOL. It all began to get amazing by 2010. 2010 through 2018 was wild, now it is very sterile, despite chads like MagicMush doing risqué content at the ironic risk of their channels.

[@bigspaghettio]

chazington and magicmush go together like regret and downing a whole can of easy cheese

[@dumbcatwrld]

sounds like a vinny thing to do for him to cause a random game to blow up

[@MNSportsJunkie101]

Slenderman actually still occasionally makes appearances in the main stream nowadays. A popular NBA basketball player named Victor Wembanyama dressed as the character before the start of a game. He's a player known for being really tall and "slender."

[@AdriCruz21]

Honestly, it isn't fair how for Baldi's Basics wasn't recognizable enough as it used to be. I used to watch at one point a musical video based on the game and it is a banger song ever. But up until then, there's some elsagate styled videos of the latter, it deserves more than that

[@undertalemodtool]

Basics in behaviour blue 🙏

[@shr3lla]

the game ad shown at the end of the flappy bird section was genuinely vile. repugnant and repulsive to a degree that cannot be described by words. I avoid playing scary videos during night, but that was horrifying beyond comprehension

[@Deesnuts1947]

Just found your channel and I’ve been binging all morning

[@KatoCoyoteCombatWorkshop]

I hope you hit a million by 2025. The way you weave interesting commentary with comedic delivery while still managing to drop an eye-widening bomb at the end is a serious talent.

[@four-en-tee]

Its crazy how an entire genre of horror games basically owes its existence to a faceless man and a big ass bear. Also, there are some exceptions to the face cam rule. Though you have to be really funny like Chris O'Neil, Vinny or (at the time) Arin and Jon/Dan.