This Meme Exposes EVERYTHING Wrong With Analog Horror

[@Okytgw]

The problem with analog horror is when you’ve lived through the technology it’s emulating and are too distracted by what the creator didn’t get right.

[@who-tf-is_takeachance2]

this is why most people prefer digital horror, it modern enough to look normal but just old enough to be nostalgic

[@cocoaexists]

@@who-tf-is_takeachance2 Yeah, plus digital horror has a lot more leeway as to how things look, after all every website had different graphics and processes of making them so a lot of interpretations can be completely realistic (Plus, while digital horror is mainly focusing on the flash era, digital horror can be anywhere from the Internet’s public birth in the 1990’s to exactly today, so the creator can choose an era they are comfortable with emulating right) Analog horror suffers from the fact that analog technology was mostly standardized for it’s various uses, and that there is basically only a few correct forms of it generally and usually there’s just a single correct format for certain types of recordings, plus there’s a good number of analog horror creators who haven’t lived through the era and thus don’t know about it enough to emulate it right

[@10801283]

vhs filter over a 1920x1080 video

[@SkylerMillerTheBronxProject]

Maybe is because most of the time it still feels like they didn't do anything right.

[@randomgreekhuman]

im a perfectionist who didnt live through that time (13 years old) but i despise the mistakes SO MUCH. like do your research before making good horror, ive literally had an analog horror series atleast 1 year still in the planning stages just for revisions

[@beetleinthebottle4073]

I like how it remains true to the spirit of Family Guy by constantly cutting away to unrelated scenes and images

[@Clown_yoda]

“Hey lois remember that one time we were in an analog horror”

[@Gunnindroid]

​​@@Clown_yoda*cuts to the average psa* Be careful of the petering peta If he finds you,Peter *insert low quality peter jumpscare*

[@professorhaystacks6606]

"You think that's bad. Remember that time I got that fish hat from Muhammad?"

[@AreesDaOG]

"This reminds me of that time someone made a crappy analog horror of us!"

[@joaquinvaleri7022]

@@beetleinthebottle4073 you should hate family guy and this is for Charlie Hebdo

[@cheezkid2689]

I always figured the Chris jumpcut was the overuse of "scary" faces in analog horror.

[@Zabrakjedi]

Same. Anytime something shocking happens they cut to hyper realistic grotesque face.

[@K0ZNIK]

no it's an actual part of the episode

[@Zabrakjedi]

@@K0ZNIK reading comprehension important.

[@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky]

@Zabrakjedi It just gets annoying. And even though I’m not scared of the content, that shit stays stuck in my head, because it’s relatively unappealing to the eye.

[@arutezza]

the classic jerma face

[@iamepic1245]

bro on pc the title shortens to "This Meme Exposes EVERYTHING Wrong With Anal..."

[@HYDEinallcaps]

incontinence

[@stevenwolfyt6981]

💀

[@emaany1839]

Nothing wrong with anal tho

[@theincident4939]

I screenshot it so ı can send it to my friends 💀💀

[@tzarg]

I was so confused man

[@panqueque445]

Police report VHS tapes are so funny to me. Imagine if cops used tapes instead of paper. That has to be the most inconvenient way to store information ever. Not to mention all the space you'd need to store it all.

[@AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHs]

all they’d have to do to fix that is claim its body cam footage

[@can-chan6119]

@@AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHsbut then they can’t put their little vhs tape film grain over it

[@donloder1]

I wish we could showcase printed papers digitally, that'll up the immersyen level no dub.

[@AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHs]

@@can-chan6119 yeah true

[@PongoXBongo]

@@donloder1 If only someone could invent some kind of "scanning" device to digitize paper. That's total sci-fi stuff tho.

[@Feartube912]

One of my biggest gripes with analog horror is that every single one has that annoying ass text to speech PSA/EAS that's like "if you see the giggle shitter close your eyes and hide under the nearest table" and the flashes to a screen that says something like I'm coming for your balls in spoopy red text

[@SeedButter]

giggle shitter and Joe nutsack collab when?

[@torbeexspider2134]

the giggle shitter is the scariest entity it is scary when it kills you you die

[@CrimsomGloryXD]

​@@torbeexspider2134 Scary !

[@righteous225]

​@@SeedButterkeep making the worst takes 🙏 also you burnt not just the kitchen but everything in the house

[@BenjaminAnderson-zp1ex]

@@righteous225 What did you consider a bad take? Just curious.

[@badwithnames5180]

bro the "You got the dud" simpson video does it better than most analog horror videos i swear

[@xeres6232]

The Dud is such a wonderful piece of horror, I feel uneasy watching it every time.

[@CrazyChiks1000]

Honestly though, that video makes me so unreasonably unsettled lmao

[@brockpiano]

You got the dud MENTIONED??

[@JesusDykes]

Honestly I laugh at it more than I’m afraid, its homers goofy ass smile that just gets me

[@BrimBlam]

Idk how people watch the Dud and d somehow get fear from it but it just makes the video funnier to me.

[@pumanarration]

My interpretation of Chris is how many low-quality analog horror pieces will flash a spooky distorted face as a jumpscare.

[@Vishanti]

It was like Danny in 'The Shining', how he'd see gory visions and Kubrick would splice in these half-second shots of him silently screaming.

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

​@@VishantiI was just thinking this.

[@JacobIczkowski]

I thought it was meant to show the viewer, like your reflection in a black screen.

[@DatChernobylGuy_]

@@Vishanti At least it was original and new at the time

[@freeloading_toad]

The scariest incident I’ve had IRL with a vhs tape was when I was watching a tape of Christmas specials my mom had recorded over about 3-4 hours of video from soap operas. She chose to record over an existing tape instead of using a brand new one because the tape was ridiculously long, and it would kill two birds with one stone by “stealing” it back from her roommate, who had “destroyed” it by recording soaps over the entire thing without permission years prior, and would keep us entertained for hours with just one vhs tape. Because the tape was so long, she didn’t manage to record over the whole thing, and there was about 5 minutes left of the original soap opera. The cut from the gazillionth RITZ Christmas commercial on the tape to women with big hair screaming in horror over some dramatic thing was terrifying. The cut was not clean at all. It was abrupt, but not clean. It was staticky, like someone was tearing or peeling the clear plastic film off of the tape as the image played before fixing itself. It felt wrong and corrupted. I had no idea what this was as a small child, and because I grew up in a time where most kids had dvds instead, I never learned about how people often taped shows to watch later. So I lived in fear every Christmas for years of letting the tape play idly for too long and seeing something I wasn’t supposed to at the end of the reel.

[@Catgroove92]

Now I wanna see it

[@bigoj7917]

Post it bro 🙏

[@LanceLeaderSawyer]

There's another video called "Doug Walker Analogue Horror" that also does an excellent job calling out the lazier elements of the medium. Genuinely, it might be the best satire of the genre that I know of, it's got it all: "scary" audio and video distortion jumpscares and overused presentation formats included.

[@ancientgearmaster1]

Same Doug walker from nostalgia critic era?

[@LanceLeaderSawyer]

@@ancientgearmaster1 Yes.

[@MishKoz]

A bat... credit card?

[@User-d6l6t]

@@MishKozoh it’s you

[@SettingSunAlt]

@@MishKoz A BAT CREDIT CARD?!?!!?!?

[@Armazillo]

Just wanted to say " abritrary corruption " is a sick band name

[@ceifer144]

agree

[@GlubGlub69]

Bro is that a Sabata pfp?

[@Armazillo]

@GlubbtubisWepble i think it's a .gif of the good, the bad, and the ugly w a filter on the faces, i set it like 10 years ago so I don't remember lmao

[@GlubGlub69]

@@Armazillo oh alr, I just thought it was really cool

[@MageBurger]

Arbitrary Corruption album: -Fear the distorted lies -Bit Byte Kilobyte -Thrown away the tape -This is a replayed track -Fear the distorted lies -Can’t be bothered to continue

[@DriverWeb]

This is why ARGs aren't as prevalent, lack of ideas and over-saturation.

[@xeres6232]

They're also really difficult to execute well ! Sometimes they don't get the timing right for big reveals and so they lose the audience.

[@Spacecoreinspace]

@@xeres6232 i feel like the binding of isaac arg for the keeper was really well done and a good example of how to do one tbh

[@yektaagra741]

You mean analog horror? Cus ARG means Alternate Reality Game

[@DriverWeb]

@@yektaagra741 I'd consider ARGs to be precursor to analogue horror, but ARGs seem less popular today because of the exact reasons listed in this video. Lack of ideas, and over-saturation.

[@ketaminepoptarts]

also almost all of them arent actually ARGs, theres no interaction with the world shown in the videos besides wondering what will come next

[@JazivelHD]

it was the current year of 1997 and I was watching my DVD copy of Cars 2 but when I hit play on my PS3 controller it was footage of slenderman and it had scary static so I thought to myself "herm this would make an epic youtube video"

[@incrediblybored4787]

Yea a lot of series don't explain why the recordings exist, it's weird

[@Romit12]

@@incrediblybored4787 They could explain it as archive footage or really old shit the creator dug up but they don't

[@donloder1]

interesting, the natural response to that is usually the annihilation of the ps3 by way of kinetic forces coming from the controller being in collision with the console.

[@jalinjalin541]

34 minutes on a meme of chris griffin reacting incredibly disturbed is insane work

[@Randolph_]

The real family guy analog horror for me would be "We're having sloppy joes!" Creeped me out, especially the one with Chris

[@professorhaystacks6606]

"We're havin' sloppy joes... we're havin' sloppy joes... we're havin' sloppy joes."

[@Fenrislokisonsuncut]

I saw that when I was still young enough to be scared by stuff on family guy and it ruined me for awhile 😂

[@pipeisreal]

actually this could work really well, especially with the urban legend of serial killers/abductors using prerecorded sounds of women screaming to lure in victims

[@bananamerchant6387]

"Peter, the horse is here."

[@thegoattrain]

Best part about this is that this is an edit, the original version had no VHS filter, and to me, watching this for the first time late at night, found it actually kind of disturbing.

[@eggyvvka]

its more than "kind of" to me, i was really creeped out when i saw it

[@wizrat117]

Hi I'm the creator of the original! glad you liked my silly little video!

[@wyattstudios21]

@@wizrat117you should try to get credit for your work.

[@justaserbiandoomer497]

And the worst is when people add VHS effects and film grain to footage of video games or other digital media to turn it into analog horror when digital horror is already a thing.

[@cristobalbarra583]

Tbf, chilla did that bc he wanted the fan histories feel like you're watching a tape, the problem is that you have copycats that add the effect not to evoke a feeling or nothing, but just because some scary games use it

[@x-r-s]

Great video! There's one more dimension to jump cuts when it comes to VHS tapes that I don't think you mentioned. Since VCR's could both play and record VHS tapes, and the recording would start at whatever location on the tape that you last stopped it (i.e., the tape wouldn't necessarily be fully rewound), you might find a tape that reads "The Beauty and the Beast" and if you put it in your VCR, it would play the actual "The Beauty and the Beast" for let's say 10 minutes, and then it might cut to something completely different. I think this is a really important ingredient in analog horror, since it allows you to go from an innocent looking tape that at a random point cuts to something not so innocent.

[@squedlly]

Oh! I wasn't aware of that, !ND that is actually interesting! It should really be utilized more, like 10 minutes of normal animated movie on VHS suddenly broken by "oh, that's gore of my favorite character" and immediately followed up by the original footage again

[@kidcthulhufortney1320]

Reminds me of when I worked at Blockbuster Video and some crank used to tape over parts of kids cartoons with hardcore pornography at random parts in the middle. Never figured out who was doing it.

[@bzipoli]

​@@squedllythere was a little flap on the tapes you could break to prevent* that. k7 tapes (and many others) used this same system. so the tapes became read only *of course there were many ways you could workaround, it was literally a little flap on the tape youd break. a physical lock. you just had to put something there to fool the VCR

[@SpectrumAnalysis]

I think this kinda sums up UrbanSPOOK pretty well. I once heard that series described as "Analogue Horror entering its 'Hyper-realistic eyes' phase."

[@hurngusmcdurngus9106]

Urbanspook started off fine but quickly turned into all edge no substance. It went from legit unsettling to "okay, this is just sick and stupid."

[@hyperion3145]

@@hurngusmcdurngus9106 I would argue it was bad from the start. It shouldn't have taken the police report angle at all and the art doesn't really look like something someone would paint outside of being purposefully edgy. It SOUNDS interesting but when you actually see a video, it's pretty bland and doesn't establish much to want more. It would've been better if it was from the painter's perspective and it went into his thought process and evading the police.

[@GahlranCosplay]

@@hyperion3145 No really though. It's literally just: This is Justin {REDACTED}. Justin was sitting in his home comfortably on 09/11/2001 when he heard skibidi toilet (yes yes yes) playing in his garage. When he went to the garage to investigate, the super killio bros attacked him. His hole was {REDACTED} 4000000 times by a minecraft steve action figure and then shot by a WonderWaffe DG2 200 times and had his bowels sucked out by shrek. We found this artwork done by the killio bros. The back of it is titled "field of the micropenis" "Cuts to le scary painting"

[@AnAverageGoblin]

@@hurngusmcdurngus9106 It was never good.

[@devolution-wt9ou]

@@hyperion3145 actually you should tell spook about your idea, it would be really cool

[@PregnantAdamSandler]

Sheen: Behold! The death of analog horror! Fowler: Sheen this is the tenth time you've showed the class the death of analog horror

[@PengwinGaming205]

To be clear the video is a parody of a video where low quality super Mario characters are killed in blender by having their joints fall apart occasionally cut by Luigi making a scared expression

[@franciscoantoinesilvaherna5934]

Can you send the link and or url??

[@moyai6618]

PLEASE send

[@josephmellor7641]

​@@moyai6618 It's this video, which is itself a parody of Tails in every Sonic.exe, which itself seems like a parody. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jprOi2Oqebh_qNEsi=_o2jUp3mchC1d11Y kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4CTo2xpZbihlZosi=Y0RUzBA7xF8iDG5I

[@josephmellor7641]

​@@franciscoantoinesilvaherna5934​ Look up "Luigi in every Mario horror media ever", which is itself a parody of "tails in every sonic.exe game ever".

[@josephmellor7641]

@@moyai6618 Look up "Luigi in every Mario horror media ever", which is itself a parody of "tails in every sonic.exe game ever".

[@Cander5142]

An additional point on audio other than creepy music that’s a big pet peeve for me is the jump scare loud sound stings that just make no sense in the context of some vhs tape someone recorded on their camera as if someone went and edited it to add a loud “creepy sound” when the spooky happens. It’s just dumb. If your jump scare needs a non-diegetic sound cue to make someone scared, it’s not scary. If you have a jump scare that involves a diegetic sound, and it has been earned, then that’s great. Like a chair is suddenly thrown and hits a wall from around a corner like in Kane Pixels first found footage backrooms video near the end.

[@Zabrakjedi]

Honestly I think it just goes to show how shlocky horror from the 2010's has cheapened horror in general and influenced a generation of creators that were inspired by lazy crap. It totally doesn't mesh with the more methodical and psychological horror it's trying to portray. It's almost like they have no idea what to do with the suspense they've been building for the audience so they tack on the only payoff for it they have ever been influenced by

[@neoqwerty]

@@Zabrakjedi The worst thing is that NOT LONG BEFORE THAT there were tiny little horror pieces that never used scare stings. They were called screamers (yes, like the later screamer pranks) not because THEY screamed but YOU screamed (or yelped). I still can't find the best one I was randomly linked to on a now-gone ezboard forum thread in like... back in 2007ish? 2006? But it was a flash animation that I can only remember being on a page called "dark room". That's all I can remember about it: flash animation that was in black and white, POV of someone in bed, a window to the left, a gentle pitter patter of rain and an ocasional soft rumble of thunder that flashed the window and showed the corridor beyond the doorway in fromt of the bed on the left of the screen. The scare came from the corridor, right? NOPE. Right at the end, after the flash of lightning, there's a white creature staring you down with red eyes right over the foot of the bed that came in out of nowhere. The whole thing was about a minute long and it really fakes you out with both how long the scare takes AND where the scare is placed. I'm still so angry that I never saved the swf like I did some other old flash favorites of mine.

[@legoboy7107]

Gosh the chair jumpscare in Kane Pixels' video was quite good. Definitely got me more than once, and it's completely diegetic as you said.

[@-canopus-513]

@@neoqwerty That sounds like the og vid for the Rake creepy pasta/cryptid.

[@goofyahhslimjackson1942]

Exactly and how text appears on the screen describing some character's thoughts hows that possible except some BS that a ghost haunts the tape.

[@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

"Analog Horror fans when a png pops on the screen for 0.1 seconds in the 30 minute long video "😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😭😭😭😭😭🤑🤑🤑

[@mistermadmike488]

THE FOG IS COMING 😱😱😱😱😱😱THEY CAN HEAR YOU FART 🥶🥶🥶

[@ItchyBurritoMiniAltThingy]

@@mistermadmike488 ok

[@doga5899]

Anologue horror just became creepypastas, "what if x thing was actually scary" with all the cliches that come with it

[@stevenstokes6306]

What it *something related to children* was scary

[@daffierpython7755]

Right? I remember people saying The man in the Suit was scary and top tier analog horror when it just isn't. It's just body horror godzilla mimicking the horror youd find on youtube kids

[@sniddler9114]

"I found a strange VHS tape in the woods. The footage made me shove a piranha up my ASS"

[@ANormalHumanInABigEarth]

I've been waiting for analog horror to shift to digital horror (bugbo, the lacy games, etc) for a long time now but it just doesn't seem like the internet is ready for that kind of genre shift. Maybe sometime soon people will get tired of analog horror? The chances are slim, but never zero.

[@oncreativemode5486]

isn't everyone already kinda tired of analog horror though? i've seen videos on this genre where people would criticize them for having cliche, overdone tropes. from what i can recall, the latest uploads from local58 and gemini home entertainment has a ton of comments saying "man, i'm glad they mixed up the format for these videos, i was getting tired of the typical analog shtick they kept doing for the past few episodes" but frfr, i would LOVE to see more digital horror; it's 10x more dynamic than analog horror imo and it has proven to be just as effective as the latter

[@YGDSMOKI214]

@@oncreativemode5486 Digital/Flash horror is something that has a ton of potential. As someone who's had an overactive, paranoid imagination during Flash's prime, I've seen what kind of ground it's able to cover since seeing the Lacey games

[@ironiso411]

​@@oncreativemode5486 Mandela Catalog at this point has pretty much moved onto digital age except in a flashback episodes or the episodes related to the character's parents

[@kreckty]

small correction but im pretty sure bugbo isnt supposed to be digital horror (if i remember correctly bensilly himself said it)

[@foundmedia]

1. bugbo isn't intended to be a horror series, it uses some suspense elements to lead up to punchlines and implies that bugbo is a higher being capable of eliminating anyone he wants, but these are both used for laughs and the overall tone is just silly. plus, i'm pretty sure the creator has stated that it's not a horror series and he's not going to take it in that direction. 2. i don't think moving on from analog horror ro digital horror will solve the problems that analog horror has. a benefit i can think of is that a lot of people interested in internet horror are the generations raised on the internet, younger milennials and gen z, so therefore they'll be more accurate to what flash games and videos actually looked like instead of trying to replicate a time that they never/barely lived through. but the main problem with internet horror, in my opinion, is that everyone is just trying to copy each other. i've seen TONS of "emily's dress-up creepy secret ending (FOUND 2006 FLASH GAME)" videos that are just trying to be the next lacey instead of actually creating anything original. there are some videos inspired by lacey that are good, art doesn't exist in a vaccum and we all get inspiration from each other, but as long as we have the problem of trying to be "the next big thing" instead of creating something from the heart, low-quality internet horror will persist.

[@HYDEinallcaps]

"Hey Lois, remember when I fooled the shepherds and learned their greatest fears?" EDIT:

[@andyghkfilm2287]

(Ominous “mhehehehe…” echoing in the distance)

[@myrealnameisjared]

*INSERT PETER GRIFFIN “heeheehee”*

[@HYDEinallcaps]

@@andyghkfilm2287 "Nyehehehe, I know this guy's greatest fear. John, wake up. John, I said WAKE UP. John. JOHN! Hey, I'm talking to you! Come on, man, at least open the window so I don't have to shout! Man, you overthrow god and take his place, and you STILL get blown off."

[@WoodsiaNS]

LOL

[@zadarasimoleons1019]

This made me laugh out loud

[@zeusdoesstuff]

There is a streamer I watch called @deadwingdork who hates most analog horror because most series fail to capture actual VHS tapes from the 80s. Like how it's an instructional tape and it's just TTS narrating, or how most won't have any background music. I think it really shows how much ambience and believability can affect someone's enjoyment of fiction, and making analog horror believable is a very hard task to accomplish. The only one he has watched on stream and enjoyed somewhat was fucking Gilbert Garfield.

[@AnAverageGoblin]

are you implying Gilbert Garfield isn't good? Because its wonderful and I can't tell if its supposed to be a parody of Analog Horror or not.

[@zeusdoesstuff]

@@AnAverageGoblin no im saying its so good it got a cynical streamer who says analog horror is for morons most of the time to enjoy it

[@burningsexuality1540]

I relate hard to claw. I think analog horror is by and large just lame. I’d like to enjoy it, but most of what I’ve seen comes off as manufactured and tryhard.

[@NegaRenGenX2gay2lift]

the only good analog horror are the ones that slowly deviated AWAY from it once the creators got more competent

[@BunBunny01]

This video summarizes the problems with new analog horrors pretty well, it is a constructive criticism. I don't have many things to say but I want to give a little example. There is a reason why The Mysterious House from Martin Walls is my favourite analog horror type video out there. Yeah sure it has some paranormal stuff at the end as a parallel to the original series it is based on but even without that knowledge, the video manages to scare you. It is literally the definition of stranger danger. The friendly facade all the people put on, the innocence of the main characters and the way all of them manage to make you feel stuff is brilliant. The way that it tricks you into believing that the house occupants are friendly people is really genious, you literally get tricked alongside the main protagonists. When you know what happens at the end and decide to rewatch it, there are many more details that you didn't even recognize. Like the Pumpkin Rabbit literally hiding inside the room that the children are sleeping in, watching them and waiting to get them at their most vulnarable state. This comment wasn't this long in my head lol, sorry about that.

[@flannelmcmannel]

One thing I hate about analog horror analysis is that a sometimes the creator will play a clip that's pretty self explanatory, and then proceed to repeat virtually the same thing as their "explanation"

[@AnAverageGoblin]

yeah its all (scene of garfield getting a donut) and the goon making the clickbait will go in a spooky tone with unsettling music "and next we see the cat take the donut and eat it"

[@victinim2512]

Man, the entire video I was thinking of "You are on the fastest available route" and then you mentioned it, pure dopamine. One thing I don't like, and some series do. Is making no sense of why this "analogue footage" exists. The Walten files show for example, good and bad in this regard. You have some that make total sense like employee training videos, but you also have some "footage" that is obviously not meant to be a recording, that shows characters from a third person view making it clear it's more like a cinema shot and not a recording, but they still put VHS static and muffle sound that makes no sense. This is where "you're on the fastest available route" is exemplary. It's a dash cam footage, it's meant to be recording and it doesn't show an impossible perspective that no camera could show, it only shows what the camera could have shown. Truly amazing work.

[@Is-wunny]

Yeah, you know what bothers me about this Subgenre? People trying to make Mandela Catalogue 2 Not in Plot (sometimes) But in like, Random shots of humanoid guys doing "Analogue horror face" Like, dude, that has already been done, do something else please. Huge smiles and small realistic eyes are Overdone at this point, stop it

[@ASimpleOrb]

That’s because they’re trying to imitate Mandela Catalogue in the hopes of getting the same success that it has

[@Is-wunny]

@@ASimpleOrb that's what i'm saying, it doesnt work, it just makes it so the Promising and most likely project to success rots away and sucks ass by forcing Mandela Catalogue Faces into it, i hate it

[@QuiteFunnyIsnt1t]

@@ASimpleOrb Not really, not everything is CLOUD instead its just people who got inspired by mandela

[@GolfhausYT]

Babe, wake up, the latest video in the Jim Nutsack series just dropped.

[@imyasuka]

Analog horror should look like something you would actually come across irl after buying a sketchy tape from a video store too many fail this simple task

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

To me, analog horror has always always come across as kids feeling a sense of uncanny valley towards technology from before they grew up. To everyone else the "analog" part of analog horror doesn't have any horror connotations UNLESS there is actual context

[@knotletis]

I’m gen Z, and I think that’s part of it. I do remember vhs tapes being a part of my very early childhood, so it does get at that nostalgia of when I was really little. I also am not old enough to have entirely grown up with them, so they do still feel foreign to me, and can sit in that uncanny valley, like you mentioned.

[@duckbats]

I mean this in the best possible way: I felt like you were giving me lecture how to make Analogue Horror in a media class and it's going to be worth half my grade

[@skootergirl22]

Family guy would definitely make an analog horror joke

[@jaytheartman610]

They'd do it in like 4 years when analog horror is long dead

[@blakewayside8517]

Hey Lois, this reminds me of the time I saw god with my own eyes. (cut to shitty VHS of peter griffin without eyes staring at incomprehensible light)

[@Vienna3080]

IMO I feel like the more an analog horror explains about the world the less scary it becomes I feel like Mandela Catalgue has gone down this road where up to Vol 3 there was so much uncertainty about what’s happening that it let your mind race and you get legitimately scared: it has become creepy not scary Backrooms have also become this Gemini Home Entertainment and Local 58 is still one of the best for how mysterious it is

[@incrediblybored4787]

Yea, the art of horror is a really fine balancing act of giving enough to make the world interesting and terrifying, enough to lure you in, while still retaining the element of the unknown. Its REALLY hard to do properly. Gemini Home Entertainment does it really well, one of my fav analog horror series ever.

[@pmester228]

Hard disagree. Do it enough times and I will always think those redactations are because the creator was just bad at coming up with names. Something has to be there. If, say, a found-footage webseries goes bad because it turns out the paranormal force in the background was satan (again), then it was bad from the start and I wasted a lot of time on it and now I'm pissed. Also why Vita Carnis is goated.

[@electronichaarp2835]

@Vienna3080 couldn't agree more, especially about the Backrooms. I remember discovering the Backrooms pretty early on before all the extra levels and shit got added. I thought it was one of the coolest spooky internet things and now it's ruined and it's in fucking Fortnite, what a timeline we live in

[@incrediblybored4787]

@@electronichaarp2835 SCP is still very good imo, much better than the backrooms. Check it out if you haven't.

[@nathancollins1715]

​@@pmester228It sounds like you don't disagree, you're just offering a case where going too far in the opposite direction can also be bad. There's a pretty clear middle ground between overexplaining and underexplaining, which is where all horror (not just analog) should strive to be.

[@NotUselessProductions]

THE CUTOFF IN THE TITLE

[@damonke7674]

2 letters changes everything

[@1stPersonNarrator]

@@damonke7674This Meme Exposes EVERYTHING Wrong With Anal Horror

[@IxodesPersulcatus]

I remember one "police report" thingy that actually gave me chills. They showed the victim... And it just wasn't them. It was obviously some other person, meaning that the protagonist, whom we've come to trust, was actually the killer all along. And the audience participation made it all worse.

[@nin5664]

Please tell me which one I love analog horrors like these :D

[@leonardo9259]

Name

[@fallenlegend2763]

Sauce?

[@capncantread2985]

the way i interpreted the chris image is that it's just like a spoof on "random creepy face appearance" in the middle of the video

[@lex_4242]

cartoon turn into horror so spooky my horror? analog.

[@cinnamontoast1586]

Slowburn, genre defining, bone chilling, mature horror

[@lex_4242]

@@cinnamontoast1586 “This analog horror will change your life!” >bluey with red eyes

[@lex_4242]

@@cinnamontoast1586 “This analog horror series will change your life and how you view the medium!” >bluey with edited red eyes and datamosh

[@theinbunch1380]

I always kinda found funny how the full meme/sentence poked fun at how analog horror is ''psychological horror without jumpscares''. Like, what is the meme refering to? Most analog horror almost exclusively try to rely on jumpscares for some dumb reason lol.

[@cinnamontoast1586]

@@theinbunch1380 i notice the opposite, too many horror series rely on obfuscation and le scary dark hallways where spooky thing might be. Don't get me wrong, i love me some implications and food for thought, but it's been so overdone, especially with pseudo deep "psychological" horror about depression or something Jumpscares are cringe tho, i remember only one good jumpscare video, where this ferret pokemon thing jumped at you with this cute meowie sound lol

[@Przemko27Z]

For a while, my main contact with the analog horror genre was a youtuber that made a series of horror reaction videos. And he occasionally reacted to stuff like the Walten files and such on that series. And man, that really did not give me the best impression of the genre, when what I saw was just a guy getting scared at spooky faces instead of the actual story and mystery.

[@Paugose]

The one I appreciated was Monument Mythos because instead of spooky face, it tries to be more of a anticipation story (wich I like since my father loves that genre, as well as my mom sometimes) with this idea of government replacing rebels with alternates of them from other timelines that would fit more in the state, you are replaced, and nobody even realized your've been missing. And if someone realizes "you" act out of character, he also gets to the "museum of American history" then comes back a bit different. At least it was like that for a little while.

[@daniboy4153]

​@@Paugose Sad that series is now over, but it was fun while it lasted

[@helb872]

Idea for analog horor: guy who makes reaction on analog horrors slowly becoming crazy because something weird going on in his house

[@leonardo9259]

Dips

[@MrSomebodyStrange]

RIP, Jim Nutsack 1961-1997

[@SpecialInterestShow]

I love the Mikaeli series with such a burning passion. It's so fun

[@garbotoxin_enthusiast]

I always saw the Cris jumpscare as a parody of “Analog horror face”

[@What-is-a-handle-is-it-a-tag]

Still waiting for a mathematician to review unorthodox kitten.

[@ar1456]

Why is a police report a VHS? Obligatory The Painter comment here

[@julelsonkelson8512]

The painter sucks.

[@ar1456]

@@julelsonkelson8512 I know

[@EnochTorrent]

Guess you're just an autistic furry then, lol /j

[@DraphEnjoyer]

Once a fad becomes overexposed things like this happen. SCP Foundation, Backrooms, Slenderman/Marble Hornets. They all got more popular and more people stuck their hands into the pot

[@pipeisreal]

backrooms was so good in the first month or two of the original image going around, until it got massive and people started making "level 549678459673458" that takes place outside for some reason and has a scary monster that will kill you!!

[@MarioSantos-zx4bj]

For SCP you have so many requirements it would he easier to get the permits for Burn Khalifa in the middle of a protected nature reserve

[@scrittle]

The Backrooms is a poor man's SCP Foundation document.

[@SomeGaymerNerd]

the "chant" is amazing grace................

[@Zminator1986]

I agree with the found footage tangent, if the Blair Witch Project was presented like many bad analog horrors as a slideshow of texts, blurry and distorted still images, and badly degraded video bits the genre would've died before it started. People needs to watch that movie, it's marketing, and the Scooby Doo parody to get the idea.

[@mcelo99]

I think the “be afraid” description is just a spin on the biblically accurate angels' “be not afraid”

[@clicksclacks]

It's not just parodying analog horror broadly so much as old creepypastas of lost/cursed episodes of cartoons where the stories described scenes where a character does something violent with mentions of flashes/still screens of characters making a shocked/eerie/screaming expression. A lot of these happened to get (or at least inspire) videos made of them which contributed to analog youtube horror tropes.

[@paulpatrong5113]

You're completely right about alot of these tropes. Analogue horror in general is suffering in the same way creepypastas suffered in that the tropes and horror is dialed up to 11 with a disregard for story so it becomes beyond unbelievable even though you come in with a suspension of disbelief.

[@starlightxfury1256]

sure love how the title cuts out when looking at it on the front page

[@average_animations]

This Meme Exposes EVERYTHING Wrong With Anal...

[@1stPersonNarrator]

anal horror

[@DeathWolf88888]

There's plenty I have to criticize, but a few points I wan to mention for myself. Vhs filters don't automatically make your video scary. I personally find it comforting since I watched a lot of kids movies on vhs with a good amount with that decay. Never found it scary. Also the over use of those ai tts voices. I know not everyone has the means to voice act so I can't say too much for that. Also I do feel like a ton of series are just trying to one up themselves I love the horse is here family guy analogue horror video lmao. Good art, comedic, and all. But yeah, the media is oversaturated and it's always great to see unique ideas that are executed well

[@MR.MEOW-3120]

My recommendation page cutted the part of analog to “This Meme Exposes EVERYTHING Wrong With Anal…”💀

[@penguinshredder]

Great essay, man. Truly. Fair and insightful. Your content keeps getting better and it's awesome to see your growth. Keep it up, bro. You're smart and you got talent.

[@pennyblush98]

I can tell you're incredibly passionate about analog horror. It took me a second to realize you're kinda talking off the top of your head; most of these examples being plucked as you're talking. This was a semi-rant video wrapped in a thesis statement, and it was incredibly entertaining to listen to. This is the first video I saw from you, and I'm pretty sure you're going to be my favorite analog horror reviewer 😊

[@gamerdudemanguy]

analog horror is like any other medium of horror, gets popular, good shit comes from it, gets oversaturated, everyone hates it

[@swedichboy1000]

That its just a pretentious mess? Its the very definition of showing something scary and going "Be disturbed".

[@ft-ml8fc]

0:22 dude a meme like that isnt a philosophical commentary its a parody. Why is this video half an hour? I cant watch anything now without the overly analytical video essay drivel

[@EVISCERATEXENOS]

Becuz pseudo-intellectual video essay buffoonery = le epic views

[@jacklocklear8546]

being a parody does not exclude the possibility of deriving meaning from it, even if it was not intended. you do always have the option to just not click on a video using the parody as its thumbnail

[@matthewjones39]

Wow, another video essay 30 times larger than the subject it’s covering

[@mongolhorde5827]

thats what I am saying

[@scrittle]

He repeats himself... Yeah this is poorly paced.

[@aquotan]

I think the best way to describe the gore and victim's descriptions and images is shock value. They cannot rely on their habilites to make the viewer shocked on their own so they use shock value. Just like FNAF, it's a shock game, not a scary game itself, I mean you do get scared but it's because you get it all at once with too much movement and with loud sounds, just like the victim's description, they can't leave it to your imagination to make you scared, they need to make it clear it's point so you know the level of threat you're dealing with.

[@Toaster-Kingofbread]

2:14 is that the bloon chipper 🐵🎯🎈

[@christopher9727]

Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Holy Spirit Can give you peace guidance and purpose and the Lord will John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

[@Bruhdude12]

no

[@rock3531]

RIP bloon chipper

[@randoapplebigcheese6169]

On the topic of youtuber reactions I hate how some Analogue Horror Analysis channels just play a segment of the video or sometimes the entire video. It’s like reaction channels only you add your own stuff before and after the thing but they’re still silent the whole time and it’s just taking content from the channel they talk about

[@thebestofbass]

3:40 this doesn’t discredit anything about your point, for some reason it just really bothers me that you don’t recognize amazing grace.

[@The_Mr_Tactical]

The exact version in the video is called "New Britain amazing grace" 👍

[@Thebravedie]

I think one could compare this to how the slasher genre was treated when it was new.

[@AnAverageGoblin]

Yeah definitely, with how the oldest tended to have some meaning and the victims usually had characters or little stories and then like 5 years later they were bland cookie cutter stereotypes because there was more interest in the gore effects.

[@DaddyxDagoth]

New seedbutter always makes my day better. Homie is criminally underrated as a content creator.

[@SecondBestArtMuseum]

If someone else in the comments pointed out, a lot of “horror“ in analog horror is just gore and blood, and I understand if that’s what you’re into when it comes to horror, Personally I don’t like that. I don’t even like the jump scare of horror, or really paranormal horror, I am more interested in horror that creates atmosphere. That slow burn unsettling feeling, it doesn’t last long, but it slowly pulls you in. I like when it slowly builds up, and unfortunately these series I don’t want that slow build up, they want to get into the horror as soon as possible.

[@arutezza]

i feel like religion is way overused now, mandela catalogue used it, and it actually made sense in the context, the whole premise revolves around all these religious themes and events, some characters even being based on them any other series its just Bible = scary

[@average_animations]

religion AHHHHHHHHH

[@doodledangernoodle2517]

You just know they were made by people who hated going to church on Sundays with their family now and then

[@TrojanLlama]

literally the two series I can think of with biblical horror are very good, and that’s the Mandela Catalog and The Boiled One

[@rafhael636]

this criticism also aplies to all media in general, it's a trope we are all tired of

[@QuiteFunnyIsnt1t]

@@doodledangernoodle2517 me when religious trauma comes through the door

[@Zorothegallade-gg7zg]

"The goofy ahh killer has struck again, his latest victim got turned into literal and figurative soup, here's a face with heavy photoshop filters to make it look all gory and scary"

[@SOR-05]

“Figurative”? 💀

[@ThugShakers4Christ]

My new analog horror series is just breaking into kids rooms while wearing a go pro

[@snakeoo38]

A series (my fav analog horror series) that does this kind of horror great is greylock, there is no unnecesary grain or effects over vhs tapes and if glitches etc occur they are used tastefully to bring forward a narrative.

[@Paugose]

I think Greylock is pretty bland, the usual pseudo supernatural ancient God thing that influenced all mankind, information dumps, and referencing way superior works. It's something that was sold to me as that great horror work (and I watched Rob's work since 2014) but I ended seeing a generic piece of cheap shock moments with some pseudo built around it. I guess it's what happens when you make the scenes terrifying instead of the overall concept that weights over it.

[@AnAverageGoblin]

Rob really fell off after his initial stuff got nuked.

[@x14inbs]

Japanese Soldier Who Kept Fighting 29 Years After World War II

[@Abasedbymygrief]

Analog horror is horror for children in the same way creepypastas were ten years ago. 99% of it is complete amateur garbage with either poor or derivative writing. Mfs needa watch a horror movie or read horror literature

[@Abasedbymygrief]

And honestly this is an insult to creepypastas given how smartly written stories like Psychosis and A Shattered Life are

[@reviewerofcomments]

analog horror is in its "mario looked at me with bloody hyper realistic bloody eyes, his eyes bleeding" phase

[@auggieangel.]

this dropped when school just ended, thank you Mr.Seed 🙏🙏

[@tafua_a]

One idea I had floating through my mind was of an analog horror based around a serial killer that goes around leaving obvious clues to what they're doing, and the more it goes on, the least coverage they have until the reporters are fired right on the spot for trying to talk about this story

[@wildrosetc]

I only recently got into analog horror, so I don't know much about it. Local 58 is also one of my favorites; you can tell they put so much effort into it. :)

[@AnAverageGoblin]

Gemini Home Entertainment is a good one to get into if you haven't already.

[@cecilharvey2005]

A lot of your critiques during the section about unnecessary gore/violence reminded me a ton of Urbanspook because of how much of the horror in that series is “oh look the police found a bunch of fucked-up corpses” and every episode is basically just a long police report about the latest discovery they’ve made.

[@submersed8434]

It’s interesting - when you first showed the Family Guy analog horror meme, I had a couple interpretations of what Chris was supposed to be doing/representing. My first one was actually the idea that Chris was supposed to be the in-universe character who FOUND the tapes of all those murders happening - like, he finds these tapes in his family home’s basement and discovers that his dad (and other family members) have done these horrific things, and he’s filming/capturing his reaction in between watching each of the tapes. And then, yeah, my second interpretation was basically what you were thinking: that it was mocking the audience of dumb analog horror, or maybe mocking the idea that anyone could really, actually be scared at all when watching this sort of analog horror (videos that are basically just a bunch of “scary” gruesome things connected by jump cuts) Ultimately, I truly think that the broad interpretability of analog horror - even with silly meme videos like this Family Guy thing - is one of the best qualities of the genre. It allows for so much discussion and interpretation, and in doing so has created such an interesting community around this style of horror. Analog horror is FAR from dead!

[@jamieagnad1918]

To be fair, if you're a sane human being with a moral compass you'll be too be traumatized as Chris since this people are violent in their gags.

[@jamieagnad1918]

@@Treesarewoke Bruh, that's not what I meant but if we are talking about edgy teenagers who's eating their doritos while watching on LiveLeak then yeah.

[@shadowchasernql]

@@jamieagnad1918 that's a very specific person.... do you know that guy?

[@pipeisreal]

@@shadowchasernql maybe not the doritos part specifically, but there are plenty of edgy teens online who make their whole personality watching gore videos

[@goopxiv]

analog horror just feels like a lost episode creepy pasta

[@synchacker25]

Children. Thats the whole reason. 12 and 13 year olds get a little adept with editing software, combine that with their childish sense of humor and horror, and they make things like "Family guy analog horror" or just overdo concepts like fnaf, backrooms, SCP, really anything that tickles their fancy.

[@WatsonDynamite]

this

[@AzzySmh]

I do really like this, thank you for a video to put on for bg audio dude you don’t understand how much i struggle doing stuff sometimes without it😭

[@noisipid]

This is a very interesting and insightful video. I can tell you're very passionate about analog horror. AWESOME SAUCE

[@grey.themusiccat]

the song is amazing grace💀

[@oshkeet]

Honestly the best vid descriptions at the ones that somehow set of youtube's unalive disclaimers and simply put 'you are not alone'

[@st.anselmsfire3547]

Analog horror is now popular enough that it has fallen afoul of Sturgeon's Law: 90% of anything is trash, but the other 10% is to die for.

[@monstrasmakacorestompy]

it's still great man 99th favorite analog horror reporter seedbutter

[@The_Real_Raidou]

People think that horror movies are trash and then say analog horror is too scary. Like a vhs filter with some drawings isn’t scary.

[@mechamanw668]

love how this dude managed to roast The Painter without having to bring it up at all. Cuz every critcism he had with analog horror can be said for Urban Spook's "The Painter"

[@daisukideshou]

the Mario creepypasta did the victim trope well, and before analog horror existed, change my mind

[@tomo8940]

Analog Horror is the new creepypasta. They're both over saturated and over used.

[@kipkipper-lg9vl]

like any kind of art, 98 percent is garbage or average at best, while a small minority are excellent and make the whole thing worth while

[@CatManThree]

Id say its moreso the new found footage film. Especially since it evolved from that, or at least evolved from web series taking inspiration from that. Found footage was a cool as hell premise pulled off insanely well with Blair Witch. Having an amazing advertizing campaign that incorporated elements which made people feel like or even belief the footage was real. However due to how easy it was to just, buy a camcorder, the barrier of entry become extremely low and the genre was flooded with garbage Same shit here. Literally exactly the same.

[@kipkipper-lg9vl]

@@CatManThree anything open to the public will be mostly garbage, just how it is

[@leonardo9259]

7:12 YOU HIT METAL 16 TIMES TODAY MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@UghBoneMann]

Bro made a 34 minute video on a 1 minute meme

[@jasminelopez8454]

Unrelated but im so happy to hear someone smaller just seem so passionate about the ARG and KZbin community, had to sub!

[@kapv3]

Saw this video on the front page and the title cut off after the first 4 letters of analog... lol

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

Shocked Chris is now burned into my retina.

[@chainsblood]

I arrived late at the party of anal horror, i mean, analog horror, and my understanding of it is, "cheap jumpscare but you know when it is going to happen"