u/magnikin: A Very Deranged Reddit User | Internet Mysteries

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

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[@marli8907]

I don't understand. I'm a patron, and I can't watch more than 30 seconds because it's "locked." I know i'm not in the early release tier, but why doesn't it unlock when the youtube video releases?

[@b226tj]

I’m just waiting for the day that someone makes a thing about me. It’ll probably be IRL though because I apparently look like a pedophile. Notice that I’m 16 and look ~23 and everyone at school has commented on my “mechanical” walk.

[@dennycrane4507]

Dont show your eyes without make up EVER again!!!!!!!

[@randomrealistictone2231]

I went to the user. as much as its so disturbing. The person actually writes like a poet.

[@rokukou]

@@dennycrane4507 So rude omg

[@kylethecherry-nosesanalite1723]

The fact that I was surprised there are people who don't know what a cat girl is really made me reflect on my life choices.

[@daisiesforghosts]

Honestly I don’t think it’s niche I think she somehow managed to not see cat girl posts ever 😂 I’ve someone missed huge internet things and I’ve been an avid user since 2008

[@kittenlover016]

me too, i heard niche and i was like what?? how??

[@silent-hills]

Me too ngl

[@Kzie100]

Im surprised bc Internet Investigator literally investigates the internet and forums, yet couldnt piece the words "cat" & "girl" together n yanno 🤨🤨

[@kylethecherry-nosesanalite1723]

@@Kzie100 Maybe she was unclear on just how much was "cat" and how much was "girl"?

[@Steiveplays]

hearing my favorite youtuber explain that she doesnt know what a catgirl is dealt damage to me.

[@gremloid]

20 psychic damage

[@HobieInTheBox]

And then called it a niche too. Like a blow to the head

[@billblaski9523]

Why?

[@billblaski9523]

@@gremloid what's psychic damage

[@HobieInTheBox]

@@billblaski9523 it's video game talk

[@JulesSepulchre]

There's a huge community of yancore RP/blogging on tumblr where people basically pretend to be obsessive+crazy yanderes and most of the posts read like Mag's writing and have included photos of writing in blood, and often include cannibalism as either a fantasy that ties them to their love interest forever, or a metaphor for the "consuming" nature of their love. All of this honestly seems pretty standard for that kind of roleplayer imo

[@janemiettinen5176]

I came to the same conclusion. He sounds like an edgelord 2.0.

[@ashcommittedarsonbutinasexyway]

yeah. especially the catgirls and using Japanese letters made me think that he's into anime, and yanderes are a pretty well known type of character in anime.

[@GreebleClown]

Yeah, his writing vaguely reminded me of Toga from MHA, I’m like “this guy is RPing a yandere, either for real or pretend.

[@Magnesium_Based_Lifeform]

I came here to comment something akin to this. While it may seem weird, those people are harmless, so don't take them too seriously. The thing is though, those Tumblr blogs will specify that it's just a space where they post their fantasy RP as not to alarm other users, and they'll mention the fact that they're using it as an outlet. I'm not that far into this video, but I haven't seen this guy come out and explicitly admit it.

[@KaguyaHimex]

Also the ____kin username is a dead giveaway LMAO

[@dangerdogs3967]

The scariest part of this entire video was the slow pan out onto andre's body

[@ectopasta]

Built like a damn jojo character fr

[@Keznen]

That design just screams "steroid abuse"

[@kasjomis]

the horrifying awe I slowly entered during the reveal of andre is unlike anything I've ever experienced

[@lillithhills2648]

was not expecting that. perhaps i should have been but i was not

[@sunmi2539]

@@ectopasta pause

[@orangeglow57Official]

I am honestly bewildered that you didn't know what catgirls are Also I'm confident this guy doesn't actually know any Japanese. Catgirls are a very anime thing so he's probably just a weeb who googled how to write "I love you" in japanese

[@cisrot]

This haha, writing “I love you” in Japanese is actually really easy and simple. It was literally one of the first sentences I learned and wrote when I started studying Japanese

[@davesbfan]

I'm glad she did not because it highlights how freaking weird it is to society in general, even someone who is hugely versed in internet culture like II.

[@sourgreendolly7685]

@@davesbfan lol I see teens wearing cat ears to regularly for that to still be true but stay in denial if you want

[@joshuacampbell17]

@@davesbfan damn thats crazy touch grass

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Aishiteru. However, it's not something ever said, so....

[@thatlycantomboy]

as someone who has never even watched proper anime, it did indeed hurt to hear “if you don’t know what a cat girl is, you’re not alone.” I was assuming they were common internet knowledge for so long. i don’t know what to do now.

[@aaaawubadugh8054]

Making me feel like a weeaboo for knowing lol

[@patrickmoone3219]

@@aaaawubadugh8054 because you are one

[@aaaawubadugh8054]

@@patrickmoone3219 :(

[@patrickmoone3219]

@@aaaawubadugh8054 its okay tho, anime is cool

[@wolfhaley6900]

same??? 😭

[@maeganmonster]

"Japanese or Japanese as a second language" the guys just a weeb

[@ACrawford00]

He might capitalize certain words if he is German. The German language capitalizes every noun, and I have seen some of them do it when they write or type in English.

[@ana_d_73]

I was thinking that too, the sentence structure also reminded me of how a German friend of mine writes emails. Also the use of recess, but idk how common that word is in Germany, but my friend uses it instead of break

[@mmisafire]

hes definitely not american if hes going to bars at 19, so this tracks way more

[@vampire9545]

@@mmisafire depends where you live in America, Philadelphia has a rather shady bars

[@elivile.]

I did that a lot in the past and I'm not German at all.

[@sleepyraffi]

@@mmisafire drinking age is 18 in germany so it makes sense

[@mistydayremainsofthejudgment]

>anime avatar >edgy goreposting >"secret journal don't look!!!" this is just an extremely lonely nerd who wants attention lol. i posted some pretty horrific things in my online journal too.

[@kylethecherry-nosesanalite1723]

Exactly what I was thinking. I never went quite this far, but this is the kind of stuff I would think was cool as an edgy teen.

[@mistydayremainsofthejudgment]

@@kylethecherry-nosesanalite1723 gonna be blunt, i posted about necro-stuff in my own fictional writing and stuff. i was also into guro! well, i still am. i'm a perfectly well-adjusted person lol. i can't even bear to kill an insect irl. i just like fantasies about this stuff. it took me a long time to accept it and not feel like a psychopath or bad about it.

[@kylethecherry-nosesanalite1723]

@@mistydayremainsofthejudgment Yeah, I get that. I've delved into the subject myself at some points. Not really my thing, but you're into what you're into. As long as the harmful stuff remains fantasy, nothing wrong with it.

[@mmisafire]

thats my thoughts as well. its likely that he is very very mentally ill bc i relate ever so slightly and i have severe mental problems, but i really dont think hes legit

[@doritostrawberries]

he’s just like me fr

[@ashb9312]

Alright, I'm way too amused by the "Diabetes?"

[@bronzergoth7598]

oh my god nothing could have prepared me for the art style of that game

[@stoplight2554]

I dont think he actually killed anyone- i think he just has some really intense kinks that hes roleplaying

[@akademi844]

This honestly just feels like a Tumblr yanderecore (aesthetic) blog, but instead in Reddit format. Likely a traumatized teenager venting about their attachment issues/writing out fantasies, nothing more. Obsession is typical more harmful to the obsessor than the person being obsessed over because of the intense mental stress it brings. Though I think it might just as likely be a weeb teenager's yandere roleplay. Especially with the stuff about the love to violence connection, that sounds like its ripped straight out of a stereotypical yandere's mindset lmao. About the cannibalism, murder and guro stuff... Just sounds like his version of sexual fantasies. Again, there's a ton of art, writing and even games that cater to this niche specifically- It would make more sense than him actually being a murdered or whatever, or even having a genuine desire to harm anyone else. The visual novel connection makes no sense to me, though. I think you underestimated how many of these types of games existed and, because of that, made a connection too easily. Of the top of my head I can already list plenty of these types of games (Boyfriend to Death 1 & 2, The Price of Flesh, Don't Romance Me, 14 Days With You, Your Boyfriend Game, Lovers Trophy, and more.). Sometimes it's called a 'murdersim' or 'horrorporn' if it's a western visual novel, for Japanese ones a term such as (ero)guro is more common.

[@akademi844]

can't wait to see the highly disturbinb yandere x reader fanfiction i wrote when i was 15 on this channel, and have myself be psychologically analyzed through it

[@arandomidiot1593]

I was thinking that as well. I wrote a story about a guy killing his crush(who had no interest in him) only to use necromancy to resurrect him as a zombie that obeyed his every whim. Why?? Because I like horror.

[@khaightlynn]

Would it be safe to assume a lot of this is mostly zoomers doing this murderporn fanfic type roleplay?? or would I be hella off and aging myself as an almost 30 non internet based old af millennial if I thought that we folk my age would have been outta the loop by the time tumblr got popular and went down that road? Not a weeb, but I do know what a catgirl is, and I do remember newgrounds and deviant art and the anime kids at school so maybe it is just me who's out of the loop idk

[@akademi844]

@@khaightlynn likely you’re right! mostly it’s just fiction or at the most venting negative emotions in extreeme ways without havijg any intent of acting on it

[@bombombakudan2831]

@@khaightlynn yup you're right. Yandere-core/roleplay is very popular in places like tumblr. You can find yandere fanmade content for just about every fandom under the sun that has some amount of following. Some blogs are specifically dedicated to roleplaying/venting so it's very common to come across stuff like what this mag guy is posting. The vast majority of them are harmless lol

[@veryregular]

"even if the catgirl thing is a little niche" am I being gaslit right now

[@LilySaintSin]

yes

[@babaroga1192]

I lost my fucking mind seeing the muscle fetish characters for the video game holy shit I'm dying

[@_-ollie-_]

no because for real

[@scumengel]

Right like I was half asleep watching it n I looked at my phone briefly I felt like I was losing it😭😭😭

[@chezmix64]

Something to note that might further rule out the Visual Novel connection is that that kind of story is actually a really popular genre of horror within some edgier anime fan communities and the "character" mag is seemingly trying to present himself as is basically the most stereotypical depiction of the kinds of characters in that genre in general so most of the connections made there can easily be explained away by that.

[@ryoki_PH]

i haven’t watched through the whole video so i might eat my words but i’m about half way through and this person honestly just sounds like somebody who’s super lonely and using online sex-focused spaces as an outlet. you can find a lot of seemingly very intense people in kink spaces who use their concepts of sex or romance to try and feel fulfilled, often with fixations on concepts like loyalty and ownership. update: after watching the whole thing, while i still think this person *is* really intense about the persona they want to sink into i still largely agree with what i said, and that it all just seems a lot more mundane than people might be thinking in the end.

[@BatAtTarkov]

Well I don't know if I should feel attacked or rethink my choices or both

[@MaliciousChickenAgenda]

@@BatAtTarkov 😂

[@zacharyantle7940]

@@BatAtTarkov tbh same I’m on the spectrum and recently got into kink lmao

[@cisrot]

Same, this also does feel like someone roleplaying as a yandere. The interest in guro doesn’t alarm me, neither does the interest in cat girls. A lot of what this person writes sounds like a vent piece or just plain and simple roleplaying. That doesn’t mean the claims of violence aren’t alarming, I just think it’s very likely that the person behind the account isn’t a “psychopath” (which btw I hate that word being used so flippantly) but rather just an edgy kid.

[@ryoki_PH]

@@cisrot yeah i TOTALLY agree with you. i think this person has legit mental health health problems of course, but it’s just nowhere near a lot of the played up concepts of madpeople or serial killers are, instead of just what happens when someone with attachment issues, trauma, and low social skills starts talking about themselves on the internet. if anything i just hope they end up being able to sort through their own issues and become a better person honestly.

[@Pandatege]

i would say that the visual novel being connected to mag is absolutely a stretch just because that novel is only one in literal dozens to hundreds of games that literally deal with either u playing a character who gets together with the weirdo, or u play the weirdo yourself (a good example being something like Boyfriend to Death) and these are mainly popular with either people who have the want to like fantisize about dating a serial killer closer to the likes of ted bundy than michael myers but also VERY popular with teenagers who also wanna fantisize about dating a murderer or to just play at being edgy hell the concept of a "Bad End" is so prevalent in otome and visual novel games that some will even put fake, over the top, not aligned with the plot at all apocalypse level endings in their games as easter eggs even the way andre is written isnt fully original as there are other visual novels who will have a character be into just as horrific things and if its not just one character, it will be a cast where all those things are spread out and essentially act as their "quirk" in a way

[@mmisafire]

yeah theres definitely a ton of things like that. dudes like mag arent at all rare, i see them all the time on twitter bc im very very lightly interested in semi-similar things (mostly blood and romance connected). theres sooooo many people who are just like him

[@Pandatege]

legit if anything be.loved is probably one of the first killer otome games where a guy is as beefed up as andre like legit that is hyper-muscle art and anything other than twinks was p rare until recently

[@m0therchan]

id completely agree if the artist mentioned wasnt following her on twitter, but it seems a little odd that they are

[@m0therchan]

maybe im just dumb, but i think gutterleech is making their oc into a cool arg through untapped potential

[@Pandatege]

@@m0therchan im not fully discounting that be.loved isnt connected to this but to me it either seems like someone who either has these series of coicidences which arent all that uncommon amongst devs and artists who are into hystobrilia or guro, honestly even down to the similar artstyle (its strange how many artists have at least the same style of drawing faces who are also into this stuff), or it is the same guy. just to me personally its a stretch cause in my personal experience these things are actually weirdly common, specifically with teenagers who probably got onto the internet waaaaaaaay too early to realize that being that deep into stuff like that can mess with em mentally

[@emilydavis162]

He reminds me a bit of these teen edgy roleplayer friends who ended up actually killing someone. One of them gave the other the victim’s fingers in a gift bag. Edit: wrong body part, my bad.

[@yamii3281]

is there a name for this case or anything? i wanna read more about this

[@taliahturqoise9673]

@@yamii3281 I don't remember but I think it was in Japan and they were two girls that killed a little girl iirc.

[@sunmi2539]

LMAO

[@sunmi2539]

Oh wait ur fr....

[@sunmi2539]

@@taliahturqoise9673 WHAT

[@yannickgrignon2473]

This 100% just reads like an overly edgy teen roleplaying some stuff they're into. I could even buy that they're really seeing a therapist - there's a hint that this whole thing is working through some form of childhood trauma, which according to comments on videos like these, is not an uncommon response to this sort of thing. They really do seem like a hopeless romantic, just one that needs to be nudged towards ... healthier means of expressing it.

[@uwumarii]

If this is your definition of hopeless romantic then you might just be as sick as this guy

[@kenny-vl1is]

i don't think its roleplay. he seems pretty intent on what he believes has happened to him. he probably has some kind of psychosis or schizophrenic disorder. i've convinced myself that i've done similar things like killing people and such. not exactly the weird necro stuff, but i'm schizoaffective. it's probably a strange coping mechanism of sorts.

[@cw2010]

Yeah as embarrassing as it is to admit i wrote dark edgy shit as a kid too and none of it was true (though admittedly what wrote was less edgy than cannibalism)

[@satapon4129]

@@kenny-vl1is I'm schizoaffective and had a similar thing, glad I got over it. They seem like they're having periods of psychosis to me.

[@SlimBeebo]

That 'art' is the scariest part of this whole thing

[@mollysministuff]

Saying that catgirls are niche to someone who watches anime is like asking someone into true crime if they've ever heard of the Dahmer case.

[@WaferTots]

ngl mag's writing is well put together in my opinion, i could really really see this as a way for robby to roleplay and get into the character of andre as a writing exercise

[@satapon4129]

I can't tell you how many times I've been having panic attacks/psychosis and make rambling reddit posts only to receive "you're so edgy stop faking" (I'm diagnosed schizoaffective). Imo opinion it's very easy to tell the difference between a roleplayer and someone who actually thinks these things.

[@samspam1788]

I'm so worried this is someone I went to school with. He was a total creep obsessed with anime, told everyone he had a fetish for making girls bleed and hurt, and wrote a letter to a girl in his own blood. He s.a.'d my sister. Horrible

[@melloncollie3321]

This probably won't really make you feel any better, but there are so many people like this that it could be anybody. I went to school with a guy with an anime obsession who signed his papers with his "pen name," which when I looked it up lead to his creative writing... And comments on fetish sites. He also sexually assaulted a girl but charges weren't filed I guess because he still goes to my school. :/

[@redwindflowerP]

i can assure you that, this person is 100% not that person from your school, since i know this guy personally :P

[@Dizqard]

the "blood" in their pictures is 100% not blood. haven't personally tried writing with blood specifically, but I have had dark enough times and also enough misfortune to know how blood looks on paper and tissues and etc. the 'made this for my crush' picture is the best example- not to get too graphic, but blood on printer paper/cardstock would never be darker where its thickest and lighter where it's smeared, especially if 'fresh'. there's also a syringe picture where, for some reason, it's the only blood in the world where inside the syringe is the darkest and it gets lighter as it spreads through something absorbent. "oxidized" also does not just mean "it got darker", anyone who has experienced more than a papercut can tell you that blood doesn't stay the consistency of water while turning dark brown/black still a really odd situation that's interesting to hear about, but obvious fiction stuff is so boring and shifts me way more towards assuming it's just a deliberately creepy rando who's not even doing a good job at it. we're out here reverse image searching and deep faking, but meanwhile I guess spending $10 on some gouache and some ink is evergreen

[@sunnystrathern8396]

Anyone else irrationally scared one day they'll open up KZbin and find an Internet Investigator video with their Reddit username on??

[@AleTitan]

No lol

[@taranwanderer7747]

Sunny Strathern clearly has something to hide. ...Let's investigate.

[@sunnystrathern8396]

@@taranwanderer7747 Aww shit

[@ActionYakPolice]

I went from "oh it's an edgelord" to "uhhhhhhhhhhh..."

[@WatashiMachineFullCycle]

Same, I was like oh yeah I was like this when I was a teenager, even written in my blood once (to be clear this was well over a decade ago) but this went from edgy to uhhhhhhhhhh really fucking fast

[@ddjsoyenby]

same.

[@We_Are_All_Vultures]

I've got 4 minutes left and I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop...

[@leaf6356]

opposite for me. went from "uhhhhhh..." to "oh it's an edgelord"

[@WatashiMachineFullCycle]

@@leaf6356 was a good halfway through the video at first comment, once I finished the video I went from uhhhhh back to oh it's an edgelord again. That was a ride lmao

[@user-me8fm5yf4n]

I am genuienly supprised that Internet Investigator of all people doesn't know what a cat girl is 💀

[@spacecadetkaito]

Also the assumption that because this catgirl loving anime fan has a basic Japanese phrase written somewhere then that means he likely has some actual connection to Japan or speaks Japanese I like internet investigator but when it comes to anything remotely nerdy, which is a large chunk of internet culture, she seems surprisingly clueless in that regard

[@HGAMES69]

She ain't a degenerate

[@farewelltimetofly]

@@HGAMES69 You don't have to be a degenerate to do your damn research on the topics you cover. She's just an ignorant hack, tbh.

[@amp4105]

@@HGAMES69 neither am i but i seen them on the biggest streamers streams via memes and on twitter

[@Literally_Justin]

Right!? It is almost as if they want to immediately create doubt that they created this character themselves

[@lycan4312]

I dont see how people like shorter form media compared to this masterpiece, your accent is very soothing

[@owenfaz21]

these individual user deep dives are always great . thanks for the great videos !

[@batxic]

You brought up the game at the end, and honestly, it reminded me of a similar one. Boyfriend to Death. It's about you choosing to go with various men at a bar, all of which kill/torture you in multiple ways. It particularly reminds me of BTD2, to the point I think this person might be roleplaying as the character Lawerence. Lawerence doesn't cannibalize the player (at least to my memory.) But he is implied to be a necrophile and in one of the endings, he amputates you, similar to what the poster mentioned. Lawerence also has a crush on another character (Ren) Ren I think could also be a contender for who they might be roleplaying as. Ren is a cannibal, an otaku (similar to the poster), and has an obsessive love for his abuser. I don't really know if this IS the case, and they are RPing as one of them, but I thought I might mention it anyways.

[@batxic]

Before anyone says anything, I know a lot about the game and similar ones in the same genre because I used to/kinda still do have a really intense sadomasochism kink. Obviously not as bad as the poster, but I'd like to point out how big the kind of community is around these types of games. I think it could easily be someone roleplaying as a character, one from a game or one they made up. There are tons of indie games I can think of in a similar genre.

[@needleconsumer]

I WAS THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING THANK YOU FOR THIS COMMENT

[@scumengel]

LITERALLY THIS WAS MY SAME THOUGHTS OMG

[@Chichi-hj3mg]

This really sounds like someone who’s hardcore into role playing their anime oc, but if I’ve learned anything on the internet it’s that truth is stranger than fiction

[@cicadathegod8277]

I really do hope it’s just an arg and not another case of someone documenting their descent into madness online.

[@Sugarglidergirl101]

8:27 he’s probably just a weeb that likes anime and stuff. And what he probably wrote was すき (suki), most anime geeks know this word whether they actually know Japanese or not.

[@diablocell]

I must tell you the choice of music for this video worked as intended. I couldn't help but find myself, multiple times throughout the video, imagining Mag sitting at their computer typing up these posts pretending to be a normal functioning member of society, meanwhile having killed and eaten people. With this song playing!! I find it very hard to believe that a 19 year old is out there somewhere killing and eating people and getting away with it. I think its more likely this person is role-playing and they need help before fantasy becomes reality.

[@cooperdavis9663]

1:54 how can there be anyone who uses the Internet that doesn't know what a cat girl is?

[@jello4835]

Shocked that you knew what penectomy is but not catgirls

[@sideshowratt]

This guy chats freely about many niche fetishes but never mentions hyper, which the game's creator is clearly into. I think they are two different people.

[@leaf6356]

what is a hyper fetish? I only know hyper as a state of being.

[@missing2414]

@@leaf6356 people who like em REALLY REALLY BIG

[@sideshowratt]

@@leaf6356 hypertrophy, aka oversized body parts. It usually refers to giant muscles, although this person appears to be into giant hands as well.

[@taliahturqoise9673]

The game creator probably contacted Internet Investigator to promote his ARG/roleplay account. I doubt it was something she randomly mentioned.

[@rokukou]

@@taliahturqoise9673 Ikr. I keep seeing II go into stuff that is clearly an ARG or clearly fake.

[@edgytrashcan]

Not gonna lie the visual novel connection is extremely far fetched. Mags writing can be plucked and put down into any ero guro visual novel games story. There are other series that cover these exact same themes, boyfriend to death being an example. That game series has cannibalism, self harm, murder, stalking, and even drugging the reader character at a bar to take them home and torture them with extremely graphic and sexual tones. Its not a one of a kind genre and is popular with people with extreme kinks that do not wish to act on irl.

[@hairlessgrizzly559]

I'd say it's normal to wonder what human meat tastes like at least ONCE in your life, but people like this definitely cross that line

[@thriftstorepierrotdoll9851]

they’re definitely an edgy teenager just writing for attention. i used to be the same when i was 16/17, depressed, got too into weird kinks that were lowkey age inappropriate, and constantly wrote edgy albeit somewhat poignant poetry about anything and everything, like i couldn’t stop. there’s a whole community of these people. watching this i was like oh wow, you’re a teenager who likes anime, gore, poetry and self harm and thinks of murder & cannibalism as poetic ways of expressing love? no way

[@MissSallyB1]

me literally saying at loud at the part about saving blood syringes for ink: "Ugh, use a pen, Sideshow Bob."

[@bluueorb]

What's disturbing is I've known people with these "fantasies" My brother's ex ended up being fucked up and not only did it effect him, the whole situation effected me as well due to his ex taking an interest in me when I was a minor and she was in her 20s. Once she harmed herself in front of me and another time she exposed her chest to me in a sexual way. Also she's made reddit posts about pedophilic, incestuous, and cannibalistic fantasies. People like this are terrifying. 20:00 so intaglio I assumed was Italian which I've been learning here and there because of being 4th gen Italian American (generations before me are Italian, well, Sicilian to be more precise which ik the dialect is way different (and is inspired by French, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese as well as Italian but I want to learn the inspiration of the language before learning the Sicilian Dialect) anyways "Intaglio" means carving I think.

[@RQBtv]

Most sane catgirl enjoyer

[@im19ice3]

its not reasonable how much i laughed at your comment

[@joeystevens3790]

Most sane catgirl enjoyer Translate to English

[@soneseira]

I've been on the internet for too long, especially on the anime side of the internet. I feel like this is probably a mix of a fetish/kink and maybe some weird coping mechanism thing as well. As you mentioned, he is into guro. A LOT of guro consists of things like cannibalism, murder, etc. It's something most anime fans who have been on the internet a long time just shrug at. The first time it's shocking, the second time it's still strange, and everything after that is just like, "Oh, great, more guro." Maybe you'll block the user who posts it, most people do, but I'd bet the majority of guro fans are aware that it's only fiction. A lot of the things you posted sounds like... fiction. Roleplay. He's probably some kid who just has no outlet and wants to interact with people in the guro community through roleplay. The catgirl thing made me giggle; isn't niche in the anime community... at all. Look up Nekopara if you dare. It's been around for a loooong time. He's probably into some petplay thing as well. His posts make me think that he has some attachment issues. While the contents are disturbing, this is a very common thing in the niche communities of guro fans. Most guro fans have some trauma or something as well, hence why I believe he likely has a therapist. The parts where he said he's murdered people also feel like roleplay. As you said, his therapist would be legally obligated to report him if he did do anything serious. Maybe they're trying to make him open up more, and this coping mechanism is helping him get through that. As for why he made a whole subreddit: maybe he wants his life to be put online, where he'll continue to have a "footprint" even if Reddit deletes it. Maybe he's venting online because he has no one else around him in real life. From the sound of it, he's lonely and clings onto old "relationships". EDIT: Got to the end, this DOES seem like a potential ad for the visual novel.

[@S4cr3dG30m3try]

Guro is a lot more socially acceptable and common than most would think. I've been into horror anything, movies (both western and not), horrorcore music (mostly western but Japanese Visual Kei bands like dir en grey played around w the aesthetic when they just started up), art, guro manga and body horror (Junji Ito is popular af, thats body horror. Suehiro Maruo is also a popular mangaka in this niche and ultra gash inferno was an ero-guro hit involving some less common topics like coprophilia [if you know you know]). My best experience was going to a niche indie movie festival that is called FetiFest since they finally got it over from Japan to Europe a few years ago. It was held at a cult movie theatre that mostly plays original reels the old school way and has events such as audience participation RHPS and shows the Room with audience participation on a monthly basis, but i was genuinely surprised by the amount of "normal" people attending AND staying to the end. As far as i could see no one opted to leave early which was something because one of the films there even made me viscerally cringe and want to close my eyes due to its rawness. I mean, these films are pretty much gone now since they were only shown at 2 viewings, the one i attended and one in Japan. But you can still find parts of them floating about on the internet. In case anyone is curious and is a fan, just reply to this comment and I'll dig up what i can especially because i really want more people to know about that one trailer where a school girl kills god with a guitar chainsaw as well as shredding the uh, *rear end* of a man she found in the trash using him as her "amplifier". Back to the point though, there were at least 100 people attending that event in my city, none of which left, so they either dipped their toes into it and their curiosity was piqued, or they were prior fans. The subject of this video seems like a regular old roleplayer and I'm not gonna psychoanalyze. But personally I'd keep these things to myself or maybe in general discussions w friends online, not out in the open. The manic states don't even seem too unusual to me since i have times where i write hardly coherent texts in rapid fire to anyone and everyone when my adhd acts up. When i did visual arts in highschool i did a whole guro/body horror exhibition, 2 of the pieces were made in my own blood and laminated to prevent any bacterial contamination (unintentional reference to a guro vocaloid 3d animated music video lol, if you know you know). Since they claim to be around the same age i was back then, this seems totally alright to me. Now many years later i still partake in the aesthetic but it doesn't take up nearly as much of my time and space, but i still indulge in the art and headspace but don't get judged for it. Tldr: just read the whole thing you can't tldr this.

[@gunnstash]

Internet Investigator videos are a can't miss!

[@kayleighcourt2127]

YAY!! Thankyou for posting! I was getting bored of watching pointless things before bed and now I'm excited because I love your content 🤗

[@MaliciousChickenAgenda]

Roll on 100,000 subscribers! You’re getting closer to it and It’s well deserved too 😊

[@NutyRiver]

I’m gonna go on a limb here and say this is a middle school kid (or early high school) RPing as a yandere. Here’s why: - they refer to recess, which is something high schoolers don’t get in America - their interactions w/ their therapist sounds made up, like a kid who doesn’t know what an adult therapy session is like - this overall just has a very anime feel to it. Like casually romanticizing killing people as “a show of love” I don’t doubt this kid has problems, but it kinda sounds like something I would’ve concocted at the age of 13, in a way I can’t really articulate. The problem is when you’re 13 you start getting exposed to adult concepts more often (death, puberty/sexual feelings, more intricate emotions) and so you don’t know how to contextualize it yet. In my case, I started having mental health problems I didn’t know how to cope with, and ended up absorbing myself in fantasy/anime. The violent anime plus unlimited access to poor message boards confronted me with some stuff that genuinely didn’t hit me fully until years later. I’ll bet this kid is going to be fine. He seems all talk. On a side note, his story heavily reminds me of Full Coarse for Candy Addicts, a song about a woman who eats her boyfriend to make him stay with him forever. At the end of the song even, she repeatedly sings “suki” (“I love you”) which reminds me this guy’s letter having “aishite” (also “I love you”) written in blood. The only reason I mention this is because this is the kind of music I’d listen to at 13. Also, I don’t think this kid and the dev are the same person. Their art styles are very different, and if I’m right about this guy being a kid then that game just doesn’t feel like something a kid could make (again, for reasons I can’t articulate).

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Private schoolers still get recess in america, it's just called "Phys Ed" or "Team Sports" or something like that.

[@Guitar_1s_Hard]

The Magnikin account has since been deleted along with his journal community since this video released.

[@dbensdrawinvids8390]

The viral marketing angle sounds about right to me. Expect Magnikin to "stumble across" the game eventually and post about it.

[@callmewisteria]

the weird game you mentioned at the end of the game has definitely got me curious to hear you talk about other video games, especially controversial ones. i would be really curious to hear your take on the suicide of rachel foster and all of the drama surrounding it

[@Feynix4]

Ugh, that game 🤢 I would also love to see their take on it as well

[@callmewisteria]

@@Feynix4 same, plus she might find stuff about it the rest of us haven't

[@wrthadia9073]

He might be Canadian because he talks about going out to bars. The legal drinking age in Canada is 19, and you have to be 21 in the States. Canadian schools also have recess lol

[@SidsonCity]

I did not expect the hyperbara 19 year old art.

[@johndifool456]

Even before you brought up the visual novel I was thinking it could be a creative writing exercise. I highly doubt this guy's actually a serial killer cannibal, the internet's anonymous but not "that" anonymous, and if he really were a serial killer I think either the police, the feds, or both would have found the account and could track him, especially if he's American. Dedicated writers try to get into their characters' headspace in a similar way to how actors do, though, especially if it's a first person story. This might be an exercise in which he role plays this character to develop it and also see how people respond to it. As someone who enjoys creative writing myself it's...not a bad idea, actually, but he should at some point reveal that it's just fiction so people don't actually worry. His claims are pretty outrageous, he might even assume that few people would take it seriously and most would see it as an ARG or role play. Or maybe I just don't want to believe that this guy's actually into this stuff, lol. Also, quick note on the therapist commentary, as a practicing therapist in the U.S. myself: We can only break confidentiality for future crimes, i.e. if a patient tells me they are going to harm or kill someone (or themselves), or the ongoing abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a child, elderly person, or otherwise vulnerable individual. There are a few other niche legal situations, but those are the main clinical situations in which confidentiality would be broken, and as part of informed consent we tell patients this at the beginning of therapy. If this guy is telling the truth, he could either be smart enough to leave out any future plans to harm anyone and his therapist would have no idea (the guy who shot Reagan never told his therapist about any of his Jodie Foster/Taxi Driver obsessions and delusions), or he may have only reported past crimes, which a therapist has no ethical or legal duty to report. If a patient tells me they have killed three people and got away with it, but denied any intent to harm anyone else, I would actually be committing an ethical violation by breaking confidentiality and reporting that person. Also, we don't always have the solutions, there are sometimes patients with too many and/or too serious mental health problems to effectively treat, and even when we can it's not usually a fast process, especially for someone like this. If this is real and he does have a therapist, they might not be incompetent so much as overwhelmed and doing their best to keep the person at least marginally functioning. Speaking from experience with the seriously and chronically mentally ill, here. Sometimes just keeping them out of the psychiatric hospital for a few months straight is a win.

[@AshenDalia]

I looked back at the video right when the image of the ridiculously muscled dude was on the screen and straight up went "HOOOOLY SHIT" because I was so caught off-guard from the image

[@Jupa]

Just a creepy edgelord weeb. He will mature and just become a some kind of furry fem boy. What seems consistent is that he sexualised and fell for someone who bullied him. This isn’t uncommon, people with major self esteem issues come from sexualising traumas as a coping mechanism. Deep down there is a normal person inside who had been deeply broken beyond recovery of their old selves. So they adopt a new persona, with the internet. Still, better online than offline…

[@frostyx1531]

24:17 bruh i died wtf he built like a left 4 dead tank

[@maybeactually]

this is actually a lot more common on twt, and there are a ton of edgy/traumatized or just into gore people who post their weird fantasties

[@HalfAlive1413]

The E.loved artstyle really says some things about the artist, I'm a artist myself and you can deduce a lot about a person's artstyle heres a few things I noticed: The muscles and body form are hyper styled, so this person has some sort of fetish of muscular men and feminine men from the hips and waist, this could also mean a fetishization of trans men much like r.c. dart (I think that was their usernsme) did back when they got into some hot water for over sexualizing a trans representation of a character. The face could be a possibility of a few things, they could be a furry that really never drew humans before, they are the aforementioned R C or possibly they have some sort of fear of looking at others are where trained to draw realistically but wanted to cartoonishly change the style. The shading and coloring of the character gives me the vibe that this person is really, really into blood and guro to the point their style focuses on severd limbs and meaty images. I could look over it some more but I think this could be RC takekng on a new identity to avoid the shit they got into or they are the same person and the art they commented on could have been their own to draw attention to their game.

[@kittenlover016]

i thought of rcdart immediately too!! the small head and ridiculously large chest and ridiculously small waist really reminds me of their style.

[@arantxaortiz2757]

Or maybe instead of the trans fetish angle they're more likely a JoJo/Berserk fan because their art style looks like an exaggerated version of these mangas' early chapters. Also those series are very popular with gore obsessed teen weebs.

[@HalfAlive1413]

@@arantxaortiz2757 I'm a jono fan and jojo never really did such a thin waist and along with berserk unless it's some starved creature that was ment to look inhuman. Berserk was more anatomically accurate then jojo. I say that bc rc. Dart did that very thing I was saying and the artstyle is damn near identical

[@RECEPTIONS]

sometimes guys just love huge guys and he said he's gay. jumping straight to trans fetishization is a stretch (this coming from someone who is a trans artist

[@HalfAlive1413]

@@RECEPTIONS I'm comparing it to a artist who did do it and has been in hot water for stuff like that, it was one of three ideas,

[@neonzombies8816]

Every video you say "quote" in your accent. I naturally just mimic it the way you say it now😂

[@taranwanderer7747]

Has anyone ever read the well-known Reddit story on TIFU about the guy that tried to tell his gf's parents that he didn't know what a potato was and they ended up getting kicked out of her parents house...? That's how I felt hearing the catgirl thing, lol.

[@tropezando]

Magnikin: "i love catgirls" Everyone under age 40, whether or not they wanted to think it: "nyaaan" Internet Explorer: _"niche"_

[@radioactivebeverage]

so glad i deleted my old venting accounts because it would have ended up in one of these videos i fear

[@orenz.272]

Spill the beans magnikin

[@rivulet5417]

A redditor Being deranged *I DON'T BELIEVE IT*

[@ryanpooley]

Omg you are spoiling us with all these videos recently!!

[@slimecorn]

definitely a troll/ roleplaying a yandere. its so obvious

[@alam4359]

yeah, lost the plot after the mention of commiting murders

[@BoltManectric]

Just started the video and I'm thinking jeez I hope this guy doesn't find Ms Fortune from Skullgirls, a catgirl who can detach her head

[@doritostrawberries]

never did i ever expect to see a skullgirls fan on this channel 💀

[@KindredJudgement]

hi, i genuinely enjoy your videos a lot! i like your dive into the more obscure corners of the internet aswell

[@rogerramjet6429]

Recess is used in Australian schools as well.

[@toobytah]

As someone with dyscalcula and some dyslexia I tend to write with capital letters in random places. Just something my brain does while writing almost like it’s realizing “oh ya capitals exist”, possible the same reason why he wrote that way too.

[@shinshs]

is writing capitals in places a part of dyscaucla or dyslexia

[@toobytah]

@@shinshs lol yes

[@mijajajaja]

Referencing @ 3:24: I died once, it's absolutely not beautiful, but...it's negotiable (at least when you're young.) Definitely a super long story not meant for a KZbin comment, but crazy none the less!

[@mmisafire]

i almost died once and it was the most terrifying thing anyone can go through tbh

[@zombie_queen9336]

I almost drowned once and it was definitely not beautiful. It left me with a fear of swimming and I use to love swimming. I use to be able to swim no matter how deep the water was but now I won't go in past my waist. Death is definitely not beautiful.

[@questeusher]

think google is trolling me, for this video i got the dominos ad that says 'hunger' 😂

[@nexialiist]

oh jesus that anatomy in the art.... LOL!

[@dj_nyx8903]

As an anime watcher his behavior is very similar to the character tropes of Yandere meaning sick love. They're obsessed with another character and will definitely hurt others to achieve that.

[@Watcherscrownn]

could be rp, could be some edgy teen, could be someone with diagnosed bpd being obsessive over someone

[@imjustroleplaying]

2:28 The last thing I think I would ever hear would be that cat girls are niche T^T

[@nichollle]

this person just reminds me of myself when i wasn't medicated for bipolar yet.

[@Cryseris]

Finally someone made a video on this guy. I gotta archive more of this guy.

[@mayrasampaio1276]

Every time u post I get so excited! I know it will be a complete and original investigation. I'm so over all these channels posting the same videos about the same stuff, clearly no research at all. Thank you,

[@mehshit2698]

this must be what its like in lars von trier's head

[@herrice3227]

"A Deranged Reddit User" Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

[@im19ice3]

i will choose to be envious rather than embarrassing and baffled that there's apparently a way to not be made aware of the concept of ''catgirl''.

[@radishattack]

Thanks!

[@TheInternetInvestigator]

Thank you for the tip! :) 🖤

[@LUKwufj]

this may seem very strange to people who are not in these types of communities-- , but it can be quite a semi common thing amongst artists, (oc artists in particular) kinnies, & roleplayers. to me and some people in this comment section, it seems like this guy is playing the role of an oc/character who is love obsessed. i gen do not think this is a real case. ive seen these type of things before many times amongst oc artists who like roleplaying and ive even did it before when i was much younger. nothing too uncommon, but to someone who doesnt understand or know this type of rp culture then it comes off as really weird and maybe even real.

[@melloncollie3321]

Do people RP on Reddit as much as they do on Tumblr? It doesn't really seem like the platform suits it very well but I've been bored with RP for years so I'm probably way behind lol

[@LUKwufj]

@@melloncollie3321 Ive never tried on Reddit since I think it doesn't suit very well either but it just looks like a one person rp. Likely that the character himself is supposed to own a Reddit account so maybe that's why?? I'm sure its probably way more common on Tumblr...but I can 100% see a angsty character that's traited to own a reddit lol

[@K-yu-ko8dv]

honestly I was convinced it was a troll but in the past months I met an old friend and they turned out extremely similar to magnikin. Same opinions about love and everything(she says I have "pretty blood"), hell, the whole "life is mostly suffering and euthanasia is an act of mercy" is something I believed at one point. Probably just a mentally ill and edgy teen who has too much time and internet access(just like me!)

[@thewoahzard]

oh my god i literally...i know this artist. i was in a kin server with him. this is so unsettling

[@EmeraldAshesAudio]

I'm only 2 minutes in, and I'm sure this will spiral quickly. But "Cat girls have nine lives. It'll be okay" is darkly hilarious.

[@EmeraldAshesAudio]

Update after watching: I'm convinced this is a kink thing. The big clue is the "he fantasizes about eating people and them eating him."

[@itsMBWAAA]

Nicely done! As someone who watches/listens to any and everything “disturbing” related all day everyday, it’s nice to hear about something I haven’t already heard before. Great job!

[@---nobody---]

Same. Any good channel recommendations? I'm always looking for new channels. I recently found Disturban and Shrouded Hand and they have some pretty dark stuff.

[@dj_nyx8903]

My first encounter with scoping on an user account was on Yt. I was like 12 watching old cartoons like Tom&Jerry. I can't remember what the comment said but people under the OP were saying don't click on the account. So anyways I clicked on their channel and they had a playlist with over 200 seconds clips of animated tongues and mouth in the cartoony way. Especially shots where the camera were inside the mouth too. I guess they were into that... Different strokes for different folks.

[@runningman55]

Thank you queen internet investigator for always getting my weekend off to the right start 💯

[@wynterschill]

Yesssss always a good day when you upload a video!

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

I'm just left wondering how I even know what cat girls are. When did I learn this? Where?

[@bostonsandatot4948]

I love the lo-fi 80s vhs movie beats in the background.

[@_Pyroon_]

Bruh, I thought the beloved thing was an ad and initially skipped it, hah

[@TimmehJay]

If they are only getting a week's worth of meat from a human body then maybe they need to revisit their butchering skills

[@bagandbroad]

Butcher by day, weeaboo by night is a chilling combination of words

[@m0therchan]

seeing that the artist mentioned follows you on twit is pretty obvious that explains it