Disturbing Footage Of A Player Who Doesn't Exist 

“Disturbing footage” my ass, this is sad and wholesome asf.

I sure do love being really immersed in the story and then out of nowhere, a Despicable Me 4 ad pops out of nowhere and genuinely scares me.

"what if something you thought was your best friend was never real" literally just schizophrenia 💀

I def feel like Matthew was what the player imagined as his old friends. he was lonely and he missed his old friends along with, obviously, not having any after moving. So, he manifested his friends back. Now, the reason I feel like it was his "old friends" was because Matthew knew that he stopped talking to them, at the end, when he meets Donny, the player is starting to forget Matthew since there's no use for him anymore and he started finding happiness. You can also see that he regrets his past because he types "do you ever wish you could've seen the future?" it shows that he regrets not speaking to his friends and wishes he could go back because he never knew he was going to move. at the end, the sign read: "dear friend, I can be better this time, goodbye." was a sign of grief and regret for ignoring and not talking to his old friends. It's basically a "it's hard to treasure what you have until you don't have it anymore." type situation. At the end, he moved on from his past and his old friends, accepting that they are gone and forgiving himself from his mistake and not doing it again. very sad and wholesome story, i did cry 😿😿

Schizophrenia lore

Matthew is a friend that passed away, and blokwinz feels remorse because the last thing they did was argue over that house. That's their last memory, and they beat themselves up over it. That's how I see it. After all, the tribute to his friend that he wrote at the end really carries the feeling of saying goodbye to somebody you lost rather than some imaginary friend or somebody he just moved away from on bad terms. Matthew also telling him to "be nicer" and such, he's likely blaming himself for the last interaction of his friend alive going that way.

Matthew was there as an imaginary friend and wanted to comfort the player we watch and help him make friends so when the player actually makes a friend sith Donny, Matthew isn't needed anymore and he fades away. This is such a wholesome arg❤

13:14 mathew just appeared out of nowhere when the lighting struck but a few seconds later he appeared in the house

Tbh, this isn't a scary story at all, I find it rather sad. The fact that the player introduced himself to a friend to make him feel better and have more motivation to make friends and then he made a friend and matthew then leaves. Edit: Im so happy? Im not gonna reply to any comment btw.

to me, this just feels like a representation of social anxiety. donny makes "blokwinz" comfortable so it slowly fades away. that would explain the "be more friendly" messages that matthew whispered to them. also, matthew mentionned how scared the guy was about confronting their old friends.

That first video literally almost made me cry. I'm a military child so moving is far from alien for me; I've moved 8 times in 14 years. Although, this last move (A little less than a year ago) was pretty rough. We gave away all three of our pets, and I lost the whole group of friends I had, even the online ones. All of that was in just less than 2 short weeks.

This is a really cool story of remembering and making sense of your past. Its interesting to see the player coping with his past then making good of his problems in a healthy way. People could definitely learn from these videos. They teach a lot about trauma and difficulty coping. Especially the one moment where the player directly says "no" to being kind

the entity feels bad for him. so he tries to keep him company.

Another thing I noticed at 22:49, in the players POV, Nulla says the quote. In his friends POV, the player says the quote instead. I think that Matthew could also be himself. It could also explain why Matthew is seemingly trying to help, the player is trying to help himself get over the moving. Another thing it explains, is Matthew answering for the Player and comforting him. He’s just talking to himself like you said. Trying to make himself feel better. Like Matthew is himself, trying to make him look at the brighter side.

I love this. It's a great representation of the anxiety of moving away and making new friends, feeling like you have no one so you make up someone, or maybe reimagining a friend you lost, either from just not being friends anymore or from death

And the feeling of watching this video really brought me somewhere. It's relatable. All of these theories in the comments, from Matthew's death to the player having previously moved away, you do wish you could turn back time. See the future. And maybe put a stop to it. It makes sense, and I understand it. Losing my friend, I wish I could have been closer to,, moving away from my home, I'm not going back. All of these are portrayed so perfectly, each individual emotion of denial, sadness, anger, and comfort. Yeah, this channel might be made for content purposes, but it still genuinely touches me. Good job.

The Donny Darko name is a reference and hint to the fact Matthew does not exist, because in the movie Donnie Darko the guy is friends with someone in his head who does not exist

Mathew was fading away as Donny is the players new friend. Just like in real life. Kids can have imaginary friends, but the older the kids get, the imaginary friends start to fade

telling a story through minecraft is crazy also i loved your use of music in the video

the thumbnail of this vid is just so..melancholic. matthew glows amidst the darkness of a forest, his head innocently tilted to what seems to be the perspective of our hurting player. w/ the context of the arg, it's incredibly sad but comforting, like how our player found comfort in the manifestation of his loneliness - matthew. (also, is it just me, or does this arg really remind me of when marnie was there..)

That ending was genuinely great. It's not about a friend leaving. It's about having finally coped with something that happened to you a long time ago and moving forward rather than staying in the past. Donny is his new friend, Matthew was just a figment of his imagination, but Donny is a very real friend.

finally, a story with a good ending, honestly one of the best minecraft horror, a story about moving on from the past and being a better person, really loved it

These stories are really taking off! Good stuff.

soooo a sad friendless schizoprenic child imagined a friend that was prolly his way of coping from his friends being absent and having no friends at school

As a writer I can try to explain what I think is going on here. Essentially the player is upset that he lost his friends and is stuck with his thoughts. Nulla represents those thoughts, a part of the player's mind that is trying to comfort him. Then Donnie comes along and is very friendly towards the player. The player is sceptical at first so Nulla tells him to be nicer and the player starts to adjust to having a friend again. I'm assuming the player has some trust issues due to whatever happened with his friends in the past but in the end he realizes that he's pushing away an opportunity and changes his mind, making friends with Donnie. Genuinely great story writing if you ask me.

something i noticed about the village part where Matthew disappeared: When the player mentioned in chat that he found a nice person for their group project, that's when matthew went missing, like how in the ending of the video, where the player moves on. You can kinda see it on the village part, but he hasn't fully moved on yet, which is why matthew reappeared later

I absolutely love this channel because it gives me new ARGs to watch before I come back and actually watch the video essay on it lol

This was a disturbing watch for me since I can't stand the loneliness and emptiness even in games, yet this was brought tears to my eyes because I relate so much to the player. I'm so glad Player finally got to make a real friend, and it makes me sad that Matthew isn't an actual friend and just disappears in the end. :(

bro still can't let go of simon12💀💀 PS: stop replying to this y'all are making my phone heat and not turn on because of all your messages

Surprised nobody has mentioned this, but the username “Donnie Darko” isn’t just a random name. It’s actually the title of a film where the main character of the same name is constantly haunted by apparitions of a man in a white rabbit costume who had been recently killed (technically. There’s some time stuff that makes it so the apparition exists before the man actually dies but that doesn’t seem to be the part that’s important to the reference, though maybe there’s some significance in that given they mention time a lot with stuff like the first video asking if you wish things were how they used to be) I feel like this obviously relates to the situation, where our main character is haunted by these sometimes ghostly looking visions of a friend of theirs with a white Minecraft skin. The main difference is the kid in the video named Darko isn’t the one haunted, he’s on the sidelines watching his friend being haunted, which I feel adds onto the theory that Matthew is actually dead due to him best fitting the rabbit apparition I mentioned

for 20:35 I think Matthew is just in spectator and alexspeaks has op perms, but great video, I liked it alot, I was looking for some creepypastas a bit time ago, I'm happy to fall on this type of videos

I love this story, it’s so sad and feels depressed while feeling iconic. This is truly amazing.

also, in the episode where Alex dies and respawns in a void with Matthew, Matthew says "and I just cant wake up". but in Donny's perspective, ALEX is the one who says that, that also explains why in one of the the first episodes matthew answered himself.

Its not a horror story its a piece of art. An piece of art about an imaginary friend helping him trough his tough times, an friend that is just in or his head himself. and i love it cause i used to have something simillar the moment Matthew answers himself is Alex thinking to himself its like talking out loud permanently but everytime matthew talks its only in his head and when matthew writes "thanks" its just Alex complimenting himself and thinks to himself thanks that it has gotten so good

ngl this felt eerie in the start, but later on it just get really wholesome.. w video bro

I just have to say dude, keep up the work ! These videos are just so entertaining and fun to watch.

Small little detail: at 22:49, Matthew says "and I just cant wake up" but at 23:42, its actually AlexSpeaks, blokwinz, or most commonly referred to in this video as the player, who says "and i just cant wake up." I'm assuming this continues on as Matthew keeps speaking to Alex, but the messages instead are shown to be typed by Alex. This is very confusing as only Alex can see and talk with Matthew. I believe that during this time, Alex is in a state of somniloquy, or sleep talking. When Donny mentions using a dairy to write down his thoughts, we obviously see that from Alex's perspective, he looks at Matthew and Matthew looks at Alex. Matthew is definitely some kind of imaginary diary that Alex uses since for all of the videos before he meets Donny, he speaks in a morbid way, talking about how his friends may already be "dead" or comparing moving as "the world ending to some nuclear apocalypse." As explained in the video, when Alex meets Donny, Matthew starts to fade as Alex starts to get to know and learn more about Donny. This represents that Alex is starting to feel comfortable around Donny and is starting to talk less to Matthew, as if he's starting to talk less to his imaginary diary. After a bit of time, on the final episode, Matthew looks at Alex as if urging him to let go of him. Alex hesitates for a moment but then gives into reality as he's now friends with Donny and finally lets go of Matthew. Honestly, its a common story as moving is a difficult time for you as you lose contact with old friends and are hesitant to make new friends since you're not familiar with the new place, but the way it was executed was amazing. It was simple but effective. ts was just me yapping and possibly overanalyzing but still tho it was an amazing story

This story was so sad fr I can relate so much to this. It brings back memories of my survival worlds where I would just talk to myself for hours and do nothing.

dam i love good args espically when they make me feel sad inside like this one and the brandon works one

9:50 He was clearing thanking the other kid for making the farm for him

i think an interesting detail that didn't get mentioned was the fact that blokwins mentions a disagreement over the dark oak roof of the house which is suggested to be the reason that he doesn't talk to his old friends anymore. in the final video donny asks for dark oak, which might have triggered blokwins to finally part with matthew. blokwins realized that donny isn't the same as the people he knew before, and he doesnt have to be afraid anymore. matthew disappearing is probably blokwins finally leaving that 'half-way between state; he mentioned before, and properly coping with moving

It hits hard when Blokwinz_ said “dear friend, I can be better this time, Goodbye” then Matthew disappears because he comforted Blokwinz_ because Matthew could possibly be dead.

This guy is a genius for thinking of such an intricate and detailed story. I personally think that Matthew is Alex himself and he is just talking with himself in the form of schizophrenia to feel less lonely. In Alex's video, Matthew types, "And I just can't wake up." but in Donny's video it is Alex who says that which further proves my theory. Truly a mastermind.

Holy shit, this is very interesting, and well made. Its cool that this story can be changed to a wholesome one by just changing the tone/music. ;)

I love these allegories and symbolism they're hinting towards here: There's a very clear "Plato's Cave" allegory shown throughout, where the main player would be constantly inside of a tunnel beneath the surface, hinting towards their fear of going out and making friends / new experiences in a new environment. Matthew could symbolize player's inner thoughts slowly drowning them out, especially when the player is stuck within the dark cube or when Matthew starts personally attacking them through in-game chat. I'd say Matthew disappearing could symbolize the player's overcoming of the mentioned fear. Player leaves his tunnel out into the surface afterwards almost like stepping out of a dark cave into the light. This one might be a reach, but staring at growing crops and constantly trying to make a farm hints towards the player wanting to fit in and adapt. In the first attempt of him making a farm, they plant down 2 seeds, as opposed to 6 seeds in his last episode, symbolizing that the player is getting used to the newer environment or / and growing as a person. Building a fence around their home might hint towards the player feeling isolated due to them pushing back their friends and moving to a new place. When you think about it, the main player hasn't really left the fenced home, rather travelling trough tunnels from that place, spying on his friend almost like peaking into the new surroundings. In the last episode he is visibly out of the fence, almost like leaving his isolation and experiencing new things, symbolized by making a treehouse for instance. Also, pretty sure the Minecraft world symbolizes the new environment itself. It would fit in perfectly, as Michael appears in the world cause it is the only thing the player is left with - his inner thoughts. Every other symbolism I've listed would also match perfectly. The weather to emotion correlation, as listed in the video, would make a lot of sense as well, as the raining weather in this new environment could hint towards the player feeling depressed. These small details add so much when you take into consideration that this ARG is based on a lot of symbolism right off the bat, spicing things up, almost like it's like a puzzle piece, I love it.

Matthew is the ghost of his friends and who he was. Not the literal ghost, but the ghost of their friendship. He's the ghost of what our player perspective wanted from his friends at home speaking of both how the player feels as well as how his old friends felt. It's the amalgamation of abandonment and lost hope that brought him to where he is. It's not just a story of separation, but the story of betrayal and abandonment. He could be what he wanted, when they initially met, but turned into something just way more saddening. I can't even explain the feeling, but I can feel it, and that's what hurts the most about this story.

Love these types of videos, and this was a great one! It's almost like the entire happened in a dream and was captured and then translated into a Minecraft world as a way to visualize it.

i was expecting some horror minecraft lore but this is just sweet, sad and wholesome man. A character preserving the memory of his dead friend in his mind, to slowly moving on with the help of donny after making another friend from what seems so long ago.

the burnt flowers symbolize him burning bridges with his old friends

"Nulla"... that's a great name for the unnatural player as "Null" is a common term in coding and whatnot to refer to when there's not information about something. A way to give a value when you don't have a value for something.

I watched this last night. God, this shit was actually a little creepy, kept me in the edge of my seat. I know it's most likely set up and you were probably sent the link by the creator but it's just so intriguing because I think most players could put themselves in this role at some point or another, without the whole "friends are dead to me" thing.

u are a damn genius my friend and this is why u should win against the race with flamefrags

the village burning scene reminded me of the phrase "a child who is not embraced by the village will burn it to feel its warmth" maybe this is intentional. alex felt scorned by their friends, and burned those friends (metaphorically) and/or abandoned them. it would explain the random burning. idk.

17:13 i think nulla was responding to the message "they stand there and do nothing like a statue", since his friends weren't doing "nothing", they were just confused by him pushing them away and were genuinely concerned.

I really like these past two horror kind of videos, so I think you should do more of that, but its your choice, I just wanted to say that I liked these.

i LOVE minecraft ARGs like this it’s so good and so interesting

i would like to mention the farm was made for mathew. so he probably wasn't thanking his own comment, he was thanking him for the farm. like complimenting someone on the work they made to make you a nice hat then thanking them for it.

You missed a few parts .Matthew whispers to our mc, meaning donny cant see his chat .when nulla says "and i cant wake up", in donnys pov our mc says it, not matthew

Seems like Alexspeaks is a seriously good director. What a crazy story. I love the stuff that creators leave for internet sleuths to figure out. They dont explain anything, theres just a bunch of weird shit that you have to piece together yourself

I swear i'll never get tired of these videos, they are just my kind of cup of tea

This entire video is showing the player recovering from his depression. The sign he set down was him saying he's gonna start himself again. That's amazing. And makes my heart swell.

I love how big youtubers create new channels and do mysteries like this.

Breaking news, local blockhead plays minecraft with imaginary friend.

dude when I saw this on my recommendation after searching lost media bcs I like to scare myself sometimes when I’m bored so I immediately pressed it to watch the video since I also like scary old Minecraft lore or heronrine anything scary I find it fun to watch and it eases my boredom I even subscribed to you at the start of the video and turned on the notifications so that I could get notified whenever you post this kind of content is really interesting please make more:D

Nice to know it wasn't some disturbing, evil entity terrorising kids, just the player's way of coping with his sadness of losing his friends. UNTIL THE POV THEORY AT THE END DAMMIT, ALONG WITH THE WEIRD NOISES ON THE SOUNDTRACK

Could be a good sad movie reference haha. You have a friend who has gone, he returns in the form of a spirit. You feel lonely but your spirit friend cheers you up and accompanies you. You make new friends and you are happy. Your spirit friend is happy for you and he just walks away. Like your spirit friend finally got something done from that bond of friendship.

you know when you miss your friends when they move or you move. you might have depression and also imagine a friend that doesn't exist because you are sad. and this is a good example of that. all I wanna say is. Matthew is a good friend. and we should be like him towards our friends even if he isn't real.

At 23:07 you can see a crit recharge bar appear when the crosshair is pointed towards where Matthew is. This bar only appears when pointed towards entities. Matthew is actually present there but is actually fully invisible when compared to Alex speaks's POV.

"Someone you thought was your best friend was... never real" As a schizophrenic I know how that feels through experience

11:10 “And the he sets the village on fire!” “No wait every player does that.” -Squidward

I was the one who messaged him about that channel 😂 And oh my god I would have never thought he'd make such a good video out of it! Amazing! ❤

Also work noting that the movie “donny darko” is a thriller all about time loops, the passage of time, free will and all that jazz, and in this ARG one of the players is donnydark0. And the POV player talks about turning back time quite a lot. There’s something to read into there.

Matthew is probably a hallucination and the reason things that he built disappear or because that’s the main character, realizing or slowly waking up back to reality that his friend is dead

8:52 for some reason I died laughing at this part, from the unsettling appearance and stare of Matthew, and then “THERE’S BOOKS HERE” and the sudden cut to him sprinting to get books is so random

Matthew is himself, and the reason he is saying his friends could be dead or something is that he moved so far away that he probably wont even see or hear from them, and if they did die he would never know, and I think the reason we can see matthews pov while he chops down the trees is cause that's the way he sees himself, as a loner, outsider or someone who doesn't fit

The Pov of Matthew could be what the player thinks of from another perspective but its kinda unlikely tho,it could have a deeper meaning since this strange psychological serious of videos represent moving on from the past,it also represents adapting to a new environment which people who just ended something in a past at bad terms could be hard to thing to do, especially when its unfamiliar

if you look at the time 13:15 in the bottom right corner you can see Matthew and when blokwinz looks back Matthew isn't there as the video plays he just suddenly appears into the house. even if you go to the real video at 21 seconds you can see Matthew in the bottom right corner and he just some how gets into the house.

a better theory I have is that Matthew is just a friend who died thats why Alex mentions death all the time. it would also make the last sign EXTREMELY disturbing. the when Donny comes around, Alex gets a real friend and Matt starts to fade away meaning Alex starts getting over him

This is actually sad. even though its apart of a show. made me shed a tear.

being named Matthew makes this hit DIFFERENT

One thing i noticed was that blokwinz was building a house from the sever with his friends which could mean that he was trying to recreate and anchor to the past, but at the end he is helping to build donny's new house, which shows that he is building new memories.

the flowers going into the lava pit could be a tribute to his friend or a shrine

Love the use of the severance theme song, Definitely one of the best show themes

Never knew I’d cry from such an adorable and wholesome MC arg 😭😭

As someone who struggles with severe depression and anxiety this is very reminiscent of something that happened to me. For a few years in my early 20s i was in a very dark place. I was going through court stuff on top of becoming homeless and living in a camper. I never had thoughts of hurting others, but i did frequently have thoughts of hurting myself (thankfully i never did). At times it would get to the point id close my eyes and see my body laying in a morgue. I guess to combat this, my mind created an alternate personality who was aptly named after an original character of mine called Void. To deal with the stress and trauma, i would turn to void who would take over my actions and stop me from doing anything bad. One day he eventually disappeared as my life situation improved. And i feel this needs to be said, if anyone is having thoughts of harming themselves. They need to speak out to someone they trust or call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. The dark may be comforting at first, but it wont always do whats right for you ❤

The most scary thing is his recordings quality

This all feels like symbolism and a metaphor for eventually finding your happiness and moving on from the past. The conversations between Alex and Mathew seem to be a way for Alex to work on his personal problems and letting go. And when Donnie comes into Alex's life, Mathew starts fading away and eventually disappearing because he no longer needs Mathew since he's now in a better place and state of mind. Heck, I even interpret the short clip of where we get Mathew's perspective of Alex is actually Alex reflecting on himself and that he needs to chance for the better. (That might be why Donnie shows up in the videos not too long after) That's also probably why the last video ends wholesomly with Alex helping Donnie with building a treehouse and Mathew officially gone shows that Alex has finally moved of from the past with a new friend.

That was a wholesome end. He moved on and made a new friend. Its always so nice to see these kinds of things have a happy end.

As someone who recently moved for the first time, this one honestly hits different. The move didn’t go well, literally the day we moved to the house we had to immediately rush one of our two cats to the hospital and sadly had to put him down, it truly felt like I had lost a family member. It’s been almost a year now but I still find myself looking for him or thinking I see him out of the corner of my eye. Matthew in a way reminds me of how Biscuit appears in my dreams and comforts me. Biscuit was one of the sweetest cats I’ve ever had, and I’m thankful he chose us to adopt him. Best 5 years of my life, I miss him every day. It will take a while but I hope I can eventually move on

I feel like this is almost certainly some kind of film project that alex made, because almost everything in the videos can be explained (how matthew is only visible to alex, it's nothing new and can be done with server plugins) but I'm honestly just impressed. The reference to donnie darko (a movie with as many mysteries as this series, where donnie is friends with a person that isn't real) support my theory even more. I wouldn't be surprised if alex became a writer or director or something in the future.

Make more of these videos! Awesome Job! 🎉 😊

i just like in this video that he finds a random old minecraft channel and just starts makeing a bunch of lore about it

this hits hard. especially when donny joined and "matthew" started telling our player to be more polite, talk more, etc. i can relate to how he's feeling cause i've had to deal with moving away from friends as well

At 28:57 when Render says that he looked up the meaning of "nulla" a few weeks ago, and the fact that he makes this video while this whole series is still taking place, goes to show that Render is actually the one behind the whole Alex/Nulla thing. Probably to make this cool semi-creepy video about it. But I still enjoyed this video! Was a fun watch. Had a lot of nice details.

This guy is so underrated, I could never watch videos this long but This guy is just built different

We need more stories like this pls do more 🙏🙏🙏

25:43 bro forgor he isn't talking about simon_12

9:44 I'm pretty sure the "thanks" was just an additional comment given to alex for making the farm. "This is a nice farm, thanks"

Very Entertaining. Nice Vid!

This is a very interesting arg, and I think whoever made it is very smart.