It’s actually insane how far they’ve gone with this all. All the different RU-vid channels and websites connected is blowing my mind. It has clearly taken so much time, effort and work to pull this all off. I’m just in awe. This is amazing.
Don't feel bad Baz, we ALL articulate shit poorly at times, it makes for a good laugh but we know you will get there eventually!! Thank you for this video! And an HOUR LONG?! FUCK YES
I was gonna look through the comments to see if anyone else figured it out, I paused it after he was like "did they do it for copyright" I was like nahhhhh this dude thought of all the small details why wouldn't this be the same. And than sat on that screen for 10 minutes deciphering, first I thought It was to replace the letter with the correct one and than instantly was like WAIT the first four spell host... Badda bong badda bomb
I don't know if this is incredibly obvious/deconfirmed, and if so I apologize, but are the CHILDREN meant to be the different Muses people have had? The way the Muse acts towards Alex is near identical to how CHILDREN are described to act towards hosts (breaking their will, making sure they are in line, needing flesh, etc) This is less of a theory than it is a genuine question, I got introduced to this series a few days ago and kinda want to know the general consensus of this
Yeah it's basically what's being implied. That with the fact that we've seen Mother as a tentacle monster (just like Alex's muse) hints that the muses are Mother's children.
I absolutely agree that Ramona Bynes (the original owner of HMF) was the female experiment that escaped and is also the person behind the HMF leak channel. At the very least, with what's said on the HMF website it's clear that experiment is the leaker considering a bunch of files went missing after that incident. I'm blown away by The Muse ARG, tbh. This goes even further than I thought it did, and I'm super glad you and Ryan are starting to cover this thing now. I really liked the whole Wendigoon format, for lack of a better way of putting it, with covering The Muse too with this video too, Baz. :D
Don’t forget about Conspiracy Carl. He was mentioned in the SpongeBob videos and he has a website that connects to the ARG. He was also the guy talking to Mark in the third Sonc video.
The acting in this ARG is really good imo but the guy who's Antonio knocked it out of the park - he's so fucking creepy, holy shit. Thanks for this Baz it's really cool!
My theory is that the children in their non-complete form are the muses. And that the "DIGESTION" is just the term for when they merge with the host to take complete control over them. Meaning that Mark's 'friend' is a complete child from MOTHER in its final form. Also, my theory is that the hair room is meant for Victoria in case she breaks out of line. As for Alex, maybe it's the flesh room. Those are just my theories though. Cant wait to see more of your reactions and theories on this Baz.
I’m literally obsessed with this ARG and Alex Bale’s work all together. But I also just came across your channel recently and have watched almost every video you’ve made in the past 3 days, so I guess I’m obsessed with you to now lol. P.S. you are way to entirely hard on yourself. I’ve noticed a pattern on your videos of you pretty much calling yourself stupid and it genuinely upsets me because I love your content and personality ❤️.
This ARG is my newest hyper fixation maaaaan. I've already drawn H0022 and posted the art onto the Alex Bale subreddit and I wanna draw some of the other creatures too. This shit is so cool to me goddamn it. Also! The Paradox Files ARG created by HMF serves as a cover up for leaked footage of the facility, as well as to serve as a cover up for the escape of the Spider Cow creature (who we now know is NOT a Muse, the Muses are completely different things, that one just happened to be strong as fuck from the mutations, and has since been terminated) to basically make people believe that the whole leaked cam footage of the thing breaking into a store was a marketing hoax. The entire ARG itself is very much centered around the gullibility of humankind, or even just how easily humans can be manipulated when they're so desperate for something good. How people can immediately disregard the idea of a beloved farm actually being horrible just because they can't bear to think of the horrible things really happening, that's one example. Also, the cat is probably Alex's actual fucking cat and something about that makes me unreasonably happy. I just... Imagining this guy fucking around with AI and making grotesque images, then writing the next ideas for his ARG all the whole this big fluffy cat meows for attention or steps over his keyboard or something. Like, behind the scenes, all these people are probably his actual friends from film school, so imagining them screwing around outside of working on the ARG is just a very nice thought to me. I kinda hope that once the ARG is finished we'll get to see his friends more and maybe even get some bts clips and blooper reels! I know not everyone would like that stuff, but as someone who wants to kinda get into this sorta thing I love seeing the ways people help each other with the processes and all that. Overall, fuckin 10/10 writing, filmmaking, design, and just everything in general.
Small detail but after Mark left and Antonio was on his own at 37:27, if you look in the lower right frame the meat has been moved around and there's much less than there was.
So quick idea, when you were talking about mother’s children, the muse that Alex had in his garage that would consume meat and then crave more later on has tentacles. And in the third video from (This Place Is Not Happy) we see Mother, at least a short part of her, A giant Tentacle that consumes the ASSET. I couldn’t grasp if you meant this when you spoke about Mother’s children in that segment of your video, but that’s what I was wondering. Alex’s muse is one of mother’s children.
I don't know if this is anything but during the paradox files bit at the start when the pic comes up for the movie it covers Mark like to symbolise that Antonio is starting to become the main focus of the channel
The new one is about the lore. They showed a picture of a RU-vidr Chris willson and he’s been on the case Sense day 1 and while they showed a picture of him the “AI” said “SpongeBob was getting to close to the TRUTH and decided to keep an EYE on him” that’s because he is getting close to figuring out the lore
I’m not sure if you already know this, or if anyone has already told you, but in the video about animations just at the end you can see that the “friend” was bleeding a black substance from his nose, the same color the “muse” dropped on Alex’s hand right before it asked for living meat. Sorry for my English, it’s not my first language
Ahh yes, the IT access Portal is the last Clue that solves everything “Maybe” P.S. watch Conspiracy Carl too or Carton Mayhew He has the Muse too and his Wife is Cecil Mayhew aka Marks Mother
You know there's a small youtuber named "TheMuseARG" he covers all the things in the videos when they come out I recommend watching his videos they give a lot more context
I'm not a huge fan of the live-reaction sort of content as a genre, nothing wrong with it, just not my thing. So this video was an absolute gem to me, that I'm going to pass around to friends. I'm also subscribing because 1) you're the only one of my feed talking about ARGs and 2) I like all the Unfiction you look at. You're a cool guy, and I enjoyed watching! Keep it up
I’m like in love with your 15min videos but like you sitting down for an hour doing this video essay thing is so cool and I really enjoy just sitting down and watching it!
Bro, I feel like Antonio is like a puppet for the former employee that turned into liquid, cause when they were talking about how adult animated shows, are basically baby shows, something leaks out of Antonio’s nose.
They're making the paradox franchise a stand in for the real world Cloverfield franchise. They're notorious for changing scripts to fit into their world and using ARGs as promotional material
I’m kind of glad you’re bringing theories back to your channel or at least bringing theories back to your brand considering you and Ryan were always theoryheads I used to watch you guys back when you guys were doing five nights at Freddy’s theories and I wish you kinda keep it as a brand of the channel as well
Finally getting to this! Been wanting to watch this for forever. I’ve got my crisps, my tea, and a soft blanket ready to go 😊 This is gonna be a wild ride!
An hour long video? I need some SNACKS! Thank you so much BazzyBoy I love you bro don’t hate on yourself. I find it funny plus your brains just goin tryna understand and process what’s goin on is all.💜💫
something interesting i found is that it mentions somewhere that HMF studios also produce children’s programs but we’ve never seen any proof of this other than Sonc the Blue Rat. it’s like this was produced by HMF studios specifically for Mark to break him down to become a host - the only thing that HMF have to break Mark down other than this is his mother (who was alive when Sonc the Blue Rat was produced) - and Mark making a video saying that adults shouldn’t watch animation of any kind is like him trying to find reasons to avoid watching Sonc the Blue Rat : an animated cartoon with subliminal messages designed to keep him in line. Mark designed Sonc when he was a child, as per Antonio’s remark, so HMF have found and taken this character and used it against Mark to uncover trauma. and Mark ignoring Sonc the Blue Rat’s comment is HMF trying to contact him through this character to remind him that he can’t escape it.
I'm pretty sure to solve the search bar thing, you have to press one of the F buttons at the top, don't remember which to be exact. If you have Fn lock on, you'll have to press that and one of the F buttons. Pretty sure if might be F9 or something around it.
Baz I don’t know if you picked up on it, but the fake movie they talk about “The Paradox Files” is definitely partially based on (or a parallel to) the Cloverfield movies. The first Cloverfield movie had a ton of viral marketing and ARG stuff connected to it, and the second one was originally a script for an unrelated movie that they decided to add aliens to and tie in to the Cloverfield universe. Plus the second and third movies brought in a ton of sci-fi and alien stuff that wasn’t in the first movie. The viral stuff connected to the first movie hinted at the monster being from the ocean and not space. Even when they show the name “The Paradox Files” on the screen, it mimics the look of the title/logo for the second and third Cloverfield movies, with the lines going up/down from the letters (just look at a dvd cover of these movies). Plus the third movie is called The Cloverfield Paradox.
In 22:12 you see that the movies are covering Antonios face but in the next video the movie is covering marks face probably because Antonio is in control now
IMPORTANT; I figured out the password for the paradox1313 entry site! Look at the skull closely...There's a butterfly overlaid on top of it, A MONARCH butterfly. ;)
I can't believe this was a year ago. This ARG is absolutely brilliant. I totally forgot about Jared! I can't wait to see this come to fruition, and find out what it all is.
So Hermaus Mora wants sacrifices, huh? If anyone has seen the movie "A Brilliant Monster" on Prime video, it's basically the muse situation. (My friend is actually in the movie, that has no correlation to why I'm mentioning it here 😅)
I think the best part of this whole arg is that the character he plays obviously hates the fact that all he does is make spongebob theory vids, but, because the theories are so well thought out and well edited, he, or his team, have a massive passion for the show and, to a degree, wanted to do spongebob some justice by treating it the way they have.
This is a great ARG! I guess with ARGs it may make more sense that you've already seen what you're gonna watch - but i think your first reactions are also great to see!
@@user-hv9he6jc1v when putting together the incorrect letters from each movie title, some words come through, like “host”, “secure”, “planting”, and “spore”.
I think April fools theory video is apart of the arg it has the appearance of the animals/humans in happy meat farms and in one part of the video it looks like the building we were shown
when I heard HMF for the second time I was so scared because I realised that at the costa near me there's HMS food and I then I thought it was HMF and I was like "....Holy shit is this ARG coming to reality"
The paradox files is a reference to Cloverfield and the cloverfield Paradox… it had random super bowl advertising and randomly incorporated disconnected scripts by incorporating aliens…
Its obviously anthony since its before the leak of the last human trial host adding evidence that anthonio is anthony but expeiremented to control mark
I know this has probably been already found out and said a hole bunch but I decoded the poster puzzle thing as something like this "host see ur end begin planting spore"
14:15 i know im about a year late to this- but idk if anyone else noticed this. I noticed that from right here and throughout the other parts of video, Alex used Little Nightmares ambience and chase music. For the one 14:15 , he used the ambience from Little Nightmares 1, which is called Prison Walls. So I wonder if he used it because his home has become a prison because of the Muse forcing him to make a specific genre of videos.
I’m 33 yrs old covered in tattoos, tough as nails (depends on who you ask lol) but the old Lion King when Mufasa dies I’ll still cry my eyes out cause for some reason I see me as Simba, an Mufasa as my Dad... luckily I still have him with me. But just the thought of losing him that would be crushing... I’d lose myself to (things) if you know what I mean... but yeah idk if anyone else is like that, it’s one of those movies I can’t watch anymore... I avoid sad movies like their the plague! Anyone else like that?
