The Death of Analog Horror 

*NOTE: This is a reupload, earlier when it exported from Premiere Pro it was only 8 minutes of the 19 minute video, so I've spent the last 4 or 5 hours trying to fix the problem. Everything should be fine now but if not, I'll see what I can do to fix it

We've reached the "hyper-realistic blood" phase for analog horror

Jerma unintentionally becoming analog horror icon is so funny yet such thing happening to him fits him so well. “No chat, I don’t look like an analog horror icon!”

I wonder if analog horror fans just scream when their game lags

The clear takeaway from this video is that someone needs to make an Analog Horror series called Jerma Syndrome.

with any internet horror thing, there’s inevitably a scary guy who’s whole thing is either having big eyes or a large toothy smile

The reason I’m so drawn to vita carnis isn’t because of its horror, like it was with local 58 and Gemini home entertainment. I love it because of how unique the world building is. The humanoid one was creepy, yeah, but the other creatures were equally - if not more - interesting. I also have been growing a little disenchanted with analogue horror recently, but that one stood out to me.

19:08 Whoever created that knocking sound deserves either pain or praise. It gets me every time.

I remember the whole backrooms popularity phase was so annoying. It was a novel idea, endless rooms of yellow, with absolutely nothing in them. The concept itself was terrifying enough to be stuck there. But the internet began turning it into SCP, making hundreds of ridiculous levels and almost comedic "entities" into the mix.

As an analog-horror creator, the genre seems to be mocked a lot for its overused tropes and such. This makes it really hard for smaller series and creators to get off the ground. Hopefully it'll be fixed or saved sometime in the future.

I think vita carnis does better than some of the more recent analog horror series. Wonderful art, legitimately terrifying scenes and ideas, and interesting lore

I think my favorite entry in the genre (I believe it counts?) is the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. I love the world building there, the bizarre pamphlets, the unsettling lore implications, and most importantly the fact that it was left alone and not milked into oblivion and expanded into 10000 different series, making it lose all its mystery

Vita Carnis, the Mandela Catalogue, Gemini Home Entertainment, and Local58 all impress me with how scary they can be with such little done to actively try to scare someone. They all feed off of this uncanny valley vibe, wnd I love it

I think what I love about the Mandela Catalogue is that Alex seemingly recognizes the issues with analog horror, and has as a result shifted the series away from the tropes it itself created. Jerma Syndrome has been almost completely removed from the newer parts, including the Volume One remake, instead replaced with wholly original 3D assets that look human, but don’t move like humans. The guy’s a damn genius, and more importantly, I’m still scared by the series because it still actively introduces new concepts to scare the shit out of you.

Things like the SCP Foundation and the Backrooms became so popular that people took notice and simply decided to take advantage of them as outlets for their creativity. Instead of submitting new articles that were simply new spooky/paranormal things that need to be locked away for the former, or creepy places you could get trapped in for the latter, people just used them as platforms to post their ideas for characters, monsters, organizations, world building, and so forth. Popularity runs the risk of attracting the attention of the wrong people who do not appreciate it for what it is but instead for what they can use it for to benefit themselves.

"Oversaturated" is probably the best way of summarising what happened to analogue horror. From that you get the development of commen tropes and the abundance of similar and/or low effort work. I do hope the newest series in the genre hold their own against the flood of similar content. I also think digital horror (nostalgic late 90s to 2010 video game/computer horror) still has much to offer, however. But it's unfortunately much more difficult to produce due to how one must make, play, emulate, and/or modify a game or program in order to get footage.

Personally I like analog horrors where the "monsters" are just animals. They aren't malicious in any way, they're just doing what animals (or plants) do to survive Some series I like that have this are The Living Flesh Pit National Park and Vita Carnis, as well as some based on jurassic park/dinosaurs

I remember back in 2019, my best friend showed me the backrooms, and she was massively intruiged by the unknown aspect of it, the constant threat of something being in the backrooms with you or not. So when the backrooms footage came out back in 2022, she was rightfully kinda pissed when the entire concept was thrown away just to put a bunch of cliche, cookie-cutter looking monsters into it. Completely altering what the backrooms were from the start.

I was so ready to throw hands until you clarified that you don't hate Vita Carnis, the video of the mother and son getting killed by the harvester is probably the best analog horror video I have ever seen

My biggest grievance with analog horror is how often the story jumps the shark. The biggest appeal of analog horror, to me at least, is how grounded and believable it is while still entertaining elements outside the realm of reality. The medium of VHS tapes, security camera footage, news broadcasts, and tape recordings makes it more fantastical than something like true crime, but it's not full on supernatural horror. But then the accompanying plot completely defeats that appeal by using aliens, zombies, lizard people, demons from another dimensional, alternate universes, and other totally unrealistic and outlandish characters and ideas. If I'm supposed to be afraid of the extradimensional shapeshifting demons that prey upon humans, you can't expect me to think I'm going to be learning about them from a vintage VHS player on a cathode ray tube television.

Someone mentioned in the comments of a similar video that analog horror often deals with technology from the 70s-early 2000s and that they'd like to see horror from different periods like the 50s and earlier which I think is great. It's why I love the Monument Mythos because it takes place over the lifespan of America, putting emphasis on different time periods and the technology of the time. Personally I think great horror could be made out of basic and uncanny sounding recordings from the turn of the century or maybe some supernatural element in the world wars which are already horrific enough. I'm just tired of the 80s and 90s theme personally.

as someone who's really passionate about analogue horror and is super sad to see the state its in, I'm really glad that despite the staleness and predictability, that is starting to be realised and understood by new creators who are making some incredibly unique and terrifying series and I love it

i would argue that monument mythos does not suffer from any of the tropes. sure, it's in an analog format, but it takes a WHOLLY different approach from any other analog horror series to date. it isn't even really a horror series at this point though it does have elements of horror present. it's an alternate history, and a commentary on and parody of our modern political climate. it has transcended far beyond the label of analog horror imo.

What I like about Alex Kister is that he doesn't overstay his welcome with vhs spooky, and actually tries to tell a story with characters. And not just uncanny imagery, tho that also is present. Kane Pixels also made a newer series called The Oldest View, and I'm not sure it's analog horror, it's still amazing.

My biggest problem with analogue horror is the desdeprate attempt to make the series "deep". I think a lot of creators forget that horror has the main objective of making the viewer FEEL terrified, you can make a more complex horror story, but the best ones knew that well crafted concepts and lore didnt matter if the work in itself isnt visually striking, sometimes a simple concept is enough to make people disturbed, it only depends on how you will execute it.

Analog horror, a genre embracing the eerie aesthetics of old technology, had a moment in the digital age. It fascinated us with VHS vibes and nostalgic chills. But it faded as our demand for high-def scares and quick content took over. Despite this, analog horror's charm endures, reminding us of the haunting allure of the past. This is all true, because i was there🗿

i think skinamarink deserved a mention as i believe it had one of the freshest takes on analog horror in a while, having the original less is more appeal of the backrooms and managing to hold a sense of dread for so long that you have to look around your room to make sure your still safe

I think Kane’s backrooms are different to me. Like it’s inspired by the 4chan post but it has its own lore that makes sense to what story it’s trying to tell. Yes, content farms and whatnot have oversaturated the genre, but I wouldn’t put Kane’s work in that category. With the more content he makes, he’s really proven himself to be a stellar creator from writing and technical standpoints.

I think it's amazing how fast the acclaim-ostracization cycle was in Analog Horror. It usually takes a full decade for the same thing to happen in movies and games but in this it was 5 years at best. It might sound bad, but it just forces innovation and creativity for everyone willing to try their hand at it.

I wouldn’t say analog horror is declining/dying as much as it is stagnating. I don’t think these issues are solely related to Analogue horror; as with any form of media, people will mindlessly copy popular things leading to overused tropes and less creativity. Hopefully this genre doesn’t die, as it’s always been an almost morbid fascination of mine (many other people too, I’m willing to bet). There are some unique analog horror series out there (monument mythos, liminal land, vita carnis) that have their own interesting ways of world and character building. If you disagree, let me know, I’m interested in what other people have to say. And if there are any analogue horror series you’d recommend, leave a comment :)

i really hope analog horror continues because i think its really cool to watch and the universes are so interesting esspecially breakdown videos of it. btw great video man keep it up

IMO, Analog Horror started dying when people started implementing gore in it. Gore is great when used wisely. The Walten Files has some pretty gory and violent stuff, but it's not thrown around randomly, it has a great impact because it's used sparingly. However, throwing guts and maimed bodies all over the place takes away from the mysterious and unnerving nature of Analog Horror by introducing mindless violence everywhere.

Gemini Home Entertainment is the only analog horror series I'll call a masterpiece. The lore is so interesting and there are some genuinely unsettling moments. You can clearly tell the creator was passionate about the series and wanted to deliver it the best he could, and didn't just do it for cheap scary images.

I think a big issue is that a lot of the people making things inspired by the first or second wave of analog horror just aren't familiar with the source material. They don't know what analog technology is, and instead ape elements of other analog horror series simply because it's convention.

Glad you mentioned the Monument Mythos/Nixonverse/corner folk series (created by mister manticore) since it’s really interesting. It combines elements from eldritch and lovecraftian horror, science fiction, and conspiracies to creat a really unique analogue horror series. The world building is great, rivaling that of vita carnis and the Mandela catalogue. I’ll try not to spoil much, but I will say that the series has some really wholesome moments amidst the chaos. RU-vidr Wendigoon has made some really neat videos dissecting the series, and there’s many more you can find here on YT. If anyone else has seen the series (it seems to be not that well known), let me know!

Honestly, it just went through what all trends eventually suffer from. When the scene becomes too oversaturated, it dies

There was something that started to pop up, “Digital Horror” where it’s creating horror out of things like Flipnote on the DS like with The June Archive and Restoration Project. Sagan Hawkes and Raymundo 2112 talk about it more. Petscop could be considered Digital Horror too

rant "...the series was initially praised for its groundedness and artwork..." Wait, wait wait. Are you telling me that humans, genuine, living humans, saw the urbanspook video with its fucking "This guy's name is X. he got stabbed a lot. This guy's name is Y, he got shot and killed and murdered. This guy's name...", white text on black background, with a bunch of pictures drawn by a 5 year old, and they thought "Damn, this is a breath of fresh air! Good analogue horror series, at last!", rather than instantly laugh at how bad that stuff actually is? The story is practically non-existent, the way information is written is not even close to a police report it presents itself like... There are just so many things done wrong, I don't want to waste my time writing them all down. I can't seriously believe it has fans. Or had, for that matter, before the whole gore controversy.

I guess I was late to the party because I feel like there is still a lot to be gained from this sub genre. I’m not gonna lie, it’s my favorite thing going right now.

There's also a nice little offshoot of the analog horror genre known as _EAS Scenarios,_ which utilize the fear of the lack of information, doomsday/nightmare scenarios, and fear of sudden noises, which I enjoy a lot and watch while I eat food. Kinda weird how it wasnt mentioned in this video since it's one of the few analog horror offshoots that still feel decently enjoyable right now.

I refuse to believe anyone actually finds Mandela Catalouge scary

I feel the old timey music trope is due to the laws around copyright rather than lazieness or trying to set a tone. Most music used is either always been public access or has only recently come into public access and so you get a reccuring theme

I've said it a lot under many different videos, but In my opinion, Local 58 and Gemini are two leaders of the genre. They essentially created the genre of Analog horror. I personally don't consider the first ARG's like Marble Hornets or The Sun Vanished as analog horror, which is why I'd say Local 58 created the genre. I really miss Local 58, and Gemini only uploads like once a year. They definitely paved the path for series such as Mandela Catalog (which I believe to be one of the best modern Analog horror series'), Greylock, Vita Carnis etc. Personally, I believe the best internet horror series, analog or not, to be Marble Hornets, TSV, Local 58, Gemini, Boisvert_, Kane Pixel's... well, *everything*, Chainmail Chasers and the Mandela Catalog. I really hope for Local 58 to come back, as the story was incredibly interesting and I'm upset that it ended with a cliffhanger. Marble Hornets really doesn't need a detailed explanation as to why it's so great. TSV was the first to actual have immersion, that being the fake news broadcast and expert filmmaking. TSV really pushed the boundaries of what was possible before Local 58 was even a thought in anyone's mind. Boisvert_ is such an odd ball when it comes to internet horror. The story of a mans decaying mind cluttered by depression and self destruction, portraying just how terrifying the human mind really is. And my god, the art and animation is just *impeccable*. And the story is one you can easily get lost in. Kane Pixel also really doesn't need any introduction. He and Alex are leading the genre right now and it's easy to see why. Chainmail Chasers is such a novel spin on the classic creepypasta formula, bringing it back and breathing new life into it with modern editing and story telling with interesting characters you can really relate with. In conclusion, Analog horror and internet camp fire horror stories really have come a long way. Analog has had a pretty good run so far, but I also believe that it's coming to an end. Kane Pixels new The Oldest View series is amazing and I 100% believe that it'll help bring the change to internet horror I think we really need. That, and I believe things such as Boisvert_ and I Can't Sleep will also come front stage pretty soon with the death of Analog. I'm excited to see a new age of horror, because currently, while Greylock, Vita Carnis and Mandela Catalog are all amazing works of art, it's just gotten so stale already. we *need* something new.

my biggest gripe with analogue horror is how much it shifted towards being art based. it's already infinitely harder to make yourself known as a writer than as an artist (been writing for years at this point and only people i sent my stories to have read them) due to the fact there's no outlet/proper way of publishing stories. seeing analogue horror be a lot more text-/sound-based with the occasional edited image (mainly talking about smaller series) was great because it gave me hope that there was finally a proper way of sharing your stories. clearly it developed in a different direction, which at first wasn't bad (i adore vita carnis and the art of other big analogue horror series), but you dont need to be a rocket scientist to quickly figure out that the writing is going to deteriorate when all people wanna see is just creepy images (such as urbanspook). crossing my fingers that maybe someday there will be an actual genre that values writing over superficial things. also im pretty sure a bunch of urbanspook-like series just use chatgpt to generate the text because it really feels fake.

"people see other people do something cool and try to replicate it while barely knowing what made it good in the first place and not making anything new with the idea" is the best way to sum up a lot of recent analog horror

I like analog horror as a unique way to tell stories but I think that people got caught up more with the "analog" part and did not spend enough time on the "horror"/story without just retelling another story or relying solely on cliches. Horror is one of the hardest genres to write and have it not only be good but actually scary. I think many of the analog horror creators are very skilled creators but not skilled enough writers.

BRO I thought I was watching a video from a huge RU-vid channel. This is honestly crazy, the editing is absolutely perfect, the visuals are great, it's actually incredible. Keep up the fantastic work :)

One thing that always comes to my mind when I hear about things copying each other in media is a episode from South Park called "simpsons did it". The episode itself pointed out how nowadays, it's incredibly difficult to make something original for people to enjoy when something similar to it was already made by another person. That's how it must be for most people who make analog horror. It all starts to feel the same and they try their best to make theirs stand out from others. Eventually, they'll run out of ideas and resort to taking ideas others series had but have a slight twist and call it original.

The pattern with each new trend in the horror genre and medium is a growing sense of immersion. Watching found footage felt more “real” than slashers, sharing creepy pastas was easy in the early internet, and now ARGs and Analog horror felt like creepy pastas coming to life. But the internet’s growth has increased the ability to oversaturate popular trends and quickly wring them out. Unless some creator can find a unique spin in story-telling (such as with Skinamarink), it seems like analog horror has hit its wall and the bubble is bursting. The next wave of horror will need to be more immersive than analog and find a way for the story to come to life to excite & engage the audience more. I don’t know what that requires, but that’s the simple fact of entertainment evolution

Greylock is godly, probably my favorite one

I think honestly all horror that gets popular goes through these phases. As much as we remember slashers well, that genre was also super oversaturated and got terrible (Jason literally ends up in SPACE). Things that are creative and cool become popular, accessible, then oversaturated. But history shows that the good ones endured. We don't remember all of the horrible slashers, found footage videos, derivative creepy pastas.... We remember the bangers. And I think this will be the cycle for analog horror. Lots can be released but we will keep coming back to the incredible ones. "You Are On the Fastest Available Route" still makes me uncomfortable. For every The Painter, there's a Greylock, thankfully. We will hold onto the amazing ones and they'll endure! Thanks for the great video.

A great analog horror series came from Linkara, of all people-- "Winter of 83" which was his April Fool's joke. It's a pretty straightforward horror story that succeeds by having most of its horror happen offscreen, or through the sounds of things just off camera. It reminded me of the V/H/S anthology series but in a good way. I feel like analog horror can really fall apart when it gets into the "marketable lore product" territory (which, I know it feels kinda mean to point fingers at FNAF, but so much modern analog horror owes itself to mascot horror.)

well crafted video, love all the references made throughout, and love the implementation of the ending being a recollection of everything that is becoming stale as a finale. Awesome content man, keep at it

This video is so well put together! Keep it up!

I feel like it's an interesting conversation on whether they're "clichès" or just things that make it a genre. I think people are quick to dismiss actual interesting analog horrors because now those tropes are being a lot more recognized, and while I can definitely understand how it can take you out of the immersion a little bit, I personally don't think it's a bad thing.

I like the way you kinda parodied analog horror through the video, the subscribe promotion using gabriel was creative

It was an absolute kick in the gut to see my “Local69” parody at 14:05, I basically forgot about its existence, only to see it pop up here. This video describes exactly why I lost all interest in analogue horror, it’s a phenomenal documentary on such a great fallen genre.

Personally the one that got to me was The Alternates, because the idea of a malicious entity that intends to hurt you and can almost perfectly mimic you once it has killed you is disturbing to be on a sort of existential level. It's the idea of being replaced and no one knowing until it's far too late.

I found out the Mandela catalogue was from Wisconsin earlier this week and I was really surprised because I’m also a Wisconsinite and literally no fiction of note is ever set here.

Boisvert is by far one of my favorite analog horror/ARG series on youtube. Its not about anything paranormal, and even though it suffers from the black and white trope. Its simply perfection (in my eyes)

So far my favourites to come out of analogue horror are greylock and vita carnis. I’m very excited to see how each develops.

Great video! 😄 I got in fairly early in Marble Hornets at the start of college, and was blown away. Really agree with your take on The Backrooms. I'm so tired of this trend of obsessive world building and attempting to explain the wonder out of everything. Elements of mystery are what can make things engaging or scary, and shouldn't be stripped away for the sake of a "satisfying" explanation.

ive never been freaked out or scared by horror or anything of the sort (i am a fan though, i find it fascinating) but that knock at the end had me shitting my heart out

this is a big part of why I love Doctor Nowhere's stuff so much, it strips the genre back to the most basic concepts, analog plus horror, and then takes it new places without biting from previous works. you end up with some things in common just because only so much variation is possible, but the execution is so damn unique. even doing played-out things like the "we, the authority, are gonna tell you about the monster, but it's actually manipulating our informational video" trope, the actual execution of it in practice is so unique

man i love all of these amazing analog horror series, for the jumpscares, mystery's, the monsters and all the lore i do think they are going to have to mix it up soon because most analog horror series are inspired by each other and sometimes just clones of each other but its still interesting to me because i love how the story is always shrouded in mysteryand you have to put the story together yourself sometimes

how did you NOT mention the children under the house?? i dunno if people catagorize it like the others, it is pretty well done

If you like Backrooms content but are bored of all the entities, I recommend The Poolrooms by artist Jared Pike. It seems to be either calming, nostalgic, creepy depending on who you ask. I find it to be more on the nostalgic side. There’s a few videos in his official channel, but there are a few good fan creations as well (like from Matt Studios or Return to Render).

This is a fantastic doc! Love how you narrate, and I just had to subscribe! Keep it up!

now make one on the death of video essays

If I recall, people started making more floors and monsters for the backrooms and added their own story well before Kane. Kane decided to make his own concept which had the weird wire monster which got adopted into that community. Personally I like Kane's approach to the backrooms, it still feels like the uncomfortable and unknown dimension like in the original, but with a few tweaks. I'm also not a fan of the multiple floors, monsters, and organizations, and escape plans in the backrooms, It just muddies things up from the original simple idea.

I just need to point out how much i love Vita Carnis for what it is. First of all, Darian is a very talented artist, some of the designes like mimic are very disturbing. Second, Vita Carnis is great at what it's doing for many reasons, but the one that i don't think a lot of people point out is how diffrend it is from the other analog horror series. Most of them use the same concept of evil demons and aliens (something like Mandela Catalogue) but in Vita Carnis these are just animals, some of them kill people, some of them don't, but even when they do it's just becouse of the fact that they want to survive, just like any other animal would, they are also pretty much treated like animals by the society, some of them as extremely dangerous ones but still, these are just living creatures with inatincts and common behaviours

Great choice of music with all the vivivivivi stuff.

one thing I hate about analogue horror is that the principles are so effective. like even the joke applications of the tropes you used here were able to illicit fear in me

Nice video! Fantastic editing, love the idea of divng into my guilty pleasure, despite how overrun it is. Im not super surprised you havent mentioned it, but id give "Chezkids" a try if you havent already, i think it does a great job with immersion.

I did enjoy an obscure snow tape made by a popular RU-vidr, i forgot the name of it. By god 2021 was such a fun time for analog horror as 2018 was for ARGs. I can’t wait for the next big hits with the newly formed digital horror and any other new genres.

So glad this video was recommended to me 👍🏻 Just subscribed, can't wait to see what you'll do next :)

“They’re not scary?” “Never were.”

I’ve been writing and developing the art for my series for over a year and a half now, and am only finishing the first episode. The decline of analog horror’s popularity was part of the reason it took so long just because I started losing interest in the genre , and so I found I needed to find a different medium to present my idea. I’m kind of glad that the fad has faded away and left only a few juggernauts that continue to evolve their storytelling abilities through the characters and the presentations, much like Mandela Catalogue

My ultimate top 5s for analog horror are Local 58, Gemini Home Entertainment, The Tangi Virus, Stone Cold, and Greylock!! All 5 of these have very unique concepts with L85 and GHE sharing a sort of "sentient planet" concept, the Tangi Virus just being horrific on its own with the first video, not even counting the Oracle Project and the Human Trial, Stone Cold coming in hot with only one video that was good enough to get EmortalMarcus into it, and do not get me started on Greylock

Urban spook is just so.. like what to me. I’m not saying SA or CSA can never be included well in stories but it’s just so overdone, AND making merch of art depicting an SA’d child showed the creator doesn’t take it seriously at all, and in that case you shouldn’t be writing those subjects.

Thanks for bringing up the backrooms, I've always thought that the levels stuff kinda ruined it, glad to see that I'm not alone in sharing that thought.

This is such a well done video! Vinatge Eight's "Children Under the House" Is something different. I also really like their series "Human Trials" I think they are analog although I am not really sure about Human Trials.

I love your editing style. I could see you with 100k subscribers in the future with this quality content 👍

As a Horror movie fan, Im so glad you even brung up films like Halloween and Elm Street. People often forget that there was a time for horror before the internet itself.

Honestly since the beginning of analog horrors existence I just kind of tuned out because I just couldn’t find it very scary. I found the one about medication for emotions and [redacted] emotions pretty creepy but it sort of stopped after that. It just doesn’t really feel like a very flexible genre for horror since the style revolves around static, glitchy stuff with creepy face, aggressive murderous sentences that pop up randomly, etc. When laying it out like that, it does sound like there’s plenty of room to create something unique but I haven’t really seen anything beyond a FNAF themed analogue horror or “living planets”. I’m not trying to say this to be a big tough guy like “I’m just not scared,” when the “bear” scene from annihilation literally kept me up for multiple nights

There is a relatively new series that’s piqued my interest. The Man In The Suit is an analog horror series told from the perspective of a cameraman on the set of the original Godzilla series, and it revolves around the man inside the Godzilla suit, who slowly became fused with the suit. It’s one of the most genuinely horrifying and scary series I’ve ever seen recently.

This is such an excellent video! Subbed!!!

Feels like, to me, "Analog horror" died the moment they started calling it "Analog Horror" in the same way "Mascot Horror" died when they started calling it "Mascot Horror." Part of what kills these "genres" is that they decide on some particular set of traits, and settle with that and stop bringing new things to it. When it declares itself as purely "analog horror" it locks itself away from strange and new inspirations that could elevate it, and it all starts to look the same. That's why most of the best analog horror content was from before they slapped a label on it. I will say, I didn't really like the "mascot horror" trend anyway. FNAF was fresh, I was a fan of that, as many folks of my generation were. but none of the adjacent games that came out after it really seemed any good to me, it seemed ridiculous to me that people got so laser-focused on such an inflexible, specific horror concept. But people wanted that FNAF money. My advice for upstart horror creators, or really creators of ANY kind of art: Inspiration, especially varied inspiration, is your friend. Don't just look for inspiration in other pieces of media in the style of what you're creating. If you're making a fantasy story, cheesy 80s action might give you an idea. If you're writing a psychological horror, maybe a cowboy movie would give you your epiphany. Keep yourself inspirationally open. Explore stuff you haven't seen before. Varied tastes create unique vision. You don't have to listen to me though, I'm just some random indie media fan who cares too much. If you want to make another local 58 clone, you have every right.

Some things I think of when watching the video - Putting Marble Hornets as the ur-analog horror is something I never really noticed despite electrical glitches being the 'symptoms' of Slenderman presence. That's really cool. - Other than scary glitching error inherited from found footage horror movies, I think Local58 rose to fame is also related to vaporwave trend that also sorta go mainstream around the same time, which features nostalgia callback and glitch aesthetic as its main feature. - Also probably related is the rose of mystery/horror youtube content creators investigating ARGs and other 'Internet Mysteries', which in itself I think related to the old internet "Top 10 list" type of contents, which most popular ones are supernatural or creepy in topic - The oldest example of ur-Jerma Syndrome and possibly its ur-template that I can think of would be that creepypasta Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv which predates Marble Hornets by at least a year.

3:38 No Through Road was a classic. So happy to see it being mentioned. Feel like it was overlooked hella.

I rarely post comments on youtube videos, but this one fits thematically. I was watching this video late at night, and near the end of the video I have opened a tab with the DuPont website, then switched back to this video. Roughly a minute before this video's ending, "inspiring" corporate music started playing loudly, muting the contents of the video, combining very well with artificial glitches used in the video. I thought it was a deliberate artistic choice by the creator to add more horror atmosphere, so I've closed the tab. Music, however, did not stop, and continued to play. I've checked Windows volume mixer, sound was clearly produced by web browser. Of course, it was just a DuPont tab playing without my consent, but for a brief moment I was kind of terrified of thought that something worth of creepypasta happened in real life.

Vita Carnis is my favorite analog horror series by far. The in depth world building was captivating, the creatures and their functionality is mesmerizing, and I'm in love with the use of practical affects. The story is interesting as well

Trully a remarkable video, analog horror was for the first time in a very long time, something that trully made me feel unconfortable. Horror Movies and Series nowadays just aren't good. It's a shame that it's losing the flair it once had but with anything horror, you get conditioned to it so all of these things unfortunately have a short shelflife.

As a big fan of analog horror I can't recommend Vintage 8 channel enough, the take he has on the analog horror is refreshing, his series are quite well written and the man is not scared of experimenting with new things, not all of them are perfect ofc nothing in this world is, but I always recommend ppl to give it a try. My personal favorites are The tangi virus, The Oracle Project, sinkhole and the children under the house. Anyway, great video dude, it's a good analysis on the genre and I completely agree with what you said at the end, I hope you get the recognition you deserve

I'm really glad this video put to words my initial impressions of the genre, I've been trying to get into it because in general I've always had this weird fear of stuff like weather reports, old VHS tapes, etc. But stuff I found was basically "lets find excuses to show creepy distorted faces" which is such a modern thing lol. Now my recommendations are filled with a bunch of pale eyeless faces doing the jerma smile at me and I'm sick of it! I want to check out stuff like the Monument one or Greylock because they sound neat from what I've heard but I've only just gotten here yesterday and I'm kind of overwhelmed by the sheer volume of STUFF in this medium I've just discovered. Always up for recommendations if any analog fans read this!

I've commented this on other videos looking at the state of analog horror and I'll say one that blew me away recently because of how well written and different it is was "the children under the house". It's super underrated and most of it is a child therapist speaking over the top of pictures a little girl drew. that's all i'll say to not spoil anything but defs check it out

Analog horror was perfected (in my opinion) with Gemini. I love how immersive it was with different mediums. BB was too distracting for me to ever take seriously for two reasons: 1. I think of Bob's Burgers every time I see the title, and 2. It's purely a FNAF ripoff. Mandela Catalog did so much right, while also patting the final patch of dirt over the grave that is modern analog horror. I'm still low-key mad at Pixels for getting the Backrooms too hyped. When I first heard about the Creepypasta back in '18/'19, I was so intrigued by the ambiguity. Especially before the internet started to vomit out liminal space content left, right, and center. And like the video mentioned already, it's cool it got traction, but by God did the fans ruin it. It may be the fastest dying trend I've ever seen with this type of fascinating horror

I think analog horror began to show signs of staleness far before Mandela. When it first came out, I felt that Mandela was a sort of relief from the Local 58 remakes (I really like Aidan Chick’s work but Channel 7 and Analog Archives are very much 58 remakes)

Great video, I learned a lot

Holy heck! Thank you for mentioning The Poughkeepsie Tapes! It’s … I don’t know, it’s not good, per se. But the movie’s subtlety, lack of resolution (in more than one sense lol), and dry realism are all remarkable, and the social media buzz about it definitely place it at the forefront of analog horror, even if it now languishes in relative obscurity 😢 Edit: Also, it took me a couple of watches here to appreciate that you mentioned No Through Road! What an excellent series, one that everyone ought to explore at least once.