I love these types of "are they true or not" videos; they serve as an excellent reminder that the line between reality and falsehood is easily blurred and how important it is to always remain sceptical. I feel that with media saturation today this has never been more important.
@@billblaski9523 Because I'm ideally picking things that you wouldn't necessarily have heard of. I've done this six times, so 30 stories, and only 2 Simon had heard of
Great stories! Masterful writing getting Perfect Blue into one of the challenges! I still watch that CHAM music video (at the beginning of the film) every once in a while. That DIY Bonanza is an insane story, very memorable!
Yeah about half way through I was thinking isn’t this the plot to Perfect Blue? I haven’t seen it in years so it’s a little fuzzy but I’m pretty sure I know this one.
I haven't seen perfect blue but I know from the jump this was written like an anime and that Kevin has done this in each video so I knew right away this was the anime one. It's almost telling I could tell from the writing style and story progression that it was an anime but also it just means I'm an idiot for falling from the last one like simon did.
I was literally having a conversation about Satoshi Kon with my daughter a couple hours ago and then Kevin pulls this one on Whistleboy.. Cracked me up.
I remember seeing the video of the Russian being killed. My brother showed me, but didn't tell me what it was about before watching it. It was a short video, few minutes long showing the killing. It was very real and horrific. I saw the knife plunge into his throat and heard his screams and gurgling while the killers were laughing and I just walked out of the room. Way too much to handle. I don't understand how anyone could do that to someone. I felt terrible for the man.
The only ones I've seen that were worse than that are the cartel flaying/torture video with Electric Avenue playing in the background, and the windshield brick video. The latter actually being the worst of the bunch even though you don't really see anything. It's the sound, and it's so heart wrenching and horrifying it'll live with me for the rest of my life and i truly regret having watched it.
I think I accidentally downloaded this back in the day but it was called "Jenna Jameson Big tits ACDC v LedZeppelin v DJTiesto v Blink182 Sandstorm megamix XXX Video HOT"
@@TheOneandOnlyD-R-E At this point I'm starting to wonder if Simon is actually trapped in Kevin's basement. Which would, in turn, put Danny and the others in a sub-basement.
Internet knowledge, writing, video, snark... long ago, the four nations of writers lived together (in simons basement) in peace but that all changed when the writers escaped Simon's basement. Only the kevatar, capable of harnessing all four writing powers could be counted on to stump the whistle boy, but when the world needed him most... he returned. Thank you Kevin for keeping this series going its my personal favorite on this channel.
So I'm like 99% sure that the VHS tapes one was a hoax? The writer of it -- "lmbrjack" -- apparently confessed that it was just a student film project on Reddit's r/confession
yeah I just came here to say this. That was my conclusion too, sounds like there was a mixup between the found video tapes story (which never happened) and the found money story (which did happen). Two separate events reported as one. I'm shocked Kevin didn't address that! But Simon said if any part of it is fake he claims a victory, so I'm not sure why Simon later said it was true? How weird
Also came here looking to see if anyone else was going to point this out. I love this "internet hoax" mini series but I was curious as to what sources Kevin used. It was pretty easy to decode this on Reddit.
@Kevin Jennings wait, was Mimi's Room true or not? Simon said it's true, but then he said, "Kevin got me with a bloody anime." Not sure how to score our basement overlord here.
Funnily enough, where I went to university the IP addresses were allocated in such a way that a student wrote a mapping program where you could find a computer by IP address and, since a lot of communication like email would have your IP address on it (this was in the 1990s) you could see where on the campus the person you were communicating with was.
I remember mounting my publicly shared c: drive from my home computer when I was home on Christmas break. Just needed my IP address and the name of the share. No firewalls, no sign in. Nothing. Today that just freaks me out.
at many offices, universities and such static ips are still the norm and things like this are still possible. usually is a list of room number to ip that gets handed out
@@Zackaria_sMax It's not real. He correctly said he got it wrong but misspoke and said it was real, despite saying I got him with anime again. The editor just put real on the screen cause he said it
Really wish that you had included Kevin's reveal video as well since the previous ones also explained what bits of stories were real and what he changed. That being said, I don't think that rehashing the plot of Perfect Blue should count as being real since it's fiction and not actually based on something that really happened.
yeah, i was very confused by that showing TRUE when he said it's an Anime plot. And apparently Simon is a bad loser, because the way he did the reveal was very offhand and dismissive, just rattling it out in 5 seconds.
I love these ones where Simon has to guess! It's like the old "Beyond Belief" show with Jonathan Frakes, except Simon's just as much in the dark as the audience!
Your reaction to the initial story, reminds me of the reaction of the man in the movie Barbarian. He finds a creepy basement and only thinks of the m2.
Always love Kevin's inclusion of an anime plot in there. I'll be listening and go, "wait I know this," and realize it's basically always gonna throw simon off.
I don't understand, is he supposed to be guessing if they actually happened, or if they are just actually stories someone besides Kevin wrote? Cause he said the Nime was real at the end lol
I remember in high school the kid sitting next to me searched ISIS beheading videos. The school's computers don't block the videos and my teacher was just like "Really think about it before you watch it" but didn't stop it. I feel bad for the poor girl sitting behind him.
Didn’t think I’d be reminded of attack attack! On one of simeons videos. Been a decade since I listen to them ! Appreciate the trip back down memory lane. Small crappy , cramped local music venues with good friends and good hardcore music.
The glee of another one of these videos its wild. The intro videos get me everytime, makes me laugh and legit pumps me up to get into the video. You two are an amazing pair
I saw the longer version of the Czech video over the shoulder of one of the sergeants I was stationed with in 2000. The base had good internet. Pretty sure the 'clear' referred to a less-grainy version that was available at one point, as the one he was watching was crisp.
Mima's Room... nice job recounting almost entirely, the anime, Perfect Blue, up until the end. That was really well done. I even double checked and he specifically said it was a 97, and that movie came out 97. Good job Kevin. ❤
I remember those beheading videos. They were all over the place when i was in school in the early 2000's. Those along with the stuff on rotten/meatspin etc etc were constantly being shared about. You literally could not avoid them people would randomly send over MSN Messenger or via email. I remember some mad guy at school even put these videos/pictures on a USB stick (Very expensive to have one of those, allot of us were using CD-R and floppy discs still). The "gore" scene was huge.
Yeah, I remember the exact one being described in the video and just stumbling across is in a parent directory of a random site as you did when meandering randomly around the Internet. I also remember everyone in the room, we just pressed the power button on the computer and all walked outside and did other things for the rest of the day.
@@PierceArner yep I think the internet being smaller than it is today helped there popularity and the chance of bumping into them. Like back in the 2000s everyone was using the same websites. Sometimes the ones with the cool games even advertised random sites that linked to this type of stuff. It was a free for all without the restrictions and regulations we have today.
So “double bind” is a type of abuse I have absolutely experienced (according to my old therapist) and yes, it’s really confusing and disturbing. It’s also more common than you would think.
I bought a 170 year old ex comercial premises and converted into a home, the first three months was just ripping horrible shit out including some awful carpets and lino that sent me into anaphalytic shock. Did the whole ripping stage with my two 80 year old parents, when I finally got builders in we ended up on such good terms they practically living in my house, I gave them keys and just let the come and go as they pleased. I once woke up on a chill saturday morning to find them knocking down a wall in my kitchen, slept right through that, they presumed I was out XD Had to have the whole thing rewired too, finished it mostly this year, started in 2018. I found some crazy things, including patient records (was a doctors office at one point).
@@00jyjsarang yeah part of approving it for a mortgage is to have the current owner check for asbestos. Was all good, didn't spot the mains cabling just casually running under the carpet though. Aaaaaaaah.
@@Zackaria_sMax Indeed, Mima's story is BS... I'm from Brazil, never ever heard about this story!!!!! A quick Google search and not a single line about this.
Wait, so was Mimi's Room true or was it an anime? 🤔 Simon and the video's graphics say true or real respectively, but then Simon goes on to say, "Kevin got me with a bloody anime. Like, 'it's an anime, Simon.'" Gotta keep an accurate count of Fact Boi's points!
It's the plot to an anime called "Perfect Blue", by Satoshi Kon. However, Kevin got one wrong as well - the money story which he presented as real was actually a fake by some guy on reddit. Well, the money finding was real enough and happened in 2006 where a contractor found $182,000 in money from the great depression, but that money got spent in a three-way suit between him, the homeowner and the heirs of the original owner, who in the end got awarded 86% of the money, but, since there were 21 of them, they each got a share of about $7000 of which, after all the lawyers' fees were paid they only got to keep about $1000... Oh and the contractor ended up bankrupt and the homeowner ended up $1.9 million in debt due to legal fees. So yay for the US legal system? /s The rest of it, with the secret rooms, the tapes and the FBI? manufactured out of whole cloth. The guy even confessed at a later date it was all a hoax, but then deleted both the original posting and the confession. His handle is "u/lmbrjack" on reddit.
@@wingblaze0118ahh, that makes sense. some news reports only mention a couple in Cleveland finding 23k in cash, with no mentions of the video tapes. Later reports mention tapes but if they were mistakingly thinking the found money and the fake VHS tapes were the same person that does explain it. The story as told by Kevin seems pretty clearly fake though, so I'm confused Simon declared it True at 35:26
good ones kevin! i remember seeing the chech one on my work computer. my fellow Marines and i remember why we train so hard and we always vowed never to surrender because our enemies would definitely do that to us
I can't believe that they basically included Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue as one of these stories... I did not notice until the part of the website "Mima's room", and then it was omggg anime!
Anybody else really enjoy how defeated Simon is by the end of the video? Great job Kevin. Now keep 'em coming and absolutely dominate Simon with the next string of stories. It's not healthy for Simon to think he's smarter than he actually is.......
