You Are Being LIED To! | Vita Carnis (Harvester, Host of Influence and Monolith) 

Matpat trying not to laugh at the “engorged meat snake” broke me😭

good to see that matt still has the humor of a 13 year old boy.

them spilling the water/flavour enhancer was funny, but remember how one of the symptoms for getting infected by the spores is coordination issues? so maybe theyre slowly getting infected (even with the gas mask and stuff) just a thought

Mat having to pause the video after hearing "engorged meat snake", laughing, then realizing that he didn't want to hold the video up too much, only to be immediately hit by "of impeccable size" and losing it again is honestly gold. Gotta love me some impeccably engorged meat snakes.

the subtitle for the singularity was also "Verum Carnis" instead of "Vita Carnis" which translates to "the truth of the flesh" which is Super interesting

Mat dying in the first few seconds? Immediately followed by Ash? Yes please!

In the cooking pasta show, the guy cooking may just be an evolved mimic helping out his host friend, seeing as hes covered every part of him on camera, and the suspicious "flavour enhancer", not too mention the incredible cooking, way too good to be human.

26:00 It made me hurt inside when Matt went searching for a made up island and looked at a map, saw a completely different island that's so far away and went "Oh, that's Baffin island!" Also, the coin showed in the meat snake video is a Canadian penny.

Poor Darian has to live with the fact that he called one of his terrifying creatures “meatsnake”.

I can imagine the channels as people, with Game and Film Theory in an arm wrestling match, with Style Theory watching dressed impeccably, with Food Theory in the corner minding its own business and eating a snack, and GTLive recording the whole thing and laughing about it.

51:50 The water pouring accident and 1:02:24 the seasoning pouring accident. Fantastic stuff here, real high quality shots

-Game theory: the popular football player -Film theory: the ambitious academic that nobody looks at -Food theory: the high one with all the food/fun facts -Style theory: the new girl with amazing style -GTLive: the quiet kid that reads everything and knows how to take everyone down

I’m sad Matt didn’t go over the Latin translations, hopefully he sees this comment and helps identify points he can make a theory out of. The Latin translations seem more important to the lore the more I translate them. Some are obvious, but Singularity and Monoliths may have important meanings to their Latin root names. Edit: The last 3 are the ones I’m curious of what Matt will think about them. All Latin translations to English: Trimmings: Ignavus Carnis: Cowardly Meat Meat Snake: Mutuari Carnis: To Borrow Meat Mimic: Trucidatum Carnis: Butchered Meat Harvester: Congregentur Carnis: Gather the Meat Host: Imperium Carnis: Empire of the Flesh Monoliths: Coelum Carnis: Meat Heaven Singularity: Verum Carnis: True Meat

I absolutely love Matt watching analog horror, especially when Ash is there to make everything even more chaotic

You guys are so mature, honestly. Truly your secrets are beyond me. How you remain so calm while discussing meat snakes always dumbfounds me.

Black orb with a triangle looks similar to the Singularity. Also curious if anyone might've wondered if the missing of the "spice"/spires in a bowl or dish, even the penne being undercooked, was because the people were being controlled? It's an interesting series that hopefully will get more questions than answers in a good way. Do hope they return to finish the Monument Mythos at some point for GTLive to, it does pick up with season two.

I absolutely adore Ash's chaotic energy and how excited she is about everything - the "tree meat?? *TREAT*!" moment had me

this arg really meats my expectations

This made me realise that the meat snake HAD to be intentional. Tunnel, Scrambled Egg, Large, Impeccable size, engorged???!

1:07:31 alright, now I'm convinced that prince is those meat creatures/singularity, that crickets are humans, and that really long long ago they helped prince to leave the island/planet, and that now prince came back.

If you do Meat Week like you teased in the first part, you could do one for every channel! Super Meat Boy(or something) for Game Theory, Vita Carnis for Film Theory, something about real meat for Food Theory, and Lady Gaga's Meat Dress for Style Theory!

Just so you know, there are two secret videos hidden in the viewing order playlist that are essential to the lore.

I think the reason they didn't actually cook the food was because it would make it too hot for the spores. Isn't 100 degrees celsius when water boils? also, people have been mentioning that the reason their pouring skills are so bad is because they're being effected by the spores, which have been said to impair motor skills.

I'm sure someone's already mentioned this and I just haven't scrolled down the comments enough. But I was thinking on what they said about the Flavour Enhancer being spores and watching people just absolutely dousing their food with it. In the episode about the Host, it says that people who are infected become uncoordinated. Thought it was interesting that the guy looked like he wasn't even trying to get it on the food.

Just gotta point out that the Monolith location is actually an island in the Hudson Bay; easier to see when you compare the glitched map that shows the red area to the non-glitched map previous. By my estimate it seems to be a fictional large island off the coast of Churchill, Manitoba - not only that, but the largest landmass in the Bay, considering none of the other smaller islands make the cut for the simplified level of detail used for the map in the video.

Wait until you watch the Mimic defense instructional tape. You get to see more of why they’re so scary and dangerous.

I believe during the flavour commercial, the part with the hands they were saying "consume us" Most likely refering to the host eating those infected with its spores

meat snake:(*exsists*) everyone:t h e f u n n y

There is no way the Vita Carnis creator didn't intend the meat snake to be so hilarious-

The censored soldier has the same black circle with a red triangle in it as the flavor enhancer. Also, it was shown during one of those glitches for the host.

It's interesting that both the Monolith's and the Singularity's locations are censored, maybe the singularity is where the monoliths are, and the monoliths are trying to protect the prince? Perhaps the creatures that come into the prince's cave are manipulated by the healing magic and turned into different creatures? maybe a series of humans found the prince and were turned into the monoliths, or maybe the creatures in the story are the monoliths. Either way, this is super cool and I can't wait to see the theory on it!

That intro made my day. “The imPECCABLE size😌” I cant breathe 😂😭

42:43 - MatPat and me at the exact same moment... "If your engorged Meat Snake persists for more than four hours, seek medical attention." My God I was dying laughing. Thank you MatPat. Great minds DO think alike!

Surely watching analog horror at 11pm won’t mess up my sleep schedule!

Another important note: in the flavour enhancer commercial, after the first high-pitch noise, the narrator’s speech becomes slow and slurred, and in the host episode it is stated that a few hours after infection, a victim’s speech will become slurred and slow, further adding evidence that the flavour enhancer is, in fact, the host’s spores.

58:05 i love it how they say "you may serve and enjoy" yeah serve the host you mean

All of them having 13-year-old boy humor is incredible and wonderful to watch

could the cooking show actor be a mimic? it would explain the gloves and inside out clothing. And the general difficulties they seemed to have preforming tasks.

If anyone hasn’t caught the flag of the final story page, if you saw the symbol of the Prince’s ship flag…. It’s the same red triangle that was used on the Flavor Enhancer….

41:08 how Matt just laughs silently at first kills me everytime

🍖🐍 40:39 "Found completely filling the tunnel was a meaty wall" 41:00 "Closer inspection of the blockage revealed the mass was actually an extremely engorged meat snake" 41:17 "It's impeccable size" 42:10 "First was the coloration, a typical meat snake colour is bright reds and light browns" 42:27 "This particular meat snakes colour was a very deep maroon" 43:36 "The reason the meat snake may act this way may be because it was completely lodge in place" 43:46 "But how would of got this deep into the tunnel in the first place" 43:50 "..And by the looks of withering it had been in there for quite some time.. So how did it get so large" 44:08 "..Along side it was a huge pile of c...."

Mat missing the singularity being part of the triangle and missing ALL of the circle triangle logo in nearly every flashed photo is astonishing.

Okay so here are some theories: 1. The logo for the flavor enhancer seems like an inverted monolith head. Meaning that some how the monoliths are involved. 2. How did the monoliths grow so big? It just may be that the harvesters and the host feed the monoliths. They might just be root nodes for the monoliths. 3.The monoliths are also enhancing the process. As we know, the crawler is rich in nutrients. So when consumed by humans, as we know crawler tastes bad, could it affect the taste of humans too? If that is the case, the flavor enhancers are used, which can help reduce the foul taste and also draw in more nutrient rich food via the hosts. 4. If it was really spores of the host, how did they manage to sell? As we know it can interfere with the signals. We know there are 2 versions of rules given on how to fight with the mimics. What if the monoliths were interfering with the signal and gave us false information, and between 1972-1990 when the monoliths were rendered weaker, was when the real information slipped out, which the monoliths try to prevent seriously. The mimic, who can now blend with the humans, can now help sell it. 5. The monoliths are surrounding the singularity. The triangle in the logo can also show that the singularity is being surrounded by the monoliths. And the singularity is trying to interfere us from reading the story of the prince as it might contain a clue for how to destroy it. Ik this is just a theory but it would be super cool if this was the case.

I think The tunnel "meat snake" is the meat snake that grew to 40m when fed by a cult from ep 1 or 2

At this point I'm at the edge of my seat looking forward to posts of Vita Carnis. I love this series so much. You could say it's really... *fleshed* out.

Something to note, if you look closer at the map for the monoliths, it’s actually located around Ontario and Manitoba. just making sure that part is cleared up more because it’s located right where the U shape of the water is.

so pretty sure the 'cook in the penene crawl video is a mimic, the way it walks back into camera when bringing the pinch of salt is very strange, and in one of the other videos that goes more in depth about mimic's evolutionary line they say if you can't see the hands of a possible mimic (they sometimes wear gloves to hide their hands because all mimics won't have nails on their hangs and their fingers are longer then ours) watch their walk, their legs are built different then ours so they have a much stranger walking pattern then humans.

This episode is 50% immature meat snake jokes, and 50% making fun of the pouring in the ads. I love it

I am amazed that they did not seem to pick up on the the crawl preparation video being intentionally scuffed

“It’s impeccable size-“ Matt keep it together 😭😭😭

Ash’s bursts of laughter is everything

Oh, you know what i just realised? One of the symptoms of the spores disease or whatever it is, is uncoordinated movements, and the theory Matt had about the “flavour enhancer” being spores, could be true…especially with the gasmask being worn in the cooking video….and the uncoordinated movements (spilling the water from the glass in the cooking video, not being able to sprinkle the “flavour enhancer” properly in the advertisement…)

the triangle was mentioned in the description of the monoliths :) "they have a hole in the head in form of a triangle" and if the sun is behind the head you get a black circle with a red triangle in it

It might be a stretch, but there is a chance the triangle in the flavour enhancer commercial might be related to the monoliths since they both had a distinctive triangle, and similar to the princes boat, a harbinger, like a Cthulhu-esc thing.

Basically, the vibes I'm getting are that the Crawl and all of its derivatives exist to both protect "the prince" as well as harvest the resources of Earth to heal it. The robed figures in the window as well as the company having the prince's symbol imply that perhaps there's some sort of cult dedicated to the Singularity and it created this company with the express purpose of getting popular and then rolling out the Delux enhance which is obviously implied to be Host spores. My guess is that as the Theorists said, the Host spores are probably not as short-term as they seem, and that the sluggishness going away just means that they've done their work and taken over people's brains fully.

The circle with a triangle on the flavour enhancer was also seen in the host episode whenever you paused when it was talking about the spores

I was SO angry when Matt didn't notice that, the small island on Canada DOES NOT EXIST. Like they were cross-checking with an actual map, how did they get the islands mixed up? Like bruh I was about to combust

I am loving the rotating co-host. Every single person is so fun I can't even pick a fave. The GT staff is awesome it must be incredible to work there.

The image that looked a lot like static in the Host of Influence's transition looked VERRRY similar to the logo of the flavour enhancer.

I love this episode so much! I went from crying laughing to crying anxiously over the reminder this is “horror” over the last part of the commercial. This series has been so interesting. These analog horror etc series scare me more then any horror movie/show of today

The feeding of the gigantic Meatsnake underground reminds me so much of the fairy-tale story we've been hearing... Perhaps some kind of cult?

i caught that the flavor enhancer's logo (black circle with red triangle), looks to be faintly shown at 14:54. where you guys said it looks like a eye. this is the part talking about the spores so i believe yall got it right.

I hope Lee shows up more on gt live he was fun!

Ash just excitedly reading "Oh, there was also an air disaster" is extremely hilarious to me

Alright last time (this video) that I'm going to share some thoughts: You guys really should have went through the extra videos in chronological order, to keep the storybook pages in order better in your heads and just to experience the series the way it's (as far as I can tell) intended. They follow the series of introduction of each of the Carnis species as well; Crawl, Trimming, Meatsnake, Mimic, Harvester, Host, Monolith, Singularity, giving background exposition to each of the species through the related content. The Crawl one is the Penne pasta episode, the Trimming one is the pet guide, the Meatsnake one is the fabled engorged Meatsnake of impeccable size, the Mimic one is of course the Mimic defense instructional tape, the Harvester one is the Species Anomaly Report, the Host one is the Flavo(u)r Enhancer Commercial, and "Vita Carnis - Message" is the stand-in for the Monolith's exposition, and really focuses on the deeper lore and meaning of the Carnis; I can only assume the next episode (the Singularity "exposition") will be the finale of the series/this season(?) and hopefully provide the last pieces to be able to stitch the collective story together. Also a little bonus because I realize y'all haven't checked this out yet, the Latin translations for all of the species names: Crawl aka Scandere Carnis = Climb the Flesh; Trimmings aka Ignavus Carnis = Cowardly Flesh; Meatsnakes aka Mutuari Carnis = Borrowed Flesh; Mimics aka Trucidatum Carnis = The Slaughter of the Flesh; Harvesters aka Congregentur Carnis = Gather the Flesh; Hosts aka Imperium Carnis = Empire of the Flesh; Monoliths aka Coelum Carnis = Heaven of the Flesh; The Singularity aka Verum Carnis = True Flesh. The translations are rough, meat could probably replace flesh for most of them for example, but with my extremely limited knowledge of Latin and a little help from Google Translate to see if I'm on the right path, I'm personally pretty confident in these translations. PS: I left a theory of my own in the comments of "Vita Carnis - Message" that apparently a lot of people found plausible enough with what we know so far, so if y'all are interested I suggest giving it a read and seeing what you think or how it compares to your own current theories ;) I even gave MatPat and a couple of other content creators credit for getting me into theorycrafting for myself, so it'd be super cool to see what everyone at GTLive thinks about my first independent theory.

14:22 If Noone had noticed, the triangle within the circle symbol is the same symbol when showing the host of influence, which could support the evidence that the flavour enhancer are the spores.

On the bottle of flavour enhancer, it has the same red triangle as one if the freeze frames in earlier episodes

Massive theory: The flavor enhancers success and showing orange/yellow dust (aka the possibility of host spores) shows that there is something in the flavor enhancer that makes it insanely addictive and somewhat controlling (again a coincidence with the host spores) another piece of info I gathered was the focus on the cordyceps fungi in ants, a fungi that launches spores into the air that enter insects bodies and technically seize control of the neural network of the body, this infected ant will climb to a high place before a spore ruptures and continues the cycle, (surprise surprise the host “spores” aka fungi, spread to humans and basically do the same stuff cordycepys). One thing that peaked my interest was the cordcepys being shown in between the images of flavor enhancer corporates, this flavor enhancer isn’t so innocent after all. Maybe they used the neural parasite spores of the host to create an addictive substance that is made to profit on this apocalyptic situation or maybe something worse such as the aforementioned mimics becoming more human, maybe even pretending to be workers for the company and adding their addictive ingredient (host spores) to control whoever uses this and MAYBE they are using it to find more prey or even “soldiers” for the singularity

Between this and Monument Mythos, I've gotten sucked into the analog horror again. These people are getting really creative with these. Although whoever chose the name "Meat Snake" probably should rethink that. 🤣

Can I just say I love having Lee in these :’) pls have him around more it’s so fun

Lee was absolute comedy gold this entire series. Would love to see Lee on the couch again! 😂💯

The guy preparing the crawl-penne is a mimic or elder-mimic. The gloves and mask hide its inhuman features, thus the spilling and bad cutting. It also said (in the mimic episode) they imitate human sounds. So all the miss-spellings could be phonetic spelling created by mimicry. Does the flavor enhancer improve the flavor of crawl or human?

27:21 Important note: The island that the Monoliths are found on is actually one that flat-out doesn't exist. It's located in the Hudson Bay area, and, obviously, there aren't really any islands there.

My theory behind the singularity right now is that, as it was stated in the first few videos in small details certain vita carnis went for electronic things (ex. The crawl with the radio tower) and the singularity as stated used almost like electronic/magnetic waves. What if that’s why the vita carnis target electronic signals because that’s how the singularity communicates with them.

I love how Matt was like wooooow 60°C is so hot, while i sit here baking my frozen Pizza in the Oven preheated to a low 190°C. Like no wonder the crawl dish looked cold, can't have the spores go bad while cooking

The spore thing reminds me a bit of a real life fungal infection. It's called mucormycosis. It's a fungus that when inhaled grows in your nose, through the cribiform plate and into your brain. It causes black colored nasal discharge, confusion and visual changes. It doesn't alter a person's behavior, but does make them incredibly ill

“Closer inspection of the blockage revealed that mass was actually was an extremely gorged meat snake the impeccable size”💀

Since they didn't seem to notice it, I'll point it out in case this gets seen. The Nutrire Co. logo of the black circle with a red triangle is the same image that could barely be seen glitching in the video about the Host, when they pointed out the hole with the red artifacting inside of it. So the flavor enhancer is 100% a powdered form of the Host's spores

I love that the Monoliths seem to only show up in the north-east tip of Manitoba, bordering the Hudson's Bay. That area is known throughout the province as a place where Bigfoot and UFOs have been spotted so it's really interesting that they've only been spotted there. It does get extremely cold in the north of the province though but I guess the Monoliths don't mind😂

That high pitched ringing in the flavour enhancer commercial sounded like an airplane to me. In the video it pointed out the date of July of 1972 and when Ash researched it she said there was an airplane incident. I think the ringing could be the ascension of the plane.

man its a good thing they didnt watch the harvester episode in this one that would have changed the mood real quick.

I was absolutely terrified when I first watched this series, glad to have MatPat watching it and making funny jokes so I won't be scared of it anymore. Now all I want is LOOOOOORE

I just got into this series and props to the creator for making this intriguing world-building flesh story. And I realized something about that triangle and the prince. We had the earlier videos mentioned something about 'cult activity' and with the enhancer being you know subliminal, it makes ya wonder if the triangle's tied to the cult and the enhancer product. That it's some kind of company made by the prince (a rich boy probably disappeared and returned back to civiliasation, especially with the one page saying he fell of a boat and it looks like a specific large boat in design) and that he did return to the location for those critters and those red berries, eventually integrating it into consumable products or something. Now...I have absolutely no idea that connects to the whole ecosystem of these carnis from that so what I thought off might just be a left field. Its a thought since the kid didn't end up being the meat thing in the first place like theorized. Maybe that these red berries have been so integrated into human consumption without anyone's knowledge (considering it's been decades when the carnis appeared) and because Im getting a vibe that past incidents that resulted in human catastrophe and death, these things came into being; a large amount of people who have consumed the berries in their lifetimes and then died, become the crawl as a starting point and thus brought upon these carnis. ...Or Im getting ahead of myself. o_o

poor harvester they forgot to include his survival video

I was watching while my Fiancé was getting ready for work and he has no idea what any of this is about but when Lee brought up the tree meat debate he yelled "BUT IS HE WRONG?!?!" As a man who loves to argue about the silliest things like this, I'm absolutely going to hear this for the rest of our lives now lmao

im absolutely so hype for vita carnis i havent even watched the actual series i just wait for u guys to react to it (edit: before u guys saying anything else that im not supporting the original content i would like to in the future when i have my free time i just like watching game theory do it because they catch better things than i do when they watch through these videos that i know i wouldnt be able to catch although i do understand that you guys want me to support the original content (which i will) you also have to understand my point of view on how i want to watch my favorite youtube channel cover one of my new favorite args and talk about funny things overall, like a comment said below i wouldnt have found the term “meatsnakes” as funny as i did when i watched the video) that’s all, thanks

I hope we’ll get more Lee content, I’ve loved this!!

I completely got caught off guard, through all of this chaos, I didn't expect to hear "A very bad acne problem." in such a formal and calm way-

I do have to laugh that they didn't notice the island the monoliths were on is a non-existent island in the Hudson bay. They were looking way too north 😂

- The meat names/jokes - The crude (and great) drawings of the creatures on a notebook - The biological references to ecosystems, creatures, plants and etc... All of this leads me to believe that Vita Carnis is the creation of a very creative high-school student that daydreams while studying Biology and I love it!

Aww they skipped over reacting to the Mimic Self Defense Video and the Species Anomaly Report, both of which I was really looking forward to their reactions, especially the Species Anomaly Report. The meat snake part and the way the TV guys pour the water and the flavor enhancer all whack still gets me everytime. 😂

I have a theory about the powder I think it's the spores from the host because at the end of the video he keeps on putting the powder on the bread and like it says the spoilers make you become more sluggish.

The image in the Host video that Lee thought looked like an eye (viewed at 14:52) looks like the Nutrire Co. logo, further proving your theory that the flavor enhancer is the host’s spores!

Ah yes. Meat snakes. Now I know I’m in the right part of the internet

43:46 I love how they just kept going as it says "but just how did the meatsnake get this deep into the tunnel"

The host can only live in moderate temperature, so that’s why the spore flavor has the warning

Just wanna say as a guy going through the roughest time that watching the first 5 seconds of this put a smile on my face for the first time today, thank you guys

one of my nicknames is 'mitri (short for dmitri) and i have learned today very thoroughly how that name sounds exactly like 'Meat Tree'

I’m not sure if it was mentioned in the film theory episode but the soldier pictured had a medal with the same symbol as the powder brand…

It's interesting how the Harvester was so terrifying that they cut it out of the video.