Don't Look Under the Internet
Welcome to the internet! We told you not to look, yet here we are. If you don't know, this is a podcast about strange and mysterious internet oddities. Join Doug, Jason, Matt and Mike as they dredge the deepest, darkest, most deranged depths of the internet so you don't have to. Each episode will attempt to uncover the truth behind some of the weirdest, creepiest, and most complicated mysteries the internet has to offer.
Don't Look Under the Internet
DLUTI 140 - Where is Everybody?
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Speaker 3You sound like Duke Nukem. I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and.
Speaker 1I'm all out of bubblegum.
Speaker 3I'm here to chew ass, I love dick kickum.
Speaker 4I love it because the guy can't even say it with a straight face.
Speaker 3I'm here to chew ass. Hello everyone, welcome to Don't Look Under the Internet. Internet horror podcast featuring Moo I Doug not Jason, because fuck him and also me Fuck Jason. I'm here to chew your ass, Doug. I have something for you.
Speaker 4Oh my lord.
Speaker 3What in the? Would you like a mint? Would you like a mint?
Speaker 4I don't like where this is going Open the mints. You know, I was wondering why they're not mints. I was wondering why the jar was empty on the table, and that makes sense.
Speaker 1Now they're not mints, they're teeth.
Speaker 4You're an idiot. I got you. Look at my gross fucking tooth.
Speaker 3I have Doug's tooth. I don't know if we mentioned that in the last episode. Doug gave me his tooth from his root canal and it still has a bit of dog flesh.
Speaker 4No, it's from a long time ago. It's when I got a wisdom tooth removed.
Speaker 3Well, I have a little bit of dog flesh.
Speaker 2The other tooth, or did it just get disintegrated? The?
Speaker 4root canal? I don't know.
Speaker 2When you get a root canal.
Speaker 4They just take the tooth and they drill it away and then they remove the root from the tooth, so your tooth is still there, and then they make a little like Lego peg for another tooth to sit on top of when they're done.
Speaker 2You're telling me they make a canal in your tooth. You're telling me a tooth.
Speaker 4Swara's canal. Swara's canal, you're telling me a tooth right, this way You're telling me a shrimp root canal'd me Root this canal Can you fit a whole shipping barge in there. Yes, now I can, Thankfully.
Speaker 3On the tip of a hat.
Speaker 4Thankfully the root canal went well. The shipping containers are now moving on time. Okay, great.
Speaker 3So, guys, we have, we're missing Jason and there's not like a huge, huge, huge crowd in the Patreon listening right now, all two of our.
Speaker 1This is bullshit. This is bullshit, no.
Speaker 3So I'm going to go ahead and do a little something, a little something, something. First and foremost, this isn't our Patreon. What the hell.
Speaker 2You can do this. Who the shit Every?
Speaker 3single week. That was weird. Probably no, but maybe Did I already. Did I shout out Mac the Dragon last time?
Speaker 2No Mac, the when we have.
Speaker 4You're running to.
Speaker 3Louis Housekeeping.
Speaker 4Clap above your head. I had to take Jason's thing.
Speaker 3We have a new patron. Their name is Mac the Dragon Mac the Magic Dragon. Hello, mac the Dragon. How are you? I'm doing well. Thank you for asking. You didn't because you're rude. What do you guys think of that name, mac the Dragon? I?
Speaker 4just went to our email and we have a fucking An email from someone and straight up like Swedish or something.
Speaker 2Ergon, awesome, ergon, ergon.
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Speaker 3If you guys want to be like Mac the Dragon, you can go to patreoncom, slash dilutipod or dilutipodcom. Become a member there. Do you guys want something, don't we have?
Speaker 4other ones or something no that's all we got.
Speaker 3That's all we got that sucks, so I would like to end, didn't somebody?
Speaker 2buy something. Somebody bought something on the website. We could read that oh yeah, I gave them the message.
Speaker 3That's right, but I also sent them video.
Speaker 2Oh, sent them a video, but we'll do that.
Speaker 4We'll go for them. Oh wait, no, there's one left.
Speaker 3There's one left. I didn't see it. We have a couple. I'll read out real quick we have. We back to her. Was that? Did you speak? No, that's their name Black tongue of Mordor. What did you just do to me? We back to her, okay.
Speaker 1That's their name.
Speaker 3I'm going to go back a bit January. I already did that one. I already did that one. We have Marissa that says thank you for all you do, we appreciate you. And then we have best friend Raw. Really, really, really, because it's R-L-L-E-Y. Thanks for keeping me emotionally stable at work and emotionally dubious everywhere else. Can't stop listening to this silly little podcast. Oh, this silly little podcast for yourself.
Speaker 4I want to actually shout out a couple people too, so let me know, holy shit, so much is going on Okay.
Speaker 3Best friend Raw. He's also got a podcast that I've been. I've listened to a couple episodes. Really good. So far, so Cool. There you go. Go ahead and say something, then, doug, I'm done, I guess.
Speaker 2No, you didn't read the remaining one. There's one, oh the one that.
Speaker 3I haven't responded to yet I haven't responded to that one, so I didn't know we were doing that. I don't know what else. So we also have from we Back Tool everyone needs to look up. You hit metal 17 times every day on Instagram. Currently over 300,000 people following the Lauren story occurring Also. I work nights. I prefer the much longer. Pods boys Well, we prefer a much longer you.
Speaker 3I'm going to send him that right now. Live on air. You're live on air. See, this is what we do. We record things for people that donate to us and buy things on our Doolycom.
Speaker 2So I'm going to say, hey, we.
Speaker 3Back Tool. I let you be like a longer pod, I like a longer you.
Speaker 1Hey-o Okay.
Speaker 3I'm sure I'm sure they appreciated that. Anyway, doug, go ahead.
Speaker 4So we've been really really bad about checking our email and we get a lot of emails from you guys and we don't really sometimes we don't respond to them, sometimes we don't acknowledge them, and we apologize for that. We're going to try and be better about that this year. However.
Speaker 3You had another resolution that will go on. Yeah, I say we're going to try.
Speaker 4I didn't say we were going to, we're going to try, but we got a couple of kind words from Kelly and Aaron and an Axl that were just kind of saying, hey, like thank you guys for what you do. I just wanted to shout them out. I'm not going to say any last names or anything like that, but just know that we see you guys and that you don't go unnoticed and we appreciate you guys liking our shit.
Speaker 2Thank you, you don't go unnoticed. Forever, yeah, forever. That's all the temporary that we ignore you, it's only when we check our email bi-annually.
Speaker 3We check it quarterly. This is the key one checkup.
Speaker 2Yeah, this is the one for the reports to our shareholders.
Speaker 3Keep on keeping on people on that note, I've noticed something. Boys, what is it again? I said this before, but we're missing a Jason and there's not a huge amount of people in the Patriot, so I got to ask in the discord you mean in the discord. Yes, so I got to ask. Okay, where is everybody?
Speaker 4nailed it.
Speaker 3Nailed it. Where is everybody?
Speaker 2I don't know, mike, maybe they're just acted with something like a social media platform.
Speaker 1Like they're like, was it the?
Speaker 4clock app or something yeah.
Speaker 2It's a tiki-taki ding dong.
Speaker 3The cock talk.
Speaker 2Ding dong.
Speaker 3Ding dong the app. What's up my dongles? What are you doing?
Speaker 4I'm just scrolling through ding dong. I'm dong it hard, dude.
Speaker 3I'm dong it over here, yeah, no, we're covering a little bit of a very, very short and quick Twitter horror story.
Speaker 4You mean tiktok horror story?
Speaker 3Tiktok horror story. I'm so used to Twitter, you know.
Speaker 4It is a new platform for us to cover, yeah, horror on which we don't normally cover.
Speaker 3I'm not even on tiktok, so I especially didn't realize this. It is a tiktok horror called. Where is everybody?
Speaker 4Where underscore is, underscore everybody. I do?
Speaker 3It's where in the world is Carmen Sandiego while we're on top of it, or Waldo, for that matter?
Speaker 4I don't know. I've never seen Waldo in my life, don't even know what he looks like.
Speaker 3But I'm glad we stumbled across this. It's very Just woke up in person. Yeah, it's yeah. I like the concept, a concept I've seen before, but I always enjoy it.
Speaker 2Yeah, I, I have also seen this concept, but this one, I think this one actually predates most of those.
Speaker 3Yeah, this is very reminiscent of like empty world.
Speaker 4Yeah, this, this one's. So when is everybody on tiktok, their first videos in 2019 and about October? I don't know, like I haven't looked into other like stories like this to Predate them with this or not, but I mean, there's definitely this kind of trope. I think we've seen it a handful of times through different platforms, but I think, especially on tiktok, it works pretty well.
Speaker 3I would agree Um honestly, the the story is so quick that it doesn't make sense for us to break down like every single little detail. I think no just talking about this thing's existence is the best bet for an episode like this.
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean, I can kind of summarize the whole thing what you've done, you've done it very well I have. I Does that. Should I just read off this, or do you think we should just talk about it as like we go?
Speaker 3I think you can Talk about it a little bit here and then we can dive into a little bit more stuff as you talk about it, like go into parts that we enjoyed, okay, things like that.
Speaker 2All right, so I guess the best way because it's gonna take like 10 minutes at that, not even yeah.
Mysterious Abandoned Places and Strange Events
Speaker 4Yeah, and I'll just. I'll just kind of start going through these videos and, as we see, something of worse. I think we can just kind of discuss on it. Let me actually just pull up his tiktok real quick here. So this, this guy that we see in the tiktok, his name is Alexander Nielsen. He's like a new jersey in yeah, he was a new joys new joys. He definitely doesn't have a new jersey accent, that's for sure he ain't fucking, I'm walking there.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's more of a New York, but hey, I'm walking. Hey, you ever take the turnpike.
Speaker 4I Drive down that turnpike.
Speaker 2Yeah, you like these 2010 references to Jersey shore and I can't turn left legally Jim tan laundry is that is that thing that they're still doing? Tim tan laundry gtl I.
Speaker 3Can't turn. I can't turn left. Is it that a thing like there there's no Like.
Speaker 2Okay, so they can't there's like certain intersections in Jersey where you're not allowed to like stop and turn left and they have like these Right-hand lanes you have to like dive off on to and then make like a big fucking loop and come back around.
Speaker 3That's really seems really. Hey.
Speaker 2I'm not much hey, they're not turning left, yeah, I made that up and like a bunch of East Coasters, Let us know in the comments.
Speaker 1Fuck you.
Speaker 4If you're from New Jersey, let us know how long. Yeah if you can stop tanning long enough, all right, anyway. So yeah, I'm just gonna jump right into it. So first video guy wakes up no family, no, nothing, not, not a little concerning. He decides that he's gonna.
Speaker 1I'm gonna say next video.
Speaker 4Next video. Yeah, the Sun vanished all of a sudden. All right. So he, yeah, wakes up with no family. He decides that he's gonna travel downtown and check it out. So he makes it to a restaurant and he notices that there's nobody there either. So goes back home and now he realizes his power isn't working.
Speaker 2Yeah, and these are all filmed in like a first person perspective, so it's just like a kid. There's like holding a cell phone and fucking like portrait mode and just Mostly filming his feet, yeah mostly looking at the ground.
Speaker 3Yeah, very Blair, which of them?
Speaker 4Yeah, he, he's mentioned that something breaks his generator and he says this very cryptically like something or someone broke my generator.
Speaker 3So this is like a 16 year old kid sounds nothing like this, but yeah, he's like it's better than it's going, my generator it's.
Speaker 4Where do the people go? So, yeah, he, he, he. Something breaks his generator that he's been using to power his house and he's all. He's not very concerned about it, to be fair.
Speaker 1But the way he talks there's no inflection.
Speaker 4Yeah, very remarkable.
Speaker 2Narrating these. Mostly it's told. The story is told in like the text that you can put over videos and take that.
Speaker 4Yeah, exactly. So then the next like this video is kind of where things like you, you start to be like alright, what's going on? He says he sees something in his house and he just like fucking dips. But to be fair, whatever he saw I could not see, you can see it.
Speaker 2So I had difficulty with it at first too, but you can see it if you have, like, your brightness turned way up, or like on the right monitor or something. It's a very faint outline of a like human shaped Shape, like on a black background. It's like a black shape on a black background and it's very difficult to see, but it is a human shaped thing and you can kind of see it.
Speaker 4That's crazy. So I will say some of these videos are a little like all over the place like well, we'll be seeing something like.
Speaker 3That seems kind of like I don't know like detrimental or scary oh shit, there's something in my house, and the next time he's like, well, I'm here, which is the biggest thing to me the whole.
Speaker 2okay, I'm sorry, I'm already like doing this, but Not good.
Speaker 3It's just now.
Speaker 2I look up nobody was around and something was like in my house and I could literally do whatever the fuck I want. I wouldn't stay in my house, but I should mention.
Speaker 4We do know this kid has a gun.
Speaker 2Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4But I'm pretty sure every video that has a gun and it gets taken, taken down from tic-tac.
Speaker 4Yeah, he senses it Okay. So he sees something in his house and then he dips and he's back in like his downtown area and for some reason his downtown area has power on, but not where he is. And then he starts filming in the day because a bunch of people are commenting like filming the day, you did sure. And then so he starts like knocking on people's doors in this neighborhood. Nobody's answering the doors, but he does find a dog in one of the houses and he just like lets the dog out. He's like you're my friend now and that's never and then the dog never comes back.
Speaker 4The dog never gets brought up. And then so he starts confirming that he's seeing these like humanoid creatures.
Speaker 2But uh, he almost hits one on the road and then he gets out of there, I didn't see that.
Speaker 3Yeah, I did see that one.
Speaker 4It's like standing right in the middle of the road and then he like gets out of the car and then it's not there anymore.
Speaker 3Well, yeah, and the weird thing is like He'll again, he'll do this where he's driving and then he like gets out of the car because he sees this humanoid creature and he's like hello, who? Hello, who are you? And the next video is just him, just like tra la la la I'm going through the forest Like no, get back to that homie.
Speaker 4There's a figure there. Well, that's literally what happened. So in this video where he confirms seeing humanoid creatures on the road, the next video is just he's like oh, I found a deer. Yeah, there's a deer still here.
Speaker 3I don't care about the wildlife, I'm more interested in this figure.
Speaker 2I try to figure this thing out, yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, there's a bigger mystery than what this deer is gonna eat, right? Oh, I'll feed him an apple backtrack come back, dear.
Speaker 4I don't think it speaks English, so One of them get fucked. One of them English speaking dears, we can do okay.
Speaker 3I didn't really have a joke for that.
Speaker 4We got it there, though. So yeah, so he sees a deer, and then he drives an hour away to a different town, which is also abandoned, and then he goes to an airport, because people are like go to an airport, there's always planes happening, yeah and he's like alright, so he's in like the tiniest little like.
Speaker 3He's in like a private airport, a full, like fucking propeller.
Speaker 2Like a tiny like the comments and these pretty quickly devolve into like people being like prove it, bitch cuz like.
Speaker 1Like the go to New York City.
Speaker 2Basically the entire tech talk is like him filming these semi public locations and like there is no, there's nobody around, there's no cars driving on the road or anything. So like it's people being like yeah, well, film. Like, go somewhere where there should be people and prove to us that like shits abandoned.
Speaker 4Literally the whole time, like literally every comment on every video is just like good, like half of these is just him.
Speaker 3like see, I'm here, look at this, I made it. There's nobody here.
Speaker 4The. The best thing about tick tock, though, is that you can film for all of one to two seconds and be like see, no one's there by.
Speaker 3Yeah, and it's like oh, that's a tick, tock. It's funny because there's one of them. I forget where he goes to.
Speaker 2That's for the analysis section.
Speaker 4So I'm the same kind of path that we're talking about now. He goes to the airport, but then he goes to a school, allegedly on a weekday during class and there's lights on and the doors are locked to the rooms.
Speaker 3So there's that they thought they thought he was an active.
Speaker 2In some of the clips you could just see kids like huddled in a corner.
Speaker 4In this economy?
Speaker 3yeah, probably camera around there, like he's got a gun.
Speaker 4Oh shit lock it down. Oh yeah, all right. So he goes to the school and then he ends up driving to Rhode Island and I guess we have to take his word because he's on a road. I don't know how else to prove that he went to the densely.
Speaker 3I went to the densely populated state of Rhode.
Speaker 4Island and then after Rhode Island, he drives down to Cape Cod, and basically each video it's just there's no one there, and so then he goes to a mall. This is this is one of the videos that actually I was like a little intrigued about cool. He goes to the mall and all of the shops are open, like the gates aren't down and the lights are on, but there's, like legit, no one in the mall and that and that.
Speaker 2That one seems like a little Hard to do. There are these that are a little impressive. There's one where he drives down a road that looks like it should be fairly busy for quite a while.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah and there's nobody he drives down a, he drives down a highway and you're like eventually a car has to come. But it's like a good, like yeah, I don't know like 10, 15 second Yep, no video of just nothing and it's like okay for a highway, that's actually kind of impressive.
Speaker 2There's a little drive across the bridge from New Jersey to Denmark or Delaware and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah when it has the shot of like yeah, yeah, okay, I know what you're talking about.
Creepy Encounters and Mysterious Powder
Speaker 4Yeah, they, yeah it's. It's kind of like some of these are actually really good. You're like, yeah, right, but again here, with all of this happening, we jump to like a really random, like he's just at home now and he's hearing his mom's voice banging on a window.
Speaker 3It was creepy to me. That is creepy. I like that, alexander, and it's just like Alexander, let me in. Alexander, I know you're here and he's just like you're not real. Yeah, he's like this motherfucker Is not, but it I. I enjoy that creepy Good like. The scariest thing to me is like you're alone. You've been alone for weeks. All of a sudden you start here and someone at your door. That's terrifying to me.
Speaker 4Yeah, especially your mom's voice when you like, no, like, it's not your mom, yeah it's, it's very creepy. And again jumping around. After that he ends up leaving and going to Long Island.
Speaker 3I think they call it the Long Island. Was it the Coney Island?
Speaker 4I don't know it's the island. If he went to Coney Island He'd be in New York, but uh, there was nothing.
Speaker 2Yeah, so he goes. We had to find a longer one.
Speaker 4He needed a longer one. Yeah, so we finally get an update. That's the food that he's like. So he's been going in this like rest or like a.
Speaker 1Kitchen, kitchen somewhere.
Speaker 4Yeah, grocery store. Thank you, that was the word I was looking for food place but the food is starting to rot at this restaurant or Grocery store. We really just see the kitchen in the back, we don't really know, but the food starting to rot and he's like the potato smell funny.
Speaker 3And then he goes for the six pack of Pepsi Cola, whatever soda poppy grabs.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's like scooping shit off the shelves in this supermarket too. Yeah, like, yeah, just like straight up.
Speaker 4Like you know what's that fucking show called the supermarket? Sweepstakes Bees video going like you can take all of this food home. If you can fit it in your cart in this, all right. So yeah, after that we see him go outside. There's this powder covering the ground. He says it's not frost.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's kind of like a like. It looked like a white ash.
Speaker 4Yeah, a little bit but then the next immediate video. He'd they get hit with a snowstorm.
Speaker 3Yeah, so do with with that what you will yeah, again it's like go that, go to the that some more in the snow. The powder thing is more interesting than the snow. I don't care about snow, go to the powder. What's this powder? I need to know. Sniff it.
Speaker 2Yeah, there's. It. Literally, this powder really bad.
Speaker 3Well, I mean sniff, sniff. See what happens in like snort, like snort. Yeah, give me the old, do the old scarface, make it a pile of it and just do a little bump.
Speaker 4I will say I, if he's trying things for the first time, it's not gonna go well because he's the only person.
Speaker 2So as soon, as he finds that bad thing over, start grabbing.
Speaker 3Yeah, fuck it right was his hatchet, anyway. So the snowstorm hits and it shows that he's got no heat or power. He's like making a fire in his house because that's all he can do, yeah, so it shows him. Then he goes like go walks around to get food and he ducks beyond a tree because he's like I saw a person, I saw some, and he notices that this person Like walks by and they're making this weird like dripping noise, yeah.
Speaker 4I don't know, I don't know what that is now, this wasn't.
Speaker 3I only watched it a couple times, but the shot was kind of interesting because it does it literally just looks like a person casually walking on the street, but like they're like pitch black. Yeah, it is a little dark, but, like you, there's no color to them even once like dark out. At least if you're wearing like a white shirt or something, you get to pick up a little bit of the white from that shirt.
Speaker 4It's kind of how Maddox like black on black.
Speaker 3Yeah like where you can kind of make an outline of something, even like so, like two different blacks yeah but this is like the first, like clear shot of whatever these, these things are, or this, these people, who knows?
Speaker 2My question is how does he know? It's the same thing. Yeah, I don't know you should have followed it.
Speaker 3You should have followed it. See what happened Well.
Speaker 4I guess if you're the only person, wouldn't you want to make some sort of contact? That was my question.
Speaker 2I actually put that in my notes. I was like if you were the only person in this, whatever situation that you woke up in and you saw a person walking through the woods, would you take your chances and be like, hey, what's going on? Honestly, I wouldn't. Bro has a gun.
Speaker 3Life can't get much worse than just being alone forever. So, fuck it, cause some trouble.
Speaker 4You know, yeah, I mean, if you have, especially if you have a gun, you can like be like hey you cool or not?
Speaker 3Hey, buddy, I got this fucking Glock.
Speaker 4Well, like, what do you want to do?
Speaker 1Hey, I don't know so.
Speaker 3I'm shooting here, he starts talking in the next video. He starts talking to his listeners and he asks them for help with this, like satellite dish tower, cell phone tower that he finds and he's like, oh, I might be able to use this to contact people, but I don't know how to use it.
Speaker 4Is anybody like DM?
Speaker 3me, yeah, and then some again completely random. He's back at his house in the next one and he's like. Someone said I should try Like like he's being haunted by demons easily. Someone said I should try sprinkling salt all around my house to keep the things away. This upset me so bad. I went nowhere again.
Speaker 4How does this man not know how to use salt lines? Like he just like he puts like a small line down in front of the door, doesn't even encircle it or anything. He's just like here's some salt. They can't cross that, bro. There's two huge open areas on the side of it Like they're not, it's fine. You're still fucked, it's fine.
Speaker 3You're our resident demonologist, Doug DeVos, here. I'm just saying Doug deMinn here hey hey, hey, hey, hey but he yeah, and it goes nowhere, unfortunately, like we don't really get a resolution if the salt thing worked or not.
Speaker 2And I mean I think we kind of do them towards the end.
Speaker 1We know that, we know, they know it.
Speaker 2Well, you got me there.
Speaker 4Yeah just keep going.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3The next one. He's like. You know what I'm going to do after I salted, I'm going to go to Newark because, Newark. Newark, it's a hell of a town, and he gets pretty close to New York City and he still hasn't found anyone around anywhere. So he ends up making two more updates, one of him running from some creature or something. We don't really know, because you've never seen anything. It's just him running going, oh fuck.
Speaker 1Oh shit.
Speaker 3And he trips over and he's like, oh geez, and he falls over. And then we get another update of him driving down the highway looking for adventure and this is the original road we were talking about.
Speaker 3Yeah, and it's during the day when no one is out and this is the one that we were talking about before where it's like all right, yeah, you are kind of on a what should be a populated highway and no one is there. That's kind of interesting. So we're back at his house after all this and it's just pitch black and he just puts up this video and there's the title or whatever that you could type onto the caption.
Speaker 3Yeah, the caption, there's the caption it's just like there's some shit knocking on my door, On my window. I mean I'm a little scared, I'm hot and under my bed for the same to go away, and it's just like this tapping noise against glass and that's all it is. It's a very quick thing. So he then shows us that the house is around his area. It's the next morning.
Strange Events at Home
Speaker 4This is another thing. You get a video like this, where he's like hiding from some shit, like tapping on the window, and then he's like, oh hey, I'm back outside. You're like cool.
Speaker 3Don't worry, but he even, I think he's like I'm alive. He's like I made it through the night. No biggie, I'm from fucking Jersey, we know a whole dollar. Own shit. Here I'm fucking made some desk pops and the guy ran for his fucking life.
Speaker 4The amount of times we hear this guy say I'm still alive is a lot. Maybe.
Speaker 3maybe four times four or five times this dude's gotten this guy is skirted away from dying so many times from mysterious reasons and has not elaborated on any of them.
Speaker 1I would rather go around.
Speaker 3Yeah, I do. There's like been four dudes in his house now and he's still like well, I guess this is a safe place.
Speaker 2I guess I'm going to keep saying in the same house with no power, when I could go down the road and there's one and like post up in the supermarket. Yeah right, there's nobody around to kick you out of any place, just go, fucking stay somewhere else.
Speaker 3There's one. It was one of the earlier videos, I think it was. I think it was one with the mom saying his name or something. He's like oh, I got to protect myself because I got to like, I got to like forticate the walls or whatever, and he just closes the door and uses the little like push lock on the door knob and he's like that'll do it.
Speaker 4He makes a. He makes a reference to him just being in his room setting up camp a couple times. I think that's the one, yeah.
Speaker 3And he just like, just locks the door, knob lock.
Speaker 4He's like I set up camp and you know, I turned the lights out, but they stay. I still hurt him, I still hurt him, but he's.
Speaker 3he makes this next video after the thing.
Speaker 2Go like a fucking gander outdoors or something you got your own arm yeah the best pro shop. Yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, and he's. He's outside during the day and he's like all my neighbors houses are decaying away. I don't understand what's going on with that. I don't know why. I also has made him a Southern guy, but I think it's the vibe that I'm going for here. Yeah, but so he notices that these houses are decaying and he's like an alarmingly rapid rate. Yeah, this is like 30 years of decay in like six months.
Speaker 3Yeah, these houses were fine a couple months ago and now they're like decaying away. And he also makes a note in one of his videos that he doesn't leave the house because the things seem to be multiplying. We don't get any like visual of that, we just kind of have to take his word boy.
Speaker 4I'd stop saying that. One thing that I do want to mention here is that they're breeding.
Speaker 3I guess I'll just hunker down.
Speaker 4So for a while in the like beginning of these videos coming out, he's posting like every day, every other day kind of thing. But as time goes on like we're almost towards the end here the posts are getting a lot more sporadic and like way longer apart months apart.
Speaker 4So when we get some of these videos it makes a little more sense that if he hasn't posted for like three weeks all of a sudden and then post a new video, that like maybe we can assume he wasn't going out, maybe maybe not, I don't really know he does address it at one point, but well, he was really locked down in his house and he's like he's like nothing weird happened, so I didn't post anything.
Speaker 3Yeah. So he ends up again mentioning that he doesn't leave his house because he sings or multiplying like bunnies, and he notices that there is yet another thing in his house Again. Why the fuck are you still there? Not only are they multiplying, but they're still seeping into your house.
Speaker 4This time it's like two like bright, just like two like glowing eyes. That's like all we see.
Speaker 2That's towards. That's like the second to last minute.
Speaker 3That's the end one. Yeah, I think that happened twice. I thought no it only happens the one time. This one is just. He just like mentions it.
Speaker 4Oh, this is the one where he's like it's in my closet.
Speaker 3Yeah, you're just like it's in my closet and he's like it's in my closet. Should I leave and make a break for it? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, what the fuck are you doing? A long time he's like and then he hears it.
Speaker 3He sent like the next day and he's like I survived and he's like my neighbor's car alarms going off. That's weird. It hasn't done that for weeks. Another warning sign that you should get the fuck out of there, dog. We didn't find out it was his birthday. We share a birthday. That's pretty cool. He does mention that he should be getting his driver's license right now, so I would assume he's 18.
Speaker 4Wow 16 to 18. I don't know what would you get your license 16.
Speaker 2Yeah, 16. Okay.
Speaker 4That's okay, that's what I thought.
Speaker 3Was it? I thought that's when you got your permit.
Speaker 4I thought you got your permit at like 15. Okay, get off my lawn.
Speaker 1That's how I feel right now. 16 years, when did we get our?
Speaker 3license. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 4I don't know why I went Canadian with that, me either.
Speaker 3Well. So he's like happy birthday, I'm gonna put a stick of candle in a croissant and that's my cake. And we're like good for you, man, my croissant, so you. Then it goes to another video of these things like hiding in the bushes, and he's like oh shit. He's like I see a bunch of them, they're all out there.
Speaker 2And he's like driving by literally can't see any of them.
Speaker 3There's nothing. We don't see it, but he's like. I see like six of them hiding in them. They're shrubs.
Speaker 2I think this guy's maybe going crazy.
Speaker 3Yeah, maybe, well, the bush thing that's that's what I was talking about.
Speaker 4You can see the eyes in the bushes.
Speaker 3I didn't see no eyes in a bush, yeah.
Speaker 4Well, two in the hand is one in the bush.
Speaker 3Balls Good seller. So after that he's digging around in his basement and he discovers an old walkie talkie and he's like I'm a hit up so many people with this walkie talkie.
Speaker 4I'm gonna talk to you, so fucking good.
Speaker 2This walkie talkie is going to be my out. Who gives a shit?
Speaker 3about the cell phone, which obviously connects the internet and people, because he's asking his viewers for help. That's always in communication with people, but no, he needs a walkie talkie.
Speaker 4Like here's my address.
Speaker 2Please come to me Live in his reality, though, or something yeah it seems like Like why.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2So at any point during this, why, if you can talk to people through your cell phone, what I would have done is be like hey, somebody meet me, like at this exact spot, and like go stand at that exact spot and like at this time. Yeah, and maybe nobody's going to be there, but like maybe it would like cause some sort of like I don't know crossing of like a temporal or something. It'd be worth a shot.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah. We then see that he's tweaking around with the walkie talkie and he gets a response from someone, but they only speak a couple times. It's like a lady. She's he's just like Hello, is anyone there? And then she's like Hello, hello, and he's like I've been alone for months. This whole interaction was goofy Cause, like we just came over the why that he finds, like these fucking like telecommunication towers that are hooked up to satellite. We mentioned them before. Oh, okay, I guess I didn't mention that.
Speaker 2he's like yeah, he's like plugging this walkie talkie into those, though, somehow.
Speaker 4Yeah, and he's using a coat hanger. I don't know when he does it. He's like it's not, it's not doing anything.
Speaker 3Yeah, but still he's just like jabbing a coat hanger in it. Yeah.
Speaker 4He's like why won't it work? I connected the walkie talking to the wall of this thing Like it's happening.
Speaker 2I was like that's metal.
Speaker 3I shoved this fork in a toaster. Why didn't anything happen? And but he's playing with the walkie talking. Eventually he gets a lady talking to him and the way he talks to her is not what you. He should have had a plan, because imagine you're just some lady on a walkie talkie and then you just hear a guy.
Speaker 1I've been alone for months.
Speaker 3She's just like what he's like. I've been alone for months. I don't know where anybody is. Yeah, my family's gone. I've been alone for months, okay.
Speaker 4Stay that way. The girl's like, uh, and then he's just like where are you?
Speaker 3And she's like New Jersey and he's like I've been alone for months. And then she doesn't respond. Because I wouldn't either, this guy, I'm just. I'm just hanging out on my hand radio. I just hear a guy go help me. I've been alone for months, my parents are gone. Okay, it's probably because you scream at people like this during your first introductions to them, maybe cool it down or you tell women you've been alone for months?
Speaker 1and while you're like it's just so goofy.
Speaker 3I didn't. It wasn't supposed to come off as goofy. I'll put up a tender interaction.
Speaker 2Let me know how that goes Like that Hi.
Speaker 1I've been alone for months.
Speaker 3Hey, ready and you have matched. I've been alone for months.
Speaker 4Help me, please swipe on me.
Speaker 3So, anyway, the lights it pans to the next couple of days and the lights in this house now actually work, but everywhere else in town where the lights did work they no longer do. His house is the only one with electricity now and he's like, well, this fuck, it sucks. And then you hear in the distance in another video that there are helicopters flying around. It kind of looks like there's like three of them, while he's like taking a little walkie walkie.
Speaker 2I think this is a fucking helicopter.
Speaker 3Is it? It looks like three of them.
Speaker 4Really.
Speaker 3That that. I don't.
Speaker 2I don't know. I don't know for sure, the fucking shaky cam makes it really easy to tell.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3It, yeah. So it's at this point where he hears more shit in his fucking house and he's just like oh no, what do I do? I guess I'll just live here some more and we pan to a blizzard. Now that is in the town, because it goes from creature in his house and it's like in his fucking house, like he like is hiding behind the sofa, and it's like in his fucking living room. He's like, oh, fuck.
Speaker 3And then he like dips out and the next video. He's just like oh, we got quite a snowstorm, geez, ah, heck. What am I going to do now? It's just like no, go back, I need to know how that night went. I need to see that. And then it goes to the next one, where now he's back in the town, the lights are back on and the supermarket is like restocked and all the food is back, and he's like I better take, I'm just grabbing food and the food he takes is the dumbest food you can take if you're ever like I need to survive. He grabs jello pudding and fucking English muffins and I think he just grabs like some soda cans and it's like no, grab like the protein powder.
Speaker 3Yeah, grab multi vitamins. What the fuck are you doing? You dingus, you got angle Jesus. So the next and the next is another night in his house and, surprise, something crazy happens around his house. It looks like something's trying to tamper with this car.
Speaker 4There's things fucking my car in the tailpipe.
Speaker 3It's having sex with my car, but he's like I don't know why this is happening. It's trying to get with my brown probe.
Speaker 3That's a, that's old car, ford pro yeah my Ford probe and and so he's like it's like. It's like it's like fucking with the lock on my car and it keeps like unlocking and locking. It's like and it's not at all. Him just in the window with the keys, just like. And then the next video we see is A look into his basement and he's like he's like shit, there's something in my basement. It's just two Reflective eyes staring at him from the pitch black and it's terrifying. And he's like I hope that's a raccoon and I'm like Looking at it, get the fuck out of it. Even if it's a raccoon, that's a raccoon in your house. Get out of there. That's not. You don't want raccoons in your house. Because I'll a spoiler alert if you see one set of raccoon eyes, there's 20 more that you just haven't seen.
Speaker 2They're like a roaches. Get the fuck out of there.
Speaker 3Yeah, they will over overcrowd you, they'll take you over and then your house became their house, because squatters rights is legal and certain in raccoon, raccoon city. And then the last episode I say episode video, whatever you won't call it the last talk. The last talk is a video of him standing on a beach and this is the last upload. It was uploaded on August 17th 2021 what does he say?
Speaker 4like walks up to the water and he's just like oh shit, jesus. Yeah, he's like oh shit.
Speaker 3Yeah, and it's nothing really. That's it, that's the last time they upload.
Speaker 2Participating in this activity could result in you or other that's true.
Speaker 4Yeah, what water? Dangerous Water, dang water band so TLDR World's empty.
Speaker 3There's these weird creatures. Man stays in his house. Creatures get in house. Besides, stay in this house anyway. Look, there's food in this supermarket. That's weird, it was never there before. Hey, girl on walkie-talkie, hey a helicopter. Hey, a helicopter, hey more things in my house still no people. I guess I'm on a beach, beach, it's just the beach that turns you.
Speaker 2There's no way a breach can turn you old so Boys boys, boys boy.
Speaker 3What did you guys think about this pause pause.
Speaker 4Pause. I got pay, okay.
Speaker 3Dang it. It's deep within my ass.
Speaker 2So what's in your ass today?
Speaker 3Mike, what's in my ass today? Honestly, not a whole lot. Not a lot in my ass, just a lot vacation coming up.
Speaker 3I do and I'm really happy I got that. I got a couple days when I'm just hanging out. I'm not really doing anything, I am just chilling. Tomorrow Lori's off too, so we just to hang out with the baby and After that, and then Thursday I get to just sleep. The the Lori goes to work, the babies go into the grandparents for them to watch her. Oh yeah, I'm just gonna fucking sleep, man, like I'm talking all day, like I. The other day on, I think Sunday morning, I woke up to take care of the baby, because we switch who wakes up and who sleeps in, and so it was my turn to wake up.
Speaker 3So I woke up with her Huh, what, okay? And so I woke up and it's like six in the morning. I'm playing with her and doing her thing and it's like don't talk about where I like that, you're right, I shouldn't do that. It's like nine o'clock when Lori wakes up. So then we switch, I sleep until 1 30 and I wake up and I'm fucking exhausted and I'm like I could have slept for the rest of the day. And that's exactly what I plan on doing on Thursday. I do not plan on getting out of bed until they are coming home and Lori's coming home from work. That is my goal and I'm gonna be very excited for it.
The Appeal of TikTok Horror Videos
Speaker 3I'm skipping lunch, I'm skipping, I don't even care, just keep snacks on your nightstand and just roll over and just, I'm just, I'm just gonna keep like a, like, a feedback, like I'm a mule, just a patch on my face when I wake up. Yeah, I could just chew my oats. Hey, doug, welcome back oh welcome back. Hey, hey, I saw dude. I saw. Do you want a wowie Zowie?
Speaker 4Wow, I'm sorry Wowie You're Zowie Wowie.
Speaker 3Bob Zauber, you wowie, you're Zowie. Please collect $200. Do not pass go. So what exactly do we think of this? What do we like about this whole thing? So this is and tell me what you liked, because we'll get.
Speaker 1This is a genre we've already covered.
Speaker 2This is a genre of videos on tiktok, so like you can go. Captain disillusion actually did a video on this sort of stuff. A lot of people in the aRG community were not happy with the tone that he took.
Speaker 2Yeah, not happy with the tone that he took in this video but when he covers like this whole thing and he also covers like some a lot of post-processing effects that you can do to achieve this sort of Illusion where, like it's a place where people should be, but it's not basically just like editing cars and people out of stuff. Obviously, that's not what's going on here. What is pretty obviously going on here is this kid is just like being opportunistic About like going to places when there's nobody around and filming at angles where, like he's not getting anybody in the shot and stuff like that.
Speaker 3Hold on trap. Hold on, hold on. It's supposed to be what you like about it.
Speaker 2Not that's. It is what I'm, I'm fucking getting there like. I'm fucking getting there. I'm getting there. That's, and that's not a criticism. That's what I like about this, is that?
Speaker 4say that's good editing.
Speaker 2Yeah, is that like I like this sort of like creative, more like Down to earth, maybe I don't know like it's an amateur way to do this and I like it's grounded, like it's like Like captain disillusion shows how these gigantic tiktok channels that have like millions of followers achieve this with like editing and like post-processing and stuff, and this kid Basically gets the same effect by just like being creative about it and yeah, the most part achieves a convincing you know Effect, and so I do like that.
Speaker 2I like that. Just a kid in a cell phone and he's like creating this whole world and and yeah it right.
Speaker 3It goes to show what you can create by just being creative. Right and you don't need, like you said, a big budget or anything.
Speaker 4Especially if this kid is actually like, let's say, anywhere from 16 to 18 years old.
Speaker 3Yeah right, yeah and and Kind of like you were saying like this is not a this, this kind of topic isn't a mystery to people on tiktok, like there's a lot of again, I'm gonna mention empty world again just cuz that's the biggest one. But there's more than just this one, an empty world. There's a couple different where it's just like where is everybody?
Speaker 3Just cuz it's it that works very well in like short Spurts videos, I mean like that's that's a real good story to have it when you can just upload small little tidbit, kind of like diary. Yeah, yeah, you know, and it works very well for that.
Speaker 4I know you, you man I don't know how often you are, but I know I know you guys probably don't tiktok as much as I do, but there's a. There's another guy I cannot remember his channel name right now but he goes and does like big named places like this, except he's not like acting like, he's Like stuck in this world alone. He's just like look at me, I'm gonna go into the Vatican and like Fuck the pope, basically do all this shit, and like yeah, I'm gonna fuck the pope, but but yeah, no, he just like he goes into like big, well-known areas.
Speaker 2But I'm almost positive. No, what, what? There's a guy that has eight million followers on tiktok and his name is Unicose, so Breve Viente, which I'm sure I'm butchering that super fucking hard, but he like no, your Italian is like on point.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, I'm. I'm not sure what the name is.
Speaker 4I don't think it is that he goes like the Eiffel Tower and shit and yeah, no, the guy I'm talking about does the same thing, so maybe maybe it is the same guy. But yeah, basically, they're like, yeah, this guy just he works on film sets, okay. And they're like, yeah, they just like recreate these like film sets and like it's cool. But that's not what I think is happening here. But yeah, no, I think it's fun.
Speaker 4I Think the idea of like short form horror on tiktok is a great outlet for it. A lot of the things that I like about this are just the unknown. You get a lot of unknown with this. Yeah, like there's some things that we can like nitpick here and there and be like, well, why isn't he doing that or why isn't he doing this? But like, I mean, all in all, I don't know. I think, like, when you, when he, when it comes down to stuff, like why is he staying in his own house? Like you know, I'd probably be most comfortable in my house too. Now, if there's monsters in there, that's a whole fucking different story. But like, realistically, I think the like habitual thing to do would be to like stay at home and like work out of your home. But I also like that they like Possibly started setting up, like oh, maybe he's in a different universe, kind of deal. So there was a lot of things that were working for this, as you know.
Speaker 3As far as it abruptly ending goes, I guess yeah and and, like you said, I like the ideas of the use here another, I think, type of horror idea that I think would work really good on Tiktok would be something similar to like a what's that one about the haunted doll that was on Twitter. Which one was that? Again, you know.
Speaker 4Was it a hundred dollar?
Speaker 3you're talking about dear David. Dear David, yeah, that's the one. Yeah, I think something like dear David would work pretty well on. I think this is better than doing it on Twitter Because yeah, I think Twitter I would work good on it too.
Speaker 2I think Twitter honestly suffers from being able to post too much text With with something like this because, like with tiktok, you're forced to choose to show something. Like with Twitter, you can post a couple of videos, like the Sun Vanish and like set up a World and then just like fill the rest of it in with text posts and then it's just basically a shittier way to read a short story, or like a blog or a short story, and that, with this, every time you have you make a post, you're forced into Showing something or people are gonna stop paying attention to it, and I think it right forces you to be more creative. I.
Speaker 4Think that's why I choose to be on tiktok over Twitter is because, like, twitter is fine and all, but like I'd rather see a bunch of people showing me things than like read a bunch of people Just bitching about things. Where are you gonna get all your political posts? And oh, I don't need more. My mom's no longer with us, so All of her political rants on Facebook I no longer have to see there you go.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't know, I enjoyed it too. Like I Think you guys nailed everything on the head. I'm on what's good? On this one again, I just the idea of everything, everybody disappearing and is just being you, and then you coming across something at your door is very scary to me. That I think that this concept of its own is. I I don't. It makes me very unsettled.
Speaker 2It's also a good. It's an opportunistic use of your situation, because this was a lot of this was posted during the pandemic. And so it did start briefly before that started, which is what a fucking coincidence.
Speaker 3What a break. Yeah, yeah right.
Speaker 1What a happy little accident.
Speaker 2But like a few months into this that happened, and so I'm sure it made it way easier to go into places that should have been busy and just get that moment, oh, 1000%.
Speaker 4I don't know about you guys, but while we were still working at AT&T when the pandemic hit, nobody was there. I would drive, so, if you guys know anything, so I would drive from the suburbs to Orland Park all the time and there would be like I shit you not like two other cars on the road, like during the very early part of the pandemic, because I was still, they were still making me fucking go into work like nobody on the highways, like nobody. It was weird and gas was super fucking cheap and it was awesome, but like I wonder how much of this as well was.
Speaker 3Yeah, run that back. I wonder how much of this was also him just like just being opportunistic or like he may not have had a full plot made out, but what if he was like driving during the pandemic and just was like, oh shit, there's no one out here. Record All right, that's a post. Goes to a gas station to fill up oh shit, no one's here. All right, post, that's a. That's a post right there. Cause, yeah, during COVID, like this, this was the perfect time for him to do all this, and that would explain I think we were talking about it too Like he obviously has access to like a supermarket, like potentially before after hours.
Speaker 2Like a kitchen of sorts.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think he works at like in like the fucking deli or kitchen area of like a supermarket or yeah, cause we were saying maybe he does catering and that's why he was like get some of those venues like with no one there Like the lights.
Speaker 2He was there before or after the event was over, Right.
Speaker 3He might also be like, maybe like a stalker or something, who gets there before doors open up and just stop. I don't fucking know.
Speaker 2Oh, like, okay, Like a shelf, like they bring in this yeah.
Speaker 4Oh stock with a no L.
Speaker 2I thought you were like oh he's stalking people, so he's using these opportunities where nobody's around.
Speaker 3I brought up my Jersey X and he's stalking and not stalk, yeah, okay. So what didn't we like about it? Go ahead, Moot. You've been biting at the cuff here. I really don't have that many Chomping at the bit. I really don't have that many things.
Speaker 2And like it's hard to we I mean, we've been in the same situation several times it's hard to be real critical of it, considering it's probably just some like teenage kid who and so like. For that it's pretty good. A couple of things is like there are aspects of the story that don't make a lot of sense. Like why would you stay in your house if this stuff is happening, when you have the whole world like available to you? Why would you stay in that Like there's even a video where he's like it's very cold, there's no heat, I'm gonna freeze to death, basically in his house. So like why wouldn't you just like go to one of the buildings that does have electricity and just like hang out there and said, like there's some stuff like that where, like, the things that the protagonist does don't make any sense? I personally wouldn't even like this is probably gonna do another discussion, but like if this happened to me, I would be like driving coast to coast, buddy. I'd be like I'd be out there exploring an empty world?
Speaker 2Yeah, 100%, I'd be doing like personal records like fucking what do you call it when you race from one side of the country to the other.
Speaker 4The Gumball rally. Oh yeah, yeah, I'd be doing cannonball runs.
Speaker 2Like I'd be the fucking blast. I would not be doing what this kid's doing.
Speaker 4He's like I stayed home today. But yeah right, I would have gone to the like, closest like luxury dealership and I would have fucking you're going to one of those cars.
Speaker 2You gotta get a sensible Volvo. Consequences to be done.
Speaker 3But Consequences we don't.
Speaker 2Like I think he does a pretty good job of like the attention to detail in making sure nobody creeps into the shots. But there are some things that do become pretty apparent and I think maybe they're not as noticeable when you're on a phone, like if he was just doing this on his phone they probably wouldn't have been noticeable with, like, headphones on. There's certain parts where he's like I'm on an empty road, there's nobody driving around.
Speaker 2And you get very clearly, hear cars in the background Very clearly. There's one where he's like in and there's one where he's like in the kitchen too, and you can hear somebody like open and close a door and say something in the background. Yes, yes, and it cuts away like super quick yeah, Cause he was like I fucking like into the video.
Speaker 3There is a. There's that one where he's like, cause that was one of the ones where he was like. He stopped on like the side of the highway or something he's like. No one's here and you hear the cars just like in the background there's one that's like full on highway noise it's like yeah, he puts he puts in the comments or something he's like. Oh, my phone's making such a strange noise and it's like don't fuck with me.
Speaker 2I think he catches on to this in the mall video, because the audio in the mall video is very clearly overdubbed. Yeah.
Speaker 1Like it does.
Speaker 2I'm sure that mall was loud as fuck and like you could hear people talking and stuff, and so, like, the audio on that video is like real muffled and there's like footsteps that don't match his footsteps. So I think, yeah, I think that's what he was trying to achieve with that one. So, like those, that kind of stuff is my nitpick, I guess.
Speaker 4Yeah, I feel you on that Because, like, my nitpicks are like really few and far between on like as far as like like none of it makes it a bad series by any means. I think the restock of the food in the town is like the only thing that made me feel like, oh, this got a little lazy, like I don't know what that's about.
Speaker 3Personally, I'm okay with that, because I think that just so that goes with mine. So I'll let you finish, but I'm a little lazy?
Speaker 4Yeah, I. Just the only reason I say it feels a little lazy is because, like, all right, like we don't have a clear direction on, like, is it a different universe? Are things just zapping into this universe out of nowhere? So we don't know how this thing, like how these things are happening. But, like to me, when I see that I'm like, all right, like yeah how are you gonna like I don't know, how are you gonna like cover this one yeah?
Speaker 3I was okay with that a little because it reminded me of the SCP, was it 3038? Or whatever, the Ikea where the Swedish meatballs just magically replenished. So I was like, oh, that's kind of that's funny I remind you of that.
Speaker 3I was okay with that. My whole thing I didn't like about it was, I feel like he tried, right in the beginning anyway, tried to bring too many weird things in and didn't go anywhere with him. He was like, oh look, for some reason all the grass is just iced over and look, there's this weird powder here. I don't know what this is. Oh, all the food keeps replenishing. Why is the power on with here but not over there? Why are these buildings decaying and it's like you're?
Speaker 2gathering, all this.
Speaker 3Yeah, you're gathering all these cool ideas, which are very fun, but you're not doing anything with them. They're just one-off videos and you need to explore that a bit more. That is my one takeaway. If you're gonna bring in some weird other world shit, you gotta keep elaborating on it, because, honestly, I don't think anyone else cares about anything else. You kept bringing these creatures back. Why didn't you do that with anything else?
Speaker 3Well hey, whenever these creatures come around, this weird white powder comes on. That's weird. Then you find out that they leave the powder. You can track the powder back to where these creatures are coming from. Surprise, I found a creature den. Whoa, it's also icy. There's ice all over the grass where their den is. So that marks where their dens are.
Speaker 2I just made your fucking story for you. Buddy Powder is ashes because they're taking people's bodies and throwing them in like a giant furnace and burning them. I thought you were gonna say it because of the thinnest snap.
Speaker 3The thinnest snap. The thinnest, yeah, but I don't know. There's plenty of things that you had here to work with and I feel like you could just duck your foot down.
Speaker 2Yeah, there were some opportunities that you weren't taken for sure yeah.
Speaker 4Well, that's a very, very good way to describe. Maybe that's why they just stopped. Yeah, Because they were like, well, I don't know what I'm doing with this anymore Because, yeah, the whole nothing. There's like the first inkling of like what I guess I would call some sort of plot. Progression starts happening and then the series stops.
Speaker 3Is that what's the lucky talkie?
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean, they're like they're introducing this whole element to, like you know, we've been following. We're just like you're kind of watching this channel grow, but you're just kind of waiting for updates, right, and that's what like three fourths of it is, and then finally we get this like walkie talkie situation and then he's like, ah, I'm done.
Speaker 3I've been alone for months.
Speaker 4I've been alone for months.
Speaker 3We're done with this.
Speaker 2I also would have really liked if he had explained why he thought the walkie talkie was his salvation, like he's very clearly got a cell phone, and I think that's not addressed well enough.
Speaker 3I don't think he thought. I don't think he thought about that.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3I think honestly, I think he completely forgot the fact that his character is talking to the listeners and the viewers of his content. I think that just went right over their head.
Speaker 4Well, I mean how exactly did like a TSV address that whole situation?
Speaker 3TSV. Well, there are other people in that world that they didn't disappear me by themselves. Well, no, I know, but like there's sort of people in this world, so they explained it where, like he's like, able to communicate with these people in this other dimension which is our dimension, I believe but like they got sucked into like a different dimension, Cause there's a video in TSV where it shows the main character like running from these creatures and they fall and they go tumbling around. Then all of a sudden it's like daytime again the sun meaning that they hopped into a different dimension again.
Speaker 4The sun didn't vanish.
Speaker 3Yeah, so they. I believe they kind of describe it away as like oh, I can communicate with this other dimension, but I can't like physically touch them or anything, Only the other people that are here stuck with me.
Speaker 2Even that would be like a plot point to explore too. Like I said, like find somebody to like meet up with you, like make up another person and be like try to see if you can. Like like go find a pole and stand by it, like a light pole, and stand by the same pole, and a cool video would be like you know that you're both standing at this pole at the same time, but you can't see each other but if one of you knocks on the pole, the other one can hear it, but you can't interact with each other Like something like that would be really cool.
Speaker 3They're on the walkie talk. He's like give me a sign that you're here, Knock on the pole and you just hear okay, knock down, Ding, ding. That'd be cool. That'd be really interesting and they got to figure out how to get to the how to dimension hop or something.
Speaker 4I guess we gotta start a TikTok horror.
Speaker 3Yeah, right, that's really. That'd be really cool and interesting. Yeah, what do you guys think is happening here? What do you think is the, I guess, the plot point, like what do you think these creature things are for one?
Speaker 4There's a lot happening here, but I don't know what really is happening here.
Speaker 3I don't think we get enough information to say if these creatures are like aliens, if they're in a different dimension, if they're like supernatural beings.
Speaker 2I think it's the thing that would make the most sense to me would be like, if they're in, like he's in some sort of purgatory, and these things are things that were humans at one point and they've been in purgatory for so long that they've just like completely lost their identities and they've just like become these, like roaming spirits that have no humanity left.
Speaker 3Something like that would make the most sense. That's a cool idea.
Speaker 4Ooh, what if he's dead? Like do you think he's dead? And like he's in the process of turning into one of these like purgatory beasts.
Speaker 3Isn't that a fucking Silent Hill plot? Where he's communicating with someone outside of like purgatory, but it turns out it's they're also in purgatory or something, but they're all calling kind of crazy, isn't that like shattered, shattered. Oh, I haven't played Shattered Memories. Shattered Memories.
Effectiveness and Limitations of TikTok Horror
Speaker 4I think that's like the plot to that one. I'm not actually sure, to be honest with you, I don't know. So when I first started going through it, I was getting skinwalker vibes like straight up.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, especially with the mom.
Speaker 4Yeah, but they very quickly made me not be sure, like if that's what's going on, because then they were like oh yeah, like there's a beast, it's got glowy eyes and it's in my basement and it's in the bushes. No, it's snow and it's like all right.
Speaker 4So I don't know, there's like I think there's definitely definitely like a different dimension vibe to it and there's definitely some sort of like supernatural creature vibe to it, but like there's no, there's no, nothing in this tells us what's happening, like there's no concrete way to know what's going on here.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think it was just a series of disjoint ideas glued together by this concept.
Speaker 1And that's fine I agree, I mean yeah it entertained like 500, like half a million people.
Speaker 2So yeah, I mean I enjoyed it.
Speaker 3I didn't. I thought it was fun. It was a quick. It took me all of like 15 minutes to get through everything.
Speaker 2That's what's great. You don't have to explore a lot of lore or plot here. I don't have to look at the hexadex mole.
Speaker 3Who's a? What's it formulas? It's just. Here's a seven second video, like it's a vine.
Speaker 4Well, yeah, that's how you know it's. You know that's how you know you're working with something good. It may not be like you know, fucking Emmy award winning cinematography by any means, but you've got an easy 10 to 30 second tick tock video, you know, multiplied by a fucking like 50. And you've got a whole story. And it's super quick, it's super easy to digest. There's no going back and forth between media.
Speaker 2It's you know what my favorite thing about this series is? They knew when to quit.
Speaker 1And too many things.
Speaker 2Don't know when to quit.
Speaker 4It's been a while since we've had a story like this, just up and stop in the middle of the story too, and that's kind of refreshing.
Speaker 3Party really hopes that the guy posts on TikTok one last time. He's just like, hey, I didn't know what to fucking do with this.
Speaker 4So it's done, it is what it is, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3It is what it is. I don't know what to do. I want to just be like I ran out of ideas. But yeah, like that. Well, maybe we'll explore more TikTok horrors down the line.
Speaker 2Maybe there are some big ones out there.
Speaker 4Yeah, I mean, while we're at it, like you know, we haven't covered a TikTok horror before, but it makes me definitely want to cover more. What do you guys think about? Like TikTok horror, like why does it work? And like why does it do like? Why doesn't it work, I guess?
Speaker 3I think I covered why it worked before. I think, depending on the story like this one, for example, I think it works well because it acts like a physical diary entry or like a visual diary entry, where in it and you know, in like a diary, it's like, oh, today this happened, you know, and then it goes the next day. It's like oh, charles got the chlamydia again.
Speaker 1It's just like you know, it's it's diary.
Speaker 3No one just talks about like the nothingness of a day in a diary. Everyone always writes in a diary. When something happens Right and I feel like TikTok horror does that it acts again as a visual diary entry.
Speaker 3And I think that works very well. If you were to take this and try to put it into like an hour hour and a half long, like movie or even like YouTube series wouldn't work, it would fall on its ass. But the fact that it's short, the videos are short and they only upload when something of importance happens for the most part.
Speaker 2That's why you need it Because it is so short. You can kind of make something seem bigger than it actually is Like because, like you leave it up to the viewer's imagination to fill in the gaps between the videos, right?
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean shit. This whole thing is like seven minutes long. We've been talking about it for an hour now.
Speaker 2We just kind of made up the rest to go around it, so like that kind of works.
Speaker 4And that's actually literally what I wrote in my notes was simple yet effective. And that's literally what it is, yeah.
Speaker 3I would agree. Take that quibi in your 50 states of horror or whatever it was that you had.
Speaker 4I will say one thing though oh sorry, Go ahead.
Speaker 2I was going to say the thing. The one thing that I think doesn't work very well about TikTok or that, like is constantly an issue and captain disillusion actually says that like, addresses this or mentions it in the video that he made about these kind of things is, like, it is the cell phone issue, right, like there's only so much you can do where you can explain away the fact that the protagonist has a cell phone with a working connection.
Speaker 3Yeah, and especially when they talk to the viewers, right, yeah.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, and that sucks, because that's just like the day and age we live in now. Yeah, like you can't. You have to almost go into it, thinking you're watching it from their eyeballs and not their phone.
Speaker 2Yeah, Like you know, it's their phone.
Speaker 3Yeah, I think it's. I think it was. We covered one before. It was TSP or Gregory 88, something like that where they're like I'm posting this I have no idea if anyone sees it, but it allowed me to post on the internet, so I'm doing it, hoping that someone can. Yeah, I think it was TSP that did that until they were able to start responding to people. But one of them was like I don't know if anyone's seeing this, but I got internet, so I'm going to try it. We'll see what happens. Yeah, because I think in one of them they even mentioned like oh yeah, twitter looks different for me. There's no one on here, but it's showing that it posts. I see replies. I just can't do anything with it. But here we are.
Speaker 2Yeah, there's probably creative ways around it, but it is a little bit of a limit, yeah.
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Speaker 4I'm one last thing to say.
Speaker 2I gave you a better burrsker to work with than that, mike. So I'm going to let you think about that while Doug saw you did.
Speaker 3Oh God, I forgot what you said.
Speaker 4Nailed it.
Speaker 4So the only thing that I think about tick tock horror that doesn't work and this is lesser, more of like it's like horror not working on tick tock, but it's the fact that tick tock is so big now that anyone can make a thing.
Speaker 4So like if you think we're sifting through the bullshit now, like if we had a list of all of the like ho, tick tock horror stories out there think, like, just imagine the amount of bullshit we have to sift through in this media, because we're already, if you haven't noticed, we're already kind of sick of analog horror to a degree where we're like someone needs to like change it up a bit, you know, freshen it up, and I think we really need that to happen on tick tock if we're going to get and do more of these kind of topics. I guess is what I'm trying to say here Again, not saying that it doesn't work on Twitter or on fucking tick tock, but it's a big outlet with a lot of people on it, so any Joe Schmo can just be like it's my ARG, look at my butthole, and we're like all right, cool Butthole.
Speaker 4My BRG.
Speaker 2Speaking of knowing when to quit.
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Speaker 3That's cool, and then that's all I got. Hey, viewers, do you want a mint? Just kidding, it's teeth, it's human teeth. I have those. Don't at me, fbi Doug. Do you have anything you want to say? People.
Speaker 4Yeah, so obviously not tonight, but probably our next episode. We're going to have a pretty, pretty fun announcement.
Speaker 3Big announcement, huge announcement, the biggest announcement you've ever seen.
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Speaker 4Oh fuck, what was it? No, it was. What was it? Google plus.
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Speaker 3Well, on that note, what are you drinking?
Speaker 4What do you think?
Speaker 3We didn't do that. This, we're quick. What are you drinking? What are you thinking? There's a bottle here and it's a tea. I got a bottle of rebel small batch reserve Doug's drinking a fucking pirate's ale over here I have mead. Straight up Captain Jack Sparrow's bottle of mead Trozniak.
Speaker 4Trebunalski, that's a pirate. If I've ever heard one Polish flavored mead honey, apple, elderberry wine, it is delicious.
Speaker 3Boot. Are you on anything tonight?
Speaker 2I got a liquid death and a headache.
Speaker 3A headache. Dinner of kings Liquid death. I had my first liquid death the other day, the lime one.
Speaker 1Very good.
Speaker 3Was that a sparkling?
Speaker 4water, one that was a mineral. Arnaud was sparkling yeah okay, it was good.
Speaker 3I enjoyed it. Tastes like a flat sprite. I like the teas better.
Speaker 2I found out this weekend that I still can't drink. I tried to.
Speaker 1I'm all for buddy.
Speaker 2But I felt miserable next time.
Speaker 4Did you get enough water in? Probably not.
Speaker 3Anyway, we'll goodbye everybody. We're going to do with Matt's tummy, so we love you all equally and praise be to yours truly. Think with your head and use your heart for everything else. Captain, the solution Hi this is have it.
Speaker 1I've been listening to your podcast for Probably like a year and a half now and I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy the content you make and I like listening to it. The waiting for the thunder. But you know, um, just like I said, I'm not going to be doing this, I'm just going to be doing this. You know, um, just keep it up. I'm excited for all the content you make this year.
