Don't Look Under the Internet
Don't Look Under the Internet
DLUTI 178 - ChainmailChasers
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Don't look under the internet. Raviding, raviding um, as always I'm actually. I don't think I've ever done this in the past hundred and like 80 episodes wrong it feels, real wrong. But if we want to go, ahead and introduce, as always, I'm actually. I don't think I've ever done this in the past 180 episodes. It feels wrong, it feels real wrong, but if we want to go ahead and introduce ourselves, I am Jason Hello.
Speaker 4:Welcome to Jason.
Speaker 2:This guy next to me is Mike, he doesn't know how to talk right now, and that's okay, we'll still admonish him for it. We have the glowing Douglas. Hello, I don't know why I told you you're glowing, but here we are, I'm preggers, so that's that. Glow, um. And then, as always, we have matt as well.
Speaker 3:say hello man, hi, hello, or whatever I want to say wow, okay, thank you for just immediately talking, as soon as I was supposed to I'm so sorry I'm falling into Mike's role very well, god damn it.
Speaker 4:That was my long con.
Speaker 2:I'm going to let you take this back over because I think we have some other things to do. That's fine. Like Jason said, hello hi.
Speaker 4:We have a little like Jason said hello hi, we have a little bit of diluty. We have one person I want to shout out today, and one person only, and it's Mustard.
Speaker 1:It's what, oh yeah. Yeah that didn't fucking come across at all. I didn't hear that.
Speaker 4:Mustard. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 2:Okay, because that's not the email that I got.
Speaker 4:We have cummustard69 that we want to shout out. There it is so. Thank you, cummustard. Perfect timing. You know what they say when you're coming, it's gotta be mustard. Somebody gotta do it. They got their foot on the gas because somebody gotta do it. When?
Speaker 1:you must hard, you must when you must hard, nothing's easy Gotta do it.
Speaker 4:It's better to come to the mustard. You must what do, you must hard. Nothing easy, that's really it. We only had the one name. We had the one name, we had friggin come mustard.
Speaker 3:They subscribed and they left a donation Hell yeah, I'll record that later.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:What do you guys think in the game of name, or not?
Speaker 2:considering I was fucking out of it when I saw it, you lost my shit, I have an idea what's this?
Speaker 1:on a scale of 1 to 10. Is the name? Does the name have common in it?
Speaker 4:10 out of 10, they, they get it then I mean no, I don't you know.
Speaker 2:Okay, but that's also like. That'd be like saying if a guy named Frank is full of hot dogs does it have to be the word what?
Speaker 4:I think this is actually my favorite opening. I process what you said. I think this is my least least favorite opening. Before I process what you said, I think this is my least favorite opening out of everything we've done. This is up there. It's not a good one. We've had worse. We've had better.
Speaker 3:Does it have to be the word or does it Dude? The letters just need to be there, like could it be.
Speaker 2:Like. Does his name have to be dripping with like every time somebody says it like. Like does his name have to be dripping with like every time somebody says it?
Speaker 4:like cum happens is the name whatever that means that's the end of housekeeping.
Speaker 3:Thank, you cum mustard, and no, we're not gonna do.
Speaker 4:Welcome to nightville, sorry no, we're not gonna do no.
Speaker 2:I'm so sorry there's probably will never, ever happen we would literally just turn into the episode breakdown podcast. For, welcome to nightville. That's what we do with everything already. Yeah, we would literally just turn into the episode breakdown podcast for Welcome to Night Vale.
Speaker 4:That's what we do with everything already.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but anyway, just boys don't depress me, did you?
Speaker 4:guys see that weird email we got God damn it Earlier today.
Speaker 3:I honestly haven't checked the email in months.
Speaker 4:It was strange. No, don't, don't, it was like it was in there. It was like, if you don't jack off to this and send it to five friends, then we're going to send them.
Speaker 1:The email or the result. Oh, I thought they wanted us to jack off together.
Speaker 4:Oh, I didn't catch that yeah.
Speaker 1:You know it's, it's, it's things like I thought it's a jack off five friends.
Speaker 4:It's weird, it's weird, it's weird, it's weird Chain emails like that. They just want to chase down the rabbit hole and figure out who sent that to us and why. And also it's kind of what we're talking about today, because today we're talking about a little thing called the chain mail chasers Woo Woo, good, you got it.
Speaker 3:People ask for it.
Speaker 2:So if we do a requests now, see I love that every week we just fucking wriggle our way out of any responsibility.
Speaker 4:I love the dumb shit we say I love. For the last two or three episodes it was New Year, New Matt, and right when I announced we're doing Chainmail Chasers, he's like yeah, this is your fucking fault, asshole it's gonna be hilarious if he comes back later and is like this was the best thing I've ever watched.
Speaker 3:Well, surprise stay tuned to find out yeah, let's I, I.
Speaker 4:So if you go to YouTube, this is called chainmail chasers on YouTube, and I think this it's a nice short, sweet little thing. It's on the surface. On the surface, yeah, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I think we should keep talking about it till the end and start from the beginning.
Speaker 3:Yes, we should keep talking about the topic of the episode to the end of the episode. To the end of the episode. Yes, and we should start about the topic of the episode to the end of the episode, to the end of the episode.
Speaker 2:Yes, and we should start with the beginning of the topic, at the beginning of the episode, exactly.
Speaker 1:Are you sure? Yeah?
Speaker 4:Where's the best place to begin, if not the beginning, you know oh my God.
Speaker 2:So remember how we said last week or the other week was like a terrible, terrible intro, found the worst one. How have we digressed? I don't know, doug, why don't you get us back into?
Speaker 1:what we're fucking trying to do. I can't even think straight. I have like 400 cop cars driving past my house right now and my cats are fighting through the door.
Speaker 3:Should we just start?
Speaker 1:this episode over.
Speaker 4:No, no, we're not doing it again oh, I just my brain do it live big chuck hot cheese 16 melted butter oh, jesus christ got them all.
Speaker 1:yes, let's, let's start from the beginning, shall we? Let's do it. Then do it, doug. All right, so Do it. It's. What do I say about this? Basically, you go into this whole series pretty much assuming that you're watching almost someone similar to what we do.
Speaker 4:Yeah, a better version of what we do.
Speaker 1:All right, okay, do we talk about a better version of all right okay? Um, so, as you can see right now, uh, video one is called slender man creepy pasta origins. It's their first video in the series. They explain that they're going to cover classic creep, uh, creep, wow, creepy pastas, and it's going to be done in like a movie maker Format. You know, exciting, exciting stuff you get all that right. In the front screen, so first in the series.
Speaker 1:Slendymans, yeah, they tell you exactly what you're Going to get and you get it and that's great. But yeah, they pretty much go Over Slenderman. They talk about like where it came from, who made them all this stuff, and, uh, they kind of look like they did some of their own research. They go over some of the images and they kind of show you in photoshop how they were done and this and that, um, and it's pretty, pretty straight to the point, pretty short, um, and that's really all you get in the video um, just kind of a breakdown of some of the images and its origins. So, yeah, pretty self-explanatory.
Speaker 1:The second video that we get is actually called Jeff the Killer Creepypasta image origins. A little more specific to the image itself of Jeff the Killer. Now, same format as last time. They're doing the movie maker format, but we get a quick little take on the origin and theory surrounding how the image came to be and the story behind it. They go into a lot of the concerns of the claims where the image came from and the possibility of it being older than where it originally says it's from and, uh, who the person that came forward and said you know, this is my image. They kind of had a uh, a bit of like doubts on that and that that's pretty much what you get in this uh video and and these first few videos are going to be a little more uh, cut and dry, if you haven't noticed. Wow, I know this is riveting.
Speaker 4:Riveting stuff.
Speaker 1:So then we get into video three, called Smile Dog, creepypasta Image Origins, which all of you guys know who fucking Smile Dog is.
Speaker 4:Hey, we did an episode on that we did, we did.
Speaker 3:Yes, we've done pretty much. Most of these Was that when I was gone.
Speaker 1:smile dog is so hey, we did an episode on that did, we did and just we did, we did and, yes, we've done pretty much most.
Speaker 3:Of you was that when I was gone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that may have been oh, that was when mike was gone, that's right. Yes, oh yeah, that's when we were still recording. I was on maternity leave.
Speaker 1:You were on maternity leave, you were shitting out a baby. How'd that feel hurt anyways? Um, so video three is called smile dog creepy pasta image origins and you guessed it movie maker format about smile dog. Uh. So the user, uh, whoever is making these videos, uh, does a really good job of breaking down where the images used and like how they were found. So, like, uh, they go into like the original image and then they kind of overlay it to the, uh, the smile dog image and then they, they just like go really in depth into what images were used and how they, like you know, came together to make the ending image. Now, not not all of them are confirmed, but some are very, very close and it's hard to be like, all right, that's not it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so they do this thing called research? Yeah, they do, and then they visualize their findings.
Speaker 1:And they make it make sense and they tell you the information instead of In a concise and digestible way.
Speaker 4:Yeah, those of you that are subscribed, this is your first time hearing about that, isn't?
Speaker 3:it.
Speaker 1:You wouldn't know what that means very confusing topic for you guys, but it's fine, you'll be okay, I promise. So this is. This is actually where we learn about a website called paranormal prick headscom. Now, the significance of this site is that, essentially, what they did was they were. When they were doing their research, they found the image of smile dog, linked back all the way to this website, which dates like 2003 or 2000, like 2008 or something like that and that predates the uh, the origin of the creepypasta.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that was, like you know, an interesting find, interesting find, and they're like whoa, like I can't believe. Well, they write it in text, but they're like I am absolutely flabbergasted. Why are we talking about this more? And essentially just goes on to be like you know, this is, this is some crazy stuff. And they, they kind of are doing exactly what we're doing, some crazy stuff. And they, they kind of are doing exactly what we're doing, but they're showing the website and clicking on the link and kind of going over some of the we do that smile kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:sometimes, exactly we we're learning, um, but that's video three. Um, video four is actually called smile dog origins update. So after their last video came out, um, this video starts with him, with them saying uh, they're getting a ton of emails about smile dog, a bunch of trolls, a bunch of spam, and then someone who they assumed was a real person and that they'll talk about later. Um, most of the emails were the smile dog chain letter email, um, with the actual legit image attached, Um, but then some of the images and some of the emails were very like a variance of the image and then, um, like new edits and whatnot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and what ends up happening is, if you clicked on the images, the link to the image was uh, titled as uh, uh something. Image was uh titled as uh, uh, something awful forum, uh, URL. So they went there and they started reading the forum post and this, actually, I will say the video is not long, but this part takes for goddamn ever, because, uh, I, I, I don't know, but there's a moment when our our protagonist, just like it's like the goddamn cars outside, like you did with the cops, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's real, it's starting to happen.
Speaker 3:Well, I like how the captions on the videos are like a car drives by Grace's house.
Speaker 2:I'm so fucking angry that I pulled the goddamn rookie mistake of watching everything that I watched without the fucking subtitles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and.
Speaker 2:I had to try and figure out what certain sentences were so mad.
Speaker 1:Anyway, go ahead. I turn closed captioning on on everything if I can, immediately like no matter what, but regardless. Yeah, so we get a video of them using the wayback machine to look at this forum, and they mentioned that since the thread. You know it must be real because it's been archived. Um, but someone is spamming, as you can see, the smile dog image just over and over and over and over and over again, um, but at the very end, uh, is a slightly different one than we've seen before. Um, and they end up mentioning bigger too.
Speaker 1:They yeah a little bigger, a little bit a little different, a little spooky, a little freaky looks like he had just been flayed yeah, pretty much yeahicky. So yeah, they mentioned that they're going to keep in touch with the person that the other emailer, and that if the spammer wants to reveal themselves, they can reveal yourself of the smile dog. So that's what you get in video 4 and I always pass it over to you.
Speaker 4:I thought that was a little silly when she's like if you do, if you ever want to reveal yourself, we can talk more, and it's like I don't.
Speaker 1:Humans don't talk like that we actually don't learn the main antagonist's name yet for a while it's great, because we've already said it.
Speaker 4:We can say I don't think it matters, I want to reveal myself.
Speaker 3:People don't ask it was. We've already said it. We can say I don't think it matters. Yeah, it doesn't matter, I want to reveal myself. People don't ask me to talk to them more. They say go away, I'm calling the police.
Speaker 2:This is Home Depot. Put on some pants, yeah.
Speaker 4:And it's safe to say, like this whole time we were following this grace figure to like. The first video is like her narrating everything the screen sharing is like her narrating, so this is definitely seems like our pro tag yeah.
Speaker 2:And, like Doug said, we don't really find out her name for a while, but for the sake of expediency and shit making sense, it's Grace.
Speaker 4:It's Grace. Who's that girl? The next video is where I come into play. Just a quiet Debra.
Speaker 2:Just a quiet Deborah, just out in the distance, miles away, ray Romano is wandering around in your yard.
Speaker 4:He's outside my house, deborah, is it an FTP?
Speaker 3:Where are you? That's a creepy pasta. I would like to see Ray Romano is a cryptid SCP-089 Romano.
Speaker 2:Raymond Rayford Romano.
Speaker 4:Raymond Rayford. So the next three videos I'm going to be covering is Smile Dog Origins Questions, the Rake Creepypasta Origins and Smile Dog Oranges Frustration. Smile Dog Oranges huh yeah.
Speaker 3:I may have heard it too.
Speaker 2:The rest of those had something else to do with the orange thing Smile Dog Mandarins.
Speaker 4:Cuties. Yeah, they're just cuties, so I bring them all up at the same time because this is when we get a little bit of more of the plot, but there's also not a lot going on with these. There's two very like longer videos, one's 10 minutes, the other's 14. You can crunch this shit down like two minutes, three minutes each, like ah, straight up anyway, called world building, so in, I don't fucking want world building.
Speaker 4:I just want you to spoon feed me stuff because I'm an idiot. So the first one is Smile Dog Origins questions. And we start off with our narrator like hey, I get a bunch of emails, but this one in particular seemed pretty, pretty legit. It's from an Arthur Murphy, and Arthur emails Grace and is like hey, saw your videos and I want to say super impressed by what you got here. I fucking love me some smile dog and I got some information on it that you might want to be in on, and so they start interacting a bit more and they set up a date.
Speaker 1:I hate it, I hate it. I hate the way these people interact on here.
Speaker 4:Yes. So, I think it's on purpose and we're gonna see why in a second, but this is what I imagine most people on discord are like together these, so they set up a discord call that's a bleak reality.
Speaker 4:They set up a discord call to talk to each other and, like doug said, this is a conversation between two very terminally online people that don't know how to have a social interaction. I watched a Nightmind's video on this and he said that I'm like, oh my God, he put it into words that make sense, because these are people who have not talked to a real person before. They've only ever talked to AI, robots or themselves in the mirror.
Speaker 4:Well, the Internet is only populated by bots, so we did cover that, the dead internet theory, and since we covered that, a lot of people been talking about it and just throwing this other thing out there too. Um, in one of them in our like roundup reddit thing, I mentioned fucking um, was it fucking bosco park and uh, guess who decided to make a fucking video on it. Like two days later it was night mine. So kind of ahead of the fucking ball on this.
Speaker 1:I would say Holy shit, I want some Bosco sticks. So bad.
Speaker 2:Go get some Tell Nightmind to deliver them.
Speaker 4:Tell Nightmind fucking. Stop stealing my content, bro, and just come to me if you want to come to the source. My guy Just kidding, we know you're not stealing from us. We love you're not stealing from us, we love you.
Speaker 1:I have your figure You're so not Just kidding, we're stealing from you. Ha ha ha.
Speaker 4:Yeah, reverse.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're going real hard in the opposite direction, to make sure you don't realize what's actually happening?
Speaker 4:No, but I just wanted to bring that up because I discovered Bosco.
Speaker 3:Boy, we stole your content. You stole our content.
Speaker 4:Yeah, everybody's stealing everybody's content and then everybody orgasms at some point. Yeah, no, I love night, mine and I that I. Just he did it way better than I because I just touched on it for like 30 seconds. He made a whole fucking video on it. But anyway, um, go watch, it's good stuff, um, anyway. So they set up this call and they suck at talking. They're very awkward. They're like don't be mad at me. And she's like uh, I'll try not to be mad at you.
Speaker 1:And he's like it's a lot of that, tom.
Speaker 4:It's a lot of very uncomfortable talking. It's like that Like can you do you have the audio set up? Can you play a clip?
Speaker 3:I can, but don't worry about it, yeah.
Speaker 4:Okay, it's fine, just go to smile. Dog originsions. Go to like fucking 42 seconds in. I'm not gonna Go to 42 seconds in and just listen. That's where it starts and it is the most awkward conversation people.
Speaker 2:Anyway, there's a video about meat puppets in the related. You see that shit, yeah, what the fuck, we're gonna click on that later.
Speaker 4:Arthur is pretty much like hey, I want to talk to you about your last upload, your last video, which is the one that Doug was talking about, where she kind of went on the Paranormal Pricks website and went down that forum chain. He's like hey, I want to talk to you about some stuff that I saw on there. And so he's like share your screen. She's like okay, share your screen. And he's like you know, if you just so you know I'm not messing with you, and If you just so you know I'm not messing with you, and if, at the end of this, you think that I'm messing with you, you can just never talk to me again, ever. And she's like yeah, I fucking know that I was. That was the goal.
Speaker 3:Like, they talk so weird. That was the goal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's like yeah, I wasn't going to talk to you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but anyway so. So he's like walking her through, he's like through the last video and he's like, whoa, stop right there, like slow down your video, stop at this point and you're going to see some weird shit. There's a little and she stops. Yeah, and there's a bit. And you can see this in the last upload, to right before it cuts out, on the last big image of Smile Dog, there's like this, like goop that looks like it's coming down from the, the mirror from the ceiling from the, just like the search bar like it looks like it's coming off of the search bar.
Speaker 4:It's like some goopy looking shit, it's what demon come probably looks like let's be real, hey, you heard it here first, yeah, but so she's trying to explain it away, like, oh, that might be coming from, like the image above it. Demon semen oh my god, yeah, this demon shit, haven't thought about that in a while of it. Demon semen oh my god, yeah, holy shit, haven't thought about that in a while. So she's like oh, it could be whatever. And he's like I don't know, that looks like something weird.
Speaker 4:So then Arthur is like hey, do me a favor, don't share your screen, but I need you to do this for me. He's like did you download the image? She's like, yeah. He's like did you download the image? She's like, yeah. He's like all right, he's what I need you to do. I need you to on your own time, on your own fruition. Don't show me, don't show me. Should you do it? Um, open up the image. Open the image, couple, two, three times and and just do it. And she's like okay, there's even a bit here where she's like I waited a few hours and then did what was asked of me.
Speaker 2:Why, why, why, for one people don't wait hours to open a fucking email.
Speaker 3:that was there why she sounds like she's in, like some sort of like dungeon or something. Yeah, kinky relationship. Yeah, I was asked of me. This isn't.
Speaker 4:I will say I I I really appreciated this last bit, though, because it's like it's filmed on like a hand held camera, but also like in the corner they have like the like screen, the screen recording of what's going on.
Speaker 2:So you get two different about why that screen screen.
Speaker 4:Oh, I do too.
Speaker 2:We can go over it later, but now is Mike's way of saying kindly shut up Well no, I don't want to spoil anything.
Speaker 4:Don't ruin the atmosphere. But yeah, I just thought it was a very haven't seen this before. I think it's very interesting method of you know giving a look, atmosphere and stuff to us. But she's like OK, I'm going to fucking open up the pictures.
Speaker 3:Is it ever explained why her background says sex origins on it?
Speaker 4:I thought that was like a bit because at the end of, I think, doug's video she like minimizes and you see sex origins each year. Her just go open, just ends. So I thought it was like something that comes up later, but it doesn't.
Speaker 2:Things that are easily edited out of video footage.
Speaker 4:Yeah, don't matter though. So she opens up the image a couple of times and it starts off as just the regular image. She closes, she opens it up again and then, like, these words start to appear on it and it says you are curious? And she's like what the hell is happening here? And then she opens up another one and it just says remember your sayings. And then she's like I'm not about to have a conversation with a fucking jpeg, bro and um there's a bit what a jpeg.
Speaker 4:There's a bit that after she says that she opens up another one and then the words on it change, it says then you will talk to another, and then it says remove the file extension. She's like, um, okay, so right now, currently she has the image saved as smile dot image, so she goes to it, she goes, renames it, she blurs out how she goes to, uh like, rename it and open it and everything, but she like, oh, I think, I think I know why. I don't, I don't understand that.
Speaker 3:But I thought it was just because it was she opened it up and she was like oh shit, this is my big fat porn. Stash on it, or something but she didn't blur it out of the little in the corner.
Speaker 2:So I think, I think I know why this screen is a video and potato or something I don't know. I was going to mention some shit about cognitohazard, but we can go over that later. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, if you have an answer to that, it will not make sense if I say it now.
Speaker 4:But anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah right, and going into that would just give away the rest of a lot of things, so I'm going to stop.
Speaker 4:She changes the name from smileimage just to smile, and then she goes to open it as a GIF for some reason. Open it as a gif for some reason, and when she does that, the image itself just changes drastically. It's like it's I don't know how to explain it it's like you know how you see those images that are just made up of smaller. I just say that it's animated. It's not animated. Oh, you mean like a picture, and like a picture made up of a bunch of letters and shit.
Speaker 1:I don't know how to describe it. Yeah, it's that. It's like I forget what it's called Like ASCII.
Speaker 2:It's an ASCII image or something.
Speaker 4:But it's like a zoomed in version of this and then ASCII, ascii it's an ASCII image.
Speaker 2:Oh, there we go.
Speaker 4:But it's like a zoomed in version of the smile dog that we're seeing here. And then it says foolish to gif. And then she's out of it and she changes the name from smile to smile dot gif. And right, when she does that it it opens it up again. Then it starts moving a little bit that you actively start to see the words like change. Now it says it feels good to be used again in presence and then she says what the fuck are you? And then it says I am not the source. And then it like changes, like the, it like goes into um, like the colors, like invert, kind of, and it says you handle this laughably. And he's just like um, she's like I don't, I don't like what's going on anymore. Uh, like what are you? And he's it says um, I do not know more than what I am. And then it says thinking a curse like it, like it's trying to say it's a curse maybe it thinks that it is a curse yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:But I also told her something that I found interesting, like I don't know more than you, kind of you know what I mean. No, yeah, which I thought was kind of interesting. And then she asked like how are you here? And it says like, um, I transmit. I transmit my uh spores through neurons digital and the flesh.
Speaker 2:Holy fuck this interesting stuff. This is ephemeral sensation and she's like.
Speaker 4:She's like, um, I don't like what's happening here. And then it says you are uncomfortable. And then she's like how does it know what I'm feeling right now? And then it like Like morphs a little bit. It like starts to morph into like and like, kind of like, takes over her old screen a little bit. And then you hear it kind of like making this like digital, like people about Bob you know like yes, yeah. Digital dancing digital dancing digital style.
Speaker 4:And it's like the face gets all contorted. It starts like yapping at her kind of like and like. Then she's like and she reacts the way I would too. She's like fuck this. And just like, closes everything down and like her computer starts to glitch a little bit and then it just fades to black. And then she's like um, my computer she's. I've had a migraine all day since this happened, and also my computer at night will just randomly turn on and it'll start laughing at me. Then we have like audio of like I would get rid of my computer. Yes, right, throw it in the garbage.
Speaker 4:Ron Swanson, that shit into the dumpster like done someone else's problem yep, and then she's she, yeah, she like has a film and it does sound creepy like you hear the audio of this thing like kind of laughing in the background. Yeah, it's like creepy shit. I enjoyed that. Um, the next one is, uh, the rake, which is a new voice, um, someone who we learn is by the name davy, um, but this seems to be like her other, like partner in this show that she's making.
Speaker 2:Um, people call him the like showrunner I don't know yet, so I'm assuming that yeah, so this is.
Speaker 4:It's pretty much just. There's nothing really necessary to this. They just go over like the origins of the rake, uh, creepypasta, um. Fun fact though that I didn't know that until I watched this and who knows how much of it is actually true. But the um, that like image that's going around of like the rake that's called on like the cctv. Yeah, that image that's going around of like the rake, that's caught on like the cctv.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that image that's going around, yeah, but on the internet for like 15 years, yeah, yeah it's going around, man it's making its moves um, have you heard about?
Speaker 4:but what I didn't know is that it that was from an ad campaign for resistance 3, the old playstation oh shit, I forgot about the Resistance games. According to this who knows how much of that is true, but according to this, that's the lore behind it which is interesting, and it does kind of look like See it, shoot it, share it.
Speaker 2:It does kind of look like. What is this?
Speaker 4:It does kind of look like a chimera from that show. You're not wrong.
Speaker 2:I've thought about those games. I know I liked them.
Speaker 4:I would like a remake of them. That'd be great. And for them to be good because they're not that good, probably not. Anyway, that's the rake. It's just a video going over rake shit. It's the next one. Next one is called Smile Dog Origins Frustration. This is one of the longer videos of the bunch. It's 14, almost 15 minutes long, and it and it's basically our protag um grace, along with the two other people we've met so far arthur, if you hated the discord conversation, you're in for 15 minutes of it here oh, yeah, yeah yeah, it's lovely.
Speaker 4:Here's three people who are terminally online not able to talk to each other properly, uh, but this is basically grace going over for 15 minutes, going over like a bunch of things that she found in the rake upload. Like she will pause on like certain parts where, like there's like a visual glitch. She's like what the fuck is this? And then she'll pause later on at like a dark patch and, um, she'll like take a screenshot. She's like look at this shit, guys, look at that. She's like take screenshot. Show like shares her screen so they can see. She'll up like the contrast and the brightness and there'll be like this image of this, like ghoulish looking face on there.
Speaker 2:But she's like but he's immortal though, right? Oh Meh, sorry, I couldn't resist.
Speaker 4:I didn't hit play on that. That was weird. Um, that was creepy. I didn't hit play on that. Uh, anyway, spores are spreading, yeah Right, so, um, that kind of made me lose my track.
Speaker 2:Sorry.
Speaker 4:The computer just started playing the video by itself randomly. That was creepy, um. So she's explained to them how like this weird face is popping up and she's like I didn't fucking put this here. Meanwhile, like Davey the other guy is like I'm sure it was just like a glitch in, like the software you're using and like there's tons of, tons of reasons to what could be happening here. Like calm down. She's like I know if I can do in this dude. Like she's going like batshit insane on him and super accurate, yeah. And like like she's like she's I okay, first off, I'm not trying to sound mean, but grace is a real bitch in this fucking video. Like she is mean as fuck to these guys for no fucking reason. Like she started like right off the gate in this.
Speaker 3:She's like oh, oh, oh, okay, you think you okay, look at this I want you to consider if you had a talking jpeg on your laptop that laughed at you at night while you were trying to sleep. How, how, how mentally, no, how relaxed do you think you would be? I wouldn't be, but like maintaining your cool.
Speaker 4:No, but here's the thing. Right off the rip she's just like oh, oh, I'm not making it. I'm not making any of this up. Just look. Oh, you think I'm joking. They haven't said anything yet and she's already like you think I'm crazy.
Speaker 1:I like how Davey's just kind of like yeah, bro, we saw the video he's like yeah, I don't know I'm not telling
Speaker 4:you, I'm not she's breaking this all down and finally they're both like Davey and Arthur are like okay, chill, we're on your side, we believe you, it's cool, we're on your side, we believe you, cool, we're on your team here. And she's like I don't fucking know what to do, man. And Arthur's like you know, I've been in this situation before. This is a ghost. Um.
Speaker 4:I've had experience with this in the past once, and they're both. And then fucking davey and uh grace are just like nothing new to me, man, yeah, this man's just like I've been haunted, fuck it. And the other two are just like, well, what do we do? And, um, like davey floats the idea of just like yeeting the laptop away and she's like, yeah, I got no money for another one, so I kind of need this if I'm being real, if this is a thing no, you don't been gone since day one.
Speaker 4:I don't care, I don't need look. Look, here's your laptop, it's right here, it's called a phone. You don't need anything else. If like what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? Format?
Speaker 2:it yeah yeah, that too fucking. We all know reformatting things will completely remove curses and hauntings from your exactly.
Speaker 4:it's like, um, it's like, what is it called when you light the shit on fire and you, oh you have to open a window A. Molotov cocktail.
Speaker 3:What, what's?
Speaker 4:that called Arson. No, you got the sage. It's called saging. I'm a fucking idiot. What?
Speaker 3:is it called when you put sage in places?
Speaker 4:Yeah, doug, said it we just talked over here.
Speaker 3:It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4:Sorry Doug, Sorry bud. That's like saging a computer, it's just reboot.
Speaker 2:Reformatting yeah.
Speaker 1:Sage of computers. Download a picture of Sage onto a disk.
Speaker 2:And then download a picture of fire.
Speaker 4:And then an image of an open window, because it needs to go somewhere you don't want to smoke up your window, arthur floats around. The idea of putting grace is like what should I do about this jpeg? Everything seems to be coming from this jpeg and they're like why don't you remove it? And then she's like well, I could, but no one's been talking about this and I feel like we need to get to the bottom of what this thing is. First off, you're stupid.
Speaker 4:You just got a haunted computer and you're like, yeah, you're like, I gotta get to the bottom of the why isn't anyone like night minor nexpo talking about this? Because it's a haunted fucking computer. You didn't do a dumpster, call it a day um good old dumpster yeah, so she's. She defends not deleting the jpeg by of the smile dog by saying well, I want to investigate this further. So Arthur floats the idea of putting it into a virtual machine. That way it's technically off her computer. What does that mean?
Speaker 3:is this the video, too, where she's like I don't know the ethical implications of deleting this picture, and he's like are we seriously debating?
Speaker 4:the ethical implications of deleting a JPEG freeing up 10 kilobytes on my computer, yeah. And so she's like I don't know if that'll do anything. And arthur's like just, I guess you can try it. What other options do you have? And yeah, they're just arguing about what to do with this thing. Meanwhile, davy's like why are we talking about this? Just delete the fucking picture. And she's like, no, no, we're gonna keep it and we're gonna investigate further. That's pretty much the wrap-up of this video, okay, um, that's all I got, that's all you got frustration, frustration indeed.
Speaker 3:Uh, I'm gonna make my description slightly faster. So my first video is called marioepypasta Image Origins, and so this video is about a creepypasta that's related to a Mario ROM hack, and this is actually one that I've never heard of before. I had to look this one up, but apparently, oh yeah, the ROM hack itself is a legit thing.
Speaker 3:So it's a ROM hack where it's Super Mario World online and it's edited so that when you finish the level, it gives you like this super creepy description of a murder scene um and the person who's mentioned in the murders, just called victim number number one, and it's mentioned that their eyeballs were ripped out and they couldn't find their eyeballs and shit, um, but the actual mystery here, I guess, is that later on, somebody on some forums found a text file in the rom hack and realized that it was actually a jpeg that had been like had the extension changed on it.
Speaker 3:So they changed the extension back to dot jpeg and it was corrupted. But they did a reverse image search using the dimensions of the photo and they found another photo that had, like, the, the portion of the image that was still visible, even though it was corrupted, matched this image that they found on this reverse image search and somebody had said well, first of all, of all, this image came from an ARG from 2009, but somebody had said that this was actually an edited photo that was taken from a screenshot of a fatal frame, and so Grace, this game scared the shit out of me.
Speaker 3:Grace and her homie wanted to see if they could recreate this screenshot. So or take this screenshot and turn it back into the image that we're talking about here. So they tried to do that and they came up with something that was pretty close but it still wasn't perfectly correct. But they tried to reverse image, search this picture, and they found a thumbnail of an old youtube video from 2008.
Speaker 4:And they open up this youtube video and it's from somebody named ice cream monkey fan and it's oh yeah, old windows movie maker-esque video, the only thing it was missing was like lincoln park, playing in the background of it or something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it does have like super, like shitty, or music behind it, yeah, um, but it's basically just a video of text that goes on to tell this story about how this person, ice cream monkey fan got some strange emails from a guy named grin fiend, and it was just an old forwarded chain mail, and the chain mails mentioned that you needed to send the picture which was the picture that was included in the arg, which was then included in the rom hack to five people, um, and then if you don't do that in time you die and the image of your corpse becomes a curse.
Speaker 3:And the video also goes on to include more pictures of people, I guess, that were caught up in this chain mail that got murdered. It's assumed that victim number one then from the rom hack was somebody who got murdered as a result of this chain mail and their picture is a curse from the chain mail and that's what is included in the rom hack. But then there are other pictures here in this same video that are shown and you can see that one of the pictures is very similar to like the face that you can see in the background when Grace is like losing her fucking mind and explaining to her friends over discord yeah, that one that she like ups the contrast and shit on.
Speaker 3:It looks just like that one look at the nose and whatever, and then at the end, ice cream monkey fan also mentions that there's a picture in here that looks like a cool dog.
Speaker 4:I think dog very toothy yeah, very toothy dog, very cool. Mentions that there's a picture in here that looks like a cool dog.
Speaker 2:I don't care Neat dog Very toothy, yeah, very toothy dog Very cool.
Speaker 4:What is the lore behind Smile Dog? Anyway, like TLDR for me? I don't remember because I wasn't here for that.
Speaker 2:It was a picture that got sent around in this fashion where no one could figure out the origin of where it came from.
Speaker 3:But if you looked at it, eventually you would start going insane and then eventually you'd end up dead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it would just make you go crazy and you would just die. Basically yeah it would just haunt your dreams. And yeah, oh, that's right, it wouldn't let you sleep, that's right. Yeah, it would keep you awake at night until you finally lost your mind and killed yourself or something.
Speaker 3:All it would just your, all your thoughts would be consumed with smile yeah, I mean I'm doing pretty good.
Speaker 1:It's like a brain slug from futurama uh, now I get it okay slurms mckenzie um, I just saw a guy with a slurms mckenzie tattoo the other day just walking around wiggity wang, wang wazzle this was actually a couple actually fuck. I can't remember where it was, but a guy was wearing like some sort of Christian t-shirt and I was like that is the phoniest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 3:That's great. Hell yeah bro.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, brother, love Jesus and Slurms McKenzie.
Speaker 4:If they're celebrating our nation.
Speaker 3:I don't care what the secret ingredient is. Honestly, I'll drink that shit.
Speaker 3:It care what the secret ingredient is honestly, now I'll drink that shit. It could be slug jizz, I don't care. Yep, um. So the next video is just called update, and this is just grace having, like in her completely mentally collapsed state, mumbling into a microphone while we see the her desktop background zooming out, and she really says absolutely nothing of substance and, as near as I can tell, the only person purpose of this video is to demonstrate to you that grace is losing her shit. And then also there's a discord. So there's a link to the discord for chainmail chasers in the description. Um, I'm going to talk about a few more things at the end of the episode that you can find more information about in the Discord if you're so inclined to, but it's not super important to the videos themselves.
Speaker 3:The next video is called SmileDogOrigin's Interrogation, and this is basically Grace like grilling the JPEG, so what she does is she takes Yo I need some answers so she takes smilejpg and slaps it on a vm, like her homeboy told her to do, and the discord call and she's like all right, I think I got this shit contained. And immediately she finds out that is not the case, because she is just sitting at the desktop staring at the picture and it like goes all black and like warpy and then it opens itself up and then it starts talking to her and it doesn't say a whole lot of substance. But this video is super cool because at one point it like breaks out of the vm and destroys the frame of the window and shit.
Speaker 4:Um, it accuses her of having the audacity to try to delete a living organism and then you see yeah, did you see that when it said that it popped up the audacity icon?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, it's pretty good yeah, the audacity like and it changes all the icons on the desktop to audacity.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I didn't even notice that one. It's fucking awesome.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then it kind of taunts her by playing audio of Arthur, who she was talking to in the Discord chat, where he says I kind of want to provoke it. And then it turns on her TV and she's like what the fuck? And it says this is what your next episode is going to be about. And it shows her a picture, and it's a picture that's very similar to this like smile dog picture thing that we've been looking at before, but it's slightly different, and she's like I don't know what the fuck this is. It's like another flayed man face thing.
Speaker 2:And oh yeah, we're about to find out what that is kind of looks like pumpkin head a little bit holy shit kind of.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like a little pumpkin had a little smaller head. Uh, sleepwalker, no, oh, it kind of looks like sleepwalker a smidge okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it looks like a liquor from resident evil oh yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3:But it has eyes.
Speaker 2:It kind of looks like smile dog it kind of looks like smile dog matt, with the obvious answer here um, okay, cool, yeah. So after this video, you just did uh interrogation, right, matt? Yes, okay, no, uh. After that we get a video, um, named jeff the killer origins. It's about four minutes long and it's it's literally about the, the quest that was taken to find, or like pinpoint the origin of the uh, jeff the killer image.
Speaker 2:Now, I know, when we went over our jeff the killer episode, we went over what, like, where it might have come from, and they cover a lot of these, uh, these things. But they actually take it way, way, way back, um, and we see a couple of different versions of jeff the killer. Um, we see a, uh, oh, yeah, we get a corrupted file brought to our attention as well that similarly looks similar to jeff the killer, but you like, if you had just seen that image, you probably wouldn't tie it together. Um, they keep talking about, like, when this came out, there was a lot of uh debate on where the image came from, which is very true, and they said actually, uh, one of we can find the origin of this image, before the actual creepypasta of Jeff the Killer came out, and they start going over something called Mike. This is where I'm going to toss it to you, because I know you said you wanted to talk about it.
Speaker 4:No, I just.
Speaker 2:You don't want to talk about it anymore.
Speaker 4:No, I want to talk about this in a cryptic corner. Oh gotcha, oh, I see what you're saying, okay.
Speaker 2:So we see something called the Solar Plexus Clown Glider. I want to talk about this cryptic corner, just off the name alone, or SPCG if you want to acronymize it. And now the Solar Plexus Clown Glider is kind of a collective name given to I don't want to say a cryptid. I mean it's technically like a cryptid.
Speaker 3:It's a band name. God it needs to be.
Speaker 2:This is a clown quarter brand band name, if I ever heard one. So it's the. The solar plexus clown glider is a name that is given to. It's a phenomenon that kind of embodies what we would define as a cryptid If it were tangible and like in the physical sense, whereas these entities a solar plexus clown glider is actually more of something that is not tangible, but it is a phenomenon, sort of like what we've been getting with the smile dog of with grace, interacting with smile dog, talking to it, having conversations with it you don't know if it's real or not kind of deal. Yeah, like you're interacting with it but you can't touch it, like you can't physically feel it. Ai, yeah, and that's what we're going to refer to as a solar plexus clown glider.
Speaker 2:Apparently, these entities will make people susceptible to quote unquote infection, whatever that means. The neurons we did we had uh, something probably about spores infecting your neurons. I'm guessing that's a reference to this. My balls, they are inert. Um, so after we get the uh, the solar plexus clown glider, we kind of get a uh, it's. It's like a game of hopscotch. We go this is the original image of jeff the killer. Yeah, here's the corrupt image that appeared on um. Fuck, what was it called? Again, paranormal, paranormal prick heads dot com. Um, and then we're gonna go ahead and find the link, because these images are similar. There's just something missing in between. It's almost like that missing link in evolution that we look for between apes and humans Very similar, but with online clowns, apparently. Jason.
Speaker 4:Jason, jason, if we monkey, why they're still monkey?
Speaker 2:Come on, because monkey Jeff kill.
Speaker 4:If Jeff kill. If Jeff kill her.
Speaker 2:Why, jeff? Yeah, why, jeff, you know what? You're right, mike is a cuck Dog. Smile, sorry, filter turned off for a second. There, I do have a chair in my bedroom. I got the cuck chair. We're ready for the name. Um, so yeah, so we get this. We get some more information about the solar, the solar plexus clown, whatever the fuck. I just said um, glider, clown, glider, that's right. Um, and then we go into like this long like where do we find this missing link? And eventually we find an image based around the solar plexus clown glider that seems to fit the mold as the link between this and it's one of the images that was shown in the last video, the very end of it, with the red face and the teeth and the eyes Same picture. It's just in black and white And's the contrast is like blown to shit, and so when you put them next to each other, you can definitely see the similarities between the jeff, the killer image that we all know, and almost like a stepping stone in between that red face.
Speaker 3:Let me see at the end of matt's last video I'm sorry, but I'm utterly distracted by, but I'm utterly distracted by the fact. I'm utterly distracted by the fact that I let that video reach the end and it automatically played a video called how to squeeze a human through a five inch hole.
Speaker 2:I think you just found our next episode.
Speaker 3:I thought you were looking at the.
Speaker 4:I thought you're looking at the Twitch comment. That's just. I saw solar plexus clown glider open up for flotation. Toy warning at Asbury Park in 2017. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:But so we see whoever's doing this is playing around with the contrast and showing us the similarities between Jeff the Killer and all that. But that's pretty much the majority of the Jeff the Killer Origins update video. After that we get a smile dog origins working timeline. Now this is almost the exact same thing as the last video, but in regards to smile dog, where it connects the different links between the images and it takes you kind of through the very earliest image up to the very most recent one that we all kind of know, and it shows us all the links, shows us all the images that might not have anything to do with it, and it kind of separates the wheat from the chaff. What? The wheat from the chaff? The wheat, no. What's chaff, what's chaff?
Speaker 1:Chaff is wheat garbage. That's my next door neighbor.
Speaker 4:Kind of like how Cheetos was the garbage from uh. Fuck, what was it?
Speaker 2:uh oh yes, you know, I mean, I do know. Yes, producing something out of corn except chaff is useless. So separating the useful from the useless is kind of what that means. So weed from the chaff.
Speaker 2:Um, so we get the smile dog origins working timeline. We get all the way back from like the mid 90s, sometimes honestly even late 80s at some points. Uh, mid 90s. We see the very, very older, older, older images and, if you like, dotted lines or or fully formed lines connecting pictures to other pictures. This is the video for you. This is all over the place.
Speaker 2:Um, they go over how the original image seems to be stolen. They talk about all the different theories that come up. Honestly, when we were talking about like the smile dog, they ran some of those. They separate the ones that have nothing to do with it and at the very end of it we end up realizing, based on this graph, that there is a there's a similarity between, uh, smile dog and jeff the killer and a lot of these other chain mail entities or solar plexus clown gliders. Um, now, throughout this video, you are going to get different points in time where it just completely cuts in the middle of a sentence and then goes over to a conversation that happens periodically, like in a bunch of mine.
Speaker 4:It does that too, I guess it's. Is it supposed to show that something's fucky is going on?
Speaker 2:I think it's, it's in, it's a little look into their uh, research into the the whole topic. But it also it it gives us some information that we wouldn't have gotten otherwise because they wouldn't tell us. So, like one of them you all you see is like I think it's a pair of shoes and like almost like a piece of fabric, kind of like flopping around hiding um who it actually is that is talking. You can't hear the responses, but you can hear the questions being asked, and one of the things that I picked up on was yeah, but do you really trust what it says? Now I, based on everything else that we just talked about, that can only be in reference to one fucking thing, right, this fucking entity that's been terrorizing. What's her name? Grace, grace.
Speaker 2:And so, speaking of Grace, throughout this video you're also going to see I think it's two separate points where at one point you're going to see Grace, just kind of her face illuminated by a computer screen. She's going to be staring at it and you're going to hear I think it's a familiar noise from one of the other videos, I think it was one the glitchy it almost signals like, hey, this fucking thing is here, oh Lord it coming, oh Lord it coming. Indeed. It shows her, the sound plays and she gets super worried. And then it cuts right back into telling us all about this, all this research they've been doing. There's a hand that pops over some on.
Speaker 4:Her isn't there, or is that later?
Speaker 2:That's the second time. Oh, I missed.
Speaker 2:I didn't notice At least I think so, if I'm remembering it correctly the second time oh, it might be the first actually now I think about, because the second time is when, uh, she gets talked to by the entity in the computer, and this is where I fucking hated myself for not turning closed captions on, um, and so the second time that we see her, uh, and actually now that I'm saying it, you don't actually see her. It's almost like a blurred, beige, green background image, almost like somebody's rubbed a bunch of Vaseline on the fucking lens of the camera. But we hear this really like deep, distorted voice, and I really wish I knew that. I wish I had thought to turn the captions on, but I didn't, because I'm an idiot, and so I listen to this part like 90 fucking times on, but I didn't because I'm an idiot, and so I listened to this part like 90 fucking times.
Speaker 2:Oh, trying to figure out what it's saying. Yeah, Honestly, it's literally just a. It's being super deep is what Smile Dog is doing? Basically, this voice is telling is basically asking a philosophical question of if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a difference? Is what it asks. And then we hear grace go oh my god, shut up like it's just like I'm so fucking done with you yeah, I should.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna put this into. I don't know if we mentioned it too much. I think it was in Matt's video when she's like interrogating it or whatever it's video. When she's like interrogating it or whatever it's like constantly telling her. Like oh so you trust, you know, you trust arthur, or whatever, like he. Just he's the one that keeps saying he knows what to do about this thing and yet it he's, he's still fucking up. And there's a point, I think, where it says, like for a person who says they've dealt with this before and succeeded, they sure are looking up a bunch of videos on how to deal with this type of situation Like it's constantly antagonizing her. Like you trust that guy, you don't look up videos to solve a problem you've already solved.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly. So it's like constantly like why trust him? You should trust me, why him I don't?
Speaker 2:know I do want to read this one comment. So there is somebody in the comment section of the video that says at seven minutes and 51 seconds didn't come off as scary to me. This is when we hear that distorted voice and it looks like Vaseline's on the camera. I just imagine Smile Dog ripping off a bong and saying the most nonsensical deep shit he can think of, while Grace is the only person who even bothers listening to stoned underscore.
Speaker 2:Dog dot gif and that's only because he locked her in the room so it seems like this iteration of smile dog has trapped grace in a room and is forcing her to be an audience to question mark. We have no fucking idea.
Speaker 4:Smile dog. I hear a ripping bong. Every poo-poo is pee-pee time, but not every pee-pee is poo-poo time.
Speaker 3:You pee on your shit or you poo-poo on your pee.
Speaker 2:The first, if I can help it, that is the meat and potatoes of. Honestly, let's's. That is the, the meat and potatoes of let's. Honestly, let's call that video the, the wheat of, of, uh, the season one of chainmail chasers. Yes, that is the very last video in what they are referring to as season one. Um, after this, you are going to get a bunch of videos that by bunch, it's like three.
Speaker 4:So the very fucking.
Speaker 2:Doug, I wasn't listening. The very last video that we get is, honestly, it's a whole conversation. It's just an ad for paranormal prick heads dot com. It's a web ad that was released right around 2008, and it introduces the admin that's in charge of the whole site and talks about how we put a. There's nothing specific here. It's just full of stuff. We're trying to figure out paranormal things like come on down, come on down to paranormalprincesscom there's a couple of glitchy points where it's gonna.
Speaker 2:There's some lines of dialogue that I'm sure either are ripped from season one or are a hybrid between season one follow up, slash season two, but everything in this video is prep for the next season, which we don't really know much about. I think there's one video out at this point, yeah.
Speaker 4:Our fucking long. Yeah, really, it's just one hour long. We didn't. We're not going to discuss it tonight, just because, like so on the channel this was the last up. Everything was uploaded two years ago, except this one that was uploaded a month ago, a month ago and it's a 50 minute fucking video and premiere a year in year, year in rear view, yeah, and I figured it looks like season one is wrapped up.
Speaker 4:Um, this might be the intro to season two, so I didn't want us to cover this because there might be way more coming out and if we want to get to it, awesome.
Speaker 3:If it's because of what is happening, though is season two is mostly being. There's a lot of stuff going on with the website.
Speaker 2:The only reason I think that we're actually bringing up this parent paranormal prick heads dot com web ad video is because if you want to go look at this site, please for the love of god do there is there's a way to get around the site. That's hidden at the very top. Um, also, please use a like a laptop or a computer. Don't use mobile because it fucking sucks. Um, but you can actually click around on. You get to explore this collection of solar plexus clown gliders and it's. There's a bunch of weird phenomena. You can listen to some audio. You can read up on some ancillary information.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of there's a fuckload of information here and it's super cool, and if you've ever been to Laughing Horse Orifice's headquarters website, it's very reminiscent of that in some pieces. The Laughing Horse Orifice's headquarters website.
Speaker 3:It's very reminiscent of that in some pieces. Most of the website is not actually get-to-able by browsing the website. A lot of it is actually hid in HTML files that don't have any direct links. As far as I can tell, I found a bunch of them. Most of the way that I found them was going to the Discord that is linked in the update video and just search for paranormalprickheadscom and you'll find a bunch of people posting discord messages about these separate links that they found.
Speaker 3:Um, most of these include like a bunch of what seems to be background lore about what's going on here. There's's stuff about fallen angels and basilisk a bunch of crazy shit, like there's a page with an elephant that's in Japanese. There is letters to the admins of the site at some point, as they were like transferring ownership of the site or at least transferring moderation of the site to other people. There's some links to some audio files that really don't have any meaning at the moment. Um, what you do find out from this website is that, uh, the thing that is haunting grace smilejpg is actually called the dragon. Yeah, and there's a whole page on the dragon. Um, so if you go to paranormal prickheadscom, slash the dragon dot html.
Speaker 3:Um, you can find what seems, maybe seems, to be some information about what the fuck this thing is. A lot of the information is actually hidden in the html, so you have to view source on the web pages. At some point there is a wiki for this, um, but it's not super useful anymore. Because at some point, there is a wiki for this, but it's not super useful anymore, because at some point, there was links to a Google doc that I suppose had these descriptions in them with explanations of maybe what they meant, but the link doesn't work anymore. Unless you can find it somewhere in the Discord, you'll have to go back to these pages and look at the source. Yeah, it's very complex looking. Yeah, so if you want to look, at that.
Speaker 2:You fucking figure it out. We're not figuring that shit out right now. Yeah, that's fucking sure.
Speaker 3:One other thing I'll say about this is that if you go to the front page of paranormalprickheadscom, there's a thing that says 42 out of 76 pages online, and the lore explanation for this, I guess, is that paranormalprickheadscom was taken down at some point and they lost most of the pages, but they're finding archives of them and so they're re-adding them as they find them. At one point this said 22. And now it says 42. I think the last time it was updated was December 31st of 2024, so it's been updated fairly recently. This seems to suggest that more pages are findable, but there are a fuckload of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I'm guessing gearing up for season two, I'm guessing they're adding a bunch more pages to drive it along.
Speaker 4:Keep an eye on that, I guess, if you're hell yeah in this yeah, yeah, part of me wonders if, um, because they uploaded that giant video for season two, part of me wonders if that video is all that there's gonna be and the remainder of the story is gonna take place on that site. Because it is like the 52 minute video is broken up like per month, like it's January through December of 2024. Um, and it's just, it's broken up just like that. So I I'm curious as to what, how, what they're going to do to continue forward, if they're going to keep uploading to YouTube or if they're going to focus mostly on this website or not. Um, I don't know, but we'll fucking see hell yeah, we will or either the rest of our topics.
Speaker 2:We'll let them just fade away. Or they won't, or they will exactly, or they won't.
Speaker 4:Um yeah, but that's, that's chainmail chasers. So far, uh, as far as we can, you know, or as far as we want to look into it, there's no time to right now. Let's talk about our feelings on this one. Boys, first and foremost, let's play the game we haven't played in a while. Real or fake, oh shit. Let's bring this bad boy back on, go. I want you to say if you think it was fake or real. I want you to say why. Ready One, two, three, go.
Speaker 3:Real Fake, really fake, really.
Speaker 2:But I could see it if I haven't seen it?
Speaker 4:how did I watch it If it was fake? That's damn real.
Speaker 3:I changed my mind, you got it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no. So what did you guys? What did you guys think of this whole thing? Jason, you go ahead.
Speaker 2:I was shocked and surprised at how much I actually enjoyed this. I will say I was very tired when I started, so I started falling asleep about halfway through. But the the tired when I started, so I started, uh, falling asleep about halfway through. Um, but the the core concept, the story behind it, like it's, it's something that we all are interested in. We all love internet, youtube, urban legend, urban legends, um. So to find something that tries to explain them by tying them all together, like that's super cool to me, especially when you do it in a way like this. I was kind of surprised by that. I think there are definitely some areas that can use work when it comes to plot and like plot devices, but other than that, I mean I overall very much enjoyed it. Dumbless.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I agree, I think I think it's a really cool concept. I think it was. I think there's a lot of potential here with this one. It feels on brand and but also like kind of unique, if that makes sense, like it's not something I've we've seen before, like a lot of like. I like the fact that they're playing upon the things that we like to talk about, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, however, I do not like the main character. I find them to be annoying and I feel like they're doing the plot a disservice.
Speaker 4:that's my opinion that's fair muthalimu, I think it's okay. Oh wait, before you go, do you want me to do? You need a refill of your, your, your hater rate my hate yeah, professional hater opinion coming at you.
Speaker 3:No, I, I didn't hate it. Uh, okay, so first, at first I hated it. I watched the first two episodes and was like I'm gonna fucking hate this and then it got, and then it got better.
Speaker 3:So, um, I I think it's okay. I'd probably give it like a six and a half out of 10. There is some really creative stuff here that, I think, is what draws people to this series that I really like. Like the very creative ways that they connect all of these completely disjointed or like unconnected creepypasta things. I think it plays a lot on nostalgia, which is something that a lot of people are really like about it. Um, some of the ways that they film stuff is pretty creative. Like we talked earlier about why we thought that window of, like the actual screen capture is up in the corner, night mind, which I don't know sometimes if night mind plays up things to his uh he was, I saw 13 year old furries or if he actually doesn't understand how things work.
Speaker 4:But he was like I don't know how she did that. I was like I don't know how she did that.
Speaker 3:It's very clear to me that what she did was she recorded the screen, yeah, just edited yeah, she edited it, yeah, and then just played the video in full screen and then filmed herself. Watching the video, you can see at some points where, like, the mouse jumps. If you go frame by frame, like when she clicks on something, the mouse is suddenly halfway down the screen.
Speaker 4:It's very obvious that, yep, and there's moments too where like for example in in mine, when she's changing like the name of like the gif, from like smile dot, jpeg, dot, image to whatever you see, like you see her click on it, go to change name and then you see it go away and you see the name just come up and then while it's going up she's still clickety clack.
Speaker 3:Yeah, way too many times the keystrokes do not match the amount of letters that she's putting into the name at all um, it's not hard, just to so with all that like that's gripey little bullshit. Yeah all with. It's better than 99% of the shit we watch like this.
Speaker 3:From a technical and creativity perspective I will say but I don't know with anything like this, it's got obviously this was a fan request it's got it's dedicated group of people that are just super fucking into it. And I think, with anything like this, I sometimes don't get it because I think I think I'm like three to four years too old. There's like oh, yeah, there's a period.
Speaker 3:there's a period of unfiction that happened from like 2008 to like 2013 that some people were like 10 years old for and they're they're super fucking into the nostalgia that and I think I was just barely too old that, like in this, in this small section of time on the internet, I would have been like this is fucking stupid.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Because I was like 14 or 15 or 16 and was like this is like little kid shit, um, and so I think that nostalgia that works on people who are like we're probably like middle school when this shit was yeah going on that I I can see where that that is in play with a lot of this kind of stuff and so, and so I get it like there's shit from, like you know, the early 2000s that is in play with a lot of this kind of stuff and so, and so I get it like there's shit from, like you know, the early 2000s that is dripping with nostalgia. That is probably ass garbage that I love so most movies.
Speaker 3:This is that era yeah, this is probably just going off on a tangent, but biker mice from mars for me fuck you. That's something I thought about right
Speaker 4:yeah, I, I really enjoyed this one like a lot. Like, out of everything we've covered, I think this is top tier for me, only because of uh, it's a lot of the shit we already talked about. It's, the way that it was filmed is different. It night, mind I.
Speaker 4:I hate to just keep hearkening back to things he said, but he did put it very well where, like you see creepypastas online all the time where it's just you know an image and then just blocks and blocks of text. That is the story. This feels like that, but within a visual format. Like I'm, I, whatever you'd be reading out is giving to, given to you in a visual format. Yes, and I, looking at it from that perspective, I really enjoyed it because this does play out like you are looking at a visual representation of that creepypasta page. Yeah, and I appreciate that it's plot heavy. I enjoy the plot. I know you said like there's you and I think Doug said there's some things where it's like oh, there's some things I would have done differently, plot wise, yada, yada. I personally, I, I enjoyed it. I think it progressed, yeah I don't have rather good yeah, I think it progressed well.
Speaker 3:There's some videos like a bit too long, like the one that's yeah like the discord talk and everything.
Speaker 4:Cut that shit down to like two minutes. Don't need it, um, but all, all in all, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I have have no notes Besides that. I'd just say keep. Besides all the notes I just gave you, besides the notes I gave you, I'd say keep going. I will say, though, I thoroughly enjoyed it. You could tell that they really are taking their time on this, but with the website being made all the like the video that they made for this, where the whole entity busts out the virtual machine and everything that takes time to make you know.
Speaker 3:And there's, there's quality, there's production value.
Speaker 4:To this there's dedication, there's, there's love put towards it. It's not. It's not just some shitty. Here's a slideshow. The effort is there yeah, effort is there.
Speaker 3:I will say, like the paranormalprickheadscom, that one. So what I will say about this is the authenticity is there a hundred? Percent like like that website I I had to look and see when it was made because I was like is this a website that they repurposed or something?
Speaker 4:because it's very, it's very when you said laughing horse orifices, I'm like yeah, that is just like that lhohq.
Speaker 2:And there's.
Speaker 3:There's little details, like in the um video that actually explains the original chain mail that they find in the reverse image search. There's like in the video that actually explains the original chain mail that they find in the reverse image search. There's like at the end of that video they're like rate this five stars, which is a nice little call back to like the rating system that used to be on youtube so it's little details like that that are super cool.
Speaker 3:There's been a lot of attention paid to detail and I I appreciate that a lot. I appreciate that everything's spelled correctly like that's a big one.
Speaker 3:Yes, oh my god for that holy shit like that, that minor that automatically puts you in like the top percentile, yeah, of these kind of projects. So, yeah, cool for that. I. I know it's 6.5 makes it sound like I'm being a hater and I really hated this, but that for I. I started this thinking. I was thinking it was going to be like a two and you won me back, so you know, readings are legit, though, because everything's a nine or a ten, then right like yeah nothing is a 6.5.
Speaker 4:A mat scale is pretty high, high. Yeah, like you're. You're doing good. I would give this. I mean, my skills always, kind of, are higher. I will say I'm one of those people, but I will say this is probably like a 9 to me. I thoroughly enjoy this one a lot. Very, very well done, bravo. Yeah, I think it's good yeah fantastic 6.5 or like 7.
Speaker 1:And just to hark back onto my thing about not liking the main character.
Speaker 2:I think it's supposed to be like that, though I think it's intentional. It reminds me of Annie from Bash Cam.
Speaker 1:It's not ruining. I don't want to say it's ruining it by any means. I just don't like the character. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:And again, whether that be intentional or not, I think they're supposed to be an idiot, because that's a thing, right?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's like with every horror story where it's like you weren't a complete dunce, you would have figured out that you should have stopped well, it's like annie from dash cam or fucking sean from dead stream like annoying as piss, stupid as hell, but they're necessary to drive this shit forward and that's why.
Speaker 4:that's why to me it harkens and and feels like Like you're watching a visual representation of a creepypasta, because in those the protag is always an idiot. Oh, a haunted Godzilla NES cartridge. Instead of throwing away, I'm going to keep playing it. What a dead girl's haunting me from it. I'm going to keep playing it. Yeah, the protag is always stupid in these. So of course you're going to be stupid here. It makes sense for the plot lot and I, I like that. I like it, I like it. Fuck you doug boys.
Speaker 2:Can we end the episode?
Speaker 4:yeah. So let's wrap it up real quick on this one. Um, again, like always, uh, anyone listening live don't go anywhere. We're gonna be right back. But um, I want to say, uh, send us an email dullypod at gmailcom. Look us up on all socials. Um, uh, anywhere you're at, we're probably on it. We're even we're in talks to maybe getting on blue sky. We'll see how that goes. So, oh yeah, just look us up anywhere on any social diluty potter. Don't look under the internet and, um, give us a rating on spotify and shit. We'd appreciate that too. I love you. I love you, dad. Go eat a tooth or two. I'm done, jason uh, stay paranoid.
Speaker 2:Um, watch out for chain mail. That shit started a long time ago. I know we all grew up with it, but it still continues to be a thing, unfortunately, and I'm not just referencing the episode, but watch out for those nigerian princes, you know, yeah just don't check your email.
Speaker 3:That's what I just don't do what I do just ignore your email.
Speaker 2:Oh um, shout out to all I got. I am leaving, okay bye.
Speaker 4:Shout out to ghoulish mortals and undefined graphics Mike Lowy as well for the graphics and also ghoulish just being friends of the show and also doing something with us later on. Your mortals, what you got for us howdy ho.
Speaker 3:Have a great day from your friendly neighborhood, hater.
Speaker 4:Doug, what do you got?
Speaker 1:Um, slap your peens and your beans, get your flu shot. Don't be like me. Um, god damn, I got fucked, do you?
Speaker 3:see where there's like a measles outbreak In Texas cause people aren't vaccinated. Fucking chitlins.
Speaker 1:There's a fucking TB outbreak In fucking like Kansas right now.
Speaker 4:Boys. There's an outbreak of everything right now. Laurie says all you see is fucking RSV and fucking Flu and shit all over H5N1 or whatever the fuck Is coming for our geese Avian flu. Protect your cats. Yeah, they did Doug, that's how they get around. H5n1 or whatever the fuck is coming for our geese Avian flu. Protect your cats, avian. Yeah, they did Doug, that's how they get around. Ba-doo-ch, ha-ha. Yes, anyway, bye everybody.
Speaker 3:I hate you. Bye, don't look under the internet. Outro Music.
