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Don't know if Happy Meat Farms counts, but it's been on my mind lately in a very good way

Spoilers to the context of Happy Meat Farms: The body horror got me so intrigued to it, passing it off as failed experiments (since, tee hee, these actually are experiments but they're disguising it that it's very ethical and safe). For a second, with the first video where they showed the animal experiments, I almost got convinced they were real due to the editing of the animals being morphed. That's how they hook you, with the surrealism. The second video is tests on humans, where a specimen called "MOTHER" is dealt like Vriska's lusus if you get my drift (basically feeding MOTHER sacrifices or else she angry). It interestingly leads up to their recent new video where MOTHER is stored in the HR lab, and the disturbing conditions the building is in. I honestly can't wait how this story progresses!! (Edit: It mostly references the first video for MOTHER, sorry on the mix-up. Watching it chronologically yourself will give you the gist)

For anyone else interested, the link to the channel is here. Warning for: body horror, meat, abandoned places, trypophobia

Does/Did Marble Hornets count as this is any way? The failed sequel Clear Lakes 44 was probably a bit closer to this.

[quote name="neonSatellitez" date="2022-04-05 11:51:39" ] i dont know if it counts as analog horror, but the Backrooms series that Kane Pixels has been pushing out is SUUUPER good !!! its unsettling and really interesting,,, same with Happy Meat Farms. but that might be more of an ARG than analog horror. still, its good ! edit: messed up a name blargh [/quote] [quote name="DarkCarnival" date="2022-04-08 18:58:17" ] Don't know if Happy Meat Farms counts, but it's been on my mind lately in a very good way Spoilers to the context of Happy Meat Farms: [spoiler]The body horror got me so intrigued to it, passing it off as failed experiments (since, tee hee, these actually are experiments but they're disguising it that it's very ethical and safe). For a second, with the first video where they showed the animal experiments, I almost got convinced they were real due to the editing of the animals being morphed. That's how they hook you, with the surrealism. The second video is tests on humans, where a specimen called "MOTHER" is dealt like Vriska's lusus if you get my drift (basically feeding MOTHER sacrifices or else she angry). It interestingly leads up to their recent new video where MOTHER is stored in the HR lab, and the disturbing conditions the building is in. I honestly can't wait how this story progresses!! (Edit: It mostly references the first video for MOTHER, sorry on the mix-up. Watching it chronologically yourself will give you the gist) For anyone else interested, the link to the channel is here. Warning for: body horror, meat, abandoned places, trypophobia[/spoiler] [/quote] Kinda going off-topic but I'm glad someone mentioned this. Alex Bale (the creator of 'Happy Meat Farms' and 'Pizza Time Pizza') deserves so much more attention for his horror creations :) If anyone's interested in checking out his Youtube I'll link it [url=https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexBaleFilms/videos]here[/url] but I recommend checking out his older stuff. He got really popular for his Spongebob Theory videos which sadly overshadowed a lot of his original films, but I think he has a great knack for creating disturbing and uncanny (and funny) content :)

i'm basically brand new to analog horror besides local58! i never watched the walten files or anything else. i do also love mystery flesh pit national park and marble hornets though. i'm going to use this thread as a recommendations list ^_^

Realized just now even though this is also an ARG it might fall into the Analog Horror category, but 'Catastrophe Crow' is another series I'd recommend if you're into 'forgotten/cancelled videogame' stories. The creator has put a ton of effort into it through rendering their own models and environments all from scratch, it's crazy :)

Found a playlist of the ARG's game footage here. You can also check out Night Mind's analysis of it here as well, as he does a good job of summarising the ARG so far.

It's kinda died down as of late but I don't think there's any actual confirmation from the creator that the series has ended yet.

I will say though there is disturbing imagery (although rendered in an N64 style for the most part), a couple of jumpscares, and flashing imagery in the footage so please watch at your own risk.

I have a couple in mind aside from the ones you described.

Macabre Experiment: I sort of combines a couple creepypastas into one big thing, such as the sui mouse, link statue, jeff the killer, and makes it like an experiment of people being mutants.

Battington Tapes: Similar to the Walten Files and FNAF style, but it's really screwed up. A guy named Martin built a toy company with his brother, Arthur, but he ended up killing a random dog, his brother, wife, daughter, son, and infant child because he got greedy and got into some demonic crud.

Needlemouse: A Sonic.exe series that sort of connects with the original creepypasta, but has its own spin/story to it. Basically a teenage girl who died at a party during a drunken bar fight got angry that her friends didn't help and lived on yet she didn't, so she possessed Sonic. The Sega building was built over where she was buried and she kills her friends and traps them in the game with her one by one. It's really messed up.

Smile Tapes: Basically, a strange fungal virus is going around and it's extremely contagious. Infected people end up smiling and nastily deformed and eventually lose their sanity before passing away, then spores emit from their bodies.

Happy Meat Farms: A farming company claims to be raising livestock in a healthy lifestyle instead of cramming animals together and giving them gmos like other farming industries. In reality, they are poisoning other competing farming industries' livestock, conducting experiments on their own farm animals to where they are mutated beyond belief, and eventually began testing humans, including unwilling participants and journalists that know too much. One escaped, but she also stole some files before leaving and taking out 11 people.

Where has this been all my life?

[quote name="ScipioAfricanus" date="2022-03-31 05:30:12" ] Big fan of ALEXKANSAS's stuff, personally. Currently following the House in the Ocean series (though I guess it's debatable whether it's really "analog" horror since it's a throwback to late 2000s/early 2010s YouTube?). Monument Mythos was also great, but unfortunately I felt like it really fell apart by the end. [/quote] I- Literally. It LITERALLY fell apart xD For those of you who don't get it, I'm referring to [spoiler]ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE, in which the universe is literally destroyed by a giant snake known as the Horned Serpent, who's actually George Washington. [/Spoiler] Ik, it's confusing, go watch Monument Mythos xD

Also I just realized
WHY are so many of the good analog horror creators named Alex?
We got Alex Kister (Mandela Catalogue), Alex Casanas (AKA ALEXKANSAS, creator of Monument Mythos) and now Alex Bale (from Happy Meat Farms)