why did analog log horror fail as fast as it came?

>you now remember /ffg/

Andy log horror Sixx

it was a fad that was met with the catalyst of teenagers never leaving the Internet, it's like how Blair Witch Project lead to a bunch of shitty rip-offs in successive years, got rejuiced by Paranormal Activity, and now horror as we know it is dead. we experienced that but at 10x speed

>The grumblo files
>The niggojoggo tapes
>Le secrety organization that deals with [X] threat
>The skrunkly jomblo incident
>What if image distortion was......le scary

nothing wrong with fads. some things should just live and die naturally, this board is full of zombie franchises well past their expiration date.

>>211463710 (OP)
I'm a big fan of analog horror. There are two things that come to mind for me about what it struggles with.

The first is that it's just way too derivative. I've seen the concept of long limbed uncanny valley human-like creatures again and again. The whole emergency alert thing was cool when local 58 was doing it 7 years ago but it's also become overused. Similarly, the employee introductory video that turns dark or the unsettling nature documentaries are ubiquitous.

An even bigger problem though, is that analog horror builds all this tension that most creators can't deliver on. The Mandela Catalogue guy clearly realized this because he started experimenting with 3D modelling to try and put an Alternate in one his videos. But nobody posts that 3D model or that scene really because it's not scary. Watching analog horror and really letting yourself get scared is a fear of anticipation. You're worried that something really bad will turn up but after a few series, you start to realize, it never does, because the creators are incapable of it.
At least with a video game, the dread and atmosphere does give way to an actual thing that attacks you.

The only exception to this is, I think, Gemini Home Entertainment, because that guy's video editing skills got insanely good to the point where you can really buy into it.

>>211463710 (OP)
Zoomers can't let anything be mysterious and unknown. They have to spoil everything with excessive lore and args.

>>211463710 (OP)
It was ponnish

>>211463710 (OP)
Most of the Analog Horror shit goes full retard and stops being scary. It's in part the obsession with lorefagging, but it's also the fact that the "lore" itself is often fucking retarded. The Monuments Mythos thing is one of the more extreme examples with James Dean president and then becoming completely convoluted schizo shit.
The only Analog Horror series that I feel kept being decent is Gemini Home Entertainment because that one went into a creepy body-horror direction, and the visuals in it are on point, no 3D model CGI shit like in Mandela Catalogue. The video with the guy turning into a tree is excellent.

>>211463710 (OP)
No one really got it or was good at it. Everyone knows there's something creepy about the aesthetic but no one really picked it apart to make something truly effective. Needs a grown up mind but it's a kids genre

>>211463710 (OP)
qrd?

>>211466046
In the series, Jesus was overthrown by Satan back in Biblical times and now walks the earth in forever torment. Satan then coopted Christianity so that all Christians are actually worshipping him instead of god. After he gains enough power or something (not really clear), he uses demons to manifest on earth which resemble people but with distorted bodies who psychologically torment you into committing suicide so that you go to hell forever. That pic is originally a picture of an angel but as the camera draws near, it warps into its demonic form.

Actual good vids, second one might not count as analog though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaUObk1igsQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=domlSRu34Mk

>>211466255
Woah... really makes you think.

analog horror peaked here

>>211463710 (OP)
Because it was made by literal small children.

>>211466424
Wasn't this one of those "when you see it you'll shit bricks" that was a gif and jumpscared you?

>>211466523
yeah

>>211466341
Havent seen it but honestly reads like a better story than most horror slop

>>211466566
Yeah it's considered the high point for analog horror though I think gemini is better.
Also if you like that concept there's a video game which does a similar thing called Shadows of Forbidden Gods

>>211463710 (OP)
You've seen one you've seen them all basically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_R5Mjtx6Qg

>>211466708
Wendigoon is frustratingly low IQ.

>>211466738
Yeah no shit he's a Chr*stcuck lollllll

>>211463710 (OP)
For me its the spooky transient methhead wojacks.

>>211463710 (OP)
because anyone who isn't retarded can see it as the cringefest it is right away:

"If you ever find yourself in the green backyard of a 50s house don't panic you're in the white picket fields. Whatever you do don't ring any doorbell and if a mailman says he has mail for you don't ever look at his nametag!"

>>211463902
I have to agree, it happened with westerns, it happened with marvel movies and it has happened with analog horror.

it's time to let something new breathe.

>>211468327
>I'm a security guard at ______. I found a strange list of rules

>>211463710 (OP)
because only a few things were actually good

>>211468683
>if you die in the game you die for real!

>>211468646
>it's time to let something new breathe.
On that note, Happy Meat Farms is kino YouTube horror

>that Night Mind "deep dive" into Gemini Home Videos that was longer than the entire series put together
lol

>>211466255
The creator caved in and let power creep ruin the concept last time I checked. The demons now had super strength and they just killed people outright with force. I think it's because some people commented things like
>really? that's all they do? they just fuck with you verbally and wait for you to kys? not scary

This channel is something different. Its analog horror based on American history stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UESepQissn0

>>211468781
which is the ideal video to start with, seems a bit too comedic the one I saw

>>211469777
Monument Mythos was based because it was interesting and unsettling at times but wasn't trying too hard to be an actual horror series.

>>211463710 (OP)
Analog horror wasn't a coherent "thing". Mandela Catalogue was based on the conceit of taking place in a world where the media would understandably make PSA's about the entities, and where entities could also manipulate media to scare victims. It wasn't conceived of as some new thing, it was just an online collection of horror videos.

Before Mandella Catalogue there was the channel 5 stuff, again, completely contextualized as fictional PSA's. They played on the strengths of that aesthetic, but they made sense. Notably, the early channel 5 type stuff often had some kind of satirical point or slant, like the one telling Americans to commit mass suicide. There was coherent artistic vision and intention.

People liked certain elements of the vibe of both of these starting points, the aesthetic of all those, so they wanted to crib it for basically any concept they had for an online horror short or series, regardless of how applicable it was. It became basically a filter, a flavouring they slapped on top of a concept regardless of whether it made in universe sense or enhanced it. Either that or they made stuff that was entirely derivative with absolutely no slant or differentiation, except in the sense of being way more generic without the satirical or subversive element channel 5 sometimes does.

It shouldn't be thought of as "what happened to analogue horror". "Analogue horror" should never have been conceptualized as such.

>>211469777
>the MM guy trooned out
grim 2bh

for the same reason that lonelygirl15, which was staged, came and went.

>>211471751
Who?

>>211472337
a series from the actual old school days of youtube