#go watch local58 if you want a good youtube horror series in the style of old news broadcasts

[fiendishartist2]

ppl on the internet when a piece of media is really good and therefore popular: um actually im starting to think its overrated....

[d1scordantmelody]

Everyone else has a good explanation but I'm going a little further: it's analog, as in mechanical. It's told through electronics and machines, and the "ghosts" corrupting them. Media but it's a bit to the left. "This a training tape,however upon viewing it the distortions make it seem like the thing you're being trained to handle is communicating with you. But that's impossible, they're not... Alive... are they?"

The stories are typically left to people's own interpretations, only giving out some concrete clues.

It also focuses heavily on the uncanny valley and psychological tension, rather than jumpscares. Sometimes there are scares and they're. Okay.

A lot of people clown on modern analog horror for its use of distortion on faces as horror. Especially in simplistic art styles, it can seem silly if you look at it objectively.

However, that's where analog horror really shines.

Making you think.

Oh god, we've seen this guy's face how it is normally, what could have happened to make it look like...that? We've played this game before, why are things changing now?

Analog horror is about distrusting your surroundings (because are you watching a tape made by humans, or whatever entity wants to lure the humans in?) and building off your own mounting terror with slow realizations (you thought this would be helpful, but it turns out this guide will kill you if you try it).

It's terrifying and I love it.

They're also sometimes mixed with ARGs, to find the next pieces of the puzzle. But not always.

LOCAL58 is a classic. Gemini Home Entertainment is my personal favorite. The Walten Files is also fantastic, as well as the Mandela Catalogue. However those last two suffer from "facial distortion via liquefy tool" that makes people not consider them quality. I personally don't mind it, but YMMV. The FNAF VHS series by Squimpus McGrimpus is another one that's very good.

Now, are you interested in these, but you don't quite have the stomach for horror? Don't have the heart for sitting through it all? No problem! I introduce you now to my personal favorite macabre YouTubers who have covered all of these.

Nexpo

Night Mind

Wendigoon

They'll keep ya safe. And they cover many other eerie types of content, so if you like longform video essays, you'll love them.

Hope that helped, Scoots!

what’s analog horror