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Hello /x/, what is your personal favorite old school (I.E. Pre -2016) ARG? I've fell down a rabbit hole of old ARGs and wanted to know if you guys would like to discuss some of them.

Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/@abstractions4123
https://www.youtube.com/@AspicioOmniam
https://www.youtube.com/@finderictaylor
https://www.youtube.com/@butterbiscuits4363
https://www.youtube.com/@dogwood531
https://www.youtube.com/@LouisePaxton
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU8hMPcqMQAKF3gMNmvjxYQ
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>>42699804
I wanna say TribeTwelve but the guy who made it is a pedophile so sadly that's off the table. I wanna say FoundontheTape too, but that never even finished.
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>>42699916
I actually found a bunch that seemed to be unfinished (or at least, had videos deleted).
https://www.youtube.com/@s0cksify
https://www.youtube.com/@cdc-em3pk
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLJaNgAn6HMqLEOt0Dubt_A
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>>42699916
>the guy who made it is a pedophile
He's a jew. Of course he likes kids.
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>>42699804
Can't say I ever got into one, but I remember actually hearing about Marble Hornets back in the day, and I had fun learning about its whole run from YouTube videos. I think the era of ARGs like that are probably mostly lost now, there were a lot of lightning in a bottle elements that made them doable back then, and unfortunately you're just not going get people hooked by thinking they found a creepy video on the internet (anything that might be actually creepy gets flagged way too easily now, and you have to know what you're doing to find what slips through the cracks), and even if you're a decent story teller it's doubtful people will care enough to stick around since there's only so many ways you can go after your initial YouTube setup. And making it clear from the beginning that you're entirely fake just isn't the same.
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>>42700066
I feel like series got less "I'm making this for fun" and more "I am making this for fame" with the rise of Wendigoon and Nightmind.
Given that corporate scouts are now looking for new properties to gain the rights to in the wake of the backrooms movie, it's only gonna get worse.
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>>42699916
>FoundontheTape
I like the concept of using HL maps.
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bump
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>>42700113
I feel like that's just gonna be a fad that lasts maybe a few years. Remember all the creepypasta movies (Ted, Slenderman, etc) that sucked ass and killed everything off? That's how this trend is going to end. Backrooms was lightning in a bottle, I doubt Mandela Catalogue or the two Trever Henderson movies are going to be good.
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>>42699804
I wonder if they are doing good out there
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>>42701995
They probably don't even know they have a following
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https://www.youtube.com/@themalkavianbible
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It's ashame most of these series never had proper endings.
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>>42704039
Interesting
>>42705191
Yep, I wish most did more
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>>42699804
the worst ARG of all time is marrying a woman
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>>42700341
Yeah, that was awesome. I remember hearing people thought it was an ARG for announcing Half Life 3. Hey, maybe that was true, and why it was abandoned.
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>>42705191
>>42706796
And the endings they do have are usually dogshit.
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now I remember about Alan Tutorial
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>>42704039
finally someone saved it. it's a very good matrix-tier story. I wonder if I should spoil it, or just let the others figure it out on their own
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bumping, because fuck modern /x/, fuck generals, and fuck anons
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jesus christ, it's like modern /x/ is interested in only talking about god, satan, and other piss shit religions
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bump
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>nu /x/ doesnt care about creepypastas
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there was this very early channel, like from 2006, who had some really really really creepy vids and got forgotten, but the vids became source for some shitty creepypastas
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>>42715530
I think you're going to have to be a little more specific.
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>>42716417
in a way, it was the mother of many creepypastas
>shot in darkness
>disturbing images
>guys in female masks looking at the camera
>implications of some murder
and so on.
They had like 6 or 7 videos with the last one being in 2007 and nothing since
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https://www.youtube.com/@roberthelpmann9855
this guy for a while was controversial, as it looked like murdered body in a bag. not sure if it was ever solved
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEIqCg_MOTA&list=PLxidcK1q6hvA3SOQNDmZvetnnctpgg1Ms&index=19
this video was obviously fake, but the creators had a lot of problem with the police, as well as some woman sued them, as the girl in the vid looked similar to her missing daughter, which was later found murdered
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another example of dropped ARG would be Dad Tapes
https://www.youtube.com/@DadsTapes
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This is a modern japanese ARG
warning, very scary
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnjharIzqbhC6smXfbydrt8ha3z-XVod7
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>>42716507
I remember some analysis youtuber came to the conclusion that this was metaphor for the spirit of Christmas being dead... somehow.
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>>42699804
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkWs1cFngWw&list=RDJkWs1cFngWw&start_radio=1&pp=ygUVYmlnIHNjYXJ5IG92ZXIgbWF0dGVyoAcB0gcJCZsLAYcqIYzv
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>>42717916
Makes sense
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>>42717916
Or an easter bunny
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>>42718887
Or ramadan



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