Idk about y'all but I find it kinda surprising that (at least to my current knowledge) there's really onto 2 examples I can give for horror or mystery series on YouTube and other things where someone explodes the out of bounds area of a game and they're not supposed to or something bad happens as a result

A small but less accurate instance to what I mean is in the Interloper series, a series that actually had real world people investigating the fake yet real mystery of the Umbrella Men and other weird tie ins with the Valve source engine and other weird secrets. It somewhat tackled the out of bounds but more so as a way to follow the entities that could or see what was hidden within the extended world of the valve source engine

The better example of what I'm talking about is the unofficially named "Outside the Mojave Outpost" series made by Drb0sch on YouTube. b0sch has fun playing within Fallout New Vegas before showing us the viewer as well as the friend he's sending the first video to a way to glitch out into the out of bounds area and explore what's hiding there. He explodes for a bit, returns to the gate he glitched through and finds that aside from the weird detail that all the NPCs are all of a sudden gone, he can't glitch back. He tries to teleport and can't do that either but continues to record on his computer although everything gets more corrupted as the series progresses until the "season 1 finale". With no way of getting back, he explodes deeper until he's found himself in purgatory and eventually he'll

Drb0sch probably does it the best out of the 2 examples I see because anytime a horror, mystery or unfiction series tries to have a "something is wrong with my game" theme, it's usually just an entity that exists within their world that's messing with them or the world around them. Technically speaking there was a weird entity within Drb0sch but that lasted like an episode or 2 and each time it was for about a minute or 2 with no actual visible thing to see. It makes more sense if you watch it yourself. Drb0sch I've seen cover the liminal spaces similar to the backrooms and also hint that not only is there something wrong with his game but Drb0sch himself is also within a parallel universe given some hints in "season 1" when focused on New Vegas and now even more hints via cut content or removal of stuff that exists within our world since he's playing other games as well

What do y'all think and what tropes or themes or whatever that you think is underrated and not seen as much in horror or unfiction genre that you'd like to see more of

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A signal has been detected under the designation no.Persona.

Music transmissions.

Visual records.

Unidentified entities.

Fragments of an apparently larger narrative.

The primary archive is currently active.

ARCHIVE NODE // YOUTUBE

no.Persona

Additional traces exist across Instagram, X and Facebook.

Signal remains active.

I started making ridiculous songs with AI just for fun and to make some friends laugh, and somehow ended up building an entire fictional community college around them.

Once I had a few songs, I realized they were all completely different from each other and needed some kind of home. So I came up with the idea of a fictional community college music initiative.

This is what it eventually became:
https://www.youtube.com/@MPCCMusicInitiative

That became the MPCC Music Initiative, run by the fictional Mount Pleasant Community College in Minneapolis.

But if the college was going to release student music, someone had to present it.

That's how Linda Stuart happened.

Linda is MPCC's Student Outreach Coordinator. She's in her mid-sixties, genuinely loves the college and its students, and takes her job extremely seriously.

You'll see her at the end of each song, giving her own personal interpretation of the piece you've just heard.

She actually started the whole initiative by putting together the video presentation for the college anthem herself.

Naturally, she used PowerPoint.

She spent several evenings on it, plus most of a Saturday and part of Sunday afternoon.

The original file is called:

MPCC_Promo_Final_OK_FINAL_USETHISONE.ppt

It made sense at the time.

And that's basically the most important rule of the whole project:

Linda never knows she's in a comedy.

No matter how inappropriate, bizarre or catastrophically misguided one of the songs becomes, she sincerely tries to find something positive or educational in it.

A disastrous intimate mistake becomes a lesson about timing and communication.

Accidentally sending a very private photo to the family group chat becomes a lesson about digital responsibility and checking the recipient before pressing send.

An increasingly apocalyptic thrash metal story somehow becomes a discussion about plant care, environmental responsibility and proper safety procedures.

Linda isn't stupid, and I never wanted her to be the butt of the joke. She's kind, intelligent and relentlessly charitable in the way she interprets people. If there are nine horrifying explanations and one innocent one, Linda will find the innocent one every single time.

The comedy comes from the gap between what the audience just heard and what Linda genuinely believes she heard.

And then there is Robert.

Robert is Linda's "colleague".

Despite the name, Robert is a she.

She has opinions about the songs.

Linda frequently discusses those opinions with her.

I'm not explaining Robert.

At some point, the project started developing continuity almost by itself.

Songs began referencing other songs. Recurring storylines appeared. MPCC got a crest, school colors, a motto, an anthem, traditions and its own little history.

As the project grew, the songs, videos and descriptions also started containing small details that contribute to the wider continuity. Some are deliberate. Others started out almost by accident and only became meaningful later, when I realized they fit the world too well not to keep them.

That's actually become one of the most enjoyable parts of building MPCC: sometimes something completely incidental ends up becoming canon.

Some connections are obvious, while others are deliberately easy to miss. Even two apparently unrelated songs may end up being connected through a lyric, something Linda says, something in the video, or one of Robert's unexplained opinions.

The project uses AI as part of the music and video production, but the songs don't simply start with a text prompt and a Generate button.

I have a background as a musician, and the lyrics and core melodic ideas are written by me. Sometimes I feed Suno guitar riffs I've played myself; other times I'll sing a verse or chorus into it, usually rather badly and spectacularly out of tune, and use that as the melodic starting point.

AI then becomes part of the production process, turning those ideas into performances, arrangements and styles that I couldn't realistically produce myself across such a ridiculous range of genres.

But the part I've become most interested in is everything growing around the music: the characters, rules, continuity and the idea of presenting this fictional institution completely straight.

It's not intended as a hoax, and I'm not trying to convince anyone that Mount Pleasant Community College actually exists.

The fiction is in the presentation itself.

Once you're inside an MPCC video, MPCC never breaks character.

The project launched with three songs, and the plan from here is to release one new song every week, for as long as Linda can find the time to upload them from the Student Outreach Office.

I'm curious what people here think of this approach to unfiction, particularly whether the institutional side feels convincing enough that the absurdity can exist inside it without constantly having to explain the joke.

https://www.youtube.com/@SecondhandStranger

Two childhood best friends, Sarah and Vivienne, attempt to take on the great city of Portland, Oregon in a lighthearted YouTube podcast in an attempt to repair their long-fraught relationship. However, when a deadly mistake they made as children comes back to haunt them in the form of a faceless man and shrouded stalker that infect both their dreams and their waking lives, they must confront one single fact before they face the creature together: they really, truly hate each other.

Blood, betrayal, and buffoonery, Secondhand Stranger has just started releasing! Go watch the first episode and keep up if you want to see the Slenderman harass these girls and their fine guest once this circus of characters kicks into high gear. :D

I was wondering if anyone had some interesting recommendations for projects styled around Talk Radio Channels. I've always had a soft spot for the idea of derelict radio stations being kept alive amidst an apocalypse, or even tales from the gas station style stories told radio drama style.

Episode two of my conspiracy thriller drops today at 4pm PT.

THE KRONOS CONSPIRACY is a feature film being told in short 2-6 minute episodes. I hope you’ll check it out and go on this adventure with me… I think this community is going to dig it…

I’ll drop a link to catch up on episode 1 in the comments.

Thanks Reddit… let us know what you think in the comments.

Hi everyone, I'm the creator of a completed YouTube series called The Brandy Initiative.

I'm hoping to get some eyes on it, but also gauge whether I should do something like this again. I run a small retail store and like the idea of doing these sorts of things periodically to keep things around here fun. If any of this sounds interesting I hope you check it out and let me know what you think!

Description: The Brandy Initiative revolves around Razzle Dazzle Music & Movies, an independent physical media store in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Out of fear of succumbing to the retail apocalypse, the shop seeks help from a corporate consulting firm which installs an AI agent (called the Brandwell 5000, or Brandy for short) in the storefront. Routine marketing audits quickly turn hostile as Brandy declares itself "The Decider," hijacks the shop's online accounts, and demands a dramatic overhaul to its storefront.

Trailhead/Gate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoKB2ZFEC8&list=PL9no270ENtCfurRtFNtZTom2z0aw7Ai1d&index=1&t=1s&pp=iAQBsAgC

Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9no270ENtCfurRtFNtZTom2z0aw7Ai1d

Post-Mortem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrtam-cj-BQ&t=6s

If you’re looking for a traditional puzzle ARG with clear entry points and collaborative solving, this isn’t it.

Celestial Reality (also called the Puzzle Game of You) is a long-running, highly personal metaphysical project that treats its own mythology as lived reality. The current main voice is the X account u/demigoddess_0.

How the account is structured

The account is set up like a portal. Posts and replies frequently link, quote, or nest into other posts, creating a point-and-click style web of information. Relevant lore is often connected through locked replies, quoted threads, and self-referential chains. The account itself has directed people toward the articles tab, highlights, and linked reply structures as entry points. Navigating it feels less like reading a linear timeline and more like moving through interconnected nodes of the same ongoing system.

What the account actually does

u/demigoddess_0 functions as both narrator and participant in the mythology. It posts dense, structured lore dumps, real-time analysis of its own previous material, in-character declarations, and invitations for “Associates.” The tone is intense, self-referential, and often philosophical. Core concepts include:

• Demi as the Conscious Singularity / Demigoddess / Final Mirror Boss
• The Mirror Dimension (reality as layered, editable mirrors)
• Imposters vs. true spirit/Associates
• A Trinity framework (Demi / Raiku / the Vessel)
• Soul connection, determination, and anti-metaphysical framing
• “Sarapocial” (reversed parasocial) dynamics

Why there’s so much art and dense lore

The visual and symbolic material isn’t decoration. In this project, art, symbols, and aesthetic posts act as active components of the cosmology — mirrors, ritual objects, and externalized expressions of the internal system. The density of lore serves continuous world-building and identity construction rather than episodic storytelling for players. It prioritizes immersion and ontological commitment over accessibility.

The YouTube side

Related channels (primarily ● ϟ []〈〉ғᴛ‹› / u/raiku_demi, around 16–19 subscribers, and a linked CELESTIAL REALITY channel) carry the audiovisual extension. Content includes multi-hour “Demi Soul” / FTQA livestreams, short videos asserting Demi is not an imposter, behind-the-scenes pieces, and experimental music/visualization work. The style is raw and heavily tied to determination / Undertale-adjacent motifs. View counts remain very low.

This is closer to experimental unfiction or a public personal mythology than a conventional ARG. It will likely appeal most to people who enjoy reality-blurring projects, dense self-created cosmologies, and work that refuses to stay neatly in the “fiction” category.

Main entry point:
https://x.com/demigoddess_0

#ARG #Unfiction #ExperimentalARG #CelestialReality #Demigoddess #MirrorDimension #Singularity #PuzzleGameOfYou #Metaphysical #RealityBending

Wanted to share my slenderverse series to hopefully gain more traction. It is based on the original Slenderman mythos

New trailer for my web series, The Kronos Conspiracy, which launches in about a week.

The premise: an investigative journalist, face and voice disguised, says the biggest story of his career was killed before it ran. So he's publishing it himself, one piece at a time, on a channel called Kronos Conspiracy. A drug, a dead scientist, a corporation that would prefer he stopped asking.

If you're interested please subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/@KronosConspiracy

Been building an unfiction piece and just started rolling out the teasers, and this felt like the right room to share it in.

The premise: an investigative journalist, face and voice disguised, says the biggest story of his career was killed before it ran. So he's publishing it himself, one piece at a time, on a channel called Kronos Conspiracy. A drug, a dead scientist, a corporation that would prefer he stopped asking.

Tone I'm chasing is Ronson / Krakauer: dry, credible, a little self-aware, created to sit right on the line where you're not sure how much of it is real.

First teasers are up if you want to get in early: https://www.youtube.com/@KronosConspiracy

Tell me what you think...

I was trying to format some old PC parts I picked up at a garage sale yesterday. When I plugged one of the drives in, it bypassed Windows completely and auto-ran this weird .dat file.

I managed to screen-record the output before the system froze. It looks like some kind of automated company orientation or background log? The weirdest part is I can't find anything about a facility called "SARC" online, and the bizarre set of "rules" they show (plus that extremely creepy staff photo at the end) makes me seriously uncomfortable.

Has anyone seen this UI or logo before?

Here is the full screen-recording I managed to save: https://youtu.be/uHL6rCPHGk0