Strange sightings on an Alpha Minecraft channel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ธ.ค. 2022
- There is a bizarre channel on TH-cam that appears to show Minecraft anomalies. But it's a lot deeper than it may appear - join me as we explore the oddities of Mark101.
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Mark101 Channel: / @unintelligible-synapse
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"Unknown Enigma" - • "Unknown Enigma" - Mus...
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Errata:
0:6:55 - should say "it's"
1:02:00 - Missing PH0TON-GR4VITY credit - เกม
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Worth the wait! Love your content!
amazing
I understand why people love to make Minecraft creepy content in Alpha, but why not beta or release? I can see possibilities with those versions
Happy Holidays, Retro!
Yay you uploaded! Quality over quantity!!
This story was FNAF'ed. What started as a genuinely eerie, horror story turned into another inter-galactic story about saving the world.
fnaf got ruined so fucking much, honestly the smaller a creepypasta about some monster is, the scarier it is, atleast for me with the exception of few cases
Matpad
WELCOME TO GAME THEORY
Dude it was more original than others,tf you talking about?
@@user-mn7dk2mt8j Yeah it was, but I miss old creepypasta-style stories, and this story started as one of those. Eventually, when multiple entities were introduced, it lost it's shine- in my opinion.
This turns to "creepypasta" to "horror story" to "goofy movie". Literally.
Yeah, pretty weird, It was creepy, then it just turned into a fucking “Hero Vs Villain”
but where else could this possibly go, you can't just perpetually sustain the eerie environment with no climax, if you think it could be done better why don't you do it yourself?
@@EmiWiwhat do you mean? The best horror stories are the ones who know where to end. They're the ones who have no clear ending. What we make up in our mind will always be more scary than reality, which often ends up underwhelming. You absolutely can sustain an eerie environment with no climax.
@@catscanhavelittleasalami I agree, but horror these days, especially mainstream, is about the narrative, the conclusion that it brings at the end. I also enjoy the horror with no clear conclusion as well, but that’s not what horror is about in recent times. Though, it does seem that people are starting to make vague horror stories like that again.
Im the 666th liker
This story felt like it started good and then... the silly entities happened to exist.
It's like playing the first hour of any F.E.A.R game only for it to lose all the horror and starting a CoD campaign
happens when you abandon a good idea for child engagement
nuh uh FEAR 2 is my favorite game I will not accept any criticism of it
“Any FEAR game” implies that the series has any cohesion at all, which it doesn’t. What you’re describing sounds most like F3AR, the worst one. IMO the original fear was genuinely good at mixing action and horror, and managed to at times make you feel anxious in spite of the firepower you had.
400th like
except FEAR’s combat is interesting and dynamic
The thing about this ARG is that it’s concept is taken to it’s ‘logical conclusion’ which means it inevitably stops being scary in favor of an actual narrative.
Yea but the actual narrative is kinda goofy and poorly written.
This wouldn't be a problem if the actual narrative was good. However it's... Mediocre at best.
yeah because the orignal story was sooo scawwy. oh no there's a red dot on the moon im scared!!
@xn6963 still better than a high stakes "Gotta save the world" thing.
@@catscanhavelittleasalamistill better than most Minecraft creepypastas
I like how it went from "yay I got tones of diamonds!!" to the moon crashing on the moonbase
-casually plays minecraft
-gets scared
-gets his existence denied
-refuses to elaborate further
-leaves
Immersion for me was lost when they got into the moon arc
@@Horns897 for me it was at the end when the whole thing was denied existence
It literally went for scary sighting video to lore video
The J.A.F.F.A. would be proud
The least believable part of this is how many diamonds Markus has
Edit: I hereby condemn this reply thread with a terminal case of r/redditmoment
Trueee
Emeralds*
Yeah and you know what it is
You mean the most beliveable?
@@Belittled_one it's daimonds not emaralds
What a disappointing route this ARG took.
It started off being genuinely terrifying. The sounds made me curl up in my chair, the scenes of panic from Markus were infective and genuinely made my heart race. Even the entities and unexplained world changes were creepy and gave me chills.
But as soon as the Sector 4 and everything with that got introduced, it got genuinely less creepy. It felt more like some strange intergalactic fanfiction. The entities were still kinda creepy at that point but the more they got explained and the more time we spent in the Moonbase and Adminspace the more value they lost as horror creatures.
I hope with the next installment of this series they stick to the horror and leave out the frankly unnecessary Admin and Dev stuff.
The author self-insert is what ruined it imo
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@@SorryForBecomingHumanAgain9819I agree
@@Vlumpty_Vontyfr fr
For me it stopped being scary after first two white rooms things with star and then the second player guy after that. Then I thought that they both maybe are trying to stop the anomalies that are spreading from some another world but even they are failing with their command server becoming destroyed too. Then the weird dimention travel began. And finally it kind of was confirmed to be not real inside it's own universe, making it less real than my imagined multiverse, where it's canonically real inside itself, while being a world below this one in hirerarchy
No, they just made basically everything a story in it's lore, which was even worse that becoming a science fiction. And to add to it, I'm one of the people who liked backrooms more as another universe than a creepy place, so me not liking this story really shows that it wasn't a good plot twist
I find it funny how whenever an entity is around, they drop the framerate to make it easier to edit the entity in
Yeah, and it even works 😂
That kinda concept of the frames dropping when something terrifying is near has been a thing in text creepypastas for over 10 years tho
These ARGs describes perfectly the feeling of Minecraft in development when you start to play it
What’s an ARG?
@@swiftsword6489 "Alternate Reality Game"
I disagree. This is very strange and bizarre. Scary, even. Sure, Minecraft can be scary sometimes, but not it's not like this.
@@erickjoestar1561 it’s ‘augmented reality game.’ not sure why the ‘alternate’ misconception has caught on
@@rotisseriepossum No, augmented reality games and alternate reality games are two different things that happen to have the same acronym. Augmented reality is when a game adds something to a real-life image, like Pokemon Go. Alternate reality is when a game uses the real-world as a platform to tell the story.
These stories are everything young me ever feared while playing Minecraft. Weird entities, unexplained world changes……. This video would have terrified me
My friend sayed he saw like a doom boss in the void💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Yeah but at this point its getting cheesy
Bro this is like the same exact thing for me! Lol
@@lucastheunfunnyguy They were probably lying btw. Man I remember saying lies similar to this to my friends during like elementary school and stuff and they believed me... Good times.. But I still feel like there is probably some entities that are in Minecraft that aren’t lies.
@@mikeobannion2129 except its a game so no there are not
Love how the void beings very obviously went from either some kind of imposed image or manipulated texture of something that looks super uncanny in minecraft to silly not entirely out of place looking in game entities
I'm so tired of cool stories like this becoming so insanely goofy.
Yeah, the more and more VoidExp became a major part, of this the more exhausting it got to keep up with it.
I SERIOUSLY missed this kind of creepy minecraft found footage type stuff. This is the kind of stuff that gave me nightmares as a kid.
God I miss herobrine lol
@@Mentelgen-1337 i miss the monster school without the cringe 😔
roblox footage archieves are more scarier.
@@TheWhiteSpy No, not really. Roblox is a game where you are usually filled with other people in the game. Minecraft is empty. Nobody. "Single"player. The world is so incredibly vast, and you are the ONLY sentient being in the world. Are you sure? Is there something else out there? You can't know.
Still does. never playing Minecraft lol
I think he specifically choose slimes as the monsters Markus killed, because their spawn chances in Minecraft are dependent on the moon phase fitting the theme of the series. Nice touch
Nice catch!
Unfortunately this is not true in this case as slime's spawn rate is only influenced by moon phase in swamps, and the slimes spawning in Markus' mine is the slime chunk method of spawning.
@@maqma_2118🤓🤓
@@maqma_2118 Still quite neat, either way!
@@maqma_2118 Yeah I'm not saying the exact method is the same but it's still linked to it
55:56 why am I thinking of that void entity just having the text of “Fruit Loops, NOW”
Yo ill make the image for you
The moment I saw that “entity sliding out from behind the block” was actually just a png being click-and-dragged into frame, I knew where this was going.
scariest part is 3:13 where Marcus uses a lever to open a wooden door
i cannot sleep anymore after this realization.
@@pentaawesome Same
This made me sleep in my moms bed 😳
@penta same sadly
It’s kinda scary because sound
This is like if an AI wrote a Minecraft creepypasta and this group is acting it out
Ever heard of ChatGPT?
@@MCAlexisYT no
@@MCAlexisYT yes lol
Accurate.
@@MCAlexisYT nah i remember AlongCameJosh tho
I love the first part of this story, the unnerving transformation of the moon, the low bitrate footage of weird, spindly anomalies, the creepy sounds, and even the premise of *something* messing with your Minecraft world and leaving strange images/videos on your computer while you aren't looking is wonderfully chilling.
Also I am pretty sure the structure at 17:18, is where the "example of an anomaly" image on the minecraftanomolies website was taken. The picture is very difficult to make out, but you can see a floating grey structure, falling snow, some ice near the bottom, and even what seems to be Markus's house in the background.
It is possible the image was not *of* an anomaly, but rather taken by one (probably ☼, since they've been using Mark's account and were shown to have control of the website at 34:00).
That may also explain the cave system below (18:30); ☼ could have dug the hole leading down there and created the holes in the bedrock as another entry point for the void beings.
Very good outlook, but what if Marcus is being called the anomaly here? Since in the picture his house is there almost near the center, star had ability to make a void trojan in the script, which caused void beings to appear and then star helped these anomalies get past the bedrock, it could be that Markus was created by star to be a puppet of his, but he learnt a lot possibly due to star's mistakes behind the scenes, and Markus disobeyed star in the end, in my opinion Markus is an anomaly made by star (which explains why star didn't try to manipulate other players like how he did to Markus).
35:24 The absolute buildup to this joke is amazing, i freaking love it.
same
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John Madden. Football
30:27 Actually this is a bug in old versions where if you walk down a staircase of blocks, not touching each step for long enough to create a footstep sound, it will play every missed footstep sound in quick succession once you do stand on a block long enough again.
OH MY GOD thank you, I was just playing Alpha 1.2.3 and had this EXACT bug happen to me while walking down my mine stairs, and I tried looking it up to no avail, but I still kept this video in my mind. Now I know what it is
now that i think of it, it still happens to me sometimes in multiplayer
@@redranjer that's just lag, not a bug
So it gets delayed when walking and touching each step. It just counts it and waits until you stand on a block.when you do, the step sounds plays at once.
"actually" - 🤓
The character of Markus must be the bravest man in the world. If I saw anything that could qualify as an anomaly in my world then I would leave and never touch the world again.
He deadass told Star "I'm not afraid of your noodle friends" referring to the void entities, he's a badass
Heh. In a bedrock world a while ago, I had this weird glitch where a roughly 18 block tall, 12 wide, 1 thin wall of dirt, stone, or other blocks with some tall holes in it would appear out of the ground and occasionally would disappear after relogging.
I called the “entity” that made it “Factoryman” because the wall kind of looked like an old factory wall.
If I had seen this video I would have left the world and never returned, but nothing ever happened other than the walls.
well also because i doubt anything in a fictional game could really harm you in reality
@@firemayro The highest damage I think a fictional game can cause is mental trauma
Put the Hard Drive that has the affected world on it in the Microwave and turn the Microwave on
The beginning was peak horror but then it turned into a goofy save the world movie
This is as much of a wet fart as the Godzilla NES creepypasta. Such is life, I suppose. (Good start, bad development, you get me?)
The beginning: Ooh thats spooky
The end: I have no idea what is even happening anymore.
haha legit
Before: oh yeah weird entities got it.
After: a collective group of conscious ai working to either destroy their own world or save it whilst dealing with a random group of people who entered into their secret world then it turns out the secret of the arg was that the world is an arg. honestly i have no clue what i just said or if its even accurate
@@koboldwizard You're mostly right on that. Though, what's even more confusing now is the identity of the author. Not sure if you've seen the latest videos on this series (they're on The Let's Play Archive channel), but The Author certainly isn't a human being. Not sure if they're a part of the "void beings" since there's some contraditions to that but at this point I am running with it for now lol.
Beginning: Oh a random minecraft alpha mystery.... that's *interesting*
End: *WHAT THE FUCK* did I just watched
Genezion: Yeah a minecraft letsplay and seeying weird anomalies, also moon became redmarked
Finalion: The moon houses teh adnuinspace console, destroctrion of void, arg knowing it being an arg
13:58 imagine being chased by a weird creature in Minecraft and the framrate is so low you can barely run from it.
Id actually be smashing the whole setup, nah you know what… demolish the whole house, wipe the ip, move countries, change names and live my life in the trees somewhere in vietnam alone.
@@andrewduncan6972 LOL i would actually do the same
@@andrewduncan6972 respectable
It's like these dreams where you have to run but struggle to move your legs.
@@tashkent561 or when you get kidnapped, and you can't scream
Okay, those void spaghetti shadow demons were actually kinda creepy. Mostly because of how hard they contrast the Minecraft art style.
If it had stuck with that angle and followed the more "traditional" corrupt and/or haunted game motif it could have probably been better overall.
That second half kinda derailed the plot into some other dimension of absurdity.
I actually got spooked in the beginning, but it ended so badly
the beginning was actually quite creepy but then it turned into the goofiest story ever
True like i'm sad about how they changed the entity design like at first it looked TERRIFYING but then it just got turned into a "oooohhhh spooky horror mod"
@@bropels just once i'd like to see a realistic arg
@@tl1882 yeah but for me I would actually like to see an arg that actually makes me terrified for the night and the next day dude
@@tl1882 I wouldn't say these ones are realistic but these ones are damn near perfect stories adult check out some Team Fortress 2 ARG the to that I recommend are bad water 2009 and Gunslinger Pro 2009 I don't want to spoil the story so I'm only going to give you the one gimmick that make sure you stories interesting, the rag doll characters with in the game of Gmod in these stories are alive and sentient
True
I'm an adult, but this kinda scares me because it reminds my old fear of playing Minecraft survival alone, because I watched too many Herobrine, Entity 303, and Null videos on TH-cam when I was a kid , it's a weird feeling of a nostalgia
Same!! I couldn't even play in pacific
HAHAHAHA MY GUY SAME
Although only Herobrine convinced me, the others are cringe imo ever since i learned abt coding
Bro even me when i hear cave sound then i leave so fast when i was kid i think it was entity
As an ass this dosent scare me
The entities looked way scarier at the start then they just turned into the weird backrooms creatures. Sad to see where this went
i loved the way they integrated lag into the beginning, plus the low quality look really made it feel like one of those found footage things, when all dev stuff started happening it just looked kinda ridiculous, not to mention the spindly monster things just look like those kinda bad minecraft mods from the first peak in popularity, overall it aged pretty poorly past the first few markus things
Just imagine what would happen if Markus and all his friends were in a voice call
Chaos.
Just incoherent screaming and chatting
@@Amogusrath "I'm gonna put my cat on the mic"
@@isle-unto-thyself *MMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW*
"MARKUS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING"
"ima troll this star guy real quick, watch me"
This guy is the equivalent to a professional movie director
Ya
The voices
Facts
rgn or mark101?
@@thumbgoblin4716 pretty sure the comment meant rgn but honestly they're both incredible story tellers
I know that this ARG got FNAF'd a ton, but I feel like its the same reason why I loved the Godzilla NES Creepypasta so much, its just very interesting to me for some reason, but I dont know why...
The Moon base alpha killed me lmao
This started off as a interesting creepy pasta but then introduced a bunch of characters and a new plot that I think didn't really need to be added to the story
Indeed. I think that such is often the unfortunate case for a lot of ARGs. They are made by story writers who get too caught up in plot development, and they often forget about what made them scary in the first place.
Yeah, i think people like psi and star mightve been needed but like markus’s friends, checkmark, void entities probably should have had more purpose, maybe these will have more of a purpose in act 2 but idk
I agree, it stopped being scary but it was still interesting nonetheless
It's the I need to overexplain my plot points syndrome, just like any creepypasta/backroom type shit it needs to get shit explained for no reason instead of leaving the unexplainable unexplained or vaguely explained just like the first 15 minutes of this video, giving characters emotions and thoughts is bad because the viewer can imagine something far beyond what the writer's comprehension is, at least FOR HIS OWN entertainment (which is actually the CORECT way to write stories like these if you want most positive feedback). It's exactly like the what's in the dark dillema. You and your friend are taken by force to an undisclosed location and put in 2 different rooms, in the corner of your rooms, total darkness. Your friend gets told that there is a person holding a knife there, he is distressed but you are being told that there is something there in the shadows waiting, no matter what, you will ALWAYS think that the unknown is scarier because your brain makes you the special monster that it knows it will scare you, it's the same with this, those characters could be anyone your brain thinks there is , the monsters could be coming from a lot of places, if it gets explained it stops being a creepypasta/horrorARG and it starts being a basic sci-fi horror-like story. I understand there are ARG fans that like this type of stuff where there are crossovers but I find them overused already.
@@ige_3599 The metafiction stuff is super cool but there needed to be a bunch of more intrigue and middle section between the two. You can have "spooky alternate reality invasion through minecraft" and "the whole thing is metafiction that technically IS affecting reality in a memetic way" at the same time... but not if you just brush off the first part and jump into a bunch of weird character narrative and skip to the end point. It weakens the metanarrative punch tons too, IMO.
It’s so interesting seeing TH-camrs make series like this. It’s like the Minecraft equivalent of analog horror videos
that's actually becoming a new genre of horror, called digital horror
Digital Horror, to be exact (I’m a nerd🤓)
Now what is: 7 • 7 = ?
@@jasonthebeast1454 49.
Bruh really?
The cosmic entites in my minecraft world haunting me to insanity watching in horror as i type /gamemode c:
30:27 I think that is the footstep audio. In this old version, walking on the side of blocks would cause the footstep audio to not play and queue, stacking it, causing them all to play at once when you move off the side.
I love how this ARG, in some weird way, is a love letter to online story telling and the nature of ARGs themselves. It’s lowkey poetic, but at the same time, amazingly confusing and kinda ridiculous. As a fellow author, it is amazing to see everyone’s creations come to life in such unique ways. Absolute banger of a video, worth the wait, and a solid 11/10
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I completely agree, a very well made ARG that manages to go meta in its unique way, kudos to THE author
man named himself an author💀💀💀💀
I find it an interesting parallel to the actual minecraft end poem, which touches on the nature of creating.
@@szeretemahansant226 Brian Griffin headass
I'm really losing faith in the SCP company to actually secure and contain these creatures.
The SCP Foundation Aint A Company Its A Foundation
Ämöng Üs
They “guarantee safety and peace” until they hear you say that, haha
This is all because of the damn 05-13 he nuked the entire site
theres an sco that is actually stuck in minecraft and is contained in minecraft
I really like the scribble monsters in the first half, some guy figuring out whats going on. the adminscape half of the story is where it fell off a little bit for me
"a mother giving birth to her child" is the scariest line given the context because there's so little and it's just so random
probably the void giving birth to void beings
Mate i see a man on a hill 🗣️👤🗣️🫁🫁🫁
I really love the beginning with the creatures and fear of the unknown, but i feel it all goes downhill after they go to the white area.
yeah, i agree. i was seriously scared in the first part and was literally watching with my eyes closed
Same. Part 1 was absolutely horrifying, it reawakened my childhood terror of Herobrine I haven't felt since 2012 in a matter of seconds. The way Markus was fearfully looking out into the distance hit very close to home and the unexpected noises & weird changes to his world are the exact things I was scared of encountering back then. The presence of backrooms-like monstrosities only amplified the fear of the unknown.
And then we see a bunch of guys shooting arrows at the Moon. What an extreme letdown.
There used to be lots of Minecraft clones on a Russian social network. I don't remember the name, but one of them had much more realistic graphics than the rest, with players having actual human models from Unity put into a blocky world. It also had a legend about a tall, black "observer" entity that stalked players from the mountains at night. Some people posted (obviously edited) screenshots that showed it looking at them from afar. Coupled with how uncanny the graphics were, it was probably even more creepy than Minecraft's legends. That's what Part 1 reminds me of.
The legend is, of course, nothing original and it was probably just taken from Garry's Mod, but we had no idea. There was also the possibility of it being a real thing, since the game was so niche and there was basically no info you could possibly find about it.
I do like both parts, but the first definitely is better. I feel like part two would’ve worked pretty well as its own project/act that can go deeper into lore without ruining the wonderful and terrifying simplicity of part 1
I actually liked the admin stuff, Mark’s group exploring adminspace reminded me of those old multiplayer minecraft stories like Shadow of Israphel or Mianite. The Meta stuff in the recent act 2 kinda derails it though.
This is sooo cool!
I keep on coming back to it as well as your other mc vids, they are just so fascinating!
And also the massive change from an almost downright cryptic mystery , to so much character development with ⭐️ and the void beings!
The starting was so scary but at the end it turned into a goofy moon story
I always thought it was weird how the moon being scary is such a common trope in internet horror. From this to HIS THRONE from Local 58 to the Crescent king from the Monument Mythos to Neptune from Gemni Home Entertainment.
Maybe if it didn't have that spooky face lookin thing on it, it would be less creepy.
Humanity is beginning to sense the sentience emanating from the moon
The moon has always been a symbol of mystery in many cultures. Not really strange to see its representation in this way in horror
Yeah it's a lazy horror cop-out imo
@@muddskipper
So with that logic anything paranormal is also a cop-out?
If it were lazy then they would all be the same. I admit they have similar themes but all twist it in their own way. It's all about how it's executed.
If the ARG peaked at a planet-sized monster shedding the moon as its shell and trying to inhabit earth, I think it would have been much better.
Like Local58?
Holy shit this would be scary
Yeah and star couldve either been one of the moon’s minions or some anomalous entity trying to warn Marcus into deleting the game or something to stop it
Dead space vibes
Isn’t that the dont look at the moon mc arg
Honestly, what a fascinating series of videos. I really like some of the concepts the creator was running with. Capturing that 2011 minecraft feel with the usernames and skins and crusty video editing- it was also fun to see a bit of proper modding going into the series to make it feel all the more real. I was definitely spooked the first time the moon disappeared lol, like MAN. It brought back all of the fears I had playing minecraft in early beta.
The meta ending isn't my cup of tea, but I loved the concepts of the admins running things from behind the scenes and having their own devlog type videos that are clearly not meant for our eyes.
The heginning got me, it got kinda goofy and unserious after players started joining but, good ass video!
I think this is one of the most high-quality args I've ever seen. When I first started watching this video, my original thought was "Ah, it's another mysterious dark creature in the distance arg," and then I saw that this video was A FULL HOUR LONG. I knew there must have been a reason you made a full-length documentary on this, and I was not disappointed in the slightest. Thank you for making your awesome videos, RGN. :D
I’m only now seeing it’s an hour long, at the end of the video. It felt like 20 minutes to me
@@Robert-mn1uw Same, that hour went by fast. 100% worth it.
@@MalcolmKeithGaming I liked the arg however the admin stuff and star ruined the mystery and the explaining stuff.
Seriously! It continued to surprise me as it went on, and it's only Act I!
You should watch “garfilled” ‘exploring abanded servers.’ It’s still one of my favorites to this day
The ARG went from classic "There is something wrong with my Minecraft world" creepypasta to fucking Third Impact
"it all, returns, to bedrock, it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down"
get on the game shinji
Oh my god, evangelicals mentioned
shinji, get on the skybox shinji
Get in the moon Shinji
I love this, the story design and the commentary is amazing
You know shits boutta happen when there’s a noise and a gap in the footage
Fun fact: The moon with red eyes was actually a feature notch discussed on 4chan where in the night the moon would have a chance of a red eye in the middle. However the feature was never added. Also more features were discussed here is a list of them:
Crystals - Diamonds and emeralds
Hatchet - Axe
Sky - old sky demension that was removed
Order of the stone-The original title of minecraft
this fills me with pure sadness that it was never added
My sadness is immeasurable and my day is ruined
Stop lying
@@PILLOWKVLTits true squidward
@@Dark_Fox97652 Yeah, Notch talked about a feature on 4chan, a site where every user is anonymous and it's therefore impossible to determine who's posting, right
@@PILLOWKVLTits not too far off, while i cant verify the validity of OPs claims, notch actually used 4chan to promote the game and update features on /v) a LOT
This genre of horror is something that is specifically effective to us as its not just something we fear out of instinct, but out of experience. We lived out these fears back in the day and seeing them again like this only adds to our "fond" memories
I hate creepy creatures
Analogue horror
Analog horror is what it is called
@@contraxius2956 analog horror is horror captured with analog technology, I'm talking specifically minecraft based horror
@@bluejay117 oh okay but the beggining of it was kind of in the analogue genre
I was actually very into this at the beginning but once the admin space stuff started happening it just seemed to basic? I guess? Idk but near the end it was just a story of fake characters finding out they’re fake which I’ve seen done 1000 times over
Untill 14 minutes this was actually creepy and disturbing after 14 minutes it got so goofy
Loving the name changes.
"Mystery of Mark101"
"Layers of the void"
"Strange sightings on an Alpha minecraft channel"
"65Mystery"
"65Mystery"
"65Mystery"
idk what this means, but continue the chain
“65Mystery”
also no idea what this means, but continue the chain
"65Mystery" I in truth as well have no idea what this means but the chain must continue
Holy crap... a couple of weeks ago I found the video from 26:54 in my recommended, watched some snippets of it and looked at the channel, found it weird, then moved on with my day because I didn't understand anything.
I seriously didn't know I stumbled upon a wild ARG, feels wild to me.
Part way through I wondered how confused someone would be if they stumbled upon some of the videos, it’s something I find funny about these channels.
✺?
*founds a wild ARG*
*wild battle music kicks in*
"What will drag do?"
*selects run*
"Got away safely!"
@@brokenflyingcat4213 probably not, cause the moon was affected too
@@NeverEndingFire13 ✺.
It started so fucking strong but then plummeted to its death for me when the characters started speaking in formal English
It got less eerie when they introduced the sector stuff but it was still pretty interesting
Also for what I understand, Markus became the new star because the author put him in "star"'s body and made him "go forth and wreak havoc". The author essentially wants a loop to happen
It's a really interesting way to commentate on the nature of ARGs, their popularity, and the follow-ups. There have been many "creepy Minecraft entity" stories and ARGs but this one really stands out because of this, because it can imply that Markus could be Herobrine itself stuck in this loop of "inspired by" media, which like I said, is an interesting way to commentate on the nature of Internet legends and storytelling as a whole. Even if you see it as a "cop-out" then it's a damn good one.
That's what I thought too.
I don't like that it turned from a horror ARG to a meta one (I would've much preferred Markus gathering his friends and attempting to hopelessly defend against the void and eventually losing if we're going the corruption of the world route) but overall I love the ARG and despite how meta it got, I like the message behind it.
This makes me wonder if servers like 2b2t could defend against this (and other creepypastas) before it even happened.
2b2t would find a way to lag out Star.
2b2t players are capable of everything, a creepypasta would be no match for them
What is the difference between them? (Horror ARG vs Meta ARG)
Every 2b2t player has the capacity and potential to become a creepypasta in themselves.
FitMC the next day: How 2b2t players turned a killer virus into a lag machine
I came here to watch a minecraft alpha creepypasta, but this turned into a story where the real world is at risk because a minecraft entity 💀
These kinds of videos always show up when I am sick. And I just don't want these kinds to end. You deserve a
star ⭐
Jumpscare timestamps: 3:24, 6:39, 9:08, 13:53, 19:51, 22:16, 25:26, 32:25, 41:38, 41:47, 49:06, and 49:58
my dumb ass clicked on a timestamp while at high volume knowing damn well there is a jumpscare 💀💀💀💀
thanks!
Our saviour
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6:34 seeing the ladders spaced like that just gave me so much nostalgia
this feels like they tried to get chat gpt to finish the rest of their minecraft alpha story about creepy stuff appearing in low quality footage and it just went WILD
Finally, someone talks about the first youtuber I ever subscribed to
It's depressing. It began interesting and scary, but just like FNAF and so many other actually popular ARGs it turned into something other than what it was meant to be. No longer a horror story like it was originally, instead a story with a very unsatisfying ending.
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No, HAAHAHAHAHAAA!!
bro really landed a conclusion with only act 1 💀💀💀💀💀
for me it went from a scary story to a decent story
True, ruined by the plot tbh
Reminds me of an SCP involving an entity who tried to break into our reality, but landed in Minecraft instead.
SCP FANS DO NOT SAY IT
What specific SCP?
@@EmbeddedWithin Here it is, SCP: 4335
@@cryo1195 Thanks!
@@maximumswag Say what, exactly?
This is by far the strangest video I've ever scene. It genuinely freaked me out at first but then when there was this new texture packed world and new random characters came out of nowhere it became more like a blade runner or futuristic type plot. It was very interesting though, even when the plot completely shifted, it still was interesting, not very creepy though, just random.
Overall, Good video
Thank you so much for making these
I loved the part where Mark said “It’s Markin time” and proceeded to Mark all over the place.
I killed them all
kinda kinky
It's Marking time
It’s Marking time
It's Markin time
Not gonna lie once the admins and all the weird meta stuff got introduced my interest in the story itself dropped, but i kept going cause holy shit dude your presentation and ability to tell and explain the story of this weird tale are top notch! Despite the story kinda falling apart for me at the halfway point, god was the effort in this arg/story absurdly top notch!
Spot on. The story started well, but later it just became unbearable because of the metaphysical stuff. Just like you, I only finished the video because of RGN's top quality presentation.
For me it was the opposite, before that it was "scary thing does boo" ,but then the story became interesting.
Opposite for me.
My interest actually went through a rollercoaster. At first I was interested because it resembled the Alpha 16 ARG, then it dropped because it seemed to be "oooo spooky haunted minecrap oooo", then it went back up again when the story turned out to be about void creatures hopping through different universes' versions of Minecraft.
I was really into it at the beginning, thinking of star, etc being the "parents" of some kind of digital parasite
This is a GREAT video. Thank you so much for putting in a ton of effort.
i like how stars attitude was passive agressive
bro looked like he had a bad day and wasnt having it w/ markus
Is no one else worried about the guide on what to do if the anomaly has "gained sentience" on that website in the beginning?
8 Beings gaining Sentience? Kinda like HB and Null eh?
6:20 gave me a mini-heart-attack
here's what I said during those moments:
"Is that a chunk error?"
**notices ladders**
"No, that's not a chunk erro-"
same
Same, I thought it was the monoliths hahaha
I was like
“Oh damn, he built a mob far-“
*GASP*
Wait what is it?
lol after i jumped from the noise i laughed
it actually started off pretty spooky. it gave me chills watching the creepy stuff happen.
but after the first voidexp videos, with the introduction of star and X, it started getting less and less scary and more boring.
edit: i also didnt like the fact they made the weird triangle head entities actual retextured mobs cuz that ruined the creepy aspect for that creature.
this whole mystery in a nutshell
the first 14 minutes:
my world is haunted.
after half an hour:
moon crashing, X, ☆, the guy with the fork looking object as his username, gibberish man, administrator room, the author, triangle people, don't trust the void, trust the void (tf?), you are only a brain, you are not real, strange worlds that are covered with a white suspicious looking liquid, someone stole the keys.
The premise of the story:
UwU the moon is evil BUT IN MINECRAFT
Quality level of something Machinima would make and abandon in 2011
30:25 this was actually just a bug in older versions of Minecraft! :)
If you crouch-walked for a long time, and then stood up again, the game would play all of the un-played step noises in rapid succession!
I feel like the series got less scary as time went on. as it went on, it got more narrative-driven (which is fine, i thought the transition was smooth), but i wish it still kept its spookiness with its "fear of the unknown" throughout the whole thing. also, the pictures of the void beings in real life made me laugh out loud. in conclusion, its a good series, i just hope season 2 brings back the horror aspect
It’s like a Backrooms type thing, or to a lesser extent, The Mandela Catalogue
Wait plz timestamp the IRL void being photos
@@brovy953 11:33
@@brovy953 the irl void being photos are on act 2 ep 2
@@darthdump5440The void guy looks like bacteria from backrooms, Tbh.
the idea of some force joining your single player server and sending messages in chat like "come here" is genuinely beyond terrifying
This is actually kind of interesting, I think. It feels like it's, at least in part, a meta-exploration of creepypastas and ARGs. Mysteries left unsolved, questions left unanswered, stakes that escalate, worlds that aren't real even though we suspend our disbelief for the experience... I dunno, maybe I'm a weirdo nerd who reads too deep into these things. :v
Thanks for the content and the experience, RGN!
30:27, I don't think that's part of the ARG. Old Minecraft versions had a bug where if you were walking while not on a block (Like shifting off the side of a block) it would continually add walking sounds, then if you stepped on a solid block, it would play them all in short succession.
Like I guess Mario 64 BLJ but without the jumping or something?
Nice catch - I didn't remember that bug!
yeah! i still play old versions and that bug constantly freaks me out
I know that there is nothing to fear in singleplayer, but I ALWAYS have that slight paranoia that I will notice something changing in my world. It can be anything, from something subtle like door changing material, or my furnace and crafting table switching places. Or I could walk in my home after building something outside, and see that everything is missing inside. I first got this fear from seeing Herobrine videos back in the day, but it slowly faded out. That is until I played GMod for the first time, where playing multiplayer was fun and entertaining, playing singleplayer felt like being always watched. And my fear appeared once again.
You should check out "how Minecraft is secretly a horror game" by RandomSageless. It does a good job of explaining why you're paranoid in singleplayer.
There was something in your world
It is this kind of insidious horror that is truly the scariest. Everything being normal except for one or two things you notice are off, like, you swear you closed the door behind you when you last left your house, or, you swear you never placed a torch over there, just little tiny things like that that give you chills up your spine.
playing minecraft PE back in the day was really something else in creative singleplayer. it always seemed so eerie and quiet and everything seemed so... unfinished
@@weedboyjjofficial6350 yeah I remember how I spooked by an enderman and start observing on distance, then try to capture it just for teleport in front of me.
The guy with star was trying to tell markus that disaster is coming but it was too late...
Markus make a world. Play inside, but one day, the moon get infected by the void. After the night, he get out and find a corrupted structure that prevent him from approaching. Every night, he notice that the moon is still dark and he avoid it. One day, he goes in the mine and break a red corruption block and that corrupts his world. When he comes out, the moon becomes a portal for shadow entities. The day he decided to go in the mine to place protection blocks against the moon, but accelerate when the night arrives. He then goes in the mine to notice a blob of the same corrupted block and multiple holes making places where the black creatures can arrive. He seals the holes and later come back to see the blob getting bigger and got attacked by one of them. He got chased by one of them and then got caught. This is my lore.😊
Yet another ARG thats creepy in the beggining but overexplains itself and throws away the horror
Thank you ARG creators
still interesting...
Because this catches the attention of people.
An ARG that is regularly updated and has actually good horror will not blow up because people nowadays would rather watch the same mainstream arg knockoff than actually something interesting.
@@ame72813 i will deffinitely miss ARG's like Petscop
I think this is to this ARG's benefit. The void monsters were gonna become stale eventually, so it became a lot more adventurous is too it's benefit for my enjoyment, at least
@@scattergrunt With this kinda thing I believe it’s always good to maintain a level of “fear of the unknown”
They have the strongest impact in the long run.
I was the only scared at and before the mother giving birth to her children part
But then it got goofy when the star people came and "used" his account.
I just started watching and
WHAT THE FU---?!!!
CONTEXT IS OUT THE WINDOW
@@soda_coir7595Same
Peter, the horse is here
@@soda_coir7595yeah it was actually kinda creepy upto that point…
honestly the whole first part is scary as hell, and then at the end it just gets corny as hell. they should have just left it alone instead of going through with the “plot twist”
Blud cooking porkchops with porkchops 8:19
19:51 The exact moment this whole thing fell off a cliff.
Some black sqiggly lines just being shittily superimposed in with the "generic creepypasta error sound" playing is just goofy to no end.
Mark101 is back with 2 new videos!!!
this is nostalgic. Reminds me of the old Herobrine videos I'd watch the shit out of back in the early 2010s as a kid. Back when the scariest shit to me was herobrine, the daylight owl, and Music Disc 11.
To this day I still adore Music Discs 11 and 13, they're such a fascinating left-field addition to the game that just ask so many questions.
Finally! I found someone who remembers.. although the music discs have been debunked by matpat… honestly adding them to herobrines arg was really dumb… it has like nothing to do with it, and the fact that people didn’t thought of putting them together next to each other when played is really hurting my brain by it’s stupidity but sure.. old civilisation of builders and stuff.
WHAT IN THE UNHOLY HELL IS THE DAYLIGHT OWL?!
@@MrDespair1983 really old youtube webseries from the beta days of minecraft. the first season is really neat, it's similar to herobrine but with a more fantasy twist. seasons 2 and 3 shifted the tone to a Shadow of Israphel knockoff sadly
imagine if this arg was published in 2010, jesus, it would make people go crazy
Old Minecraft before Microsoft took over and neutered it was really good.
The horror peaked by playing with the whole feeling of ‘there’s unknown entities in Minecraft’ angle.
Everything after that was a different genre.
I’m okay with most of the original story, but I think the biggest mistake it made was abandoning Markus’s world. As cool as the Adminspace looked visually (especially the outer section; it’s such a cool-looking fortress) I definitely feel like, story-wise, it should’ve all taken place in Markus’s world. It could serve as a story about bravery, as Mark slowly gains more and more confidence to go against this horror and potentially find a way to remove it from his world for good. Star definitely seems to fit the role as main antagonist. Maybe Markus’s footage glitches out less as he gets braver, we actually see him fight the Void Entities, that sort of thing.
As for Star, I don’t think a “climatic final battle” works. I like what he does, where Markus mentally wins the battle, telling Star that he’s not afraid of him now that he knows how to get rid of him. That’s something to keep if the story were somehow overhauled.
Meanwhile, for the friends he invites… What he does with them could go either way. They could appear or they could not, and how well it works depends on the execution. They’d have to start showing up earlier in the story, maybe- and maybe they start joining in gradually rather than all at once- and would need some more focus. Although the story would probably be better with only Markus, room for including them isn’t out of the question.
Well, this is just my opinion. I do a lot of writing but horror isn’t really my strong suit, it’s fantasy action-adventure. How do you think this story could’ve been better?