How One Disease Almost ENDED Mankind | The Smile Tapes
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THE SMILE TAPES is an analog horror series about a strange drug that spreads a disease throughout the population. People that are infected tend to have a forced smile and go on a killing spree. But things get deeper when it seems like someone is controlling all of the infected and giving them commands...
0:44 Intro
1:40 The Smile Tapes Vol 1
16:27 Far History
19:51 Further Investigation
23:50 The Smile Tapes Vol 2
36:26 Hike
41:11 The Smile Tapes Vol 3
56:27 Mule
59:44 Timeline
1:02:15 Theory
1:04:45 Outro
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I can't take it seriously, I keep thinking of the sus jerma face when I see any distorted face
Yes
That's totally fair LOL
I agree
not that lmfao. But what Marcus said, if i've seen someone doing that on a street i would RUN. Now look at the Preacher from MC and i just....would laught lol. I love this more serious MC phase but the Preacher needs a redesign like the Intruder.
@@jpmedina8328 nah if false Gabriel popped out infront of you irl you would fill your pants with doodoofeces crying your little eyes out before death
This anti-drug PSA goes hard
Honestly, though. If these were legit actual PSA's people would actually freak the fuck out and stay away from it
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@@aspen.mp3stay away from what? I dont know of any real drugs that force you to smile and laugh maniacally and make your body decay in a few days.
Lol
It's interesting how often you realize some youtubers really overreact to the creepy stuff, becasue in comparison your reactions are always so calm and collected. Like you enjoy connecting the dots of whats going on more then just reacting to the spooky parts. Which makes your videos so much more fun to watch then other reactions, since it feels more like we're all just putting together the mystery alongside you then watching over the top screams and swearing for theatrical effect.
Over the top screaming and swearing is my natural reaction when I'm scared because I get adrenaline rushes easier than most 😂
God forbid people have different ways of expressing their fear or different tolerances of fear 🙄
While I admit that some people overreact for the funny or the views, a lot of us on the internet are just numb to this stuff by now 😭😭 if my grandma saw this type of stuff when she was my age I think she would need therapy for the rest of her life lmao
Was this an actual story
@@2000psigigNo
The smile drug reminds me of the case of the Miami zombie (an actual thing) where this guy took bath salts (a drug) and became some kid of feral monster. He even found a homeless dude and fucking gouged his eyes out. The police were called and they shot the dude who was on the drug but was shot like 5 times before he died, and he still tried attacking the police. The homeless dude actually is still alive and doing well. I think he’s at a home now and being assisted due to being completely blind
EDIT: ok so don't trust my story because apparently i got it wrong, read some of the replies i got to get better info on this. so uhhhh oops?
What’s the Miami zombie’s name?
PCP is a drug that turns people into raging monsters. I have no idea if it correlates with your story. But there are many many cases of people on PCP going on rampages, with insane delusions, attacking people due to crazy beliefs (like the person is out to get them or believing themselves to be a vampire/werewolf). When they are hit, punched, kicked, stabbed, it does not phase them. They can be shot multiple times before even falling to their knees. Scary stuff, no idea why anyone would take a chance on a drug like that.
It was NOT bath salts, the toxicology reports only indicated a very small amount of weed in the man's system. It's still unknown what caused it to happen but it was most likely an extreme mental breakdown, however false the use of bath salts in that case was used to push a wide emergency ban on the items used to make the drug. The panic caused from cases like the Miami zombie where people did horrible things and were suspected to be under the influence of bath salts was used to push forward a narrative and fear of the drug, even if none of those cases had anything to do with said drug.
Oh yeah I heard that
only at the fbi report but true
The smiles caused by the disease made me think of the Jerma sus face, as I'm sure others have said, so I like to imagine that Jerma was one of the people who caught the benign variant or was immune to it, but it still affects him in some way given his apparent insanity. Just a silly little thought I had.
This is cannon to me now
He is from a different, already infected universe, where he found a cure but had to constantly smile and because everything was destroyed, came to the nearby universe, but brought it with him, even though it was contained but considering it was in the black market, WHAT IF IT WAS STOLEN AND BEFORE THE SPREADERS THE SPORES WERE ACCTUALLY SPAT BY A MAN IN THE GANG WHICH WANT TO DESTROY EVERYTHING AND TAKE OVER!.
Not gonna lie me too
I KEPT THINKING OF JERMA THE WHOLE VID LMFAO
Pretty sure everyone who saw it before did lol
I think at the beginning, Shaun's dog was already sick, as he stated he had been very quiet lately and so was visiting the vet, perhaps the fungus was starting to make him hallucinate to make it seem as if Max was doing better, as this would obviously make him happier by the get go, and so when Max passes away unexpectedly, it was due to the fungus impairing his ability to see that Max was still not doing well, as it would make him sad to see that. The fungus was quite literally trying to block out all negatives. Which is very interesting, I'm glad I stopped by to start this series.
After Max passes away, his coworker's say Sean looks happier, but he's not.
Interesting parallel to Max seeming to feel better prior to him passing.
...did Max have the fungus?
@Your Mother is a Hamster Another thing I was thinking of was, maybe, since dog's vocal cords aren't made to laugh, barking was Max's substitute after being infected.
I just thought he unconsciously killed his dog. It was around the same period the Fungus got worse.
no one talking about the flour tho....
........I just saw the theory of the universe.
This is honestly one of the most horrifying analog horror I’ve ever seen. It’s one of my biggest nightmares to be stuck in a city with no means of escape as human-like monsters are running around laughing like demons and killing people. The sheer terror from the constant screaming, burning, laughing would create such psychological stress and i haven’t even i mentioned the spores like you cant even trust the air you’re breathing. This series is absolute terror and i love it. 10/10 in my book
I had this kind of dream
@@MyGachaStudiobro id just refuse to sleep after that if a had that dream
At 34:14, there was a text hidden in the darkness that reads "61 20 73 6F 75 6C 6C 65 73 73 20 6D 6F 6E 73 74 65 72".
This meant "A soulless monster".
Bro just found a hexadecimal
They should have sent the killer fish from san diego
my theory is that the fungus infects serotonin as well, and since the immune girl was in such a state of deep depression and was barely producing serotonin, the fungus could not reach her brain. Realizing that she was not a suitable host, the spores try to exit and move on to another host. I also believe that hosts who unwillingly get infected (not taking the drug, instead being sporebombed) take longer to get infected.
adhd people: NOW IS OUR TIME TO SHINE
lmao so time to be deeply depressed ez
@@TheHeroWhoAsked You'll probably be killed by the infected people
@@theblackcatgirl7013 glocks
Ilovsmling😊
The timing of "Where's Max in all this" and literally right after is "max passed away" is the funniest analog horror moment
Yep
and saddest.
@@KindlySippingBurntcans We both are the same in Gacha status! Friend?
Bruh, these responses have nothing to do with what you're responding to 🤣@@K3NZG4CH4
@@K3NZG4CH4My man asked for friendship and got left on read.
15:20 fun fact, most flour is already home to bacteria and fungal spores. This is one of the reasons raw flour can make you sick, but also why adding water to raw flour and letting it sit on the counter for a couple days yeilds sourdough starter. The tiny living things we inhale all the time; bacteria, pollen, fungal spores, and more, start nomming on the flour when hydrated and a culture starts growing that produces gas as a byproduct.
The reason why fungus doesn't thrive in our bodies is because we are warm blooded- one of the perks is most fungus dies at 90 ish degrees, so our bodies are unlivable enviroments.
This is also why you should always check your baked goods with an instant read cooking thermometer. Everything that lives in flour that can make you sick dies at 200 degrees F, so once the center reaches that temp your goodies are safe from whatever was living in the flour.
If a fungus that thrived inside a host body and expelled spores able to survive indefinitely in a dry enviroment, the contanmination would be inevitable as the fungus got more prevalant / adapted to even survive the cooking process along with their warm blooded hosts- two perks for one adaptation sounds like exactly the sort of evolutionary branch point before that branch explodes in population and, inevitably, variation.
All of this is to say if the fungal infestation can survive temperatures higher than known specimins, it is completely plausable that it was just flour that was contaminated, and that the person who threw it was infected beforehand by spores that survived the cooking process or simply managed to get up their nose while mixing. Flour is... good at that XD
Thanks for the info!!
So that’s why in the Hbo tlou that caused the outbreak?
10:20 don't know if anyone mentioned this already, but the text that flashed across the screen quickly at this point (53 4D 49 4C 45) is hexadecimal that represents the word "SMILE"
Really? that’s so cool!
i translated it till SMIL but couldnt go any further although it was clear it was smile
YO?
@@Sonic.exe_uwu666your comment translates to THEY?
I love this channel because instead of watching these horrifying videos by myself I feel less alone with Marcus’s face cam lmao
same
same here
Yeah. It makes them less panic inducing at night.
(In character) Yes we get to watch his pain instead (we here at the asylum don’t like people leaking information)
Same
I won't lie, I REALLY wish this series went on longer, but I respect the creator for choosing to end it, ESPECIALLY if the fans were being toxic. But I hope one day they pick it back up and that we get more of this because I am LOVING this series so far!
The fans were being toxic?
@@mrfancyhat4324 Apparently so, and it wouldn't be that outlandish, fans and audience members can get carried away.
(Plus he says something like that in the video.)
Nah, I prefered it ended. Because it's one of the ONLY Analog horrors that have a happy ending. I like this.
@@krulak292 I guess that's fair, but it did feel super cut short. You can still have a happy ending, just make it a little longer, ya know?
His passion was music. This was an adventure into film but he wants to focus on a career in music
40:25 I think this was basically a summary of how he died, for all those confused. During the part where blood comes out of the photo of him you can hear the poor dude coughing, which probably means he coughed out a lot of his blood. He also seemed to have been in a struggle with the infected individual, because before the blood appears, his photo keeps on moving (that could be the filter however), and the strange sounds.
This feels like a mix between Joker toxin mixed with some Last of Us fungi infection. Im refering to the Batman Animated Series Joker Toxin which always felt darker to me as an adult. The wide unnatural grin just like this is unsettling
I had the same thought about Joker toxin, but the "The Batman (2004)" version, as with that one, the smile is right up to the corners of the eyes and showing gums, and it looke painful
@BestCupid
Yep
This series is when there's no Batman to stop the Joker.
10:20 the code is hexadecimal, and translates to “smile”
23:42 using a Caesar cipher at 15 shifts the letters translate to “weareafamily”
I thought it was Base64 or 32 and I also wanted to use a Caesar cipher but I don't understand the shifts
@@iLikeShelbyCars use an online decoder
also a shift is basically just a letter swapped with the next letter in the alphabet. For example, an A would be B, an B would be a C, and so on. If another shift is added, then it's swapped with the letter after the last letter it shifted to. Example: an A would be a C with a shift of 2, it would be a D with a shift of 3, and so on.
hope that helped
i still dont get the numbers at the smile tape vol.2
YOU'RE A FUCKING LEGEND
I KNEW ONE OF THEM WERE HEXADECIMAL
39:20 You're telling me. This guy, heard agonizing screaming from a house in the middle of the woods. Heard laughing AFTER the screaming stopped.
These people have less self preservation instincts than a rock. A rock would at least stand still and be unmoving.
21:39 I’m at here I’m just saving it
I read this in the degenerocity voice
@@EEEEEE-oo1fz W guy
In his defense, while he was running there he might of not known about the infection, and though someone got hurt, but when he heard the laughter, that's on him lol
He thought someone needed help before realizing
Random comment to say thank you for reading the text out loud.
I listen to videos to help me focus while cleaning, so having someone read the text instead of just posting it up there allows me to actually enjoy stuff.
The amygdala (ah-mig-da-la) is essentially the fear center of the brain. If it gets damaged, it affects the way you react emotionally, notably your ability to feel fear and react appropriately to potential threats.
(I’m only partially through the video and don’t know if you bring it up later or not, so I just wanted to bring it up.)
Okay but the chasing scene with the flame thrower weapon was actually really well thought out and made props to the creators!
It was badass
You can actully do that in irl
Timestamp?
@@Superpom4045:50
@@Superpom40if you don't know how to find a flamer on your own, you don't deserve the emperor's protection. Take your helmet off and go see the commissar immediately.
body horror and eye horror really fucks with me mentally. the Mandela Catalog, Liminal Land, and now the Smile Tapes get to me because of how disturbing and uncanny the faces of these people (or alternates in MC) are
Same. I’ve dealt with sleep paralysis my whole life and have always hallucinated this weird freaky demon thing thats scarily tall and has horrifying eyes . So this sorta thing feels so real to me because at this point I can’t even tell anymore, it really messes with me in the head so I’m trying to build up the strength to face it. I’ve been watching the Mandela catelogue and it’s super interesting and definitely some great work but it freaks the hell out of me.
Bro freaking The Walten Files has that nail beat through the board with the disturbing imagery and holy shit that creepy af atmosphere.
@@Potatwa_chipzz have you had any paralysis demon that looked similar to the vita carnis mimic? I'm so curious.
@@xxvery_original_namexx9677 I just looked it up because I didn’t know what it was, and yes, except it was raw and it has no teeth. I see it often.
@@xxvery_original_namexx9677 it’s very similair but I wouldn’t say an exact replica
26:41 I just Realized the numbers and sounds could totally be a tap code! A tap code is when a certain number or sounds can represent a Letter! But i am not good at tap codes lmao 😭
16/13/9/12/5 It's like this I guess.
That spells SMILE
the numbers are the letters placement in the alphabet
Like A is one, C is three, etc.
Just stumbled upon this and man that was such a cool series! Thank you for covering this :D
I’m late but I’m gonna say the guy who used the RAID and the lighter to make the flamethrower was a SMART DUDE.
Bro had bug spray, fire, and a will to survive, he used what he had, Absolute KING.
My man literally found out how to kill things that are bullet proof and helped stop them in one way or another
@@Francisco1234Cruz the people that smile are bullet proof?!
@@Francisco1234Cruz that guy thought out of the box!
RAID? as in RAID:Shadow Legends? the sponsor of our today's video?
I couldn’t tell if he lived or died and nobody is giving me answers. I DON’T NEED SLEEP, I NEED ANSWERS!!!
Just wanted to say that the man that is supposedly in "everyones" dreams or has been in people's dreams was made specifically to see how easy it is to spread misinformation on the internet.
Yeah, from what I heard, people mostly started seeing the man only after being asked if they saw him
It's not just concerning how well it spread through the internet but also outside of it
3 different unasociated teachers on 2 different schools I was on talked about him in at least one class sitting as a genuine fact which is why I believed it as well for the longest time
Now I can only hope them and the other students they told about him have been corrected by now...
I’m more scared about people using the word misinformation because it’s more dangerous to say you are fighting it than it exising
There were actual papers around Portland Oregon about him way long ago it feels like now, and that was when I was younger, so it wasn't just online. There was also another paper posted around Portland I remember where you called this place and described your dreams to them. I might still have the phone number somewhere. I used to call every day with three to four nightmares I would remember from my sleep. 😅
thing is it's probably a common plague for their world like a cold in our's its just that that 1 would be invasive here without the things that keep it's population low and like neutral protection
One thing I noticed while Sarah was being interviewed was she said that someone close to her had either died or had been killed with the doctor even giving his condolences. I wasn’t able to make out who but her trying to cope with that loss is her given reason for not following standard safety protocol. She’s also stated as being the only person to contract the B variant of the infection, with her stating that she’s lost all desire to smile. That and she’s the only person in the series that we know is infected who had suffered great tragedy before getting infected. So, maybe this means that those who’ve suffered, who’ve experienced sorrow, and possibly those with depression are the ones that, if infected by the spores, would contract the B variant as, they probably wouldn’t be able to smile under the circumstances they were put through.
Analog horror never fails to tickle my pickle 🥰🥰
I have a theory about the girl who’s “immune”. She isn’t immune. It’s like Left 4 Dead how in the first game they thought they were immune but then they realized they carried the disease and everyone around them turns into zombies. That’s what’s happening to her. She’s coughing up spores and stuff. She’s doing ok but I think that’s the next stage. No deformities. Just it getting worse…and worse…and worse…
Agreed
That's spoopy
Thats my first thought
@@erinw.9256 ?
But isn’t that literally what the video said??
The girl is a spoofer, she spreads the disease and coughs up the disease but she herself isn’t affected by it. (Not smiling, no deformities, mutations, etc).
So she’s basically a mobile ground zero, and because of that they were gonna try to use her to make a cure but obviously we know how that worked out
The spores in the autopsy immediately made my stomach drop. This is the kind of horror that I can enjoy. Psychological stuff that’s scary because of what you see coming
The hell
@@mattlizc2607 the idea that this has already spread to these people and they have no idea what’s coming. Same vibes as watching a mouse get stuck in a glue trap
@@mattlizc2607concept of dramatic irony
@@mattlizc2607bro please I need to know Is this real
And it's scary cuz it's technically possible..
love the face that you made when the doctors told them it was just stress and an electrolyte imbalance.
That's the face I make whenever a doctor tells me they can't help me with my problems xD
I've watched this about 4 times now and I cannot get over how well done this is
30:18 It says "They are stronger than you" backwards. That's downright terrifying that this disease even exists.
It says "They are stronger than you think"
so glad it dosent... right?... RIGHT???
Hehe I'm in danger :D@@CreatorGamer1234
@@CreatorGamer1234for now. :)
@@CreatorGamer1234right
The Smile drug is based on the real world drug on 2C-1 also called Smiles. It has hallucinogenic and stimulant effects.
Really??
well now i gotta worry about getting infected by it
@@GortProductions205 although it's a drug, not a spore
Smil
Where can I get some
letter to patorikku since the comments on his channel are closed:
hi there! i have recently seen your channel, and i have to say you just made this my favorite analog horror! along with the mandela catalogue. keep up the great work, and you should be proud of yourself!
-zleepy
For those who sees the letters at 34:12, it says "a soulless monster" you can decode it using a Hexadecimal decoder
Two things i gotta say:
1. If variant C has heightend senses, then something like a punch to the face, or a stab wound, or even a stubbed toe, would hurt more.
2. Imagine if sombody watched this video, saw the face of the guy that appears in people's dreams, went to sleep, dreamed about that face, then woke up and were paranoid.
Just some thoughts I had.
Dude i would never sleep again if that happened to me 💀
i mean, if ya cant handle watching it then its easy to not watch it
ah yes, the perfect way to stop variant C - covering the floor in legos and small sharp objects
@Space Ace PL Bro you're onto something: a barrier made of lego specifically made to stop variant cs.
@@allosauruswithinternet and then a bunch of flamethrowers pointing towards the center
During the part in the facility, when the smiles came in and killed everyone, idk if it was just me but when he said he killed everyone the tape almost said "all but one" then skipped and cut it out.
Not just you I heard all but one
maybe the girl with the immunity?
THE INFECTED WOMAN SURVIVED???? (or was it someone random?)
@@benjabarragan4287maybe her son? He was specifically mentioned, so there is a small chance there
@@JDM-is-my-name sarah could have been killed in the invasion and her son survived, and if we go off of the assumption these carrier-like symptoms are hereditary it could mean that her son has immunity too
In the tape after volume 3, it’s like in the logs when he is dreaming he is going through space and seeing a man, but the man looks different from when Shawn describes it so maybe the stages is based or the more stages a person goes through the more the man smiles
Thanks for the info!!! Everyone keep safe...
I suffer from scopophobia, which is the fear of being watched wether or not it’s someone I can see actually looking at me or if it’s just a feeling of being watched. Looking at the smiling faces as they get wider and look more like Jerma freaks me out real bad with how wide the eyes are mixed with just the unnatural smile width.
Yeah jerma will do that to ya
@@themyththelegendphilswift3201 he does, no joke, that meme face with jerma gets me real uncomfortable sometimes
I get that feeling to
I am in your walls
@@mistrffail7666 thanks I hate it
I think the worst thing about these tapes is that this is exactly the kind of thing our current society would do.
ture af
i mean true
30:18
Variant C at 33-35 mins has heightened senses, is bloodthirsty,inhuman strength and stamina, a bulletproof exterior and a receding hairline
honestly yeah if not worse
'we could make a cure!'
the man: nuh uh -sends smilers to ur facility-
-Chaos happens-
Me: wtf
ALSO ME: AAAA- -GETS CHASED-
Why be a spore puffer? "If I go down, we ALL go down!"
I think the reason for being scared when someone is smiling with the intent of murder is the fact that it seems like they’re getting joy from it
I think it's also juxtapositional, which makes it fall in the uncanny valley. It's the same reason distorting nostalgia works so well in the horror genre, which is taking something associated with joy or good feelings and putting it in a harmful, threatening or otherwise frightening context. It's just wrong.
@@mixedbagmixesmusic1967 technically nostalgia is associated with sadness
@@storm_fling1062 Not necessarily. It can be sad, since it's days long past. Like, experiences you won't have anymore, but nostalgia is characterized by something you want to go back to (which also lends itself to sad connotations.) If you're feeling nostalgic, you're missing something, which means it's associated with good things.
@@mixedbagmixesmusic1967 i feel like missing something leans more towards sad again
@@storm_fling1062 But in order to miss something, you need to look back on it with fondness, no?
With the help of a friend, I found out that the code at 23:43 is a Caesar Cipher, with a shift of eleven. It reads “EAREAFAMILYWEAREAFAMIN.” Which I think could be, “We are a family, we are a famine.” Which makes sense in the context of the series.
Nice!
we are family!!
I got that as well when I deciphered it but just got "we are a family" repeated over and over again
bro the hiking guy sounds so innocent
Love these kinds of vids keep up the good content (:
These distorted, inhuman smiles are so damn effective (at least in my opinion, they really make my skin crawl). The creator of those images really tapped into uncanny terror in its purest form, twisting the very familiar image of a human face to make it unfamiliar and unnerving.
idk the photoshop stretch tool is just so lazy and overused
I just think of the sus Jerma among us face and all of a sudden I become immune to fear
@@fordakacar true, but imagine walking in the street and just seeing someone with such a contorted smile. its indeed a chliche in analog horror but if i saw someone doing that i'd definetly shit myself in fear
That's all it is in the images. The sus jerma face edited over a persons face in black and white.
plus the skin tightens and slowly rips appart every time the smile grows larger and more Distorted
I think Max could have also have had the disease cuz he seemed to be doing better, which I think could either be the effects that were seen on Sean, maybe Sean was hallucinating that Max was doing better, or the disease made Max seem to do better, but eventually had him succumb to it during stage 2.
I think so too. It wouldn't make sense for the shroom to not want to use animals, but I think animals just aren't hardy enough to survive, so they die in early stage 2, when mania sets in, but before violent tendencies begin to occur.
copy comment
Agreed. He also looks like a relatively small dog in the pictures, so it makes sense the same dose from the flour would be fatal to Max first. I think he only seemed better bc of the disease. In the picture he's doing the closest a dog can to smiling, with his mouth open and teeth showing. Barking can also be what the manic laughing sounds like in dogs
@@Asoch5134what do u even mean, is every comment copied to you?
i am so happy i looked at this with 1/24 hours of my day instead of doing something else like playing with my friends
20:00 the guy that flashes for a split second looks like the man everyone has seen in their dreams, but with a massive smile. its pretty scary lol
I think a large part of why some people find the warped face amusing is because they have a larger degree of separation, those who find it terrifying largely view it in a more "what if I met this in real life" whereas those who find it funny tend to find it more "its in a movie and looks kinda goofy since its fake"
For me these faces just look fake while I find the Mandela Catalogue alternates terrifying.
What makes them goofy in my opinion is how large they seem to look and, while the placement of the cheekbones when "smiling" is realistic, it looks kinda funny when the mouth is impossibly contorted.
I am definitely in the "what if I met this in real life" category.
@@shinybearevidra Mandela Catalogue?
@@acedelta12 never heard of it? It's a pretty interesting analog horror series
They're so obviously photoshopped into oblivion. Whereas if it were just a wide natural smile that was strained and the person was crying, that'd be so much more horrific. Keep it natural yet uncomfortable.
I love how funny you make these scarier videos because I can get very paranoid whenever watching by myself but it feels like I have a friend watching with me from these videos :)
Im with ya here🤣🤣
lol same
Same :)
Same
Got left 4 dead feelings about this. 32:34 reminds me of the survivors not being infected but they carry the virus
thank god I'm watching a reaction to this. I'm not sure about watching these alone. thank you!
"If I had a nickel for a fungal disease that almost ended mankind in media, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's wierd that it happened twice"
what's the other?
yeah, what is the other?
The last of us I think
haminations is original btw and i think it’s the thing with the eye contact virus
@@greenrrealstone cold?
15:27 I don't think Shaun killed his dog, more that the dog inhaled some leftover spores and died as a result (didn't he said the dog seemed happier or something along those lines?)
I agree, I don't think he did anything to his dog, I think his dog was infected.
Yep, he said Max seemed more energic and is barking again. Which could be what the manic laughter would present as for dogs? In the picture Max is also doing the same facial expression a human would when smiling, mouth open and teeth showing. Might just be me seeing patterns where they don't exist, but if we weren't supposed to think that I don't see why the picture was included at all tbh. I'm pretty sure dude said he was walking Max when he got the spores/flour thrown at him, so it's not far-fetched for some of it to have gotten on Max too
Also, he wasn't at the stage where that would have happened anyways.
The people who make these videos he reacts to are really talented
This was a great video
The fact that the Smile Spore can be real because of how the spore acts and affects its hosts and has possible side effectiveness and symptoms is actually terrifying. Imagine how many casualties it would cause around the globe.
N is a better plushie/character
Vs just rude
Btw this comment is good I just wanna make a comment about your username no hate it’s my opinion do what u wanna do
Im predicting every single human either dies or gets infected and rots.
@@DinoRickyshut up bro, this isn't Murder Drones
@@randomperson-uj4bpthere are alot of tribes around the world and they live on islands and basically really far away from everyone so they might be able to survive and carry the civilization but its just that the civilization will start from stonehenge
@@verytuffcat Ahem what? Im pretty sure they retain knowledge of their past selves, meaning they might know about the tribes, also its probable its a hivemind so information known to 1 is information known to all
I think the smile fungus was a alien bio weapon. I agree at the end the lights are aliens, they realized their weapon ended up on earth and were like “oh woops lets take care of that”. The red room with the tiles is on their ship they were studying an infected human. That’s all I got.
i think it was the government firebombing the city
That makes sense 🤔
@@retro_guyy1015 I’m glad you think so
"Oopsie Daisy! I'll take care of that."
@@wide_s just a silly little world ending mistake.
in the mule tape it seems that the guy is intaking the bug which was in the one that was mentioned prior to that in the investigation journal and we know by the year that the hike happend that it was the first smiler and a bounus when we go through that colorfull place thats what shaun gomez meant by dreaming of a colorfull space so ig all that is pretty neat how everything conects so nice one of my fav analog horrors
At around 12:40 I keep thinking back to one moment from Futurama, "You got it Mr. Weird Voice In My Head!" When the guy is talking about this man speaking to him.
23:48 Yup, those letters AREN'T random! When you put it through a ROT 11 Ceaser Cipher, you get "WEAREAFAMILY."
thanks, legit thought that whole sequence was just keyboard spam, didn't know it was an actual message
I had a feeling that it was a code. Thanks for clarifying!
ngl i just guessed they put in their IP addresses and called it a day
Ip?
What
honestly my first thought about those "alien lights" at the end of vol. 3 was that it wasnt aliens, but nukes. since the virus became such a threat, i feel like the government decided to just take out the whole city with it, although i must say, the way that the lights like symetrically dispersed is very weird
Another flaw was the interview of one of the survivors
That's what I thought too...
Drone strike
I think it might have been napalm it wont kill some one under ground witch means the interview is possible
@@wojszym323pl yup. napalm. it's just firebombs. a nuke isn't really fire, it's radioactivity, so it won't really kill them necessarily. also, you would NOT need that many nukes
Good to see you Marcus
36:09 I’m going to stop right here for tonight, this is genuinely disturbing yet I can’t stop watching and I know if I don’t, I’d probably never fall asleep.
As someone who lives in San Diego this is what happens on a daily basis downtown.
Instead of spores it's just a video that gives you an overdose of memes
Cool I'm also from SD
@@thegamingcyberman149 Nice
I think this is an experience most people who live in big cities can sympathize with.
Happiest city in the country, home of Drake and Josh, and anchorman
A lot of people in a lot of fan bases are toxic af and it is obvious when almost every creator ends up getting burnt out and quitting what obviously started as a heavily planned out passion project. This stuff takes time and isn’t up to the fans or haters to decide their direction in art or story so people need to eat a damn snickers bar and just give the creators space and time to work on things. In my opinion, I would rather have cliff hangers and be pleasantly surprised by updates after long periods of time because then I get to be excited and intrigued all over again and it gives me a chance to look at puzzles given before with a fresh perspective.
Toxicity is one thing, and it probably played a role, but I wouod not call people calling out the use of popular topics/outdated copypastas are toxic. Constructive criticism is necessary, and seeimg these things can really break tbe immersion that these worlds need to keep running.
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please don't ear a bar of my cat Snickers. Go eat the candy bar please. :)
maybe its a war between those aliens and the man but humanity got caught in the cross fire
37:45 yes we absolutely do, California has a lot of varied terrain.
It's kinda cool to see the 'Have you seen this man' hoax get referenced in this series. That's a really old internet story, so to see it make a resurgence is amusing.
i still get creeped out😥
Oh yeah fun fact anybody claiming to have seen him in their dreams was just lying it was just a hoax spread by a company as a marketing strategy (correct me if i said anything wrong)
@@surprisemanI legit remember seeing him , prolly cuz I was watching stuff abt him and you dream abt stuff you see
Honestly really well done! You showed us an Analog Horror that was unheard of or underrated, showcased all of it with minimal interruption, and saved it all until the end to give us your thoughts and opinions. I never felt like you were dragging the video on with interjections about dumb ideas you have, and instead focused on what the video about. Amazing work and I am excited to see if you do any more of this and what is next!
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Just the start scared the shit out of me
Yeah, the facial deforming thing immediately triggers the "Fight" response RE: Fight or Flight for me. Not sure why but its instant.
Patorikku's other series "what lies above" is SOOO GOOOD, (without spoiling) it has moments where you connect the dots to things from earlier episodes and I literally remember yelling "OH SHIT" to myself
Melee weapons and Guns: ❌️
RAID and a Lighter: ✔️
I love how you used the OG Backrooms video to describe analog horror. Props my dude! :D
Long live the Backrooms! :D
14:48
If you slow it down, and go by frame, you can see that they unblurred the face, and that dude is indeed still smiling (it is also very creepy)
14:49
Here's my theory on who "The man" is, and also something about how the infection works.
So we know that the fungus is from space, and is seemingly very advanced as it can take control of one's mind. I mean, it's not that unusual for fungus, remember, cordyceps. And we also know that the fungus, like all beings, simply wants to reproduce and find the best way to do this. The victims seemingly rotting means that the fungus probably just wants dead tissue to eat like a lot of fungus do, so hence it makes people kill. It doesn't matter if the host is alive.
So, why the smiling? Why the man?
The fungus, having the ability to "read" one's mind has found itself in humans and realized we're no ordinary animal. We don't seem to live purely out of instinct. We live to be happy. In fact, we want to be happy.
Notice how when the guy in the cabin took the drug, it seemed at first like a very strong but kinda regular shroom trip. I think it was the fungus interacting with the brain, stimulating it to see how it is best going to control the human. It knew the human wants to be happy so it triggered those parts of the brain, just like psilocybin in shrooms. However, upon further "scanning" of the brain, the fungus learned how the human can better interpret happiness. The human can only interpret so much from pretty colours and happiness chemicals. The matter more important to the fungus is how the human can be commanded via this happiness.
It conjured an image of a person smiling, something our human brains interpret as a loving image, someone relaxed, someone trustworthy. And then it commands the person directly. Go make others happy. We humans like when others are happy too. And they simply do not know this happiness enough so you must go make them see it, feel it.
Some, while still half sane were commanded to simply spread the fungus via flour, because the fungus can live in the flour (that's probably how the drug was distributed in the first place) these could be the more resilient individuals who could survive with cognitive abilities for longer. Some, if not most would simply be subdued to the point where the fungus is in full control, and simply wants dead flesh around it to be able to finally feed, as it's starting to lack nutrients in it's host. Assuming that the fungus can make growths of it's own the type c cases could be people like body builders and anyone who enjoys working out. The fungus recognizes that the person gets a lot of it's happiness from physical excercise. The fungus then uses this opportunity to make the host fueled by it's happiness, forgetting all pain, using all muscle power it has (which could happen, humans can be incredibly strong if we push our muscles past their limits). The fungus also makes sure that such potentially useful individuals are protected and resistant to their own muscles bursting by making growths of it's own around all of the host's tissue. I could imagine thick fungal growth behave somewhat like kevlar at stopping bullets.
Edit: as i was thinking, this theory makes more and more sense. I can see why the fungus would make you smile very much by force, instead of letting you smile yourself. Because it recognizes smiling is a social behavior for us, so in order to make the host seem more attractive to other humans, it makes the host itself smile. Just like the conjured image of "The man" inside people's heads is a way to trick a human.
Edit 2: it also seems to make sense why "The man" is the guy that a lot of people see in their dreams. When the fungus scanned the brain, it saw that a lot of us have this one person in our subconscious minds for some reason. Perfect for the job his face needs to do, because it isn't any of the people you've ever met in life. The fungus doesn't want to risk you seeing for example your mother or best friend, because although more trustworthy they might trigger a strong enough memory for you to feel a different emotion. For the fungus it would basically be like constantly having annoying glitches in a computer's system. The fungus is very proficient in what it does.
Damn i feel like Roanoke gaming here.
And i keep adding more text, but i like thinking about this and i hope people can keep up 😂
Bruh this comment is so underatted
someone summarize it please i aint readin all of that
@@randomasian5049edit: still a bit long but this is the best i could do lol
the fungus just wants to spread, and it eats dead tissue. However it's very capable in meddling with the mind. It found out people will do a lot just to be happy.
So it makes you happy by giving you a trip, and conjures an image of a happy man, because it's easier for you to be commanded by someone you trust. We see someone who's smiling and happy as someone more trustworthy than pretty colours and cryptic feelings of a trip.
It then makes you go kill people so that the fungus has more dead flesh to eat. If your mind is resilient enough you might want to first spread it via literally throwing the fungus infected flour into people or other means. If you like to excercise and build your muscles, the fungus will make you use like 200% of their normal power and shield you with it's own growth around you (type c).
@@randomasian5049 real
@@randomasian5049 advanced space fungus figures out humans can experience more complex emotion compared to animals, also that people like to smile, so the fungus attempts to recreate smiling to communicate that the fungus is "totally" safe
also the fungus makes people forget pain and make them use their muscles to full capacity
also since the fungus studied the human brain, it found out about the dream man person and i suppose it's taken that as its avatar
My subtitles started spassing out at the radio signals
Something about this always freaked me out. The uncanny nature of freakishly large smiles has always unnerved me. Hence why i love this analog horror series for some reason.
The fact that we can't stop laughing at the patients' face because of Jerma implies that we ourselves are infected and we just don't know it yet because the symptoms are almost non-existent aside from laughter.
I know this video is 4 months old but I just wanted to point out something, the man that “A lot of people see in their dreams” was a test by a psychologist, basically they told a bunch of people that a lot of people see him in their dreams to see if they would lie and say they saw him too, and it worked.
no it wasnt 😭 it was by a marketing hoax company as a social prank
Well hello, there, fellow my Marcus.
I enjoy your content! Good job sir!
I like how it went Jurassic Park and then nope still aliens. The amount of times I’ve said “thanks I hate it” while absolutely enjoying the hell out of this video is absurd. This was amazing
37:50 When you hear screaming like that out in the wilderness, it's usually mountain lions. It's a mating call, I believe. A lot of people get hurt because they do what that hiker did and try to find the source of the screams. Though, obviously, they don't get hurt by analog horror fungal spore infections; they just get hurt by horny mountain lions.
Bruh imagine dying to a horny mountain lion tho 💀
Augh the horny lions nooooo
Top ten saddest anime deaths:
I think it's really great that ppl like you and Wendigoon (the only ones i know of lol) follow these stories I otherwise would never consume otherwise. I just wouldn't find them on my own or seek them out, and I think i'd be too scared to watch outside of a sort of 'review' format.
I usually try to watch the original first than reviews because my brain focuses on how and why and disregards anything else so I watch people discuss the analog or podcast or whatever
29:32 This sound always made me cry when I was younger because I was so scared of it, I still am but I don’t cry anymore
This channel is perfect with me😁(btw new subs)
I like how unlike other analog horrors, this one has a very easy to follow story whilst still containing elements of mystery.
I would reccomend this to be a good introduction to analog horror.
yo you main engi too?
this is in fact the first analogue horror i've ever watched. ever since i've been rewatching it over and over haha
@@NovaGlitch4 sometimes depends on the server atp
@@bookerstrawjoe good analog horror
7:42 I couldn’t help but think of the zombie ant fungus when this part came up. In case anyone doesn’t know what that is it is a common fungus that is found in ants. When I ant come across the spores of this fungus the fungus will immediately infect in individual and begin taking control of its body. Once this happen the ant will end up crawling onto a high spot where it would die as the fungus grows out of its body, spores in then release to later infect more members of the ants colony. Thinking of that in human terms is horrific.
It's called the Cordyceps fungus
@@ilikebinquiling69420Good to know thumbs upwmoji here
@@ilikebinquiling69420there's more than one type of fungus that does the same thing
That just makes it ten times scarier what the actual shit--@@ramahikari1014
@@authorchan9209 I know
"Where is max in all of this?"
The log a couple seconds after: Max passed away
This reminds me of people who pretend to be happy but are secretly suffering its kinda sad
9:25 That man is seen by many people in real world dreams and no one knows why... I dreamt about him once, he helped me get out of that weird dark mall and then I woke up... He was kinda nice.
I have note noticed him in any of my dreams…
YET…
He wasn't actually seen in anyone's dreams, the man was created by a guerilla marketing campaign by a dude Andrea Natella who was advertising for some art agency and created a very generic looking face that people thought looked kinda familiar due to either misremembering dreams or simply how generic the man is.
TL;DR it's a hoax
He helped you? Nah, for me he drowned me in a public pool that turned to black oil/tar.
It was created by some corporation or something and now that people have seen him they dream about him.
he gave me a pet snake and taught me how to care for it. I already had a snake.
“There is no cure” there is because when the girls father died she was sad and the fungus mutated/ got cured because the opposite of happiness is sadness or that’s what I’m thinking anyway 😅
But when Shaun's dog died, he was also very sad and that didn't cure him.
@@melissa6912Maybe he was too far gone by then?
The girl may have been okay because she wasn’t as infected as Shaun, and depression saved her.
So the great depression is the only salvation
@@OlTimeyChara I cannot tell if that's a good thing but if it's based on emotions like Anger, happiness, sadness,fear and or otherwise than the fungus would infect via fear and happiness because of it's the their easy and most cannot fully stop them
I remember when I was watching the Mandela Catalog alone and the Smile Tapes popped up on my fyp and I didn’t watch it because of it’s unsettling smiles in the video causing me to back out and never touch it again.
This series reminds me of these humanoid like monsters in a book I read called “The Maze Runner” there was a certain type of disease that would make people turn into “cranks” which would make their features very uncanny and rotted. They would also laugh hysterically and scream and attack anything they see. There are multiple stages of this disease. (Btw this disease is further explained in the second book of the series)
7:30 The Amygdala is the part of your brain that controls your sense of fight or flight when you experience fear. Maybe the patients are feeling a sense of fear from the virus?
*Also, it is said [A-mig-dee-la] or [a-myg-da-la]*
Bloodborne players be like: 😀
@@kirayoshikage595 what?
@@amog12589 Amygdala is a boss in Bloodborne, which is not only named but also modeled after its real life counterpart, the Amygdala
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