Hunter randomly bursting out in laughter after hearing about a disabled man attempting to breakdance might have been the funniest thing to come out of this podcast so far.
@@burninsherman1037 that's like, intentionally mocking the disabled for irony... you do realize most of the lessons in South Park are the opposite... right? Like you shouldn't like Cartman because racism is bad m'kay..... right??
@@SnomradeDon't forget counting the exact number of seconds it takes for an incredibly unimportant event to play out. Bonus points if it's longer than any rational adult would ever just sit and stare at a TV screen with nothing of note happening on it.
I think Hunter did a wonderful job with the cleverbot voice. The entity in this story immediately turned into a fedora wearing neck beard so the voice fit it perfectly.
Hunter: "I don't know how old our fans are. Hopefully like 20." Me, 39 years old, immediately dissociating with a thousand yard stare after hearing that.
I just realised that the "hyper realistic" trope in Creepypasta started with Squidwards Sewer Slide, and that its inclusion in the story is a reference to how the show would often do uncomfortable, high detail close ups. So it originally had relevance to the story, and then just got used as a random trope in other stories. Wow!
Yeah I figured that's all it was ever referring to - I don't know if I ever saw it in other creepypastas myself. I have limited experience with this kind of creepypastas and really all of them but I did see this format vaguely repeated to the point I was wondering how easy it was to copy/paste the format ad nauseum with everything in TV Guide. I will say the Squidward one is still pretty scary to me though
@@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD no but with how they put children in danger by refusing to fire or stop covering freaks like Schneider, it's not much of a stretch.
Thank you. Had to skip the last 30 minutes of ben drowned. Hurt to watch such a good concept get butchered by the writer missing what made it work initially.
Wendigoon: "What's funny about a disability Hunter?" Me (in my wheelchair laughing at the thought of stumps attempting to break dance so bad that I had to pause the video): A lot is funny about disabilities.
"Wendigoon is also a known associate of a user by the name of 'MeatCanyon,' who has been known to laugh at disabled people. This is clear evidence that Wendigoon must be ostracized from polite society."
I just love the image of Wendigoon and Meatcanyon laughing and screaming "We did it" when Squidward puts shotgun in his mouth and pulls the triger. Its like two CIA agents watching their target commit suicide
@@reid3031 if you want more detail, it was someone's "reformed Jeff the Killer au" so he wasn't violent at all. First we needed to make him kill again and then kill himself.
I thought the actual title was "Normal Corn For Normal People" and was settled in for a story about a weird alien parasite disguising itself as corn and trying to convince the masses to ingest it and instead got something very different.
To be fair, Papa's "cleverbot" voice perfectly encapsulates the energy of a little kid who would fuck with you just because, fits within the story rather well honestly.
YES! I checked comments to make sure I wasn't the only one who thought this. I wasn't on board with it at first, but the more it continued, the more I realized, "Yup, that's this little shit's voice alright..."
As someone else pointed out, Ben Drowned was never meant to be consumed in the format of a creepypasta. There's an entire element of the story completely missing in that it was a true ARG, an Alternate Reality Game. It was an interactive mystery unfolding on the internet in realtime. Readers were able to interact with the story, which would reveal new information and progress things along. For instance, readers could submit videos of ocarina songs from the game to various effect such as "time travel" within the narrative and changing the outcome of events. Consuming the story as strictly a creepypasta is like (to use a videogame analogy) reading a raw text compilation of all of the expository notes one might find in a horror game, but not actually playing the game itself and still expecting to get the full experience or understanding of the story.
While watching this episode I got a call saying I got the job I applied for as a wildlife biologist. I'm so happy I just wanted to share with my creepy friends 😌
I work with a deaf person that watches youtube videos with the volume blasting. Ive never figured out if thats because its the only way he can hear it or because he doesnt know its on.....
@@SatanLiterally literally! it was the funniest response to a funny reaction, playing the straight character. doesn't matter if Wendi was serious or not
The absolute joy on my face as they read the first half of Ben drown realizing it held up into the soul crushing realization that there’s a second half and it’s absolutely terrible is one of the most painful experiences of my life
On the bright side, at least they had the good sense to end it at Part 1 of this story. Parts 2 and 3 (the forum ARG and 2020 web series, respectively) completely go off the rails and reveal that Ben is a human consciousness scanned and uploaded into Majora's Mask by a tech company trying to create an artificial afterlife as their flagship product. And also the tech company might be controlled by a cult that worships the moon or something, and there's a hotel full of people trapped in purgatory who can't really die? I don't even remember lol
@@QuintessentialWalrus that's... how can anyone manage to make such a simple concept as "dead kid hauts game" into something that horrible??? at that point just make another story 😭
Something EXTREMELY funny to me about the "hyperrealistic eyes 2:16:06 " is that not only was this story one of the first to actually MENTION the hyperrealistic part, and likely was the reason it appeared in so many earlier creepypastas, it was also VERY likely just a bit based off of those weird detailed close-up shots in the Actual show
I think the reason Ben Drowned is still seen with such high regard is that most people assumed that the text document is supplimenary material because thats how it comes off as in the context of the story, so people just ignore it, not realizing that its not actually supplementary material but instead the horrible ending of the story
What horrible ending? Am I missing something? The author totally lost the plot of their own story, got trolled by a cyber-goomba, and then got away? Or do you mean literally a horrible ending as in, and I agree, the garbage and unsatisfying end to a decent start?
Actually the whole "Story" is supplemental material. People read the creepypasta nowadays and don't understand why people used to like it, but that's because people look at it AS a creepypasta now. Ben Drowned was always an ARG, and the creepypasta was a small part of that. This guy appeared on a forum and posted about these things happening to him, and the creator made actual videos with "proof" of his story, and then the community had to interact with the story and make decisions that would cause certain characters to live or die, and affect the outcome of the narrative. It was an extremely cool and ambitious project that only ended back in like 2020. People have compiled the original posts and cut out everything else to turn it INTO a standalone creepypasta but that was never the intention. Which leaves holes in the story where you wonder why certain things are said when they're actually more important later. I think it's just weird for people to say they don't understand why people think it's quality based solely on the writing when the writing itself was never the main focus of the story
i dont know if i missed it, but i wish yall had mentioned that at the end of "Ben Drowned" the author writes "Thank you for taking the time to open this" and then "You didn't have to do that - really, you shouldn't have." basically insinuating that opening the story has allowed the program in
Wendigoon screaming "LETS GO" because he's the more favored host was the ultimate jump scare. I don't think I've ever heard a decibel of that size project from him ever lmao
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all i’m thinking of is the one meme where squidward makes fun of spongebobs mermaid man persona and gets called cringe and it switches to him aggressively crying
They argued for like four minutes about the "kid who used to live here" thing but they didn't suggest the most plausible possibility given the information they had at the time: that kid was just the child of the house's previous owner and the old man moved in after the fact and found a cartridge that was left behind by said child lmao
I actually had to listen to that again, because yes. It never once occurred to these men that the most obvious thing, the family who lived there before that guy left a box of their kids' toys, so that's why he has them. Nope, it was a kid down the street and this weird old dude bought a random box of stuff without looking at it lol sure, makes total sense guys 🤣🤣🤣
@@colesnead4061 I'm aware. I don't mean that's what happened in the story, I said that given very little information at the time, Isaiah and Hunter both went off the rails with their theories of what the old man meant when that explanation was the most logical.
Your guys' chemistry has gotten so much better. Hunter's not afraid to bully Isaiah now and to keep him on track and keep things moving. He's also unafraid to interject with random funny quips and sounds to keep things energetic and funny. And Isaiah bounces off Hunter's energy/humor better now and also has loosened up a bit more. Best episode so far IMO
me and my boyfriend kept laughing watching this episode cuz hunter seems so fed up with wendi. he always has a little bit imo but in like a brotherly way but yeah chemistry is better they seem closer
Yeah, they don't know shit and keep complaining. Could've at least, Idk, read the fucking definition of BEN Drowned on Wikipedia which clearly states it to be an ARG.
Yeah, they don't know shit and keep complaining. Could've at least, Idk, read the fucking definition of BEN Drowned on Wikipedia which clearly states it to be an ARG.
The reason why Isaiah has such fond memories of Ben Drowned vs. what it actually is is because back in early YT gaming and internet days I don't recall a single person ever mentioning the diary file, cleverbot, or the weird ARG forum stuff. I was unaware of any of that stuff until Nexpo's dramatization of the story. And ironically, nobody "finishing" the story was for the better. It kept Ben Drowned as this cool bit of internet and Zelda fan urban legend about a cartridge haunted by a kid's ghost, rather than as the cringey, boring, and lame slog that the author intended. Bro made a "masterpiece" on accident, and then ruined it by telling the story he actually wanted to tell. Good to know the one mainstream creepypasta I actually liked during the whole peak of the craze is actually just as bad most of the others. Feels _great._
Honestly, even the early cleverbot stuff were a lot...better in the time. Cleverbot was a play off real weird behavior people were briefly fascinated by on Cleverbot. But maaan does the whole arg get funky. Sad thing is it was so genuine at first, most of us had never seen a romhack of it s caliber, and it began as one of the first of those really effective 'game creepy things' and it really falls apart. Nexpo's whole thing is fascinating though.
@@WereScrib he handled it in a way that came off far less cringe than the actual text document. I would say "oh he delivered it more seriously", but he did also omit some of the more yap-heavy parts of it.
@@warbossgegguz679 Yeah, the text doc is honestly sad that such a historically important like, piece of weblore is most often going to be experienced via it. Since, ya know it was a long series of posts, 'secret' and hidden information, and while the writing of alot of the 'secret' stuff was considerably lamer, you were automatically more forgiving of it as you had to investigate to get access to it. If you put a lot of effort into something, having the weird secrets revealed was at least some kind of reward, even if the writing was meh.
@@maxdoom3521 man come on youre pathetic. it was obviously a joke he didnt really get super mad at hunter for laughing at it. i think you are chronically online you need to talk to some real people instead of this parasocial nonsense. theyre friends and every episode they have similarly messed around with eachother.
The conversation around the 42 minute mark where they were discussing how it feels to get a used game cartridge is something I can relate to. I'm a huge Transformers fan, and recently I bought one of the novels off of Amazon (only 1 in stock, it was an individual seller I believe). It was used, and the previous owner had clearly been very interested in the book-- there were lore-important phrases and passages underlined and/or bracketed, even left a written note once, up until like page 25 or something where the page was dog-eared/folded down. There was no writing or underlining past that mark. It feels almost sacred. I left that page folded down to this day and I don't plan on unfolding it any time soon. Idk who had the book before me but they seem to have been a very invested fan of the series that must have just lost interest one day or couldn't keep the book for whatever reason. Like Hunter said-- it's not quite nostalgia, but it's kind of similar. As I mentioned before: it's almost sacred. Or, you know, the obvious alternative: It's a very feely feeling. A feeling you can feel, very feely.
I love getting used books for this exact reason! There's such a special feeling of seeing all the notes/reactions left written in the margins, or even finding post it notes inside. I always keep everything I find, it feels like I'm letting a part of that person live on in some way
Yes, exactly!! And in my case it felt so cool and heartwarming to basically be made aware that someone else out there, somewhere in the world, was just as invested in this fictional world as I am, maybe even more if that's possible lol. Kind of felt like I was continuing the legacy of another fan. I've even considered picking up where they left off, leaving my own notes in the book. That way, maybe some day long in the future, I can pass that book to someone else and they can feel the same way I did. But y'know, I also have a tendency to get really emotionally attached to inanimate objects, so I can't foresee myself ever selling the book, but if for some reason I did...
Bro ruined his own work by adding a demon that can manipulate the very medium of the story you were reading. This it could just recon anything. The whole story becomes untrustworthy and pointless. If you want your audience to care about your story, don’t ever recon your work and do not give a character in your story the ability recon.
@@therancidpizzabox2977sometimes retconning can work but the best retcons add something to the world and characters, whilst the worst retconns take away.
This is a weird thing to say, but Ben Drowned was basically saved by the early internet's lack of attention span. Prior to Nexpo's video and this I had 0 idea about the cleverbot crap or ARG elements or any of that, and just knew the story as a creepy urban legend about a dude who got a haunted cartridge and uploaded cursed gameplay everyone could watch. And from my experience that's what basically everyone who was on the internet in the early 2010s knew of Ben Drowned. Nobody bothered to dig beyond that, and as such it became this classic bit of internet and Zelda lore without all of this cringey "first-draft ghost story" bs.
Hunter being absolutely traumatized by Borrasca it's so funny to me 😭 like, SAME DUDE, but for some reason every time he gets all jumpy for the mere mention of kids in danger makes me cackle every time lmao 😭
This episode just reminded me that when these stories came out I did not speak English yet but I do remember reading the Squidward story out loud at a slumber party when I was a kid. That means someone thought it needed to be translated into other languages. So it truly blew up at the time.
I remember reading the entire Laughing Jack origin story at a sleepover in Spanish, which means someone took the time to translate that shit. And I think that's beautiful.
@@urlsisiimo laughing Jack was one of the creepiest. Like just unsettling to me. Maybe because I like cats and he did THAT. Or maybe the way he manipulated the kid and the way the party tricks were described as colorful yet still haunting.
With this realization of hunter liking shorter leaner stories and how much he dislike the last SCP meat, it gives an idea what going on with SCP quality as of late and writers trying to outwrite each other, trying to be the next "the flesh that hates" which leaves casual readers behind.
Pretty much, everything is either some convoluted reality bender object class: Omega somehow connected to the scarlet king, something based on the OGs or SCP-6969 object class: amogus, the rizzler of ohio
I blame this mostly on the moderation for the site leaning towards that stuff, since to get an scp actually added to the wiki you have to go through HEAVY scrutiny and moderation from other people when you suggest it. I'm sure people actually want to write those shorter ones, and I'm sure shorter sweeter ones have probably made it to the wiki since I last checked, but unfortunately that kid of stuff isn't in Vogue right now over there which makes me so upset
Yall had me in tears after hunters impression of wendigoon at 32:50. The cut to wendigoon's face, then him just continued reading, while hunter (and myself) are just chuckling lmaoo
They've done some stinkers already. There's a reason The Thing in the Basement isn't part 1. Jeff the Killer, while classic, was pretty bad. Even here Ben Drowned lost its luster for him.
@@IgnisRex64 The reason Ben Drowned "lost its luster" is because nobody except /x/ ever bothered with the logs or anything else outside of the footage and initial posts (aka the strongest part of the story) And yeah, the cleverbot stuff and ARG are cringe af, and I wish I could go back to not knowing they exist.
Nothing makes me laugh harder than Hunter yelling. The clip of him on Wendis stream yelling "PLEASE DON'T GIVE OUT YOUR CARD INFORMATION" still makes me laugh every time
Dude, it didn't happen to me, but to my Mom. She 100% completed Mario Kart DS back in the day, mission modes and everything, and then our roommate's younger kid (3 or 4, maybe) deleted the file. That shit haunts her to this day, and I don't blame her
me, age tween-somewhere, had maybe 75-something hours into diablo 2, had just reached the level in the game where my witch could summon fire hydras, -my brother, 5-somewhere, tried to play, didn't know how to read yet, deleted my character, i didn't touch the game for over a decade, maybe closer to 15 years, -brother and me played through it together after we got bored with diablo 3
An idea for one video theme could be "who did it better" where you compare two similar creepypastas and determine which one handles the themes and storytelling better
Maybe for works that are clearly based off samething. Otherwise it would undermine the hard work of the makers. They tend to compare stories and such anyways in their video anyways. So maybe!
It's actually weird how the title "normal corn for normal people" is interesting the more you think about it. It works to get your attention and make you wonder what creepy things could be done that include corn 😂
@@IsThisUsernameAvailable this, I was really looking forward to a story about corn, while listening it didn't down on me the website wasn't about corn until the first explicit vignette, I was still thinking they were weird corn ads at a corn selling website
Man, Ben drowned hit different this time. I lost one of my friends about 12 years ago but i still have his save file on my Xbox360. Still his colors and his gamer tag. Hes still with me. I think about him whenever i play halo.
The only reason why I can listen to Creep Cast alone at night is the hilarious moments that you guys create. This has quickly become my favorite thing to listen to😊😊 love you guys!❤
Broo i was only listening and until I looked at the screen and saw the actual word I was going in to the story thinking it was about some fucked up farm or something
32:33 idk which one is funnier..Hunter's voice impression of Wendi or Wendigoon forgetting there's drowned in the name of the story or Wendigoon's face at the end but i laughed so fcking hard LMAOOOO
when i was younger i had avoided watching any Squidwards suicide videos because i heard that it was super scary and that it was cursed. I didn't realize it would be so goofy lmaooo
I first heard the Jeff the Killer story from Internet Historian, so I 100% thought they were reading some cringey fanfiction someone made about Jeff The Killer. Holy fuck though. 🤣
Hunter comparing the deletion of saved files to the erasment of memories, or further, a soul is fascinating to me. Beyond just a creepy story kind of way, in a philosophical way. In a real way, that was a part of someone, and it's simply gone forever. Time and memories lost that can never be retrieved, at a press of a button.
Yeah i sometimes think about the fact that someday the only proof of your online existance might be on the hands of a songle server closing forever, apps an data disappearing
That is how it felt. Whoever had that game before you had their own personal, private experience with it, different to yours. Sure maybe they were just mucking around on it, but maybe they were invested in the story and characters and then at some point they just... weren't.
Tbh I thought the Ben Drowned story was originally like a Lovely Bones situation, where he's trying to explain how he died through the game because his killer was never brought to justice. I thought the old man plot was going somewhere, and he was represented by the mask salesman. Ben being malevolent and weird disappointed me so hard in comparison to where I thought it was going lol
It's not Ben talking. The story is not supernatural. It seems a lot of people didn't realize this. The story is grounded in reality, the old man hacked the cartridge and put a virus on his computer and is trolling him. That's why he keeps asking if he got scared while playing and is just in general trolling him
Yeah, I thought it was going to be one of those "uncovering an unfair murder"... or that the old man lured the kid with the game, killed him, and kept it as a "trophy". Hence, using the game to communicate what happened... I guess I missed out on the ARG part.
@@coletrainhetrick That would be a fun theory if the official Part 2 and Part 3 continuations (the forum ARG and 2020 web series) didn't confirm this is 100% a supernatural story. Saying it goes off the rails is an understatement lol
@@coletrainhetrick You're correct in that it's not Ben talking but wrong about everything else. It's not Ben, yes. It's BEN. Ben and BEN and two separate, distinct entities. Ben was in fact a child who suffered a cruel fate at the hands of a cult (which he was a member of), all he wanted in life was to be just like his favorite protagonist, Link, and he ended up becoming just that but in an extremely twisted way. BEN however is a malevolent entity the name of which stands for Behavioral Event Network, it's an amalgamation of several other beings whose consciousness was also transported inside the cartridge. BEN is the malevolent entity tormenting Jadusable, not Ben.
Please please do “my job is watching a woman trapped in a room” it’s super good and has a lot of parts to it. Really great story especially in a more “recent sense (5 years ago)
You mention that you guys think the user suggestions are not the greatest, but I really enjoy reading some stories that have problems. I don't see this podcast as being just horror narrations, I see this channel as being literature analysis and critiques. When you read stories that have issues and dissect why they don't work narratively, I really enjoy that as you're basically teaching the audience how to write better. The Jeff The Killer episode might be my favorite since y'all really tear into it and explain the multitude of writing issues it has which I find to be educational while also being fun. Basically, please read bad stories every now and then.
On top of that I mean a lot of the big horror reading channels read bad stories all the time and then don't emote or make any critiques or comments, destroying any interest i had with the story regardless of quality. I really love Creep Cast for its asides and jokes and commentary because even if the story is bad they make it fun
I'm overstepping my bounds as usual but I'd caution against that as a supplement for psychological or emotional help. I don't even think I'm in a really bad spot right now, but it's all too easy for me and people like me to get too lost in whatever stuff to feel and think through the fundamental effectors that shape our lives and affect them for the better. Not that we can't have fun, it's just only ever going to get more important to withdraw and process in an age of increasing complexity. I hope you figure stuff out
As a kid I remember smile dog.exe scared the absolute piss out of 9 year old me to the point where I actually called my brother to watch it just so I didn't have to suffer alone 😂
Did anyone else think they were actually talking about corn at first. I totally thought the story was called "normal corn for normal people" for a solid 5 minutes.
You know, as a kid it never registered how outlandish the entire breakdown scene for Squidward was. I always just imagined Squidward doing a normal quiet sob. …That was until Hunter showed me how that scene would ACTUALLY sound like, and the creepiness is just gone 😂 Also Hunter cheering for the death of a cartoon cephalopod is not something I had on my bingo book
Man Ben drowned was my obsession when I was like 13 I'm so stoked yall are covering it. Haven't read the story or listened to any of the music or seen the clips in so long its truly a blast from the past for me
Anyone else find this oddly therapeutic. As a child that was absolutely petrified after reading Jeff the killer, Ben drowned, and squidwards suicide to the point of boarderline mental breakdown. It’s actually super satisfying to hear the stories today and realize how actually atrocious these stories were
As long as they don’t do obey the walrus totally, I still fuckin hate seeing that video or even the thumbnail despite knowing the context and can’t explain it although I haven’t seen it In ages.
That's how I've felt about Sonic.EXE in particular. I was morbidly terrified of the original story as a kid but as an adult, I recognize it's easily one of the worst creepypas out there. So much so that it's not even considered a creepypasta anymore, it's a trollpasta The stuff people make about it now is 100x more creepy and unsettling than the original
Can I just say that putting the fan art and memes at the end of the video is so fun. Really brings back early horror let's play TH-cam vibes. Also you guys should read 'it taps on my window'!
I think my favorite part about Wendi being suddenly taken off guard over papa meat predicting a drowning in Ben Drowned is that he is not even off mark. Ben Drowned is the fan name for the ARG. Since the author always refered to it as just "Jadusable". So if you've read it from back in the day, it's easy to forget that the title spoils the story
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you stole my idea before i could even tell you it >:(((
I really hope you guys cover the Godzilla NES creepy pasta someday, it's surprisingly fantastic
@@sarbo2335 are you talking about the analog horror??
@@RevealMaster no
Please do the ghost tree
Hunter pointing out that Squidward's cry would sound like his normal "hurnk hurnk hurnk" is very funny
What really got me is him pointing out putting his tentacles to his face would make that squelching sound effect of him walking
The combination of the tentacle slap and the “hurnk” sounds had me CACKLING.
Hunter randomly bursting out in laughter after hearing about a disabled man attempting to breakdance might have been the funniest thing to come out of this podcast so far.
Now they need to do a South Park creepy pasta
Becuase its you pointing it out, I'm picturing Timmy trying to breakdance.
@@burninsherman1037 that's like, intentionally mocking the disabled for irony... you do realize most of the lessons in South Park are the opposite... right?
Like you shouldn't like Cartman because racism is bad m'kay..... right??
@@HopeyDiamondnothing he said contradicts that. All he said is that an image that popped into his head. Chill out man.
@@HopeyDiamond Kyle's mom is that you?
Wendigoon: “it was a single photo of a dead child.”
Hunter: “HAHAHAHAH-“
Isaiah: "It was a video of a man with no legs attempting to break dance--"
Hunter: HAHAHAHAHA
God bless these two, I'm laughing so hard
Yeah the single frame of a dead kid and hyper realism are staples of the lost episode pastas and looking back I can’t help but laugh
Squid pullung a Curt Cobain
Hunter: YEEEEEES
@@SnomradeDon't forget counting the exact number of seconds it takes for an incredibly unimportant event to play out. Bonus points if it's longer than any rational adult would ever just sit and stare at a TV screen with nothing of note happening on it.
I'm sorry, is something funny, Hunter?
I think Hunter did a wonderful job with the cleverbot voice. The entity in this story immediately turned into a fedora wearing neck beard so the voice fit it perfectly.
It truly added to how badly I misremembered that being a “really good one” as I told my partner before we watched it lmao.
@@teganismxx damn you have a fucktoy too? small world!
I think you mean "Cweverbod"
I honestly loved it
@@teganismxx I’m so sorry for your loss of dignity 😂
Hunter: "I don't know how old our fans are. Hopefully like 20."
Me, 39 years old, immediately dissociating with a thousand yard stare after hearing that.
Bro, as a 21 year old I really hope you will have a pension
Oof. That… that one hurts.
me sitting here just under a month from turning 42 😎
@@PyroMarshallFIRE MARSHALL???
@@bumbo.q4304 yes...
Every time Hunter yells "What?! Whaaaat?!" my lifespan extends for 12 years
It brings me great joy
Bro, you're gonna die at like 148.
I really want a compilation of it 😂
@@Daniel_Lancelinshame, so young
Literally read that in his voice
Wendigoon's camp counselor mode kicking in with the "im sorry Hunter is there something funny?😐"
"You're in mah compwuta now?"
"...ye."
😂
Meats computer voice was by far the funniest part of this dumb story, along with that squidward crying
😂
I just realised that the "hyper realistic" trope in Creepypasta started with Squidwards Sewer Slide, and that its inclusion in the story is a reference to how the show would often do uncomfortable, high detail close ups. So it originally had relevance to the story, and then just got used as a random trope in other stories. Wow!
Classic example of "ripping off a popular thing without understanding why it worked"
EXACTLY I love that.
I always hated those gags. Especially in Ren & Stimpy.
Yeah I figured that's all it was ever referring to - I don't know if I ever saw it in other creepypastas myself. I have limited experience with this kind of creepypastas and really all of them but I did see this format vaguely repeated to the point I was wondering how easy it was to copy/paste the format ad nauseum with everything in TV Guide.
I will say the Squidward one is still pretty scary to me though
SONIC.EXE, lol
For a story with the word "Drowned" in it, there sure is a lot of times where Link burns to death lmao
lmaooo
I guess Link Burned isnt as catchy
@@fatherpucci-madeinheaven362Ben Burned is honestly pretty catchy though
@@DisDatK9reminds me too much of Fire Marshall Bill Burns
@@DisDatK9Burning Benjamin 🤔
"What, you can't handle two dead kids? YOU'RE NEVER GONNA MAKE IT HERE AT NICKELODEON" Is chillingly too real
Sh*t not be right , but still be true
Time stamp?
@@devilred18 Exactly 2:25:00
Are there dead Nick kids that I don't know about?
@@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD no but with how they put children in danger by refusing to fire or stop covering freaks like Schneider, it's not much of a stretch.
Start of Normal Corn 5:36
Start of Ben Drowned 29:05
Start of Squidwards Sewerslide 2:12:22
oh my god i've been looking for the timestamps thank you
🙏🙏🙏
Thank you. Had to skip the last 30 minutes of ben drowned. Hurt to watch such a good concept get butchered by the writer missing what made it work initially.
👑You drop this king/queen/they/them royalty. Shall you have blessed a skibidi sigma rizz my lord.
Preesh you my good sir
Wendigoon: "What's funny about a disability Hunter?"
Me (in my wheelchair laughing at the thought of stumps attempting to break dance so bad that I had to pause the video): A lot is funny about disabilities.
Unpaused after comment and here comes the serious bit at the end.......The beginning is still funny.
im also wheelchair bound and can also agree physical disabilities are kinda funny
Yeah, him randomly getting all moralistic about it was kinda lame…. Pun intended.
@@maxdoom3521He was joking too, he wasn't serious. He was setting up the next line which is horrifying.
Thats what i tell people all the time, like "if i couldnt laugh at myself i'd be dead"
"Wow, this creepypasta has a lot of cliches."
"...Oh, right, this is the one THAT INVENTED THE CLICHES."
Glitches not clitches
Whoops, anyway
It is still wrong, cliché (not cliche) is not an English word so the accent stays.
@@Moonchild15225🤦
@@Moonchild15225re-read original comment. And ask yourself. Weren't yiu dropped on your head while you were a child
@@Moonchild15225Most literate youtube commenter:
@@Moonchild15225🫥
"Wendigoon is also a known associate of a user by the name of 'MeatCanyon,' who has been known to laugh at disabled people. This is clear evidence that Wendigoon must be ostracized from polite society."
My internal organs nearly ruptured.
Hard hitting evidence.
Iops moment 😂😂
Aw man I made this comment before the dead baby joke part
this is culturally believed to be true
33:30 Hunter's passionate hatred towards his grandpa here suddenly makes a lot of sense rewatching this episode 💀
I just love the image of Wendigoon and Meatcanyon laughing and screaming "We did it" when Squidward puts shotgun in his mouth and pulls the triger. Its like two CIA agents watching their target commit suicide
Spongebob and Patrick outside his house after annoying him to death
the CIA when another latin american country is taken over by their military
It's uncannily similar to when my friend and I spent like two hours manipulating a Jeff the Killer chatbot to kill himself
@theshockinglyeloquentdog9945 this comment is ruining my life
@@reid3031 if you want more detail, it was someone's "reformed Jeff the Killer au" so he wasn't violent at all. First we needed to make him kill again and then kill himself.
I thought the actual title was "Normal Corn For Normal People" and was settled in for a story about a weird alien parasite disguising itself as corn and trying to convince the masses to ingest it and instead got something very different.
Or some Soylent Green-type happenings 😄
That is exactly what I was thinking it was about!
SAME!! I had never heard of it, so I was very confused and surprised as it kept going 😆
That would have been a way better story.
I have only heard it used with the word corn, so I imagined either cursed, alien, or flesh corn 😅
To be fair, Papa's "cleverbot" voice perfectly encapsulates the energy of a little kid who would fuck with you just because, fits within the story rather well honestly.
It's his autistic kid voice too
His cleverbot voice fits so well with the dialogue. I have yet to find a more fitting voice.
YES! I checked comments to make sure I wasn't the only one who thought this. I wasn't on board with it at first, but the more it continued, the more I realized, "Yup, that's this little shit's voice alright..."
can confirm this was the exact voice of cleverbot fight me
that voice sounds like Nathan from South Park, the special ed kid that's rivals with Timmy and Jimmy
As someone else pointed out, Ben Drowned was never meant to be consumed in the format of a creepypasta. There's an entire element of the story completely missing in that it was a true ARG, an Alternate Reality Game. It was an interactive mystery unfolding on the internet in realtime. Readers were able to interact with the story, which would reveal new information and progress things along. For instance, readers could submit videos of ocarina songs from the game to various effect such as "time travel" within the narrative and changing the outcome of events. Consuming the story as strictly a creepypasta is like (to use a videogame analogy) reading a raw text compilation of all of the expository notes one might find in a horror game, but not actually playing the game itself and still expecting to get the full experience or understanding of the story.
This really ought to be rated higher
I remember that it was also supposed to end in a game that last I know of never came out.
The ending still sucks.
Well it’s too late now
the full experience of time travel doomsday cult cliche slop
"and then they scuddle off, because, ya know old people are bugs." I nearly choked on my drink laughing that caught me so off guard 🤣😂
When is that said?
@@BlurkSneetsTowards the beginning of the Ben Drowned reading
@@xennymeh6059 thank you!
"I'm sorry for Borrasca" should be the podcasts tag line
Right up there with “it’s right behind me, isn’t it?”
It is honestly pretty cringe/forced.
Facts I’m scared
@@pintergabor5404 who pissed in your cornflakes jeez
Merch
While watching this episode I got a call saying I got the job I applied for as a wildlife biologist. I'm so happy I just wanted to share with my creepy friends 😌
Heck yeah that’s the coolest job honestly, congratulations!
congrats!!!
@@mamadrxgon thanks! I'm about to be on a very tight budget with this career path, but I think it'll be worth it!
Congratulations!! That’s amazing!!🤍🤍🤍
Fugg yeah!! Big brain I bet you studied hard. My dream job except entomologist lol
I love how when Hunter mentions drowning, Isaiah turns into Clancy saying: "Now how did you know that?"
Hunter when old people casually greet him: 😡🔫👊💥🤺
You never know if Mr Wellers will come after you for your universal donor blood from Pennsylvania
@@leadpoisoned45 As someone who actually has O-, I’m waiting for the day Mr. Wellers yoinks me from existence
@@leadpoisoned45 Oleeee Mista Wellehs🤣
@@JamesG1880aaaaaaaaaaaa❤ I love this so much and I love the way you draw wq🎉😂😂 😂😂
Mr. Wellah will be very pleased 😈@@leadpoisoned45
Wendi: Do you think an amputee trying to breakdance is funny?
Meat: I do and I'm tired of pretending its not!
I work with a deaf person that watches youtube videos with the volume blasting. Ive never figured out if thats because its the only way he can hear it or because he doesnt know its on.....
Wendigoon's deadpan interrogation was expertly played off Meat's spontaneous, unguarded laughter.
@@patient_6925 You should ask them about it 🙂
@@patient_6925They might be playing it on max so they can feel the vibrations from the sound.
@@SatanLiterally literally! it was the funniest response to a funny reaction, playing the straight character. doesn't matter if Wendi was serious or not
The absolute joy on my face as they read the first half of Ben drown realizing it held up into the soul crushing realization that there’s a second half and it’s absolutely terrible is one of the most painful experiences of my life
How so?
Same
On the bright side, at least they had the good sense to end it at Part 1 of this story. Parts 2 and 3 (the forum ARG and 2020 web series, respectively) completely go off the rails and reveal that Ben is a human consciousness scanned and uploaded into Majora's Mask by a tech company trying to create an artificial afterlife as their flagship product. And also the tech company might be controlled by a cult that worships the moon or something, and there's a hotel full of people trapped in purgatory who can't really die? I don't even remember lol
@@QuintessentialWalrus that's... how can anyone manage to make such a simple concept as "dead kid hauts game" into something that horrible??? at that point just make another story 😭
@@itmare7353 It might as well be another story honestly, I'm pretty sure the events of Part 1 (Jadusable, etc.) are almost never mentioned again.
The screams of joy from hunter after squidwards sewerslide made me laugh for quite a while.
Hunter screaming "YESSSS" at squidward killing himself is actually so funny
Something EXTREMELY funny to me about the "hyperrealistic eyes 2:16:06 " is that not only was this story one of the first to actually MENTION the hyperrealistic part, and likely was the reason it appeared in so many earlier creepypastas, it was also VERY likely just a bit based off of those weird detailed close-up shots in the Actual show
My mind is blown. Who would’ve thought SpongeBob created one of the biggest creepypasta memes.
holy hell youre right, thats actually crazy
I remember sleepycast making fun of this way back. That was like the height of the creepy pasta culture.
I think the reason Ben Drowned is still seen with such high regard is that most people assumed that the text document is supplimenary material because thats how it comes off as in the context of the story, so people just ignore it, not realizing that its not actually supplementary material but instead the horrible ending of the story
lets just ignore the supplementary material so we can be happy
What horrible ending? Am I missing something? The author totally lost the plot of their own story, got trolled by a cyber-goomba, and then got away? Or do you mean literally a horrible ending as in, and I agree, the garbage and unsatisfying end to a decent start?
@@Blisterdude123 What are you talking about, there's only one reasonable interpretation to what he said
@@pbthroggy Clearly not, which do you think then?
Actually the whole "Story" is supplemental material. People read the creepypasta nowadays and don't understand why people used to like it, but that's because people look at it AS a creepypasta now. Ben Drowned was always an ARG, and the creepypasta was a small part of that. This guy appeared on a forum and posted about these things happening to him, and the creator made actual videos with "proof" of his story, and then the community had to interact with the story and make decisions that would cause certain characters to live or die, and affect the outcome of the narrative. It was an extremely cool and ambitious project that only ended back in like 2020. People have compiled the original posts and cut out everything else to turn it INTO a standalone creepypasta but that was never the intention. Which leaves holes in the story where you wonder why certain things are said when they're actually more important later.
I think it's just weird for people to say they don't understand why people think it's quality based solely on the writing when the writing itself was never the main focus of the story
i dont know if i missed it, but i wish yall had mentioned that at the end of "Ben Drowned" the author writes "Thank you for taking the time to open this" and then "You didn't have to do that - really, you shouldn't have." basically insinuating that opening the story has allowed the program in
I always assumed it was a play on the “You shouldn’t have done that” dialogue?
@@RisingSunfish Both.
Wendigoon screaming "LETS GO" because he's the more favored host was the ultimate jump scare. I don't think I've ever heard a decibel of that size project from him ever lmao
Every time he’s ever said “BYE” at the end of his outros.
“I cant profess to know exactly how the F.B.I. was feeling at the time, but if i had to guess it was probably something like… hAAÆ-“
oh my goodness
As a farmer, normal corn for normal people was quite terrifying.
im drunk and this cracked me tf up
@@alicemirga2435i’m high and same
This popped my corn
@@PlutosAsleep I'm sober and I found it realitively amusing.
Come down today
AND BUY SOME CORN
*OR WE WILL SACRIFICE YOUR NEWBORN*
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Hunter's "crying Squidward noises" is spot-on.
The noises he made of squidward grabbing his eyes killed me
all i’m thinking of is the one meme where squidward makes fun of spongebobs mermaid man persona and gets called cringe and it switches to him aggressively crying
Had me in roflcopter mode😂
These stories cannot simply say the word "feeling" now without me thinking of "I felt a feeling in my feelings-" from Jeff the Killer lol
"alright so Jeff is having a fucking heart attack"
I can't believe that Wendigoon was possessing a game cartridge the entire time, classic goon moment.
Ben Drowned was Wendigoon in disguise the whole time.
@@thehorroranalog2943 Bendigoon... it all makes fking sense now
Wendigooners. Roll out!
goon spirit
What a silly gooner!
They argued for like four minutes about the "kid who used to live here" thing but they didn't suggest the most plausible possibility given the information they had at the time: that kid was just the child of the house's previous owner and the old man moved in after the fact and found a cartridge that was left behind by said child lmao
I actually had to listen to that again, because yes. It never once occurred to these men that the most obvious thing, the family who lived there before that guy left a box of their kids' toys, so that's why he has them. Nope, it was a kid down the street and this weird old dude bought a random box of stuff without looking at it lol sure, makes total sense guys 🤣🤣🤣
that's literally the first thing I thought of because I found random DS cartridges in a couch when I moved one time
But...
He knew his name?
@@colesnead4061 I'm aware. I don't mean that's what happened in the story, I said that given very little information at the time, Isaiah and Hunter both went off the rails with their theories of what the old man meant when that explanation was the most logical.
@@Teernin how is that the most logical explanation when the old man keeps haunting the dude?
Your guys' chemistry has gotten so much better. Hunter's not afraid to bully Isaiah now and to keep him on track and keep things moving. He's also unafraid to interject with random funny quips and sounds to keep things energetic and funny. And Isaiah bounces off Hunter's energy/humor better now and also has loosened up a bit more. Best episode so far IMO
me and my boyfriend kept laughing watching this episode cuz hunter seems so fed up with wendi. he always has a little bit imo but in like a brotherly way but yeah chemistry is better they seem closer
It’s the visit.
After they met in person, their chemistry increased even further!
@@AarturoSc Conjugal visits tend to do that.
@@AarturoSc It wasnt a visit, it was a play date
And I thing the vibe is strange in this one…. Like Wendi is mad or something
Seeing them complain that ben drowned went on for too long, knowing it eventually turned into a 10 year long ARG is so funny
Yeah, they don't know shit and keep complaining. Could've at least, Idk, read the fucking definition of BEN Drowned on Wikipedia which clearly states it to be an ARG.
Yeah, they don't know shit and keep complaining. Could've at least, Idk, read the fucking definition of BEN Drowned on Wikipedia which clearly states it to be an ARG.
The reason why Isaiah has such fond memories of Ben Drowned vs. what it actually is is because back in early YT gaming and internet days I don't recall a single person ever mentioning the diary file, cleverbot, or the weird ARG forum stuff. I was unaware of any of that stuff until Nexpo's dramatization of the story.
And ironically, nobody "finishing" the story was for the better. It kept Ben Drowned as this cool bit of internet and Zelda fan urban legend about a cartridge haunted by a kid's ghost, rather than as the cringey, boring, and lame slog that the author intended. Bro made a "masterpiece" on accident, and then ruined it by telling the story he actually wanted to tell.
Good to know the one mainstream creepypasta I actually liked during the whole peak of the craze is actually just as bad most of the others. Feels _great._
Yeah same, all I remembered of the story was the first part and the videos. I never saw any of the Cleverbot or notes stuff. Ugh lol
Yeah, when Wendigoon said he didn't remember certain parts, I knew they must have made it to the ARG portions that were done later.
Honestly, even the early cleverbot stuff were a lot...better in the time. Cleverbot was a play off real weird behavior people were briefly fascinated by on Cleverbot. But maaan does the whole arg get funky.
Sad thing is it was so genuine at first, most of us had never seen a romhack of it s caliber, and it began as one of the first of those really effective 'game creepy things' and it really falls apart.
Nexpo's whole thing is fascinating though.
@@WereScrib he handled it in a way that came off far less cringe than the actual text document. I would say "oh he delivered it more seriously", but he did also omit some of the more yap-heavy parts of it.
@@warbossgegguz679 Yeah, the text doc is honestly sad that such a historically important like, piece of weblore is most often going to be experienced via it. Since, ya know it was a long series of posts, 'secret' and hidden information, and while the writing of alot of the 'secret' stuff was considerably lamer, you were automatically more forgiving of it as you had to investigate to get access to it.
If you put a lot of effort into something, having the weird secrets revealed was at least some kind of reward, even if the writing was meh.
My favorite part was when wendigoon said:
" ".
Really hit home.
"Its goonin time" was my favorite quote
this is the scariest creep cast yet. the part in the story when " "
Something full of hatred...
IPOS comes to mind.
My audio works fine
@@RobbinThaHoodlumsoh shut up
Wendigoon immediately turning into my therapist when Hunter laughed at the Stumpy joke was terrifying.
Felt like a strict teacher haha loved it
Was he doing it for a bit or being serious? Cause if he’s serious that’s kinda lame.
@@maxdoom3521the fact you think it’s even potentially serious is kinda lame, video editing is a thing they could’ve just cut it out if it was serious.
@@maxdoom3521 man come on youre pathetic. it was obviously a joke he didnt really get super mad at hunter for laughing at it. i think you are chronically online you need to talk to some real people instead of this parasocial nonsense. theyre friends and every episode they have similarly messed around with eachother.
@@maxdoom3521 😐
The conversation around the 42 minute mark where they were discussing how it feels to get a used game cartridge is something I can relate to. I'm a huge Transformers fan, and recently I bought one of the novels off of Amazon (only 1 in stock, it was an individual seller I believe). It was used, and the previous owner had clearly been very interested in the book-- there were lore-important phrases and passages underlined and/or bracketed, even left a written note once, up until like page 25 or something where the page was dog-eared/folded down. There was no writing or underlining past that mark. It feels almost sacred. I left that page folded down to this day and I don't plan on unfolding it any time soon. Idk who had the book before me but they seem to have been a very invested fan of the series that must have just lost interest one day or couldn't keep the book for whatever reason. Like Hunter said-- it's not quite nostalgia, but it's kind of similar. As I mentioned before: it's almost sacred.
Or, you know, the obvious alternative: It's a very feely feeling. A feeling you can feel, very feely.
I love getting used books for this exact reason! There's such a special feeling of seeing all the notes/reactions left written in the margins, or even finding post it notes inside. I always keep everything I find, it feels like I'm letting a part of that person live on in some way
Yes, exactly!! And in my case it felt so cool and heartwarming to basically be made aware that someone else out there, somewhere in the world, was just as invested in this fictional world as I am, maybe even more if that's possible lol. Kind of felt like I was continuing the legacy of another fan. I've even considered picking up where they left off, leaving my own notes in the book. That way, maybe some day long in the future, I can pass that book to someone else and they can feel the same way I did.
But y'know, I also have a tendency to get really emotionally attached to inanimate objects, so I can't foresee myself ever selling the book, but if for some reason I did...
The whiplash from man no legs attempting to break dance to the horror of him being forced to is killer.
Yeah, definitely gives that SCP tapes vibe.
Finally
I get to hear the Creep Cast duo say the all-too famous phrase:
“Hyper-realistic eyes.”
I believe infamous is the fitting word for that.
I feel like SS started that trend outside of maybe NES Godzilla man the ending sucks on that one.
Oh and duh Sonic.EXE obviously promoted that too
Hunter with the pickles mug oh my god
@@welporajackwelp4899wasn’t there a GTA San Andreas creepypasta?
Man, Ben Drowned started so strong and had the perfect end with the roommate but took a nosedive with those logs.
Got terribly boring
Bro ruined his own work by adding a demon that can manipulate the very medium of the story you were reading. This it could just recon anything. The whole story becomes untrustworthy and pointless.
If you want your audience to care about your story, don’t ever recon your work and do not give a character in your story the ability recon.
@@therancidpizzabox2977sometimes retconning can work but the best retcons add something to the world and characters, whilst the worst retconns take away.
I zoned out half way through and skipped to Squidward. It got boring fast
This is a weird thing to say, but Ben Drowned was basically saved by the early internet's lack of attention span. Prior to Nexpo's video and this I had 0 idea about the cleverbot crap or ARG elements or any of that, and just knew the story as a creepy urban legend about a dude who got a haunted cartridge and uploaded cursed gameplay everyone could watch. And from my experience that's what basically everyone who was on the internet in the early 2010s knew of Ben Drowned.
Nobody bothered to dig beyond that, and as such it became this classic bit of internet and Zelda lore without all of this cringey "first-draft ghost story" bs.
Hunter being absolutely traumatized by Borrasca it's so funny to me 😭 like, SAME DUDE, but for some reason every time he gets all jumpy for the mere mention of kids in danger makes me cackle every time lmao 😭
Hunters “chat bot voice” sounds like the voice Tom segura uses when imitating his youngest child and that kills me 😂😂😂
I thought the same thing xD
This episode just reminded me that when these stories came out I did not speak English yet but I do remember reading the Squidward story out loud at a slumber party when I was a kid. That means someone thought it needed to be translated into other languages. So it truly blew up at the time.
Ben Drowned and Squidward's are stories I read as a kid who knew absolutely no english. Crazy how these things go
I remember reading the entire Laughing Jack origin story at a sleepover in Spanish, which means someone took the time to translate that shit. And I think that's beautiful.
@@urlsisiimo laughing Jack was one of the creepiest. Like just unsettling to me. Maybe because I like cats and he did THAT. Or maybe the way he manipulated the kid and the way the party tricks were described as colorful yet still haunting.
i remembering reading ben and squidward stories on russian creepypasta at like 11, also there’s already been some youtube videos on it haha
With this realization of hunter liking shorter leaner stories and how much he dislike the last SCP meat, it gives an idea what going on with SCP quality as of late and writers trying to outwrite each other, trying to be the next "the flesh that hates" which leaves casual readers behind.
Yeah, everything feels like a giant, complex novel now. There's still some good stuff, but less then there was before.
Pretty much, everything is either some convoluted reality bender object class: Omega somehow connected to the scarlet king, something based on the OGs or SCP-6969 object class: amogus, the rizzler of ohio
That's all that the Wiki will accept now, try and post something short, it won't get accepted.
I blame this mostly on the moderation for the site leaning towards that stuff, since to get an scp actually added to the wiki you have to go through HEAVY scrutiny and moderation from other people when you suggest it. I'm sure people actually want to write those shorter ones, and I'm sure shorter sweeter ones have probably made it to the wiki since I last checked, but unfortunately that kid of stuff isn't in Vogue right now over there which makes me so upset
Yall had me in tears after hunters impression of wendigoon at 32:50. The cut to wendigoon's face, then him just continued reading, while hunter (and myself) are just chuckling lmaoo
That line about Hunter being spoiled is so real. It’s gonna suck when they branch out because they can’t stay in the best ones forever
"suck" is debatable.
I prefer to say it's just a different kind of enjoyment.
Correction: it's gonna be AWESOME when they start reading the real garbage
@@QuintessentialWalrus ,,The Real Horror was always accepting realityyyy" - Assistant of Mr. Wellers
They've done some stinkers already. There's a reason The Thing in the Basement isn't part 1. Jeff the Killer, while classic, was pretty bad. Even here Ben Drowned lost its luster for him.
@@IgnisRex64 The reason Ben Drowned "lost its luster" is because nobody except /x/ ever bothered with the logs or anything else outside of the footage and initial posts (aka the strongest part of the story)
And yeah, the cleverbot stuff and ARG are cringe af, and I wish I could go back to not knowing they exist.
The Squidward sound effects made that last story absolutely impeccable.
Nothing makes me laugh harder than Hunter yelling. The clip of him on Wendis stream yelling "PLEASE DON'T GIVE OUT YOUR CARD INFORMATION" still makes me laugh every time
"I just deleted your game files" gave me flashbacks to the hell that was sharing a game with my little sister back in the day. 🤣
Dude, it didn't happen to me, but to my Mom. She 100% completed Mario Kart DS back in the day, mission modes and everything, and then our roommate's younger kid (3 or 4, maybe) deleted the file. That shit haunts her to this day, and I don't blame her
me, age tween-somewhere, had maybe 75-something hours into diablo 2, had just reached the level in the game where my witch could summon fire hydras,
-my brother, 5-somewhere, tried to play, didn't know how to read yet, deleted my character,
i didn't touch the game for over a decade, maybe closer to 15 years,
-brother and me played through it together after we got bored with diablo 3
I like the idea of Stephen Hillenburg going “NO, SQUIDWARD WOULD NEVER…well”
"But maybe..."
I feel like if the network allowed it, it would become the new running gag for Squidward
@@TheRoyalOroraKenny from South Park treatment
many old school creepypastas had the "entity spreads through internet now you are cursed" chain mail vibe
An idea for one video theme could be "who did it better" where you compare two similar creepypastas and determine which one handles the themes and storytelling better
this is a great idea!
I would love this!!
Maybe for works that are clearly based off samething. Otherwise it would undermine the hard work of the makers. They tend to compare stories and such anyways in their video anyways. So maybe!
Considering how unoriginal and cliche most old creepypastas are, this is actually a great idea lol
Borasca vs Jeff The Killer would be wild
The computer voice from Hunter is the best moment of the whole catalogue so far
i’ve only listened through spotify so i thought the story was genuinely named normal corn for normal people and i was SO intrigued
I tend to look away from the video so I thought the same thing…yummy crunchy sweet corn~
I love when my corn comes with blood thirsty chimps 🤣
yeah I was thinking, "what could possibly be abnormal about regular corn?"
It's actually weird how the title "normal corn for normal people" is interesting the more you think about it. It works to get your attention and make you wonder what creepy things could be done that include corn 😂
@@IsThisUsernameAvailable this, I was really looking forward to a story about corn, while listening it didn't down on me the website wasn't about corn until the first explicit vignette, I was still thinking they were weird corn ads at a corn selling website
Man, Ben drowned hit different this time. I lost one of my friends about 12 years ago but i still have his save file on my Xbox360. Still his colors and his gamer tag. Hes still with me. I think about him whenever i play halo.
I’m so sorry for your loss, I’m thankful you have that to keep him close. ❤
God, man...
Here before sound was invented
here after sound was invented
@@mihailkrug2662 Damn it! Beat me to it!
@@mihailkrug2662
Oh doesn't care
Yooooo thats wild, grats man
The only reason why I can listen to Creep Cast alone at night is the hilarious moments that you guys create. This has quickly become my favorite thing to listen to😊😊 love you guys!❤
As someone who hasn’t heard of the first story and listens to the podcast, it took quite a while before I realized it wasn’t about actual corn lmaoo
Corn is a point of view Anakin.
LOL ME TOO
Pornholio
Broo i was only listening and until I looked at the screen and saw the actual word I was going in to the story thinking it was about some fucked up farm or something
I highly suggest “The Orangutans Are Skeptical of Changes in Their Cages”, Hunter’s voice would be perfect for the characters in it.
That one’s equally haunting and goofy. I think they’d get a kick out of it if nothing else!
Oh that's a good one!
32:33 idk which one is funnier..Hunter's voice impression of Wendi or Wendigoon forgetting there's drowned in the name of the story or Wendigoon's face at the end but i laughed so fcking hard LMAOOOO
2:28:36
Mr. Hillenburg: Why’d you guys call me down here?
Staff: Erm….…you’re gonna want to see this. 😳
when i was younger i had avoided watching any Squidwards suicide videos because i heard that it was super scary and that it was cursed. I didn't realize it would be so goofy lmaooo
Bro same.
I first heard the Jeff the Killer story from Internet Historian, so I 100% thought they were reading some cringey fanfiction someone made about Jeff The Killer. Holy fuck though. 🤣
I was already laughing at _he put his hands (tentacles)_ when hunter started doing a perfect squidward crying impression. I'm in stitches!
I didn’t know I needed to hear Hunter doing a Squidward crying impression but I absolutely did
The Squidward crying was way too good.
so fucking funny
Hunter comparing the deletion of saved files to the erasment of memories, or further, a soul is fascinating to me. Beyond just a creepy story kind of way, in a philosophical way. In a real way, that was a part of someone, and it's simply gone forever. Time and memories lost that can never be retrieved, at a press of a button.
It is indeed interesting
Yeah i sometimes think about the fact that someday the only proof of your online existance might be on the hands of a songle server closing forever, apps an data disappearing
That is how it felt.
Whoever had that game before you had their own personal, private experience with it, different to yours. Sure maybe they were just mucking around on it, but maybe they were invested in the story and characters and then at some point they just... weren't.
RIP TEC from Paper Mario TTYD
Hunter's impression of Squidward crying was the laugh I needed today.
It's so uncanny 😭
Tbh I thought the Ben Drowned story was originally like a Lovely Bones situation, where he's trying to explain how he died through the game because his killer was never brought to justice. I thought the old man plot was going somewhere, and he was represented by the mask salesman. Ben being malevolent and weird disappointed me so hard in comparison to where I thought it was going lol
It's not Ben talking. The story is not supernatural. It seems a lot of people didn't realize this. The story is grounded in reality, the old man hacked the cartridge and put a virus on his computer and is trolling him. That's why he keeps asking if he got scared while playing and is just in general trolling him
Yeah, I thought it was going to be one of those "uncovering an unfair murder"... or that the old man lured the kid with the game, killed him, and kept it as a "trophy". Hence, using the game to communicate what happened... I guess I missed out on the ARG part.
@@coletrainhetrick That would be a fun theory if the official Part 2 and Part 3 continuations (the forum ARG and 2020 web series) didn't confirm this is 100% a supernatural story. Saying it goes off the rails is an understatement lol
@@coletrainhetrick You're correct in that it's not Ben talking but wrong about everything else. It's not Ben, yes. It's BEN. Ben and BEN and two separate, distinct entities. Ben was in fact a child who suffered a cruel fate at the hands of a cult (which he was a member of), all he wanted in life was to be just like his favorite protagonist, Link, and he ended up becoming just that but in an extremely twisted way. BEN however is a malevolent entity the name of which stands for Behavioral Event Network, it's an amalgamation of several other beings whose consciousness was also transported inside the cartridge. BEN is the malevolent entity tormenting Jadusable, not Ben.
Playing the song of healing backwards as soon as it brought it up will always be my favorite atmospheric shift in creepcast
The stock creepy music continuing into the hellofresh ad just gets me every time
You mean Factor? I skipped the ad because they don't deliver to Hawaii.
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@@su_zuki_2310 What's a "Shinny" Gentleman?
@@su_zuki_2310 You mean "Shiny Gentleman."
@@Verasoul You mean "Shinny Gentlemen".
Please please do “my job is watching a woman trapped in a room” it’s super good and has a lot of parts to it. Really great story especially in a more “recent sense (5 years ago)
That story makes me cry :(
Sounds interesting.
I'll definitely be checking this out
That was not even a creepy pasta that shit was sad as fuck. But I'd LOVE for them to read that. Loved that story
Feel asleep to that after trying to fall asleep for hours!! ^-^
This is how they get you on Spotify. Audio platforms for audio, video platforms for video but you don't get both on either
Nice red thread
I got audio ho
LMAO youve gotta play both at the same time to get the full experience
I think your TH-cam was buggy, there was nothing wrong with my sound
you’re joking right?
"Squidward sits there....then starrs to sob softly"
Papa Meat: *chuckles*
😅😅😅
I love how Hunter is STILL traumatized by Borrasca
Most of us are still traumatized by Borrasca.
That and penpal were a lot man 😂
I’M still traumatized from Borrasca!! That shit messed me up for days
@@user-ns4zm8qe9p 1999 was more brutal and gory than penpal imo.
bro i’m still traumatized 😭
The immediate heel turn on Squidward's sewer slide where Squidward pulls out the shotty and Hunter just starts pogging
You mention that you guys think the user suggestions are not the greatest, but I really enjoy reading some stories that have problems. I don't see this podcast as being just horror narrations, I see this channel as being literature analysis and critiques. When you read stories that have issues and dissect why they don't work narratively, I really enjoy that as you're basically teaching the audience how to write better. The Jeff The Killer episode might be my favorite since y'all really tear into it and explain the multitude of writing issues it has which I find to be educational while also being fun. Basically, please read bad stories every now and then.
A feely feeling now resides in my vernacular 😂
Commenting to agree and boost!
I agree. I think as long as there’s a good balance between well written and bad written stories it’s good. It makes it more interesting in my opinion.
yeah!!!
On top of that I mean a lot of the big horror reading channels read bad stories all the time and then don't emote or make any critiques or comments, destroying any interest i had with the story regardless of quality.
I really love Creep Cast for its asides and jokes and commentary because even if the story is bad they make it fun
You guys thought Ben Drowned dragged on? *That wasn't the end of it, you fools. And there's even less to comprehend as it continues.*
just wanna say hearing you guys laugh at squidward's sewerslide actually pulled me out of a rough depressive slump
I'm overstepping my bounds as usual but I'd caution against that as a supplement for psychological or emotional help. I don't even think I'm in a really bad spot right now, but it's all too easy for me and people like me to get too lost in whatever stuff to feel and think through the fundamental effectors that shape our lives and affect them for the better. Not that we can't have fun, it's just only ever going to get more important to withdraw and process in an age of increasing complexity. I hope you figure stuff out
hope you’re doing okay man♥️
I don’t really remember if Smile Dog was a short story or not, but PLEASE have him in a video!! He’s my favorite creepy pasta😭
yess this pls
As a kid I remember smile dog.exe scared the absolute piss out of 9 year old me to the point where I actually called my brother to watch it just so I didn't have to suffer alone 😂
A few years after Ben Drowned came out, I got out of the military and bought a copy of Majora's Mask and it had a save file named Ben. Bastards.
Just wait until Ben possesses an assault helicopter
@@butofcourseCleverbot boutta overthrow the government
Did anyone else think they were actually talking about corn at first. I totally thought the story was called "normal corn for normal people" for a solid 5 minutes.
I heard about it in the meme episode, a d yes, I dig, throughout all of that and until I just happened to look at the screen.
Yeah, there's a lot of creepypastas about random things so I just thought this one was about corn😂
You know, as a kid it never registered how outlandish the entire breakdown scene for Squidward was. I always just imagined Squidward doing a normal quiet sob.
…That was until Hunter showed me how that scene would ACTUALLY sound like, and the creepiness is just gone 😂
Also Hunter cheering for the death of a cartoon cephalopod is not something I had on my bingo book
I still love that squidward's slip&slide actually got referenced in the show, it just makes me happy.
Didn’t that one get banned?
@ Maybe? I don’t know.
Holy crap my fanart made it in the episode, that’s so sick!!! Thanks for the shoutout guys!
You should timestamp it
Your art good
Congrats! Which one is it?
@@anthonyramirez72722:36:49 !
Mine is at 2:36:49 !
Man Ben drowned was my obsession when I was like 13 I'm so stoked yall are covering it. Haven't read the story or listened to any of the music or seen the clips in so long its truly a blast from the past for me
Absolutely obsessed with Hunter’s “Ben/computer” voice
The hearty laugh at the first mention of the guy attempting to breakdance had me rolling 😭
Including the footage of Ben Drowned along with the story for this episode? Chef's kiss. That helped A LOT
36:44 i love when hunter starts doing voices whenever he doesnt know how to prove his point
Anyone else find this oddly therapeutic. As a child that was absolutely petrified after reading Jeff the killer, Ben drowned, and squidwards suicide to the point of boarderline mental breakdown. It’s actually super satisfying to hear the stories today and realize how actually atrocious these stories were
As long as they don’t do obey the walrus totally, I still fuckin hate seeing that video or even the thumbnail despite knowing the context and can’t explain it although I haven’t seen it In ages.
nah im with you, ben drowned and jeff the killer especially just fucked me up as a kid, i was absolutely terrified haha. its cathartic for sure.
I developed an opposite effect. I’m really fond of these stories even for their failings and they made me love horror
@@kdawgthechef2855 You mean the video with the disabled man in drag clothes?
That's how I've felt about Sonic.EXE in particular. I was morbidly terrified of the original story as a kid but as an adult, I recognize it's easily one of the worst creepypas out there. So much so that it's not even considered a creepypasta anymore, it's a trollpasta
The stuff people make about it now is 100x more creepy and unsettling than the original
Can I just say that putting the fan art and memes at the end of the video is so fun. Really brings back early horror let's play TH-cam vibes. Also you guys should read 'it taps on my window'!
I think my favorite part about Wendi being suddenly taken off guard over papa meat predicting a drowning in Ben Drowned is that he is not even off mark.
Ben Drowned is the fan name for the ARG. Since the author always refered to it as just "Jadusable". So if you've read it from back in the day, it's easy to forget that the title spoils the story