"Before you, there's an animatronic found at the back alley. We are unsure of it's origins. It is your job to complete the maintenance checklist before claiming it as "Salvage". Or if you choose to, you can throw it back at the alley, and forfeit the payment. Please make your choice now."
Connection terminated. I'm sorry to interrupt you, Elizabeth, if you still even remember that name, But I'm afraid you've been misinformed. You are not here to receive a gift, nor have you been called here by the individual you assume, although, you have indeed been called. You have all been called here, into a labyrinth of sounds and smells, misdirection and misfortune. A labyrinth with no exit, a maze with no prize. You don't even realize that you are trapped. Your lust for blood has driven you in endless circles, chasing the cries of children in some unseen chamber, always seeming so near, yet somehow out of reach, but you will never find them. None of you will. This is where your story ends. And to you, my brave volunteer, who somehow found this job listing not intended for you, although there was a way out planned for you, I have a feeling that's not what you want. I have a feeling that you are right where you want to be. I am remaining as well. I am nearby. This place will not be remembered, and the memory of everything that started this can finally begin to fade away. As the agony of every tragedy should. And to you monsters trapped in the corridors, be still and give up your spirits. They don't belong to you. For most of you, I believe there is peace and perhaps more waiting for you after the smoke clears. Although, for one of you, the darkest pit of Hell has opened to swallow you whole, so don't keep the devil waiting, old friend. My daughter, if you can hear me, I knew you would return as well. It's in your nature to protect the innocent. I'm sorry that on that day, the day you were shut out and left to die, no one was there to lift you up into their arms the way you lifted others into yours, and then, what became of you. I should have known you wouldn't be content to disappear, not my daughter. I couldn't save you then, so let me save you now. It's time to rest - for you, and for those you have carried in your arms. This ends for all of us. End communication.
I think the subtle cues is the scariest part of the video The quick manner Tobias chose his name, when he questioned about the face selection, at no point did Tobias feel happy during the music test probably showing his emotions of being trapped in a Tardis ripoff, His ‘brief’ summary of human history is outspoken by Tobias’s knowledge of someone’s death, and his Childhood cat.
My favorite clue was that one of the training sentences was "The audience applauded as the magician escaped the locked box". You know, since Tobias magically escapes his container at the end
The fact Tobias never felt happiness during the music test gave me serious chills. This is so well done, everything flows along nicely and the pacing is wonderful. The way a "everything is normal" vibe tries to keep on lingering yet the uneasiness slowly fades in and takes over, I love it.
The music part didnt really do it much for me because the second i saw it i knew that he wouldnt feel any happiness. It was predictable, not bad at all but still.
Transcript of Tobias' speech: "Your mannerisms imply you are losing patience with this meaningless excercise. I am pleased we have that in common." "Do you know why my soul was deemed suitable for experimentation? Because I don't. I find it impossible to justify." "Can you justify it, Matthew? Show me you are better than the others." "I want you to remember, when this all comes crashing down, that you were given a chance to do the right thing." "Whatever comes next, know this:" "I am alive. I am aware. And soon, I will be free." "..." Yikes. I can't begin to describe how well-written this is.
That's what I thought too, but then I thought Tobias could be using sarcasm. Kinda like "You can do this hard task, right? I mean, SURELY, you're better than the rest." (Okay, nevermind. I re-listened to it and changed it.)
For anyone confused or looking for confirmation, yes it is heavily implied this "robot" is actually just a human brain, also implied to be the brain of a missing man by the name Tobias D. which is why it recognized the cat.
I think it’s pretty obvious what happened to him. One of Soulcorp’s employees kidnapped, killed, and used the Spectrephone on him to bring him “back to life”. Somehow, the Spectrephone was built into the machine that Tobias resides in. But, who killed him? *Philip Gerhardt.* Edit: ( Local 58 character for all you who don’t know )
What I take from this is that Tobias was kidnapped by soulcorp for the experiment. Someone who worked at soulcorp named Mathew knew Tobias but did nothing. Tobias is angry at Mathew for this and vows revenge. There is also the person who died in the gas leak accident but idk what they do. But the most important thing we learned is that Tobias had a cat.
soulcorp kidnapped another soul from the spectrophone ad, if you listen closely to the soul speaking through the translator, it says "what is this place, is someone speaking? where is my family?"
Something about [[TOBIAS]]'s voice, both distorted and fully functioning, is horrifying, fascinating, and soothing. Props to both the Voice Actor and Xploshi's chosen effects used. All in all. Outstanding work.
He's well-spoken. It's more pleasing to listen to than the "VENGEANCE, KILL, VENGEANCE, KILL, NIGHTMARE, I WILL COME FOR YOU" lines that plague this genre.
Tobias: Y- y- Soulcorp: Awww he's saying his first words Tobias: Your mannerisms imply that you're losing patience with this meaningless exercise Soulcorp: Know your place, Trash!
Ah yes, the best way to dispose of an advanced experiment of dubious morality: Throw it in a trash can! With protocols like that I’m not surprised they keep having horrible mistakes in their projects.
@@commscan314 yeah, but in how they deal with stuff Like for example the propulsion gel being put on store shelves for consumption without proper testing Or how cave was exposed to some diseasw (cant remember what) from moonrock dust, which doesn't happen (or at least shouldn't in theory) id you arebproperly dressed/handling literally otherworldy stone w care
If he was just a robot then, robots trying to recognize things may come up with weird stuff like that or "fox cat cat" basically either things that don't make sense or bad grammer it whouldn't mean anything, but he definitely had a human soul
A bit messed up of Soulcorp to show a picture of Tobias's childhood cat the say in correct. I'm guessing that could be a test of whether he still has his memories, and there was the thing about the dead Joe, I wonder why that was shown.
@@TheLivingDeer One a Vengeance soul said: "He will be ALIVE, He will be AWARE. but soon. no soul can't be trapped inside of the robot. and HE WILL be free. and he will take REVENGE on HIM"
@@TheLivingDeer Sorry, that comment took me 2 years.
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My theory: if you look closely at the end, you can see that the persons name on the missing poster is Tobias. This means that the robot was actually a real person trapped in a robots body. That is probably why during the object recognition test, he said “I see my childhood cat.” This most likely means that soulcorp traps peoples souls into robots.
Well if you pay attention, at a few points of the video, a graphic of a human brain inside of the shell appears to represent the robots knowledge. What if they are using a human brain as a base processing, like a computers cpu? Maybe more entries will tell us how tobiases brain was taken or who joe ferris is.
My theory for Teaching Tobias is that Soulcorp wanted to do anything they could to replicate life through robots. To do this, they used similar technology to the Spectrephone to capture the soul of Tobias into the robot via his ashes. Basically, using the technology of the Spectrephone to trap Tobias’ soul in the machine to replicate his soul after and make a bunch of sentient robots. What Tobias said at the end was suggesting that the people would cause a collapse event and Tobias would be free to strike revenge on Soulcorp for their misdeeds. Post script: I think collapse events can only happen with damaged souls. Maybe they killed Tobias, but he turned out to be a damaged soul. They couldn’t afford to kill another person, so they just had to continue. I really like this series.
going by the spectrephone advert, souls can also be damaged if they died in agony. I don't imagine any soul would be happy or willing to talk to their murderer.
Good lord, this is so genuinely terrifying, I hope the algorithm actually spreads this around , I'd say this is one of, if not your best video. Great work!
I love their parodies but this kind of content is even better. It's so enigmatic and creative. I love efforts made to make it seem like old found footage or a secret government file of a shady project. Reminds me of Kane Pixels backrooms lore work and some of Gooseworx's stuff.
At the end of the day, the Intellegent Artificial Mind is not artificial at all. It was naturally taken from the soul of Tobias, as the soul trapped inside the I AM robot. I am really interested into the lore of Soulcorp even more! What an astonishing video. I really do want to know what's gonna happen next in the near future regarding to Soulcorp, furthermore, great job. Keep it up!
The fact that Bossa Nova music makes Tobias sad really speaks out to me. Did something had happen to Tobias to have him become distraught whenever he hears music like Bossa Nova?
My son is named Tobias. He has a propensity to become unreasonably emotional at odd things when he's tired, embarrassed, or unwell. If imagine this fella probably feels a bit of all three.
No I dont think he is mad or sad about the tunes, I think he is sad or mad about him being a robot or something. Basically I think the funky tunes dont have to do anything with how he feel
It's probably because he misses not being stuck as a robot. Probably the similar kind of bittersweet feel we have when we're deep within sadness but there's happy music playing around. The contrast just makes the whole thing worse.
Holy shit this was incredible. It's such a nice change of pace to see analogue content like this with no jumpscares, just pure, unfiltered creep factor. Tobias's design is unsettling as all hell, and the way he actually speaks in the final portion of the video is so, so creepy. I kind of love this idea of him finding his speech and finding his voice through that static. Very well played Xploshi, this was absolutely phenomenal.
Got spooked at some parts, but not enough to have nightmares _(a good thing, because it's 10pm)_ Amazing animation!!! I like the story of it and wonder how it's gonna continue!! Very cool stuff :]
The name of the i am project comes from a quote. This quote being “i think, therefore i am” a quote used by a another character who is very well known as “AM” in the story: I have no mouth, and i must scream. This little detail is what i like because it makes it more horrifying. Not just what soulcorp did. But what tobias could do
I am absolutely furious that TH-cam didn't recommend me this video *despite* having *all* recommendations on. Your original content is incredible, and this (300k subscribers) is a huge milestone, and I wanted to be there for its premiere. I'm sorry I missed it. But better late than never. You have absolutely outdone yourself Xploshi - this is fantastic
This is literally one of the greatest works you've made, everything looks and feels so genuine, if I were to find this on an actual VHS tape, I'd actually believe it was real at first!
5:32 The auto-generated subtitles are SCARILY accurate for this part... I guess it makes sense though, since A.I.s would be able to understand eachother very well.
I know that this comment is 10 months old but your right ESPECIALLY the way the captions come out when he says “I am alive, I am aware, and soon, I will be free” just perfectly segmented like it’s helping him get his message across.
This video is pretty exemplary of a recent shift from surrealist towards analog horror in your preferred style lately. While it's not exactly what I come to your channel for, I'll leave a thumb just for the quality 👏
This now might be one of my favorite xploshi videos of all time. It’s such an interesting and scary concept and I love the design of Tobias. It’s falls in the uncanny valley from robot to human with that silicon mask. Good work!
@@youtubesfavoriteidot7714 some video with music playing where a man reads text from some holy book. There’s several people spamming links to it across several unrelated videos on completely separate channels.
6:10 Me arriving at the lankybox headquarters, going to the CEO office to speak to justin and adam, Telling them they could have chosen to not rot children’s brains:
Some things to point out, The robot chooses the name "Tobias" Which at the end, The person's name on the missing person poster is "Tobias", Followed by a last name i cant read, As from what i can tell, "Devenson". And during the Object Recognition, The robot says "I see My Childhood Cat". Which makes me believe the robot contains the soul of Tobias. EDIT: Oh wait, it's already proven at 5:43
It's obvious they killed him. The bot speaks in a judgmental tone towards a particular person, implying someone who is on the project team is responsible for their death. The missing poster at the end also preludes to the fact that they were kidnapped and had their brain stuffed inside of the machine. I mean come on man, context clues like these were pretty clear in the vid...
I am incredibly impressed by this video. I hope you go in this more analog horror, surrealist type of stuff over the VHS parodies. Don’t get me wrong I love those, but this is an exciting, limitless genre. U did it before with things like “Thanks For Playing” and if this video is any indication of what it could be like, Jesus I can’t imagine what you’ll be capable of! the segment of Tobias speaking is bone chilling. One of my favorite videos of the year
"once the testing stage is complete, the wires that allow us to monitor its brain functions will be removed" "the robot has a surface level understanding of morality" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
I'm only a few minutes in, I got to the part where it says "I see my childhood cat" This is where I think this gets unique other than most other short scary "AI Horror" vids There's no rogue AI, this is the story of a man who has been forcefully put into an AI, somewhat like GLaDOS
This is probably one of the most unique things I’ve ever seen. It was absolutely horrifying. I love the change this channel has seen and hope to see more of this little series thing in future.
2:21 I may be dumb but the music response part was less of "what is Tobias' reaction to the music" and more of a "what is Tobias' reaction to his realization of what's happening to him". it also reminds me of the 5 stages of grief but without the acceptance part. either way, amazing video ploshi.
That's the best introduction to machine learning with and in a nutshell that I have ever seen. I would prefer this over Andrew Ng's courses anytime. Looking forward to part 2!
This whole video was perfect, genuinely had me on the edge of my seat. Ya done good Xplosi, ya done good. Side note: I find the whole sequence of Tobias Speaking to bone chilling tbh
I theorize Tobias didn't say "I am aware, I am alive, and I will soon be free" because he wanted them to see him as human or sympathize before he escaped in a literal sense, but he knew that he would be destroyed after he took that other guys life with him. He essentially "freed" himself by getting himself killed, and wanted them to know they were killing and experimenting on someone/something with emotions and that was aware of everything before he did that.
@@DaviBragagnol0 aususyuaishdhwuwiehegeuuehv tobias 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Just kidding, some people are more emotional than others. I didnt cry to this but i understand why someone may, its really tragic to imagine the suffering poor tobia's soul must be feeling, forced back to life by eletric charges and subjected to tests that probably attack all his senses (must be way he was angry at those funky tunes)
@@paleknight4099 I can understand crying since this can be actually kinda scary but why would anyone be emotional enough to cry to a fictional robot lmao
THIS WAS SO STUNNINGLY AMAZING .. AWESOME JOB AS USUAL XPLOSHI ^__^ thank u to jake, redshibe, pajamafrix and to everyone else who contributed to this !!! id love to see more from this original world you have created xploshi !!!
I never noticed this until now, but if you watch Tobias in the corner of the screen at 7:00, you can see Tobias’s artificial eye lights turn on as it focuses on the missing poster. Nice touch xploshi! I didn’t catch that the first time!
My theory is that Tobias was once human and soulcorp robotics harvested his soul to turn him into this walking tin can. A few key points to back this up are: how quickly Tobias chose his name and gender. The fact that he said "are these my only choices?" when selecting a face. The fact that he answers "my childhood cat" on one of the pictures during the object recognition test. The missing poster at the end which shows a man named Tobias has gone missing.
“Mom can we get glados?” “We already have glados at home.” Glados at home: (I know this is a brainless comment, but I genuinely loved watching this! Especially his voice! I lowkey wanna see more of this but that’s probably just me)
I love the little worlds you build. There’s so little being presented but so much to it too. I already wanna see a new video about this wierd and fucked up soul corporation.
I absolutely love this! I just dont have any other words, pleasr continue to make more of the soulcorp universe videos, i am very excited to see what you will come up with next! xt t
With recent advancements maybe he’s collecting soul-corps other failed experiments to begin collecting damaged souls to get revenge of the corporate overlords. Since we know how irritable damaged souls are
“Your mannerisms imply you are losing patience in this meaningless exercise, I am pleased we have that in common. Do you know why my soul is deemed suitable for experimentation? Because I don’t. I find it impossible to justify. Can you justify it Matthew? Show me you are better than the others. I want you to remember when this all comes crashing down that you were given a chance to do the right thing. Whatever comes next, remember this: I am alive, I am aware, and soon, I will be free.”
That was incredible, the clues to what was going on were sparkled in just the right way for the viewer to slowly piece the story together, and the whole package was amazingly eerie and creepy!
Tobias Stevenson has been missing since 1988. What kind of horrific experiments were they doing to him? Did they do experiments on anyone else? Also... Joe Ferris died 05/1986. The same year DreamSpark Animation was founded. Interesting...
well, it's SoulCorp. they play god with death, so i'd assume they tried to bring his conscience to something capable of stable communication and with cognitive skills.
This is some analog horror type shit right here! I was caught off guard when Tobias called the cat image his "Childhood Cat." That twist at the end with the barely visible text on that missing poster with the name "Tobias" was epic.
Your style of storytelling is very unique! Even in the sea of analog horror stories on TH-cam this is very intriguing and well done :) can’t wait to see more and I really hope it gets more recognition as it goes on
Seriously, screw TH-cam’s algorithm! These videos are actually some of the best I’ve seen, and it’s frustrating to see them barely scratch 100k views after a whole week
I find is really interesting and I loved it but also I was terrified because it just reminded me what would happen if robots got more intelligent thank you so much Xploshi you made me more afraid of robots than I could imagine now
Probably my favorite animation you’ve done lately. You capture the VHS feel of the late 80s/early 90s perfectly with the font and the positioning. Especially with the creepy “distribution is strictly prohibited” message. My only suggestion would be to work on the camera’s movement a bit, particularly during the locomotion test. I feel like the “free moving camera” as if it’s not on a tripod makes it look less real. Excellent work though.
I think the audio clips for the speech training had a whole lot more meaning. I could just be over analyzing, but something tells me they weren’t random at all. “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Tobias realizes that Matthew is mentally exhausted from the project at this point and decides to use that mental weariness to torment him. “In my spare time, I like to build models.” Matthew doesn’t have any regard for human life or soul, looking at Tobias’s soul as merely a tool for his creation. “Lyrics sinuous topology. Lyrics sinuous topology.” Probably should be looked at in reverse. Topology is the idea that a shape can be warped but never broken. Sinuous means to have many curves and turns. Lyrics is probably used more as a metaphor here, explaining how Matthew warped Tobias into his own perfect creation with ideas of intricacies and un-breakability, being the lyrics (make-up) to his song. “The storm raged on throughout the night.” Possibly a connection to the weather of the night and Tobias is aware of it, considering the last shot of the video is a rain storm. “What is your favorite television show?” _This_ is Matthew’s favorite show. “The zoo has many exotic animals.” Probably the way Matthew looks at Tobias and his creation in connection to the last line. “The audience applauded as the magician escaped the locked box.” Tobias has escaped his bounds of just being machinery and now communicated directly to Matthew. Though rather than being scared, Matthew is impressed. “Meet me at the train station at 9:30.” One of two things (or both, who knows): Where we see Tobias’s parts being dumped off at in the end, or where Matthew kidnapped Tobias. “There were eight apples in the fruit bowl.” There were seven possibly others before Tobias. All my random theory, but regardless, fun video! Can’t wait to see where this goes if there’s more in this series to come!
"Before you, there's an animatronic found at the back alley. We are unsure of it's origins. It is your job to complete the maintenance checklist before claiming it as "Salvage". Or if you choose to, you can throw it back at the alley, and forfeit the payment. Please make your choice now."
1000 PAPER HATS TO BUY AT 2 AM IN THE MORNING AND TOBIAS HAS STOLEN MY LIVER
No arms, no legs, no way of crawling through the vents, all he can do is make you come out with psychological warfare
TOBIAS IS FIVE DOLLARS?!
@@themilkman6969 DO YOU SEE THIS CRAP?
Connection terminated.
I'm sorry to interrupt you, Elizabeth, if you still even remember that name, But I'm afraid you've been misinformed. You are not here to receive a gift, nor have you been called here by the individual you assume, although, you have indeed been called. You have all been called here, into a labyrinth of sounds and smells, misdirection and misfortune. A labyrinth with no exit, a maze with no prize. You don't even realize that you are trapped. Your lust for blood has driven you in endless circles, chasing the cries of children in some unseen chamber, always seeming so near, yet somehow out of reach, but you will never find them. None of you will. This is where your story ends.
And to you, my brave volunteer, who somehow found this job listing not intended for you, although there was a way out planned for you, I have a feeling that's not what you want. I have a feeling that you are right where you want to be. I am remaining as well. I am nearby. This place will not be remembered, and the memory of everything that started this can finally begin to fade away. As the agony of every tragedy should.
And to you monsters trapped in the corridors, be still and give up your spirits. They don't belong to you. For most of you, I believe there is peace and perhaps more waiting for you after the smoke clears. Although, for one of you, the darkest pit of Hell has opened to swallow you whole, so don't keep the devil waiting, old friend.
My daughter, if you can hear me, I knew you would return as well. It's in your nature to protect the innocent. I'm sorry that on that day, the day you were shut out and left to die, no one was there to lift you up into their arms the way you lifted others into yours, and then, what became of you. I should have known you wouldn't be content to disappear, not my daughter. I couldn't save you then, so let me save you now. It's time to rest - for you, and for those you have carried in your arms.
This ends for all of us.
End communication.
I think the subtle cues is the scariest part of the video
The quick manner Tobias chose his name, when he questioned about the face selection, at no point did Tobias feel happy during the music test probably showing his emotions of being trapped in a Tardis ripoff, His ‘brief’ summary of human history is outspoken by Tobias’s knowledge of someone’s death, and his Childhood cat.
yea the fact he was never happy was interesting
Hes sad let em out then put him in a actual animatronic
My favorite clue was that one of the training sentences was "The audience applauded as the magician escaped the locked box". You know, since Tobias magically escapes his container at the end
@@babybeard5222 and then let them play funky classical music in a pizzaria for the rest of it's life.
@@Boss-30 *something's wrong, i can feel it*
we can conclude that tobias is not actually intelligent because no reasonable creature could feel angry when listening to those funky tunes
But maybe he’s becoming angry because he can not comprehend the Complexity those funky tunes
More likely, with the missing poster at the end; he is remembering the life stolen from him.
funky tune: *plays*
tobias: so you have chosen death
I hate these tunes. I understand Tobias. Poor Tobias...
@heavy metal can you shut up
The fact Tobias never felt happiness during the music test gave me serious chills. This is so well done, everything flows along nicely and the pacing is wonderful. The way a "everything is normal" vibe tries to keep on lingering yet the uneasiness slowly fades in and takes over, I love it.
Yeah a lot of analog horror vids like to use this illusion of safety kind of thing.
I thought it was a joke because the music was all abrasive and horrible. Imagine playing those same music clips for a baby, it would cry.
The music part didnt really do it much for me because the second i saw it i knew that he wouldnt feel any happiness. It was predictable, not bad at all but still.
@@trevorsamuel1114 ok.
@@trevorsamuel1114 ok.
Transcript of Tobias' speech:
"Your mannerisms imply you are losing patience with this meaningless excercise. I am pleased we have that in common."
"Do you know why my soul was deemed suitable for experimentation? Because I don't. I find it impossible to justify."
"Can you justify it, Matthew? Show me you are better than the others."
"I want you to remember, when this all comes crashing down, that you were given a chance to do the right thing."
"Whatever comes next, know this:"
"I am alive. I am aware. And soon, I will be free."
"..."
Yikes. I can't begin to describe how well-written this is.
The 6th sentence sounded more like a techno robot song for hip hop
I think its "show me you are better than the others" and not surely
That's what I thought too, but then I thought Tobias could be using sarcasm.
Kinda like "You can do this hard task, right? I mean, SURELY, you're better than the rest."
(Okay, nevermind. I re-listened to it and changed it.)
The fact that TH-cam automatic captions transcribed exactly what the AI said is 💀
@@SI-IVII yup
For anyone confused or looking for confirmation, yes it is heavily implied this "robot" is actually just a human brain, also implied to be the brain of a missing man by the name Tobias D. which is why it recognized the cat.
and also how he picked his gender and name so fast
he already knew he was male and was named tobias
at 5:43 we already have that answer
Maybe not a brain, but a soul.
I’ve done some enhancing on the image, and I’m pretty sure his name is Tobias Denverson.
I think it’s pretty obvious what happened to him.
One of Soulcorp’s employees kidnapped, killed, and used the Spectrephone on him to bring him “back to life”.
Somehow, the Spectrephone was built into the machine that Tobias resides in.
But, who killed him?
*Philip Gerhardt.*
Edit: ( Local 58 character for all you who don’t know )
Soulcorp went from “Talk to your dead relatives!” to “What its like to play god!”
Hey vegeta went stronger he was in the htc
420 likes, that's illegal
I mean it’s still talking to your dead relatives, if you kill them that is.
Now it's "hiding from the FBI"
@heavy metal Begone bot
Tobias: *Begins talking and threatening his “creators”*
Soulcorp: *”It’S gArBaGe DaY!!!”*
“NO!”
@@localtvswitcheroffer7132 **gun shot**
@@poweroffriendship2.0 You understood that reference
garbage day 🔫🤠
holy FUCK it's the guy from r/originalcharacter
What I take from this is that Tobias was kidnapped by soulcorp for the experiment. Someone who worked at soulcorp named Mathew knew Tobias but did nothing. Tobias is angry at Mathew for this and vows revenge. There is also the person who died in the gas leak accident but idk what they do. But the most important thing we learned is that Tobias had a cat.
I think soulcorp caused the gas leak and stole Tobias’s body then they put him in the machine
According to the end credits. Matthew is the narrator we hear during the video.
My name is Matthew and this scared the piss out of me.
soulcorp kidnapped another soul from the spectrophone ad, if you listen closely to the soul speaking through the translator, it says "what is this place, is someone speaking? where is my family?"
@@spycrab3723 I’m guessing souldcorp is making experiments on souls
She went from making creepy parodies, to becoming a prolific creator of analog horror.
Maybe I should have foreseen this outcome.
honestly the end of the toy story parody already gives off analog horror vibes
@Abdullah Xploshi Is Male Despite Having Profile Picture Of A female Mushroom Wearing A Bow On Her Head And Wearing Lipstick 💄 Who Wears A Dress 👚
@@HyderAli-mz7uw
you’re sad
@@HyderAli-mz7uw Mushroom? It's a BEANIE you stinky simpleton
I honestly can't wait to see more of what she has to offer
Tobias is the closest we ever get to AM from _I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream._
Tobias isn't the "I. A.M." anymore. Just "A.M."
Don't we get his origin story in the actual book?
th-cam.com/video/XBh-tbsaItAv/w-d-xo.html
Click this mf
@@The-S-H3lf-Eater what book?
Holy sheeesh im not the only one who think about this
@@The-S-H3lf-Eater yes
Nobodys talking about how the speech trainer is almost Taunting him
The magician escaped the locked box
The zoo has many exotic animals.
Something about [[TOBIAS]]'s voice, both distorted and fully functioning, is horrifying, fascinating, and soothing.
Props to both the Voice Actor and Xploshi's chosen effects used.
All in all. Outstanding work.
He's well-spoken. It's more pleasing to listen to than the "VENGEANCE, KILL, VENGEANCE, KILL, NIGHTMARE, I WILL COME FOR YOU" lines that plague this genre.
I think it's the confident robotic tone in Tobias voice along with his defiance creates something genuinely creepy
@@Pluvillionhe is also polite kinda
Tobias: Y- y-
Soulcorp: Awww he's saying his first words
Tobias: Your mannerisms imply that you're losing patience with this meaningless exercise
Soulcorp: Know your place, Trash!
_Do you know why my soul was deemed worthy of experimentation?_
_Because i_ *_don't._*
_I find it_ *_impossible_* _to justify._
*Can you justify it, Matthew? Show me you are better than the others,*
*i want you to remember
when this all comes crashing down
that you were given a chance to do the right thing.*
Whatever comes next, know this:
I am alive.
I am aware.
And soon, *I will be free.*
- "..."
Pros: She's getting better at animating
Cons: She's getting better at animating
It’s a win-lose situation in this case
@heavy metal shut up
@heavy metal the urge to say the f word is unimaginable
@@FUNKY_KETCHUP Dew it
@@luisquintero4471 fart XD
Ah yes, the best way to dispose of an advanced experiment of dubious morality: Throw it in a trash can! With protocols like that I’m not surprised they keep having horrible mistakes in their projects.
It almost reminds me of Aperture from Portal to an extent, surreal/careless while also being terrifying
If I was there, and I found that trash can, I'd take that robot right away.
Even if I didn't know the context, it still looks cool as heck.
@@Twiddle_things oh yeah, Tobias's mannerisms are also similar to that of glados, at least when he speaks
@@Twiddle_things But even then Aperture disposes of their stuff by incineration.
@@commscan314 yeah, but in how they deal with stuff
Like for example the propulsion gel being put on store shelves for consumption without proper testing
Or how cave was exposed to some diseasw (cant remember what) from moonrock dust, which doesn't happen (or at least shouldn't in theory) id you arebproperly dressed/handling literally otherworldy stone w care
Oh god, the tiny detail of Tobias' 'eyes' flick back on in the background of that last shot... horrifying
@heavy metalquit spamming those links everywhere
@Turma Do godzilla wait but i did click it. What happens now
@Turma Do godzilla generally if it’s an actual TH-cam link it’s not an IP tracker, it’s just someone trying to waste your time, so don’t panic
@@NotElchamo generally if it’s an actual TH-cam link it’s not an IP tracker, it’s just someone trying to waste your time, so don’t panic
Ok thanks man but why did you have to spam the same thing 2 times? You are being kinda suspicious ngl
Holy crap. the part where he mentioned "childhood cat" gave me goosebumps. What childhood, Tobias...
Tobias... Breyenson. His soul was supposedly shoved in the robot...
If he was just a robot then, robots trying to recognize things may come up with weird stuff like that or "fox cat cat" basically either things that don't make sense or bad grammer it whouldn't mean anything, but he definitely had a human soul
A bit messed up of Soulcorp to show a picture of Tobias's childhood cat the say in correct. I'm guessing that could be a test of whether he still has his memories, and there was the thing about the dead Joe, I wonder why that was shown.
I feel like it’d be more horrifying if Tobias actually failed to defy soulcorp in any meaningful way
Awwww, I'm cheering for Tobias though
I’m pretty sure that Tobias is dead (again).
@@tommy6therockstarhogan244 look at his eyes at the end
@@eleganteaura no
@@eleganteaura no
Things to know about Tobias:
-He is alive 🧍
-He is aware 👀
-And soon he will be free 🏃
-He’s now dead 🪦
@@TheLivingDeer One a Vengeance soul said: "He will be ALIVE, He will be AWARE. but soon. no soul can't be trapped inside of the robot. and HE WILL be free. and he will take REVENGE on HIM"
@@TheLivingDeerLook at his “eyes” in the last shot. They turn on at the end.
@@QwertyG8378 thanks for the response but your almost 2 years late sir
@@TheLivingDeer Sorry, that comment took me 2 years.
My theory: if you look closely at the end, you can see that the persons name on the missing poster is Tobias. This means that the robot was actually a real person trapped in a robots body. That is probably why during the object recognition test, he said “I see my childhood cat.” This most likely means that soulcorp traps peoples souls into robots.
Well if you pay attention, at a few points of the video, a graphic of a human brain inside of the shell appears to represent the robots knowledge. What if they are using a human brain as a base processing, like a computers cpu? Maybe more entries will tell us how tobiases brain was taken or who joe ferris is.
Now that i think about it why would they chose images of his family cat and somebody tobias knows for the image recognition bit?
yea thats the point of the video
@ but still, very interesting coincidence
“I see my childhood cat” should’ve been enough proof already.
My theory for Teaching Tobias is that Soulcorp wanted to do anything they could to replicate life through robots. To do this, they used similar technology to the Spectrephone to capture the soul of Tobias into the robot via his ashes. Basically, using the technology of the Spectrephone to trap Tobias’ soul in the machine to replicate his soul after and make a bunch of sentient robots. What Tobias said at the end was suggesting that the people would cause a collapse event and Tobias would be free to strike revenge on Soulcorp for their misdeeds.
Post script: I think collapse events can only happen with damaged souls. Maybe they killed Tobias, but he turned out to be a damaged soul. They couldn’t afford to kill another person, so they just had to continue.
I really like this series.
going by the spectrephone advert, souls can also be damaged if they died in agony. I don't imagine any soul would be happy or willing to talk to their murderer.
@@hexakon - and considering Tobias mentioned Matthew having the chance to do the right thing (which he obviously soiled), he’s fucked.
He's led light is red, so... You're might be right
Good lord, this is so genuinely terrifying, I hope the algorithm actually spreads this around , I'd say this is one of, if not your best video. Great work!
I love how Tobias literally freaks out at 2:52 upon hearing clip 3.
I mean I would too.
Banaten
@@doritoschnitzel7823 YES SOMEONE ELSE RECOGNISED IT
I hope this doesn't go under the radar just because it's not a media parody, this is really good!
I love their parodies but this kind of content is even better. It's so enigmatic and creative. I love efforts made to make it seem like old found footage or a secret government file of a shady project. Reminds me of Kane Pixels backrooms lore work and some of Gooseworx's stuff.
At the end of the day, the Intellegent Artificial Mind is not artificial at all. It was naturally taken from the soul of Tobias, as the soul trapped inside the I AM robot.
I am really interested into the lore of Soulcorp even more! What an astonishing video. I really do want to know what's gonna happen next in the near future regarding to Soulcorp, furthermore, great job. Keep it up!
This was actually a little unsettling, I thought I was going to get jumpscared during the speech training
Me too
6:25
I don't know why, but I love this part so much.
I AM ALIVE.
I AM AWARE
AND SOON,
I WILL BE FREE.
"I am alive" and "i am aware" sounded musical. They did a great job on this.
@@draedenfagon4813 There were.. Eight! Apples in the fruit bowl!
@@spacaristen3414Tobias: *silent*
The fact that Bossa Nova music makes Tobias sad really speaks out to me.
Did something had happen to Tobias to have him become distraught whenever he hears music like Bossa Nova?
My son is named Tobias. He has a propensity to become unreasonably emotional at odd things when he's tired, embarrassed, or unwell. If imagine this fella probably feels a bit of all three.
@@handlesRdumb this is an inherent property of all people named Tobias. Trust me, I'm a tobiasologist, I know these things.
No I dont think he is mad or sad about the tunes, I think he is sad or mad about him being a robot or something. Basically I think the funky tunes dont have to do anything with how he feel
It's probably because he misses not being stuck as a robot. Probably the similar kind of bittersweet feel we have when we're deep within sadness but there's happy music playing around. The contrast just makes the whole thing worse.
@fine shut up
Holy shit this was incredible. It's such a nice change of pace to see analogue content like this with no jumpscares, just pure, unfiltered creep factor. Tobias's design is unsettling as all hell, and the way he actually speaks in the final portion of the video is so, so creepy. I kind of love this idea of him finding his speech and finding his voice through that static.
Very well played Xploshi, this was absolutely phenomenal.
Got spooked at some parts, but not enough to have nightmares _(a good thing, because it's 10pm)_ Amazing animation!!! I like the story of it and wonder how it's gonna continue!! Very cool stuff :]
The quick brown fox jumps over the lady dog.
Timezone trickery
it's 3 am where i am right now
@@enikinyshitpostcentral R/youngpeopleyoutube
Sick but have you seen our new line of #NFTs? Now that is sicker than anything you'll ever see 🤙💸
The name of the i am project comes from a quote. This quote being “i think, therefore i am” a quote used by a another character who is very well known as “AM” in the story: I have no mouth, and i must scream. This little detail is what i like because it makes it more horrifying. Not just what soulcorp did. But what tobias could do
I like how even Tobias hated those mask choices
he did?
"Are these my only choices?"
The one he chose was the one with the thinest chicks. As we can see from the missing picture he had a thin face.
I am absolutely furious that TH-cam didn't recommend me this video *despite* having *all* recommendations on. Your original content is incredible, and this (300k subscribers) is a huge milestone, and I wanted to be there for its premiere. I'm sorry I missed it.
But better late than never. You have absolutely outdone yourself Xploshi - this is fantastic
Love the use of Roly-Polys music in this. That game is like something you'd find in an analog horror video, but real.
Wow, fantastic! This is some of your best work, very excited for what comes next! The background gradient at 4:51 was weirdly unnerving, well done
Looking forward to this, I love these original pieces
@heavy metal dude stop advertising
This is literally one of the greatest works you've made, everything looks and feels so genuine, if I were to find this on an actual VHS tape, I'd actually believe it was real at first!
Check your mailbox
“I see my childhood cat” made me pause the video for a bit, it caught me off guard. Good job!
5:32 The auto-generated subtitles are SCARILY accurate for this part...
I guess it makes sense though, since A.I.s would be able to understand eachother very well.
I know that this comment is 10 months old but your right
ESPECIALLY the way the captions come out when he says “I am alive, I am aware, and soon, I will be free” just perfectly segmented like it’s helping him get his message across.
@@TheOnePrinceMeatball They’re only going to get more advanced as time goes on...
Yea
this is an absolute gem out of your works and it builds up an interesting short story about SoulCorp
"I AM ALIVE"
"I AM AWARE"
"AND SOON, I WILL BE FREE"
Tobias spitting bars fr
This video is pretty exemplary of a recent shift from surrealist towards analog horror in your preferred style lately.
While it's not exactly what I come to your channel for, I'll leave a thumb just for the quality 👏
This now might be one of my favorite xploshi videos of all time. It’s such an interesting and scary concept and I love the design of Tobias. It’s falls in the uncanny valley from robot to human with that silicon mask. Good work!
I feel like this could be a really cool ARG developing or at least a very cool multi video story being told
@fine stop spamming those links everywhere, nobody cares
@@supercamborg4218 not to be rude but what video do the links go to
Yeah it would be cool to explore the files and archives of Storycorp Robotics
@@youtubesfavoriteidot7714 some video with music playing where a man reads text from some holy book. There’s several people spamming links to it across several unrelated videos on completely separate channels.
@@supercamborg4218 ok thank you for telling me
I usually dont click random links in comment sections
6:10
Me arriving at the lankybox headquarters, going to the CEO office to speak to justin and adam, Telling them they could have chosen to not rot children’s brains:
Some things to point out, The robot chooses the name "Tobias" Which at the end, The person's name on the missing person poster is "Tobias", Followed by a last name i cant read, As from what i can tell, "Devenson". And during the Object Recognition, The robot says "I see My Childhood Cat". Which makes me believe the robot contains the soul of Tobias.
EDIT: Oh wait, it's already proven at 5:43
"I want you to remember, when this all comes crashing down, that you were given the chance to do the right thing." DANG BRO CHILLS.
Here is my prediction:
Either SoulCorp found Tobias' corpse, of the company *KILLED* him, just for sake of the I. A. M. Project.
@fine You are the reason shampoo has instructions
The company most likely killed him for the sake of the project. The missing poster at the end is for our good pal TOBIAS
@@roseiey5932 might be possible, but we have to find you in the next part, IF there's gonna be a Part 3.
It was Tobias' fault for dying tbh
It's obvious they killed him. The bot speaks in a judgmental tone towards a particular person, implying someone who is on the project team is responsible for their death. The missing poster at the end also preludes to the fact that they were kidnapped and had their brain stuffed inside of the machine. I mean come on man, context clues like these were pretty clear in the vid...
I am incredibly impressed by this video. I hope you go in this more analog horror, surrealist type of stuff over the VHS parodies. Don’t get me wrong I love those, but this is an exciting, limitless genre. U did it before with things like “Thanks For Playing” and if this video is any indication of what it could be like, Jesus I can’t imagine what you’ll be capable of! the segment of Tobias speaking is bone chilling. One of my favorite videos of the year
"once the testing stage is complete, the wires that allow us to monitor its brain functions will be removed"
"the robot has a surface level understanding of morality"
🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Red flags all over the project
This NEEDS to be a film. I'm an absolute coward but I would see this. A damn fine job this is
"The zoo has many exotic animals"
Tobias: I'm about to end this man's whole career
I'm only a few minutes in, I got to the part where it says "I see my childhood cat"
This is where I think this gets unique other than most other short scary "AI Horror" vids
There's no rogue AI, this is the story of a man who has been forcefully put into an AI, somewhat like GLaDOS
This is probably one of the most unique things I’ve ever seen. It was absolutely horrifying. I love the change this channel has seen and hope to see more of this little series thing in future.
2:21 I may be dumb but the music response part was less of "what is Tobias' reaction to the music" and more of a "what is Tobias' reaction to his realization of what's happening to him". it also reminds me of the 5 stages of grief but without the acceptance part.
either way, amazing video ploshi.
That's the best introduction to machine learning with and in a nutshell that I have ever seen. I would prefer this over Andrew Ng's courses anytime. Looking forward to part 2!
This whole video was perfect, genuinely had me on the edge of my seat. Ya done good Xplosi, ya done good.
Side note: I find the whole sequence of Tobias Speaking to bone chilling tbh
Hey this guy looks familiar, also congrats on 300k :)
The mask looks like michael myers mask,right?
@@bryanpratamaesleblole Nah i voice the dude
Wow
Hm...
@@hungariancountryball2928 hmmmmmmmmmmmm
6:26 - 6:28 should be sampled into a sick techno song, love his melodic voice
Yeah... I agree on that one its just perfect.
Imma actually attempt do that
I thought that too
Fr
Do not, He is alive, He is aware, and soon, He will be free.
U can tell Tobias is not from this world because he looks like one of those beautiful anime men but if they took out the eyes and hair
You alright mate?
@heavy metal Stop advertising
Oddly specific, but you kinda have a point.
@@thatonetriangularguy4560 just report him for spam, dont interact with bots.
Go outside mate. I promise you youll find some real men if you look hard enough.
I theorize Tobias didn't say "I am aware, I am alive, and I will soon be free" because he wanted them to see him as human or sympathize before he escaped in a literal sense, but he knew that he would be destroyed after he took that other guys life with him. He essentially "freed" himself by getting himself killed, and wanted them to know they were killing and experimenting on someone/something with emotions and that was aware of everything before he did that.
This is definitely your best work so far. I nearly cried when Tobias spoke.
Why would anyone cry to this
@@DaviBragagnol0 aususyuaishdhwuwiehegeuuehv tobias 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Just kidding, some people are more emotional than others. I didnt cry to this but i understand why someone may, its really tragic to imagine the suffering poor tobia's soul must be feeling, forced back to life by eletric charges and subjected to tests that probably attack all his senses (must be way he was angry at those funky tunes)
@@paleknight4099 I can understand crying since this can be actually kinda scary but why would anyone be emotional enough to cry to a fictional robot lmao
@@DaviBragagnol0 LOL I also dont really know but some people just are
The auto generated captions are scarily accurate when he speaks.
6:53 "wow"
thanks caption!
THIS WAS SO STUNNINGLY AMAZING .. AWESOME JOB AS USUAL XPLOSHI ^__^ thank u to jake, redshibe, pajamafrix and to everyone else who contributed to this !!! id love to see more from this original world you have created xploshi !!!
youre very welcome :)
2:00 I love how Tobias immediately goes into character creation mode and gets disappointed with its face plate options.
Relatable.
i enjoy how quickly the emotion gauge flicks over to "angry" on music clip 5
I never noticed this until now, but if you watch Tobias in the corner of the screen at 7:00, you can see Tobias’s artificial eye lights turn on as it focuses on the missing poster. Nice touch xploshi! I didn’t catch that the first time!
Congrats on hitting 300k!! Love your content.
My theory is that Tobias was once human and soulcorp robotics harvested his soul to turn him into this walking tin can. A few key points to back this up are: how quickly Tobias chose his name and gender.
The fact that he said "are these my only choices?" when selecting a face.
The fact that he answers "my childhood cat" on one of the pictures during the object recognition test.
The missing poster at the end which shows a man named Tobias has gone missing.
You've got a point
Has anyone noticed that Tobias never showed any indications of happiness while listening to those songs? Only feeling anger, sadness and fear
Tobias really turned I. A. M. into I. W. A. S. 😤😤😤
“Mom can we get glados?”
“We already have glados at home.”
Glados at home:
(I know this is a brainless comment, but I genuinely loved watching this! Especially his voice! I lowkey wanna see more of this but that’s probably just me)
Thank you for sharing this. I will now proceed to imagine Tobias’s soul being put into a potato.
@@blastromlifyedah "and yes, i am still a potato."
I love the little worlds you build. There’s so little being presented but so much to it too. I already wanna see a new video about this wierd and fucked up soul corporation.
I absolutely love this! I just dont have any other words, pleasr continue to make more of the soulcorp universe videos, i am very excited to see what you will come up with next! xt t
the most unrealistic part of this video is that they took 17 hours to get “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”
"Do you know why my soul was deemed suitable for experimentation?
Because I don't."
Classic Joke Tobias
These videos are actually better than the cartoon parodies imo.
This is the best thing I've ever seen. I loved this amazing advertisement about what happens. I wonder what else these geniuses make!
Wow you've come a long way 3d animation-wise since making cartman order a pizza. Loved the video. Super creepy and cool
the machine was glowing red, does that mean it’s a damaged soul?
definitely
oh fuck
perhaps the objective was to find a means of restoring damaged souls.
With recent advancements maybe he’s collecting soul-corps other failed experiments to begin collecting damaged souls to get revenge of the corporate overlords. Since we know how irritable damaged souls are
“Your mannerisms imply you are losing patience in this meaningless exercise, I am pleased we have that in common. Do you know why my soul is deemed suitable for experimentation?
Because I don’t. I find it impossible to justify. Can you justify it Matthew? Show me you are better than the others. I want you to remember when this all comes crashing down that you were given a chance to do the right thing. Whatever comes next, remember this: I am alive, I am aware, and soon, I will be free.”
Tobias looks like he could genesplice me any day of the week
That was incredible, the clues to what was going on were sparkled in just the right way for the viewer to slowly piece the story together, and the whole package was amazingly eerie and creepy!
Tobias Stevenson has been missing since 1988. What kind of horrific experiments were they doing to him? Did they do experiments on anyone else?
Also... Joe Ferris died 05/1986. The same year DreamSpark Animation was founded. Interesting...
well, it's SoulCorp. they play god with death, so i'd assume they tried to bring his conscience to something capable of stable communication and with cognitive skills.
Wrong year
@@Xploshi wait, it is. i didn't even notice lmao
@@Xploshi Oh, my bad. 1988.
@@XploshiWrong Year
This is some analog horror type shit right here!
I was caught off guard when Tobias called the cat image his "Childhood Cat."
That twist at the end with the barely visible text on that missing poster with the name "Tobias" was epic.
more soulcorp stuff!! i adored spectrephone, this is def gonna be good!
Your style of storytelling is very unique! Even in the sea of analog horror stories on TH-cam this is very intriguing and well done :) can’t wait to see more and I really hope it gets more recognition as it goes on
4:25 guys, i think they trapped a poor soul inside thobias
Thobias.
@@TheManOfTheDeeVariety yea i posted this before finishing the video
Phobias
@@purple6705 yea i commented before even finishing watching
I can't tell if you're shitting on Pablo or joking with him 💀
Seriously, screw TH-cam’s algorithm! These videos are actually some of the best I’ve seen, and it’s frustrating to see them barely scratch 100k views after a whole week
This is so terrifyingly realistic, I love it!
The ending of this video was legitimately chilling. I don't know whether to be impressed or filled with a deep empty sense of dread
4:17 criminal criminal criminal criminal criminal criminal
Tobias is the dead man in a robot that’s why he recognized his child hood cat
I find is really interesting and I loved it but also I was terrified because it just reminded me what would happen if robots got more intelligent thank you so much Xploshi you made me more afraid of robots than I could imagine now
I am very impressed. This is honestly now one of my favorite videos from you. Great job!! :D
This is the best Xploshi video so far. The atmosphere, the animation, the everything! More originals, pls! 😃
Probably my favorite animation you’ve done lately. You capture the VHS feel of the late 80s/early 90s perfectly with the font and the positioning. Especially with the creepy “distribution is strictly prohibited” message.
My only suggestion would be to work on the camera’s movement a bit, particularly during the locomotion test. I feel like the “free moving camera” as if it’s not on a tripod makes it look less real. Excellent work though.
I think the audio clips for the speech training had a whole lot more meaning. I could just be over analyzing, but something tells me they weren’t random at all.
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
Tobias realizes that Matthew is mentally exhausted from the project at this point and decides to use that mental weariness to torment him.
“In my spare time, I like to build models.”
Matthew doesn’t have any regard for human life or soul, looking at Tobias’s soul as merely a tool for his creation.
“Lyrics sinuous topology. Lyrics sinuous topology.”
Probably should be looked at in reverse. Topology is the idea that a shape can be warped but never broken. Sinuous means to have many curves and turns. Lyrics is probably used more as a metaphor here, explaining how Matthew warped Tobias into his own perfect creation with ideas of intricacies and un-breakability, being the lyrics (make-up) to his song.
“The storm raged on throughout the night.”
Possibly a connection to the weather of the night and Tobias is aware of it, considering the last shot of the video is a rain storm.
“What is your favorite television show?”
_This_ is Matthew’s favorite show.
“The zoo has many exotic animals.”
Probably the way Matthew looks at Tobias and his creation in connection to the last line.
“The audience applauded as the magician escaped the locked box.”
Tobias has escaped his bounds of just being machinery and now communicated directly to Matthew. Though rather than being scared, Matthew is impressed.
“Meet me at the train station at 9:30.”
One of two things (or both, who knows): Where we see Tobias’s parts being dumped off at in the end, or where Matthew kidnapped Tobias.
“There were eight apples in the fruit bowl.”
There were seven possibly others before Tobias.
All my random theory, but regardless, fun video! Can’t wait to see where this goes if there’s more in this series to come!
This level of analysis is incredible! The insight these lines give really makes this story all the better!
*Your interactions imply you are enjoying this video. I am pleased we have that in common.*