@Outlaw315 "Aw _NO WAY._ Hey, 🛑! Dude! Get over here!" "Stop yelling, 🔰, I'm trying to sle--ohh." _"Right?!"_ "He...he actually tried it. Pffft, goddammit." "You owe me four acute angles."
I like that the guy didn’t die, these sorts of eerie elusive creature videos always seems to be super dark but despite theme it still managed to have a good ending.
"Ayo, we weren't tauntin' you, man. We just needed to head down to the corner shop. We'd have gotten you a container of square flakes if you'd have asked, bro."
"So I just saw a human try to jump into our world, uhm, you're pretty smart so could you possibly try to explain what may have been going in his brain?" "Yeah I'm just as confused as you"
what's really interesting about shadows being seen of partial human deformations is that if we saw plasma dissipation it would be very similar atmospheric occurrence and have nothing to do with our mind or our vision that could indeed be the only proof need be cited to prove multidimensional travel
@@springchickena1 Um, why is ""proff" needded? We seen them with our owen Eyes. If You seen it & I seenit it ""IS"" period. Eseener Withemine Owen Eyes- 100% power of youer two ewes why Eyes are Infallabelly Monafost. I am Vixinomg, Zesterom, Vesteromn, It is and SEENit makes it so.
@@synkt8759 it's arguable if those where screams of pain or vocalizations of panicked excitement, like someone would make after actually managing to enter the dimension he lost his job obsessing over and figuring out it actually looks like how he theorized and then the locals teach him origami, but prolonged presence in this dimension causes internal damage to humans so they send him back for his own safety
@@the-letter_s I thought that as soon as he entered the cornerworld, his insides instantaneously underwent the negative effects. kinda like if you were sent to the center of the earth, you would be flattened in the blink of an eye. As for the origami part, I think after witnessing the folds and creases of this strange dimension he got a better understanding of the craft. Plus, don’t you think it might be weird that interdimensional travelers know a very specific skill found in one of trillions of planes of existence?
I like that the Cornerfolk are, as far as anyone can tell, completely harmless, and it's the _narrator_ who did something stupid and dangerous as opposed to the standard creepypasta monster.
Maybe we will see the connection between the two series fleshed out, but right now I feel like they just suddenly connected without further explanation, it's just _white flashes, Great Division,_ and *boom* _Cornerfolk_ Maybe we will find out how their bodies become tiny (probably the special trees, but instead of stretching, we get compressing) and such
@@zakkymiftahurrahman1665 maybe the deanverse humans tried to fit to forcefully go into the nixonverse to survive and got crushed into some smaller forms
@@e.t.1947 perhaps due to the mass growth of special trees as seen during the great division, people got teleported and distorted to the point where there bodies would've inevitably adapted to the constant universal transportation caused by said trees.
After watching ALCATRAZAPOCOPLYPSE. Realizing all those cornerfolk were human beings who had their earth destroyed is terrifying. Not only that, but there are multiple corner worlds
I watched this vid before and few weeks later to see AltacrazApocalypse, done watching that and rewatched it again to find better understanding and return to this vid, now it hits very hard.
I love it when creators make stories of peaceful, and possibly benevolent, entities that don't actually harm the protagonist. Rather, it's the protagonist who causes their own downfall in the pursuit of trying to uncover or antagonize the entities within the story. It's the root of cosmic horror, instead of the good vs evil most stories talk about. Very Lovecraftian in nature, which really fits the type of theme the video is aiming for.
this is such a unique take on analog horror! with most it’s usually the “entity” that causes harm to the protagonist, but in this case it’s simply the protagonist becoming obsessed with the entity resulting in his own destruction. AND there’s kind of a happy ending! amazing job on this seriously
This hits so much differently after ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE. I remember when the common theory on this video was that the Cornerfolk and their Cornerworld were just harmless (if strange) entities, and it was all the human’s fault for plunging head first into something his non-corner body just couldn’t withstand. Now I just don’t know what to think. The bombshell that Alex is from the Deanverse, the knowledge that the Horned Serpent outright created the Cornerworld, the fact that the Cornerworld itself is the shattered remnants of an untold number of different realities… .. honestly, no wonder this guy went insane. I can only imagine what could happen to someone when exposed to the Horned Serpent Metastructure with no protection. Horrifying little multiverse you’ve established here, Alex. I’m all here for it.
Another thing I realized is that when the corner folk leap and create the massive amount of energy and you see the big white circle it kinda looks like the giant white explosion thing at the end of deanpocalypse
I love how what happened to him was caused by his own mental instability and rash decision, and the Cornerfolk were totally peaceful I especially like how he's found back lying in his home with his organs twisted but the noise he makes entering the dimension is almost ecstatic, like the Cornerfolk dimension is something great and amazing, but he as a human simply could not handle it, so he was chewed up and spit out.
I imagine the cornerworld follows completely different rules of geometry, something we've never considered spending our whole existence in 3D space. the human body only being designed capable of 3D space whereas the cornerfolk could be designed for undergoing drastic changes in their geometric layout while traversing, unlike ours, leading to his body being folded over various axes after traveling through it.
1) This is really well made and should have more views 2) Analogue Horror is cool, but I feel like the aesthetic of early youtube windows movie maker conspiracy guy has not been plumbed enough for horror. Raw footage certainly has, but there's something about the combination of insane things, presented reasonably through amateurish but polished by software that has a kind of awkward charm and also a great potential to be unsettling. 3) I accidentally watched this without sound the first time, without realising, and that made the unexplained diagrams quite effectively scary.
I personally super hate the assumption that all crypto/fantastic beings should be evil or whatever, and more than that, evil in the exact same way a human could be evil, its so annoying. Cornerfolk meanwhile just seem like the kinds of spirits people believed in the old times. They would just be like "yeah a special gnome lives in your hovel eating stale bread. Just dont bother him and he wont bother you. Heck, give him some milk too. He could be thirsty"
@@KOTEBANAROT Same. I like this approach on supernatural/paranormal creatures and entities more than the good/evil one. It feels like something inhuman shouldn't have to rely on human beliefs to be effectively unsettling or strange. It simply is, and the thought of something imperceptible is enough to make humans stand in either fear or awe, or even both.
@@drone-bj2rt i think its because his body wasnt made for the corner world or it could have acctualy been the corner folk but .....i mean he might have invaded one of their nests and got folded by the mother for stepping into her nesting place and also it was pretty justified,i mean what if some random wierd ass giant creature thats 1.5X your size comes into your house unanounced? you might even try shooting or fighting it. so just like humans....dont get into some guys house unannounced or he might attack you.
Y'know, I don't know what amazes me more: That this is a story where the monsters aren't hostile, OR that this didn't end with the dead/missing status of it's protagonist. Hard to find either of them alone in scary stuff now, let alone together
There was a story from SCP called 'Bees' that reminded me of the protagonist not only surviving but seemingly remaining sane That always struck me as being 100x scarier as we have someone who can answer what happened but they don't or can't for whatever reason
After watching the ending of MM, it just makes me feel bad for the cornerfolks. They’re in a new world where people live regular lives, them ‘resting’ is probably them remembering on how they were humans too. They envy the new world with them not having to deal anything insane like Alcatraz expanding or the Washington Memorial just being a regular monument not of a tree, but a monument for America. Or their 1st president turns out to become some kind of elongated snake that broke out of the crust of the earth. It’s really pitiful for them to be in this state..
it would be crazy if they were in his house because thats what their home looked like in their universe but in this one its occupied by a complete stranger
Honestly, this is just a "even if you could do something, that doesn't mean you should!". Corner jumping is much like deepdiving deep into the mariana trench, can we humans do that? Yes Are we humans adapted to do such a thing? Absolutely not, while in the deep diving case, our bodies would be crushed, in this case, our minds wouldn't be able to handle the chaotic nature of the cornerfolks dimension.
I'd theorize the cornerworld could have completely different rules of geometry than ours, something we've never comprehended as a species that's spent our whole existence in 3D space, wheras the cornerfolk's biological makeup could be built to withstand undergoing drastic changes in their geometric composition when traveling, unlike ours leading to his organs being "folded over various axes"
@@notanotherselfproclaimedrchgrl You are a child. If this isn't a joke I'm beyond blown away by how utterly ridiculous you are. Please tell me you're just joking I can never tell these days.
I really love this. The old VHS way Reily explains the cornerfolk, the grainy footage itself as he shows them, the way they seem completely harmless and what happened to Reily was of his own doing; I love the whole "seeing something nobody else has seen" thing.
2:34 when the word 'nursery' fades out, it is quickly replaced with the word 'prison' before fully fading. 2:40 shortly after, 'secure' turns into 'trapped'.
@@Bananappleboy I mean, sorry..? That honestly sucks and I'm sorry that you were affected like that, but I'm not entirely sure what you want to gain from telling me this?
@@Bananappleboy wait hold up, sorry I'm being a bit slow lol. I've been thinking about changing my pfp for a while now and I think I'll take this as a good enough reason to finally get around to that
@@stickpersonproductions6941 because literary anything supernatural is something the scp foundation knows about. This made me realise that those shitty writers that make scps are just creepypasta writers trying to be professional.
The fact that the seeds of The Monument Mythos story are woven all throughout this. The hypnotic obsession like with the Serpent. The blue flashes like the lightning of the special trees. The many intersecting corners like the bends of the thousands of them that grew as the Deanverse apocalypse bloomed. They intersect at each corner. Simply brilliant.
ohhhhh okay I see I'm trying to figure out how this ties in with Last Son and all that Crescent King stuff. I don't watch TV so this is hard for me to follow lol
Maybe they travel between dimensions as an escape tactic, like how flying fish take to the skies to escape predators that can't leave the water. Maybe it was a predator from their world that folded him up (or maybe it was just the dimension itself being too different from Earth's dimension, thus crushing him like how the deep sea would to a human).
Until Alex answers some questions, I'll believe that the back rooms exist in this universe and the back rooms entities can corner hop into the corner world in search of food, maybe the monument mythos exists in a world where back rooms entities no clip into our world. But hey, that's just a theory.
I think the reason why was because he actually hit the corner of reality at like the perfect vertice and didn't actually wind up in perpindular reality, where the backrooms really are.
Imagine meeting an anomolous creature that is legit harmless bur because how fearful we humans are, we attack out of fear and inadvertently make an enemy.
I love how the tone of his voice stays the same even in various situations. Like he keeps the narrating voice for and informative video on, like monotone an professional, but when it transitions to him losing his job, realizing he doesn’t know where the time has went, he still keeps that voice on. Really emphasized the sinister vibe.
I find it refreshing when an anomalous story, now and then, doesn’t have anomalous entities be evil in the exact same way known humans would be, or motivated to “harm” us, or even be particularly aware of what harm or injury to us would entail. They might be interested in something or other that we have, or harm us in the process of achieving some goal, but I think that they’re too often portrayed negatively humanized rather than different, possibly unknowable, going about their different, possibly unknowable business.
2:30 The corners likely belong to a nursery or a crib in their homeworld. "P R I S O N" A multitude of corners placed in close proximity could be used to secure the infant from leaving the corner world. "T R A P P E D"
A "creepypasta" where the unknown entity is generally accepted as being *_at worst_* completely indifferent on the presence of humans. Some even going so far as to say that they're beneficial to have since the only rational explanation is that they brought him back upon him making the super smart decision to jump through despite knowing it may kill him.
Honestly the last line about him being in the care of his friends is really sweet. Usually in these kinds of stories the protagonist is either a complete loner from the get go, or they push away their friends and loved ones. Here, they still care about him.
Dude I literally had a dream where I could enter a different and safer world by walking into the corners. I had never heard of the cornerfolk before. I've had this dream twice. Edit: Wait could this mean in my dreams I'm a cornerfolk???
Honestly i saw some the same type of light just last month, i never tried to find out what it was but by some coincidence youtube showed some videos of this channel and came to find this video. I honestly cannot say if this was that thing or something else but the light seem so the same. It creeps me out honestly seeing this.
My thoughts:pretty good The Cornerfolk aren't inherently evil they are just kind of there, I like that the narrator is more of a threat to himself rather than the Cornerfolk. Side note:I like how the Cornerfolk possibly saved this guy because I dunno how he would've magically gotten out other wise, the Cornerfolk saved this guy, also a small theory of mine is that the Cornerfolk were once human, they look kinda fleshy and showed possible compassion by saving the dude
Doesn't really make sense that they're human, since it wouldn't explain how they can corner hop or how they established a home in the corner world. I do think they're benevolent though.
@@unfortunatecircumstances8870 yeah it was just kinda something I was thinking of just randomly, still makes me wonder how or when he got out of the corner world, I also like how he says cornerworld it's funny
@@RobinButButter It's possible since he, a human, can cross into the cornerworld. It's might be because the modern human decended from the corner people and instead moved out of it, gaining physical form in exchange for the inability to withstand the cornerworld.
Dimensions = Deanverse "Bright blue flashes" that occur during cornerfolk leaps = Special trees' activation Cornerworld = Wonderland 3:32 "The fear of my own destruction will not prevent my entry" = Special trees' ability to lure other people in Organs folded along various axes = Stretching caused by climbing the special trees Cornerfolk = Survivors of the apocalypse in Deanverse ....or at least I _think_ that's what's going on.
Do these entities exist in other regions and locales…if so, would they be called things like, “corner mates,” “corner homies,” “corner comrades,” and so on?
Worlds most obvious Darwin Award, seriously Riley even had a camera he could have sent in 1st to make sure it was even survivable. Now some poor corner people are going to have to clean up the giant monster pieces off of their corner world super highway and Riley made himself have terrible health problems all for the sake of just learning origami.
kinda makes you wonder *why* the corner world seemed to have such a profound effect on the narrator, and if he'll ever try to go to the corner world again, even though his curiosity has been, from what I can tell, satisfied.
I think the idea of moving freely spoke to him on a spiritual level. Like he may have felt trapped by something like his job or something as basic as being a human being with physical needs and limited ways to move.
I wonder if, when the cornerfolk are just sleeping in a corner like that, you can like touch them? Are they, at least at the time, a 3D structure that can be interacted with? Because I wanna touch the sleeping babbies. They are adorable.
I was going to joke about your comment but you sound lost, try to keep in mind that the camera clip could have happened. I do not know if it is hollow or touchable myself even though I have some ideas. There is a big difference if it's hollow and there for a minute and disappears from it's living there.
On the photograph that KOT EBANA ROT shared I think that is a mutated me sometime in the past. I remember that It was a woman who looked like the woman who climbed to the big metal planet, I was trying to warn her that I look scary like do not take a scary photograph of me and I felt like a bad thing also and I guess I was not wrong. She acted like I was the best thing that could happen and I think I was in a spaceship living with her. I would forget about how ugly and scary I felt when she acted kind to me but then when I would get close to get some food or like share something with her she would act weird like push me away or escape a bit cuz well this thing is going around living with you. I think she is out her mind nowadays, I do not wish it to be though. In the whole fucking goddamn universe she is like stalking me and doing this things. Maybe like someone who controls or threatens this person is making her to be with me at the space ship for example. It is hard to know things about women. But whoever is doing this does not mean well to anybody. Its so goddamn ugly and scary
alright, as someone pointed out when "nursery" fades out we see "prison" and when "secure" fades out we get "trapped" this makes me think he got sucked into a prison where some of the nasty corner folk were, and the equivalent of prison guards saved him by geting him out of there. maybe origami is also a sort of prison to them due to the amount of corners are in it?
this was... weirdly wholesome the sight near the end, presumably the Cornerworld, was kinda scary, but the dude made it out alive and got a new hobby to boot besides, the Cornerfolk are pretty cute
Great concept! Reminds me of a phenomena where if a blood vessel in the eye bursts, the brain interprets the sudden activity as movement in the corner of one's eye (which is where all the capillaries are located).
@@NineBulletRevolver That's part of the reason people think they see ghosts, especially in lowlight conditions like a room lit only by moonlight or a TV. Since the eyes aren't sending as much visual information to the brain (since it's dark), it also has a habit of "filling in the blanks" by making you see things that aren't there. You can confirm that for yourself by staring at your reflection in a bathroom mirror with the lights off.
What a place to put this video, right after the trailer for the very first season. Nobody at the time would've ever expected how important this would be in the future.
THIS, I absolutely LOVE this type of madness when seeing a creature of another world, not foaming at the mouth and keeling over madness, the madness of trying to achieve what they can do, or trying to go to them, regardless of any and all negative effects that can and will happen
This could be taken as minor lovecraftian influence cause of lovecrafts obsession with non Euclidean geometry. The corner folk could be a small more minor species. This also could be supported by the dreams he has and how most of lovecrafts protagonists were given knowledge of the other planes through dreams making them go mad.
Incredible presentation and this is a really great narrative. The "video essay" on cornerfolk conjures up something that probably doesn't exist... but the viewer can never really be sure, just like a really great esoteric horror story should.
Alternate end where he runs to the corner and just falls backward after running into the wall.
Upload 0: "So I've been taking shrooms recently."
Alternative ending: he fall through the floor and finally scape from backrooms
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@Outlaw315 "Aw _NO WAY._ Hey, 🛑! Dude! Get over here!"
"Stop yelling, 🔰, I'm trying to sle--ohh."
_"Right?!"_
"He...he actually tried it. Pffft, goddammit."
"You owe me four acute angles."
It's no wonder the officials investigated for his safety. 🤣
"better scramble like an egg before you get folded like an omelet"
well,the next word
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I like to imagine the cornerfolk were just like "holy shit, a human came through!" Like they didn't know that we could do that either.
This is the equivalent of a fish standing up, walking to the bar, and ordering a drink, and everyone there just bein like 👀 👀
W u t
And then the cornerfolk spent at least 2 hours trying to get his body out of their nursery
@@mikadosannoji553 They accidentally folded his organs in the process, so as an apology, they taught him origami
@@mikadosannoji553 nah bro they taught him origami then pushed his body outta the cornerworld
The fact that Riley said people only leave their home for resources really shows his mental wellbeing.
quarantine grind-mind-set
We are going to go with mental health questionable.
I think you mean lackthereof.
Maybe he foresaw the coronavirus pandemic.
You Don't feel like that?
I like that the guy didn’t die, these sorts of eerie elusive creature videos always seems to be super dark but despite theme it still managed to have a good ending.
"Good ending"? Dude quite literally snapped and has to be taken care of by his friends now, + got his organs "folded".
@@sovereignone1900 but origami
I agree with tropical, origami is nice
I agree with tropical, origami
Brother
"Aye bro you were nice with us so we decided to let you corner hop for a bit and teach you origami while doing it, catch ya later"
“Damn bro your organs got folded? Our bad bro didn’t know you had those”
"Ayo, we weren't tauntin' you, man. We just needed to head down to the corner shop. We'd have gotten you a container of square flakes if you'd have asked, bro."
The idea that these omnipotent transdimensional beings are also frat bros makes this 10x better.
"Uh boss, I think his lungs folded"
"The fuck are lungs??"
@@yves_23 "Hey, um, Damien, I think his Bone Marrow just folded into a square."
"The F-"
Talking to the cornerfolk:
“Excuse me sir, could you tone down the epileptic flashes?”
(Incomprehensible sounds)
“Thanks.”
"So I just saw a human try to jump into our world, uhm, you're pretty smart so could you possibly try to explain what may have been going in his brain?"
"Yeah I'm just as confused as you"
what's really interesting about shadows being seen of partial human deformations is that if we saw plasma dissipation it would be very similar atmospheric occurrence and have nothing to do with our mind or our vision that could indeed be the only proof need be cited to prove multidimensional travel
@@springchickena1 Um, why is ""proff" needded? We seen them with our owen Eyes. If You seen it & I seenit it ""IS"" period. Eseener Withemine Owen Eyes- 100% power of youer two ewes why Eyes are Infallabelly Monafost. I am Vixinomg, Zesterom, Vesteromn, It is and SEENit makes it so.
@@hillaryclinton1232 uh, you good? i think you had a strujr
ua-cam.com/video/CCwcSSuEtQA/v-deo.html my music evoke the same feeling as these videos .,
They went from voting for James Dean to just vibing between dimensions.
For real.
Look at the text carefully when hes describing the cornerworld. "Trapped" instead of Secure and "Prison" instead of nurseries :(
Feel bad for em
*DEAN*, IS THAT A GEMINI HOME ENTERTAINMENT REFERENCE?
@@Bobbydhopp16CONTINUED you
he sounds like he was having an absolute blast in the corner world
jokes aside that scream of pain was fuckin horrifying
@@synkt8759 it's arguable if those where screams of pain or vocalizations of panicked excitement, like someone would make after actually managing to enter the dimension he lost his job obsessing over and figuring out it actually looks like how he theorized
and then the locals teach him origami, but prolonged presence in this dimension causes internal damage to humans so they send him back for his own safety
@@the-letter_s this explanation completely removes the horror element ngl
@@nobodyinparticular968 maybe the cornerfolk don't want to be horrifying anymore
@@the-letter_s I thought that as soon as he entered the cornerworld, his insides instantaneously underwent the negative effects. kinda like if you were sent to the center of the earth, you would be flattened in the blink of an eye. As for the origami part, I think after witnessing the folds and creases of this strange dimension he got a better understanding of the craft. Plus, don’t you think it might be weird that interdimensional travelers know a very specific skill found in one of trillions of planes of existence?
I like that the Cornerfolk are, as far as anyone can tell, completely harmless, and it's the _narrator_ who did something stupid and dangerous as opposed to the standard creepypasta monster.
yeah i wouldnt go into a diemension made of corners cause that translates in my mind into DIEMENSION OF SPIKES AND TRIANGLES
In reality he just slammed himself into a wall and called it a day lmao
Curiosity killed the cat.
@@djaccountisbfisbx3880 that much is true, my friend
i think its kind of implying that they influenced him to come into the corner world
I like to think the corner folk returned him home and that's how he actually survived.
"Oi mate, you don't look to hot in this plane of existence, lets get you back to your house."
@@andresgomeziii I love this comment
And they tought him origami!
@@andresgomeziii oi mate ya gots a loicense fo comin to the corna weld
they just pick him up with a piece of paper and a glass and shoo him back outside
I can’t believe Alex made a sequel series to a series that hadn’t started yet.
George Lucas be like
Maybe we will see the connection between the two series fleshed out, but right now I feel like they just suddenly connected without further explanation, it's just _white flashes, Great Division,_ and *boom* _Cornerfolk_
Maybe we will find out how their bodies become tiny (probably the special trees, but instead of stretching, we get compressing) and such
ever heard of prequels
@@zakkymiftahurrahman1665 maybe the deanverse humans tried to fit to forcefully go into the nixonverse to survive and got crushed into some smaller forms
@@e.t.1947 perhaps due to the mass growth of special trees as seen during the great division, people got teleported and distorted to the point where there bodies would've inevitably adapted to the constant universal transportation caused by said trees.
I love that the outcome of this is him becoming a sevant at origami, no one dies, he's not cursed into insanity, he's just rly good at origami now
That's a plus to me,i'd like to visit the cornerworld
@@mannamedjared yeah but the medical bills tho 😬
True
He needs constant care from his friends tho?
Na, "He remains in the care of his friends"
He likely got damage to his brain, and besides that lost sanity
"When multiple planes intersect.."
They crash
*ba dum tssss*
lol
Breaking bad moment
I can’t be the only one who thought what the pilots thought when they saw each other
Get out
“Yea don’t worry about that, sometimes rotisserie chickens fly through the corners of my walls. We homies.”
lol, I was thinking the same thing.
"so you buyin'?"
After watching ALCATRAZAPOCOPLYPSE. Realizing all those cornerfolk were human beings who had their earth destroyed is terrifying. Not only that, but there are multiple corner worlds
"Dean didn't run for office?! Fuck this, I'm goin' back to Cornerworld."
Ummm....wow it's that damn deep 😳
Hopefully Mister Squirrel is one of them and it didn't die.
I watched this vid before and few weeks later to see AltacrazApocalypse, done watching that and rewatched it again to find better understanding and return to this vid, now it hits very hard.
@@TheSlammurai You absolute fool , Mr Squirrel is in fact , immortal . He cannot be killed as he is infact , the second coming of jesus christ.
I love it when creators make stories of peaceful, and possibly benevolent, entities that don't actually harm the protagonist. Rather, it's the protagonist who causes their own downfall in the pursuit of trying to uncover or antagonize the entities within the story. It's the root of cosmic horror, instead of the good vs evil most stories talk about. Very Lovecraftian in nature, which really fits the type of theme the video is aiming for.
Jn no
@@GoteraGuy for some reason everytime i reply or comment this happens to me
@@GoteraGuy for some reason everytime i reply or comment this happens to me
Plot twist, they want the person to harm themselves. They feed off fear and frequencies. Monsters Inc.
Cool now translate that in english
this is such a unique take on analog horror! with most it’s usually the “entity” that causes harm to the protagonist, but in this case it’s simply the protagonist becoming obsessed with the entity resulting in his own destruction. AND there’s kind of a happy ending! amazing job on this seriously
No.
@@elciothegoat bro that’s the most absolutely chad thing I have ever seen someone so
@@ProperCrusader Thanks.
@@elciothegoat tha was the most emotional thing I have ever seen
@@Kaslidaughterofchaos Thanks.
they’re not mocking him they just want to vibe in the corners of his home
*vibe*
@@railleyandrewdeguzman196 just edit the comment
They're.
@@luluinterrupted9213 nuh uh, t’ye’or’re
@@manformerlypigbukkit nah t’yej’nae’oyer’re
This hits so much differently after ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE. I remember when the common theory on this video was that the Cornerfolk and their Cornerworld were just harmless (if strange) entities, and it was all the human’s fault for plunging head first into something his non-corner body just couldn’t withstand.
Now I just don’t know what to think. The bombshell that Alex is from the Deanverse, the knowledge that the Horned Serpent outright created the Cornerworld, the fact that the Cornerworld itself is the shattered remnants of an untold number of different realities…
.. honestly, no wonder this guy went insane. I can only imagine what could happen to someone when exposed to the Horned Serpent Metastructure with no protection.
Horrifying little multiverse you’ve established here, Alex. I’m all here for it.
The Horned Serpent didn't create the Cornerworld. The Deanverse apocalypse coincides with 2016 in our time. These videos were made from 2011 to 2013.
@@axelory7676 the only explanation: TIME TRAVEL
@@axelory7676 im assuming that the cornerfolk were splintered across time as well as space
Another thing I realized is that when the corner folk leap and create the massive amount of energy and you see the big white circle it kinda looks like the giant white explosion thing at the end of deanpocalypse
I love how what happened to him was caused by his own mental instability and rash decision, and the Cornerfolk were totally peaceful
I especially like how he's found back lying in his home with his organs twisted but the noise he makes entering the dimension is almost ecstatic, like the Cornerfolk dimension is something great and amazing, but he as a human simply could not handle it, so he was chewed up and spit out.
he came, he saw, and came again as evident by his noises... and subsequently forced to leave for being all creepy in the cornerfolks' baby room
Very well said
I imagine the cornerworld follows completely different rules of geometry, something we've never considered spending our whole existence in 3D space. the human body only being designed capable of 3D space whereas the cornerfolk could be designed for undergoing drastic changes in their geometric layout while traversing, unlike ours, leading to his body being folded over various axes after traveling through it.
@@TR-qf2gt "and came again" oh god jesus man that is gross
@@microman502 that's what the cornerfolk also thought so they got him outta their dimension real quick
1) This is really well made and should have more views
2) Analogue Horror is cool, but I feel like the aesthetic of early youtube windows movie maker conspiracy guy has not been plumbed enough for horror. Raw footage certainly has, but there's something about the combination of insane things, presented reasonably through amateurish but polished by software that has a kind of awkward charm and also a great potential to be unsettling.
3) I accidentally watched this without sound the first time, without realising, and that made the unexplained diagrams quite effectively scary.
Shoot, I should have tried that last one. Mighta been better
i don't feel like this was about horror, just about the unknown. sort of like the SCP Foundation files.
Agreed
This isn't even analog horror, it's set in like 2011
@@Sandman23 there have been analogue horrors set in times close to the present but not by much
I like the general consensus that the cornerfolk are harmless beings, even benevolent. I hope it continues this way.
I personally super hate the assumption that all crypto/fantastic beings should be evil or whatever, and more than that, evil in the exact same way a human could be evil, its so annoying. Cornerfolk meanwhile just seem like the kinds of spirits people believed in the old times. They would just be like "yeah a special gnome lives in your hovel eating stale bread. Just dont bother him and he wont bother you. Heck, give him some milk too. He could be thirsty"
4:48 ok definitely harmless
@@KOTEBANAROT Same. I like this approach on supernatural/paranormal creatures and entities more than the good/evil one. It feels like something inhuman shouldn't have to rely on human beliefs to be effectively unsettling or strange. It simply is, and the thought of something imperceptible is enough to make humans stand in either fear or awe, or even both.
@@drone-bj2rt i think its because his body wasnt made for the corner world
or it could have acctualy been the corner folk but .....i mean he might have invaded one of their nests and got folded by the mother for stepping into her nesting place
and also it was pretty justified,i mean what if some random wierd ass giant creature thats 1.5X your size comes into your house unanounced? you might even try shooting or fighting it.
so just like humans....dont get into some guys house unannounced or he might attack you.
@@snek9983 I understand now
so nice that cornerfolk became the part of the monument mythos lore and was explained.
This takes "i am living in your walls" to a whole another level
BENNY BOYYUY
Oh no
Now i need to take that phrase more seriously
pretty sure thats what people say to people that have schizophrenia
"To a whole other level" or "to another level"...but what ev 💁♂️
Y'know, I don't know what amazes me more:
That this is a story where the monsters aren't hostile, OR that this didn't end with the dead/missing status of it's protagonist. Hard to find either of them alone in scary stuff now, let alone together
It's even fuckier because they WERE human. The REAL horror is how they ended up this way
i find it weird u categorize this as scary shit
This explains that not every new spieces we find are monsters, no matter how they look
There was a story from SCP called 'Bees' that reminded me of the protagonist not only surviving but seemingly remaining sane
That always struck me as being 100x scarier as we have someone who can answer what happened but they don't or can't for whatever reason
@Alexthefancollector Walker bet
"The fear of my own destruction will not prevent my injury" is such an amazing line. Awesome work with this one, I was really concerned for the guy.
it's "entry" btw
Pretty sure he said “entry”, not injury
Thanos be like:
@@haden7123 Could have swore he said "intrigue" instead
@@MayDoesThingsX3 No he said "entry." There is no 'g' sound at the end of what he said.
After watching the ending of MM, it just makes me feel bad for the cornerfolks. They’re in a new world where people live regular lives, them ‘resting’ is probably them remembering on how they were humans too. They envy the new world with them not having to deal anything insane like Alcatraz expanding or the Washington Memorial just being a regular monument not of a tree, but a monument for America. Or their 1st president turns out to become some kind of elongated snake that broke out of the crust of the earth. It’s really pitiful for them to be in this state..
it would be crazy if they were in his house because thats what their home looked like in their universe but in this one its occupied by a complete stranger
I feel really sad for them
I'm so lost in this rabbit hole, where and how you got that informations?
@@pitayafruit Simple, AlcatrazApocalypse.
@@hamoodhabibi1579 thanks, I'm new and a bit lost on which videos I'm supposed to watch. I'll be watching it properly
Honestly, this is just a "even if you could do something, that doesn't mean you should!".
Corner jumping is much like deepdiving deep into the mariana trench, can we humans do that? Yes
Are we humans adapted to do such a thing? Absolutely not, while in the deep diving case, our bodies would be crushed, in this case, our minds wouldn't be able to handle the chaotic nature of the cornerfolks dimension.
but we got machines
@@LazyLoonz pardon?
@@LazyLoonz i dont think the corner folk would enjoy people dumping thousands of metal on their nurseries
they would just fold metal origami
I'd theorize the cornerworld could have completely different rules of geometry than ours, something we've never comprehended as a species that's spent our whole existence in 3D space, wheras the cornerfolk's biological makeup could be built to withstand undergoing drastic changes in their geometric composition when traveling, unlike ours leading to his organs being "folded over various axes"
I love it when people take a nonsensical idea and flesh it out. It creates some of the best art.
yeah I also like art made out of flesh.
wait that was not the question?
You love disinformation, lies, and clickbait??
@@notanotherselfproclaimedrchgrl You are a child. If this isn't a joke I'm beyond blown away by how utterly ridiculous you are. Please tell me you're just joking I can never tell these days.
@@notanotherselfproclaimedrchgrl wait this isn't real????!1!!!!!1?
Funny how this is perceived as unreal
Cornerfolk: *just chilling*
ThIs Guy: *breaks in their Dimension and almost dies*
Cornerfolk: "what the fu-"
Imagine chillin in your hometown and some dude almost dies
Detroit
Billings
Washington DC
knowing what the cornerfolk are now post monument mythos finale, this feels weirdly tragic
This kinda feels like a metaphor for spiders. They literally just chill and we run at them with brooms and shoes.
I use my finger's or fist..
@@mjolnirswrath23 That's a Chad power move
Not the spider's in my house, they literally run to attack people
@McFlickers oh
@M.K.D.S Brazil
I really love this. The old VHS way Reily explains the cornerfolk, the grainy footage itself as he shows them, the way they seem completely harmless and what happened to Reily was of his own doing; I love the whole "seeing something nobody else has seen" thing.
Aw, they're kind of cute
look at that good dimension jumping boy he is the playful boi that needs to get patted
Yeh
They almost look like spiders.
@@greatwavefan397 eh more like crickets
@@HAL--ps2hz Now I see it. :D
holy shit i just realized that when he enters the corner world it sounds like he’s saying the trees
The trees aren't trees. And that my friend, is the special trees.
He is
@@Arand09mguy a tree
2:34 when the word 'nursery' fades out, it is quickly replaced with the word 'prison' before fully fading.
2:40 shortly after, 'secure' turns into 'trapped'.
I didn't even notice that... The plot thickens
thank you so much for pointing that out
@@twigtwat2110
Your profile picture just reactivates a horrible memory i had. Real funny.
obvious sarcasm.
@@Bananappleboy I mean, sorry..? That honestly sucks and I'm sorry that you were affected like that, but I'm not entirely sure what you want to gain from telling me this?
@@Bananappleboy wait hold up, sorry I'm being a bit slow lol. I've been thinking about changing my pfp for a while now and I think I'll take this as a good enough reason to finally get around to that
Man no-clipped through the wall and found the debug world
ngl cornerfolk in the backrooms would be an awesome idea
@@c_drive Not that the admins know he has 57 alt accounts
@@greatwavefan397 backroom!!!!!
@@greatwavefan397 yasssss
i feel like Stanford Pines from Gravity Falls would know about cornerfolk
In fact, this feels like something that would have been written in the other journals
:o
And the scp foundation
@@stickpersonproductions6941 And anyone who travels within or studies The Backrooms.
@@stickpersonproductions6941 because literary anything supernatural is something the scp foundation knows about. This made me realise that those shitty writers that make scps are just creepypasta writers trying to be professional.
The fact that the seeds of The Monument Mythos story are woven all throughout this.
The hypnotic obsession like with the Serpent.
The blue flashes like the lightning of the special trees.
The many intersecting corners like the bends of the thousands of them that grew as the Deanverse apocalypse bloomed.
They intersect at each corner.
Simply brilliant.
ohhhhh okay I see
I'm trying to figure out how this ties in with Last Son and all that Crescent King stuff. I don't watch TV so this is hard for me to follow lol
This is a part of the moment mythos it's in the finale for season 2
Maybe they travel between dimensions as an escape tactic, like how flying fish take to the skies to escape predators that can't leave the water. Maybe it was a predator from their world that folded him up (or maybe it was just the dimension itself being too different from Earth's dimension, thus crushing him like how the deep sea would to a human).
The earth's dimension: Frontrooms
Cornerfolk's dimension: Siderooms
Faceling's dimension: Backrooms
*ef6r7udf* 's dimension: *&^%$%^$*
Until Alex answers some questions, I'll believe that the back rooms exist in this universe and the back rooms entities can corner hop into the corner world in search of food, maybe the monument mythos exists in a world where back rooms entities no clip into our world.
But hey, that's just a theory.
@@coreyford3556 A GAME THEORY!
@@coreyford3556 oh boy do i have some news for you
My man actually noclipped out of reality and managed to avoid the Backrooms. What a chad.
Ikr
Giga Chad
I think the reason why was because he actually hit the corner of reality at like the perfect vertice and didn't actually wind up in perpindular reality, where the backrooms really are.
All fun and games until the SCP Foundation has to get involved with all this stuff.
He didn't even have to use a bucket...
Imagine meeting an anomolous creature that is legit harmless bur because how fearful we humans are, we attack out of fear and inadvertently make an enemy.
I don’t think he wanted to attack it though. He just entered trying to prove it was real, and was horrifically injured in the process.
yeah the corner thing was a huge dick and attacked
Pretty sure he was obsessed about entering the corner world not being enemies with cornerfolk
They’re more likely demons
Imagine cornerfolk appearing and grabbing us into their dimension so we are spit out seconds later with our organs folded
You hear people saying things like “will there be a Monument Mythos Season 3”. Little did we know, it had already been here the whole time.
This is the most creative way to tell a story I've seen in a LONG time, I gotta tell you.
wait till he finds out
@@hugo7631 no one is gone forever. Also I guess this makes Cornerfolk Season 2.5.
I feel like in that universe I would have some cornor folk visit me as a "hello" while I say "hi" back
Like... After I realize they are harmless
Yeah
Probably should be cheap to live where he is, it's the equivalent of being beside a multidimensional train line.
i think they're a bit adorable. they kinda look like headcrabs. the "feel safe" part was so fricken cute
Yeahh
@Conerflok dawg
Survivors of a dead world, nothing is left of what made them human anymore.
I love how the tone of his voice stays the same even in various situations. Like he keeps the narrating voice for and informative video on, like monotone an professional, but when it transitions to him losing his job, realizing he doesn’t know where the time has went, he still keeps that voice on. Really emphasized the sinister vibe.
love these cute little corner dudes
I find it refreshing when an anomalous story, now and then, doesn’t have anomalous entities be evil in the exact same way known humans would be, or motivated to “harm” us, or even be particularly aware of what harm or injury to us would entail.
They might be interested in something or other that we have, or harm us in the process of achieving some goal, but I think that they’re too often portrayed negatively humanized rather than different, possibly unknowable, going about their different, possibly unknowable business.
The SCP wiki has a ton of these
You said "harm" 3 times
Coming back here after ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE.
Whoo-wee, these funny little corner monsters really seem different now...
2:30
The corners likely belong to a nursery or a crib in their homeworld.
"P R I S O N"
A multitude of corners placed in close proximity could be used to secure the infant from leaving the corner world.
"T R A P P E D"
WOW
Yooo what HOW did you spot that
Omg! Good catch
i was wondering if anybody else spotted that
ALCATRAZ
A "creepypasta" where the unknown entity is generally accepted as being *_at worst_* completely indifferent on the presence of humans. Some even going so far as to say that they're beneficial to have since the only rational explanation is that they brought him back upon him making the super smart decision to jump through despite knowing it may kill him.
It's even fuckier because they WERE human. The REAL horror is how they ended up this way
"Why did you leave your last job?"
"The Cornerfolk."
"Excuse me?"
"did i studder?"
@@Moodyman4231 yes you did
"Where did you work?"
"The Corner Store"
@@doggo6517 "what street is that on"
"Corner lane"
@@Moodyman4231 "Where is that street located?"
"Corner of folk town
Honestly the last line about him being in the care of his friends is really sweet. Usually in these kinds of stories the protagonist is either a complete loner from the get go, or they push away their friends and loved ones. Here, they still care about him.
Dude I literally had a dream where I could enter a different and safer world by walking into the corners. I had never heard of the cornerfolk before. I've had this dream twice.
Edit: Wait could this mean in my dreams I'm a cornerfolk???
Honestly i saw some the same type of light just last month, i never tried to find out what it was but by some coincidence youtube showed some videos of this channel and came to find this video. I honestly cannot say if this was that thing or something else but the light seem so the same. It creeps me out honestly seeing this.
@@skywalker3760 that's analog horror for you
damn, check yo corners boy
It's literally not the same thing, at all
You’re fucked
i love the fact he ends up in the care of his friends at the end, just a wholesome touch showing he's cared for still
4:54 TILTON AVIDLY MADE ORIGAMI, DESPITE CLAIMING TO HAVE NEVER BEEN TAUGHT HOW TO DO SO! Most shocking twist in a horror plot EVER!
what?
ok
DUN DUN DUUUUN
"what?"
"ok"
Duality of man
if you don’t get it, origami has a LOT of corners in a single piece.
"Survivors of the Great Disvion are known as *Cornerfolk.* "
Yep
My thoughts:pretty good
The Cornerfolk aren't inherently evil they are just kind of there, I like that the narrator is more of a threat to himself rather than the Cornerfolk.
Side note:I like how the Cornerfolk possibly saved this guy because I dunno how he would've magically gotten out other wise, the Cornerfolk saved this guy, also a small theory of mine is that the Cornerfolk were once human, they look kinda fleshy and showed possible compassion by saving the dude
Doesn't really make sense that they're human, since it wouldn't explain how they can corner hop or how they established a home in the corner world. I do think they're benevolent though.
@@unfortunatecircumstances8870 yeah it was just kinda something I was thinking of just randomly, still makes me wonder how or when he got out of the corner world, I also like how he says cornerworld it's funny
@@RobinButButter It's possible since he, a human, can cross into the cornerworld. It's might be because the modern human decended from the corner people and instead moved out of it, gaining physical form in exchange for the inability to withstand the cornerworld.
@@givemeyoureggs456 mhm, also the corner baby one, it seems that whole ass card can just go into the corner world
They look like card board
Thank you! THIS is why my cat is always staring wildly at the corners of the ceiling all the time! I knew there was something supernatural going on!
No, they are just spacing out. Not staring at some weird blurry photoshop effect.
@@nintendofan707 prove it
He can have all the luck in the world to try and disprove what we feel to be know (gno)
Narrator: Cornerfolk are the only ones who can traverse the corners shaped by planes.
Funny Valentine: Hold my D4C.
*Cornerfolk version of Funny Valentine jumps put from under USA flag*
sorry, not how d4c works; he works by "sandwiching" himself BETWEEN planes, not entering corners
this js reminded me to read part 7😭
Dimensions = Deanverse
"Bright blue flashes" that occur during cornerfolk leaps = Special trees' activation
Cornerworld = Wonderland
3:32 "The fear of my own destruction will not prevent my entry" = Special trees' ability to lure other people in
Organs folded along various axes = Stretching caused by climbing the special trees
Cornerfolk = Survivors of the apocalypse in Deanverse
....or at least I _think_ that's what's going on.
Also the guy says "THE TREES" when He enters.
They're from the shattered remains of another universe that's so sad😢
Corner world isn’t wonderland
Do these entities exist in other regions and locales…if so, would they be called things like, “corner mates,” “corner homies,” “corner comrades,” and so on?
Corner gang
"Corner prophet", preys about being the world in the world on the corner. Channels that it is near about the corner.
"corner comrades" implied that these entities squats while holding a bottle of vodka by the corner.
@@biwarayoganata да!
When they bark, are they Corndogs?
Worlds most obvious Darwin Award, seriously Riley even had a camera he could have sent in 1st to make sure it was even survivable. Now some poor corner people are going to have to clean up the giant monster pieces off of their corner world super highway and Riley made himself have terrible health problems all for the sake of just learning origami.
A good price to pay for some good origami
This is great! I was expecting you'd try to stop one to examine it and it would go horribly wrong
Bro went from "ooo cool corner creatures" to "THE FEAR OF MY OWN DESTRUCTION WILL NOT PREVENT MY ENTRY" real fuckin quick
kinda makes you wonder *why* the corner world seemed to have such a profound effect on the narrator, and if he'll ever try to go to the corner world again, even though his curiosity has been, from what I can tell, satisfied.
I think the idea of moving freely spoke to him on a spiritual level. Like he may have felt trapped by something like his job or something as basic as being a human being with physical needs and limited ways to move.
Me and the boys cornerfolkin'
I wonder if, when the cornerfolk are just sleeping in a corner like that, you can like touch them? Are they, at least at the time, a 3D structure that can be interacted with?
Because I wanna touch the sleeping babbies. They are adorable.
I was going to joke about your comment but you sound lost, try to keep in mind that the camera clip could have happened. I do not know if it is hollow or touchable myself even though I have some ideas. There is a big difference if it's hollow and there for a minute and disappears from it's living there.
@@efeerel4663 what
I thought there world would make them 4th dimensional beings 🤔
I would advise against that. We dont know the effect it could have on them. You could harm them :/
On the photograph that KOT EBANA ROT shared I think that is a mutated me sometime in the past. I remember that It was a woman who looked like the woman who climbed to the big metal planet, I was trying to warn her that I look scary like do not take a scary photograph of me and I felt like a bad thing also and I guess I was not wrong. She acted like I was the best thing that could happen and I think I was in a spaceship living with her. I would forget about how ugly and scary I felt when she acted kind to me but then when I would get close to get some food or like share something with her she would act weird like push me away or escape a bit cuz well this thing is going around living with you. I think she is out her mind nowadays, I do not wish it to be though. In the whole fucking goddamn universe she is like stalking me and doing this things. Maybe like someone who controls or threatens this person is making her to be with me at the space ship for example. It is hard to know things about women. But whoever is doing this does not mean well to anybody. Its so goddamn ugly and scary
This hits different after watching ALCATRAZAPOCOLYPSE
I love how they really achieved the nostalgic 2011-2013 vibe even this came out in 2020
love the effect at the end!
Reminds me of the music video for Crumbling Castle
Ah yes, the Cornerfolk entity is just G-Man trolling around and scaring the shit out of you.
Nah dude teaching this guy origami would be too big of a nudge for him.
bro i fkn move half life fans
-a half life fan
The fact that Nursery changes to prison for a second.
This video is really unique conceptually and well done. Awesome work and I really look forward to more.
He disappeared for a year and then slammed his head into a wall. What a guy
alright, as someone pointed out when "nursery" fades out we see "prison" and when "secure" fades out we get "trapped"
this makes me think he got sucked into a prison where some of the nasty corner folk were, and the equivalent of prison guards saved him by geting him out of there. maybe origami is also a sort of prison to them due to the amount of corners are in it?
I thought it was more of the Cornerfolks being trapped when the "nursery" fades and "prison" can be briefly seen.
The fact that the Cornerfolk are people from the monument mythos universe is insane.
this was... weirdly wholesome
the sight near the end, presumably the Cornerworld, was kinda scary, but the dude made it out alive and got a new hobby to boot
besides, the Cornerfolk are pretty cute
they are humanoids on leaping but they will be in spider form when they are staying still
got his organs folded, tho learned a pretty cool talent
Great concept! Reminds me of a phenomena where if a blood vessel in the eye bursts, the brain interprets the sudden activity as movement in the corner of one's eye (which is where all the capillaries are located).
_...What the fu--_
@@NineBulletRevolver That's part of the reason people think they see ghosts, especially in lowlight conditions like a room lit only by moonlight or a TV. Since the eyes aren't sending as much visual information to the brain (since it's dark), it also has a habit of "filling in the blanks" by making you see things that aren't there.
You can confirm that for yourself by staring at your reflection in a bathroom mirror with the lights off.
Can’t wait to see the comments of people coming back to this video after watching the latest and possibly last episode of Monument Mythos.
What a place to put this video, right after the trailer for the very first season.
Nobody at the time would've ever expected how important this would be in the future.
Every master of origami has had their organs folded at some point
Just returning to this after the absolute banger of the Monument Mythos season 2 finale.
Imagine just sitting in your house and suddenly having a Cornerfolk just come by and say hello while going through the corner of your room
i got lots of corners well this sucks
Well, Riley just experienced the Great Division.
That part at the end definitely looks like what we saw after earth exploded.
I love it when horror manages to be scary enough to be interesting yet calming enough to not make me never sleep for 20 nights
You absolute mad lad. Just finished monument mythos.
THIS, I absolutely LOVE this type of madness when seeing a creature of another world, not foaming at the mouth and keeling over madness, the madness of trying to achieve what they can do, or trying to go to them, regardless of any and all negative effects that can and will happen
everyone: circling back to this!
This could be taken as minor lovecraftian influence cause of lovecrafts obsession with non Euclidean geometry. The corner folk could be a small more minor species. This also could be supported by the dreams he has and how most of lovecrafts protagonists were given knowledge of the other planes through dreams making them go mad.
Seeing this after ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE this gives a whole new meaning
i remember when this only had 108 views. you've come very far.
ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE really makes me look at this video in a much different way, holy hell
so true babe
Same
That last horrific scream might send chills down some spines, but it makes me wanna visit my nearest cornerworld dimension gateway!
Incredible presentation and this is a really great narrative. The "video essay" on cornerfolk conjures up something that probably doesn't exist... but the viewer can never really be sure, just like a really great esoteric horror story should.