Extra note about The Cough: the guy resposible actually *did* try to inform the GMod devteam in a more sensible way, and they more or less told him "fuck off nobody will use that it doesn't matter".
Also about the gman virus, there was that add-on last year or two years ago that went rogue and pretty much acted like gman virus except with gore jumpscares instead of the gman face.
glad to see this was brought up. 100% of white hat hackers go through the established reporting channels first, but theres never a guarantee that those work.
I have a very specific memory of the night of the cough virus. I was playing on a RP server when the admins sent out a notice saying the server was going to be password locked and if you left you couldn't come back. When we were wondering why, word started spreading around about the virus. People started freaking out and gathering in the center of downtown to start talking about it like it was some major event going down, many too afraid to go to any other server and staying on to talk to someone about what was happening. Somehow, we never got infected, but watching it go down WHILE in game was crazy.
for downtown, it's a space designed for a larger group. you're used to seeing it full of others. just experiencing something like that out of context, alone, has an effect also.
The rp_downtown thing is funny. It's basically the same feeling as walking through a school, church, mall, etc during a time where there's no one around. It just feels a little weird being alone in a place that's normally very active. That's it.
Source games in general give me that feeling, they're extremely lonely feeling but the areas look worn and lived in, so you see a lonely, empty space that looks like it should have activity going on and it feels off. I think the kids call that a liminal space
@@Hwarming The Source engine is also the most physical-feeling engine I know of in games. Everything looks and feels like it has real dimensions and exists in a physical space. There is something surreal about it.
I'd like to state for the record, the way the g-man face flickers in kitty0706's video is honestly pretty strong proof at least *that* was in-engine and not an edit thrown on later - I've had similar issues failing to set up .vmts properly when mapmaking.
@@ratlobber I distinctly remember (and am pretty sure I have saved) an E2 script that would do exactly that. When spawned, it makes a small jack-o-lantern that when approached, creates a box around the player’s head with gman’s face as the texture (hence covering the screen) and plays the HL2 stalker scream. I know it’s been around for a LONG time, at least a decade, but I’m not sure of exactly when it was created. It’s entirely possible that rumors (or even an actual virus) were created based off of this original effect as well as kitty’s video.
The idea of the gman virus was the reason I stopped playing the game for *years* and didn't dare touch it - I was a small child and just the thought of being jumpscared by my favourite game with something so unsettling made me swear off it entirely. I'm so relieved you actually mentioned it, as it actually lived in my mind rent free for years! Interestingly, someone did create an EC2 script that jumpscared other players on the server with the same image (I know because I was hit by that one) but I know it's not really the same thing, and was just a tool used to troll random people on sandbox servers.
Let's all just come together for a sec and say: *R.I.P* *Kitty0706 (Colin Charles "Eliott" Wyckoff)* *Jul 6th 1994 - Jan. 25th 2015* *You will live in internet history and beyond.*
I actually owned one of the servers featured around 8:39 [Tacoplay Stranded] when the cough virus came around. It was a file that sat on the server that got sent to clients whenever they connected, I remember getting messaged about it on steam and everyone on the server at the time was freaking out. Nobody really knew what to do, and it was over relatively quickly. It was absolutely wild watching this video and seeing my old server from 10 years ago show up here. Good video.
I think The Pit map creator updated the files replacing the map with a dummy file. Considering how steam workshop works - it's plausible that the map straight up disappeared from everyone on the internet as soon as they launched the game.
13:30 EYO THAT IS ME! IM IN A RATLOBBER VIDEO! I feel really grateful right now. I hope you enjoyed my map. I actually have some info that could aid us in getting the lost pit map. One of the users in the comments of my map recreation told me that the map, (or the remake as it said in the desc.) was made by a user called ICEBIRD112, I decided to search up that name on the workshop and he showed up, he actually made some other maps, and is currently one of the devs working on Black Mesa Blue Shift, a mod recreating Half Life Blue Shift in Black Mesa. If anyone was able to contact Ice Bird, I will be grateful that a Gmod related lost media could possibly be found. I feel really grateful that I was mentioned and seeing Ratlobber making shots in the map I made, it makes me happy. Good luck in the search everyone!
Another interesting note about the "cough" virus was that I believe it used an exploit specific to remote console or "rcon", and how a server's permissions and authority was setup. Not all servers had a set "rcon" password, and I believe those were safe, but many others did, and that's how it spread by downloading/uploading a .dll file between client and server. The interesting thing being that the virus would download the server's config file, which could contain said "rcon" password onto a client's computer, in the same directory as the .dll file. So, if at the time one was so inclined, they could purposely infect other servers in order to gain access to the rcon password, and do with that as they wanted, whether it be kicking or banning players, changing server settings, or as I admittedly had a bit fun doing, joining DarkRP servers and giving yourself essentially infinite money. Wild times.
I played on the_pit before it was removed, at the time I really liked pit maps because of Star Wars episode 1, the map had a skybox that went on forever and had islands using displacements, upon falling in the pit, it would teleport you to another area where it would simulate you falling endlessly, via teleporting you to the top when you hit the bottom
@@mediocrecontent2449 Comment's old but I'll reply anyways. It's not *really* like infinite maps, it's far simpler, it just teleports you some set distance away to either wrap around to the top or move you to another identical pit, there's multiple maps on the workshop I've seen do the same thing (gm_krot has a small pit that loops over 2 sections on different sides of the map. Gm_TheDarkPit is far more similar, it's a huge dark pit that has a bunch of sections that are looped through with various things, giving the effect of a massive pit with lots of floors and random details.)
i remember when me and friends were on a server where someone joined with the cough virus and we were terrified that our mums would make us stop playing gmod
I do remember these times. I even wrote a proof-of-concept "worm" (proper definition rather than virus) these days before that. "cough virus" was around. It was not gmods fault but rather valves, for how game files were distributed between clients and servers. However gmods gave us the flexibility to use Lua scripts, which escalated things.
I remember the cough virus. It was terrifying as a kid. It happened while I was on a TTT server, and I remember looking for ways to delete it and eventually finding a random tutorial that had been made the same day that the virus was spreading. I eventually fixed it, and I found out it didn't even message any of my friends like most people were saying that it did.
"Alright, I'm done with Richter Overtime's 20 minute video. Time to sleep." [Ratlobber has uploaded: "GMOD's Biggest Mysteries"] "Ayt, I can stay awake for 20 more minutes"
About the Gman virus, one thing I witnessed that probably helped spread the rumour was that people started making Wiremod E2 chips that, if a player walked close to the chip, would spawn a prop with that gman texture on it in front of a player's face and play the fast zombie scream sound effect, effectively mimicing the virus, people would then just spawn that chip near the player spawn on servers and jumpscare the shit out of people.
1:36 You didn't list that song in the description, but I absolutely love it and recognized it instantly :3 It's the main theme from Condemned: Criminal Origins 😄
My memory is kind o fuzzy on it, but I recall trying to load a local server using a map from a hogwarts_rp server and, I guess as a countermeasure for using it outside of the official server, there was this jumpscare. I don't recall exactly if there was a gman skin texture and screech, altough I think it's pretty possible, but the phrase "I'm looking at gay porn" was definetly on it.
For the dark RP town the dread and feeling of emptiness that comes from it is probably because you’re so use to everyone building monster bases talking having fun but when you are alone there’s none of that. It’s like the old world at war maps in call of duty world at war, go on those and you’ll be shivering in your Timbers. Which is prolly the reasoning behind the eerieness of the dark rp map
20:09 "Or something.. maybe it's just..." Bro I love this line because it kinda shows the two sides of this whole thing... one being the 'lore' and the mood and the map itself but then the other side being the 'it's just a game' type mentality is cool to see. I'm digging the content!
I'm pretty sure I remember the gman face thing from playing on a darkRP server back in the day but I reckon it might've just been someone hijacking the server to imitate it after hearing your explaination on the matter. I definetely remember the cough virus though. I think I was lucky enough to not have it change my name or anything but I remember that happening to some old steam friends who I fell out of contact with. It's kinda funny but after the initial "scare" period of things I ended up finding the whole ordeal really fucking funny and it was super interesting to see it spread so far. This is unrelated but remembering darkRP also made me remember the time I was teleported by an admin over and over into a room with the goatse image on a spray, I was on a fucking dreadful laptop at the time but even the low framerate didn't save me from gazing into the abyss. Kinda funny to think back on but it was mildly distressing at the time lmao.
Oooh I'm quite happy to see that when you made it to the "haunted maps" section, The Librarian's channel showed up. He's a really chill guy and makes some very comfy content with a lot of philosophical expeditions into creepy GMod maps and games
the pit map was such a fun map. i use to play on it all the time on my old pc, i recently tried to find it on the workshop and i couldnt find the og only the remakes. glad i found this video to explain it
On 4:30, I personally have witnessed this virus myself while playing a DarkRP server. This occurred I remember around GMod 10. What Nelson340 describes is almost exactly what happened to me EXCEPT in section two it not only brings up the screaming gay porn talk but also explicitly shows men actually performing the act. I had no idea what was going on. I kept closing the browser but it would always reappear. It wasn't until I noticed the chatroom on steam was open with the 'Nimped by Chrisaster' and I immediately closed it. Afterwards, I was able to completely close out the tabs and what not and I performed a hard restart on my computer for good measures. I've asked people around my time on Gmod for YEARS about this and no one knew what the hell I was talking about. I've only recently heard about this similar report and I'm glad someone brought this up. I almost started to think this was all a vivid dream or something. This happened to me when I was 11 years old too so it was creepy and yet disturbing. I guess now I can confirm it really did happen! EDIT: I also wanted to add that I never saw a blurry G-Man head like he described on step one. I did however doremember an annoying screech.
The roleplay map is likely creepy because of the soundtrack, which makes it seem to like there's life, and that's what it lacks in singleplayer. It creates an uneasy sense that something should be there when it isn't.
There's one map I liked playing on that got deleted and I can't find anyone talking about it, or a reupload. It was a battle arena of sorts, although it was more of a large structure with a small arena in the middle. The structure had other rooms that looked kind of like an office, and had an entrance area with what i can only describe as a ticket booth. There were also a few vents set up in it. I just liked the setup of the map, and the small arena inside was interesting. I also remember whoever uploaded it was updating it and changing it a few times, but then after a while it was gone.
Never knew people considered downtown as haunted. Literally when I did actually just mess around in Singleplayer I play on downtown it's a really nostalgic map to me where I made so many memories and where I spent literal thousands of hours on in DarkRP servers and it was also the very first gmod map I went to back in 2013
Bro it happened. One of the mysteries got solved! the_pit is REAL! The original owner reenabled the map on the steam workshop. It has the proper dates and everything! I saw a link for it 22 days ago. It is in the same thread as the one shown in the video!
Another small incident nobody seems to talk about was when in either 2018 or 2017 many (like 50) players were forcefully sent to one server, i know this happened at least twice, once in a gm_construct sandbox with modified m9k weapons and ULX (i very specifically remember sniping with the SVDS and the tec-9 being OP) and a DarkRP server, i got banned from both servers for attempting to crash them
when i was a kid i had a nightmare that i got the gman virus, but instead of an unwrapped face texture it was just flat-out gman himself. like he was sentient and he took over my entire computer
rp downtown could also be unsettling when alone because its made for many people. When I was a kid, I couldn't play any big map by myself. I was always uncomfortable, and I would see things that weren't there. The big maps using gritty textures let my imagination run wild. The large maps made me feel lonely and scared
I still remember VINH'LL FIX IT and *cough* I'll never forget playing TTT and experiencing that first hand Also the whole RP_Downtown ghost is actually originally inspired from a much, much older video on UA-cam which included the uploader just walking around the map and then seeing a black figure that moves like the gman npc, disappears and then a buggy appears driving itself later on. The story about the creator being dead never actually came along until recently, but the entire story about it being haunted is basically all the way back in 2009. He died in about 2010 or 2011 in NY, and the original video was uploaded in 2009.
I can distinctly remember getting a gman face texture jumpscare along with a stalker scream when I was in a server back in the day, this probably was around 2009 as well. To be fair that doesn't really prove a whole lot considering somebody could have just gotten the idea to make a gman jumpscare from the rumors about it then, but it is interesting that I remember something like that happening to me. I can't say that I ever remember anything beside just the face texture jumpscare and stalker scream though
I played the very first versions of gmod that was just a hl2 mod and i remember the gman virus. I don't remember it as the gman virus since i never knew any name for it. But i recall it being a lua script that was transmitted like a worm, when joining dedicated servers or friends listen servers that were infected. As i remember it was a console command that triggered the jump scare on everyone screen who was infected. I remember finding the command and deleting the lua.
Oh man, seeing that PSP commercial at the end, how it's used as an MP3, really brought nostalgia to me when I owned one in 2008. I can remember all the hassle I went through just to get a song playing without skipping while I jog. Since the shoulder buttons would accidentally bump against my thigh inside the tracksuit I used for jogging.
First, great video.. While yes, gmod has some good mysteries, there are games that are twice as old with rumors, mysteries, and weird stuff for longer then gmod has been around. To think it has the most stuff like this means either you really don't have much experience with games from before your time, or you are biased towards gmod. But most importantly, none of these are really a story, just "things that happen all the time in games." And viruses just show what the community and devs will and won't do. Again, great video.
The haunted map mistery is interesting because someone actually took that downtown map and added functions for random ghost like figure appearences in the most creepy places to think off of, also i love The Librarian's youtube channel for this matter, he has lots of such videos where he himself explores those maps.
13:0514:00 The German UA-camr (Ragee) announced in one of his videos that he will no longer be making Garry's Mod videos, as he has lost interest in this content. He feels constrained by the constant focus of his channel on Garry's Mod and attributes the cause to the so-called "Garry's Mod kids." For this reason, he has taken all of his Garry's Mod videos offline. I speak German myself and was a fan of (Ragee), which is why I can confirm this from my own experience.
There is actually a somewhat harmless thing on the workshop right now that definitely gave me that virus scare, I was playing on the jazztronauts gamemode and played on the map gm_construct 13 beta, unfortunately at the time I had no idea the maker of this map is a massive troll, basically the hev model you get from going third person in half life 2 will follow you around on this map sometimes and disappear randomly, etc, which is just normal stuff for these troll style maps, the scary part was when I returned to the jazztronaut hub map the model followed me there, and the same things kept happening with this, apparently I am not the only one who experienced this either, deleting the addon files for the map fixes the issue, but it definitely gives that virus from an addon vibe.
What's the first song in the "gman virus" ? The weird song I've heard it somewhere But forgot the name Its a soundtrack of a game i think? Please tell me if you know the name
The original pit map has apparently been re-published, about 2 days ago as of the writing of this comment and even reuploaded so it stays up for the foreseeable future. I would post a link to it,but UA-cam would just nuke it. But you can look it up for yourself.
I made a virus very similar to the cough virus, for Arma 3 during its alpha. It just made people fly into the air , and show a message demanding the devs fix the attack vector. It spread when infected players joined other servers.
i believe playing on rp_downtown alone is scary because you're used to seeing a bunch of people running around on it and it feels foreign to you that there's nobody around, at least that's how i feel about it.
11:17 jumpscared the fuck outta me not gonna lie. dunno how I avoided this video this long but I did hear a while ago it got reuploaded cause of you, thanks for that lol.
I want to make some addendum on the 13:40 part of the video. The way that Ratlobber said about Gmod addon files now only applies to those addon that were uploaded or didn't receive any updates before the Gmod update on January 2020, where Gmod would change its addon file system from storing them in Gmod's own "addons" folder to Steam's workshop/content/4000 folder. This update increased Gmod's addon file size into up to 2 GB per addon, but also because of this, Steam will now automatically remove the files of the addons that were uploaded or updated after the January 2020 update, either on when you unsubscribed them or if they're gone from the workshop.
Hey ratlobber! I have proof of an email I sent to Garry Newman regarding a lua 'virus' I got in 2009 if you are interested in getting any info. It didn't escape the game to the OS though
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The thing that I hate about this gmod thing that some maps are scary because these maps were commonly played online is that before I bought the game (like in 2015) I already played pirated gmod since 2009 many times alone in this type of maps and for that reason I dont feel lonly or nervous when I play gmod alone. I remember some people making fun of me because I played in a pirated copy and alone when I was 8 and had fun with rangdolls and creating my own scenes or building, so thanks to that I keep on playing Gmod alone doing what I like the most, creating funny screenshots with things that I like
i went on reddit lookin up the pit again and someone found it like 10 months ago from now according to the reddit, og version of the map had a room where you could no-clip into to find illegal/nsfw gore so thats prolly why no one tried to share it/ why it got "taken down", though the link i opened to the workshop said it was from 2015 so i guess it got reworked or sumn
The private video (if it's the same video the link used to link to) could be cause by youtube automatically setting any unlisted video uploaded before 2017 to private
19:42 It's even more simple than that. Playing on a big, empty map like that will ALWAYS feel creepy. It's the same as being in a large building etc when you're alone.
I first started playing gmod just after wire mod and therefore the E2 Chip were made. The gman virus was actually made into an E2 code so in a roundabouts way it did exist but was just an E2 code
The downtown creepypasta. I have a happy story. One thanksgiving my younger cousin who was finally old enough to actually conversate and game came to my room while the adults were getting drunk. I loaded up gmod downtown and basically just spawned some npcs and stuff and a couch and showed him how to use the physgun. He still talks about it years later. I didn't know the map maker suicided but I actually found the map somewhat creepy when there's nothing happening at all, but that's how gmod is all the time. Something about liminal spaces. Even comedic gmod videos have this eerie edge to it, such is life.
i remember that the "gman virus" happened to me while i was playing tf2 jailbreak in 2014 - popped up only once, everyone freaked out and had a laugh about it, and i never recalled it happening again. exact same texture personal theory is that it was an obscure admin tool used to prank people, i vagueeelyyy recall that somebody with perms was on when the jumpscare happened. this was in a different game and way after the kitty video, so it very easily could've been inspired by it or the rumors thereafter. has this happened to anyone else? i remember doing a dive and found a steam screenshot of the same thing happening to someone else
Extra note about The Cough: the guy resposible actually *did* try to inform the GMod devteam in a more sensible way, and they more or less told him "fuck off nobody will use that it doesn't matter".
And that's why you need to take vulnerabilities seriously, no matter how obscure or miniscule they'd be
Also about the gman virus, there was that add-on last year or two years ago that went rogue and pretty much acted like gman virus except with gore jumpscares instead of the gman face.
@@xFluingnot just any gore, the infamous goatse, which is arguably worse than gore.
@@unoriginalperson72naww id much rather see someones asshole then a mutilated corpse tbh.
glad to see this was brought up. 100% of white hat hackers go through the established reporting channels first, but theres never a guarantee that those work.
ratlobber drops the hardest intro just to talk about the blastdoor texture
on golly goodness god
youtube bots are sumn else now
@@2-Way_Intersection what
@@Metal88889bro is AI generated
@@Metal88889 drops the most real human being comment just to be a youtube bot
I have a very specific memory of the night of the cough virus. I was playing on a RP server when the admins sent out a notice saying the server was going to be password locked and if you left you couldn't come back. When we were wondering why, word started spreading around about the virus. People started freaking out and gathering in the center of downtown to start talking about it like it was some major event going down, many too afraid to go to any other server and staying on to talk to someone about what was happening. Somehow, we never got infected, but watching it go down WHILE in game was crazy.
That sounds great lol. It's like watching a tornado from a bunker or something.
you made a quarentine in garrys mod, hilarious
I was playing gmod a lot at that time and I never even heard of the virus lol though tbf my friends and I mostly had private sandbox games
I was in that server too...
#coviddidit
for downtown, it's a space designed for a larger group. you're used to seeing it full of others. just experiencing something like that out of context, alone, has an effect also.
Early covid lockdown; downtown capitals being empty. It's why empty schools are so unnerving: They're always full of life.
@@PendjiSpot on, especially with the school analogy.
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The rp_downtown thing is funny. It's basically the same feeling as walking through a school, church, mall, etc during a time where there's no one around. It just feels a little weird being alone in a place that's normally very active. That's it.
Source games in general give me that feeling, they're extremely lonely feeling but the areas look worn and lived in, so you see a lonely, empty space that looks like it should have activity going on and it feels off. I think the kids call that a liminal space
@@Hwarming The Source engine is also the most physical-feeling engine I know of in games. Everything looks and feels like it has real dimensions and exists in a physical space. There is something surreal about it.
Liminal feeling effect
a well done description of liminal spaces
I'd like to state for the record, the way the g-man face flickers in kitty0706's video is honestly pretty strong proof at least *that* was in-engine and not an edit thrown on later - I've had similar issues failing to set up .vmts properly when mapmaking.
Most definitely - you can even see his flashlight affecting the texture. I wouldn't be surprised if it was wiremod honestly.
@@ratlobber I distinctly remember (and am pretty sure I have saved) an E2 script that would do exactly that. When spawned, it makes a small jack-o-lantern that when approached, creates a box around the player’s head with gman’s face as the texture (hence covering the screen) and plays the HL2 stalker scream. I know it’s been around for a LONG time, at least a decade, but I’m not sure of exactly when it was created. It’s entirely possible that rumors (or even an actual virus) were created based off of this original effect as well as kitty’s video.
The idea of the gman virus was the reason I stopped playing the game for *years* and didn't dare touch it - I was a small child and just the thought of being jumpscared by my favourite game with something so unsettling made me swear off it entirely. I'm so relieved you actually mentioned it, as it actually lived in my mind rent free for years! Interestingly, someone did create an EC2 script that jumpscared other players on the server with the same image (I know because I was hit by that one) but I know it's not really the same thing, and was just a tool used to troll random people on sandbox servers.
Something in control of my computer is what made me stop getting large amouts of addons at a time
Let's all just come together for a sec and say:
*R.I.P*
*Kitty0706 (Colin Charles "Eliott" Wyckoff)*
*Jul 6th 1994 - Jan. 25th 2015*
*You will live in internet history and beyond.*
lol I remember Kitty. ❤😂
my jaw hit the floor when he mentioned him, kitty was my childhood and some of his vids are still my fav vids on the internet RIP Kitty0706
@@The420PiggyMAN what happened with Kitty?
@@birgir3399 He passed away in 2015 cause acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
RIP
RIP The Pro. I find it hard to believe the person who made one of the most iconic Gmod maps just never logged back into Steam.
You would be surprised, mental health and indoctrination do horrible things to people.
Yeah it's hard to imagine
Given what's happened in Russia since, he might be dead even if he didn't actually take his own life.
I actually owned one of the servers featured around 8:39 [Tacoplay Stranded] when the cough virus came around. It was a file that sat on the server that got sent to clients whenever they connected, I remember getting messaged about it on steam and everyone on the server at the time was freaking out. Nobody really knew what to do, and it was over relatively quickly. It was absolutely wild watching this video and seeing my old server from 10 years ago show up here. Good video.
i think ratlobber might jack forever
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I want the gmod community to know that when I die, I will 100% start haunting my map comfyhouse. Watch for me!
I'll do the same for my variant of downtown that's still being used by some servers
@@Jiub_SNIf you come across pro will there be a ghost fight?
@@omgman5745there’s gonna be a massive anime battle.
I think The Pit map creator updated the files replacing the map with a dummy file. Considering how steam workshop works - it's plausible that the map straight up disappeared from everyone on the internet as soon as they launched the game.
now that the pit map is public, the page says that it was only updated a day after it's creation, therefore it was never replaced
@@minute0420WHAT?
@@xanderplayz3446 yeah the original is on the workshop now
13:30 EYO THAT IS ME! IM IN A RATLOBBER VIDEO! I feel really grateful right now. I hope you enjoyed my map.
I actually have some info that could aid us in getting the lost pit map. One of the users in the comments of my map recreation told me that the map, (or the remake as it said in the desc.) was made by a user called ICEBIRD112, I decided to search up that name on the workshop and he showed up, he actually made some other maps, and is currently one of the devs working on Black Mesa Blue Shift, a mod recreating Half Life Blue Shift in Black Mesa.
If anyone was able to contact Ice Bird, I will be grateful that a Gmod related lost media could possibly be found.
I feel really grateful that I was mentioned and seeing Ratlobber making shots in the map I made, it makes me happy. Good luck in the search everyone!
We gotta make sure he sees this
@@FortyFourTomatoes heck we should
We can question the guy and see if he even remembers the map if he is still mapping for source
@@unoriginalperson72 He actually privated the map. Maybe we can ask him if he can unprivate or ask why.
I asked ICEBIRD112 on steam, and he has on his workshop a very similar themed map... Altho, he confirmed he didnt create the pit map.
A ratlobber and RichterOvertime upload in the same day? I’m happy man.
I'm not even super into Garry's Mod but man I love your videos and your style. I can't stop watching them, keep it up Mr. Ratlobber!
Another interesting note about the "cough" virus was that I believe it used an exploit specific to remote console or "rcon", and how a server's permissions and authority was setup. Not all servers had a set "rcon" password, and I believe those were safe, but many others did, and that's how it spread by downloading/uploading a .dll file between client and server. The interesting thing being that the virus would download the server's config file, which could contain said "rcon" password onto a client's computer, in the same directory as the .dll file. So, if at the time one was so inclined, they could purposely infect other servers in order to gain access to the rcon password, and do with that as they wanted, whether it be kicking or banning players, changing server settings, or as I admittedly had a bit fun doing, joining DarkRP servers and giving yourself essentially infinite money.
Wild times.
I played on the_pit before it was removed, at the time I really liked pit maps because of Star Wars episode 1, the map had a skybox that went on forever and had islands using displacements, upon falling in the pit, it would teleport you to another area where it would simulate you falling endlessly, via teleporting you to the top when you hit the bottom
Are you saying it’s the new infinite maps, but years before the infinite maps? Are you sure about that?
I don’t know why this sounded so aggressive, I think I was just being skeptical
@@mediocrecontent2449 Comment's old but I'll reply anyways. It's not *really* like infinite maps, it's far simpler, it just teleports you some set distance away to either wrap around to the top or move you to another identical pit, there's multiple maps on the workshop I've seen do the same thing (gm_krot has a small pit that loops over 2 sections on different sides of the map. Gm_TheDarkPit is far more similar, it's a huge dark pit that has a bunch of sections that are looped through with various things, giving the effect of a massive pit with lots of floors and random details.)
i remember when me and friends were on a server where someone joined with the cough virus and we were terrified that our mums would make us stop playing gmod
Apparently the real The Pit map was made public again. And Ratlobber is genuinely part of the reason. Well done!
I haven't heard about this, can you elaborate about how Ratlobber helped?
@DanTDMJace the creator saw Ratlobber's video and made it public again.
@@PotatoBullets115 Oh alright
I do remember these times. I even wrote a proof-of-concept "worm" (proper definition rather than virus) these days before that. "cough virus" was around. It was not gmods fault but rather valves, for how game files were distributed between clients and servers. However gmods gave us the flexibility to use Lua scripts, which escalated things.
I remember the cough virus. It was terrifying as a kid. It happened while I was on a TTT server, and I remember looking for ways to delete it and eventually finding a random tutorial that had been made the same day that the virus was spreading. I eventually fixed it, and I found out it didn't even message any of my friends like most people were saying that it did.
"Alright, I'm done with Richter Overtime's 20 minute video. Time to sleep."
[Ratlobber has uploaded: "GMOD's Biggest Mysteries"]
"Ayt, I can stay awake for 20 more minutes"
About the Gman virus, one thing I witnessed that probably helped spread the rumour was that people started making Wiremod E2 chips that, if a player walked close to the chip, would spawn a prop with that gman texture on it in front of a player's face and play the fast zombie scream sound effect, effectively mimicing the virus, people would then just spawn that chip near the player spawn on servers and jumpscare the shit out of people.
1:36 You didn't list that song in the description, but I absolutely love it and recognized it instantly :3
It's the main theme from Condemned: Criminal Origins 😄
tf is with this :3 shit
Thank you, I thought I recognized it from somewhere
@@Killysunt Killy! I love your corruption videos! :D And no problem! :)
i was high as shit looking for that song for half an hour thank you
@@sana.0451homie got so high he started looking at sound
My memory is kind o fuzzy on it, but I recall trying to load a local server using a map from a hogwarts_rp server and, I guess as a countermeasure for using it outside of the official server, there was this jumpscare. I don't recall exactly if there was a gman skin texture and screech, altough I think it's pretty possible, but the phrase "I'm looking at gay porn" was definetly on it.
For the dark RP town the dread and feeling of emptiness that comes from it is probably because you’re so use to everyone building monster bases talking having fun but when you are alone there’s none of that. It’s like the old world at war maps in call of duty world at war, go on those and you’ll be shivering in your Timbers. Which is prolly the reasoning behind the eerieness of the dark rp map
20:09 "Or something.. maybe it's just..."
Bro I love this line because it kinda shows the two sides of this whole thing... one being the 'lore' and the mood and the map itself but then the other side being the 'it's just a game' type mentality is cool to see. I'm digging the content!
RIP Kitty. Heavy’s Retarded Holiday is pure kino.
All of his videos are
kitty will live on in our hearts
I'm pretty sure I remember the gman face thing from playing on a darkRP server back in the day but I reckon it might've just been someone hijacking the server to imitate it after hearing your explaination on the matter.
I definetely remember the cough virus though. I think I was lucky enough to not have it change my name or anything but I remember that happening to some old steam friends who I fell out of contact with. It's kinda funny but after the initial "scare" period of things I ended up finding the whole ordeal really fucking funny and it was super interesting to see it spread so far.
This is unrelated but remembering darkRP also made me remember the time I was teleported by an admin over and over into a room with the goatse image on a spray, I was on a fucking dreadful laptop at the time but even the low framerate didn't save me from gazing into the abyss. Kinda funny to think back on but it was mildly distressing at the time lmao.
Oooh I'm quite happy to see that when you made it to the "haunted maps" section, The Librarian's channel showed up. He's a really chill guy and makes some very comfy content with a lot of philosophical expeditions into creepy GMod maps and games
GMOD PHILOSOPHY
@@obeseperson No, just the creepy feeling that some maps give
This dude just kinda talks about things that really make you think
the pit map was such a fun map. i use to play on it all the time on my old pc, i recently tried to find it on the workshop and i couldnt find the og only the remakes. glad i found this video to explain it
On 4:30, I personally have witnessed this virus myself while playing a DarkRP server. This occurred I remember around GMod 10. What Nelson340 describes is almost exactly what happened to me EXCEPT in section two it not only brings up the screaming gay porn talk but also explicitly shows men actually performing the act. I had no idea what was going on. I kept closing the browser but it would always reappear. It wasn't until I noticed the chatroom on steam was open with the 'Nimped by Chrisaster' and I immediately closed it. Afterwards, I was able to completely close out the tabs and what not and I performed a hard restart on my computer for good measures. I've asked people around my time on Gmod for YEARS about this and no one knew what the hell I was talking about. I've only recently heard about this similar report and I'm glad someone brought this up. I almost started to think this was all a vivid dream or something. This happened to me when I was 11 years old too so it was creepy and yet disturbing. I guess now I can confirm it really did happen!
EDIT: I also wanted to add that I never saw a blurry G-Man head like he described on step one. I did however doremember an annoying screech.
1:50 hey my maps were not filled with viruses! lol
great video though :P
That sounds exactly like what a virus would say! You're nicked, mate
The roleplay map is likely creepy because of the soundtrack, which makes it seem to like there's life, and that's what it lacks in singleplayer. It creates an uneasy sense that something should be there when it isn't.
There's one map I liked playing on that got deleted and I can't find anyone talking about it, or a reupload. It was a battle arena of sorts, although it was more of a large structure with a small arena in the middle. The structure had other rooms that looked kind of like an office, and had an entrance area with what i can only describe as a ticket booth. There were also a few vents set up in it. I just liked the setup of the map, and the small arena inside was interesting. I also remember whoever uploaded it was updating it and changing it a few times, but then after a while it was gone.
Congrats on 100,000! Well deserved love the iveberg/documentary style on random games. 🎉
Using G-Man as a virus does make sense. He's super creepy and mysterious already.
I like this channel, i learn gmod history and listen to sick jungle beats
Never knew people considered downtown as haunted. Literally when I did actually just mess around in Singleplayer I play on downtown it's a really nostalgic map to me where I made so many memories and where I spent literal thousands of hours on in DarkRP servers and it was also the very first gmod map I went to back in 2013
Bro it happened.
One of the mysteries got solved! the_pit is REAL!
The original owner reenabled the map on the steam workshop. It has the proper dates and everything!
I saw a link for it 22 days ago. It is in the same thread as the one shown in the video!
Thanks for reminding me to find a way to upload this cool custom version of gm_bigcity that a sandbox server I used to play on made.
Another small incident nobody seems to talk about was when in either 2018 or 2017 many (like 50) players were forcefully sent to one server, i know this happened at least twice, once in a gm_construct sandbox with modified m9k weapons and ULX (i very specifically remember sniping with the SVDS and the tec-9 being OP) and a DarkRP server, i got banned from both servers for attempting to crash them
when i was a kid i had a nightmare that i got the gman virus, but instead of an unwrapped face texture it was just flat-out gman himself. like he was sentient and he took over my entire computer
I love that *cough* virus...it's so inconsequential, but it also made everyone annoyed as hell...and I just love it
i love your intros, they give a lobotomy vibe
rp downtown could also be unsettling when alone because its made for many people. When I was a kid, I couldn't play any big map by myself. I was always uncomfortable, and I would see things that weren't there. The big maps using gritty textures let my imagination run wild. The large maps made me feel lonely and scared
I still remember VINH'LL FIX IT and *cough*
I'll never forget playing TTT and experiencing that first hand
Also the whole RP_Downtown ghost is actually originally inspired from a much, much older video on UA-cam which included the uploader just walking around the map and then seeing a black figure that moves like the gman npc, disappears and then a buggy appears driving itself later on. The story about the creator being dead never actually came along until recently, but the entire story about it being haunted is basically all the way back in 2009. He died in about 2010 or 2011 in NY, and the original video was uploaded in 2009.
Happy 100k subscribers dude, been watching recently, and ur videos are great
I can distinctly remember getting a gman face texture jumpscare along with a stalker scream when I was in a server back in the day, this probably was around 2009 as well. To be fair that doesn't really prove a whole lot considering somebody could have just gotten the idea to make a gman jumpscare from the rumors about it then, but it is interesting that I remember something like that happening to me. I can't say that I ever remember anything beside just the face texture jumpscare and stalker scream though
RIP Kitty0706. Still remember the video announcement...
I played the very first versions of gmod that was just a hl2 mod and i remember the gman virus. I don't remember it as the gman virus since i never knew any name for it. But i recall it being a lua script that was transmitted like a worm, when joining dedicated servers or friends listen servers that were infected. As i remember it was a console command that triggered the jump scare on everyone screen who was infected. I remember finding the command and deleting the lua.
Exactly
The passage of time comment hits pretty true I think, seeing rp_downtown makes me feel old
I love the visuals of your videos, so well done
15:30 with the Nerves Concord theme from Armored Core 2 hit with a blast of nostalgia, thank you
To this day we haven't seen ratlobber throw a rat, this is day 1 of asking him to do it.
I’m so glad your videos are getting more attention, your videos are so well made. also gmod funny
when you talked about downtown that hit hard because the idea of time passing is the most horrifying thing anyone could ever imagine
Oh man, seeing that PSP commercial at the end, how it's used as an MP3, really brought nostalgia to me when I owned one in 2008. I can remember all the hassle I went through just to get a song playing without skipping while I jog. Since the shoulder buttons would accidentally bump against my thigh inside the tracksuit I used for jogging.
8:40 that’s a double reference
It’s referencing both Kilburn and the sinisterly popular kids so Jim’ll Fix It, hosted by the late Jimmy Savile
IYKYK
Despite ratlobber doing a lot of GMod stuff, I still somehow never imagined Kitty0706 would ever pop up via research lol
The guy who made the Cough Virus lets out this strong Chaotic Good vibe, and I love it.
First, great video.. While yes, gmod has some good mysteries, there are games that are twice as old with rumors, mysteries, and weird stuff for longer then gmod has been around. To think it has the most stuff like this means either you really don't have much experience with games from before your time, or you are biased towards gmod. But most importantly, none of these are really a story, just "things that happen all the time in games." And viruses just show what the community and devs will and won't do. Again, great video.
The haunted map mistery is interesting because someone actually took that downtown map and added functions for random ghost like figure appearences in the most creepy places to think off of, also i love The Librarian's youtube channel for this matter, he has lots of such videos where he himself explores those maps.
I remember when gmod 9 released. I spent so many hours posing npcs to make scenes in gm_construct. The golden age of gaming.
Amazing video amazing Info beautiful vibes perfect transitions I love ratlobber
13:05 14:00
The German UA-camr (Ragee) announced in one of his videos that he will no longer be making Garry's Mod videos, as he has lost interest in this content. He feels constrained by the constant focus of his channel on Garry's Mod and attributes the cause to the so-called "Garry's Mod kids." For this reason, he has taken all of his Garry's Mod videos offline. I speak German myself and was a fan of (Ragee), which is why I can confirm this from my own experience.
There is actually a somewhat harmless thing on the workshop right now that definitely gave me that virus scare, I was playing on the jazztronauts gamemode and played on the map gm_construct 13 beta, unfortunately at the time I had no idea the maker of this map is a massive troll, basically the hev model you get from going third person in half life 2 will follow you around on this map sometimes and disappear randomly, etc, which is just normal stuff for these troll style maps, the scary part was when I returned to the jazztronaut hub map the model followed me there, and the same things kept happening with this, apparently I am not the only one who experienced this either, deleting the addon files for the map fixes the issue, but it definitely gives that virus from an addon vibe.
19:52 "I see the G-Man and I want him painted black"
the cough virus is just hilarious and the person that made it is a genius
I've never actually heard of the cough virus before, that's really funny. Also I agree with what you said about Downtown.
i REALLY want to know the gun mod shown at 2:00
TFA base guns
Always a good day when your content pops up on my feed. Great music choice with the Armored Core 2 tracks, truly classy.
Man “the pro” seemed like a really pissed off guy lol
the "Like a boss" at the end is what made me subscribe
Oh u should do a part too. I've never heard of this game and now I'm super intrigued! Best of luck and have a blessed day
Never?
austin lee on that livin under a rock type beat... gotta respect it. what a legend.
Chrisaster was notorious at the time for causing mayhem in gmod with hacks and exploits
What's the first song in the "gman virus" ?
The weird song
I've heard it somewhere
But forgot the name
Its a soundtrack of a game i think?
Please tell me if you know the name
The original pit map has apparently been re-published, about 2 days ago as of the writing of this comment and even reuploaded so it stays up for the foreseeable future. I would post a link to it,but UA-cam would just nuke it. But you can look it up for yourself.
I made a virus very similar to the cough virus, for Arma 3 during its alpha. It just made people fly into the air , and show a message demanding the devs fix the attack vector.
It spread when infected players joined other servers.
i believe playing on rp_downtown alone is scary because you're used to seeing a bunch of people running around on it and it feels foreign to you that there's nobody around, at least that's how i feel about it.
That's what everyone says but for me it's scary because ratlobber is in my walls
I love that all the virus does is trolling and dosen't do anything like break your computer or steal anything
11:17
jumpscared the fuck outta me not gonna lie.
dunno how I avoided this video this long but I did hear a while ago it got reuploaded cause of you, thanks for that lol.
You and Richter make some of my favorite videos so thank you
nice 2D profile pic, gorillaz rock
Cool profile pic dude
@@robertpaulson117 Thanks
@@conclusivestate thanks
I want to make some addendum on the 13:40 part of the video.
The way that Ratlobber said about Gmod addon files now only applies to those addon that were uploaded or didn't receive any updates before the Gmod update on January 2020, where Gmod would change its addon file system from storing them in Gmod's own "addons" folder to Steam's workshop/content/4000 folder.
This update increased Gmod's addon file size into up to 2 GB per addon, but also because of this, Steam will now automatically remove the files of the addons that were uploaded or updated after the January 2020 update, either on when you unsubscribed them or if they're gone from the workshop.
For me, one of the most "creepy" mystery is "My first memories" save on seemingly not existing map called gm_testingdepot.
Hey ratlobber! I have proof of an email I sent to Garry Newman regarding a lua 'virus' I got in 2009 if you are interested in getting any info. It didn't escape the game to the OS though
Once upon a time, in a land of silly socks and flying spaghetti monsters, a talking carrot named Bob befriended a dancing banana. They wiggled and giggled their way through a marshmallow-filled forest, searching for the legendary cheeseburger of eternal happiness. But alas, the cheeseburger was just a pickle in disguise, and they all lived fruitfully ever after, except for the pickle, who became a
The thing that I hate about this gmod thing that some maps are scary because these maps were commonly played online is that before I bought the game (like in 2015) I already played pirated gmod since 2009 many times alone in this type of maps and for that reason I dont feel lonly or nervous when I play gmod alone. I remember some people making fun of me because I played in a pirated copy and alone when I was 8 and had fun with rangdolls and creating my own scenes or building, so thanks to that I keep on playing Gmod alone doing what I like the most, creating funny screenshots with things that I like
No one expects a ratlobber when a rat lobber
Ratlobber and Richter posting same day 😵 Awesome!
i went on reddit lookin up the pit again and someone found it like 10 months ago from now
according to the reddit, og version of the map had a room where you could no-clip into to find illegal/nsfw gore so thats prolly why no one tried to share it/ why it got "taken down", though the link i opened to the workshop said it was from 2015 so i guess it got reworked or sumn
The private video (if it's the same video the link used to link to) could be cause by youtube automatically setting any unlisted video uploaded before 2017 to private
the fact that the cough virus happened literally the day before 9 year old me signed up for steam and bought gmod is insane to me and idk why.
19:42 It's even more simple than that. Playing on a big, empty map like that will ALWAYS feel creepy. It's the same as being in a large building etc when you're alone.
I first started playing gmod just after wire mod and therefore the E2 Chip were made. The gman virus was actually made into an E2 code so in a roundabouts way it did exist but was just an E2 code
The downtown creepypasta. I have a happy story. One thanksgiving my younger cousin who was finally old enough to actually conversate and game came to my room while the adults were getting drunk. I loaded up gmod downtown and basically just spawned some npcs and stuff and a couch and showed him how to use the physgun. He still talks about it years later. I didn't know the map maker suicided but I actually found the map somewhat creepy when there's nothing happening at all, but that's how gmod is all the time. Something about liminal spaces. Even comedic gmod videos have this eerie edge to it, such is life.
I played GMod 3. The first thing you get is you spawn with a infinite white and Bright Room.
i remember that the "gman virus" happened to me while i was playing tf2 jailbreak in 2014 - popped up only once, everyone freaked out and had a laugh about it, and i never recalled it happening again. exact same texture
personal theory is that it was an obscure admin tool used to prank people, i vagueeelyyy recall that somebody with perms was on when the jumpscare happened. this was in a different game and way after the kitty video, so it very easily could've been inspired by it or the rumors thereafter. has this happened to anyone else? i remember doing a dive and found a steam screenshot of the same thing happening to someone else
Day was about the grind until the ratlobber posts and its now about that shine…