Addendum Section: 1. Guys... I found a new tape in my collection 😱: twitter.com/saganhawkes/status/1483236529073897472 2. Technically not wrong, I just didn't touch on it for time's sake, but I think its worth mentioning. After Jay watches the tape that Tim was hiding from him, we later learn his first reaction wasn't to go and attack Tim. He gets lost in Rosswood Park and calls Tim to apologize, and wants to continue working together. He's attacked by the Operator, and seems to go through some sort of personality change from here. I feel like its similar to what happened to Alex, slowly making their behavior more violent. You can see this in Entry #82. 3. Apparently there's some pretty serious accusations around the creator of TribeTwelve, so I'd recommend taking those into consideration when looking at other Slenderverse creations: www.reddit.com/r/TribeTwelve/comments/is0avp/tribetwelveadam_rosner_accusations_everything_so/ To be clear, this has nothing to do with the creators of Marble Hornets, TribeTwelve and its creator are completely and totally separate.
I was wondering if you were going to mention that. TribeTwelve has been a personal favorite of mine for years out of the big three, so the reality of the situation with its creator is absolutely soul crushing. Its awful. I will continue to enjoy the series for what it was via Night Minds explained series on it but due to how Adam grossly misused his fame and power, its for the best that the series has been cancelled.
Wow I actually didn't know about the accusations surrounding Adam. I've been FB friends with Troy, Tim, and Joseph since the beginning of season 2. I've had quite a few conversations with them over the years and think they're all pretty cool guys. I've seen Adam in the comments a handful of time, but never saw them react to him. I always thought it was a bit strange, but this might be why. However I might be overanalyzing because I'm not 100% sure how long these have been public knowledge and the creators don't post much at all anymore. Anyways I can't wait to watch this. I stumbled across it right before bed and can't watch it rn, but I definitely will soon. I really hope you took some details from Tim and Joseph's (separate) streams where they rewatched the series because they reveal quite a bit in them. Excited to check this out!
yeah, the creator of TribeTwelve done lots of shit. Acting creepy around the female extras for the series DarkHarvest00, openly talking about his animal fetish, his apparent vore fetish, making out with a 15 year old fan at a Con, grooming a couple underage fans, keeping NightMind from opening up about the situation, upon other things which haven't been proven(besides him grooming underage fans), but I wouldn't be suprised if they were true. this stuff was known for a while. He apparently was always creepy around female fans, and leaked messages were apparently leaked back in 2015. But no one wanted to believe it since he was such a "nice guy".
About the theory of Tim editing the Entry 76 footage, if you look at the positioning of the camera when Jessica is on the ground compared to when Tim walks in frame, it's actually a slightly different position. Idk if anyone pointed that out but I think it helps support the theory too.
It’s easy to forget how much of it was an actual straightforward narrative rather than just a bunch of screaming and running through the woods. While we’re all nostalgic for it, I think videos like this that look over what the story was are excellent, nice work dude.
@@ebitempurafry honestly I’ve been thinking about doing a thing like marble hornets but with momo 🤔. There’s a lot of potential with momo that the memes never tapped into!
@@Miriam_J_ yea that’s the issue😅 I’d love to expand on the story and make a killer story but the original creator of momo hates his creation and is very unlikely to give permission 😔
I think Slenderman is creepier without tentacles. He seems more innocuous, more pedestrian. He's still ominous, but it leaves his actual nature to your imagination.
My biggest takeaway from this video is that hoodie and masky were not in fact 16 year old skinny anime boys. I love looking into creepypasta content that I only learned through fanart on deviantart when I was twelve. But yeah great video like always, loving the vibe
The very early planning stage; them just writing the entire story on disorganized note cards and basing the name on two completely random and innocuous things; is the most chaotic neutral artistic process I've ever seen or heard.
@@theadministrator.6632 this comment feels like the teacher called on me, and I nervously looked through my empty notebook in complete silence until they felt bad enough to call on someone else.
Something I will never understand is why people use tabletop RPG terms and concepts in any conversation outside of the tabletop RPG context. Chaotic neutral? How is it chaotic neutral and how does the method for telling a story connect to RPG alignment?
Can you imagine my horror as a 17 year old girl in a frat house for the first time being shown Marble Hornets (literally right after it came out) with the framework that it was REAL, and then being told that it was filmed in THE SAME TOWN THAT I WAS CURRENTLY IN??!?! This totally influenced my love for horror and especially analog horror now, like 10 years later
I never noticed that Alex setting fire to Tim's house was done completely practically. I just imagine Carl and Troy standing off to the side with fire egstinguishers ready to put that shit out.
The fact that Marble Hornets started exactly 10 days after Slender Man was created has always impressed me. I found MH back in 2014 and it’s always been my favorite
i miss this era of youtube. i feel like ppl aren't taking advantage of this site for hosting indie/fan films like they used to, in middle school my entire subscriptions page was filled with web series now you rlly have to go digging to not find one that isn't years old
@@ralphjackson2518 ik it's just not what i thought it would be back when i was a kid. there are some huge triumphs like cryptv but not everyone reaches their heights
Sadly UA-cam has slowly been trying to kill off the "You" part and turn the site into mainsteam TV 2.0. Do to this the almighty algorithm favors big names and projects like this, which are a threat to the mainstream, get lost in the void of content.
I've always been of the opinion that the operator is not the entity, but rather a symptom of the sickness. Like a metaphysical rash, it manifests when the true entity, the sickness, grows too strong.
I’ve had this interpretation too, and it was dangerous for me. I didn’t know I was schizophrenic when I got into MH, but when it started to come on it was the perfect thing for my hallucinations/delusions to grab on to it. It’s a great story, handcrafted to be about supernatural mental illness, so it slotted in way too well.
I like the idea, but there's one thing that I feel like works against your theory, and that's the fact that the Operator appears on camera. Now, if the word "manifest" here meant that the Operator manifests itself physically from people having the sickness instead of just appearing in their minds, then I'd say you have a point. But what I've noticed is that people will sometimes start showing symptoms even if the Operator isn't visibly near. The opposite is also true; the Operator can appear even when nobody has shown symptoms yet. My personal theory is that the Operator is the cause of the sickness, and that he can force the symptoms upon people at will in order to weaken and eventually kill them, or have Alex kill them. There are several instances of characters seeing the Operator but not appearing to get sick, which leads me to believe that the Operator is a real entity with a real, physical form.
@@PremiumCheeses oh yes I did mean that the entity physically appears, I just meant that the operator is like a rash, the physical part of a otherwise invisible disease. It could be that trying to understand cause/effect is meaningless for things like the operator, he causes the sickness that causes him in a recursive loop with no start or end. Mystery is a big part of horror, so having questions we can never answer is a big tick in the Great horror box
😭Knowing the origin of Masky and Hoodie has cleansed my spirits and watered my crops. Being in the Creepypasta fandom I somehow never knew about Marble Hornets.😕
It's wild to me that people know OF masky and hoodie but not know where they came from. It's the opposite for me. I watched marble hornets and then basically didn't touch creepypastas or anything for years and had no idea how much the extended Slenderman/marble hornets character universe blew up!
I'm always so hesitant to watch anything talking about Marble Hornets since the series is so near and dear to my heart, but I'm actually not too afraid to watch this one
Your discussion at 44 minutes is so perfect. It’s so impressive what they were able to pull off. The shot where it pans to the operator with alex’s face in the corner and it barely gets hit with the flashlight is so scary and even more eerie with the context of the whole story.
I’ve been a humongous fan of Marble Hornets for a few years, so when you said you were doing a retrospective on it I was thrilled to watch it! I found your channel from your FNAF retrospective, so seeing you cover MH is awesome
As an og fan and reader of the comic continuation, I genuinely hope it doesn't end with "it was all a dream" or "it was just radioactive waste left behind in rosswood park". I hope it's an open ended conclusion that still alludes to the possibility of something cosmic or paranormal. I'd hate to have invested so much into this world that's obviously otherworldly to the real world idea that it was simply radiation poisoning.
It's has to be a cosmic explanation. The operator is so otherworldly in so many ways, and he acts very lovecraftian. Like, why does it have a suit and tie? Does it have a true form? Was it there before time itself? Did it wear a suit before business suits were invented? Can it teleport or manipulate anywhere in the universe? Are there any more entities related to the operator? (EverymanHybrid had another entity which was almost as powerful as slender man. But it's in a completely different slenderverse so I don't think so) Maybe the operator is just some crazy stuff the true thing (the cosmic disease) does to make the person crazy and spread itself A paranormal, or should I say, spiritual explanation wouldn't be so good. It just doesn't fit him. A religious entity? Meh. It was all a dream? Hell no.
I remember watching this many years ago, it really was something special for its time, nothing like it could be made again in today’s environment. Thanks so much for covering this!! It’s gonna be a hell of a nostalgia trip lol
I mean the back rooms UA-cam content hits very very close to the mark in my opinion. It felt like we have something as special and uniquely made as the MH series
I think that with the editing capabilities and video tech we have today something very much like this could be phenomenal. That being said, I do see what you’re saying as UA-cam is so uptight about censorship that it may be difficult to get pushed by the algorithm if your story is too violent or touches on serious themes
This is an emotional ARG, not only with the themes but because it is literally so many people's ARG inspiration (including mine) but it also fueled analog horror as it is today. Without MH we wouldn't be where we are. Truly a culture shift in the internet's way of entertainment.
You missed the moment in Season 3 episode 7 where alex farts into the camera. It might just seem like a filler moment but I think it's super important as a sign of how far this guy has fallen since the operator came into his life
i genuinely love the comic. being introduced to the dudes making a documentary about rosswood literally made me feel like any reaction image of ben affleck smoking. every day a man with insurmountable hubris decides to become a film student, and it is a travesty lmao
So Alex in this story seems a lot less confusing if you see him as an accelerationist He doesn't see himself as helping the operator even though he obviously is. He thinks he's burning through the destruction as fast as possible on the assumption that something better will come when the ashes settle. He just has no plan for what that is or how he'll get it. He'd just rather burn everyone than try to survive.
this is how i see it too. hes taking a scorched earth approach, probably on the assumption theres no way to stop whatevers happening to everyone involved, and the only solution is to cut off the infection by destroying all the disease vectors
@@internettraveler8666it’s a little misinformed, the point would be to make it as worse as possible so it can can start getting better, like if you’ve got an infected wound, it’s better just to cut the wound open and squeeze the poison out, accelerating the harm from the wound but preventing further problems like gangrene, like if an animal has a contagious virus, you kill the animal as fast as possible to limit its ability to spread, the less people who are exposed to the operator the less people who can expose others to it.
I still go back and marathon Marble Hornets every year for the month of October. Slenderman may be seen as a dead meme, but Marble Hornets is a testament to how the monster can still be terrifying if done right.
about two years ago, i watched this entire series with my brother off of the official dvd on an old ass laptop. genuinely such a great time. he loves this series to death. he visited some actual locations and everything. thanks for makin' this video!
I really appreciate explanation videos. I have a panic disorder that makes it impossible to watch/play most horror, but I love the stories told so these types of videos make it so I can feel involved.
As a kid, my cousins and i used to pretend we were looking for slenderman (or the operator) with the neighborhood kids outside at night. It was so fun chasing each other and roleplaying. Marble Hornets and Creepypasta have a special place in my heart 😊
Hiya! I know the creators/moderate online for Joe and Brian, and I can confirm that you're correct with the fact that they did not use stacks of flipflops for the operators height the whole time :) great video by the way!
I got into marble hornets as a kid living in small town Alabama feeling so isolated from everything I liked and knew, so learning it was filmed in Alabama makes it just that much more special for me
Same here, except I’m from the Greater Birmingham area. Once I learned it was filmed in Alabama, I started recognizing a lot of the landmarks and filming locations. Much of the footage, including that in the gazebo, are at Oak Mountain State Park.
I never even heard about Marble Hornets, now im really excited to watch this (Edit) I know of slenderman but never knew about the origins and this series(Another edit) Holy crap man I had no clue this was filmed in my home town! And Ive seen that graffiti before! This is crazy
Oh man, you're in for a TREAT. I don't know how WELL it's aged, but definitely check out the series. It's really impressive what they did with no real budget.
watched some of the first season in 2011 when i was 10 and proceeded to spend the entire summer convinced every strange looking tree branch was slenderman and that every technical problem i had was being caused by him lmfao
I remember watching these as they first came out. Truly no words for how crazy and legendary it was. All Slenderman Unfiction projects really blew it out of the water back then.
I'm always shocked no one brings up that there's someone in the Ark group who has a feminine figure and long hair who appears in one of the videos. They're clearly not any of the main cast, so I'm guessing they're one of these characters with no screen time that the creators talked about. I really wanna see people theorize more about them.
I believe you are referring to reused clips of Jessica. Deciphering a lot of the coded messages to me seems to reveal that totheark was quite cross with Tim for removing and hiding Jessica from the equation. totheark wished to amass a larger force capable of standing up to Alex. With Tim’s betrayal Jessica is gone and Jay is still ignorant of what exactly is going on.
The Slenderverse, at least the early days of it, really set the whole indie horror/unfiction thing rolling on UA-cam. I'm sure there was some stuff before it, but this was the benchmark at which things really exploded from. Not only did it serve as the inspiration for much of the current analogue horror series, but it also led to the first Slender game, which was a landmark in terms of the "Man Screams At Jumpscare" aspect of horror gaming, which not only exposed more and more people to indie horror titles, but also allowed them to reach an audience that otherwise wouldn't have much access to horror games: Kids. I'd be interested in seeing coverage of Everyman HYBRID at some point, AFAIK a lot of people consider that one to be even better, Night Mind among them. That said... talking about TribeTwelve is difficult these days. There's no denying that it was a well-made entry in the Slenderverse, and it was somewhat intertwined with Everyman HYBRID and I think also Dark Harvest, distinctly more than any of the others were tied to Marble Hornets... buuuuuut one of the creators, Adam Rosner, got outed as a paedophile in 2020, as multiple victims were finally able to come forward and share their stories. r/tribetwelve has a masterpost surrounding the event here: www.reddit.com/r/TribeTwelve/comments/is0avp/tribetwelveadam_rosner_accusations_everything_so/
It's actually pretty easy to talk about tribetwelve, you just talk about it. Don't understand everyone's preoccupation with rejecting the story for the sins it's creator.
@@pokejeenios Yeah if people really wanted to reject any piece of media that was created by pedophiles, they would be up in arms over about 99% of everything they watch. 🤔
TribeTwelve was an INCREDIBLE take on the Slenderverse, and the vfx used was incredible for the medium and budget. The creator is not his creation, especially when we aren’t giving him money by watching what he made.
The use of the term "force of nature" to describe the Operator personally reminds me of, and this is a very odd comparison, Death from puss in boots 2. To the main cast, he's the antagonist of their story, but he's really just doing what he's supposed to be doing.
Think about it. If we didn't have Marble Hornets, it's possible we would've never gotten any of the other horror series we all know today like Everymanhybrid, WhisperedFaith, Dark Harvest, and MLAnderson0, as well as analog horror series like The Walten Files, The Mandela Catalogue, and Gemini Home Entertainment. Thank you, MH, for existing.
I watched marble hornets back when I was around 11 years old, thats what got me into creepypasta and horror stuff in general, and yeah I was pretty young but I never really minded horror, it was more interesting to me, more fascinating rather than terryfying. Im going to be 17 now and marble hornets still means a lot to me, the way I can still remember the way I felt when watching it for the first time, wondering the whys and wheres, this video truly brought me back to that time. Thanks so much for making this video, and for reminding me of where my love for all horror related webseries, args and analogue horror stories come from
does this guy always put this much dedication into the topics he covers⁉️ from mimicking the MH entry style, to watching slightly-obscure creator streams, to addressing specific topics like ARGs and slenderverse, it really is a meaningful examination of MH. honestly not used to "series EXPLAINED" videos having this much care put into them
I wanna correct something people interpret wrongly imo. The Operator is not a "separate entity" from Slenderman; that implies both exist. The Operator is just one incarceration of Slenderman, just as there are limitless incarcerations of Superman.
Man...Marble Hornets. It feels like an ancient thing, like something that has always existed. It inspires creators in unimaginable ways...it inspires fear in us, too. The people who made Marble Hornets were (and are) geniuses.
Eckva is still going on today, and ties into the MH universe pretty well, and is set up to explain what the pills actually do and the company behind it
This made me remember an old creepypasta with images I really liked. It’s from like the early 2000s, it’s called “I Found a Digital Camera in the Woods” and the photos are very eerie.
The Marble Hornets series is something that brings a lot of nostalgia to me. It's so good and genuinely one of my favorite pieces of horror media of all time. It has a quality that feels genuine and oddly warm? Slenderman also has to be In his prime here.. It's nice to revisit it as the last time I thought about it was probably 2017.
This was honestly my obsession when I was in middle school, Masky was my favorite character and the entire series was so ahead of it’s time. Awesome video! Brings back so many memories
SH you are a fantastic little man and I absolutely adore how you edit your videos. You are not only well researched but you also have solid scripts that are masterfully presented. It's always a good time watching anything from you!
Marble Hornets was my life for a while. One of the first major fandoms I was a part of. Yes, I do have a related tattoo. How did you know? Anyway, thanks for the in-depth run-through to bring me back to the good days.
Thank you for this video, I was a creepypasta tween back in the day and would always see the term "marble hornets" and proxy thrown around but I was too English-illiterate to fully grasp anything. (Plus my AdHd brain would've gotten frustrated trying to follow such a scattered narrative). It's nice being able to put together where Masky and Hoodie came from (and find out so much about Slendy himself)
I have a ridiculously high horror tolerance but the one thing that gets me is something that isn’t even that scary compared to other things. Being chased. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I’m slow af and would never get away or if it just makes my fight or flight kick into gear. But the scene of the man in the mask starting to chase Jay gets me every time. Same with the entity in the backrooms (Kane Pixels’ version) chasing the cameraman, the fake person in Gemini home entertainment turning and running for Jack, and the mimic running after the girl in Vita Carnis.
I think it's funny that when I was a little kid watching all of these videos, I didn't know anything about totheark. Marble hornets was really fantastic even without the connected videos
i gotta say, in a world where so many horror stories present psych medication as suppressing one’s humanity or power, i really appreciate that this series seems to present tim’s psych meds as a way to combat fear, as an empowering tool
I remember watching these as a child (who was probably way to young to be seeing this kind of stuff) and just loving it. I used to be terrified of the woods because I was convinced Slenderman was out there, watching… waiting…plotting. I recently went and watched the entirety of this series last Halloween and I gotta say, watching them back to back to back doesn’t hold up as well as it did back then. I don’t know if it’s just because I’m older and know that this is fake or because the series just… isn’t very good(??) but it certainly is propped up in my memory due mostly to nostalgia. Still a great watch though, better than most “horror” videos UA-camrs pump out nowadays.
Marble Hornets was an extremely important part of my childhood, and the seed for what my schizophrenia would turn into a living nightmare for years. Despite the trauma I love this series, and I’m always so excited when it is revisited and brought into the spotlight for just a little bit longer.
Marble hornets meant so much to me while growing up, and now that I’m more mature I can just really see the art of the story telling. Thank you making this 💛💛 brought back a lot of my old joy
I remember when I got into creepypasta and learned about Marble Hornets, I binge-watched the whole series. Then I've learned about EveryoneHYBRID and TribeTwelve, and tried to watch those two. Frankly, I managed to catch up to EveryoneHYBRID (which required me to follow the timeline on their Wiki to know what video, tweet or tumblr post watch next), but I never got into TribeTwelve because the timeline on their Wiki was incomplete. Truly Marble Hornets were the most simple of Slender-related webseries.
Wow, I remember watching and trying to keep up with all the videos by in these series when they came out. I also had no idea they filmed it in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which is extremely close to where I live. So that's a amazing fact to learn.
back in the day when I was a wee teen in the creepypasta fandom I always saw the characters of hoody and masky kinda floating around there in fanart and fan written creepypastas. I just always assumed that their names were just the fandom making a cutesy joke like how a lot of people would call slenderman "slendy" for fun. I never got to fully watch marble hornets and now I'm just kinda surprised that's really what they're known as lol
I watched Marble Hornets as a kid when it was still being released and Masky gave me one of my first panic attacks 😅 My mum banned me from watching it after that. It was such an intriguing series but way too confusing for my kid brain.
Marble Hornets was formative in my love for horror as a kid. Crazy how long it's been since I've watched it. It's impressive for an indie horror channel.
@@diegodankquixote-wry3242 Yeah. But it was also made by a lot of talented people who aren’t Adam Rosner. Like Rikki Dorian Audax and Evan being good actors and good people.
@@loopofunhappiness I beg to differ. Cause the efforts of a group of good people shouldn’t be undone because of the one running it all is a shitty person.
SO damn excited to see someone talking about this amazing work again! Truly an indie horror internet darling! Edit: just finished the whole thing and it was fucking great. :) You did a great job picking apart one of my favorite indie horror series, and I was so happy to see you talk about the comics. They are great. I hope you will talk about them more in depth when they are completed. :)
Yeah, in the original series it was unnerving because the Opertator blended into the background until he isn't. If slenderman is put in the forefront, he isn't that scary
I remember working as a Night Shift Social worker. While the clients were sleeping, my buddy and I watched all of Marble Hornets throughout the week. It made the week go by fast and gave us some stuff to talk about. I cannot forget those moments
Very well done, very spooky effects and you really nailed the vibe. This was WELL worth it. Keep up the awesome work, man. First came here for fnaf retrospectives but will definitely stay for the passion and attention to detail
Huh, I never heard about that radiation sickness interpretation. Sounds pretty interesting. A lot of the victims in Marble Hornets did stuff like cough and feel light headed. But who knows, maybe this whole radiation schtick could have been used to further explore the effects of this sickness. People could have started developing warts. Then pale, burnt like skin, maybe some falling hair. Which may have slowly turned people into sort of mutants who have not only lost it mentally, but also physically.
As an ADHD filmmaker I'd always wanted to understand _Marble Hornets_ but never had the time/understanding, so this was perfectly clear, thank you!! And amazing short film presentation of your own!! You're also very respectful and comprehensive/nuanced in your analysis. I appreciate the consideration of mental health. Always worth the wait. 8^)
This video is really good, probably one of the best MH retrospectives I've seen. It's crazy to think how much this webseries did for the internet yet how little you hear about it these days. Your skits also made me realize how much I missed the feeling of watching a new entry. And yeah, we don't talk about Always Watching, that movie was created by people who didn't even watch the series nor consulted the creators that were right there and ended up with a contradictory story with respect to the series lore. The only good things about the movie were Doug Jones and a couple of references to the series (like the Alex Kralie's missing poster). A couple of things I want to add. Through various interviews and panels the creators sort of implied that the third TTA member was going to be Jay's masked state (that we briefly saw during Entry 26, but who was a way bigger presence on the Twitter side of the story), dubbed Skully. It would make sense when you think about it, with how TTA was able to know everything about Jay and also why after Brian's death the channel stopped, but they kind of retconned it with the comic I guess (but it's still going so who knows). Also, they sort of implied that the intended ending was Tim killing Jessica and then ending his life, however, just like with Skully, they retconned that. I can't really say that I like these retcons, but oh well.
Ok the fact that you actually made your own small tapes in between sections and legitimately gave me the eerie feeling of the original series that i love ( the mask in the reflection of the tv is so insanely creepy and i loved it btw ) if you were to make another small series like your fnaf three part series from before (don’t tire yourself with a video everyday though) i and many others would support and love it! you have a talent for making awesomely scary stuff, and we can’t wait for what you have in store
OMG, my favourite horror series! Marble Hornets, man, those were the days. I often feel like it was one of the grandfathers of today's analogue horror/found footage stuff. Thanks for this!
i normally get nervous about people talking about Marble Hornets since it's a series that is very dear to me and that i love a lot, hell i wasn't a huge fan of NightMind's videos on it since as a mentally ill person I didn't really like his interpretation of Tim/Masky as a character but your video was honestly very enjoyable to watch and I'm definitely looking forward to more from you!
Although it was a foundational step in internet horror and found footage, I still think it's extremely funny that when I was in high school the scariest thing anybody had seen was shaky cam footage of a guy in a suit wearing a sock on his head
you know when i first watched the series, i never realized where it was filmed. Early in this video i noticed some of the places looked familiar and then you mentioned is was filmed and tuscaloosa and I get it now
I really respect you supporting the creators by not talking too much about the comics for content and instead telling people to buy the comics themself. 👌
Addendum Section:
1. Guys... I found a new tape in my collection 😱: twitter.com/saganhawkes/status/1483236529073897472
2. Technically not wrong, I just didn't touch on it for time's sake, but I think its worth mentioning. After Jay watches the tape that Tim was hiding from him, we later learn his first reaction wasn't to go and attack Tim. He gets lost in Rosswood Park and calls Tim to apologize, and wants to continue working together. He's attacked by the Operator, and seems to go through some sort of personality change from here. I feel like its similar to what happened to Alex, slowly making their behavior more violent. You can see this in Entry #82.
3. Apparently there's some pretty serious accusations around the creator of TribeTwelve, so I'd recommend taking those into consideration when looking at other Slenderverse creations: www.reddit.com/r/TribeTwelve/comments/is0avp/tribetwelveadam_rosner_accusations_everything_so/
To be clear, this has nothing to do with the creators of Marble Hornets, TribeTwelve and its creator are completely and totally separate.
I was wondering if you were going to mention that. TribeTwelve has been a personal favorite of mine for years out of the big three, so the reality of the situation with its creator is absolutely soul crushing. Its awful. I will continue to enjoy the series for what it was via Night Minds explained series on it but due to how Adam grossly misused his fame and power, its for the best that the series has been cancelled.
Wow I actually didn't know about the accusations surrounding Adam. I've been FB friends with Troy, Tim, and Joseph since the beginning of season 2. I've had quite a few conversations with them over the years and think they're all pretty cool guys. I've seen Adam in the comments a handful of time, but never saw them react to him. I always thought it was a bit strange, but this might be why. However I might be overanalyzing because I'm not 100% sure how long these have been public knowledge and the creators don't post much at all anymore.
Anyways I can't wait to watch this. I stumbled across it right before bed and can't watch it rn, but I definitely will soon. I really hope you took some details from Tim and Joseph's (separate) streams where they rewatched the series because they reveal quite a bit in them. Excited to check this out!
@Hellstone Productions separate the art from the artist, as always
yeah, the creator of TribeTwelve done lots of shit. Acting creepy around the female extras for the series DarkHarvest00, openly talking about his animal fetish, his apparent vore fetish, making out with a 15 year old fan at a Con, grooming a couple underage fans, keeping NightMind from opening up about the situation, upon other things which haven't been proven(besides him grooming underage fans), but I wouldn't be suprised if they were true.
this stuff was known for a while. He apparently was always creepy around female fans, and leaked messages were apparently leaked back in 2015. But no one wanted to believe it since he was such a "nice guy".
About the theory of Tim editing the Entry 76 footage, if you look at the positioning of the camera when Jessica is on the ground compared to when Tim walks in frame, it's actually a slightly different position. Idk if anyone pointed that out but I think it helps support the theory too.
It’s easy to forget how much of it was an actual straightforward narrative rather than just a bunch of screaming and running through the woods. While we’re all nostalgic for it, I think videos like this that look over what the story was are excellent, nice work dude.
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Yo hold up, it’s wendigoon! Love your content and congratulations on 1 million subs!!!!
Wendigoon and Sagan are my top 2 for yt rn. I love the work you guys are putting in, your content is amazing!
One of my favorite comments on Marble Hornets was, "To be fair, Alex is acting very normally for a college art film director"
Trying to murder your cast and crew is a natural thing in the environment
@@maddoxio Probably yhe desire to as well.
As a film student, I can vouch for this
Hah! Hahahahaha
That’s hilarious.
Ah Marble Hornets.
The days when Slendy was actually used well and could be scary
Anything loses the fear factor when it’s been around for enough time. The only true fear is of what you can’t understand after all-
@@Crazygamergal exactly, ive seen too many slenderman r34 that he stopped being scary
@@ebitempurafry honestly I’ve been thinking about doing a thing like marble hornets but with momo 🤔. There’s a lot of potential with momo that the memes never tapped into!
@@Crazygamergal
If its the momo I think you're talking about, you'd have to get permission from the original artist to use her.
@@Miriam_J_ yea that’s the issue😅 I’d love to expand on the story and make a killer story but the original creator of momo hates his creation and is very unlikely to give permission 😔
I think Slenderman is creepier without tentacles.
He seems more innocuous, more pedestrian.
He's still ominous, but it leaves his actual nature to your imagination.
Yeahh, it's hard to do tentacles without seeming over the top and silly. Not to mention that it tends to remind people of... other things
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Yeah, it reminds me of squids too...
@@jeremiahm3765 Calamari is just distractingly good, y'know?
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It's kinda chewy, but it's nice 👌
@@jeremiahm3765 better than octopi in my opinion, specially with rice.
"YOU BROUGHT YOUR DOG!" in isolation almost sounds like he's just drunk and excited to see the dog 😭
It’s the best line in the series in my opinion
Magnificent! Nostalgic, inspiring, and a wonderful effort on all fronts in your coverage. (And thanks for the love, Sagan!)
good to see that creaters still respond to other creators. and hello night mind i enjoy your content its nice and engageing.
@@kod1265 huh only we are the only replies wierd.
Yo night mind you should re release your marble hornets videos not sped up. I’m too used to normal night mind talkin
Nick 💜💜💜💜
Crossover comment moment!
My biggest takeaway from this video is that hoodie and masky were not in fact 16 year old skinny anime boys. I love looking into creepypasta content that I only learned through fanart on deviantart when I was twelve. But yeah great video like always, loving the vibe
Lmao this comment brings back memories
but infact they were HUNKY DILFS😍😍😍😍
@@damnyouallgotohell2875 y'all actually need Jesus
@@justaserbiandoomer497 as if jesus wasnt a total hunk. he was a carpenter, remember
@@atlassolid5946 and he do got that 6 pack doe
The very early planning stage; them just writing the entire story on disorganized note cards and basing the name on two completely random and innocuous things; is the most chaotic neutral artistic process I've ever seen or heard.
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How many instances of scp-4498 are there? Tell us.
@@theadministrator.6632 shit.
@@theadministrator.6632 this comment feels like the teacher called on me, and I nervously looked through my empty notebook in complete silence until they felt bad enough to call on someone else.
Im using this
Something I will never understand is why people use tabletop RPG terms and concepts in any conversation outside of the tabletop RPG context. Chaotic neutral? How is it chaotic neutral and how does the method for telling a story connect to RPG alignment?
Can you imagine my horror as a 17 year old girl in a frat house for the first time being shown Marble Hornets (literally right after it came out) with the framework that it was REAL, and then being told that it was filmed in THE SAME TOWN THAT I WAS CURRENTLY IN??!?! This totally influenced my love for horror and especially analog horror now, like 10 years later
DUDE, ME TOO, SAME TOWN!!!!! Oh my god it makes the series SO MUCH more spooky and personal recognizing where they film!!!
I never noticed that Alex setting fire to Tim's house was done completely practically.
I just imagine Carl and Troy standing off to the side with fire egstinguishers ready to put that shit out.
I’m ngl this comment made me giggle
@@SimplyChanya same
The fact that Marble Hornets started exactly 10 days after Slender Man was created has always impressed me. I found MH back in 2014 and it’s always been my favorite
i miss this era of youtube. i feel like ppl aren't taking advantage of this site for hosting indie/fan films like they used to, in middle school my entire subscriptions page was filled with web series now you rlly have to go digging to not find one that isn't years old
The community is still fairly active, although COVID really screwed with a lot of ongoing series.
@@ralphjackson2518 ik it's just not what i thought it would be back when i was a kid. there are some huge triumphs like cryptv but not everyone reaches their heights
@@xokirei I guess it depends how much you dig analog horror. I absolutely love it, but I can get being turned ofd
@@ralphjackson2518 i wasn't talking about analog horror, just the indie film scene in general which is spearheaded by a lot of horror. ikwym tho
Sadly UA-cam has slowly been trying to kill off the "You" part and turn the site into mainsteam TV 2.0. Do to this the almighty algorithm favors big names and projects like this, which are a threat to the mainstream, get lost in the void of content.
I've always been of the opinion that the operator is not the entity, but rather a symptom of the sickness.
Like a metaphysical rash, it manifests when the true entity, the sickness, grows too strong.
Oh that's pretty cool!!
I’ve had this interpretation too, and it was dangerous for me. I didn’t know I was schizophrenic when I got into MH, but when it started to come on it was the perfect thing for my hallucinations/delusions to grab on to it. It’s a great story, handcrafted to be about supernatural mental illness, so it slotted in way too well.
@@marafolse8347 I hope you're doing much better now.
I like the idea, but there's one thing that I feel like works against your theory, and that's the fact that the Operator appears on camera. Now, if the word "manifest" here meant that the Operator manifests itself physically from people having the sickness instead of just appearing in their minds, then I'd say you have a point. But what I've noticed is that people will sometimes start showing symptoms even if the Operator isn't visibly near. The opposite is also true; the Operator can appear even when nobody has shown symptoms yet.
My personal theory is that the Operator is the cause of the sickness, and that he can force the symptoms upon people at will in order to weaken and eventually kill them, or have Alex kill them. There are several instances of characters seeing the Operator but not appearing to get sick, which leads me to believe that the Operator is a real entity with a real, physical form.
@@PremiumCheeses oh yes I did mean that the entity physically appears, I just meant that the operator is like a rash, the physical part of a otherwise invisible disease.
It could be that trying to understand cause/effect is meaningless for things like the operator, he causes the sickness that causes him in a recursive loop with no start or end.
Mystery is a big part of horror, so having questions we can never answer is a big tick in the Great horror box
😭Knowing the origin of Masky and Hoodie has cleansed my spirits and watered my crops. Being in the Creepypasta fandom I somehow never knew about Marble Hornets.😕
Creepypasta fandom made me think they were just "genetic creepy Jeff clones" ™
It's wild to me that people know OF masky and hoodie but not know where they came from. It's the opposite for me. I watched marble hornets and then basically didn't touch creepypastas or anything for years and had no idea how much the extended Slenderman/marble hornets character universe blew up!
@@solarvoid777 I just knew them from the cringy twelve year olds fanfuction
FULLY AGREED
jk I already knew them before Marble Hornets
I'm always so hesitant to watch anything talking about Marble Hornets since the series is so near and dear to my heart, but I'm actually not too afraid to watch this one
@Slender man😈 yeah it was fucking awful
@@telmoth you could say it was... Something Awful
Your discussion at 44 minutes is so perfect. It’s so impressive what they were able to pull off. The shot where it pans to the operator with alex’s face in the corner and it barely gets hit with the flashlight is so scary and even more eerie with the context of the whole story.
I have an art print of that scene on my wall, courtesy of a best friend who also loves that imagery.
Such a creative and cool story w a fan base who could only muster up names like “masky” and “hoody” lol
And a fandom filled with mostly girl simping over a mentally ill and depressed man with personality disorder.
This and Everyman Hybrid are probably the most iconic Slenderman series in my opinion
EMH is so unbelievably good, at least to me it's easily the best
everymanhybrid is one of my favorite horror series of all time. im glad other people also enjoy it, even now.
Back in the day is was marble hornets and tribe 12
@@thepinkestpigglet7529 tribe twelve… sad what happened to destroy it. a good series, shitty creator.
@@HallowIsSmol what happened?
I’ve been a humongous fan of Marble Hornets for a few years, so when you said you were doing a retrospective on it I was thrilled to watch it! I found your channel from your FNAF retrospective, so seeing you cover MH is awesome
OMG YOU ARE MY FAVORITE UA-camR!!!!!
I got into it as a nine year old and have been obsessed since (over nine years now lmao) so it's amazing to see this
@@confusedfey9192 I got into it at age 9 as well, I'm still obsessed lol
I've been so obsessed I made a fan film and alternate universe fan series lol
crazy to see you here! been a huge fan since late 2010s, glad to see you're still active :)
As an og fan and reader of the comic continuation, I genuinely hope it doesn't end with "it was all a dream" or "it was just radioactive waste left behind in rosswood park".
I hope it's an open ended conclusion that still alludes to the possibility of something cosmic or paranormal. I'd hate to have invested so much into this world that's obviously otherworldly to the real world idea that it was simply radiation poisoning.
It's has to be a cosmic explanation. The operator is so otherworldly in so many ways, and he acts very lovecraftian.
Like, why does it have a suit and tie? Does it have a true form? Was it there before time itself? Did it wear a suit before business suits were invented? Can it teleport or manipulate anywhere in the universe? Are there any more entities related to the operator? (EverymanHybrid had another entity which was almost as powerful as slender man. But it's in a completely different slenderverse so I don't think so)
Maybe the operator is just some crazy stuff the true thing (the cosmic disease) does to make the person crazy and spread itself
A paranormal, or should I say, spiritual explanation wouldn't be so good. It just doesn't fit him.
A religious entity? Meh.
It was all a dream? Hell no.
I remember watching this many years ago, it really was something special for its time, nothing like it could be made again in today’s environment. Thanks so much for covering this!! It’s gonna be a hell of a nostalgia trip lol
analog horror is literally the biggest genre in youtube gaming right now.
@@billyloper4072 and they dont do it convincingly, its a silly distorted face thing that would be better suited as a meme than unfiction
I mean the back rooms UA-cam content hits very very close to the mark in my opinion. It felt like we have something as special and uniquely made as the MH series
I think that with the editing capabilities and video tech we have today something very much like this could be phenomenal. That being said, I do see what you’re saying as UA-cam is so uptight about censorship that it may be difficult to get pushed by the algorithm if your story is too violent or touches on serious themes
@@mow_cat The Mandela Catalog,The Walten Files, Local 58 are great. And distorted faces tap into a natural response in humans.
Honestly I think I it's pretty safe to say that marble hornets and Everyman hybrid set the stage for modern unfiction/analogue hortor
This is an emotional ARG, not only with the themes but because it is literally so many people's ARG inspiration (including mine) but it also fueled analog horror as it is today. Without MH we wouldn't be where we are. Truly a culture shift in the internet's way of entertainment.
You missed the moment in Season 3 episode 7 where alex farts into the camera. It might just seem like a filler moment but I think it's super important as a sign of how far this guy has fallen since the operator came into his life
i genuinely love the comic. being introduced to the dudes making a documentary about rosswood literally made me feel like any reaction image of ben affleck smoking. every day a man with insurmountable hubris decides to become a film student, and it is a travesty lmao
So Alex in this story seems a lot less confusing if you see him as an accelerationist
He doesn't see himself as helping the operator even though he obviously is. He thinks he's burning through the destruction as fast as possible on the assumption that something better will come when the ashes settle. He just has no plan for what that is or how he'll get it. He'd just rather burn everyone than try to survive.
this is how i see it too. hes taking a scorched earth approach, probably on the assumption theres no way to stop whatevers happening to everyone involved, and the only solution is to cut off the infection by destroying all the disease vectors
Thats such a stupid philosophy lol
@@internettraveler8666it’s a little misinformed, the point would be to make it as worse as possible so it can can start getting better, like if you’ve got an infected wound, it’s better just to cut the wound open and squeeze the poison out, accelerating the harm from the wound but preventing further problems like gangrene, like if an animal has a contagious virus, you kill the animal as fast as possible to limit its ability to spread, the less people who are exposed to the operator the less people who can expose others to it.
@@internettraveler8666I mean, the whole point is that The villain think he's right, but that's the thing, he ISN'T
@@internettraveler8666if you can't make things better, you may as well make sure everything burns, right?
I still go back and marathon Marble Hornets every year for the month of October. Slenderman may be seen as a dead meme, but Marble Hornets is a testament to how the monster can still be terrifying if done right.
Me too! :)
about two years ago, i watched this entire series with my brother off of the official dvd on an old ass laptop. genuinely such a great time. he loves this series to death. he visited some actual locations and everything. thanks for makin' this video!
I really appreciate explanation videos. I have a panic disorder that makes it impossible to watch/play most horror, but I love the stories told so these types of videos make it so I can feel involved.
As a kid, my cousins and i used to pretend we were looking for slenderman (or the operator) with the neighborhood kids outside at night. It was so fun chasing each other and roleplaying. Marble Hornets and Creepypasta have a special place in my heart 😊
I used to pretend that I was a proxy in development lol
Hiya! I know the creators/moderate online for Joe and Brian, and I can confirm that you're correct with the fact that they did not use stacks of flipflops for the operators height the whole time :) great video by the way!
I got into marble hornets as a kid living in small town Alabama feeling so isolated from everything I liked and knew, so learning it was filmed in Alabama makes it just that much more special for me
Same here, except I’m from the Greater Birmingham area. Once I learned it was filmed in Alabama, I started recognizing a lot of the landmarks and filming locations. Much of the footage, including that in the gazebo, are at Oak Mountain State Park.
I never even heard about Marble Hornets, now im really excited to watch this (Edit) I know of slenderman but never knew about the origins and this series(Another edit) Holy crap man I had no clue this was filmed in my home town! And Ive seen that graffiti before! This is crazy
Glad to see some new eyeballs on this series. You won't regret it homie
Like @Xenobork said, you're in for a good time.
Uhhh DOES NIGHT MIND RING A BELL???
@@azgreat2344 Im really new to online horror, but I'll definitely check him out
Oh man, you're in for a TREAT. I don't know how WELL it's aged, but definitely check out the series. It's really impressive what they did with no real budget.
watched some of the first season in 2011 when i was 10 and proceeded to spend the entire summer convinced every strange looking tree branch was slenderman and that every technical problem i had was being caused by him lmfao
Dude same. God that brings memories
I remember watching these as they first came out. Truly no words for how crazy and legendary it was. All Slenderman Unfiction projects really blew it out of the water back then.
Same, my friend and I would watch them as they came out and talk about them the next day in high school.
I remember following this series during its original run. It’s good to see that people are still talking about it years after it ended.
I'm always shocked no one brings up that there's someone in the Ark group who has a feminine figure and long hair who appears in one of the videos. They're clearly not any of the main cast, so I'm guessing they're one of these characters with no screen time that the creators talked about. I really wanna see people theorize more about them.
I believe you are referring to reused clips of Jessica. Deciphering a lot of the coded messages to me seems to reveal that totheark was quite cross with Tim for removing and hiding Jessica from the equation. totheark wished to amass a larger force capable of standing up to Alex. With Tim’s betrayal Jessica is gone and Jay is still ignorant of what exactly is going on.
Are you talking about when Jessica appeared on the screen for like a second?
The Slenderverse, at least the early days of it, really set the whole indie horror/unfiction thing rolling on UA-cam. I'm sure there was some stuff before it, but this was the benchmark at which things really exploded from. Not only did it serve as the inspiration for much of the current analogue horror series, but it also led to the first Slender game, which was a landmark in terms of the "Man Screams At Jumpscare" aspect of horror gaming, which not only exposed more and more people to indie horror titles, but also allowed them to reach an audience that otherwise wouldn't have much access to horror games: Kids.
I'd be interested in seeing coverage of Everyman HYBRID at some point, AFAIK a lot of people consider that one to be even better, Night Mind among them. That said... talking about TribeTwelve is difficult these days. There's no denying that it was a well-made entry in the Slenderverse, and it was somewhat intertwined with Everyman HYBRID and I think also Dark Harvest, distinctly more than any of the others were tied to Marble Hornets... buuuuuut one of the creators, Adam Rosner, got outed as a paedophile in 2020, as multiple victims were finally able to come forward and share their stories. r/tribetwelve has a masterpost surrounding the event here: www.reddit.com/r/TribeTwelve/comments/is0avp/tribetwelveadam_rosner_accusations_everything_so/
It's actually pretty easy to talk about tribetwelve, you just talk about it. Don't understand everyone's preoccupation with rejecting the story for the sins it's creator.
@@pokejeenios Yeah if people really wanted to reject any piece of media that was created by pedophiles, they would be up in arms over about 99% of everything they watch. 🤔
TribeTwelve was an INCREDIBLE take on the Slenderverse, and the vfx used was incredible for the medium and budget. The creator is not his creation, especially when we aren’t giving him money by watching what he made.
The use of the term "force of nature" to describe the Operator personally reminds me of, and this is a very odd comparison, Death from puss in boots 2. To the main cast, he's the antagonist of their story, but he's really just doing what he's supposed to be doing.
Think about it. If we didn't have Marble Hornets, it's possible we would've never gotten any of the other horror series we all know today like Everymanhybrid, WhisperedFaith, Dark Harvest, and MLAnderson0, as well as analog horror series like The Walten Files, The Mandela Catalogue, and Gemini Home Entertainment. Thank you, MH, for existing.
everything that happens:
alex tries to kill somebody
hoodie shows up
fake slendy man shows up and scares away everyone
tim forgors
I watched marble hornets back when I was around 11 years old, thats what got me into creepypasta and horror stuff in general, and yeah I was pretty young but I never really minded horror, it was more interesting to me, more fascinating rather than terryfying. Im going to be 17 now and marble hornets still means a lot to me, the way I can still remember the way I felt when watching it for the first time, wondering the whys and wheres, this video truly brought me back to that time. Thanks so much for making this video, and for reminding me of where my love for all horror related webseries, args and analogue horror stories come from
I've watched marble hornets a dozen times and know almost everything about it but I love watching videos explaining it
@Slender man😈 I have! And the marble hornets movie!
does this guy always put this much dedication into the topics he covers⁉️ from mimicking the MH entry style, to watching slightly-obscure creator streams, to addressing specific topics like ARGs and slenderverse, it really is a meaningful examination of MH. honestly not used to "series EXPLAINED" videos having this much care put into them
I won't lie, Tim pulls off the sideburns look really well.
Fr I couldn't stop praising his sideburns. 70's vibes, slayy Tim
love the idea that they'd have to edit out the * thwack thwack thwack * sounds from the operator's platform flip flops
I wanna correct something people interpret wrongly imo. The Operator is not a "separate entity" from Slenderman; that implies both exist. The Operator is just one incarceration of Slenderman, just as there are limitless incarcerations of Superman.
Man...Marble Hornets. It feels like an ancient thing, like something that has always existed. It inspires creators in unimaginable ways...it inspires fear in us, too. The people who made Marble Hornets were (and are) geniuses.
I used to love Marble Hornets, just hearing about it made me want to rewatch it
Do it!
Eckva is still going on today, and ties into the MH universe pretty well, and is set up to explain what the pills actually do and the company behind it
This made me remember an old creepypasta with images I really liked. It’s from like the early 2000s, it’s called “I Found a Digital Camera in the Woods” and the photos are very eerie.
Sagan: Lets do a summary of an ARG/Unfiction
Also Sagan: Turns it into an ARG/Unfiction style video
Im glad someone else is so in love with the behind the scenes of this series
The Marble Hornets series is something that brings a lot of nostalgia to me. It's so good and genuinely one of my favorite pieces of horror media of all time. It has a quality that feels genuine and oddly warm? Slenderman also has to be In his prime here.. It's nice to revisit it as the last time I thought about it was probably 2017.
This was honestly my obsession when I was in middle school, Masky was my favorite character and the entire series was so ahead of it’s time. Awesome video! Brings back so many memories
SH you are a fantastic little man and I absolutely adore how you edit your videos. You are not only well researched but you also have solid scripts that are masterfully presented. It's always a good time watching anything from you!
Marble Hornets was my life for a while. One of the first major fandoms I was a part of. Yes, I do have a related tattoo. How did you know?
Anyway, thanks for the in-depth run-through to bring me back to the good days.
Thank you for this video, I was a creepypasta tween back in the day and would always see the term "marble hornets" and proxy thrown around but I was too English-illiterate to fully grasp anything. (Plus my AdHd brain would've gotten frustrated trying to follow such a scattered narrative).
It's nice being able to put together where Masky and Hoodie came from (and find out so much about Slendy himself)
Haha tribe twelve 'can of worms'.... thats a polite way of putting it.
I have a ridiculously high horror tolerance but the one thing that gets me is something that isn’t even that scary compared to other things.
Being chased.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that I’m slow af and would never get away or if it just makes my fight or flight kick into gear.
But the scene of the man in the mask starting to chase Jay gets me every time.
Same with the entity in the backrooms (Kane Pixels’ version) chasing the cameraman, the fake person in Gemini home entertainment turning and running for Jack, and the mimic running after the girl in Vita Carnis.
I think it's funny that when I was a little kid watching all of these videos, I didn't know anything about totheark. Marble hornets was really fantastic even without the connected videos
i gotta say, in a world where so many horror stories present psych medication as suppressing one’s humanity or power, i really appreciate that this series seems to present tim’s psych meds as a way to combat fear, as an empowering tool
Ya know, I like the name “the operator” more than “slenderman”
I remember watching these as a child (who was probably way to young to be seeing this kind of stuff) and just loving it. I used to be terrified of the woods because I was convinced Slenderman was out there, watching… waiting…plotting.
I recently went and watched the entirety of this series last Halloween and I gotta say, watching them back to back to back doesn’t hold up as well as it did back then. I don’t know if it’s just because I’m older and know that this is fake or because the series just… isn’t very good(??) but it certainly is propped up in my memory due mostly to nostalgia.
Still a great watch though, better than most “horror” videos UA-camrs pump out nowadays.
I've watched a good chunk of this series but then life happened, got lost and didn't know how to start over. Thank you so much for this!
i love marble hornets, every now and then i go back to rewatch it because of how good it is. this and tribetwelve hold very dear memories for me
Marble Hornets was an extremely important part of my childhood, and the seed for what my schizophrenia would turn into a living nightmare for years.
Despite the trauma I love this series, and I’m always so excited when it is revisited and brought into the spotlight for just a little bit longer.
Marble Hornets got me into this whole genre, love it
Marble hornets meant so much to me while growing up, and now that I’m more mature I can just really see the art of the story telling. Thank you making this 💛💛 brought back a lot of my old joy
I remember when I got into creepypasta and learned about Marble Hornets, I binge-watched the whole series. Then I've learned about EveryoneHYBRID and TribeTwelve, and tried to watch those two. Frankly, I managed to catch up to EveryoneHYBRID (which required me to follow the timeline on their Wiki to know what video, tweet or tumblr post watch next), but I never got into TribeTwelve because the timeline on their Wiki was incomplete.
Truly Marble Hornets were the most simple of Slender-related webseries.
Wow, I remember watching and trying to keep up with all the videos by in these series when they came out. I also had no idea they filmed it in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which is extremely close to where I live. So that's a amazing fact to learn.
Sagan is single handedly resurrecting the entire Marble Hornets fandom and I love it
The Season 3 Tunnel attack Scene is the one of the best sequence in all web-series i've ever seen.
The blair witch project was a masterpiece even though it's really divisive. It created this entire genre.
back in the day when I was a wee teen in the creepypasta fandom I always saw the characters of hoody and masky kinda floating around there in fanart and fan written creepypastas. I just always assumed that their names were just the fandom making a cutesy joke like how a lot of people would call slenderman "slendy" for fun. I never got to fully watch marble hornets and now I'm just kinda surprised that's really what they're known as lol
Well technically they're Tim and Brian, but yeah those are the full names the community gave their personas, which themselves have no official names.
I watched Marble Hornets as a kid when it was still being released and Masky gave me one of my first panic attacks 😅 My mum banned me from watching it after that. It was such an intriguing series but way too confusing for my kid brain.
Marble Hornets was formative in my love for horror as a kid. Crazy how long it's been since I've watched it. It's impressive for an indie horror channel.
I love the Slenderverse and it’s many series. And I really hope that the other series like EverymanHYBRID and TribeTwelve get a video.
Tribetwelve was made by a groomer...
@@diegodankquixote-wry3242 Yeah. But it was also made by a lot of talented people who aren’t Adam Rosner. Like Rikki Dorian Audax and Evan being good actors and good people.
I'd rather let tribetwelve just die into obscurity. I wouldn't open that can of worms.
@@loopofunhappiness I beg to differ. Cause the efforts of a group of good people shouldn’t be undone because of the one running it all is a shitty person.
@@loopofunhappiness can you just pretend Adam doesn’t exist? 💀
SO damn excited to see someone talking about this amazing work again! Truly an indie horror internet darling!
Edit: just finished the whole thing and it was fucking great. :) You did a great job picking apart one of my favorite indie horror series, and I was so happy to see you talk about the comics. They are great. I hope you will talk about them more in depth when they are completed. :)
Yeah, in the original series it was unnerving because the Opertator blended into the background until he isn't. If slenderman is put in the forefront, he isn't that scary
I just wish we got to see the original film project the characters were actually making before it suffered production hell
I remember working as a Night Shift Social worker. While the clients were sleeping, my buddy and I watched all of Marble Hornets throughout the week. It made the week go by fast and gave us some stuff to talk about. I cannot forget those moments
Very well done, very spooky effects and you really nailed the vibe. This was WELL worth it. Keep up the awesome work, man. First came here for fnaf retrospectives but will definitely stay for the passion and attention to detail
Marble Hornets... Oh the memories.
Huh, I never heard about that radiation sickness interpretation. Sounds pretty interesting. A lot of the victims in Marble Hornets did stuff like cough and feel light headed. But who knows, maybe this whole radiation schtick could have been used to further explore the effects of this sickness. People could have started developing warts. Then pale, burnt like skin, maybe some falling hair. Which may have slowly turned people into sort of mutants who have not only lost it mentally, but also physically.
I lived in Tuscaloosa for a few months and got to explore Bryce Hospital! It was so cool had so many Operator symbols around. Too cool
ah. marble hornets my beloved. as an avid fan of the slenderverse, i have a soft spot for that time in youtube horror. i miss it.
As an ADHD filmmaker I'd always wanted to understand _Marble Hornets_ but never had the time/understanding, so this was perfectly clear, thank you!! And amazing short film presentation of your own!! You're also very respectful and comprehensive/nuanced in your analysis. I appreciate the consideration of mental health. Always worth the wait. 8^)
I got that signed boxset for this when it came out. Love this series to death
This video is really good, probably one of the best MH retrospectives I've seen. It's crazy to think how much this webseries did for the internet yet how little you hear about it these days.
Your skits also made me realize how much I missed the feeling of watching a new entry.
And yeah, we don't talk about Always Watching, that movie was created by people who didn't even watch the series nor consulted the creators that were right there and ended up with a contradictory story with respect to the series lore. The only good things about the movie were Doug Jones and a couple of references to the series (like the Alex Kralie's missing poster).
A couple of things I want to add.
Through various interviews and panels the creators sort of implied that the third TTA member was going to be Jay's masked state (that we briefly saw during Entry 26, but who was a way bigger presence on the Twitter side of the story), dubbed Skully. It would make sense when you think about it, with how TTA was able to know everything about Jay and also why after Brian's death the channel stopped, but they kind of retconned it with the comic I guess (but it's still going so who knows).
Also, they sort of implied that the intended ending was Tim killing Jessica and then ending his life, however, just like with Skully, they retconned that.
I can't really say that I like these retcons, but oh well.
Thank you, it was very interesting! I think that original idea with skully was good, but I'm glad that they changed Tim's ending
Ok the fact that you actually made your own small tapes in between sections and legitimately gave me the eerie feeling of the original series that i love ( the mask in the reflection of the tv is so insanely creepy and i loved it btw )
if you were to make another small series like your fnaf three part series from before (don’t tire yourself with a video everyday though) i and many others would support and love it! you have a talent for making awesomely scary stuff, and we can’t wait for what you have in store
The inbetwee tv shots you did to introduce the next section were fantastic
OMG, my favourite horror series! Marble Hornets, man, those were the days. I often feel like it was one of the grandfathers of today's analogue horror/found footage stuff. Thanks for this!
i normally get nervous about people talking about Marble Hornets since it's a series that is very dear to me and that i love a lot, hell i wasn't a huge fan of NightMind's videos on it since as a mentally ill person I didn't really like his interpretation of Tim/Masky as a character but your video was honestly very enjoyable to watch and I'm definitely looking forward to more from you!
Although it was a foundational step in internet horror and found footage, I still think it's extremely funny that when I was in high school the scariest thing anybody had seen was shaky cam footage of a guy in a suit wearing a sock on his head
bruh, when I first saw Marble Hornets in early Slenderman days, i was so terrified, i stayed up all night no cap.
you know when i first watched the series, i never realized where it was filmed. Early in this video i noticed some of the places looked familiar and then you mentioned is was filmed and tuscaloosa and I get it now
always refreshing to see split used as an example of *horrible* portrayals of mental illness in media as someone with DID
I really respect you supporting the creators by not talking too much about the comics for content and instead telling people to buy the comics themself. 👌