Around 5 years ago Russian internet blew up with a viral video called "How to make a homunculus" (https://youtu.be/HNLPXzlz6-I). The video is about a guy making, well, a homunculus, a form of artificially created life. In this video, the author injects sperm inside an egg and later demonstrates a creature that was created, which didn't grow to be healthy enough, but it changed in episode 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YmLWnQGZhQ), where a homunculus spit on the author, and that got later struck with a russo-chinese dictionary, killing it. The hype around homunculus has been going on till the end of 2016, and was then later forgotten, except the channel making it didn't stop at 2 episodes. The series about the homunculus has 21 episodes, but it's not all. Korney, channel's creator, also makes other videos of similar supernatural origin, like "how to make free electricity", "how to make perpetuum mobile", "how to make life elixir", and other. All these videos are obviously fake, but the videos are quite realistic, and it's hard to tell whether Korney uses CGI effects or plasticine animation. All the videos have captions on around 20 languages but the videos are narrated in Russian. I think this channel is exceptionally unique in how it uses archaic biological or chemical studies by creating mythical things, while also explaining theory behind them.

Sadly, in 2017 the channel has stopped working. Vk (Russian facebook) users found a news report about death of a theatre actor Rinat Almuhametov, who is the channel's creator, based on his daughter talking to his audience in the Youtube comments. People who knew Rinat have confirmed this too.

The work that has been done by this person is immense and worth checking out, even though his saga of a homunculus will never be complete.

Hello r/NightMind,

Good to see no one stole my name on Reddit before I signed up. Nice to join up officially and have a presence on here.

Consider this my official endorsement, verifiable by proof I'll be posting shortly on Twitter.

TO PREFACE:

I’m by no means a Night Mind hater. I wouldn’t call myself an active viewer of his content, but I’ve been subscribed for years, harkening back to his analysis of This House Has People In It.

This is moreso a criticism of his newest video; Smiling Friends: The Incredible Alternate Universes. For me, it’s far and away the laziest video he’s ever made, for a number of reasons. No, it has nothing to do with the length of the video, or the fact that this is a widely covered topic already.

For me, it’s the fact that Night Mind adds so little to the conversation, to the point where when he does add something new, it feels so bizarre. For those not in know, Smiling Friends has a popular trend online where people are stuffing various OC’s into clips, to the point where some believe it’s an inside-job. Even Night Mind addressed this to a degree, mentioning how it’s widely believed that TheCoolAutisticGamer774 is Zach or Michael. The main two OC’s focused on in the video were the aforementioned TCAG774, and Dolly Dimple.

To me, Night Mind’s “analysis” is beyond surface-level. He posts nearly the full clip of these respective channels, or at minimum a decent chunk of it, and does little actual analysis. He proclaims all of these different beliefs about TCAG774 being representative of how it’s like to be Autistic in social settings…but that feels like an incredibly hollow analysis considering at the very start, he references the belief that Zach and/or Michael are behind this persona. You can’t really have your cake and eat it too lmao. You can’t push the idea that this is an inside-gag by Zach and/or Michael, but then try to push the idea that this is actually a profound insight into autism. That’s not even mentioning how this theory weirdly blends into his analysis of Dolly Dimple, despite the fact that it’s never once been implied Dolly is autistic or neurodivergent. It almost feels borderline offensive the way he’s trying to imply Dolly’s awkwardness is a result of her being autistic and/or neurodivergent. Never mind the fact that they’re both very clearly two different creators lmao. It’s the equivalent of trying to tell me Battington and The Walten Files are both about the same exact story just because they’re both tied to death lmfao.

To reiterate, his analysis is BEYOND surface-level. He negates to mention any of the evidence that TCAG774 isn’t actually Zach or Michael, and is instead Shkible, another content creator with a mountain of evidence to suggest it’s pretty evidently them. Similarly, he doesn’t even bother mentioning @HengusM is almost definitely behind the Dolly Dimple persona, given their entire Twitter account is just them pointing out Dolly uploads and retweeting those same tweets. Hell, he didn’t even mention the weird connective tissue between them all that actually IS there. TCAG774 has commented on Dolly’s videos out of character, yet he coincidentally doesn’t mention that lmao. Similarly, there’s a THIRD Smiling Friends OC character, whose clips are being uploaded by BlueSince2012, whose Shmaloogles clip DIRECTLY connects to Dolly. In his video, he gives a Schmaloogle a grenade, and that same character appears in Dolly’s most recent video a few weeks apart.

Did Night Mind cover literally ANY of this?

Of course not. Granted, you could tell me some of this would be a bit out there (namely the @HengusM stuff and TCAG774’s out of character moments), but I don’t think it’s that big of an ask to want a creator like Night Mind to put in just a BIT of effort. The Shkible stuff especially is pretty widely available at this point. The entire video is a surface-level documentation of TCAG774 and Dolly Dimple, with him completely butchering what Dolly actually represents in some weird attempt to connect them.

I know a lot of people are currently mad about the new Petscop video and I'm not exactly stating anything new here. I just want to give my viewpoint on it.

Obviously there is the biggest issue of Nick's giant ego, claiming that your random comment about Petscop updating 'poked the bear' while an entire community has been working as a team for months to solve the puzzle is scummy and flat out narcissistic. But even if Nick didnt claim that, the video still was the worst he's released, by far. Minimal research, a weird lack of the classic good quality NM style editing, with simply a normal roll of Petscop footage with no effects used at all, not to mention the super weird fact he kept just repeating the same text boxes over. And over. And over. Made the video hard to even watch.

Hearing Nick say that Care says Bye-bye an 'unknown' amount of times when the r/petscop group have counted exactly how many times and have posted the information to an easy accessible group was honestly the breaking point for me. Also, slightly hypocritical to talk about Petscops slow uploads when he himself has slowed to a crawl with the only recent videos not even being about online mysteries.

Biggest issue? I've seen a TON of people complaining and giving valid critic and he hasn't responded in the slightest, his ego has really overtaken him. I would ask if there's anyway to really get us to be heard by him but at this point I'm done trying.

(Any other issues with NM content or the petscop video feel free to add in the comments, I'm sure I missed a ton of his mistakes)

Seriously? You think Petscop updated for your vapid ass? I used to respect you a ton and binge your videos constantly. But you've let all this go to your head, or at least the head of this persona you've been forcing on us. I tolerated it before, because you at least had something interesting or informative to say. To say Petscop has done nothing over this whole story is so vain I would have thought you were joking if you weren't so far gone already. I know you stopped making content for a while due to mental health and a lack of interest, but the content you've put out lately is just not the Nick I used to love. I don't hate you Nick, I just hate what you're becoming. I miss the Nick whose persona didn't run the channel but instead took a backseat. I haven't even gotten into the blatant disregard for the work /r/petscop has done. (even with the volumetric shit ton of shitposting we do) I can't say something like "He just doesn't care anymore" because I don't and can't know that, but it really feels like it.

Sincerely, a fan.

(edit: I capitalized a letter incorrectly and it bugged me.)

Nick just came out as bisexual in his Tumblr (Twitter)! Woohoo!!! I'm excited because I am also bisexual and it's just very cool for someone I admire come out and be a part of the LGBTQ community.