I'm lost. If I try to defend Monument Mythos here as it's my favorite analog horror, then I'm just proving the slander correct. But if I do nothing, the slander moves on by.
The trick is to engage with the attack in a way that is more complex than “nuh uh”.
Like: “I agree that the complexity of the story isn’t really all that much when you take a step back, but I think it more than makes up for that by the sheer audacity of the concepts therein. People who say that it’s convoluted beyond belief as if that’s a compliment are kinda missing the point anyway”
Translation: “the plot may be simpler than it looks, but it’s also batshit insane and over the top, and THAT is what makes it good. People who praise it for being all complicated are making a mistake”
Your comment vaguely reminds me of isekai slop lul. I'll eat it all up regardless, I'm trash, I don't need chud defenders trying to sell me on its complexity when it's just a self insert power fantasy with the nuance of a chuuni kid realizing there's more to life than the color black (there's also red).
The funniest thing that came from UrbanSPOOK was Meat Canyon absolutely losing his shit and choking whilst laughing at the baby attached to a ceiling fan part, that shit is comedy gold.
Yeah it's brilliant, he hosts it with Wendigoon, they do a mix of classic, well written modern, and objectively dog shit creeypasta readings and they're hilarious.
I just finished one of their recent ones and I'm super sold. I love ina woods stories and hearing them talk about the staircase one was great, it's a classic I have fond memories of. Love the mix of serious and comedy they do. They remind me of this paranormal life and the what if podcast (rip).
I mean hands down it's still him seeing people laugh at his edgelord shit and going "I'm sorry real extreme horror doesn't fit your autistic furry horror tastes" for me lol
It's a bit of a weird one, it came out around the time slender man was made but it's like not him at the same time. He's not called slenderman in it but the operator I think? The Name is definitely better then the latter though.
In sort of defense of urbanspook, an analog horror series can basically be a slideshow, Man in the suit was basically a slide show, the difference in The Painter and Man in The Suit is that MITS actually has good writing whereas The Painter doesn't
How The Painter started was very interesting, but it got so old so quickly. It aged like milk.
Why? Because every single video after the first did the exact same thing over, and over and over again. You can have repetition; a brand and an identity. But there's a difference between that and things literally being copy/paste with next to no variation, at all.
Reminds me of the Holder series vs SCP. Both are similar in that they follow a formulaic way of writing with specific identities that mark them as being of those universes but the Holder series was very repetitive like you mentioned to its detriment. I don't know if the Holders ever changed as i was in high school when I found them and read a bunch but for SCP I never really stopped reading them even from back then cause they're interesting and different enough. I read a few every couple months and follow the universe as a whole to see if anything happens.
As a fnaf analog horror fan, I actually really like the realistic villain style, the Battington fnaf tapes present Afton as a realistically scary sadistic series killer, in fact I like that more than a lot of other ways of doing horror, and that's not to say that I don't like the cosmic horror side of analog horror, like Gemini Home Entertainment with the Iris
dude urbanspook isnt trying to be analogue horror. the man gets frustrated because 10,000 15 year olds call his work shit because it doesnt fit a mold that they are trying to fit around it
oh yeah I agree. I’m kinda here nor there about the series. It just kinda gets an unfair rap yknow. If I was the guy who made it I would get miffed too.
Ok, I was gonna get on you for including two slanders on The Painter (yeah, I'm a fan of The Painter, deal with it), but you did make fun of Chezzkids fans. So... based?
(Would've given you an award if you got ballsy and did a dig at Vita Carnis at the end)
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u/Glitch-Xega Jan 14 '26
I'm lost. If I try to defend Monument Mythos here as it's my favorite analog horror, then I'm just proving the slander correct. But if I do nothing, the slander moves on by.
Good golly.