Abandoned websites have always had such a somber energy to them. The idea that someone devoted time to coding and sharing their website only for it to be left a ghost town always leaves you wondering what happened to the creator

@thornyduck

5 ай бұрын

I feel that with a lot of things wether it's old websites games cars toys even irl abandoned buildings/houses there's a certain curiosity about the history behind the object but for my main example we'll use buildings and as such there are questions like who lived/worked here? Where are they now? Are they dead? What was their life like? Among other questions I think that's why I like post apocalyptic media wether it's movies books games heck even some good old table top/ dungeons and dragons campaigns I've been in have evoked such feelings and I think the feeling stems from the fact of our humanity like whoever was here whatever they did helped push us in whatever way to where we are now for better or worse and to do that they had highs lows successes and failures and it's bittersweet to think that once we're gone the next generation will have similar thoughts then there next generation will and the next and the cycle will repeat until either the end of us as a species or the end of time itself there's an old saying I don't remember it fully but I remember this much and that's "Don't go quietly into the night" And I live by that statement and I implore others to do the same if they read this far don't live a life of mediocrity(I believe that's the word?) Life your life to the fullest because one day no one will remember anything you did except for the universe and it will keep that history in its very being I'll leave you know with another quote one I'm much more familiar with from a very special piece of fiction that I love and here it is "Be safe friend and don't you dare go hollow."

@deanjenkins3077

5 ай бұрын

I read it as "Abandoned websites have always had such a soNDer energy to them."

@SatanicPizza-fo2ei

5 ай бұрын

Is this the same feeling as watching somebody's Let's Play of a video game, but their video is years old, has only like 4 likes and 34 views and feels forgotten/abandoned? I love finding KZread videos like that, it feels like finding a little secret

@kizunadragon9

5 ай бұрын

it's the closest we get to a time machine really, they are just frozen in time, a snapshot of what was.

@valeforedark

5 ай бұрын

This site not the game is abandoned.both still work. Game would need an active server and website would still need to be paid for. None are abandoned here. The rumours of the cult were started by marketing of the game to drum up traffic

The weird things about many of these abandoned sites is that they're still being hosted and supported somewhere by someone, so they're never completely abandoned

@LavaCreeperPeople

5 ай бұрын

yes

@trevorhaddox6884

5 ай бұрын

I'd love to imagine sume crusty dusty old server center maintained by some old man like a living museum. In reality as long as the bills get paid, or the site is on a free host, or simply forgotten about, it all gets moved over when the servers upgrade. So most likely all these sites are now running on 21st century hardware.

@TheStarSquid

Ай бұрын

gives such a lone broadcast vibe

I was a beta tester for this in 1995... it's so weird hearing it referred to as a game :) No matter how many times I hear it, it's funny.

@Wishmaster787

4 ай бұрын

This game is the king of liminal spaces

@BITCH_WHAT_THE_FUCK

4 ай бұрын

The OG backrooms

@ZathrasParadox

4 ай бұрын

A friend tested it as well back in '93-'94, so I got to play with the confusing building tools sometimes. It is nice knowing Worlds is still online.

@SeanWinters

2 ай бұрын

I was born that year... I'm 28... Feel old.

@hellomikie92

Ай бұрын

Technically it is a social life MMO game

I really like empty worlds. It’s creepy but fascinating

@lilwyvern4

5 ай бұрын

I like them because they feel safer to me. As someone with really deep social traumas, having an entire empty world around me eases the crippling anxiety.

@gattig1128

Күн бұрын

​@@lilwyvern4you ever go online there?

Ahh yes, Exploring the Abandoned Internet (Vol 2), my favorite Mid-West Emo album.

its so surreal to hear people discuss stuff that was completely normal and comfy for me as a kid as eerie and creepy or weird or liminal, hah.

@ExpertContrarian

5 ай бұрын

Gen Z is scared by a slight breeze 😂

@wyvern0m3g42

5 ай бұрын

I can relate to that. It's how I feel every time someone brings up how a Nintendo 64 or PlayStation game feels "weird" or "off" to them. Like, for example, I can never stop feeling lost or confused every time I see someone bring up how Super Mario 64 creeps them out.

@user-zc4br7yt4i

5 ай бұрын

It's the never ending cycle of "Something comfy is made", decades later "We can make something horroresque by taking something people normally like and making it creepy.", eventually leading to people that never experienced the original saying, "Man, that stuff is so creepy, why did people ever think it was normal?".

@sludgerat666

5 ай бұрын

​@user-zc4br7yt4i I don't think anyone's arguing that it's not normal, it's just creepy (to them)

@ffwast

4 ай бұрын

That's what makes a liminal space.

I remember watching Vinesauce play Worlds YEARS ago, I was obsessed with the weird emptiness of the game and stuff like it after that. It's awesome to see someone else talking about Worlds again after like 9 years.

I love this series. It reminds me of how weird the internet used to be. In many ways how naive and free it was. I really miss the old internet, a lot. So much more personality in everything. So much more connection. Sure, there were problems but nothing that doesn’t still exist today. Arguably it’s worse today and harder to police without ruining things for everyone. Corporations really destroyed the freedom and creativity of the world. So much potential wiped away for profit. It’s makes me really sad to think about. I’m also happy that someone is delving into the weird and strange things from back then. I’m happy to see someone chronicling it. In an ever shrinking internet it’s actually refreshing to see.

The vampire website intrigued me, I found a local club that seems to still be active. The meeting time and all. The location isn’t dedicated to the club, but seems to be an actual bar. I’m surprised it was on the official website. I checked the address and the bars name was rapture. I left an inquiry about everything, and whether they were even aware of being on the website or if they noticed a different clientele on the meeting day. Here’s hoping!

When describing signs you are a vampire it littaraly just described a person who does not go outside.

Back in the early 2000s a book was published. Vampire Encyclopedia. Huge book full of history, media, resources to more in-depth writing. I used to have one as I was just like these guys. Funny thing about isolating yourself because you think you’re a monster, isolation leads to you not speaking your ideas out loud and your biases grow. I had to give all that stuff up one day, stopped wearing so much black and trying to hide from people. Turns out we all share these “vampire” traits because they’re more or less human traits being scoped out through the “I’m special” filter we all seem to have when we’re younger. I used to believe. And while the idea is fun to think about, it leads nowhere but all that in-fighting between friend groups.

Video Request: If possible could you do a video on the obscure game known as "Gingiva" there aren't many videos on it but from what I understand based on the walkthroughs the game holds a very interesting story if you look past the art style. You play as a woman who has a wind up key for a head and she works in a factory until the owner sends her to jail. You befriend chattering teeth who helps you break out and fight different enemies throughout the game. The owner ends up sending a bunch of different enemies to bring you back and take you to a different facility where you get made into something that looks like Pills. The game's fighting style is similar to what is found in final fantasy, omori and undertale. You also end up befriending other creatures but they don't stay long. At some point when her original head is found you befriend a gun and the ending depends on who you pick which is the teeth or the gun. The game has two different endings but to me they don't really look that different.

@Anonymous-bi5pv

5 ай бұрын

boosting

@GrannyBender

5 ай бұрын

Yep, seems pretty cool

@stemcellwhoax

5 ай бұрын

yes

@nocturnalme3685

15 күн бұрын

Interesting!!

These videos are so strangely comforting

****gasp**** I'm a "real" vampire? Oh wait, no.. almost all these traits I answered yes to, are related to my autism. Talk about one hell of a misdiagnosis. Thank goodness I don't live in Buffy land!

@SatanicPizza-fo2ei

5 ай бұрын

No way you just threw BTVS under the bus like that 😭 She is even called the Slayer, sure some vampires survive the encounter with her and I like Spike, but being a vampire in the Buffyverse isn't as awesomely Twilight esque as one would believe. I'd rather be a sparkly super vampire than a Buffy vampire, because being a Buffy vampire sounds plainly painful and you're not even you, unless the demon possessing you decided it wants to get the soul back, which is excruciating and unlikely for a demon to do Edit: I just saw the points making you a vampire lmao, still nothing seemed specifically ripped from Buffy

@infinitivez

5 ай бұрын

@SatanicPizza-fo2ei I said I'm glad I don't live in her universe because I'd hate to be mistaken for a vamp and staked. And knowing my lack of rizz, I wouldn't be as lucky as Spike. 😄

@SatanicPizza-fo2ei

5 ай бұрын

@@infinitivez Lmao, fair enough xD Oh! I misunderstood your comment too :' Thanks for the clarification, I thought you were bad mouthing BTVS because of that one vampire obsessed guy, I didn't realize the joke. Dang, sorry

@infinitivez

5 ай бұрын

@SatanicPizza-fo2ei np! And I wouldn't dare insult our queen. Which reminds me, I really should binge watch the series again, it's been years. I just don't wanna deal with that "ending" 😩

Are you lost?

@TheRealBiggusDickus

5 ай бұрын

Not anymore now that you're here.

@thalamicfuture9304

5 ай бұрын

yeah

@sirspookybones1118

5 ай бұрын

A little bit, do you know where the nearest bus stop is?

@turtleofpride4572

5 ай бұрын

Are you Found?

@OkamiLyra

5 ай бұрын

Entirely. Can you point me to the nearest palce to get some cheese pizza? Not the microwave or oven stuff.

great video! it's nice to see more content of people actually exploring worlds as opposed to going on about how "creepy/weird/haunted" it is; it's a game that deserves a more nuanced discussion. i hope you'll do another video on some more of the custom worlds as well - you get a mix of both new and old user-generated content and it's absolutely fascinating. kinda like mini time capsules of the internet. but i'm rambling now lol - keep up the great work!

@ExpertContrarian

5 ай бұрын

I’m so tired of gen z’s ranting about how creepy and liminal stuff like this is.

@Reese1010

5 ай бұрын

@@ExpertContrarian tbh i'd chalk some of that up to it being a fear of the unknown, but beyond that i agree. i think it's just easier for a lot of people to point out how "weird/creepy/scary" something like worlds is because it gets views and traction. but in the process you lose the historical significance and creativity that lies within it. worlds has a pretty niche, yet active community for example; there's also a wide array of people who play it [& have been playing for decades]. it's just a shame to see people reduce it to nothing more than some weird/creepy section of the internet - not to say it /CANT/ be weird, but you get the idea.

I stumbled across a old Sade fan website from like 92 (during their Love Deluxe era). This was around the early 00's. I was shocked that websites were that old back then. I also think the old Space Jam website still worked too.

"Real vampire energy auras" Ah to be young again

Okay so as weird as it is the sneezing thing probably has a fairly logical explanation, there's a number of people who, for some reason, sneeze when they get turned on because like bodies get wired funny, so it's probably one of those things where it's pretty likely that the wires get crossed really easily even if your body doesn't inherently have the reaction to sneeze when things get sexy

@MarcyTheKindaCoolWizard

5 ай бұрын

Yeah ive seen that being appearently the explanation for most fetishes "wires crossed", usually while growing up

Another great vid sacrow, youve quickly become one of my favorite youtubers.

Oh, that totally explains something from when I was a teen. Had a friend who was convinced she was a vampire who used to always say own at the slightest little nudge & would never explain why.

Pretty sure I've been to a funeral that could only be described as a "ranch style area"

Just found your channel thanks to the other abandoned internet video and I'm hooked. When I was a kid I played a game called Furcadia (never was a furry, but I didn't have many games and my buddy's older sis had it on their family computer and the name stuck with me long enough I ended up playing when I was 11 or 12) and for some reason I got curious and hopped back on just a few months back. Seeing places that used to be full of people, some of whom stayed friends outside of the game for lufe (One of whom I'm currently engaged to in my 30s), so empty was definitely a liminal experience. Almost made me sad tbh, even though I definitely encountered things child me never should have on there 😂

These worlds really are a time capsule. It's incredible how the internet has evolved since then. I'd love to know what the in-game background music originates from. Especially the slasher-like theme.

Another great video, seriously love this channel

Yes! I was hoping for part 2, thank you! :)

I thought I was just super generic but it turns out I might be a vampire

When I was in middle school I found a book on vampires in the school library. It was a documentary type of book, with the author exploring the history of the vampire myth, the popularity of vampire fiction, and even mentioned the vampire subculture of the 80-90-00's. On this particular subject he wrote of how he took an interview from two individuals - a man and a woman - who claimed to be vampires. He described them as 20-30-something, wearing all black, and one of them (I think the woman) having floor-length hair. When he asked them if they wanted some blood to drink, they said that they'd prefer a mixture of tomato and orange juice, claiming that it was the same thing. :D

Love your narration and absolutely love these excursions into forgotten corners of the web. There’s something weirdly comforting about these explorations-probably my nostalgia from the dozens of hours I spent by myself, exploring Halo Custom Edition maps and Gmod/Half-Life 1&2 mods and levels.

Constant issues with technology and a bad habit of being awake at night? Guess I'm a vampire then. But also not a vampire at the same exact time, since it looks like Steven enjoyed using "yes, and also no" as a response. Can't help but agree with Sacrow that this dude sounded like your usual gothic LARPer. Had his own biases about what vampires are, and then saw them in himself later, while also trying to pass it off as a natural discovery and not just living a fantasy.

I love the flesh basement maze. kind of a banger

I remember playing this when I first got a computer in the late 90s. I was probably 9 or 10 years old. From what I remember, there used to be alot of people online. Definitely easier now seeing it empty.

It's an interesting feeling being old enough to have lived through all of this stuff, visited many of the sites in their prime and then warch younger people discover the ruins of it left behind.

I don't know about anyone.... But I am hooked to this guy's stuff man. This is literally and legitimately what I've been looking for. No bs over edited clickbait videos or anything. Just simpulll fax...... Sick video dude!❤

I don't know why, but when you were talking about the sneezing website, I just felt kinda sad. There was some sort of melancholic aura around it. As if this person just kept the site because it felt comforting, but other people would ostracize them for being weirdo's... That's what I felt about it.

As someone who meets all the vampire criteria, I can confirm that I’m just a normal person who doesn’t go outside enough.

Games like these, with old textures and pictures, and the overall style of the game, just gives me this weird sense of nostalgia that makes me feel like I’ve played these types of games even though I never have, it’s sort of unexplainable in a way.

well, i started freaking out when you read through the traits of a "real vampire". guess i am count günther from today on.

i went onto worlds myself to see if this “cult” was true, one of the users sent me a link to i feel fantastic, thinking i’d find that super creepy or something. safe to say i closed the game not long after lol

@roseclimbpaintcont

4 ай бұрын

I love that song!

There's something about that sneezing website that makes me really miss the old internet. Maybe it's the bizarre innocence of it, maybe because it makes me think of an old Cracked video... Also what the hell was up with that Animal House thing?!

@wasppoison1

24 күн бұрын

the whole of that website was much more innocent than the front page of most p*rn sites now, promoting pretty messed up fetishes right off the bat not that I'm into sneezing, but that didn't scar me like how the modern p*do/inc*st titled vids everywhere can

That’s so weird that they made a virtual world for a frat party comedy movie so horror-ish

glossed right over the Hanson room, i'm crying

It'd be fun to make a fleshed out horror game from the environments of the abandoned internet.

The vampire guy is like those pirates in media that don't do anything even remotely resembling naval looting, pillaging and murder

smartphones and smartphone culture are to blame for Internet not having evolved into a VR-chat-centric Internet

I played worlds for a few months with my ex in the late 00's and while mostly abandoned there was always a small club of regulars with one dude always using some creepy animal skin, I forgot what it was a deer or something. he'd also often teleport behind you while you were alone exploring worlds and barely ever spoke, usually only in riddles if he did. once a week or so you could enter a quiz with the mods and other newbies and if you won the quiz you would get gold membership for a week or two. exploring worlds was pretty awesome.

Man, I have all those vampire traits. Definitely not a vampire though, can confirm

if you run it in compatibility mode you can see other people that still play worlds

The Twilight era of my teenage years was such cringe. I had to threaten my peers with physical violence sometimes to get them to stop LARPing as werewolves and vampires on a daily basis. It's one thing to pretend for fun, it's another to resort to growling and hissing because you really believe you are some night creature.

There was this old website my friend and I found (around 2007 or so) where people logged their super powers and their super power names. We would put up dumb joke ones but people on it seemed like they were serious about their powers. I cant find it and cant remember what the name of the website was. You should try and find it and document it!

I didn't know about any of these, thanks!

Liminal spaces will always have a draw to them, though I never related them to nostalgia or that aspect I never connected until it became a thing on the internet I read about. Empty game worlds and old websites have a feel of their own. Never cringed so hard at the vampire part. You can see how the supernatural/mythos aspect was dropped in recent decades for the "the science" explaining everything in fiction; likely these same people headcanoning their supposed vampirism into the medium.

Happy to see Worlds actually getting love for once, instead of "CULT IN A DEAD MMO :O !!!! SCARY!!!" been a user since a whim in 2021 and wow, there's an entire storied history to every world. Somebody, be it decades ago or just last year, made the worlds that we now roam, and it's pretty cool to say the least.

BTW: those flesh walls should've been the wallpaper for the metal music room coupled with some Mire Lore or Thy Art is Murder playing in the background.

i love this series

Im not sure what would be more creepy. Having be empty or coming across someone who never really left.

I still play / explore worlds. I'm rather young, but i adore early internet aesthetic. This is like a virtual graveyard. I hope it'll never be forgotten.

That music in the basement of the Animal House map sounds a lot like Tubular Bells, although it might be a bit off? It was made famous by its inclusion in The Exorcist. Also, I'm pretty sure human heart rates naturally adjust to match the person sleeping next to them.

It will always amaze me that to me at the time, stuff like this wasn't scary to me, but as an adult who has experienced modern games, I can see now why one would feel that.

Very dream like, I've had dreams that literally looked like some of these images

this was made to be seen on a CRT, So you aren't seeing the walls @15:45 authentically. They were meant to be seen in a more blurred stone texture.

18:00 Oh hell no lmao, I had to stop the video. Also it kind of tripped me out. I inherit like 3/4ths of the vampire tropes from the website. I know it's made up but it's pretty funny.

According to their list of "vampire" traits. I'm a vampire due to my suffering of light sensitive migraines.

I like how all the traits for being a vampire are really just autism lmao

Oh yo I had that game! It was pretty fun. Like VRChat, you can edit and create your own avatar.

I love how spooked he gets by the Animal House one because like It’s not remotely spooky if you have context at all for what Animal House is or have seen the film lmao

I forgot Vampire website existed 😭I used to be really into the whole vampire craze thing being obsessed with people like Don Henrie and other shit like that.

I can definitely believe that mid 2000s emo kids who were obsessed with Twilight could delude themselves into thinking they were 'vampires'.

I explored worlds back when 4chan first discovered dit and got to see nexialist in person.

it's simple the hanson brothers is his hidden shame LUL, Great video 👍🏽

So as far as fetishes starting in childhood...um...Gargoyles the animated series *might* have contributed to my monster interest. 👀

@wyltedleaves

5 ай бұрын

ah, fellow monster fxcker

aw man, i had the worst cold up until this morning. you're telling me i could've filmed my sneezing fits and sent them to fetishists?! all the potential earnings...

I could not take the vampire website stuff seriously

Wtf i was asleep and woke up to this video

@Hellstrom1939

2 ай бұрын

That would have been trippy.

Love your work, please remain as awesome as you are, a lot of KZreadrs become wicked cringe

Ik this is unrelated to this video but it’s cool that your also an MCR fan I love MCR

Life gets in the way, but not so much that you can't spare $$ a year to leave it up online as part of the net, or because you're sure you'll finally get round to updating it someday. (Some people actually forget about it and apparently never check their bank statements.)

I would love this game if the music rooms actually played the genre of music omg the metal one is giving 🤘🏼

The developers of this really put the "graphic" in "graphic design".

19:17 It'd be pretty funny if this inspired Caine's design. Maybe thats unlikely, I don't know. Heheh! Thats so weird, they just put random weird stuff in. ,': D

Having your avatar looking like Morpheus just made it look like you're traveling through other people's dreams and nightmares...

real life 2023 simulator.

*Hearing the description of real vampires.* That's autism, fam. That's literally just autism.

Got this game on a huge roll of Databand.

I love all these old relics of the Internet. Makes me think of a different time. n o s t a l g i a t r i p

Seems like a good way for covert communications.

This is the inspiration behind VRChat - Change my mind

It's weird and really pretty sad that people now consider empty rooms and npcs welcoming you as "scary" or "unsettling" we've become so incredibly weak as a society.

Can i req about a game called skyscrapersim? A game about building and elevator from early 00s. The game is just empty and the 00s graphic will make you feel trapped in windows xp computer😅😅

What's with all the new videos popping up on KZread lately using the Silent Hill 4 soundtrack? Is it in the Creator Library now?

"A real person........or a clown"

I met Nex a few times they were chill, my bestie was good friends with them.

I met Nexalist back in thel ate 2000s, he was going around to everyone, and he wouldnt really talk just guide you andb e weird

People still make those little websites that almost no one sees - made a few myself!

Half way through and hoping you're finding the Blair witch world

cool content, cool way of showing it, cool voice. I felt pretty at home watching this video. you have a lot of potential!

Great.. I always say ow when I run into something regardless if it hurt or not. Not sure why I do this, but I do talk to myself a lot (though most of the time it is only mentally.) I also have light sensitivity aka I freaking hate bright sunny days. Grey Overcast days with a slight wind and fog and maybe some sprinkles of rain, makes me super comfortable. Then again.. I fall asleep listening to horror stories. I guess if you look at it logically I have some of the traits inherent to popular vampire lore, but that's pretty much every Introvert basically, I am just a big more introverted than normal I think.😉😒 Now I need to go re watch the Angel series again. 🙃

Vampires were also big on IMVU in 2010

basically vrchat in the 90s wow

The guy describing 'real' vampires was EXACTLY like a horoscope. Vague, general and heavy on equivocation.