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Digital Horror
Digital Horror is a ruby.Digital Horror (or Digitroon Horror[nophono says this]) is a genre of horror narratives defined by their being expressed through digital mediums such as video games, your computer desktop, and the internet. It is the spiritual successor to analog horror, and as such, shares many of its characteristics. Most of these series try to be A24 spine-chilling gems but usually fail at this task and end up being cheap troonslop. There is significant intersection between online digital horror series and the 'ARG' 'genre', with many 'digital horror' series being ARGs and vice versa.
Many popular series take place in Source engine games, which is explained by nostalgia (for older Gen Zers) and oldfag dysphoria (for newer Gen Zers/cacas). Also because Oh my fauci it's just like my heckin' liminal spaces!!!
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- Gunslingerpro2009 - A Youtube 'ARG' where the protagonist tortures sentient TF2 ragdolls in Garry's Mod, or something.
- BadwaterVideos2009 - Blatant copy of the above except that the premise is completely different.[Marge...] After releasing the final episode of the series, the creator linked his xitter instead of remaining anonymous, revealing ximself to be a (self-proclaimed) 'Fat' bisexual MtF troon with ADHD[1] (GEEEEEEG).
- INTERLOPER/PROJECT SKYBOX - Popular Youtube 'ARG' webseries where the narrator investigates a ghost which haunts the Source engine across multiple games. Arguably good in many ways but is ruined by terribly unconvincing voice acting and the creator's inclusion of xis female OC which is there for seemingly no reason other than to affirm xis gender. There's a scary man with an umbrella coming towards me and piano notes oyy my goddddddd
- crossfire_fun - Half-Life 1 series where a guy discovers a unique variant of the crossfire multiplayer map which turns out to be haunted by some digital AIDS ghost that infects players through itself (or something).
- SERVERBLIGHT - Revolves around the experiences of various TF2 players with the titular Serverblight, a digital abomination which lurks around in a multiplayer servers. It lures in new players by using mimicry to make the game look normal, before disabling the 'quit' button (somehow) and morphing into its true, inconceivably unsightly form to try to assimilate them into itself, in the process also taking over their bodies in real life through the computer.
- Petscop - One of the early pioneers of this genre. Pædocynical famously made a video about the series while it was ongoing but never made another, which made his fans seethe for years (geg).
