Okay, House of Leaves adaptation idea:
The protag is a content farm reaction YouTuber with only 50 subs. After nearly a decade of trying different content styles, they’ve never been able to get their channel off the ground; becoming disillusioned with their dreams of internet fame. One day, one of protag’s friends sends them a link with the caption “could make for some good reaction content”.
The link leads protag to a YouTube playlist but…there’s something not right about the layout of the page. It’s still YouTube, but the UI is more reminiscent of how YouTube was design back in 2012 with slight variations. The playlist itself contains a multi-part video essay about Zampanó and The Navidson Records uploaded by someone called “Jruant”. Despite a lack of eye catching thumbnails or clickbait titles, each video is raking in anywhere from 5-10 million views. The comments and likes on each video are disabled. Stranger still, each video is unlisted. Protag goes to Jruant’s channel and finds only 3 publicly available videos with a couple thousand views from 20 years ago.
Protag is weirded out by the whole situation, especially since they’ve never heard of “Zampanó” or “The Navidson Records”; but if it’s raking in views, why not give it a shot?
The story plays out as protag uploads reactions to the video essays, inter-spliced with personal blog style videos between each video. We watch as protag becomes more and more invested in Jruant’s analysis of a book that doesn’t exist about a movie that doesn’t exist. Protag’s spiral doesn’t truly begin until they noticed something strange in the third video. A blink and you’ll miss it url at the bottom corner of the screen. Protag realizes there’s a fun ARG element to these videos and begins meticulously combing through each video, finding different links, downloadables, QR codes, etc.
It’s all fun and games for protag until they realize that Jruant’s videos and all these ARG clues draw direct parallels to their life.
Idk, just workshopping it
areudirty
dailybridgerton
vaporwave
origamiaround
snowghoul
prguitarman
kianamaiart
