#nightmind

[heathermooch]

Fifteen years. Darkharvest00 has been with me my entire adult life. This little web series that Chris and Alex created back when we were kids in high school spawned some of the most amazing things of my life. When I agreed to help Chris film some videos for Youtube, still a very new website and nothing like it is today, I didn't realize the impact of that decision. I remember when Chris & Alex would tell me about this fandom of some "series" called Marble Hornets, I had no idea what they were talking about but it seemed cool enough. So the summer of 2012, going through some of the worst moments of my life, I found community and solace and a distraction with these fun people from every corner of the world. My friendships strengthened with my childhood friends who all worked on the series, I met my best friend because he happened to answer a casting call for one of our videos. Most of my closest friends are the other creators I made deep friendships with during this time. I traveled to visit friends and had friends travel to me, back when having internet friends was still passé. But most importantly, I found community. I found a community of like minded weirdos, imaginative creatives, artists, storytellers, visuals, and a few bad apples that I refuse to let spoil the bunch. Because overall, the "Slenderverse" as it became known as, it really saved my life. I am continuously inspired by my friends and peers I made throughout this journey.

When 'Slender: The Eight Pages' came out, made by a member of this Slenderverse community, not a single person could have imagined what commenced. An AVALANCHE of memes, one of the internet's first cultural explosions, the popularization of Let's Play Youtubers, plenty of "I was here BEFORE" the game smug comments, people learning and playing along with the various ARGs, and oh my god the fucking memes. Some of my favorite creators on Youtube got their start playing Slender. Hell, FNAF wouldn't have existed if not for Slender. Everyone knew about this weird internet boogeyman, the lore built upon the hard work of Marble Hornets, expanded upon by the fanstastic ARG of EveryManHybrid, every single Slender vlog big & small and deepened with the Slenderblogs like SeekingTruth (both often thanklessly). We even got a shitty movie in 2018 that proved to everyone that even with a big budget production, they could never ever touch the earnestness and true love for the Slender Man lore as this community did for $0. Passion is what made the Slenderverse.

Those tears at the end of Log Entry 40: The Harvest were real tears. Me coming to terms with the closing of one of the most important books of my life. Chris, I know I say it ad nauseam, but thank you. Not only are you one of the most inspiring people I've met - seriously every medium this guy creates is GOLD! - but you introduced me to a major part of my identity. I am eternally grateful for the opportunities I gained from this. To the OG Slenderverse Creators Group family, thanks for the infinite amount of goofs and gaffs (and the occasional drama but that's the cost of community), Group Poop threads (iykyk), and late night Tinychat video calls. Thank you to Valerie Santiago @vluisasantiago of RedRedHat for revitalizing the Slenderverse to a new community and encouraging them to create, collaborate, and tell their stories. Thank you to Alex Hera and Rainn Dalton for the fantastic documentary that depicted that era of Youtube so accurately I was wonderfully stunned. Thank you to Troy, Tim, and Joseph of Marble Hornets for realizing that more could be made from that Something Awful thread. Thank you to all the fans who have created amazing fan art of all types & mediums, I save every piece I see out of admiration and appreciation. Thank you to all the viewers who have stayed to the end - fifteen years is quite the journey and accomplishment. Thank you for the outpouring of gratitude and amazing comments, seeing our vision and embracing our ending, and telling us how much Darkharvest00 changed your life too. I believe there was no other way to conclude the series other than the masterpiece Chris made. Thank you all, my life is forever changed and I'm so overwhelmed with gratitude right now. Thank you Darkharvest00. Cheers to 15 years.

[slenbee]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO!

Sadly my bestie is asleep atm so it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

I'M SO HYPED AAAA

[redbird-art]

Been watching Nightmind play Shipwrecked 64. It's a normal game!

[jonnyappleseed333]

New SMLWIKI analysis video!! took me so long to make and i had fun doing the research for it all!! hope you guys might like it as well!

[starry-feathers]

[ranmagender]

multi-hour long videos on youtube my beloved

[melodymizu]

🐈‍⬛🦇The Temptress and the Proselyte🪼👻

Elon and Naarah from the interactive webseries CatGhost by Krispy Animation Studios (@krispystudios on Twit)

Still one of my obsessions to this day

[theoneiroveil]

Did you wake up on October 1st, 2016 to a very strange channel in your subscription box on Youtube?

Well if not, here is a little bit that channel.

Soursalt is a series that began in 2016 with roughly 600 people waking up subscribed to it without knowing. That's a very real thing that happened, which is a great selling point of the story.

Over the next few days these weirdly edited potato-quality home videos get uploaded and nobody has any idea what's going on. Some descriptions keep changing, some are pieces of conversations, etc. People are immediately hooked because what the fuck is going on? Then Madman Re starts getting mentioned, is it a place, a God, Freddy Krueger, who knows. More cryptic and weird dream videos get uploaded and then suddenly there's a break. This is the end of the prologue of the story.

Suddenly, we started getting rapid fire uploads a few months later of these two idiots making a really shitty ghost hunter parody knock off sketch. This is basically meant to be like a needle in the haystack for viewers. There are moments in these videos that are completely filler and just dumb comedy or filler -- b u t there are teases that something is up sprinkled within these videos. You'll have one of them mention the path looks different (implying they scouted it out before hand), or they'll hear or see something the camera just straight up doesn't see of pick up. This continues on until it's obviously getting dark, but we don't see their journey home. Instead, a few days later, we're treated to another sketch. This time shit gets fucky.

The two do the Ghost Guy routine on a haunted road by the woods, but as the move past the housed area towards the side of the park, their patience with each other starts running thin, they start hearing strange things, and feeling off. After taking a break off the road in a nearby Gazebo, they find a mysterious grave site and a stuffed monkey. Here, we learn out of character that they were filming at locations posted on a strange forum ; the same one implied to have launched the Soursalt spread.

After getting covered in some shit, blood and rot the characters introduce the audience to the Madman of Re as Aidan "Ghost Guy" Calloway touches the Window of a spooky run down bus and a ghastly hand touches his back -- all separated thematically by … a Window.

And this is where Soursalt takes you, into the Window; a terrifying physical nightmare space that seperates the viewer from their body and traps them in their own mind, a mind that can be easily manipulated by the Madman of Re.

BUT WAIT

This is only the end's beginning.

Timeskip -- Seven Years Later:

The story returns with Eulacram on the eve of the Spread's seven year anniversary following Aidan as he struggles to live with the trauma of his past and present following the events he experienced in Soursalt. It's at this point where the shattering of Aidan's mind takes literal form and we're presented with various versions of him through a system that he calls the Crucible Channel.

Meanwhile, another entity has pursued the same goal as Madman Re and sought out those that were victims of various Spreads to put together what it calls the Eulacram Tribute, a tournament of survival that allows those touched by the Oneiroveil (the dream realm the Window is in) to compete for an evolution of their flesh. Aidan and the other Spread victims are unknowingly pulled into a shared dream where it seems reality is once again being manipulated as their lives are being toyed with. However, Aidan's access to the Crucible Channel may be prove useful in saving him and the other victims from this new nightmare.

Eulacram is designed both as an Epilogue to Soursalt and its own series. While Soursalt is to be seen as a more found-footage style story, Eulacram utilizes the idea posed by the prologue that the entity can create videos with dreams, to showcase a cinematic-like view of events within the story. Some episodes can transition between hand-held, cinematic handheld, and cinematic third person, to allow for a unique approach on telling the story.

New viewers of the series can pick up with Act 1 or Act 2 Eulacram (on 10/1/23) without having fully watched Soursalt or Eulacram's prologue ; which will allow for an easier transition into the new content while everything you need to know will be given to you through the story. Viewers of the past content, and even those part of the first 600 subscribers will get the full experience though, as they will have seen the journey of some of these characters from the beginning, understanding the trauma that led them to becoming who they are today.

Soursalt // Eulacram is unlike any other web series you have seen, or dreamed. It's dark, gritty, there's a talking lizard, it's sharp and brutal at times ; but comedic, light hearted and emotional at others. The characters feel real, their pain feels real. If you're looking for web series horror that breaks the mould, takes risks, and isn't afraid to pop out an eye or two… or three… or ---

Then on October 1st, 2023, you should wake up to a very strange channel in your subscription box on Youtube.

This is that channel.