ChezzKids Archive - A Terrifying Digital Horror
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:44 ChezzKids Archive
52:05 Website Part 1
01:11:33 Other Social Media
01:26:15 Website Part 2
01:41:48 Theory & Analysis
01:57:53 Closing Thoughts
Music Used (In Order):
♫ DietSnapple135 - Run 2 Theme
♫ Yume 2kki - Lotus Water
♫ Yume 2kki - Cog Maze
♫ Yume 2kki - Radiant Ruins
♫ Yume 2kki - Lonely Apartments
♫ Yume 2kki - Green Neon World
♫ Yume 2kki - Cutlery World
♫ Yume 2kki - Aquarium
♫ Yume 2kki - Constellation World
♫ Yume 2kki - Carnival Town
♫ Yume 2kki - Coffeeman
♫ Yume 2kki - Teleport Maze
♫ Yume 2kki - Neon Candle World
♫ Yume 2kki - Mansion Terrace
♫ Yume 2kki - Dojo Space
♫ Yume 2kki - Cocktail Lounge
♫ Yume 2kki - Burial Desert
♫ Yume 2kki - GALAXY Building Balcony
♫ Yume 2kki - Paradise
♫ Yume 2kki - Path to Grass World
♫ Yume 2kki - Cat Cemetery
♫ Yume 2kki - CMYK Tiles World
♫ Yume 2kki - Red Rock Caves
♫ Yume 2kki - Sea Sponge Path
#chezzkids #analoghorror #digitalhorror #arg #videoessay 
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“No berries?” *vine boom* “No carrots?” *vine boom* “No flowers, *VINE BOOM* or peas?” *VINE B O O M*
Lol
No humor? *vine boom*
"No peaches?"
"No serah?" *VINE BOOM*
no cherries? CHERRIES? CHERRIES? CHERRIES? CHERRIES? CHERRIES?
22:08
-Walks up to you
-Says nothing
-Looks to the left ominously
-Refuse to elaborate further
-Leaves
Beware or else you'll be Rick rolled so be careful. 😰
Guys this is so sad, y'all don't know what my boi Benny is going through right now, all he wanted to do was ask what you want from the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell and y'all didn't let him speak. Like on god, fr fr, this is not cash money or bussin' at all.
@@PeppinoSpaghetti189
So unfair :(
Chad behavior
@@PeppinoSpaghetti189
The *FAMOUS* Pizza bell! Or Taco Hut!
"The Way We Love" is a beautiful poem that perfectly expresses the complexity of being in an abusive relationship
it's one of my favorite poems and i hate the fact that it is from this. i have sent it to my english teacher and we have analyzed it in our poetry club (outside of the context of the series, more as just a poem)
@@bird.brainsssWhy do you hate that it's from this?
@@chriiiiis i was being a little silly, but it's also kinda like one of the most emotional and deep poems is from an agr about a blue cat named Chezzter
The thing that got me about it was, considering that it was Harry who wrote it in the story, it implies that Sarah was the abuser not much attention is given to that kind of thing IRL (edit:don't make what he did right)
@@shemasmcguire3999In my opinion it's a representation of delusion. It's really common for emotionally immature/unstable people and people with attachment issues to jump to blaming people for pulling away when the real reason is their own actions. You don't have to be abusive to be a bad partner. You don't have to be a bad partner for your partner to want to leave you. Some people don't understand that and think they’re entitled to a happily ever after, so when their partner wants to leave, they see their partner as a bad, selfish person who's taking away that happily ever after. Based on the fact that Harry mentions that Sarah didn't seem to want to talk to him outside of work before they got together, it's pretty clear that Sarah was not initially interested in him and he toes the line of being a stalker with how obsessed he is with her.
I'm really loving this recent resurgence of "digital horror" that are told via these old internet videos that were recorded from the mid 2000s to early 2010s.
This might be abit off topic, but I see you comment often on horror videos and am interested in what you say, must be coincidence
where is the swaggy g arg/ analog horror lmao?
Same!! Seems like we’ve moved to 2000s nostalgia for horror series recently & I’m here for it as well as the existing analog 80s/90s (or earlier) themed horror ^^
@@acidkyledaLSDj Oddly enough, I do have an idea for a horror series of my own that I always wanted to do, but I don't have much in resources.
@@SwaggyG_2102 Im working on some stuff myself writing and fliming some bits. id be honored if the Swaggy -G watched and commented on my series if and when it comes to fruition :)
I agree with a lot of your theory, but the main difference with mine is that I think ALHENA is the _true_ murderer of Sarah and Harry, who killed Sarah in the woods and left her for Harry to find, only to strike him while he's vulnerable, trying to cover up the murder he has been led to believe he himself committed.
ALHENA seems to know a _lot_ about Sarah and Harry, like their love and attempted marriage, secrets hidden on their website like the "Embittered Carrots" secret, and of course the fact that they are even dead rather than simply missing. And even knows things that neither Sarah nor Harry would want exposed, like Harry's very raw and personal feelings poured into his poems, and Sarah not being the saint she seems to literally paint herself as.
I think ALHENA was someone, or maybe even _something,_ that already knew them in life, perhaps maybe even _watching them_ during their secret visits to the woods; and became obsessed with them.
Obsessions, especially obsessions bordering on the _unhealthy,_ being a major recurring theme in the ChezzKids overarching story.
Why ALHENA is obsessed with them isn't entirely known, but seeing as I interprit ALHENA as the mysterious Blue Heart with eyes that keeps showing up, most notably in one of ALHENA's own videos _peering out of the darkness of what appear to be the woods,_ perhaps ALHENA was obsessed with their _genuine and passionate love,_ vicariously living through it
With it likely being no coincidence that they died almost immediately after their love died, perhaps ALHENA murdered them so that they could "stay together" and continue to be _lovers in death._
I also want to add that I think him splashing Sarah was an accident, or at the very least he didn't realize what he was doing
A lot of things surrounding Harry suggest he's a very passive and sensitive person, wears his heart on his sleeve, and cares to a faulting degree; the type to shrink away from conflict than do or say something to cause it, something Sarah has been shown to _not_ have any issue with doing.
When he calls Sarah, he voices genuine concern, but he's very nervous, timid, speaking barely above a hushed tone, as if scared of raising his voice even slightly at her
In his poem "The way we love", all the abusive and unloving things are never coming from him, it's always _"You":_ "love is the way you yell at me", "love is the way you call me weak", which checks out as Sarah's texture letter to her employees was written in a _very_ abusive manner
I think when that incident happened with the Boiling Water, Harry was trying to do work, but Sarah came uninvited and they argued.
I think things just, for lack of a better term, boiled over. Harry's emotions caught up with him, and he finally snapped, and did the first thing that came into his mind.
Splash her in the face with the water he was holding. He might have forgotten it was boiling in his passion, or just did it in reflex without realizing to lash out.
And I don't think he realized the gravity of what it was he did until he found her body later.
dude. this is the coolest theory, it makes a lot of sense to me!
Agreed on your ALHENA theory!! I think it was most likely a disgruntled chezzkids dev, or something along those lines, since the workplace atmosphere always seems to be referenced, and we never got a clear answer on Sarah's friend.
On that note, I definitely looked at the "using boiling water to grow plants" thing in a more, allegorical sense? ig, I saw it as someone wanting to save the thing they love the most so desperately that it ends up just harming the thing? which fits many points in the series (Chezzkid's whole development, Harry wanting things to work out between him and Sarah, etc.)
Matchmaker killer bruh
I think it was Ellen. Because we know she made all the art for the game. But oddly enough, she basically never gets mentioned. I imagine she would be mad to have her hardwork lost just because the site was buggy. Plus, what better way to joke about a buggy site then her representing Sarah as Woodsie.
The bright colours and low quality is honestly haunting. Reminds me of the walten files, but hits different. It really looks like an early flash game in that regard
is the walten files finished ? i don't think I've heard from them in a long time
@@sludgeskinno it still isn't, I guess because all masterpieces take time.
@@sludgeskin walten files isn’t finished but it isn’t being left unfinished, the creator took a long break and is working on the fourth instalment, which is apparently going to be over an hour in length, so it isn’t surprising how long it’s taking to me completed
@@ranchustars3050 and if I remember correctly, someone important (perhaps a family member) passed away, making him take a longer break
It is
I do sorta appreciate that in the story, Sarah was also abusive towards people, and Harrison rather than just another “unstable man kills normal spouse/girlfriend”.
Ofc not to mean “she deserved it” or that “harrison was innocent”. >:|
Ugh, the description of “crunchy” referring to Sarah’s bug character made me jump to conclusions that she may of been eaten…
Since they’re missing (as well as never being recovered) and that they were last in a forest, it could be implied that wild animals came along the bodies and well… would know what “texture” they had, or something along those lines. Since they were burned, it’d be “crunchy”, could explain some of the other pics that appear in the videos.
Yup
I mean crunchy is not a description exclusive to eating. Stepping on leaves makes a crunch, breaking a bone makes a crunch.
I mean, if Harrison did actually burn Sarah's corpse after killing her, the "crunchy" part would make sense since she would've been a little bit...
*c w i s p y*
would it then be "unstable man kills abusive gf"? (im just askin cuz i often get stuff wrong im very dumb)
If digital horror becomes as oversaturated as analog horror I will cry. But seeing how unique things are going I have high hopes
It is an inevitability. It's best not to see it as "I hope it doesn't get oversaturated" and rather "fuck it. I catched the ride early so I can enjoy the good ones as they come"
@@Danku this is a great way to view it, digital horror is on the cusp of getting more popular and im just glad im here to witness it still in its infancy
@@Danku Exactly, enjoy it while it's still new, though maybe don't completely disregard it when it gets big, just because a genre is oversaturated doesn't mean you can't find the odd hidden gem from time to time.
every genre will become oversaturated, digital horror is basically analog horror at a base level, which takes the whole not scary thing becoming scary which was popularized by five nights at freddys which was inspired by movies similar to the shining containing scary children, etc etc. just because a genre becomes popular doesn't mean that the genres bad, because everything has its roots in older concepts and horror as a genre will continue to evolve. flash horror is big right now too because y2k has been a big topic for nostalgia recently, and in a couple or so years we're gonna be nostalgic for things like indie games and rpg maker horror and the cycle will continue yk ?
I HOPE it gets significantly more saturated because most digital horror series including this one have been absolutely fucking TRASH so far. This series in particular is straight garbage!
Chezzkids is a perfect example of how to do horror in general, let alone digital horror. It literally does feel like an early 2000s flash game.
The only thing that's not bang on for an early 2000s flash game is that the voice acting is actually really good. 😂
how is it an example of how to do horror? genuine question btw because I see so many comments like this on every semi new piece of analog/online horror to come out and no one ever clarifies what they mean
@@geordie4697 it's hype, people say this about everything if it makes them excited. From my own perspective at least, chezzkids is interesting, albeit similar to most other forms of analog horror, its riddled with jumpscares, garbled crunchy audio, and "oough face scary" that are par for the course. There is literally no difference in how it's employed here versus something like Walten Files, Harmony and Horror, or early mandela catalogue.
What makes chezzkids fascinating to me at least, and probably why this comment gets thrown around a lot, is that it's got an interesting twist for what form of technology it's using. Most analog horror utilizes vhs tapes, and we're starting to see a resurgence in 2000's flash nostalgia, so the utilization of that feels interesting and unique to most people.
@OhCrapMyFishWhy that makes sense. to me it feels like I see the exact same "this is different, amazing and exactly how you should do horror" comment on every new analog horror so it makes sense that it's mostly baseless hype. thank you for your perspective though! :)
@@geordie4697 it's just people who don't really know how to write and the like getting over hyped on something they like. People were literally saying that about UrbanSPOOK and how it was the second coming of Jesus Horror Christ and now everyone hates on it cause all it is is mindless gore and saw involving children
1:17:47 “Fun fact, Harry was actually singing: Don’t sit under the apple tree-“
Your controller has disconnected.
Ehehe I ruined the 123 likes lol
It’s 124 now 🤑
low key that freaked me out so bad😂😂
. . o h -
legit thought i was tweaking when that happened
For Sarah’s injury it’s probably boiling water. On my Phone i was able to enter the "key" page of chezzkids and when i clicked long enough on the picture it didn’t read what you said it would’ "nevermore" and instead says myfacefeelslikeitsonfireitstingsomuch well clearing implying some kind of a burn to the face if Sarah is the target of the message.
i wonder how many other images have had their titles/alt texts changed and people just never noticed it...
Looked up the uncensored picture of her face and yah it was 100% boiling water.
Yup makes sense for it to be boiling water because in the Christmas special song we see her face and it looks like it's boiled
As a recent person who has tried this out,can confirm. It does say as you said it would.
Woodsy worm (sarah) saying "goodbye forever" can also be connected to the smiling man poem?
"Upon the fridge
Was a note that said
Goodbye"
WOW
i used to draw a bunch of chezzkids stuff and every time i posted, the team would respond and once i even got the attention of harry's voice actor ^_^ the team really is super nice and im happy this arg is getting more attention. i knew someone who was one of the first to discover some secrets on the website
I also used to draw the occasional fan art I even made an OC
He’s a beetle named kabuto tendo he points at the sky and says something cool
My theory is that one of the employees was upset at both Sarah and Harrison, murdered them both, and now makes mark paranoid about chezzkids. The word “embittered” is a word used commonly across the whole series. Sarah mentions in the interview that 6-7 people were working on chezzkids. It seems like Sarah didn’t care about her staff very much and someone apart of the team didn’t like that very much. The disgruntled dev took his anger out on the both of them and anyone who tried to discover the truth. The idea of a body being burned isn’t conveyed very well in the series. Burning doesn’t produce bloodshed like we see in the series. The series portrays more the idea of them being both brutally murdered; especially with the fact that Harrison is heard crying a lot and his jaw being ripped off his face seen in one of the videos. The way Harrison is portrayed as a hopping clown could be the way he reacted either when seeing Sarah’s body or possibly being chased by the perpetrator. The alhena channel could be this person taunting/mocking Sarah and all the victims they have claimed. I’ve been thinking about this theory for a while and thought I would share it with you all.
I had this theory as well, as someone must’ve been fed up with how they were treated. Though the “crunchy” part, i think that could be the sound made when they mutilated the bodies (as the images suggest).
Though it’s weird that Sarah is depicted as this “amazing” person on the *archival* website, despite the contrary. Though that makes me curious as to what’s going on with the archival channel having footage that contains the disturbing imagery.
No, the deaths had to be accidental, that i am sure of.
But a disgruntled employee could be still obsessed and want to _expose_ Sarah and chezzkids. They may have not killed anyone, but they might have found the charred remains and generally learn everything, being so obsessed.
Makes more sense than a very stupid and cliched reason to kill someone.
@@DianaTaffieWhy would the bodies be so mutilated if it was accidental. One of the images has Harrison’s jaw looking like it was ripped apart. Plus the reason why it’s so cliched is because its common, so it would make more sense for that to be the case.
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@@Dr.OofersIt’s possible that Mark or whoever runs the archive is purposely being sarcastic about her being a good person. I mean he avoids tf out of the question of who Harrison is.
MY GOD, okay after watching this to it’s full, it’s actually super sad seeing this story play out because like in my opinion, it seemed like Sarah and Harrison were actually good people at one point, but because of the stressful State of the chezzkids wedsite, it might have changed Sarah’s personality, and made her more aggressive or something. I do feel like both Sarah and Harrison did love each other at one point thanks to the Conversations on the wedsite, so it sucks seeing everything fall apart like this. This series is generally amazing and thanks man for making me more interested in this horror arg series.
I think maybe Sarah was abusing Harry. There’s a lot in the series that seems to convey that not only was their relationship turbulent, but she just flat out treated him badly.
Great video, by the way. Your content never disappoints!!!
That's what I was thinking! I don't think their relationship was healthy by any means, especially with all the evidence pointing towards how Harry was unhappy in that relationship.
Thats what i felt when he compared her "unjust death" to the death of jesus christ. Like, i doubt she deserved to be killed, but she seemed like a pretty bad person.
EXACTLY The rose poem solidifies it for me, i think Harry set the table wrong and Sarah hurt him for it
Sounds more like she was busy and borderline obsessed with the site and their relationship fizzled out, but ok.
@@bluedragonfly8139 considering the incredibly venomous messages she left for the team I don't think she was that kind of a person near the end of the sites (and site creators) life
Completely off-topic, but I really respect the use of Yume 2kki music throughout this video! It's just a little side thing that makes me somehow more invested with your videos over horror.
I was super happy when I noticed that!!
Sameeeee, it was sooooo good to hear that throughout~^^ ❤
despite the story being engaging i do find it kinda funny how often the same jpg of her face appears. it is used so often it ends up being kinda funny rather than scary lmao
ikr! every video became a waldo to me 😭
It’s like a “where’s Waldo” at that point, “where’s the Sarah? :D”
it's a problem with most if not all analog/digital horror honestly. Pretty goofy but some people find it scary lol
I was really hoping I didn't see a stretched jpg of a face trope but low and behold I immediately find one 💀
i think its a kind of symbolic icon, so to speak. the fact that you can literally find that *exact same image* of her face everywhere is meant to give her importance to the viewer and the characters, because why else would she be there? i know that the repeating image troupe is very corny, but in my opinion it holds a very important weight.
i love that your commentary doesnt make me scared tbh it makes it a lot easier to sleep to
Agreed, I like how he doesnt play all the scares when he reviews stuff and just tells you what happens
fr
This video made me realize that some of the Beatles’ songs can be wildly misinterpreted if you only use a couple of the lyrics.
as someone who's gone by cheezkid for over 15 years, i've gotten surprisingly few questions asking if i was inspired by chezzkids (which i hadn't heard of until someone asked me for the first and only time so far). the username was actually my dad's for a long while before i was born, then i essentially commandeered his steam account and I became cheezkid.
Does that mean that being cheezkid is a title to be passed down? Are you technically cheezkid the Second? Am I thinking too deeply about this because it’s after midnight? (Yes, I definitely am)
@@lilylohmann614 I suppose I am.
So it's like a Dread Pirate Roberts thing! That's so cool!
@@cheezkid2689holy shit its cheezkid2689, its an honor
A glorious legacy!
1:48:17 I believe it wasn't accidental, why? Well, remember that in the story of Harry the farmer throwing boiling water to his crops? He did it because he wanted to solve a problem, the problem of his crops rotting, but in this case, Harrison, in an anger attack threw boiling water at Sarah's face. What does this have to do with the story? Simple, the crops represent Harrison's and Sarah's relationship, and Harry (Harrison) threw the boiling water at it since he didn't know what to do (So when Sarah was injuried, the crops died, since it represented the relationship), I believe this stupid problem could've been avoided if Harry just calmed down, but the anger issues got in his way and made him blind. He didn't think twice.
(Just a theory)
Throwing hot water onto crops is a thing people do to get rid of disease in plants; the water kills the bacteria and stops it from spreading to other plants. I think in this sense, it's not literal. Sarah was obviously becoming more erratic and borderline (if not completely) abusive with Harrison. I think the "Harry threw boiling water on the crops" is a metaphor for Harry trying to fix the problem by flat out ending the relationship between him and Sarah, or at least asking for a break and a period of separation. He thought distancing himself would give her time to recover and cope with whatever she had going on, and that afterwards everything would be fine. As it seems, however, they both died immediately after their relationship dissolved. I don't think Harrison is the one who killed Sarah; there are too many loose ends if he did.
@@Mecheres Combining your interpretation and OP’s. Perhaps Sarah was the “disease” that was “rotting” Harrison’s health or life, maybe he ended the relationship but she came back and threatened him or just started up an argument. Perhaps out of anger, fear, surprise, or a mental lapse, threw boiling water onto her (both as a metaphor and literal sense; him getting rid of the “disease” in his life). She most likely ran away, and he went to go find her (not realizing what he just did, perhaps due to the mental lapse). Eventually she succumbs to her injuries and Harrison probably gets lost in the forest and eventually dies (idk if the series had any imagery of Harrison’s body besides it looking hollow).
“Aaaaa GAME THEORY!!!!!”
@@De_behrER ACHLY IT IS FILM THEORY 🤓
That or the method used to kill her was different from the boiling water, and instead her boiled her body to keep it from rotting as fast because boils meat doesn't smell nearly as bad. It's an unfortunately common tactic used by murderers to cover up the smell of bodies.
If sarah’s character is woodsie, does that mean it’s a mockery of her death in the woods, or her hinting towards something her and harrison did there
the character's full name is woodsy worm...worms are usually associated with decay and dirt ☹
Also if you saw the message about an hour in it said there will be no r--
I almost didn't watch because I've seen other videos about Chezz, but I ended up loving your soothing narration, skipping irrelevant bits, and hilarious memes and asides
though I agree with other comments that the audio mixing is very unbalanced, and the narration is far louder than the clips
The way you know that a horror ARG is very well-crafted is when you start to forget that it's merely fiction when going further into it
Just some theories I formed with what I saw:
The repeated use of the phrase "no cheating" across the series leads me to believe Sarah may have cheated on Harry (at least according to Harry) and that could have been an antecedent to his breaking point. He still most likely unintentionally killed Sarah, but he may have also taken his own life out of guilt and shame for escalating the situation too far.
Blue hearts are usually associated with feelings of loyalty and commitment, so those may be another callback to the marriage that never happened and Harry's utter infatuation with Sarah, despite what she may have done to him.
The descriptions of the other channel seem to be pieces of conversations between the couple, as there are lines that seem to come from both perspectives. Either both Harry and Sarah are effectively a dual ghost haunting the channel, or whatever this other entity is, they sure know a lot about the two...
haven’t watched the rest of the vid yet but i’ve gotta say how much i love the, “you found a secret”, jumpscare at the Forest Adventure part at the beginning. the screen itself, the sound literally is from crank the soulja boy and the fact it actually got me. there’s a lot i love about it.
On one hand, I’m pretty sure that’s just a stock sound effect that got incorporated into Crank That Soulja Boy, and was probably used back then.
On the other hand, YOUUUUUU found a secret
Guys, I'm starting to think this wasn't a real website.
Crazy taxi!
No dude I played this all the time when I was 6
No way don't say that, I swear I remember this
Nuh uh
I'm glad you're covering this, and I'm glad you gave a disclaimer, cuz I have PTSD and a heart condition. Jumpscares don't really mix well with either of those.
Are you still gonna watch it? Like u need a warning to watch it so ur prepared? Or do u just click it off?
@@treymomentI’m assuming they are still going to watch it just skip past jump scares because of the warnings.
there isnt actually a lot of jumpscares in the series, mostly disturbing imagery
however. the imagery in question can get kind of insane and scarily realistic
im not gonna link to one because holy shit, but im just saying
@@treymoment for me, it all depends, if I get a warning beforehand and it isn't dark I can be okay. but everyone is different ^^;
I actually found out I have my heart condition from FNAF lmfaooo I was like 11 and had to get it shocked back into a normal rhythm (',',': all thanks to foxys ass at 4am irl 😂
I feel you, at least a little bit. I’m not to the point of it being a life or death deal, but what I do have is a combination of sensory-avoidant autism and generalized anxiety disorder. In plain words, I cannot function around loud noises, I cannot function around unexpected noises, and my natural response to reality is dread. It also doesn’t help that I grew up on an era of RUclips where screamer videos were A Thing.
I love horror, but it sucks ass that it’s only available to me as either text and images, or if somebody’s giving me second hand coverage.
one small note, harrison's yearbook quote is the first two lines of baby blue, the song used in the end of breaking bad. chezzkids takes place in breaking bad confirmed
Z0/\/\g CHEZZ KIDZ MEMORIES IS MISSPELLED AS CHEEZ KIDS MEMORIES YOU *ARE* A CHEZZKIDS CREATOR
the scariest part of this is the fact that its in portrait mode
Right? Im kinda curious why its in portrait mode if its supposed to be a 2000s flash game site🤔 browser games didn't work on flip phones so there would be no point lol
@@rangalover6936 to be fair I remember 2000s flash games in that orientation. it was weird, but it was a thing
@MartianCandies i do not.... why would they be in that orientation unless they were a flip phone game? Every flash game on pc i ever saw were either landscape or a square shape, what reason would there be to make them portrait like that? 🤔
@@rangalover6936 honestly just cos they could, cos I definitely remember flash games with huuuge game boarders/art around the actual screen lmao
This is hands down the best ChezzKids exploration so far!!! You even showed things I wasn't aware of :o
Excellent work, I hope to see more explorations of you so far; most of the other channels just show everything with little to no commentary, but you actually tried to give a cohesive narrative ^^
I love this series so much, I don't know why, but Sarah and Henry's story just makes me so emotional. Needless to say, I'm really invested, and I hope this series manage to continue until the end.
And remember, kids! I'll get you in the end! We love you Sarah
Agreed! The commentary makes the video & explanation so much better!
we interrupt this chilling analog horror early 2000s website arg to bring you a fucking sick video of a pizza doing a backflip
that pizza is doing cartwheels my guy
@@Hawk7886 true, I was too afraid in the moment I lost my wording
minaxa: all his berries, gone. his carrots, gone. his flowers and peas, gone.
harry: o-o
VINE BOOM
1:14:42 I love how the lyrical reference to "I Saw Her Standing There" by The Beatles flew over your head at first
It gives off major bunnyfarm vibes from the fucked up mini games to the uh oh screen which may as well be copied but still spooped me as always
Bunny farm?
@@Dr.Oofers from a fnaf like digital horror calld the walten files its good
@@Dr.Oofers episode of the Walten Files, about an hour long in duration
andys apple farm but
but good
I feel kinda freaked out that the website creator looks very vaguely like my mom when she was younger lol
Mine too
I wonder if it's AI generated or it's someone's actual face
The characters are so cute! I hope nothing bad happens to them!
*gore*
Paused to let my dog out and came back to find I accidentally paused on a SINGLE FRAME of a mutilated corpse around 18:55
i just gotta get a two things out there:
first of all, both the quality and length of this video is INSANE. i can't imagine the dedication and time it took to put this whole thing together, so mad props to minaxa. truly an amazing video.
secondly, at 1:07:15 ... i was CACKLING. i'm sure it's frustrating, this old ass song being copyrighted for no reason, but i personally believe all youtubers should start handling copyright via playing minecraft music over the copyrighted audios.
fr who's still alive and making money on that disc cover 😭i'm convinced this is the music industry's form of corporations buying up abandoned/low cost property to turn it all into condos
The fact that this video is 2 hours long is dedication and a half.
this is one of the lesser known series that I’ve wanted more people to cover, I found out about it from wowman, who did a really cool collab video with gearisko, thanks for covering this dude
as a fan of 2kki since the mid 2010s, you won't believe how happy I felt when I heard 2kki music play here
it really did help settle in that nostalgic feeling when music from a massive part of my childhood played behind all the footage
I noticed it too
nice tsukiko icon ur taste is 10/10
The farm cat comparison is because Harrison never really liked or fit in to his job, voicing a certain red farm cat who sounds bored out of his mind. But like the poem, something else kept him there. He was never that "into" his work, but he stuck with it for Sarah.
I wanted to note that one of the distorted soundtracks used in the first chapter is titled Ghost Tape No 9 from Operation Wandering Soul.
During the Vietnam War, the CIA began launching a psychological war again the VC so they developed soundtracks of distorted audio, funeral gongs and crying voices.
US sound teams would play this audio from speakers mounted to rucksacks or helicopters in the middle of the night.
Choppers playing the audio would sometimes drop the bodies of dead VC or NVA in the middle of camps or in the paths of know patrol routes.
fucking hell
Jesus, I didn't know about that last bit. I wonder if the whole operation ironically ended up saving lives (since the whole point of it was to make soldiers flee so there weren't confrontations to begin with). War is fucking brutal
54:53
"Hi archive team, what're your names?"
"We aren't gonna say who we are, hope this answered your question of who we are!"
The " a few kisses ago " reference may well be referring to "i remember you" a song by frank ifield. Another lyric in it refers to the "stars that fell like the rain out of the blue."..which given the background image makes me more certain.
I appreciate how the author of this series clearly has played Flash games in their life and takes advantage of their quirks - a major pet peeve of mine is whenever an analog horror series tries to emulate an obsolete medium without prior knowledge of it (I won't name the series, but let's just say not too long ago I was left laughing at a series that tried to convince the viewer that VHS tapes could contain entire complex videogames as if they were cartridges).
With how popular lost media hunts are nowadays, this is an uniquely charming tribute, in a way.
Cut Amanda some slack lol, it's meant to be like Dora.
A typing mechanic is just much easier to implement for the sake of gameplay than, say, speaking into a microphone... or something else that might make more sense for a haunted tape in-universe.
i’m pretty sure amanda the adventurer only implemented the typing mechanic so you can interact with the tape, effectively mimicking when kids talk at the tv when the little show character asks a question.
it is so blatantly obvious that amanda the adventurer's typing mechanic is meant to be a video game translation for how dora the explorer would pause after asking a question to let the child(ren) watching give a response it's not even funny. using voice detection to make it more accurate to a show like dora would make things so much more difficult since the player could be misheard.
i worry for your cognition if you genuinely think that the series was trying to imply that TV EPISODES on a VHS TAPE with NO CONTROLLERS IN THE BASEMENT were somehow actually a video game.
I love that you don't out right mention EVERY horror detail, and when you do you don't do it instantly, like the realistic teeth and human character behind the character portrait
Seeing urbanspook slander made my night ngl. Finally a horror RUclipsr who ALSO sees how bad that shit is, GOD.
Right?? Every time I see someone defending Urbanspook, I know they're an immature, boring, basic edgelord.
Yo people make me legit feel insane for not liking urbanspook
I've been seeing people say that he's a bad person for creating the series, but I honestly don't see much difference between that and other shock-based horror series. I'm open to having my opinion changed tho, if anyone wanna explain their side to me
@@yami1389iirc it's not really the blatant shock horror aspects people are up in arms about even though it's not something lots of people like hearing about in a recreational setting like this, I think it's more about the creator selling the painting reflecting the corpse kid on a shirt which to most is not very nice especially to people with PTSD of that kind of situation
@@spysappinmysentry000 the art is good but there are better ways to advertise your art than creating an entire horror series with just shock imagery
54:30 is it ever explained why Sarah is referred to here as "Mrs" (married)? 1:46:15 states that she and Harrison were "supposed" to get married
I'd assume they started calling her "Mrs" after she had gotten engaged? idk for sure tho
I’ve been rewatching this video a lot the past few days, your video genuinely makes me extremely happy as horror is a special of mine and you just !!! You talk of this so well and youre super cool !! Love the video man , keep it up‼️💙
1:52:45 Another way The Raven connects to Chezzkids as a whole is that the story is literally about a man not only grieving, but a man grieving his wife. I feel like the inclusion of The Raven has a double meaning in a sense, for both Mark and Harrison.
I think a part of the story may be revealing Sarah's abusive nature, as the way people talk/write about her and the messages we see from her show a somewhat narcissistic personality(or otherwise selfish mentality; I'm not versed enough in armchair psych, lol).
When going through the poems, especially the one on the nature of love, there were elements that I believe reference an emotionally abusive relationship where Sarah actively put down Harrison and developed a toxic emotional dependency. Perhaps this toxicity is why Harrison's family disapproved of their relationship (within the theory provided)? The message to the other developers likewise shows a "mask-off" moment wherein Sarah gives them conditional affirmation of their work/work ethic.
The allegories to Jesus(which I think might be coming from Sarah herself) and how she is described from outsiders' perspectives paint her in a very flattering light, like in the initial interview. But, the people closest to her, like Harrison and the dev team, seem to have a fear of her or otherwise only comment on her behavior indirectly. Also, it is important to note how the color green is connected to Sarah, and with the unanimous answer of green as the archive team's fav color, this may indicate an inherent bias on their end(paranormally influenced or otherwise).
If I may interject with a possible alternate view of the characters, I feel like Harrison might not be parallel to Harry, but instead Chester. Since every instance of songs/songwriting in this ARG is connected to Chester and Harrison. Perhaps both are true, with Chester and Lola being the external perspective of Harrison and Sarah, while Harry and Willow are moreso their actual nature/dynamics?
This is all extreme speculation on my part. Still, I honestly thought that Harry would be the stand-in for a crazy serial killer that monopolized an argumentative confrontation between Harrison and Sarah, ending in both being killed on different occasions. Maybe even an element of stalking to go with the theme of eyes in the ARG, idk. I tend to go off in my own tangent narratives with such content, so take that with a giant grain of salt(thus, I've never made videos discussing these things, lol)!
Plus my brain is small and I'm often confused, so I might have just not clocked important info in this ~2hr long vid. Lmk if I have any errors in lore or grammar, I can have trouble typing so I tend to make mistakes. Hope everyone has a good day, and thanks for reading my thesis on ChezzKids, lol!
20:06 made me start choking out of laughter. That audio quality is what I as a kid called "Eating the Mic"
I appreciate the stylings of this series, but also now that you mention it, it’s not gonna stop being funny that the dark lord being dropped is accompanied by Satan on Xbox Live
I appreciate the shade at that one analog horror series for using sa/csa for shock value. That shit was mad sus
I love finding new ARGs! The fade into more digital horror rather than analog horror makes me so happy because that's the era I grew up in.
The uncanny writing in the QNA is fantastic. Juxtapose that with the hyper emotional tone of the poems... This is amazing!
Also side note; Zander makes me think of a character from Reverse Transmission. Truly one of my favorite ARGs that as far as I know hasn't been properly solved yet.
So glad I found this channel. I've got work later but I'm definitely going down a rabbit hole over my weekend!
I feel like I should be upset at how the video quality for the uploads are practically disgustingly bad, and I would complain since it makes the story harder to figure out, but it does actually make it seem like it was an old recording of a flash game, it fits the vibe and even keeps your heart racing in the intense moments
Minaxa one of the hardest working RUclipsrs in the game rn, dropping banger content with quality AND quantity
36:13
you really did a swell job reading this one poem, i can feel the insane love this guy had for sarah just by hearing you read it.
This. Was. Terrifying.
Yup. It's especially horrifying to me, cuz I was stalked by my ex boyfriend, and I'm terrified to think what could have happened to me. He constantly threatened to me, and then himself.
Statistically, the single biggest threat to women's safety, is men. Male on female violence is the single most common cause of injury to women.
So to me, watching a guy obsess over his gf/ex gf Sarah, knowing he's already her, makes my blood run cold.
The song is stuck in my head dawg.
@@WobblesandBean the single biggest threat to women is not men but ok, if men were the single biggest threat a lot more people would be speaking out about it pol
@@BoredMajor threat to women’s SAFETY. Read before you write
@@WobblesandBeanthanks nobody asked
I’m not usually a fan of “it’s all happening in someone’s head” explanations but… I feel like it’s very possible that a lot (possibly all) of the stuff related to Sarah and Harrison might have been made up (as speculation, as lies, or as a product of Reality Issues) by Mark, possibly as a way of trying to deal with his obsession with his unnamed friend who I assume is Maddie.
Also, Mark never said that picture was a self-portrait (at least from what you showed in the video). It honestly looks more like an interpretation of bloody!Harrison to me
ALHENA may as well be Mark under the influence, changing as a person during hard trips.
This made me realize how many Beatles songs are just….. creepy?
You can probably assemble the basic plot of an online horror series just by reading the lyrics of Eleanor Rigby
The oil can character is propably a reference to the tin woodman from "the wizard of oz" since when he met Dorothy (the protagonist of the wizard of Oz) he asked her to bring him some oil so he can move, like the tin character.
Would Harry be the Scarecrow then
Great Video! I'd suggest playing with sound mixing a little though, there's too many times where the videos you play have a much lower volume than your voice
Which means I have to up my volume to listen to some of the videos and when you talk again it's very loud
I cannot emphasize how much I appreciate you describing things thoroughly, since I normally listen to videos like this while doing things, so I'm not looking at my screen
Also thankful since while I typically have the video playing in miniplayer, sometimes I don't wanna look at the more disturbing imagery, so I'm glad he at least mostly describes what's on screen.
The disfigured faces, blurred and badly pixelated gore, the missing posters, faces of dead people appearing on kids' characters
It's The Walten Files all over again
This is getting old
Yh at least the walten files has this uncanny nature to it.
Not everything is the Walten files
Harrison: jaw ripped off, crying, dying
Chester: WOAH! WOA- WOAH!
Nice two hour long essay dude, keep up the good work and thanks for showing my art.
Sometimes I want to make an Analogue Series but then I see the competition and damn, I can't surpass that!
Just wanted to say that it's not a competition.
Some stories are going to be more popular because of luck and timing, but that doesn't make your story any less important.
The world is a better place as more people share their art.
Just do it. As long as you enjoy making it, who cares about competition or if someone else gets more recognition? As long as you have fun with it, that's all that matters.
You’ll never know if you dont try! You should do it!
do it
I love the shade he threw to the creator of "the painter" lmao
Man- even watching this with things blurred I’m still feeling weird in the stomach because of the audios- I feel like this is a horror arg done really really well tbh
1:08:56 as a game dev, the words "we are a family" is truly the scariest part of this whole arg. time for crunch!
literally the first screenshot you showed (0:56) and I'm already feeling so much nostalgia for when I'd be in the computer lab in kindergarten or first grade on coolmathgames or newgrounds and I'd play really old games with similar artstyles.
Tbh those pics of the nude lady look a but like autopsy photos or something similar to that
Genuinely interesting idea, but impossible as she was never found.
Thank you for being so accessibility friendly. The eyestrain warnings and clear descriptions help my seeing problem and I cannot appreciate it enough. I only found you recently (this thankfully isn't the first video I watched from you), but I definitely will be staying around for awhile. Not many youtubers take the time like you do, and it truly shows in your great video quality.
I know this is an older video but I hope - if you read this, and even if you don't - that you have an incredible day. Thank you for being an amazing being.
I mean this in the nicest way possible, the distorted phone call during lolas surprise was pretty goofy ngl, just felt like they were trying so hard to distort it
I can def see the inspiration from The Walten Files, but this series is incredibly well-made and creative. It does a great job and telling a horror story through 2000s nostalgia!
This is one that really disturbed me because of the audio. What is it with these ARGs and using... oddly accurate sounds of distress 😨
this is genuinely the best video essay i've ever watched no joke
i love the vibes this series has.. i grew up with sites like this (starfall, abcmouse, old PBS kids games (does anyone else remember eekoworld?) etc)
i can’t help but think about harrison having BPD or some sort of attachment issues, as sarah almost seems to be an FP of his. (FP means ‘favourite person’ in borderline terminology. i have bpd myself.. so this theory isn’t based on harmful stereotypes) and although people with BPD are seen as horrible since they’re in the same category as NPD, they’re more often the ones being abused than the abusers, and i’m talking from experience.. i’ve had horrible ex friends be FPs and even if they told me to off myself, ignored me for months on end, actively said awful things about me, and insulted me. i still stayed. which almost makes me think that him and sarah’s relationship started off as genuinely sweet (for him atleast. i have a hard time believing she wasn’t doing this to get something out of it) and slowly became more and more about sarah wanting absolute control and treating him like absolute shit. both at work, and at home.. but harrison having trouble coming out about all of this, because in the early 2000s, domestic abuse was something that was thought to only happen to women by the majority of people.
eekoworld!!!! it always freaked me out but now it’s a good memory
@@dante-ul7pm finally!! someone else who remembers it!
Right now this is the only RUclips horror series that can make me feel fear and anxiety, these series is amazing, last time something like this scared me was The Walten files
this was awesome! the leap to long-form content was unexpected but im definitely not complaining, glad to see you blow up so quickly
Love the content, man! Been hanging around since the removed FNAF video, absolutely love the style of your videos. Super excited for this one. Keep up the good work!
I’m glad you’re covering this series. It’s one of my favorite underrated pieces of digital horror. Hits a very special and scary spot I never knew I had.
seems like a stretch but at 46:48 the noise sounds like a female saying "hot hot" and "stop stop stop"
Boiled water theory
@@Epicconor1 yeah that's what i think it aludes to, maybe that harrison even did throw the water on her purposefully or maybe he even tried to help her after realising what he had done but she just told him to stop and ran out of the house.
@@calamamder7077 Also chezzter saying “Loss is something that everyone has to deal with once in a while.” in the chezzkids video 2004-03-11 :747000
i can't tell if there's ACTUAL GORE in this or not, that's how realistic the images are
its kinda worrying considering the naked corpses
@@foundationsofdecays for real
probably ai images from my guess at least i’d like to hope, they can be really realistic so i bet that was it
@@ozfoz8336definitely is, nevermore.png just looks so ai generated, the low quality definitely muddles the line between real and ai art
@@fafnirthe1st what gets me is the consistency of this ai, it manages to make every single image look like it's the same person without anything different between every image.
Saw someone online say chezzkids uses real gore photos? Is that true??? I haven't looked into it yet I draw a line between content involving real gore and dead animal images. I don't know if I should ask here but I've seen the accusation going around and I don't wanna get blasted with an image I don't want to see.
@jack ai generated is a bit iffy to me still. It might not be entirely real but it's still pulling from real images in some way. Thank you for clarifying though.
If it helps, it doesn't look like real gore but rather very disturbing edits to images.
The way the images are edited and then compressed gives them even more 'fear factor' I believe.
Hey, I don't know if anyone ever noticed this but I think there's an image that was flashed quickly, it was around 1:15:11.
Edited: It appears to be a picture of a white face that has really small white pupils, there are also some blood dripping on the top of it. I'm not sure if this was intentional but I hope it helps.
the image is a photo of the creator of "the painter" and I think its so f*cking funny the way he's throwing shade to the dude lmao. The arg has most people split, a lot of people love it and think it's the most amazing thing ever, and the other half thinks it's lazy, just like minaxa. He made a entire video about it
This is such an amazing, well researched video on a topic that I never would've discovered myself! Honestly some of the best quality I've seen on videos that cover digital horror. Absolutely phenomenal work and you clearly deserve more subscribers!
i know this video is 10 months old by the time i’ve commented this, but i still watch it over and over, i love chezzkids and your coverage and analysis of it is nothing short of immaculate. you connected the dots of this mystery in a very similar way to how i did, and you go into such detail that way everything gets coverage. i also REALLY REALLY like how you read harrison’s poems, especially the emotional weight behind “the way we love”. sorry to plop a long paragraph onto here, i just think that overall, this is such an incredibly well done video!
great video man, I loved how you put everything together in order of relevancy ! it made it so much easier to follow along with your thought process and the narrative even before you started properly putting it all together. it kinda lets the viewer theorize without bias as the video goes along before you give your take on it! keep up the good work
This is an amazing video! The editing is really satisfying and your narration is very easy to understand. Sometimes videos essays this long can get really confusing, especially with many names being brought up all the time, but you made everything so clear without losing the pacing of the ARG.
Not only that, but you kept the horror stuff without being insesitive to your viewers and kept the "ambiance" that Chezzkids has. As a child, I used to spend HOURS playing flash games and I really wish more creators would use this genre of horror, as it is way more nostalgic to Gen Z who's very welcoming to new things.
Also, thank you for clarifying the creator's intentions. We don't need another urbanspook type of content, where not only the creator is insensitive, but the youtubers also didn't bother talking about certain subjects with a bit more care.
I'm really hoping to see more of this greast stuff from you in the future!
I remember seeing this get mentioned in a server I used to be in awhile back.
When I first saw Chezzkids Archive, I didn't think much of it because I just thought it was just your average horror webseries (albeit hard to understand due to how low-quality it all was).
Boy was I glad to be proven wrong when it got to the birthday party episode.
only 1 minute in and all i can think is that if the dude who invented Cool Cat ever finds out this exists he would probably straight up try and claim it as copyright infringement or take credit for it as that guy is fully insane. Maybe he can use this instead of trying to crowd fund for "Cool Cat Stops a School Shooting". I wish i was making this up. I love the longform content, you are the MVP of youtube for making this btw.
You put a lot of work into these videos and it shows man. You deserve so much more then what your getting right now. Keep up the amazing work
The intro just reminds me of how happy I am the niche flash games that mean a lot to me got archived. I requested them way back and assumed flashpoint never added them, but they did. Forever grateful for that
I absolutely love Harry's voice, I'd help him around the farm, for sure. Seems like a great guy.
do you think mark is actually aware of sarah haunting the website? why else would he be so paranoid, and why else would the alhena hydrarthrosis veranda channel be an enemy to his work otherwise? and i'm not sure how, this video has been my introduction to this series, but something about caleb's death seems much more important to this series than what we know so far, and i'm very interested in the sort of information we can glean from his side of the story
Who made this, for real?? It's soooo much like Andy's Apple Farm, even down to the voice of some of the female characters and the same audio quality. Like Lola sounds like Melody, the guy sounds like Thomas Eastwood
This is probably one of my favorite Digital Horror series. The aesthetic matches early 2000s kids websites perfectly. I think the art style is adorable too! Also it balances out the horror really well honestly.