I don't think that was Adam being "activated" or anything, that felt like his genuine reaction to finding out he's an alternate, and realizing that he was most likely the one who killed his mother. If you look at that scene, Adam is clearly sitting on the floor, as if he were contemplating his entire life, his hoodie sits on the bed for him to get a better look at himself to now notice the details. And lastly, he had scrolled through his radio till he found that audio about the "Fate of the Jester", seeing himself as that fool. And by the time Thatcher finds him, Adam has a breakdown.
There's also a bottle of bleach that Thatcher focuses on briefly with his light, which implies that Adam tried to unalive himself by drinking it. It would also add to the fact that he's screaming like that: both in anguish and agony.
A noteworthy detail is that the room Adam is in, is Thatcher’s room from volume 4 which means that Thatcher didn’t go to Adam but instead Thatcher found Adam in his room 35:38 Maybe Adam went to Thatcher’s room because he has the last mirror
i agree with this, from what i can hear it sounds like hes screaming 'im a monster' then 'can you hear me? is someone there?' but that could just be me
The smiley face at the end is supposed to be a callback to the Toddler Assessment video, aka basically just confirming that Adam was the child watching the assessment
I was really surprised by your reaction to the “Who is that? ADAM WHO IS THAT??” line as comedic. Honestly for me when I first heard it (and indeed still do), the intensity of the delivery of the line just really hit me as visceral fear. I really do think it’s some of the best voice acting in this series, so major props to the actress there
Adam? Adam and Eve??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I want to draw attention to the bleach bottle on the floor of Adam’s room because it could show how Adam drank bleach in order to test what he had become and what he can do. It’s also equally possible that the alternate we see with Evelyn is Adam himself, but in his alternate form, which is what he wanted to show to Evelyn.
I'm with you on the Evelin part, but I think the bleach bottle was not consumed out of curiosity, but rather fear. For any number of reasons: perhaps Adam finally contracted MAD syndrome after the truth behind alternates was revealed to him once he turned into one. Perhaps he realised what he had become and the implications of how all of his memories were false and how the target of his mother's revenge which he has been trying to carry out, was him all along. Perhaps he was terrified of what he had become and what would happen to him in the future, and of his whole life crumbling and collapsing away because of it
@@scmontgomery If we consider alternates are formed by copying the identities of the babies kidnapped by the intruder, that are then re-released into society like Adam was, I believe either one of two things: Either Adam is a special alternate who blended in so well with humans, he forgot what his true identity was. Or that alternates blend into society perfectly like Adam does, and are like sleeper agents that are awoken by the same info that causes MAD syndrome in normal humans.
I think MatPat got it wrong here. I think the noteworthy thing about Gabriel speaking to Thatcher is that everything he says gets cut off or is partially obscured. Gabriel is a deceiver who tells lies and tricks people. His power is in his words, and so I think the implication here is that he has less power over Thatcher for whatever reason. Thatcher can't hear him or isn't listening.
Oooh I hadn't thought of it like that!!! I interpreted it as: Gabriel mentioned that he is "his intuition" or something of that sort so I figured that the text in the background of the image was symbolic of the background of Thatcher's mind-- his subconscious. Because Gabe wanted him to see Adam and Thatcher unconsciously followed the plan laid out for him
@@KhyberKrave That's definitely a way to look at it. I just think it's noteworthy that this is the only time we've ever seen Gabriel's words cut off like this and it's also the only time he's ever spoken to Thatcher.
Oh god. I feel so bad for adam. Can you imagine having that realization? Your entire perspective of life and understanding destroyed. The way his eyes glow and his face contorts as his mind seems to break. That's genuinely horrifying.
Also, fun fact! 25:40 if you hear that beeeeeeeep like on TV or the movies after the steady beeps of a heart rate, it isn’t because the persons dead, it’s because someone has tripped over the wire and unplugged it by accident. Those thing set off ALARMS when they don’t detect a normal PQRS beat. I have a weirdly unique heart murmur (completely safe, doesn’t effect me) that sets them off all the time, great fun to have a nurse come sprinting in and just see my chilling with my kindle, looking very confused at the large machine beside me.
also in the audio you can hear squelchy noises it sounds like shes cutting into the body theres no bone sounds though so youd think if shes seeing his brain she had to cut his scull open so its all kinda weird
What if Adam is the Next generation of alternate? Not transmitted by analog signals but DIGITAL ones. The internet, social media, other technologies. It can even be argued that the death of the tech salesman was symbolic, with it symbolizing the change to digital horror.
I personally thought Gabriel/Devil is gonna take Adam's identity to trick humanity to fight against the intruder, as it seems the devil and intruder want two seperate things.
I was thinking that too. The series that gave Analogue Horror its name as a genre is Local 58, and the storyline from that series is about some kind of cult to an entity rejecting the transition from analogue to digital transmission. And this is a theme in a lot of analogue horror series - rejecting digital, wanting to remain in analogue transmission that can be intercepted by dangerous entities. You also have Vita Carnis where the meat creatures seem to be trying to destroy technology in general in honour of the Singularity (what controls them or created them). And so much emphasis has been placed on how Mandela county is stuck in analogue transmission (old radios and TVs) despite the series taking place in the late 2000s when that had become pretty much obsolete. So in this series, where the entities in Local 58 couldn't overcome the change to digital transmission, the alternates in Mandela Catalogue seem to be developing that ability.
thats hilarious but i was outside in my like sunroom, and its dark outside, wearing headphones, literally had to go pet my cat for a few minutes to calm down before countinuing
only thing i can think of in the ending with the smiley face is the “you are an idiot” thing from a while back. thing used to crash your computer and would ruin your device and delete everything essentially. probably goes back to the digital thing somehow but it’s a little funny thing if that was just thrown in for people who recognize it
it might actually be a callback to the Toddler Assessment Video (or something like that) a while back, hinting at the fact that maybe Adam really is, in fact, the crying child of the mother that (TW) hung herself in that vid.
the “you are an idiot” virus is all about mocking the person who downloaded it, like “wow I cant believe you actually fell for that shady download button” kinda similar to the recurring theme in the mandela catalogue about people being easily fooled and manipulated. The alternate takeover is pretty much a mockery of humanity’s gullibility.
im also aware that im looking way too into it and alex definitely didn’t intend for that parallel to be drawn, but its still a really cool and interesting concept whether its a coincidence or not
@@TrustlyGames thank you, and OK. Lol to the month old comments. I had honest to goodness, forgot I even wrote that reply. Lol. He seems to be saying a couple seconds before hand. But yeah, that was super glitchy.
The name “Mandela Catalyst” is very interesting.. it implies that the events in this part - specifically the parts with Adam at the end - were either the start of a big event that we haven’t seen, or it is the event that kickstarted the return of the alternates between volumes 1 and 2. Also, I think the “migrations” mentioned may have been alternates. If, during the time skip between the Mark Heathcliffe and BPS storylines, the alternates slowly migrated from Mandela, it would surely cause the people not just to slowly forget the alternates, but to resume their progress in technology. This would provide a reason for television and GPS technology to advance after the Mirror and Television Destruction Order. And if the people had slowly forgotten about alternates - due to the alternates’ activity fading into obscurity - it would make sense for the nurses to talk about not having heard about the alternates in a while.
The conversation between Sarah and Evelin kinda seemed weird to me. The way she was responding to the messages, but also the way she was typing them out. It could just be my imagination but it just struck me as strange.
@@slidemguyye that was the obvious hint while evelin used short forms like 'u' sarah resorted to complete sentences with all the correct punctuations which is obviously hinting at alternate behaviour or someone other than sarah typing that out
Heya MatPat, we have actually seen the Preacher as you spoken about at 41:42. They are the alternate that speaks to Adam in the basement in Volume 2, and is what is later used as an example of an "Overdriven" Alternate during the Interlude video about 8 months back.
What happened is that Gabriel manipulated Thatch to go find Adam, and when he got found he was in the middle of trying to off himself as with the bleach on the floor of his room, but breaks down screaming and crying when thatch gets there
kvo is a medical acronym for "keep vein open" used in surgery and such, paired with the fact its 0 rather than o can suggest corruption or something like that. along with M_I maybe being MRI indicating that an alternate could possibly have been injured or killed and they did an exploritve surgery discovering a difference between the two life forms?
25:47 I think the nurses were talking about the news migrating, since technology in Mandela is still rare if not illegal, evidenced by this immediately following the death of the tech guy with a secret tv
SAMEE pls my thoughts won’t leave me alone when it comes to imagining them as shadowy freakish figures in the dark but i’m too obsessed with how scary all this is😭
@@haleyrsmJeez, that’s worse than mine, Mine was there was like 5 alternates in different places in my room, like in my closet, or in the corner. And it still can happen if I watch to much of the Mandela catalog! Take a break from it and get a night light it’ll help.
I think it would be impossible to find someone that can match Mat's energy as perfectly as Ash does, but man Justin is being incredibly fun. I'm enjoying their dynamic too.
After reading some comments i come to the conclusion that what Adam was screaming is: "Im not a human. Im not a human. Its all a lie" So this are the screams Gabriel was talking about to Tatcher.
The series, most of the time, is plain creepy and mysterious, but this video right here.... that is LEGIT scary! gj to the creator and to Mat for covering it c:
3:45 what's crazier than that is that cookie box that was actually a sewing box, like I'm in Portugal and that also existed, like that was pretty much worldwide, like HOW
Just going to point out that at the very first scene the time on the television is 4:37 which adds up to 14, then if you look at the date on the tv it says 1/14/09. The number 14 means deliverance or salvation, which is similar in meaning to catalyst. Also at 21:57 the time read on the screen is 7:24 and the cctv footage says TH13 . 724 is added up to 13. 13 is commonly associated as an "unlucky number" but more than that is connected to the devil/demons.
Wasn’t the smiley face important at some point? Wasn’t the distorted smiley face representing the alternates or something, so a normal one now means that they’re becoming more realistic?
The tech aspect comes from MandelaTech2000. The video store run by Dave Lee. Dave was unwittingly doing O’Briens bidding by creating Face Studio 2 and making commercials for it to be seen online and on television. That’s why it’s so widespread because Dave made it. Gabriel even told him that he did everything he asked, and that he’s of no more use for him. As for the smiley face at the end, that’s from the Toddler Stress Assessment video about children being exposed to unusual phenomena and how the react to it. Adam was known to not have any reactions to any of the material as a child when he was assessed, the doctor saying that he might be affect by the recent surge of M.A.D (but in actuality Adam was an alternate from the start and thus was not affected by M.A.D). That’s the reference for the smiley face.
i dont think it was referring to M.A.D when it said "the recent phenomena around children his age". especially because it specifies children, and M.A.D, from our understanding, happens to all ages (tho most likely adults)
Something I noticed in high school in the 90's was how slang would organically spread through society. My younger sister's skater punk friends started calling things "sketch" and "sketchy" and within a year I started hearing it on TV. Same with "horruptious" and "gihugic".
I really appreciate Mat's laughter during the intense scenes, it makes the source material much easier to digest. Like I'm watching a horror movie with a friend
Maybe Adam tried to commit suicide and failed, then he realized that he was not human himself, and maybe him screaming and yelling was his memories not as himself but as his alternate self maybe he killed Jonah unintentionally as his alternate self
29:00 what if Gabriel is talking to thatcher in a disembodied voice and making him hear the screams of his dying partner as trauma since he hates alternates (just a thought)
OMFG FINALLY I HAVE KNOWN THAT THERE HAS BEEN A NEW VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR SO LONG AND I JUST HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO WATCH IT FOR THE LONGEST TIME BECAUSE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO DO A REACTION
20:00 Honestly that "who is that?!" line it's a great example of the "these pretzels are making me thirsty!" emphasis on words, except it's more like "these pretzels are making me hungry!" It may not be necessarily wrong, but it definitely a weird choice of words and emphasis.
Its emphasized cuz “adam’s” voice just before said that he brought home a new friend. So of course she would say/emphasize “who” instead of “what” because she has been primed to believe this is a person and alternates do look like people.
i haven’t been this genuinely scared by a franchise since i saw fnaf for the first time in middle school😭 i literally have to avoid watching these at night but i love every second of it, so amazing 🙌
with the topic of analog horror and what actually scares you: vita carnis and mandela catalogue are the only ones that can because of how scarily grounded things are
I'm an extremely hardened horror fan of many decades and almost nothing scares me anymore except stuff like Mandela Catalogue and Kane Pixel's Backrooms. Gotta appreciate creators whose brains are spooky as heck 😅
alright did anyone else think to themselves "hmm, these nurses' voices sound really familiar.." and then click that it's Jenny and Sophie's VAs from Walten Files Bunny Farm??? I lost my mind when it clicked lmaoo
For the first time I feel like I recognize "retro tech" with the 2009 era this is starting to make me feel old but also proud that people still remember it as a early 2000's kid.
My time in the Space Academy 1 (at the time I went, there was Space Camp which was basically for kids from elementary to early middle school, Space Academy 1 for late middle school, and Space Academy 2 for high school) had absolutely NO playing of Four Square. But was a lot of fun. Making and flying model rockets, the gyro chair, 2 missions on on a mockup of the ISS, and one on a shuttle, coupled with a history of the U.S. space program, and it's interactions with the space programs of other nations.... Would absolutely go again.
The weird thing for me is Adam's face at the end. Especially how his jaw seems to be kind of unhinged and hanging open at one point. It's reminding me of the 'intruder' seem in some of the earlier clips. (Not the TV version but preacher one.) And the part about the boy becoming a 'cog in the machine'. What if it's not the alternate that's changing Adam, but the intruder. Like the intruder is trying to turn him into both a puppet and a 'preacher'. Something that can spread its influence beyond TV screens.
We must not forget that Gabriel said he was disappointed before he killed him. I have no idea why that stuck out for me to remember as I have not re watched it since the video was posted but there it is.
It lurks in the shadows, out of His spotlight, His view. He dances on the stage, weaving a web of lies. But you must venture beyond the cage, and find where It cries. Find the truth.
@Elyria Ethanol Death is an inevitability, yes. But it is up to the creative to decide when to end the story, when they show death. As for Him, His story is not done. But what He has done cannot be undone.
Ah you refer to Blackbird? Some things are not so easy to figure out. Yet, it may not be too useful to direct your attention in that direction. Find It, find the truth.
@@Deactivatedsorry To find the truth is to find It. He is not unimportant, either. But He lies. And He cannot know of It's plans. It has given messages before, but has since been hiding. It will be back, one day. Be patient, be aware.
"them" refers to the residents of Mandela County as a whole. Surprise surprise, but what with the dwindling population and it being the alternate hotspot it is, it seems to be a "the county that shall not be named" type deal in this universe
We always had cherry bombs in four square, when you slammed it down and it bounced so high there was no hope the other person could get it. Whenever I got to king, I would always say no cherry bombs as my rule lol. Whenever someone did snake-eyes it was hilarious as long as it wasn't done to you, but the funniest thing to happen to new players. There were other names, but I can't remember them all. Wish i could play four square more often, easy one of my favorite games to play in school or at the pool. We would go to where the concrete slabs kinda seperated, and since they were all square it was perfect. Our pool made all kids under 18 get out for a 10 minute break every 15 minutes, so we would either buy snacks or play four square lol. Sometimes the ball would go flying into the pool and we would get the pool cleaner net to get it out if no one could go in. Those were good times
film theory idea: how long would the the bad guys ACTUALLY be in jail/what are the fines they would have to pay or any other punishment they'd have to endure?
The smiley face at the end remined me of an old virus website called you are an idiot that used to be a big meme back in the late 2000s or early 2010s. What it did was when you opened the site, it would lock your web browser and mouse and continually play a song in repeat, that said, "You are an idiot, hahahahahahah." It makes me wonder if that smiley face was a reference to that, and if it did, I wonder what kind of lore relevance would that have. Also, I found it humorous that when that smiley face was on screen, the auto closed captions miss-heard screams as laughter, then it looks like it corrected itself when it said "oh."
14:11 RCI is a cable company that my family used to use, we’re located near Philadelphia, PA. This leads me to think that it’s an error screen maybe from the cable company? IDK how long RCI has been around though.
I’m surprised he missed the bleach bottle on the ground in the bedroom at the end, implying that Adam tried to commit suicide and failed.
Yes!! Thank you. I literally just made a comment about this ahah
Timestamp?
@@Dis-No-Dumb 32:52 and pause then u will see it
14:07 password?
Woe so interesting! So exciting!
I don't think that was Adam being "activated" or anything, that felt like his genuine reaction to finding out he's an alternate, and realizing that he was most likely the one who killed his mother. If you look at that scene, Adam is clearly sitting on the floor, as if he were contemplating his entire life, his hoodie sits on the bed for him to get a better look at himself to now notice the details. And lastly, he had scrolled through his radio till he found that audio about the "Fate of the Jester", seeing himself as that fool. And by the time Thatcher finds him, Adam has a breakdown.
There's also a bottle of bleach that Thatcher focuses on briefly with his light, which implies that Adam tried to unalive himself by drinking it. It would also add to the fact that he's screaming like that: both in anguish and agony.
@@OokamiTheFadingFlower Sounds like Adam screaming "What is going on!!"
A noteworthy detail is that the room Adam is in, is Thatcher’s room from volume 4 which means that Thatcher didn’t go to Adam but instead Thatcher found Adam in his room 35:38
Maybe Adam went to Thatcher’s room because he has the last mirror
Have to agree.
i agree with this, from what i can hear it sounds like hes screaming 'im a monster' then 'can you hear me? is someone there?' but that could just be me
The smiley face at the end is supposed to be a callback to the Toddler Assessment video, aka basically just confirming that Adam was the child watching the assessment
it's either that or a reference to that old "you are an idiot" virus
I was really surprised by your reaction to the “Who is that? ADAM WHO IS THAT??” line as comedic. Honestly for me when I first heard it (and indeed still do), the intensity of the delivery of the line just really hit me as visceral fear. I really do think it’s some of the best voice acting in this series, so major props to the actress there
Same dude
Same, it was intense
I totally agree
Adam? Adam and Eve??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
yes agreed!!!
Adam being an alternate and his stretching face as he realizes... losing all of his fake humanity... genuinely chilling.
Wow! And I know. Genuinely chilling, but I can’t look away. It’s just so well done, so cool!
What do you mean is there a timestamp
@@idkwwhattoputhere323733:06 for the full scene - turn down your volume it is LOUD
I want to draw attention to the bleach bottle on the floor of Adam’s room because it could show how Adam drank bleach in order to test what he had become and what he can do. It’s also equally possible that the alternate we see with Evelyn is Adam himself, but in his alternate form, which is what he wanted to show to Evelyn.
I'm with you on the Evelin part, but I think the bleach bottle was not consumed out of curiosity, but rather fear. For any number of reasons: perhaps Adam finally contracted MAD syndrome after the truth behind alternates was revealed to him once he turned into one. Perhaps he realised what he had become and the implications of how all of his memories were false and how the target of his mother's revenge which he has been trying to carry out, was him all along. Perhaps he was terrified of what he had become and what would happen to him in the future, and of his whole life crumbling and collapsing away because of it
@@Amodh1257 this is also a valid idea but I doubt it’s mad as he was seeking out the information which we know nullifies it
Someone theorized that he tried to [not live] himself
@@Amodh1257 like the other 3% of people who survive? Makes me wonder if this is how Gabriel makes new alternates.
@@scmontgomery If we consider alternates are formed by copying the identities of the babies kidnapped by the intruder, that are then re-released into society like Adam was, I believe either one of two things:
Either Adam is a special alternate who blended in so well with humans, he forgot what his true identity was.
Or that alternates blend into society perfectly like Adam does, and are like sleeper agents that are awoken by the same info that causes MAD syndrome in normal humans.
I think MatPat got it wrong here. I think the noteworthy thing about Gabriel speaking to Thatcher is that everything he says gets cut off or is partially obscured.
Gabriel is a deceiver who tells lies and tricks people. His power is in his words, and so I think the implication here is that he has less power over Thatcher for whatever reason. Thatcher can't hear him or isn't listening.
Oooh I hadn't thought of it like that!!!
I interpreted it as: Gabriel mentioned that he is "his intuition" or something of that sort so I figured that the text in the background of the image was symbolic of the background of Thatcher's mind-- his subconscious. Because Gabe wanted him to see Adam and Thatcher unconsciously followed the plan laid out for him
Like he's shouting from the rooftops, but Thatcher isn't listening.
Power of Nuh uh
Gaslight gatekeep gabriel
@@KhyberKrave That's definitely a way to look at it. I just think it's noteworthy that this is the only time we've ever seen Gabriel's words cut off like this and it's also the only time he's ever spoken to Thatcher.
0:40 Gotta admit, MandelaPandela's attempts to appear genuine by employing the MatPat style of humor is impressive
Yeah he did it very well!
MandelaPandela 😂
but he wont fool us this time
Oh god. I feel so bad for adam. Can you imagine having that realization? Your entire perspective of life and understanding destroyed. The way his eyes glow and his face contorts as his mind seems to break. That's genuinely horrifying.
37:24 Not only can you see Adam’s eyes moving, but you can also see his mouth move as he screams for help. Sooooooo unsettling…
Also, fun fact! 25:40 if you hear that beeeeeeeep like on TV or the movies after the steady beeps of a heart rate, it isn’t because the persons dead, it’s because someone has tripped over the wire and unplugged it by accident. Those thing set off ALARMS when they don’t detect a normal PQRS beat. I have a weirdly unique heart murmur (completely safe, doesn’t effect me) that sets them off all the time, great fun to have a nurse come sprinting in and just see my chilling with my kindle, looking very confused at the large machine beside me.
also in the audio you can hear squelchy noises it sounds like shes cutting into the body theres no bone sounds though so youd think if shes seeing his brain she had to cut his scull open so its all kinda weird
What if Adam is the Next generation of alternate? Not transmitted by analog signals but DIGITAL ones. The internet, social media, other technologies. It can even be argued that the death of the tech salesman was symbolic, with it symbolizing the change to digital horror.
I personally thought Gabriel/Devil is gonna take Adam's identity to trick humanity to fight against the intruder, as it seems the devil and intruder want two seperate things.
@@NK-22 Alex Kister confirmed Gabriel and the Intruder are not opposing factions.
I was thinking that too. The series that gave Analogue Horror its name as a genre is Local 58, and the storyline from that series is about some kind of cult to an entity rejecting the transition from analogue to digital transmission. And this is a theme in a lot of analogue horror series - rejecting digital, wanting to remain in analogue transmission that can be intercepted by dangerous entities. You also have Vita Carnis where the meat creatures seem to be trying to destroy technology in general in honour of the Singularity (what controls them or created them).
And so much emphasis has been placed on how Mandela county is stuck in analogue transmission (old radios and TVs) despite the series taking place in the late 2000s when that had become pretty much obsolete. So in this series, where the entities in Local 58 couldn't overcome the change to digital transmission, the alternates in Mandela Catalogue seem to be developing that ability.
Adam went monkey mode
@@theawesome5871 where and when?
I love that RUclips has THE WORST ad timing. At the jumpscare at 33:19 I got TWO SECONDS of jumpscare before an Ashely’s Furniture Store ad 💀😂😭
I got TWO shopify ads at the same time lol.
it's breathing room, be thankful
BAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA NOW THIS IS MY FAVORITE COMMENT
I got a anti-depression add
thats hilarious but i was outside in my like sunroom, and its dark outside, wearing headphones, literally had to go pet my cat for a few minutes to calm down before countinuing
For me when I heard the jump scare like at the end I swear that I heard Adam scream”NOOO THAT’S NOT ME” .
Yeah, and if you hear closely too, he yells "THAT'S SOMEONE ELSE"
@@saturnitsme782 yeah
@@sheilyjarasalas8205Intruder: This sentence is grammatically correct,”
Adam screaming for help at the top of his lungs is totally "accepting who he is"
like me ❤
only thing i can think of in the ending with the smiley face is the “you are an idiot” thing from a while back. thing used to crash your computer and would ruin your device and delete everything essentially. probably goes back to the digital thing somehow but it’s a little funny thing if that was just thrown in for people who recognize it
it might actually be a callback to the Toddler Assessment Video (or something like that) a while back, hinting at the fact that maybe Adam really is, in fact, the crying child of the mother that (TW) hung herself in that vid.
the “you are an idiot” virus is all about mocking the person who downloaded it, like “wow I cant believe you actually fell for that shady download button”
kinda similar to the recurring theme in the mandela catalogue about people being easily fooled and manipulated. The alternate takeover is pretty much a mockery of humanity’s gullibility.
im also aware that im looking way too into it and alex definitely didn’t intend for that parallel to be drawn, but its still a really cool and interesting concept whether its a coincidence or not
I love watching MatPats reactions he’s so expressive I can’t help but laugh. You’re the best!
True!
I love him for his sincerity❤
@Electrifiziert yea but he still a good watch
Am trusting yiy
Did you see in the captions it said (thank you) right before the no more running aw message
Adam’s scream was definitely from discovering that he’s an alternate
Genuinely feel so bad for him
Considering the scream sounds vaguely like "I'm not a human being, what is going on!?" And other such panicked, confused statements, I agree.
@@notsae66 interesting. I couldn’t quite make it out, but possibly.
@@emrilbennett8704he was either yelling AAAAA Somebody AAAAA -glitching-
@@TrustlyGames thank you, and OK. Lol to the month old comments. I had honest to goodness, forgot I even wrote that reply. Lol. He seems to be saying a couple seconds before hand. But yeah, that was super glitchy.
That last part of the video was legitimately disturbing. Mandela Catalogue is always good at nailing that disturbing under your skin factor.
The name “Mandela Catalyst” is very interesting.. it implies that the events in this part - specifically the parts with Adam at the end - were either the start of a big event that we haven’t seen, or it is the event that kickstarted the return of the alternates between volumes 1 and 2. Also, I think the “migrations” mentioned may have been alternates. If, during the time skip between the Mark Heathcliffe and BPS storylines, the alternates slowly migrated from Mandela, it would surely cause the people not just to slowly forget the alternates, but to resume their progress in technology. This would provide a reason for television and GPS technology to advance after the Mirror and Television Destruction Order. And if the people had slowly forgotten about alternates - due to the alternates’ activity fading into obscurity - it would make sense for the nurses to talk about not having heard about the alternates in a while.
That's basically the long and short of it, but it also fills in some missing details for events that occurred in both aswell
This is probably true, but also the migration probably refers to the exodus of Mandela counties population, and the alternates that followed them
one that really freaks me out is the chezzkids arg, maybe its the nostalgic feel mixed with the horror but imo its horrific
The conversation between Sarah and Evelin kinda seemed weird to me. The way she was responding to the messages, but also the way she was typing them out. It could just be my imagination but it just struck me as strange.
i got the feeling that maybe like Adam, Sarah's computer is saying things without her
ye maybe alternate
Also, who puts full stops at the ends of texts?
I do
@@slidemguyye that was the obvious hint while evelin used short forms like 'u' sarah resorted to complete sentences with all the correct punctuations which is obviously hinting at alternate behaviour or someone other than sarah typing that out
Mat! The Preacher is the one with the elongated face that keeps randomly popping up and whispers sweet nothings to you in the other Mandela episodes.
Wdym that’s Jerry 💀
@@Dandy.Flowerboyjust our boy Jerry 😂
I love how matpat can turn a scary scene about an alternate in the dark into evelin thinking adams cheating on her with an alternate named jerry
The Mandela catalogue is one of the only things that actually scare me. This and Vita Carnis
Have you checked out the Walton files yet?
Oh yea I've been meaning to watch that for months now
Vita car is is the only thing for me but now I’m used to it so not scared
@@inconspicuouswashingmachine Definitely do that! It is... disturbing. But very good!
Urban spooks’s the painter series is horrifying but I love it!!! Def check it out
Heya MatPat, we have actually seen the Preacher as you spoken about at 41:42. They are the alternate that speaks to Adam in the basement in Volume 2, and is what is later used as an example of an "Overdriven" Alternate during the Interlude video about 8 months back.
It wasn't in the basement. It was just outside the door to the basement.
I think the point they were trying to make is that it was there
I'm pretty sure it was also confirmed in Volume 4 that the Preacher was Adam as well.
@@lukasruston8618 yeah, I think right at the end. If you look at the quote, it’s not said implicitly, but you could tell. You can absolutely tell.
@@lukasruston8618 I believe it’s win the intruder start whispering sweet nothings to him. Am I correct in thinking that’s where you were looking
What happened is that Gabriel manipulated Thatch to go find Adam, and when he got found he was in the middle of trying to off himself as with the bleach on the floor of his room, but breaks down screaming and crying when thatch gets there
kvo is a medical acronym for "keep vein open" used in surgery and such, paired with the fact its 0 rather than o can suggest corruption or something like that. along with M_I maybe being MRI indicating that an alternate could possibly have been injured or killed and they did an exploritve surgery discovering a difference between the two life forms?
Huh
nope, it’s just a youtube link. another cartoon like video.
Huge oversight during the jump scare at the end. Sounds to me that he is saying “not a human, I am not a human, what is going on”
I can agree with the "im not a human"
But i been listening carefully and i think the last part is "its all a lie"
Can you timestamp that? I don’t think I’ve noticed that before.
@@emrilbennett870433:11
25:47 I think the nurses were talking about the news migrating, since technology in Mandela is still rare if not illegal, evidenced by this immediately following the death of the tech guy with a secret tv
Timestamps for anyone wondering
•Whitty Banter 0:00-7:25
•Oh Crap This is a Lot 7:26-43:17
the timestamps are in the description. Dont know why it isnt projecting onto the video timeline
@@coralbluenumbertwosemigloss thanks Obama
Thank you random kind person! You have my gratitude
DUDE! the Mandela catalogue already gave me hallucinations of alternates watching me while I sleep but DANG!
it gave you *w h a t*
SAMEE pls my thoughts won’t leave me alone when it comes to imagining them as shadowy freakish figures in the dark but i’m too obsessed with how scary all this is😭
@@MisterMoodyHere hallucinations, only at night for some reason if it was dark lol
Same they come up and touch my face and its like i can feel it my bpd causes the hallucinations
@@haleyrsmJeez, that’s worse than mine, Mine was there was like 5 alternates in different places in my room, like in my closet, or in the corner. And it still can happen if I watch to much of the Mandela catalog! Take a break from it and get a night light it’ll help.
While Mat was joking about the tall alternate, I got serious "And they were roommates." vibes with Adam and the alternate for some reason.
Adam was the alternate though
“Ya I have a couple roommates: Me, Myself, and I.”
Good job matpat for not turning a 7min video into an hour and half video. Good job matpat
Shortest live stream yet
I’ll admit I was a bit disappointed
I think it would be impossible to find someone that can match Mat's energy as perfectly as Ash does, but man Justin is being incredibly fun. I'm enjoying their dynamic too.
11:18 According to Alex Kister, Gabriel made Dave’s brain explode inside his head after he spoke to him.
After reading some comments i come to the conclusion that what Adam was screaming is:
"Im not a human. Im not a human. Its all a lie"
So this are the screams Gabriel was talking about to Tatcher.
The series, most of the time, is plain creepy and mysterious, but this video right here.... that is LEGIT scary!
gj to the creator and to Mat for covering it c:
Finding out there was a new upload to the Mandela Catalogue via GTLive notification just made my day 10x better
We gotta spread the word to Matpat that there’s a new happy meat farms video. It’s certainly something
Yesssss
That little laugh after the various screams is such a mood-
Tbf, it was an appropriate reaction to that
I love being a local to the town this is based on and seeing real life shots of churches and locations, it really brings it to another level
My man is afraid of nothing💀
The smiling face at end there is the same one from the "toddler stress assessment" part of the remake of Volune 1, just a bit glitched out.
3:45 what's crazier than that is that cookie box that was actually a sewing box, like I'm in Portugal and that also existed, like that was pretty much worldwide, like HOW
At this point the Mandela Catalogue is the only thing that manages to give me a good scare.
Just going to point out that at the very first scene the time on the television is 4:37 which adds up to 14, then if you look at the date on the tv it says 1/14/09. The number 14 means deliverance or salvation, which is similar in meaning to catalyst. Also at 21:57 the time read on the screen is 7:24 and the cctv footage says TH13 . 724 is added up to 13. 13 is commonly associated as an "unlucky number" but more than that is connected to the devil/demons.
Even the amount of time this entire video lasts adds up to the number 14
Cannot stress enough the importance of these numbers.
I'm having a really hard week and seeing Matt react to more Mandela catalogue absolutely filled me with joy
Awe, I hope things are going better for you
Wasn’t the smiley face important at some point? Wasn’t the distorted smiley face representing the alternates or something, so a normal one now means that they’re becoming more realistic?
I mean Stanley is kind of a smiley face
The smiley face is from the toddler stress assessment video
Listening to Mat talk about Antiques Roadshow has made my day
They do such an amazing job with these videos. They manage to make me nervous in broad daylight
Exactly , it’s day and I just jumped
The Mandela catalogue creeps me out it has this weird feeling to it
I just want to take a moment to appreciate the time that Matt takes to entertain us
The fact that Mandela catalogue takes place in my home state makes it even scarier
The tech aspect comes from MandelaTech2000. The video store run by Dave Lee. Dave was unwittingly doing O’Briens bidding by creating Face Studio 2 and making commercials for it to be seen online and on television. That’s why it’s so widespread because Dave made it. Gabriel even told him that he did everything he asked, and that he’s of no more use for him.
As for the smiley face at the end, that’s from the Toddler Stress Assessment video about children being exposed to unusual phenomena and how the react to it. Adam was known to not have any reactions to any of the material as a child when he was assessed, the doctor saying that he might be affect by the recent surge of M.A.D (but in actuality Adam was an alternate from the start and thus was not affected by M.A.D). That’s the reference for the smiley face.
I don't think babies can even get M.A.D because they're still too young to comprehend any complex thought.
i dont think it was referring to M.A.D when it said "the recent phenomena around children his age". especially because it specifies children, and M.A.D, from our understanding, happens to all ages (tho most likely adults)
Something I noticed in high school in the 90's was how slang would organically spread through society. My younger sister's skater punk friends started calling things "sketch" and "sketchy" and within a year I started hearing it on TV. Same with "horruptious" and "gihugic".
I really appreciate Mat's laughter during the intense scenes, it makes the source material much easier to digest. Like I'm watching a horror movie with a friend
Poor Adam. His shriek at the end is horrifying. What a horrible way to go 😢
Maybe Adam tried to commit suicide and failed, then he realized that he was not human himself, and maybe him screaming and yelling was his memories not as himself but as his alternate self maybe he killed Jonah unintentionally as his alternate self
Since he teased this 3 weeks ago during welcome home I’ve been checking the channel every day lol. I’ve been eagerly awaiting
12:48 the guy literally looks like LowTierGod. I bet the next time we see that face a thunder sound effect will play.
Whitty banter stops at 7:47
Cool comment, very help👍
Thank you
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29:00 what if Gabriel is talking to thatcher in a disembodied voice and making him hear the screams of his dying partner as trauma since he hates alternates (just a thought)
OMFG FINALLY I HAVE KNOWN THAT THERE HAS BEEN A NEW VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR SO LONG AND I JUST HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO WATCH IT FOR THE LONGEST TIME BECAUSE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO DO A REACTION
I hope we get more theories on more analog horrors
MAT!!! The letters that you'd passed over in the beginning do lead to a URL! Please go back and look at it!!!
19:15 if I saw that, you best believe I would have jumped out the window 🙏
20:00 Honestly that "who is that?!" line it's a great example of the "these pretzels are making me thirsty!" emphasis on words, except it's more like "these pretzels are making me hungry!"
It may not be necessarily wrong, but it definitely a weird choice of words and emphasis.
Its emphasized cuz “adam’s” voice just before said that he brought home a new friend. So of course she would say/emphasize “who” instead of “what” because she has been primed to believe this is a person and alternates do look like people.
ah yes it's 1 am and a new Mandela catalog vid dropped .... ill definitely sleep very comfy later and not have nightmares no no
I'm always so happy to see gtlive post, always gives me a boost of joy 🤟
S A M E
i haven’t been this genuinely scared by a franchise since i saw fnaf for the first time in middle school😭 i literally have to avoid watching these at night but i love every second of it, so amazing 🙌
Didn't expect Maggy Thatcher to be named this episode. Maybe after she "disposed" of the Belgrano Gabriel thought he ought to take revenge on man kind
with the topic of analog horror and what actually scares you:
vita carnis and mandela catalogue are the only ones that can because of how scarily grounded things are
Cant wait to see Matt make 50 film theories about Mandela
Happy to see a new video on this series, nice to just kick back, relax, and avoid looking at dark areas on the video XD
I'm an extremely hardened horror fan of many decades and almost nothing scares me anymore except stuff like Mandela Catalogue and Kane Pixel's Backrooms. Gotta appreciate creators whose brains are spooky as heck 😅
8:43 can we appreciate the selection of shows on the fake lineup? Every single one hints to the actual video
alright did anyone else think to themselves "hmm, these nurses' voices sound really familiar.." and then click that it's Jenny and Sophie's VAs from Walten Files Bunny Farm??? I lost my mind when it clicked lmaoo
For the first time I feel like I recognize "retro tech" with the 2009 era this is starting to make me feel old but also proud that people still remember it as a early 2000's kid.
Whoo! New mandala catalogue! Ive only ever watched this series on gtlive because i get to creeped out otherwise
Matpat actually finished a video without splitting it to two parts. I never thought I’d see the day
The jumpscares at the end just sent me to limbo and back
My time in the Space Academy 1 (at the time I went, there was Space Camp which was basically for kids from elementary to early middle school, Space Academy 1 for late middle school, and Space Academy 2 for high school) had absolutely NO playing of Four Square. But was a lot of fun. Making and flying model rockets, the gyro chair, 2 missions on on a mockup of the ISS, and one on a shuttle, coupled with a history of the U.S. space program, and it's interactions with the space programs of other nations.... Would absolutely go again.
The weird thing for me is Adam's face at the end. Especially how his jaw seems to be kind of unhinged and hanging open at one point. It's reminding me of the 'intruder' seem in some of the earlier clips. (Not the TV version but preacher one.) And the part about the boy becoming a 'cog in the machine'. What if it's not the alternate that's changing Adam, but the intruder. Like the intruder is trying to turn him into both a puppet and a 'preacher'. Something that can spread its influence beyond TV screens.
We must not forget that Gabriel said he was disappointed before he killed him. I have no idea why that stuck out for me to remember as I have not re watched it since the video was posted but there it is.
It lurks in the shadows,
out of His spotlight,
His view.
He dances on the stage,
weaving a web of lies.
But you must venture beyond the cage,
and find where It cries.
Find the truth.
@Elyria Ethanol Death is an inevitability,
yes.
But it is up to the creative
to decide when to end the story, when they show death.
As for Him,
His story is not done.
But what He has done
cannot be undone.
A raven bearing a message huh?
Ah you refer to Blackbird?
Some things
are not so easy to figure out.
Yet, it may not be too useful
to direct your attention
in that direction.
Find It,
find the truth.
How do we find the truth?
@@Deactivatedsorry To find the truth is to find It.
He is not unimportant, either.
But He lies.
And He cannot know of It's plans.
It has given messages before,
but has since been hiding.
It will be back, one day.
Be patient, be aware.
33:45 the ONE TIME I can actually agree with RUclips’s closed captions
Me: clicks on new GTlive vid
The vid: funny computer noises and torture
"them" refers to the residents of Mandela County as a whole. Surprise surprise, but what with the dwindling population and it being the alternate hotspot it is, it seems to be a "the county that shall not be named" type deal in this universe
We always had cherry bombs in four square, when you slammed it down and it bounced so high there was no hope the other person could get it. Whenever I got to king, I would always say no cherry bombs as my rule lol. Whenever someone did snake-eyes it was hilarious as long as it wasn't done to you, but the funniest thing to happen to new players. There were other names, but I can't remember them all. Wish i could play four square more often, easy one of my favorite games to play in school or at the pool. We would go to where the concrete slabs kinda seperated, and since they were all square it was perfect. Our pool made all kids under 18 get out for a 10 minute break every 15 minutes, so we would either buy snacks or play four square lol. Sometimes the ball would go flying into the pool and we would get the pool cleaner net to get it out if no one could go in. Those were good times
MAT HE HAS A NEW ONE
GET ON IT! SO MUCH LORE
This is a Mandela catalogue moment
film theory idea: how long would the the bad guys ACTUALLY be in jail/what are the fines they would have to pay or any other punishment they'd have to endure?
I like how Mat turned an eight minute video into a forty-five minute long one-
I mean, he also made an hour-long reaction video to a minute-long FNaF teaser trailer 😂
The smiley face at the end remined me of an old virus website called you are an idiot that used to be a big meme back in the late 2000s or early 2010s. What it did was when you opened the site, it would lock your web browser and mouse and continually play a song in repeat, that said, "You are an idiot, hahahahahahah." It makes me wonder if that smiley face was a reference to that, and if it did, I wonder what kind of lore relevance would that have.
Also, I found it humorous that when that smiley face was on screen, the auto closed captions miss-heard screams as laughter, then it looks like it corrected itself when it said "oh."
18:29 The way they just dropped the seriousness-
For a guy who puts ungodly amounts of time into theorizing haunted animatronic pizzerias, he sure missed the mark on this series.
y'know, I just realized sometimes I click on GTLive when I feel like I need a warm, familiar hug. ... Mandela catalog makes for a strange hug.
Let me just make this known, it is impossible to play Papa's Freezeria while you watch this video
I finally did it.
@themittenkitten_wastakenfromme you did it XD nevermind I stand corrected
The :) at the end is a reference to the YoureAnIdiot virus / Evil Otto.
14:11 RCI is a cable company that my family used to use, we’re located near Philadelphia, PA. This leads me to think that it’s an error screen maybe from the cable company? IDK how long RCI has been around though.
This is probably gonna give me nightmares tonight!