I liked the vid. Nice breath of fresh air from other Minecraft "ARGs". Definitely one of your better works. I like that it ditches the cringy paranormal/haunted video game, shadow organization stuff, in favor of a more grounded mystery. Would definitely wanna see more stuff like this, see how far you can go or how much you can innovate in the Minecraft ARG/Unfiction scene.
SPOILERS ‼️‼️ you could tell it was Barry from the start because he goes over to Mason, while not holding anything, and breaks the blocks under him meaning he could see mason from the beginning.
i think that makes the story telling seem way more well done, as well as fit nicely into a video format of this kind, with the rest of the content to get through, i completely looked over it the first time
And with leahs abduction video and the discord messages, at the beggining you see leah looking in her chests. The video probably happened right after those messages and barry used that as an oppurtunity to get leah because he knew where she would be, looking in the chests for the iron and diamonds he said he would put in there
What a well done story, good stuff man! I was so immersed that by the time Mason started touring bases, going into Leahs base felt so wrong. Like this stuff felt like it had history. Fake history but still. And then this ARG ended up just being a part of just a real life tale of parasocial behavior gone wrong? Very nice twist.
This is a nifty ARG. It isn’t some evil ai, robot, demon, or weird shadow government person, but just a sad nerd. Which is funny since I was really expecting *Ryan to have some more going on I like this. It isn’t a super fantastical or scary take but something grounded enough to be real, even if it is a bit wacky. Fun and I hope we can see some more faux ARG stuff like this.
Honestly, I've always loved the idea of an ARG taking place on a server, but I think it would be interesting to have one that's actually being played out. Like a group of actors with actual upload schedules, and a mix of live and scripted events.
It's not an ARG but I do recommend Rat's SMP (Idk what it's actually called) where basically, a bunch of modders got together, made a server and they can all make any mods that they want for the server. They have a whole story and everything and last time I watched, there were some strange almost ARG-style mysteries going on in the story with a guy called Mouthpiece.
This is such a good idea The minecraft "ARGs" have all been around 2009 or 2011 because that was when minecraft was "in early development" and "it was scary" That format has been so overused its not even scary anymore its just boring I like it when people innovate on an "Idea" to make it more MODERN, its more interesting that way
thank you, i wanted the challenge almost to see if i could still make a cool arg that was placed in the latest version so im glad you thought it was cool
Very well made video. I love how satisfactory the ending was, and how the story is actually realistic and is still very very interesting. also love the fact you end up mentioning that it is self made and that it is an arg, unlike other youtubers who claim they randomly found this arg when they clearly didn’t.
I like how this arg kinda just shows a lot more logic than the usual arg's prolly cause most arg's have people/children that dont understand the game yet and this arg prolly has adults/teenagers
i agree but i’m not certain if you meant the people running it are adults or not: either way yeah. the characters being younger makes it more understandable + a lot of forethought obviously went into this arg so yeah it had to be some pretty mature minds who are also Aware of what playing multiplayer mc is like
yall notice at the end when mason is making that like- info video- a fire starts..it couldve been Barry- orrrr- lava pit next to a jungle- and it starts after he mentioned barry- at the fire starts briefly after the word "para-social"
dude I really love where your content is going, your arg films are fantastic and it's genuinely got me on my toes on multiple occasion! your writing is great and Id love to see what else you do in the future.
12:05 sobbing and crying rn Also this type of arg is always so interesting to me i can't wait to try to get everybody i know to watch it or at least watch this video
I went into this video expecting some supernatural story, ended this video being sad because of what Barry did. Really good ARG, and very unusual aswell. Love that the hints were there from the start, while he red herrings lead the way. Short and smexy. Plus very good story-telling. You earned another Subscriber :D
As soon as I saw wynter having the long hallway I immediately thought it couldn’t be him but I was hanging on the idea that it would’ve been revealed it was mason on the last video all because of that one stolen dragon kill
I know you were probably the one to make this arg in the first place, so great job :3. It was quite an engaging story and I was genuinely interested to hear what was going to happen next
"If there is anything I learnt from the Scream films, its always just hang up the phone" "YOU HANG UP ON ME AGAIN AND ILL GUT YOU LIKE A FISH UNDERSTAND?"
Despite being a Minecraft ARG, it is cool that you cannot see anyone and that the only ways to tell if they are there are by you sleeping, hearing them, and watching the blocks being placed or broken by them.
first video i saw from you channel and felt like i was sitting in a detectives office and solving one of those usolvable cases, the editing, script, etc; was really well done. Great work!!
Bro. I know this is all fictional and everything but Zach. Dude. All I could think the whole time was "Zach is on par with Batman. Holy shit. He might the greatest detective of all time." This is awesome dude keep it up. Never disappoints.
the whodunnit aspect is actually really refreshing after having a bunch of "shadow demon creatures" and "evil organization watching players" in my recommended.
Small plothole: it couldn't have been a "mystery player" from "outside the server" because they'd have seen a join/leave message. Just reboot the server. You'd get a notif for all of the people who just got kicked. Even if you missed it, just join instantly when it comes back up and you have a good chance of getting in before they do, and then you get the notif that they joined. Ez.
At the end of the video when mason starts talking about barry, did anyone notice the fire starting the the background? Could be a tie in into when barry’s tower caught on fire form “lighting”.
i think that this is so cool: i don’t like most minecraft args aside from the classic ones. it’s like other genres of horror on youtube it’s typically oversaturated with the same takes on archetypes that have been done to their best by other people or are too farfetched to be scary anymore and simply are fun to watch as scifi stories (at best), and while this one isn’t Scary (though the sequence with him investigating wynter’s base is pretty awesomely suspenseful) it’s actually really good and creative and feels free to explore things that usually aren’t utilized by their contemporaries (like setting in not in beta, centering it around purely multiplayer dynamics, etc.)
I love how all the videos have a lesson like the first one with the house was dont do things to make others happy and this one was dont change yourself and the other one was about…….. don’t kidnap children?
Reminds me of the toxic friend group I had back in 8th. One person sucked, one trusted them too much and started accusing someone else of being the problem... One thing leads to another, dominoes topple dominoes, and next thing you know, none of us have talked in years.
I love this ARG. It's not paranormal. It's just believable enough that you could realistically conceive of it happening to yourself. The players don't actually die or have anything really bad happening to them. It's a breath of fresh air in a world of "mysterious paranormal entity or organisation somehow manages to kill people through block game" The best horror stories are grounded in reality.
HELLO??? LIKE THE SMP IDEA WAS SO LIKE ORIGINAL AND COOL AND THE STORY- i cant explain how crazy cool that was even if it was real and terrifyng... it was a fun mystery for you to solve for sure cause i loved this
Honestly pretty good ngl. Its within the realm that it could actually happen IRL while keeping a little bit of spooky factor. finally some MC horror story that isnt some OOGA BOOGA DEMON GUY stuff.
peak cinema. i fucking love ur vids sm like an outsider looking in to an arg and solving it but it ends up being apart of the arg ? chefs kiss, thats why i thought zeemyth's bedrock.zip was super interesting .. continue being great king 🗣
why would barry record the abductions in the first place if he thought his plan would go well? he didn’t know that mason wouldn’t believe it, no way he thought so far as to record it for backup because he couldn’t have made a plan specifically for if mason didn’t believe it. that’s js what i think
Well They were said to be kids so like maybe 16 at my best guess. Kids tend to really overthink things at that age 😅 Edit: I also just realized that we also have to add that this is someone with Parasocial Tendencies so he wasn't really thinking straight to begin with
you might think that this is wild, but it might be it. Mason's friends got kidnapped and never appeared again. except for barry cus he was the antagonist. and mason might be the only one who escaped, or barry didnt kidnap him cus he was his friend
That’s sad.. I’m sorry you had to deal with that.. at least you can have closure knowing next time to be more wary about some of your friends I’m not saying you shouldn’t have any I’m saying be there for them that’s what a friend is for Berry here was obsessive compulsive over his friend and was jealous that he didn’t have his only one friend or he was going to lose one in his mind
Fair warning: spoilers may lie below LOL
hey zacho, what about the discord server that they have? i kinda want to join it :>
btw i love this video!
That ending is just a cliff hanger ofcourse it is.
@@EGGIEb0y1 kk
I liked the vid. Nice breath of fresh air from other Minecraft "ARGs". Definitely one of your better works. I like that it ditches the cringy paranormal/haunted video game, shadow organization stuff, in favor of a more grounded mystery. Would definitely wanna see more stuff like this, see how far you can go or how much you can innovate in the Minecraft ARG/Unfiction scene.
Any updates on c0n? We want part 2 please!
SPOILERS ‼️‼️
you could tell it was Barry from the start because he goes over to Mason, while not holding anything, and breaks the blocks under him meaning he could see mason from the beginning.
i think that makes the story telling seem way more well done, as well as fit nicely into a video format of this kind, with the rest of the content to get through, i completely looked over it the first time
I was wondering about that!
holy crap you're right
I was not focusing on the start enough to notice that 😭
And with leahs abduction video and the discord messages, at the beggining you see leah looking in her chests. The video probably happened right after those messages and barry used that as an oppurtunity to get leah because he knew where she would be, looking in the chests for the iron and diamonds he said he would put in there
What a well done story, good stuff man!
I was so immersed that by the time Mason started touring bases, going into Leahs base felt so wrong. Like this stuff felt like it had history. Fake history but still.
And then this ARG ended up just being a part of just a real life tale of parasocial behavior gone wrong? Very nice twist.
thank you!! means a ton
This is a nifty ARG. It isn’t some evil ai, robot, demon, or weird shadow government person, but just a sad nerd. Which is funny since I was really expecting *Ryan to have some more going on
I like this. It isn’t a super fantastical or scary take but something grounded enough to be real, even if it is a bit wacky. Fun and I hope we can see some more faux ARG stuff like this.
Who's Randy
Big d randy
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@@waterad big d randy im guessing
Who is randy bro
Randy? You mean Ryan?
Honestly, I've always loved the idea of an ARG taking place on a server, but I think it would be interesting to have one that's actually being played out. Like a group of actors with actual upload schedules, and a mix of live and scripted events.
then I shall introduce you to [REDACTED] SMP (yes that's the actual name)
I’m trying to start a smp like that rn
It's not an ARG but I do recommend Rat's SMP (Idk what it's actually called) where basically, a bunch of modders got together, made a server and they can all make any mods that they want for the server. They have a whole story and everything and last time I watched, there were some strange almost ARG-style mysteries going on in the story with a guy called Mouthpiece.
@@lukasruston8618Content SMP
@@lukasruston8618 isn't it called the Content Smp?
This is such a good idea
The minecraft "ARGs" have all been around 2009 or 2011 because that was when minecraft was "in early development" and "it was scary"
That format has been so overused its not even scary anymore its just boring
I like it when people innovate on an "Idea" to make it more MODERN, its more interesting that way
thank you, i wanted the challenge almost to see if i could still make a cool arg that was placed in the latest version so im glad you thought it was cool
Very well made video.
I love how satisfactory the ending was, and how the story is actually realistic and is still very very interesting.
also love the fact you end up mentioning that it is self made and that it is an arg, unlike other youtubers who claim they randomly found this arg when they clearly didn’t.
I like how this arg kinda just shows a lot more logic than the usual arg's
prolly cause most arg's have people/children that dont understand the game yet and this arg prolly has adults/teenagers
i agree but i’m not certain if you meant the people running it are adults or not: either way yeah. the characters being younger makes it more understandable + a lot of forethought obviously went into this arg so yeah it had to be some pretty mature minds who are also Aware of what playing multiplayer mc is like
It helps this is a channel that makes many arg videos
8 minutes in but the player with a pumpkin has a translucent (hard to see skin) cause they're invis; spectators can see invis players
Oh, I thought it was spectators could see other spectators not invis people, I was wondering how they had a pumpkin if they were in spectator
@@TannerCraft98old Spectators only have the head, not the rest of the body. I can also confirm that invis players are translucent to spectators.
@@capitalism8381 Oh, right. Thank you!
yall notice at the end when mason is making that like- info video- a fire starts..it couldve been Barry- orrrr- lava pit next to a jungle- and it starts after he mentioned barry- at the fire starts briefly after the word "para-social"
dude I really love where your content is going, your arg films are fantastic and it's genuinely got me on my toes on multiple occasion! your writing is great and Id love to see what else you do in the future.
thank you!! ill keep trying to keep it up!
12:05 sobbing and crying rn
Also this type of arg is always so interesting to me i can't wait to try to get everybody i know to watch it or at least watch this video
the entire story felt like i was watching a movie
hugeee compliment thank you
0:47 ok that’s actually a great idea for a real smp someone should do that
I went into this video expecting some supernatural story, ended this video being sad because of what Barry did.
Really good ARG, and very unusual aswell. Love that the hints were there from the start, while he red herrings lead the way.
Short and smexy.
Plus very good story-telling. You earned another Subscriber :D
2 things that prove that Barry did it even more, first he can see Mason at the start and second he puts shears in a chest when m and j go to the base
"Winter is the worst season" Bro is wanting an argument down here 💀
Edit: oh gosh it’s starting😨
Yeah! Fall is the worst season honestly
@GavinGamingTV dude no fall rules, its obviously spring is the worst
You're all delusional it's clear that summer is the worst season that overbearing heat is trash
I love winter but I don’t mind people saying that
I dont like heat so summer is my least favorite
As soon as I saw wynter having the long hallway I immediately thought it couldn’t be him but I was hanging on the idea that it would’ve been revealed it was mason on the last video all because of that one stolen dragon kill
I love these types of stories and how they feel so real
By the way are you going to continue the kill switch
I know you were probably the one to make this arg in the first place, so great job :3. It was quite an engaging story and I was genuinely interested to hear what was going to happen next
9:02 “First and only video” you say, while showing two videos on the channel
would be funny if it's just the exact same video from Em's perspective
i can't believe that barry was the bay astral butcher
NO. NO. LEAVE ME ALONE.
Cool story I honest got baited to think the "mystery guy" was Wynter too 😮
Edit : 98 LIKES??? TYSM 😊😮
dude I fully thought it was gonna be Ryan
@@iloveromania486I'm at 11:33 and I think it's barry.
The moment I heard that Wynter and Mason were left I was like “yeah Wynter is gonna vanish next”
29:25 in the background is it just me who saw someone holding a ligher…
You aren't the only one who sees that, someone is um I think there. Just going wild.
or it was just a pool of a lava that generated wrong and spawned under the tree leading to it to well burn and spread it
why would it only set ablaze after that long? surely he’s been in the world long enough whilst setting up his recording and whatnot
def a player
Yeah I saw that as well if you zoom in you can see the lava pool that @Guestmakesepicedits is talking about
this was so well written! i was super invested the whole way through, cant wait to see what stories you cool up next
"If there is anything I learnt from the Scream films, its always just hang up the phone"
"YOU HANG UP ON ME AGAIN AND ILL GUT YOU LIKE A FISH UNDERSTAND?"
I started to think this story was real until Zacho stated it was fictional at the end
Fire ARD, one of the best and most creative ones in a while now
The protagonist's dialogue is genuinely so funny because it's so obviously trying to sound authentic
BROTHEREN OF THE COOKIE
New form of ARG just enough to peak my curuiosty well done wallahi 👏👏
ayee thank you glad to hear it!
@zachobuilds np man just keep up the creative energy Im already craving more hahahah
"new member unlocked... check your recipe book" that implys we can craft them lmao
this is really a cool concept for an amp I think. some bigger RUclipsr should do this, it would be really cool
Definetly worth waiting 2 months. W video. Good Job❤
omg tysm!!
Insane story, bravo zachobuilds
I haven’t finished the video, but I think each pumpkin in the pumpkin field represents a person that disappeared
it didnt lol
Dude i fully tought it was gonna be Ryan
Oooooh spooky dark minecraft smp 👻
Please dont die...
?
thats not threatening at all 🤭
Despite being a Minecraft ARG, it is cool that you cannot see anyone and that the only ways to tell if they are there are by you sleeping, hearing them, and watching the blocks being placed or broken by them.
first video i saw from you channel and felt like i was sitting in a detectives office and solving one of those usolvable cases, the editing, script, etc; was really well done. Great work!!
Bro the way you caught barry was actually genius
Not much of a horror, but a story about a guy who just wanted to have fun with his only friend and no one else.
Thank you for adding THAT at the end cause I was about to be SO sad thinking this was actually.... (being vague as not to spoil)
i enjoy that this arg had some interactivity with it, seeing as you directly influenced it and uncovered the mystery for everyone
the trees burning in the back at the end gave me chills, the burning of the end
Bro. I know this is all fictional and everything but Zach. Dude. All I could think the whole time was "Zach is on par with Batman. Holy shit. He might the greatest detective of all time." This is awesome dude keep it up. Never disappoints.
This was so cool to listen to :D the ending was amazing! dude I fully thought it was going to be Ryan
the whodunnit aspect is actually really refreshing after having a bunch of "shadow demon creatures" and "evil organization watching players" in my recommended.
Small plothole: it couldn't have been a "mystery player" from "outside the server" because they'd have seen a join/leave message. Just reboot the server. You'd get a notif for all of the people who just got kicked. Even if you missed it, just join instantly when it comes back up and you have a good chance of getting in before they do, and then you get the notif that they joined. Ez.
At the end of the video when mason starts talking about barry, did anyone notice the fire starting the the background? Could be a tie in into when barry’s tower caught on fire form “lighting”.
ARG? Nah, it's an ARG + a Murder Mystery at the same time. I love it.
ngl, i love mc stories. got a whole playlist for it, and this is going on there.
i think that this is so cool: i don’t like most minecraft args aside from the classic ones. it’s like other genres of horror on youtube it’s typically oversaturated with the same takes on archetypes that have been done to their best by other people or are too farfetched to be scary anymore and simply are fun to watch as scifi stories (at best), and while this one isn’t Scary (though the sequence with him investigating wynter’s base is pretty awesomely suspenseful) it’s actually really good and creative and feels free to explore things that usually aren’t utilized by their contemporaries (like setting in not in beta, centering it around purely multiplayer dynamics, etc.)
I love how all the videos have a lesson like the first one with the house was dont do things to make others happy and this one was dont change yourself and the other one was about…….. don’t kidnap children?
Tbh the concept for the smp is really unique.
I was watching that last vid and noticed the fair start in the background and could’ve sworn I saw a name plate. Scared the hell outta me.
Reminds me of the toxic friend group I had back in 8th. One person sucked, one trusted them too much and started accusing someone else of being the problem... One thing leads to another, dominoes topple dominoes, and next thing you know, none of us have talked in years.
this smp is actually a really cool concept. i might do that for one of the next seasons of my smp with my friends
I love this ARG. It's not paranormal. It's just believable enough that you could realistically conceive of it happening to yourself. The players don't actually die or have anything really bad happening to them. It's a breath of fresh air in a world of "mysterious paranormal entity or organisation somehow manages to kill people through block game"
The best horror stories are grounded in reality.
HELLO??? LIKE THE SMP IDEA WAS SO LIKE ORIGINAL AND COOL AND THE STORY-
i cant explain how crazy cool that was even if it was real and terrifyng...
it was a fun mystery for you to solve for sure cause i loved this
"Look at you, you know a lot about dying in minecraft" then the screen dims enough to see my reflection, i feel attacked
Still have to watch this, but. People on this server have been going missing.. It could be Gryla of the Woods!
the idea and stuff the server had like the bed and invisible players is actually a sick idea for a real server
Anyone notice how at the very end, in Mason's last video, there were fires being started in the background. To me, it didn't look like it was natural.
maybe the dark smp where members go missing is the friends we made along the way
1:37 winter is my favorite season
Ngl, this was absolutely amazing. I enjoyed this, and kinda want to see more like this
Honestly pretty good ngl.
Its within the realm that it could actually happen IRL while keeping a little bit of spooky factor.
finally some MC horror story that isnt some OOGA BOOGA DEMON GUY stuff.
w video man, i love this editing and the jokes, new sub for sure
this plugin seems pretty neat ngl. in fact i wonder where i could find it if possible and if not, i guess someone will do it one day xd
peak cinema. i fucking love ur vids sm like an outsider looking in to an arg and solving it but it ends up being apart of the arg ? chefs kiss, thats why i thought zeemyth's bedrock.zip was super interesting .. continue being great king 🗣
yondu’s death is prob one of the saddest scenes
That is really sad.
I silently hope Mason somehow got in contact with Leah and the real friends he lost instead of that weirdo.
Great video Man
30:15 - 30:23 ish, there was fire on the trees in the background
I love the ending, just like telling your findings to get a happy ending, happy fuzzies
dude I fully thought it was gonna be Ryan
Pardon my language, but Bro, that is TOTALLY FUCKED UP. I agree with Mason for ending that friendship he definitely doesn't deserve better friends
This was a pretty cool arg, murder mystery. Everything was told to the viewers from the start.
29:50 the forest fitr in the background makes it morr eeriy ngl
Amazing plot twist. You being apart of an arg because you did investigations. AMAZING CONCEPT.
why would barry record the abductions in the first place if he thought his plan would go well? he didn’t know that mason wouldn’t believe it, no way he thought so far as to record it for backup because he couldn’t have made a plan specifically for if mason didn’t believe it. that’s js what i think
Well They were said to be kids so like maybe 16 at my best guess. Kids tend to really overthink things at that age 😅
Edit: I also just realized that we also have to add that this is someone with Parasocial Tendencies so he wasn't really thinking straight to begin with
I sure do love getting 2 unskippable 20 second ads in Italian every 5 minutes
btw if anyone's wondering the song at the end is called ''Last Words'' by Jon Björk 👍 (and yes. I actually spent 10 minutes just to find the song 😭)
this arg is basically among us on minecraft lmao
you might think that this is wild, but it might be it. Mason's friends got kidnapped and never appeared again. except for barry cus he was the antagonist. and mason might be the only one who escaped, or barry didnt kidnap him cus he was his friend
When I saw the dark story I thought about a ARG with a whole smp like 10 people and this is a Smp
Awesome job! Quick question, how did you get the people to disappear and die normally but without the animation?
i would give them particleless invisibility effects just before killing them which disables the animation :))
The concept of an SMP where you can't see anyone is actually kinda fire..
why is no one talking about how the rest of the members were still communicating as if they were still on the server after already being abducted??
This isn't just another ARG with some demon shit. This is just a normal player who pranks some people
Finally a new Video, i love your Videos keep up the good work
Loving all these fake documentaries people are making about series they make, its actually really cool and creative. Nice video!
My man was so into the ARG that he managed to get a hold of a discord 😭
That’s sad.. I’m sorry you had to deal with that.. at least you can have closure knowing next time to be more wary about some of your friends I’m not saying you shouldn’t have any I’m saying be there for them that’s what a friend is for Berry here was obsessive compulsive over his friend and was jealous that he didn’t have his only one friend or he was going to lose one in his mind
Great acting from everyone involved!
11:29, my man mayson is smarter than the horror movie smort people.
can't tell if this is an arg or a legit story
Might be both?
This was really cool! Its nice to have an ARG that isn't over-the-top edgy or horror. Its real.
I love this! Feels like a slasher film
"their not for you" immersion ruined lmao, though legit pretty fun vid