I love how the first 3 parts of vita carnis are all like "yeah this is kinda weird but actually kinda great" then then it goes straight to "these are actually terrifying and a danger to humans"
I watched the full documentary version and I gotta say, after twelve minutes of hearing “oh yeah, these aren’t actually that dangerous, they eat decaying stuff mostly”, hearing “entirely of human flesh” so suddenly gave me a fucking heart palpation. Especially with that long pause, my god. Absolute chills.
Honestly the idea that Mimics are in Florida is surprising because, yes I'm sure the normal Florida man doesn't care what they look like, but the idea that the Mimics can ACT like a Florida man is the most fictional part of this series Like it must be a daily occurrence for the news to be like "local Florida man beats two mimics and one Elder mimc to death for 'allegedly' disrespecting his pet alligator"
What I love about Vita Carnis is how natural they make the concepts fell, like, It doesn't look like an apocalipse, it doesn't feel like an outbreak, it feels like just good old mother nature being itself
the Mimics in Vita Carnis are incredibly scary to me, because the public KNOWS about them, they are intelligent enough to hide WITHIN the public, and there's simply *nothing you can do* if they decide to go for ypu
I feel like they missed the point of the mimic having mostly incisors was to imply something along the lines of it'll just bite your arm and cut it clean off then swallow the entire thing
Actually just so you know canines are used to rip and tear meat; they don't chew that's why cats don't chew their food they rip it apart too small pieces so they can eat it, while the teeth of a human are made for chewing!
@@thedogwithrabbitears yeah same, if you look on the trimming page specifically you'll see a comment I left saying 'please do not dunk the trimmings' or something like that lol
I want Vita Carnis to get as much recognition as Mandela Catalog or even more, because that is the only analog horror series that inspired me to create my own series. I absolutely love that MattPat is looking into Vita Carnis.❤
I got "Vita Carnis" mixed up with "Viva Loca" in my head yesterday when Ricky Martin came on the radio and now I want this Horror series to replace all the mimic attacks with Ricky breaking down your door asking if you "Really Want it?"
About names, Vita Carnis also means “the life of the flesh” because Latin’s great. All of the species in the ARG all have corresponding names, with the eight and final entity (The Singularity, Verum Carnis) translating to “the truth of the flesh” perhaps the ground zero of everything and why this happened.
I like how the Jumpscare was done, it was so unique and actually creeped me out and made me jump. It really drew me in with how the hand moved, for a moment I was thinking that maybe the mimic was just feeling around and was going to move on. But even that was a part of my mind wanting to see that. But as soon as I saw it go further in, and I saw the head a pit formed in my stomach. That was just so good
Instructions: Hide low to the ground, they will wander off. Video tape: Shows a person hiding for a good while and the mimic clearly attacking a low to the ground person
Slight spoilers for vita carnis: The video is misleading on purpose. The organization that runs the network is ran by a cult that hopes in making the public defenseless the anomaly will help(?) them or some other thing. It'll probably be revealed in the next season.
@@cerbielolz Could probably just be shock; I don't think anyone in that situation would act in their right mind and will stick to any bs idea your brain is feeding you as a last attempt to comfort. In this case, the "if I stayed absolutely still despite the very obvious signs that I'm here it won't see me", or the freeze reaction, is probably what the person went through.
The idea of the mimics hiding in furniture reminds me of a Japanese horror story by Edogawa Ranpo called The Human Chair, where a man sends letters to a woman talking about how he would hide inside people’s chairs during the day because of a strange desire of his, leaving only at night to get food. Junji Ito also made a great manga adaptation of the story.
noted. i will begin using my teeth like that (and will probably report back if my eating habits improve, but dont count on it, ill probably forget lol)
@@omegadragons321 bro you already eat like that. thats what the different teeth do and always have done. incisors are thin, like knives. they slice things. canines dig into meat and hold it in place, like forks, they're mostly used for holding prey to keep it from getting away, and for latching onto a chunk of meat so you can move your head and tear it off. molars crush food between them, like rocks. i get really annoyed when people get snarky and superior when they literally have no idea what theyre talking about.
Love that one of the people documenting these meat creatures in the series is named Artemis, as, like the Greek goddess of hunt, they are also "hunting" for these creatures, in a more modern way ❤
as someone whos been following the series already and watched a lot of analog stuff this is hands down the best interpretation of the "monster thats a fake human" trope imo
I love how it says "Family attacked by harvester" implying that the stationery, almost fully submerged creature, got up and hunted a family of hikers that ignored the warning signs 🤣 Its like going to the zoo and smiling at the gorillas as there are clear signs telling you NOT to do that 💀
I know one gentleman on youtube did a pillow review and that was one of the tests. I unfortunately dont remember the channel name but I’m sure a search will reveal it :)
The video where the mimic opens the door and attacks the person with the flashlight never fails to impress me. I don't often jump at a lot of horror jump scares, but that one got my heart pounding.
:| ... :0 What did you think the :0 meant? Go take a shower With gel And wash your hair Then clean your mind Because you stink Don't forget to drink water you thirsty mf
Seeing the Harvester and its tendency to not go after smaller prey is interesting, and I don't think it necessarily means this organism is intelligent (at least not in the human sense of the word) and thinking these things through. It makes me think of Venus flytraps: They don't snap closed the second anything brushes against them, but rather, it's been determined that they can actually 'count', and they'll only snap closed when something brushes against them a certain number of times in quick succession. This way, they're less likely to expend time/energy on something that ends up being a false alarm. tl;dr it may just be that natural selection chose for the Harvesters that had the systems in place to go after bigger prey while ignoring smaller things (but that doesn't make it any less interesting).
it goes for bigger prey because it gains more energy from bigger animals while small animals are nothing for that much effort like going to a store to buy one peanut when you could buy a meal from a fast food joint instead. still cool though
@@Laura-bs2hw I'm not disputing that reasoning, just saying that there's precedent to show that it might be a biological response to stimuli based on what yielded the best results in the past, rather than a conscious choice.
I kind of thought that perhaps there needs to be a certain amount of weight to trigger the Harvester? Like, if something is very light, that (usually) means it’s small and therefore not enough food, so it’s programmed to only activate when a certain amount of weight/pressure is put on it?
When I first saw the mimic, I couldn’t get over how it was pretty much the incarnation of my fear. Vaguely human, but not human, big bulging eyes, could be hiding anywhere, and you wouldn’t know, and impossible to escape if it sees you. And it was still a bad idea to watch this right before going to sleep…
I'm so excited!! The mimic made me actually jump. I was getting used to the mandela catalogue which builds tension and paranoia but doesn't jump so I wasn't prepared Edit: basically the same reaction as matpat
I think the fear of 'imposters' might be related to not knowing who might mug you, kidnap you, murder you, or just be someone that may intend to do harm to you in any way. There's kind of been a big rise of concern regarding people that do awful things, and there's no visual signs of who may be that type of person. Things like Mimics play off of that fear of not knowing what someone's intentions truly are. That's my theory of how it may be related anyway. Kind of a "Anyone you know could be replaced by one of these things at any time, and you'll probably never know until it's too late" idea that gets put in your head.
The scariest thing after watching vita carnis was that there may not be any more videos about it on gtlive but now it is a relief to see the mimic and harvester reaction.
Matpat, there is another hidden Carnis at the end of the full documentary. I highly suggest you look into it in your next video as it is a pretty interesting part of the lore.
34:44 another thing I think it could be is the fact that humans can recognize when something looks almost human when it isn't and that has been spread around and that is a terrifying thought for people, so that could be it
Vita Carnis has the best worldbuilding for any ARG I've seen. All the parts fit together without having to stretch for answers, while still having mystery.
Does anyone else think the mimic at 15:34 kind of looks like an uber nightmarish version of Salad Fingers? I swear as soon as Matt pointed out the oddly long fingers, my mind harkened back to that era of YT horror videos.
Ash using the term “spunky” is by far my favourite thing to ever come out of these five channels combined - for those who don’t know, in the UK (unsure of other countries) “spunk” is another term for male reproductive juices
...huh... you know, when they brought up how horror is influenced by the time it takes place in, I'm honestly surprised they didn't bring up the EXTREMELY obvious fear of IDENTITY THEFT.
I enjoyed that ad "break" way too much. Having Tom phase in was hilarious and then watching it devolve into a witty banter had me more interested in the product than I would have been originally. The product is really cool too!! I genuinely felt as they discussed that they really enjoyed it
12:17 As a D&D fan, I'd love to see a D&D campaign featuring the theorist team (I know Amy is a DM). MatPat would be a perfect Bard (from the College of Loooore, obviously) 🐉
31:21 Why would someone willingly run through a dark house with someone chasing them with that? 😨 I would have a panic attack so fast. 36:04 Nightmarionne, is that you?!
The part where the mimic peeked in the closet or cabinet genuine terrified me for the fist time since I was a little kid, not even the jumpscare, just seeing the uncanny red face just peeking around the door is so unsettling in the best, more horrific way.
Yes!! Practical effects heck yeah! I love when practical effects are used and it's rather sad that they aren't used a lot anymore. Two of my favorite practical effects of all time have to be the giant mechanical trex used for the first Jurassic Park film and the raptor puppet/animatronic that is used for the 3rd Jurassic Park.
I love the practical effects especially in this video and the trimming pet care video but in the other mimic video it makes me sad to say it doesn’t look as good. The face and hands still look great but it’s a person in a costume and mimics are supposed to be tall and super thin which is just somthing human bodies don’t do as dramatically as them. I do wish in that moment it looked better
31:10 It honestly helps me to know that it was a prop. Mainly because I can just imagine them going “ well how do we shove the head into the camera?” “LETS JUST DROP THE HEAD ON THE CAMERA” cause when you go frame by frame it really does look like that. Great jump-scare though!
The alternates, robot-humans, mimics kinda indicate a fear of "what is humanity" to me. It's this fear of "does being human even matter in the face of things that can so easily mimic what we do? To PERFECTION?"
Havesters are scary, Hosts are scary. But mimics are by far the scariest (for me) simply because it looks the most scary. Those stupid eyes and teeth scare me in a way I haven't felt since I was a kid. Legit gonna have trouble sleeping because of Mimics
It'd be an interesting monster concept if a Monster had foldable telescopic bones so it could grow/shrink itself and hide in small enclosed spaces like sink cabinets and kitchen cupboards and slowly leech,absorb and replace body parts of the host while creating more of itself
The squatter: a variant of mimic that is mostily stationary and only becomes active when its time to hunt, living in pumblying of old bildings and ocasualy coming up to devourer fragile prey like old people and small children
i still find it funny that the second after the narrator says "the mimic's diet consists of human flesh" the music just cuts off letting the creature stare into your soul
Canines are for gripping and tearing, incisors are used to cut. Mimics swallow whole chunks of meat when eating, so tearing or chewing isn't as important for them.
32:00 I really like the show Bewitched and all the practical effects they do there. Sure you can kinda tell where the wires are or that they just played a cup breaking back in reverse, but it's still rather convincing. I feel like I really appreciate how and when they use magic like that in that show because they had to get really creative about it. There wasn't any CGI to render whatever they wanted after filming.
the sponsor felt surreal and the takes on water of it having no flavor and then them getting into the sponsor which I am just now thinking is a sponsor makes me feel very confused on how they got the sponsor
@@kerstr0347 I think Mat supposedly reached out after having gotten one for himself on his own. I don't remember what video he first mentioned it in though.
@@Michealthekiller yeah it's minimum $40 for a bottle and three pods, but you also have to pay $7.99 shipping on orders under $50. Way too expensive for me for only three pods
I do believe that there are at least *some* variants of prop hunt where the props are, to some degree, capable of fighting back, but correct me if I'm wrong.
@@nonsensicalhumanoid I'm only aware of one version, where the props are completely helpful, only able to hide, and negotiate if all the players were in call together. And the only ones with any sort of weapon or offense, are the hunters. I wouldn't be surprised to find that there are variants out there, to whatever degree they might be different. But, this is the only one I know for a fact exists.
I want Vita Carnis to get as much recognition as Mandela Catalog or even more, because that is the only analog horror series that inspired me to create my own series. I absolutely love that MattPat is looking into Vita Carnis.❤
I’ve rewatched vita Carnis but I never noticed the paper scrap about the family four, there is a video later on which is the family is attacked and it gets gnarly. It was rough to watch (for being terrifying not poorly made)
i like the fact that this just feels like nature like... the reason the mimic is so terrifying to us is because humans live where there are no natural predators for us. nothing HUNTS humans in this day and age. thsi just seems like nature doing weird stuff (which it already does) and we're just not on top anymore.
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I love how the first 3 parts of vita carnis are all like "yeah this is kinda weird but actually kinda great" then then it goes straight to "these are actually terrifying and a danger to humans"
And then later on to cosmic horror and beings beyond comprehension
I exactly
We went to SCP 999 levels of safe then just skyrocketed to the Scarlet King
@@radiogobrrrrrrr1949 when things go off keter lol
I watched the full documentary version and I gotta say, after twelve minutes of hearing “oh yeah, these aren’t actually that dangerous, they eat decaying stuff mostly”, hearing “entirely of human flesh” so suddenly gave me a fucking heart palpation.
Especially with that long pause, my god. Absolute chills.
Vita Carnis: * swallows Chuck's holes *
Everyone named Chuck: * *nervous sweating* *
Except Chuck Norris.
Glad my name is Andrew (:
chuck e cheese 😭😭😭
@@diersteinjulien6773 Chuck Norris swallows Vita Carnis' holes.
It will be sweating
The practical effects of the mimic when opening the closet was so good.
Mat jumped just like I did when I first saw it very good
Good old puppetry work.
@@Shiny_guy i almost fell out of my chair
Just don't look at the full body mimic for too long in the found footage type recording.
@@Plazmasoldier don’t blame the mimic its trying its best 😠
Honestly the idea that Mimics are in Florida is surprising because, yes I'm sure the normal Florida man doesn't care what they look like, but the idea that the Mimics can ACT like a Florida man is the most fictional part of this series
Like it must be a daily occurrence for the news to be like "local Florida man beats two mimics and one Elder mimc to death for 'allegedly' disrespecting his pet alligator"
nahhhhh
"Florida man changes name to Chuck, and is actively searching for Mimics"
@@_Megans_ oh god, this time Chuck will eat the Mimics hole
As a Florida resident, I can confirm, this comment is accurate.
@@Allo-001 good to know
Or Florida man shoots mimic with shotgun....allegedly
What I love about Vita Carnis is how natural they make the concepts fell, like, It doesn't look like an apocalipse, it doesn't feel like an outbreak, it feels like just good old mother nature being itself
…except for the monoliths
@@ameliawillarssometimes the earth just dose that, it’ll happen again in about 7 years
@@RockOnTheKitchenTable umm what do you mean by that
@@yourdad5799 you heard the man, it'll happen again in seven years.
@@RockOnTheKitchenTable *Excuse me*
Someone please let MatPat know that there is extra content in the full compilation of the documentary.
Yes
He knows but idk why he doesn't watch it
I don’t think he’ll watch it in a video because it would be boring to watch the same video again
@@BioFox08 the extra content is at the end so it's enough with that.
@@BioFox08 He can just use the chapters to skip to it
the Mimics in Vita Carnis are incredibly scary to me, because the public KNOWS about them, they are intelligent enough to hide WITHIN the public, and there's simply *nothing you can do* if they decide to go for ypu
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you
@@HeortirtheWoodwarden keep a shotgun on me at all times? idfk
"I have a shotgun! Let me prove it."
@@fuery. I have to resort to the cannon mounted on the stairs!
this is also exactly why Mandela catalogue is so terrifying as well. It's just the acknowledgement and the helplessness that gets you
I feel like they missed the point of the mimic having mostly incisors was to imply something along the lines of it'll just bite your arm and cut it clean off then swallow the entire thing
But for meat wouldn't canines be better for cutting it off, clean or not.
@@Cyphule canines chew and tear meat, incisors cut it
@@tommybahamasdog981 Canines are meant to puncture and rip meat apart, Molars are the ones responsible for chewing.
Actually just so you know canines are used to rip and tear meat; they don't chew that's why cats don't chew their food they rip it apart too small pieces so they can eat it, while the teeth of a human are made for chewing!
Oh I hate it even more now. Grand. 😭
I love how literally everything dangerous in this universe just does not exist in Iceland
Makes sense since its hard to get something like a harvester or mimic on a boat (or plane) to Iceland
Yeah. I doesn't make sense to me. They can make it to Madagascar but not iceland?
@@sorrow_Sam Probably because of cold temperatures...
too cold for the fleshy bois, they would become the frozen meat you’d see at stores.
@@narindercatt2230isn’t Greenland the cold one?
Fun fact: In D&D some mimics can become intelligent creatures and will be willing to sell you items from creatures that they've killed and eaten.
How has nobody commented but you have 74 likes
L o l l o l l o l
New NPC unlocked!
Oh wow that is really cool I am interested in this
When mimic said "it's swallowing chuck's hole time" and swallowed all of it that was one of the vita carnis moments of all time
truly a moment
🤤
People who use auto-generated youtube captions are braindead.
it most likely meant to be "swallowing chunks (of meat) whole". auto caption being as derpy as ever
poor hole's chuck
glad vita carnis is getting more recognition
I definitely went in, watched all the channel's videos, and subscribed after watching gtlive's first video on them.
I think I ended up watching the series before it blew up, it is really good
@@thedogwithrabbitears yeah same, if you look on the trimming page specifically you'll see a comment I left saying 'please do not dunk the trimmings' or something like that lol
I want Vita Carnis to get as much recognition as Mandela Catalog or even more, because that is the only analog horror series that inspired me to create my own series. I absolutely love that MattPat is looking into Vita Carnis.❤
It's a good series. I really hope Mat continues diving into this.
I got "Vita Carnis" mixed up with "Viva Loca" in my head yesterday when Ricky Martin came on the radio and now I want this Horror series to replace all the mimic attacks with Ricky breaking down your door asking if you "Really Want it?"
Brooo 💀
I’m now thinking of a parody song “Living La Vita Carnis” and I hate it
Am I the only one who discovered this song thanks to Shrek?
About names, Vita Carnis also means “the life of the flesh” because Latin’s great. All of the species in the ARG all have corresponding names, with the eight and final entity (The Singularity, Verum Carnis) translating to “the truth of the flesh” perhaps the ground zero of everything and why this happened.
Lol
I like how the Jumpscare was done, it was so unique and actually creeped me out and made me jump. It really drew me in with how the hand moved, for a moment I was thinking that maybe the mimic was just feeling around and was going to move on. But even that was a part of my mind wanting to see that. But as soon as I saw it go further in, and I saw the head a pit formed in my stomach. That was just so good
"as soon as I saw it go further in"
"and I saw the head"
Very on brand tnapeepeelu
Instructions: Hide low to the ground, they will wander off.
Video tape: Shows a person hiding for a good while and the mimic clearly attacking a low to the ground person
Well it says to do that if the mimic doesn't know you are there, in the video the mimic was specifically going for the guy
@@tnapeepeelu plus, there was a very obvious light coming from the closet (still makes 0 sense why they HAD IT ON)
Slight spoilers for vita carnis:
The video is misleading on purpose. The organization that runs the network is ran by a cult that hopes in making the public defenseless the anomaly will help(?) them or some other thing. It'll probably be revealed in the next season.
@@cerbielolz Could probably just be shock; I don't think anyone in that situation would act in their right mind and will stick to any bs idea your brain is feeding you as a last attempt to comfort. In this case, the "if I stayed absolutely still despite the very obvious signs that I'm here it won't see me", or the freeze reaction, is probably what the person went through.
The idea of the mimics hiding in furniture reminds me of a Japanese horror story by Edogawa Ranpo called The Human Chair, where a man sends letters to a woman talking about how he would hide inside people’s chairs during the day because of a strange desire of his, leaving only at night to get food. Junji Ito also made a great manga adaptation of the story.
Thanks, I'm done existing. Good day. :)
That’s what I was thinking of too!!
Today is yet another horrible day for people who can read
I really wish that I had not read further when I saw The Human Chair.
@@justanoob1337 Don't watch a certain video by the Try Guys then where Keith wants Eugene to sit on his lap (the 2nd video, I think).
incisors cut, canines grab, premolars and molars grind. So the mimic's eating habits involve a lot of cutting and not much ripping or chewing.
I'm pretty sure the mimic does what the rest of the animal kingdom mostly does: cut off pieces of the meat and swallow it whole.
Agreed
noted. i will begin using my teeth like that (and will probably report back if my eating habits improve, but dont count on it, ill probably forget lol)
@@omegadragons321 bro you already eat like that. thats what the different teeth do and always have done.
incisors are thin, like knives. they slice things.
canines dig into meat and hold it in place, like forks, they're mostly used for holding prey to keep it from getting away, and for latching onto a chunk of meat so you can move your head and tear it off.
molars crush food between them, like rocks.
i get really annoyed when people get snarky and superior when they literally have no idea what theyre talking about.
@@omegadragons321that's.. kind of what we already do. We tear and chew up food so it can go down our throat.
Just so you guys know, there is an 8th species that only shows up at the end of the full documentary, and it's a pretty important one lore-wise too
The Singularity, I think?
@@HazbinCovenWitch Yes
Black hole... But flesh? Going by meatsnake naming, that means...
MEAT HOLE-
@@Arceusmemesidk-zk7tm daddy how are little mimics born?
well if a meat snake and a singularity really like eachother
@syncron 08 ...they'll ask the crawl for a child!
...
Daddy, am I adopte-
YES.
Man, I loved it when the mimic said "It's mimic time" and ate Chuck's holes
Love that one of the people documenting these meat creatures in the series is named Artemis, as, like the Greek goddess of hunt, they are also "hunting" for these creatures, in a more modern way ❤
i agree! it's very clever
Spite of Artemis is one of the artists, it was just their way of crediting them.
Eating meatloaf while watching Vita Carnis may not have been my best decision, but it's one I suffer with now
Just checking in, how did your meal end?
Crawlloaf!
Om nom nom
@@nonsensicalhumanoid I'm sorry, that just makes me think of a lazy cat.
@@dragontear1638pftt
30:17 Matpat still jumping after knowing the monster is going to attack lol...too cute
Use “even if he knows” instead of “after knowing”
@@reedomu "even after" works also though not as well. It's fine to correct people but it came across as a bit rude and unnecessary there idk
SHUT UP BRO
WHO THE F*** was expecting that S***
The harvesters wouldn't attack him cuz he's basically a bird now
@@jamjam8795 to me, it just sounds weird. I’m sorry if I offended you somehow
as someone whos been following the series already and watched a lot of analog stuff this is hands down the best interpretation of the "monster thats a fake human" trope imo
I love that MatPat plays Lixian’s game and doesn’t even flinch, but he sees a face lunge and goes flying.
Yeah he’s a lot more scardey than I would expect
6:58 to skip the ad; im sorry MatPat, but it's my lore, and I need it NOW!
36:36 they totally missed the mimic face hiding by the shed that’s horrifying and Mat though the shadow of the person was the mimic I assume
I love how it says "Family attacked by harvester" implying that the stationery, almost fully submerged creature, got up and hunted a family of hikers that ignored the warning signs 🤣
Its like going to the zoo and smiling at the gorillas as there are clear signs telling you NOT to do that 💀
They were probably the first to find this particular harvester. I think the newspaper clip says that the signs were installed after.
It's implied the article is talking about Species Anomaly Report, which centers around the Harvester.
they were the first to find it lmao
**and smiling at the gorilla**
I'm sorry what
That video kept me up at night, and I am very difficult to scare.
Style theory idea: How well can a pillow mute your scream?
I know one gentleman on youtube did a pillow review and that was one of the tests. I unfortunately dont remember the channel name but I’m sure a search will reveal it :)
Well, I tried, and failed. My parents heard my rant about how the world sucks
@@707Honeypot think i saw that same video, was hilarious test
Is that a threat? Should I be worried?
Alot
Jumpscare at
30:18 where after taking a good look at the mimic’s face, it lunges quickly to the person
The video where the mimic opens the door and attacks the person with the flashlight never fails to impress me. I don't often jump at a lot of horror jump scares, but that one got my heart pounding.
“I hope his meat snake is okay”💀
LOL
:| ... :0
What did you think the :0 meant?
Go take a shower
With gel
And wash your hair
Then clean your mind
Because you stink
Don't forget to drink water you thirsty mf
LOL
Seeing the Harvester and its tendency to not go after smaller prey is interesting, and I don't think it necessarily means this organism is intelligent (at least not in the human sense of the word) and thinking these things through. It makes me think of Venus flytraps: They don't snap closed the second anything brushes against them, but rather, it's been determined that they can actually 'count', and they'll only snap closed when something brushes against them a certain number of times in quick succession. This way, they're less likely to expend time/energy on something that ends up being a false alarm. tl;dr it may just be that natural selection chose for the Harvesters that had the systems in place to go after bigger prey while ignoring smaller things (but that doesn't make it any less interesting).
it goes for bigger prey because it gains more energy from bigger animals while small animals are nothing for that much effort like going to a store to buy one peanut when you could buy a meal from a fast food joint instead. still cool though
@@Laura-bs2hw I'm not disputing that reasoning, just saying that there's precedent to show that it might be a biological response to stimuli based on what yielded the best results in the past, rather than a conscious choice.
@@Celinra oh ok yea im just bad at figuring out what people mean lol
Learned a lot about Venus flytraps today
I kind of thought that perhaps there needs to be a certain amount of weight to trigger the Harvester? Like, if something is very light, that (usually) means it’s small and therefore not enough food, so it’s programmed to only activate when a certain amount of weight/pressure is put on it?
Vita Carnis, the one ARG that actually scares me. Needs more recognition.
Have you seen face the one about a serial killer who paints his victims I think it's best the youtuber urbanspooks or something like that
Gosh same! So many others are reliant on mystery or jumpscares. Idk what it was about those gosh darn eyes, but they scared me for DAYS
What scares you the most? Cause it sure scares me a l o t.
The scariest part is arguably Chuck's Hole.
@@JupitersTears I don't usually get scared by analog horror stuff but those videos really freak me out lol
@@JupitersTears just wanted to say, a very creative name you have there👍🏻
I’m imagining the mimic disguising itself being like “Hello, my name is Hugh Man, I’m a perfectly normal person.”
When I first saw the mimic, I couldn’t get over how it was pretty much the incarnation of my fear. Vaguely human, but not human, big bulging eyes, could be hiding anywhere, and you wouldn’t know, and impossible to escape if it sees you.
And it was still a bad idea to watch this right before going to sleep…
Amen brother, amen
I think vita carnis is an elaborate way to hide hilarious innuendos
I think the name ‘Vita Carnis’ is a hilarious and elaborate innuendo itself
‘Living Meat’?
_’Living Meat’?_
_It was always a joke about eating d-_
@@oriongurtner7293 exactly
@@oriongurtner7293meat snake? Like what would you think if someone said to you I’m going to go home and pet my meat snake
@@oogBoogKittenNoLonger i love petting my meat snake 🥰 he's so squirmy and wiggly
my god i get it now@@oriongurtner7293
I'm so excited!! The mimic made me actually jump. I was getting used to the mandela catalogue which builds tension and paranoia but doesn't jump so I wasn't prepared
Edit: basically the same reaction as matpat
Mimic disguising itself as furniture but it’s the scene from Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Danny Devito crawls out of the couch
I think the fear of 'imposters' might be related to not knowing who might mug you, kidnap you, murder you, or just be someone that may intend to do harm to you in any way.
There's kind of been a big rise of concern regarding people that do awful things, and there's no visual signs of who may be that type of person.
Things like Mimics play off of that fear of not knowing what someone's intentions truly are. That's my theory of how it may be related anyway. Kind of a "Anyone you know could be replaced by one of these things at any time, and you'll probably never know until it's too late" idea that gets put in your head.
24:54 I’m actually really happy he knew who he was, I used to watch him, and the mention of him brought back so many memories
The scariest thing after watching vita carnis was that there may not be any more videos about it on gtlive but now it is a relief to see the mimic and harvester reaction.
I love how they manage turning a 8 minute video into a 45 minute one, it truly proves that they don't miss any details
And the tangents they go off on
@@KaleidoscopeWillow55 thats true too
tangents like captions saying "um" before the mimic jumpscare
gotta have room for that *Witty Banter*
Matpat, there is another hidden Carnis at the end of the full documentary. I highly suggest you look into it in your next video as it is a pretty interesting part of the lore.
34:44 another thing I think it could be is the fact that humans can recognize when something looks almost human when it isn't and that has been spread around and that is a terrifying thought for people, so that could be it
I like that there are actual ways to escape mimics unlike with for example alternates, like it just gives it a more realistic feel (?) maybe even
Vita Carnis has the best worldbuilding for any ARG I've seen. All the parts fit together without having to stretch for answers, while still having mystery.
Does anyone else think the mimic at 15:34 kind of looks like an uber nightmarish version of Salad Fingers? I swear as soon as Matt pointed out the oddly long fingers, my mind harkened back to that era of YT horror videos.
Bacon fingers
@@M3sierr EXACTLY~! To say I cackled at the visual this created is an /understatement/!
I can just imagine a Mimic grazing in the grasslands like a bunny.
6:16 never thought I would get such strong Rick and Morty dimensional cable vibes from a GTlive episode
Ash using the term “spunky” is by far my favourite thing to ever come out of these five channels combined
- for those who don’t know, in the UK (unsure of other countries) “spunk” is another term for male reproductive juices
This is the only channel that can make me enjoy watching sponsorships.
Agreed, I skip every sponsorship aside from this one
Fr they could probably make a compilation of sponsorships and id enjoy it
I skipped this sponsorship too
@@justindai8401 yeah same haha. no matter how creative the ad is, I will still skip it because I don't plan on buying it.
Yeah! MatPat sponsorships! Give us the promos! ☺️
Wonderful, another analog horror series to give me terrifying nightmares that I will remember for a week and will prevent me from sleeping entirely.
Precisely.
@@nonsensicalhumanoid mayonnaise man lmbo your username is perfect
I feel bad for you
I'm taking double dose of relaxant tonight o-o
I’m not sleeping tonight
I just recently watched the "mimic" one on my own. Can't wait to see how Matpat reacted to "that" scene.
Got him good lmao
...huh... you know, when they brought up how horror is influenced by the time it takes place in, I'm honestly surprised they didn't bring up the EXTREMELY obvious fear of IDENTITY THEFT.
I enjoyed that ad "break" way too much. Having Tom phase in was hilarious and then watching it devolve into a witty banter had me more interested in the product than I would have been originally. The product is really cool too!! I genuinely felt as they discussed that they really enjoyed it
12:17 As a D&D fan, I'd love to see a D&D campaign featuring the theorist team (I know Amy is a DM). MatPat would be a perfect Bard (from the College of Loooore, obviously) 🐉
MatPat after getting a nat 1 history check: the fnaf timeline LOOOORE
He'd sing psychic friend fredbear 😂
I feel like he should be his own monster
Hearing Ash die in the background at "Chuck's Hole" is a source of Joy.
31:21 Why would someone willingly run through a dark house with someone chasing them with that? 😨 I would have a panic attack so fast.
36:04 Nightmarionne, is that you?!
The part where the mimic peeked in the closet or cabinet genuine terrified me for the fist time since I was a little kid, not even the jumpscare, just seeing the uncanny red face just peeking around the door is so unsettling in the best, more horrific way.
44:49
VEIN! NOT THING! I KNOW I DESERVE A NERD EMOJI FOR IT BUT MY BODY CANNOT TAKE IT WITHOUT RETALIATION!
The mimic jumpscare got me so bad I threw my phone from flinching so hard💀
Same
I jabbed my hand in front of my face😅
I just discovered that I'm 50% more likely to lean into an ad if it's presented with a British accent. Also Ash's incredible ending
Yes!! Practical effects heck yeah! I love when practical effects are used and it's rather sad that they aren't used a lot anymore. Two of my favorite practical effects of all time have to be the giant mechanical trex used for the first Jurassic Park film and the raptor puppet/animatronic that is used for the 3rd Jurassic Park.
Have you ever seen the old Carpenter movie called The Thing?
I love the practical effects especially in this video and the trimming pet care video but in the other mimic video it makes me sad to say it doesn’t look as good. The face and hands still look great but it’s a person in a costume and mimics are supposed to be tall and super thin which is just somthing human bodies don’t do as dramatically as them. I do wish in that moment it looked better
I like that the close caption's is just there saying "hmm" as if it's curious at what's happening
At the 30:12 mark
31:10 It honestly helps me to know that it was a prop. Mainly because I can just imagine them going “ well how do we shove the head into the camera?” “LETS JUST DROP THE HEAD ON THE CAMERA” cause when you go frame by frame it really does look like that. Great jump-scare though!
The first time I watched the mimic episode, I had the most visceral reaction I’ve had in a long time when that jumpscare happened
“The vita carnis planet just comes in…” at 20:01 basically predicted the singularity before seeing it 😂
The alternates, robot-humans, mimics kinda indicate a fear of "what is humanity" to me. It's this fear of "does being human even matter in the face of things that can so easily mimic what we do? To PERFECTION?"
Havesters are scary, Hosts are scary. But mimics are by far the scariest (for me) simply because it looks the most scary. Those stupid eyes and teeth scare me in a way I haven't felt since I was a kid. Legit gonna have trouble sleeping because of Mimics
“when you eat ribs:” oh that mimic is eating ribs alright.
"80% of your taste is flavor"
Tom, you are a true gem.
It'd be an interesting monster concept if a Monster had foldable telescopic bones so it could grow/shrink itself and hide in small enclosed spaces like sink cabinets and kitchen cupboards and slowly leech,absorb and replace body parts of the host while creating more of itself
The squatter: a variant of mimic that is mostily stationary and only becomes active when its time to hunt, living in pumblying of old bildings and ocasualy coming up to devourer fragile prey like old people and small children
The acting is absolutely insane anyways yay I have been waiting for this !
I want a movie set in the universe of Vita Carnis from the perspective of just a normal person.
Either the Mimic attacks you when you're asleep... or not
You can tell this is gonna be a good one
You can tell you made this comment just so it could be reconzed since your early
i still find it funny that the second after the narrator says "the mimic's diet consists of human flesh" the music just cuts off letting the creature stare into your soul
Incisors are actually the tearing teeth within our mouth.
"The more we know"
@@Potato_Of_Regrets :)
Canines are for gripping and tearing, incisors are used to cut. Mimics swallow whole chunks of meat when eating, so tearing or chewing isn't as important for them.
This is the only way I can watch this. I can’t watch horror without commentary or friends. Anyway Great reactions!
"Who is chuck, and what's so special about his hole?" Best quote ever
help I'm only 19:01 into the video
So happy he's continuing this series.
32:00 I really like the show Bewitched and all the practical effects they do there. Sure you can kinda tell where the wires are or that they just played a cup breaking back in reverse, but it's still rather convincing. I feel like I really appreciate how and when they use magic like that in that show because they had to get really creative about it. There wasn't any CGI to render whatever they wanted after filming.
When the sponsor is good, you know the video itself is bound to be great
the sponsor felt surreal and the takes on water of it having no flavor and then them getting into the sponsor which I am just now thinking is a sponsor makes me feel very confused on how they got the sponsor
@@kerstr0347 I think Mat supposedly reached out after having gotten one for himself on his own. I don't remember what video he first mentioned it in though.
sadly the promotioncode doesnt work.
@@TammoHP yeah and those cups are pretty expensive
@@Michealthekiller yeah it's minimum $40 for a bottle and three pods, but you also have to pay $7.99 shipping on orders under $50. Way too expensive for me for only three pods
I like how Mat just became an Olympic long jumper during the mimic jumpscare
Everything in the mimic video is scary because they make sure the recording sounds so nonchalant about it’s terrifying behaviors
35:35
The moment I became doubtful on whether or not Mathew actually knows what Prop Hunt is.
I do believe that there are at least *some* variants of prop hunt where the props are, to some degree, capable of fighting back, but correct me if I'm wrong.
@@nonsensicalhumanoid I'm only aware of one version, where the props are completely helpful, only able to hide, and negotiate if all the players were in call together.
And the only ones with any sort of weapon or offense, are the hunters.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that there are variants out there, to whatever degree they might be different.
But, this is the only one I know for a fact exists.
21:24 They pointed out that Japan apparently has a bigger mimic problem than a lot of other places, and I just went "ah, Tokyo Ghoul!"
I want Vita Carnis to get as much recognition as Mandela Catalog or even more, because that is the only analog horror series that inspired me to create my own series. I absolutely love that MattPat is looking into Vita Carnis.❤
What’s ur series called
@Gearhead it's currently called "Project REALM". The idea was "what if creatures from a fantasy world started coming into our world"
@@alexderus1179hope i can see it sometime
I love the part when he screamed "ITS MIMICKING TIME!" and then mimiced oll over the place
This is like my new favorite analog series it’s just basically Mother Earth fighting back and killing off humans and their waste
I’ve rewatched vita Carnis but I never noticed the paper scrap about the family four, there is a video later on which is the family is attacked and it gets gnarly. It was rough to watch (for being terrifying not poorly made)
You have to watch the full documentary, at the end there is a 7th creature that's important
Ash has become my all time favourite GT-Live cast person. Like she was already awesome, but she skyrocketed on that promo announcement🤣
All chucks watching: “my time has come”
i like the fact that this just feels like nature
like... the reason the mimic is so terrifying to us is because humans live where there are no natural predators for us. nothing HUNTS humans in this day and age. thsi just seems like nature doing weird stuff (which it already does) and we're just not on top anymore.
Not even a full minute in and I'm already spiting my drink out at these jokes 😆 😆
Ditto
yess you did the mimic! they’re probably the scariest creature imo, because of how skilled they are at hunting humans
30:05 yeah, this is the moment I was waiting for, ever since MatPat was starting to see the Vita Carnis videos!!
51:00 remember the "the birds work for the bourgeoisie" meme...I feel old
Oh GOD!!! If Chuck ?Norris cant' stop the mimics, THEN WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!