Paranoia.com: An Internet Mystery
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2024
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1995: A man named KevinTX creates a website named Paranoia.com. Unbeknownst to him and nearly thirty years later, it would give rise to a peculiar online mystery.
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🎶Soundtrack: • Paranoia.com: An Inter...
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Answering the Call
5:57 - Into the Abyss
12:01 - Back to '98
15:05 - A Mystery of Minor Discourse
17:08 - Intermission
18:44 - To The Source
27:03 - A Last Ditch Effort
32:18 - Closing Remarks
The following content is for educational, documentary, and artistic purposes only. 
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Bit of a different one this time, but I hope you guys like it!
I've got a laundry list of peculiar Internet oddities just like this that I've put off for a while, however if you guys liked this style, I'd love to bring them outta the vault.
Let me know what you think! I'm trying to get a video out every month this year to make up for the slowdown we had last year, so any feedback helps.
Love ya'll. See you next month.
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It is crazy how back then, every website was made by some dude, now every site is pretty much backed by a corporation
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It’s sad
I miss it. Didn't have to worry about getting censored unless you did something literally illegal.
I always think 20 years doesn't really sound that long but so much can change in that amount of time
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The fact that the URL redirects you to Disney’s website has got to be the strangest yet funniest discovery ever
It is, that’s how I’m getting to that page from now on in font of people till someone notices 😂
@@lunawilson9848 how often would you possibly need to open the disney website
keep us updated@@lunawilson9848
being redirected to disney's page is what made me actually want to watch this video lolol
it’s genuinely probably just a redirect link that someone bought to make money as an affiliate. it’s probably nothing odd. someone just owns it and passively makes money
Nexpo has the ability to make me feel like ima get murdered by the cia for watching his video but then the resolution is “just look it up on google “ 😭😭😭😂
yeahh this one felt like it didnt really have a pay off lol
he mostly goes through other people's findings and presents it like his own. not hating, it gets the word out, and this channel does put a lot of effort in the script and editing
@@XxXMrSisterFisterXxX this is true. but usually i feel like theres a satisfying answer or result. i mean we cant expect 100% bangers from creators all the time so im not upset. everyone has bad days and stuff
Correct me if i'm wrong but from a casual's point of view like me who doesn't really dive deep into rabbit hole mysteries like this in the internet, this did not look like your average "just google it" type of question. Putting up all the pieces together to find the real answer should've required some major obsessive detective work, or else this shit really wouldn't have stayed as a mystery for literal years as was said in the video.
😂😂
when the teacher wants 5000 words and you only have a page worth of research
😂
Yeah this video felt like that for sure, so much filler and the final answer ended up being exactly what the first thing I thought and the first "theory" that he showed and then immediately shut down (even though it *was* correct)
I love how this guy acts like he's uncovering a cult even when he's just learning that a website used to be asociated with a game show lol
im not the only one with brain damage from that?
It's the A E S T H E T I C
Yeah, it's incredibly lame.
Yeah I was gonna say. This story is kind of neat, but it's about 0% scary or spooky or ominous or unsettling. Like, Disney bought ABC which bought a domain to run a gameshow from a company that got it back from some internet anarchists in the 90s. (Literally everyone in the 90s was internet anarchists. I ran like 3 anti establishment websites in the 90s. The internet was subversive and counter culture back then. Given, none of mine were pro p3d0f!l!a but still, it was the dawn of edgelords.)
I dunno. at the end I was like DAMN BRO those are some LONG DRAMATIC PAUSES in service of not very much. And I fucking LOVE Nexpo.
Did you know that Disney
bought stuff
The real existential horror is yet again coming face to face with the reality that 5 corporations own our entire lives!
They only own your attention, if you give it to them.
@@RudiW1510that’s becoming increasingly more difficult to avoid as the monopolies grow
@@henrystammen5584 in the end, why does it even matter ?
If entertainment is your life. Give that up and try something new. Stop watching tv. Go outside. Touch grass.
@@Dorlo91-mg2hw Every position you apply for scrubs your internet footprint to find dirt on you. If you don't own any social media accounts, your loved ones do, and they do post about you. And they talk to each other about you.
You will never escape social media. It's in your blood like microplastics.
Little addition/correction on Y2K and "as the year 2000 came and went, everything turned out fine" kind of ignores/minimalizes the work of countless software engineers spending MILLIONS of hours patching software so that nothing happened.
this one always grinds my gears
@@marten6578it always bashes my balls
Yep, everyone always glosses over it and said "it was fine, everyone freaked out over nothing". Yeah, it was fine because the right people freaked out, sat down, made a project plan, hired engineers, coded the plan, found the bugs, fixed the bugs, tested, then launched a fix before NYE.
bruh, a million hours would be over a century. Crazy to think those software engineers were working to prevent Y2K before flight was even invented lol.
@@CultellusDolorum millions of total hours over thousands of engineers.
I just want to share that the reason why the Y2K scare didn’t result in a disaster is because of all the people that worked to fix it ahead of time. Peter in the movie Office Space actually had one of these jobs, changing two digit years to four digit years in code.
There will be a similar issue on January 19th 2038.
why
@@paultardspambot This is because some systems that store time use a signed 32-bit integer for their timestamp; (timestamp being a counter of how many seconds have passed since 01/01/1970 00:00:00 UTC. ex: 01/01/2024 00:00:00 UTC = 1704038400 seconds) however, a signed 32-bit integer can only represent numbers from -2147483648 to 2147483647, meaning that any number bigger than 2147483647 will cause an overflow error.
Unfortunately, 2147483647(the final number to be represented) is 01/19/2038 03:14:07 UTC, and the second beyond that would overflow the system and turn the number into -2147483648, which is 12/13/1901. This means the system just traveled back in time, which will cause a lot of disaster.
Hopefully, this clears up why there will be a similar issue on January 19th, 2038.
@@paultardspambot This is because some systems that store time use a signed 32-bit integer for their timestamp; (timestamp being a counter of how many seconds have passed since 01/01/1970 00:00:00 UTC. ex: 01/01/2024 00:00:00 UTC = 1704038400 seconds) however, a signed 32-bit integer can only represent numbers from -2147483648 to 2147483647, meaning that any number bigger than 2147483647 will cause an overflow error.
Unfortunately, 2147483647(the final number to be represented) is 01/19/2038 03:14:07 UTC, and the second beyond that would overflow the system and turn the number into -2147483648, which is 12/13/1901. This means the system just traveled back in time, which will cause a lot of disaster.
Hopefully, this clears up why there will be a similar issue on January 19th, 2038.
@@paultardspambot This is because some systems that store time use a signed 32-bit integer for their timestamp; (timestamp being a counter of how many seconds have passed since 01/01/1970 00:00:00 UTC. ex: 01/01/2024 00:00:00 UTC = 1704038400 seconds) however, a signed 32-bit integer can only represent numbers from -2147483648 to 2147483647, meaning that any number bigger than 2147483647 will cause an overflow error.
Unfortunately, 2147483647(the final number to be represented) is 01/19/2038 03:14:07 UTC, and the second beyond that would overflow the system and turn the number into -2147483648, which is 12/13/1901.
This means the system just traveled back in time, which will cause a lot of disaster. Hopefully, this clears up why there will be a similar issue on January 19th, 2038.
@@paultardspambot Integer overflow. Dates stored as signed 32 bit epochs will overflow to zero.
fun fact: in 1984 the game "Paranoia" by studio West End Games was released. It was a rpg game where you and your friends would play as citizens serving the almight tyrant "Computer". It was a parody of the book "1984" by George Orwell. One of the quotes from the game is "The Computer is your friend", which is the same as shown in 4:08. I think Kevin was inspired by this game when making the website. Its also interesting coincidence that the game company went bancrupt in 1998, which is the same year when website got shut down.
That's pretty cool! Underrated comment
this is more interesting than the entire video
wait...
this comment should be pinned. ill have too look it all up cause it sounds really interesting. and if its true. then there cant be a coincidence
@@lukewilliams3879 honestly yeah the vid was shit
Thank you again for reaching out to me about Paranoia, it was an honor to be able to help you solve this! I love how atmospheric your videos are, they're an experience in and of themselves to watch. Wishing you a happy 2024 :)
Eyyyy
bro when I saw your name in a nexpo vid I knew you'd made it lmao
heyy its Kylie! Love Ur stuff Keep Up The Great Work.
@@trainman05matthewb.65 you are a real one man lol!
Cringe
getting to the end of this video made me feel like I was biting into a burrito only to find it was just a piece of cylindrical Styrofoam inside of a stale tortilla shell, so thanks for that sensation I guess.
It feels like Nexpo is becoming quantity over quality, Barely sociable and Lemmino are the perfect example of the opposite. They focus on actual interesting mysteries without over dramatizing them or dragging them out while also remaining skeptical and pointing out things that could be false or fake. Nexpo just puts ominous music under things that are clearly fake ARGS or unfounded and wild conspiracies in order to appeal to Gen-z tiktok users who'll believe anything as long as nexpo puts ominous music in the background. Like whats the point of covering ARGS? they are art projects made by bored art students and couldn't be anything further from creepy, just cringeworthy attempts at going viral which youtube channels will milk to get easy views.
Thanks for saving me some time
@@tedthecommenter5364Jesus I just watched the longest domain name transfer story in history. What a waste of fucking time this was. Next he’s gonna do a tutorial on DNS records. Also this could have easily been solved with a dns/domain history query for a few bucks.
@@tedthecommenter5364 "Quantity over quality", *8 uploads in a year and a half* not everything he covers has to be some grand revelation or something that shocks people to the core. It's just a fun video, if you don't like the topic you're not obligated to watch
@@usernamemonopolyI like nexpo but this video did piss me off a little bit. Although I understand sometimes there will be a lack of material in the horror scene.
The “Nexpo pause” makes me chuckle every time! 😂 Great video my friend!
Course he hearts your comment but refuses to explain why he does that. Its fucking annoying to many people, just look back at the previous video.
Broski pls calmm down he can't like his own comments or what? @@thatonedude
@@thatonedude"Refuses to explain why he does that".
Everyone's speech pattern naturally has a cadence. Even if it wasn't natural, it's likely for dramatic effect. This has been done since the dawn of film as a whole. God forbid a RUclipsr making a free video for your entertainment does the same and takes their own creative liberty in creative works.
And, before you throw this at me, I'm not meat riding either. Never watched a video of the guy's before until now. You're just a big ol' grouchy grouch.
@@thatonedudebro are you good it’s not that deep 💀 calm tf down
If there's the word "pride" on the internet, you gotta be on high alert for the word preceding it lol.
I love how everyone who talks about Y2K ignore all the work companies went through to make sure their databases were setup to handle it.
get rid of your clocks and tv sets and buy the latest so it dont go extinct..i remember lol
It was bs and idiots like you believed it😂😂😂
I remember people buying Y2K ISA cards with the BIOS update and RTC. 😂 I also remember them being totally unnecessary in the majority of cases. 😂
I didn't know anyone who was at all upset or frightened of Y2K. I think it was totally overhyped by the media.
My MIL doomsday pepped for it. I am a software dev. We spent more time listening to our boss stress about it, we didn't actually need to fix anything.
As someone who wears hearing aids, I just want to thank you for the time and care you put into your video captions. It means so much.
Despite being a fully hearing viewer, I agree. I just enjoy reading subtitles; and I think they make content more accessible to those that struggle with hearing. It's a shame that not many channels on here have proper captions, because I tend to gravitate towards ones that do, even though I don't personally need them.
I agree. My husband is deaf, but wears cochlear implants. I always have captions turned on.
(nexpo sighs) 😅
It also makes such videos a great learning tool for foreign language speakers
common nexpo W
i feel like this is kind of a really melodramatic, 30+ minute song and dance for the answer to the "mystery" to be exactly what i imagine everyone expected it to be at first glance lol. like literally my first thought when i saw the initial reddit post was "disney is a massive multi-media conglomerate that owns roughly a gajillion IPs, and paranoia is a really generic name, it's probably just an unfortunate coincidence." still kind of a fun watch tho, nexpo really knows how to create atmosphere with his editing
This could have been a 2 minute video. With dramatic effect it could have been padded out to 10 minutes. 36 minutes was excessive. One of Nexpos worst videos by far.
yeah it was disappointing the way it was presented, given his usual subject matter. it's still an interesting topic but it would have been a more interesting turn to just change up his editing for this one. i love a good video essay but by the time he revealed the fact that...disney is a monopoly...it was like...OK...cut the unnerving music pls and put the vhs effects away, there's nothing sinister here other than capitalism lol. the sound effects when he was at his computer and figured it out by being tipped off by someone else was like - really?? really???
it's likely just a filler video that needed to be done because of a contractual sponsorship, IMO.
The point is the journey if you don't want the ride then skip to the end. He made chapters for a reason.
Y2K was a non-event because thousands of programmers and IT professionals worked their ASSES off around the clock throughout 1999 leading up to 12/31 and don't you ever forget it.
how about we just dont overlook a massive flaw in computing in the first place?
@@jaredchn The point is we didn't, and we fixed it in time. Many of the systems affected were legacy computers set up decades prior that folks assumed would be replaced long before the year 2000. It took people making noise about it to get the resources to fix them though.
why am I only learning about this now?!?
Shut up nerd
@@jaredchnbecause that's basically impossible. Like, people were given integers with only so many bits, and eventually we needed more. Im not going to take the time to write out a fucking thesis here, but people write code with the data types they have at the time the code was written. Time itself especially has a habit of overflowing the size of those data types. It's happening again with unix time soon. It's going to be a constant struggle.
I would like to point out Y2K is the perfect example of "what is the difference between a non event and an event adverted? Nothing". There was a crap ton of fixes that made it a non event.
Thank you. I was about to reply that it was kind of flippant of him to just gloss over the part where he suggested that "nothing happened", the reason nothing happened was because of thousands of people like me who were employed during the late 90s writing fixes for all of the systems that would have failed. I'm just going to assume Mr Nexpo is too young to remember those times so he is simply unaware of our efforts that prevented what would have been some serious issues otherwise. At 49 now I remember this time well and actually owe my entire career path to it as it was my entry into the world of programming.
@xXHunter_RocksXx yep, my dad is in his mid-50's and when he told me his programming years were during y2k, it made sense he had so much training in so little time.
Reminds me of the people who claim the hole in the ozone layer was a hoax or overhyped when in reality it was a huge global effort to avert environmental damage and one we'll probably never be able to replicate, in part because idiots have convinced themselves that the last one didn't happen
Untrue anachronistic justification of work done. @@TheCoon1975
@@ngwoo Yeah. Those who were teens in the 2000s basically saw the hole in the ozone layer closing in real time
Instead of just doing a long winded video that concludes with a Google search, actually exploring the old paranoia site and sites it hosted would of been waaaaaay more fascinating. This video is you doing one Google search because of a reddit post.
Yeah I felt kinda let down tbh and I couldn't explain it but you wrote it perfectly. But I guess we can start searching by ourselves now that we know it exists
This video is really cool, although it probably could have been about 15-20 minutes shorter
But.. the precious ad-sense from kids with too much free time. I glad I read the spoiler comments 5 minutes in.
It shouldn’t exist
What I like about mysteries like these is that it's something most people wouldn't even think about. People would probably look at it and think "That's odd, well back to whatever I was doing" and then forget about it, but then there's people whose minds forever linger on this, and they have to explore the mystery.
We call the people who can live with ignorance sheep. A human being will always choose enlightenment even if it comes with any host of negative connotations.
After all Adam and Eve didn't disregard the Apple.
@@clothar23I mean, we are talking about such a minor mystery that it feels like you jumped off to the moon to take it to this extreme. If we had to learn everything, we'd never get anything done. We have to draw the line somewhere.
@@clothar23 lmfao get a grip man
@@darkkit1994 Mate we statistically have what 80 to 90 years these days in our lives. We spend approximately 9 to 10 hours a day with work. We can get by with 6 to 7 hours of sleep. Hell I myself get by with 5.
That leaves hours of free time each day. And decades of free time over a lifetime. What else but increasing our knowledge base and skills would you do with it ? Yes you occasionally need some relaxation but laziness is a sin.
I remember going to this website all the time to get a chuckle and laugh. It had a lot of pages for humor. Like: "the cat is not trying to steal my soul when I sleep" among various other things. I've been looking for it for over a decade.
22:35 "The computer is your friend" is the official catchphrase of an old pen & paper RPG named Paranoia by West End Games.
West End Games probably just owned the domain for a short period of time.
Glad someone else caught that!
@@SunBear-kh2td or he liked the game and named the website after it
I was certain this was the answer, that West End Games owned the site and they got rolled up into Disney's megacorp at some point.
it's better than dnd tbh
Well, they cant all be bangers, Nexpo...
This is the first time a nexpo video has been anticlimactic to say the least. Not quite what I was expecting.
Been like that for a while:/
Can’t remember the last time I watched a youtube video that actually said certain words without self-censoring. Weirdly refreshing. It’s like we’ve been going backwards for a while because of algorithms and monetization.
If I have to hear one more youtuber or for some reason commenter say "unalive" I am going to snap.
It bothers me, too.
The words they censor are often very unpleasant, but they are also things that should be allowed to be discussed respectfully.
Yup, captialism sucks. If you're going to cover certain subjects, you need to respect them, even if it doesn't make you money. I hate Wendigoon using 'kiffing' from Futurama when he means rape, is talking about rape, and describing rape. It's not fucking cute
@@SuperRat420 here before you get flooded with idiots bending over backwards to explain how this isn't incentivized specifically by shareholders wanting to see a line go up
@@nddragoon yeah it's just lazy softhanded bullshit so they can make a buck.
My dad was a software engineer who was tasked with fixing thousands of Y2K bugs, he's the reason I always write my years in 4 digits.
Until the year 9999 ends, then we will have to use five digits. Ultil the year 99999 ends. then we will have to use six digits...
@@bruceluizbold of you to assume we make it to the year 10000
@@smittyjjensin558 Humanity has existed for millions of years, no reason to think we can't make it there.
@@lemon64k49Uhh... We had nukes, half the capability to destroy the planet or at the least ourselves 1,000, let alone 10,000 years ago? Great observation. We had the capability to split the atom or create horrific bio agents that could never occur in nature back then? No. Easy to see how we could expire before another 100, let alone 10,000 or 1,000,000 years pass.
@@SStupendous humans are smart and resourceful, it would take something truly cataclysmic to cause a full extinction
I was not ready for the Kingdom Hearts nostalgia lol- the moment Dearly Beloved started playing I got hit by so much childhood melancholy that I was not prepared for in the slightest
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT!! I was listening to this while working and when the song started I was like "omg I haven't heard this in forever"
I forgot disney owned kingdom hearts somehow, and i was just like "what how does kingom hearts relate to this- OH"
Bro needed a video for his sponsors
Oooh…is this real tea?
@@Pinoy_Central idk
@@glitchpenguin6371it is.
Less than thirty seconds in, and Bonzi Buddy already jumpscared me.
Haha I was about to say the exact same thing 😂
Seeing it again despite it being years since I've done tech work, still made my eye twitch.
He was trying to warn us about the future of AI computer assistants.
Ah yes the scourge that was Bonzi Buddy.
Same, i was like 'damn bonzi what did you do now?'
HUGE shoutout to the video's full captions. not enough people fully caption their videos, so it's always a treat to see
dont care
@@ratelimited don't care
Don’t give a flying fuck
THIS!!! I have poor hearing and an auditory processing disorder and having captions helps so much. I wish more creators would properly caption their videos like Nexpo does! I'd be able to follow along far better. Big ups to Nexpo for his accessibility!!
i always use subtitles but the automatically generated ones are 99% perfect so.. while cool its not such a big deal
It's just someone bought a redirecting link. Story over.
And Rosebud was his sled. So? It's okay for a piece of media to have not been made for you.
@@StuffCraigLikesnah, it's over complicated on a situation that isn't cult like or creepy at all. Just blown over proportions, for a RUclips channel that doesn't do that content. Does factual based videos usually, now he doesn't. Simple as that.
Some myth busting:
People don’t understand that the Y2K “hysteria” was completely warranted. The only reason “nothing happened” is because people worked furiously, all over, at tremendous expense to governments and organizations around the world, to make sure it didn’t destroy the modern era. It still did a tremendous amount of damage, but because people got together and worked on it, it was largely invisible to the average person.
The fact that things kept going after the clock struck midnight made everybody go “well THAT was stupid, why’d everyone get all worked up over that?” And that ignorance has persisted into the current day. It DID happen, it WAS a disaster. But we got together and fixed it before it got bad, and nobody got the memo.
This goes to show that a lot of the internet mysteries we ponder over are often less interesting and deep as we think they are. This explanation makes so much sense in the grand scheme of things. Nothing malicious, no secret scrapped movies/shows, just an unsuccessful gameshow with a domain name that Disney inherited when they absorbed the company that produced it. Great video as always
as soon as disney came up i knew for a fact it was going to be a tv show but... not something ;ike that
I'd say most mysteries in general. It's just human nature to always assume exotic, elaborate explanations for things. But in reality, most of the time, things happen for pretty simple reasons. Like when I read about mysterious disappearances, then I found out they were last seen hiking, you can pretty much wrap up the mystery as someone just getting lost.
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You ruined/gave away this video 5 seconds in for me 👍 have a good day
@@dhqm Considering the amount of people complaining that the video wasted 30 minutes of their time over a nothing burger it probably wasn't the worst Nexpo video to have spoiled. I'd recommend not reading comments before watching any video as someone will always spoil it in the comments every single time without fail.
The Y2K fear wasn't just paranoia, though. And it wasn't just that "everything turned out fine". There was a massive effort of tons of people working non-stop to make sure that what everyone said was going to happen (and it was going to happen) didn't happen. Sure it wouldn't have been the end of the world, but it would have caused insane damage. And I guess everybody who put in all that work did that work perfectly, to the extent that nobody even believes that it was a serious concern anymore.
A bit like survivorship bias in that we didn't get through it for the reasons most people think we did (as another commenter said, not because it was a non-event, but because it was an event averted)
That’s what Peter did for Initech, on Office Space.
@@sendthis9480 Sorry, I don't watch anti-printer propaganda
@@sandrafaith If only COVID was averted in the same way, not left to spread and cause so much damage.... Y2K got pushed aside, at least, but....
I remember setting my computers date ahead to try and... I dont kno. Trick it. (I was pretty young and didn't really understand what was happening just didnt want to lose my creatures saves!)
Bro got too far into the production of this video to turn back when he realised it was nothing
This presentation is, honestly, no better than any paranormal ghost hunting show on TLC. All the buildup and the ending we all knew we're gonna get. TLC fools folks on purpose; what's your motivation, here?
Your sycophants aren't going to tell you this but you need it. This was subpar dude, and the fact that there are 3+ minutes of runtime padding with nothing more of than a camera fixed on you, surfin' the net, is all the proof I need.
This was a struggle, and it shows.
Enthralling.
Come on. Do better.
i could buy any domain and make it link to anywhere.....jesus christ dude
I love all the "lost media", disturbing things and unfiction stuff like petscop, but i think your internet dives are always my fave videos of yours. Worlds, Lake city quiet pills, reddit mysteries. Thats always been my jam. So it was nice to see a return to it.
Real
Sameee
Lol the KH user and the KH tie
What a boring climax, a complete nothingburger. What a waste of time lmao
This isn't even that uncommon. Feels like a total waste of time watching.
I think I'd rather have a fake mystery than no mystery. It doesn't really matter what the answer is, it's just fun getting there.
I will say - Y2K wasn’t just a paranoia (ironically). It was a real bug. The reason why it never came to be was because programmers worked tirelessly to prevent it. We owe the lack of that Y2K crash to those programmers!
My dad was a programmer back in the day. He had to work long days and nights before and during new years eve 1999 to make sure everything went well and that all issues were patched, its crazy to me how easily people forget about the programmers who were the reason why Y2K never came to fruition.
@@interlapsedtell more this is wild
@@SourCat420 I agree this is wild
@@bounceysteve I concur this is wild
@@TheExigency Conclusion: This is wild.
No amount of spooky music will make a website redirect spooky haha
Yeah this isn't spooky at all. I'm not sure why he made it seem spooky. The only spooky thing about this is the actual website (which deserves a video in itself) but a website redirect? Doesn't need such atmospheric music
It's just his editing and narration style. He's been sticking to it for many years now and it works. I like it.
Then nostalgia hits harder at 25:40
I like that I found out another cool website to visit (even if is just as archives) but yes, this video was kinda boring lmao
@Karlach_ it's a nice editing style but there's sooo many more interesting topics which actually suit it instead of Disney taking a url
Big hug from Brazil, bro! Your channel is pure gold
Had to get a video up for the sponsorship, huh?
I love Nexpo’s content but this was just not it. I understand not all mysteries are going to have some big payoff, but why stretch it out for 36 minutes and make it super dramatic for no reason?
Just to add, the dramatic silence at 27:56 was hilarious. Like, you stumbled upon the Wikipedia article of a game show lmao
agree lol i refuse to believe it took them that long to find the game show paranoia
Controversial opinion here but I feel like most of his content has this issue, he just usually hides it better. He's very talented at video production but when it comes to the actual investigation part he has no clue what he's doing. I mean look at any of his other videos and look how much he talks about first hand research vs just summarizing something he found on Reddit or discord. Nothing wrong with that on its own but dude needs to just own up to it and stop cosplaying as an investigator
He's showing his limitations as a RUclipsr with this one tbh, every video of his is so formulaic and edited so similarly in the "creepy internet mystery" way but when he covers something pretty mundane and not disturbing at all he doesn't switch it up lol he does like dramatic pauses on, looking at a Wikipedia page? It's just kinda funny, like this video made it pretty obvious he doesn't know any other way.
@brandnewfan182 Doesn't make sense for him to change his style or say he isn't an investigator when this is his whole brand and people come watch him for this brand of "creepy internet investigations with a touch of drama".
@@vriscoursed2470 LITERALLY like yall're just making yourselves look dumb lol
I feel like it is the first time that I do not share your excitement about a mistery. All along the video, I was just thinking "why should I care?"
Same! I only continued watching because I assumed it would be some crazy conclusion, but it was just because of an old game show?
Because it’s closure to an internet mystery, regardless of the outcome. Not every ending is exciting, but to come out the other side to complete it.
@@EatTheory yeah but a mystery like this doesnt need 36 minutes. could be cut down to like 20 if you cut out the dramatic pauses, long winded clips and slow talking
This probably be better as a lost media video
oh man, i thought i was the only one. This really ought to have been part of a compilation. I wasn't bored, but it really turned out to be so uninteresting.
The dramatic pauses in this videos were way too long, I mostly listen while I do other stuff and this was a bit tedious to get through
Agreed, this is like the first Nexpo video I dropped because I needed something that I can listen to fully and not get bored
I have been commenting the same here before. This channel has become really obnoxious, poorly researched and slowpaced. There needs to be a true return to form.
I really don't get why videos like this need to be a half hour long
$$$$$
To help me sleep
Just because
ikr should be at least an hour
That shot of the fantasia website is such pure distilled 2000's design, seeing it was a gut punch of nostalgia
It's giving me dELia'S vibes and I'm here for it
For the misspelled domains mentioned at 8:09 - that’s standard practice for a lot of big organizations these days (I say these days because idk how long it’s been a thing). They purposefully buy up those domains that look like typos of their real domain to prevent bad actors or scammers from squatting on them.
They also do it to save me a headache, I appreciate when Google redirects me to its website in spite of me fat-fingering a wrong letter.
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Getting any closure at all for any internet mystery is a miracle even today. It feels nice to have questions answered.
hey guys... did he.. *delete* comments? swear to god, all the ones that were critical of this video are gone...
It's possible
Believe so. He reverted a few of my comments on his last video before the edits were made, and deleted others. He's mad because no one seems to like his pauses 🤣🤣
@@thatonedude whats going on??
I still see some
if he did, he's taking the L now because the comment section is totally bagging on the vid now
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You're a back boy? I'm not with this guy.
You say that like it was Joever
Lost my dad in October, he loved your stuff and so do I. I have no doubt he would've loved this one, keep on keeping on.
what a cool dad, I hope you’re okay and I hope your family is too :) much love
RIP dad.. stay strong, i know how it feels
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I'm sorry for your loss.🙏
*in response to your closing lines* The reason that old internet has such a charm is because it was a time when we believed in possibilites and where people where allowed to be themselves before the algorithms began optimizing for addiction.
There was a beauty and hope that has now transformed into attention content addiction.
Also, nostalgia
Edit: We used to make content for the art and fun of it. Now its all about growing a business and brand. But its not people's fault either because ifyou dont pander to the algorithms, your content will be invisible.
For those who arn't sure about the difference between addictive and fun, mobile games are optimized for addiction. You feel the need to play but not the desire. There is no deep fulfillment or satisfaction.
On the other end, you know that something is fun when you want to do it without any pressure
Capitalism, as it does with everything, ruined it.
"optimizing for addiction" is a brilliant way to describe the current neo-tech dystopian culture we are suffering from.
@@FaiaHaloYou have 0 idea what you're talking about. Capitalism allowed for an explosion of jobs, alternative entertainment platforms (which you happen to be reaping the benefits of at this very moment) and an infinite amount of other useful products. The digital economy accounts for more than $1 trillion alone, or 7% of America's total GDP; which provides the comfort of living that allows strangers to lay in bed and criticize capitalism with 0 substance to their claim. I don't care about aligning myself with ideologies, but I do care about stopping dumb people from making unsubstantiated claims that negatively influence others. Don't like capitalism? Get off of Alphabet Inc's product, delete your socials, and donate (not sell) your iphone/computer.
@@No_Comply not only is this one of THE worst cases of boot licking I've ever had the displeasure of ever seeing, but the only one making claims with ZERO evidence to back them up is you. All of what you said sounds cute but you presented zero evidence, thus it remains as your feelings on the subject only. Plus, the tired old fallacy you are using here of not critiquing obviously flawed stuff just dismisses people's freedom of speech only because you feel uncomfortable by their remarks.
The Old Internet Lives
Or perhaps to cover their tracks when taking over the operations borderline illegal website they created a game show in case people ever went looking for the true reason.
The true reason being they wanted to be the number one website about The Simpsons available! That wasn't enough for them in the end though, that's why they ended up buying 20th Century Fox, they couldn't just have all web based Simpsons' domains, they needed to own The Simpsons themselves.
Checkmate.
not the offbrand meatcanyon channel cooking up a new theory
Reading this before watching the video without context 😳
blah blah blah send to publisher
@AstraOG agreed, their stuff seems like "whatever is popular right now" mixed with creepy/overly detailed imagery. The animations are very fluid so props to that aspect.
@@chadschmaltz9790 pretty accurate
I enjoy your videos but this was definitely more of a miss than a hit. The first 20 minutes of it were literally just "I did a few Reddit searches and could not find anything". TWENTY minutes. Then the rest of it is just "hey I know I named this video "an internet mystery" but it wasn't a mystery at all". Again, I really enjoy your other stuff but this one just didn't do it for me, sorry.
The guy makes good videos but uh.... This was really anti-climactic and rather boring once you realize it's not really an interesting mystery. Like of all the mysteries on the internet this has got to be one of the most mundane.
The editing and melodramatic presentation of this video seem at complete odds with the totally mundane explanation to the "mystery", which didn't seem very mysterious to begin with. I feel like this could have been ten minutes long.
Yeah this is certainly one of Nexpo's weakest uploads
Right? Disney is notorious for buying up IP’s and owns almost every company. I would’ve just googled “Disney paranoia show/movie”
@@ShomilSaxena All of these channels are desperately trying to have their own Defunctland video about the Disney Channel stinger music. It's transparent and kind of cringe.
i liked it! not every video has to be a groundbreaking banger. its ok to have fun
@@zersch.lol no
It’s always a good day when Nexpo uploads
boring ahh vid
@@westwrld17 ??? If it’s not your cup of tea that’s fine but it’s not a bad or boring video
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Only Nexpo can manage to make me have goosebumps 6 minutes in a video…absolute respect for you!!!
brother what the hell was this
“When will we not be scared anymore?”
When we’re in mummy’s arms
@@harrynelson9203
Speak for yourself, being held by a mummy is probably a _terrifying_ experience.
You present Y2K as though it turned out to just be fearmongering. The reason nothing happened was because of a massive global effort by developers to fix things in the years leading up to the date. If no one had done anything, it would've been an issue, but the media didn't realize that old-school devs were aware of the issue and already putting in the effort in ancient backbone systems to make sure everything would go smoothly on the date.
Brah it was fearmongering, the news picked it up and ran with it, while people were working to fix it people thought the world was ending, believe me I was alive and people I knew were genuinely scared, it’s silly now but how is that not fearmongering? Especially since the news still does that now so nothing has changed.
couldve been 3 times shorter
That Kingdom Hearts transition got me in the feels. Grew up with that series. 1, 2, and Chain Of Memories. Good ol days.
1 & 2 good but Chain of Memories is an evil dogwater game.
@@ZyborggianLooks like someone doesn’t have the heart of a hero 😭
@@ZyborggianHere use this then: Stop + Attack Card + Attack Card >> Lethal Frame
KHII was my first Kingdom Hearts game that I had played. It is what got me into the KH series.
Back when live service want a thing ahhhhhhhhh fuck I miss it
If the word was 'friendship' instead of 'paranoia', would this video have been made? I love Nexpo videos generally, but this was bordering on banal.
I know, right? such a long drag, to so little information. like a high school essay
I can appreciate it. Sometimes, you just get curious about something and have to know, and this feels like that.
Love how this is made to feel ominous and a feeling of dread, but is just a URL bought for a gameshow 😆
Big thanks for actually linking the music you use. you have now idea how many time I hear a tune i like just to fine out there is no way for me to actually find it.👌
hey man, honest feedback here. I prefer longer, deeper dives into things like these. i feel as if i could have found this out by spending 10 mins on google. i don’t know if it was the way you presented it, but it seems like your research on this in particular is lacking. i typically enjoy your videos.
I would have much more enjoyed hearing about the odd sites on the original paranoia.
also, the long pausing between groups of words in the same sentence for dramatic effect could be reduced. it’s really cheesy.
It's great for things like Disturbing Things From Around the Internet, but it doesn't pay off here. It's just really weird here.
@@lpnp9477 yep, this vid was the first time it really grated on me, in the past it hasn’t been overdone but now it happens literally every sentence.
agreed.
The fact that this has an actual conclusion makes it deserve so many more likes. My original thought was that Disney saw a bunch of unsavory content related to their IPs and thought buying the whole site would be easier than suing each poster, but this makes more sense as there was less of that in the earlier days of the Internet. Thank you, Nexpo, for always entertaining us, whether it is with mysteries or explanations!
explain, please! I still don't get it. Why would Disney buy the site that used to be this game show's?
@@PoliticallyPink The show aired on the Fox Family channel, and Disney eventually purchased Fox Family. Disney then purchased the domain name.
That's it.............. dramatic pause*................. I switched to................. dramatic pause*.....................Nick..... Crowley................
Something in my heart told me you were about to talk about Kingdom Hearts right before you did and omg, it is really ingrained in my system.
Oh shit here we go
eyyy look who it is :D
Mysteries dont have to be creepy, or dark, or unnatural.
Sometimes they just have to be odd. This is one of those times, an odd mystery of the old internet from the 90's/00's.
I’m sorry but this is what Nexpo does and loves doing. And I’m glad he made a video about this. Because I really can’t fucking stand when people spread false narratives and conspiracy bullshit with absolutely no solid backing or research. So for Ryan to make a vid about him researching and explaining things clearly about something (we may or may not care about) is still awesome. Because little shit like this, blows up in ways we don’t realize. Especially nowadays more than ever.
I will say I’m not a fan of the ARG stuff but I always appreciate Nexpo’s research work and his editing work. My God I have not heard/seen “Now Here’s your feature presentation!” in forever. Thanks for the nostalgia fix.
I always get excited seeing your vids come out Nexpo and I’m looking forward to you putting out a lot more this year!
Yeah i love real stuff, ARGs are 👎 since it just doesn't creep me out since ik its fake already
It’s so amazing that this has finally been solved. I’ve seen a few videos covering this and they all ended on the initial conclusion discussed in this video. It’s nice to finally have closure on this mystery.
This isn't related to the paranoia site but that "we'll be right back" screen brought me way back like holy shit. As someone who grew up watching disney vhs tapes and early dvds, I was always so excited to see that screen and the previews. Thanks for giving me thar feeling again, Nexpo!
aw i love that!!!
@@haileyjohnson6534Yeah me too!!
i felt the exact same way :')
same
Sooooo… It would’ve saved a whole lot of time for a whole lot of people had they just searched “paranoia” on Wikipedia??? That’s literally the first thing I do when I’m looking something up…
Look, they can't all have our search skills, then people would actually know things.
@@emexdizzyand you can have a juicy mystery when knowing things can you now 🤔
The whole time I was watching I was waiting for something interesting to be revealed, never did. Should use wiki
Tbf i never used the wikis search box ever
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Come to Jesus Christ today
Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
You shoulda just gone through the original website… the Disney angle was a complete waste of time
Completely agree - boring video
this feels like a bit of a nothing burger
The whole fact-finding process in this video really goes to show how a lot of people are really just hungry to make a conspiracy or a mystery out of _anything,_ even when the truth is staring you in the face. The first thing I would have done was look for other media properties called "Paranoia" once discovering that the movie had no affiliation with Disney whatsoever (and how the hell were people accepting that as an answer???). There have been a few shows called Paranoid or similar names but the only ones I see specifically called Paranoia are the game show and the Sony movie. So it really just follows logically, and then the facts of the whole Fox/Disney merger around that same time just put a nice lid on the whole thing. There's no mystery and there never really was. It was just capitalism.
Also, for what it's worth, Disney does not own the names "Aladdin" or "Snow White". Both of those characters have existed since long before Walt Disney was even born; Aladdin was written in the same era as Ali-Baba and Snow White was an old Grimm tale from the 1800s. Disney owns rights to _their films and the associated depictions of these characters,_ but they thankfully cannot claim sole ownership of those names. I can also guarantee that's the case because if it wasn't, DIsney would have absolutely taken the people who own those URLs to court and claimed them for themselves - this is Disney we're talking about, after all. And knowing Disney would be the ones buying them, you bet your ass whoever bought those sites first is going to take them for everything they've got if they want to buy them.
Yeah I found the mention of those titles odd - if Disney bought those websites it just seems like a legal nightmare that's not worth the hassle. Everybody knows they're owned by Disney and those properties are old enough that the Internet was young or nonexistent when it would've made sense to buy those domains, anyway.
100%
can’t we have any fun?
I can only assume this video is some sort of psyop to see how much they dumb things down. As a time traveller from web 1.0 I am amazed at how regressive and thought-stopping the culture of current year internet is. Horrifying.
Yep. The original media group has sold of many rights due to bankruptcy.
So I think that’s the most likely scenario.
I dunno man, this was a non-mystery. I understand the appeal, but this one didn’t really go anywhere.
The way you structure this is amazing. Honestly this is barely a one paragraph story, but because of the way you script, edit, and scored it made it extremely engaging throughout. Well done man, I seriously appreciate the work something like this requires.
>click on video expecting a deep dive on paranoia
>It's about maybe why the IP was bought
😐
I feel like this kind of thing qualifies as archeology, the internet is basically speedrunning "Entropy of Information" because all it takes to lose something forever is some corporate bean counter deciding to unplug a server to save on data and power.
Or maybe just historical research at some point.
Nexpo is one of the few youtubers who could lure me into a 30 minute video about a website owned by Disney and leave me not mad about it.
I remember working at the Admin computing center at a community College in 1999 and all the computer programmers were rolling their eyes at the Y2K paranoia. The tech sector was arguably the least worried about it, because they had done so much to mitigate it.
Man I wish there was more videos each month there so good I can hardly wait for the next keep up the good work.
That intro score is orgasmically good
it's WHAT?
It makes me bust
Ambutskaaaam
@@ThirdyMeowyYou heard the man
@@yeetrepublic9142Assuming gender in the current year?
It’s fucking insane how long it took you to explain such a simple chain of events and how dramatized you made it
Yeah RUclipsrs are more focused on entertainment than communicating information effectively..like Y2K being covered as a non-event all despite the money and effort it took to stabilise computer systems.
For real. One of the most pathetic attempts at stretching out such a nothing story I've seen in a while.
@@helmaschine1885 you mean more focused on ad revenue lol
The pregnant pauses make him more money, so he's never gonna stop, sadly
the only paranoia here is NEXPO's paranoia with this shit. lol
redirecting to a page doesnt mean its owned by them
Not the first time Nexpo does a deep dive investigation into a mystery and the payoff, is that there isnt anything interesting and you've, more or less, wasted your time!
Some investigations should probably have their videos scrapped if it ends up being nothing. It shows that you could make a text description of beef jerky sound mysterious and disturbing. Which makes me feel like, you've got to have a more worthwhile topic/video idea than this?
I dunno, videos with lame conclusions are just that.
can we appreciate Nexpo's editing desk? Thats one helluva clean setup.
here's the real conspiracy: nexpo put this 30 minute nothingburger of a video just so he could cram a sponsor in, and then proceeds to delete all negative comments about it. this is low, dude. you're better than this.
With every video your editing and story telling skills are improving. The sudden find at 27:57 was fun. Thanks for the great video!
I actually watched this game show when it premiered. Fox Family promoted the hell out of it but were very vague and mysterious about what it was. The first question on the show was “where does Homer Simpson work?” They spent 5 minutes dragging it out asking the other contestants their answers and then taking polls over phone and web and I got bored and changed the channel. Love these internet deep dive videos, you have such good pacing with these kind of docs.
Do you remember what was playing before or after this show or what time slot? I know "Who wants to be a millionaire" started around this time but on ABC.
Sounds like this video
(No one has mentioned that you can do redirect to the site even if you don't own the domain you're redirecting to)
He also never actually found the URL in the game show. The structure of the url from the clip is fundamentally different than the original url being investigated.
@@owenclinton yeah, video is basically a huge nothing burger
@@rearedrain9722 yeahhh usually i reallly like his videos but this one did feel like nothing lol. from the start i was lke "watch it be a quired by a company merger"
right? i was so confused about that. and the random website that is just a list that claims to be domains owned by Disney, why would you just trust that immediately? very bizarre.
swing and a miss