u/GlitteringMatter6571

hi everyone! this is my very first time posting in here, so I’m sorry if I’m not using the right flair or anything. I wanted to talk about something weird I came across online a long time ago. I’ve just been thinking about it again since I know the whole world of like, weird/lost internet stuff is very popular right now lol. my memory also kind of sucks, so I’ll try to remember as many little details as I can

so around 2010-11, I had a mild interest in 3D modeling and wanted to look up some videos on how to use Blender. I don’t exactly remember what search query I used, but one of the very first videos I stumbled across had a really unusual thumbnail. I decided to click on it out of curiosity, and was immediately weirded out. the video was maybe about 15 or 20 seconds long, and I remember it didn’t really have a standout title or description or anything. I also remember that these videos just had a really amateurish, low quality feel to them. it was a clip of someone’s hands rolling around something in a big glob of paint. what immediately struck me is that this video was a “video of a video” - the person was filming their computer screen with the video file on it. I specifically remember they kept clicking on the timeline of the video file to make it constantly loop in 1-2 second intervals. I then remember going to their YouTube page to find that there were at least hundred or so videos in this same format: all of them involved them rolling these objects in paint, being manually looped in the same way

upon watching some more of these videos, it started to make sense to me that this person was actually painting with deceased animals and severed animal parts. I don’t really remember what specific animals were used, but I just remembered it was so unnerving, weird and cruel. this channel barely had any subscribers, and there were tons of these videos with little to no views.

at the time, I was an active user on 4chan and I remember posting this find to the /x/ board. It actually did get a fair amount of traction for a few days. from what I remember, the channel owner was some artist from europe. a few days after I had posted about it there, the channel was either deleted or reported, and the owner moved everything to either Vimeo or whatever other YT alternative there was. even if this was an art project, it didn’t exactly feel like it imho

I think about this every now and then which is why I wanted to post about it here. I’m stupid when it comes to searching for archived stuff, and I’m not even sure if /x/ is archived that far back. I honestly wouldn’t even know how to search it anyway, especially since I don’t remember the exact dates of when I first discovered this channel. all I know is that I found some really weird videos of a guy painting with dead animals and it feels like it completely vanished off the face of the earth

anyway, don’t even really know where I’m going with all this! abiding by one of the rules here, I don’t really want anyone to try and hunt this down or find it for me - it’s just a weird thing I experienced a long time ago that I wanted to share with everyone

hey there! as the title says, I (31/nb, amab and male presenting if that matters) am always excited to meet some new people, and was hoping to find some likeminded folks on here :) (and as a disclaimer, no one under 21 please!) I’m currently attending grad school, and I’m getting my MFA in creative writing. I consider myself a poet, and I want to teach creative writing on a college level once I’m done with my degree. I just really enjoy writing in general, and I also love to read as well (even though I kinda suck at reading these days)

video games are probably my biggest passion and hobby outside of the writing world. I particularly love retro games and I enjoy collecting them as well as other physical media/hardware. right now my big gaming obsession is Deadlock, but I’m trying to ween myself off of it so i can get to other games in my backlog. 😔 that being said, I absolutely would not mind to have a duo lol. as for other games I like, I love JRPG’s, weird quirky old games, indies, dungeon crawlers, gachas (particularly Umamusume, HSR, ZZZ, etc)

it’s kinda difficult to describe all the things I like because I like too many things: anime/manga, music, old technology, vintage computers, cats, the list goes on. you’ll just have to poke me about things I’m interested in! lastly, I do have ADHD and sometimes my replies can be sporadic and all over the place, so I do apologize in advance

thanks for reading if you did! don’t be afraid to reach out if I catch your eye. have a good one 👋 👋