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[TOMT][YTVIDEO] Eerie YouTube montage showing different camera angles of low-poly NPCs (ps1/ps2 style) with distorted faces, possibly racing game spectator models (only drone music, no narration)

Hi! I’m looking for a very specific, eerie YouTube video I believe I saw around 2016-2017, that might have become lost media. It’s an artsy, atmospheric montage focusing on the uncanny valley of video game crowds, rather than a standard "glitch-hunting" or Easter egg video.

The Visuals:

The entire video takes place at night in a cityscape environment.

It starts with a free-fly camera looking at some kind of racing performance.

It takes place near a pier or coastal city street track at night.

The video ignores the main action and focuses on the spectator NPCs standing behind racing barriers.

The closer NPCs look somewhat normal, but the back of the crowd is incredibly uncanny—static, distorted, low-poly LOD models with "paper" faces plastered over blocky geometry.

The creator focuses on a few of these creepy models up close, showing them in a slow montage from different angles (not just panning the camera from one to the next).

The Audio:

There is absolutely no narration.

The only audio is a strange, unsettling ambient drone music.

The Most Memorable Moments:

There is a highly unsettling close-up of one paper-faced model's head. It looks completely static at first glance, but if you look closely, it is moving/warping just slightly in a barely noticeable, breathing-like way.

The video ends with the camera flying out toward the dark ocean and fading out.

What it is NOT:

It is not GTA V. The crowd models and barriers looked like they belong to a dedicated racing game.

It is not an informative gaming channel like Oddheader or Slippy Slides. It is purely a standalone, artsy horror/liminal space montage.

Does anyone remember this specific video, or perhaps know the channel/artist who made it?

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u/StarLink97 — 21 hours ago

The character portraits in Pizza Tycoon (1994)

Maybe I'm a wuss but these would've really creeped me out as a kid lol.

u/wingedspirit — 2 days ago

This game creeped the hell out of me as a kid [Fine Artist, 1994]

I remember you could go down to basement and eyes would be watching you from the darkness like the whole mansion is a home for some unknown eldritch horrors. Then there were these images inside the game itself you could paste on the drawing, and let me tell you, some of them were nightmare fuel - like a man whose moustache looked like his face was cracked in half, or a picture of a random oversized footprint, etc.

If anybody played this and got creeped as much as I did (yet still loved it so much they kept playing) I’d like to hear your thoughts!

u/leaperdaemonking — 2 days ago
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Terrifying bug (GA)

EDIT: Happened to find a backup from a couple days ago, so not all is lost at least.

While editing this adventure, it seems one of the objects I added caused the screen to go black. Not only that but... what you see in the video (unmute).

Unfortunately I stupidly deleted the previous save of this adventure so I guess it's game over for me. Rip

u/dw_grapesinv — 3 days ago

What's the weirdest indie game you've ever played?

Hi!

I'm just curious, and I'm on vacation.

Do you have any really weird or scary indie games you'd recommend?

Thanks guys !

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u/3lsaO — 3 days ago

The temple of apophis map in MX vs ATV unleashed has some rather out of place ambient sounds

i played the heck out of this game as a kid and this map always struck me as completely odd in a game "mostly" grounded in reality (i know its not really the most realistic mx game). It is a rather fantastical map set in egyptian ruins for some reason and one part has strange chants that can be heard if you stay still
Side note: the roar that occurs at around 20 seconds i have NEVER heard and i tried to replicate it but couldn't

u/TotoRocher14 — 3 days ago
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Based on a Nightmare I had

Don't look behind you!

Making this LoFi horror game called 'Project Looking Glass'. You explore dozens of creepy and liminal spaces trying to uncover the mystery of what happened to you. Been using my dreams a lot as inspiration since most of the levels are little vignettes like this. Demo is on Steam if you're interested!

u/MorphLand — 9 days ago

Any GOOD dark web-related horror games?

I don't mean games that use .onion links, because playing them on the Tor Browser is really difficult due to its slowness (I've done several myself and can confirm that Tor is garbage). I mean video games that deal with accessing the dark web, you know, for those who don't actually want to go there. Like a simulator or one set in that environment. I heard of one called 'Welcome to the Game,' but I don't like it because the name is a reference to something unpleasant, apparently.

Thanks for reading.

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u/TruBugz — 5 days ago

A weird disturbing rom hack

I remember a dark pokemon rom hack where u are a champion ig your pokemons get scattered across the region, you gotta find em, you have only your mega charizard y with u and there is no healing in the game, if your pokemon faints it dies so does you the game ends if the mega charizard y faints and a weird pokemon appears in the blank screen. It was disturbing tbh. I also played it on an online emulator website

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u/maddygoggins7 — 8 days ago

Cool DOOM ARG series called Exploring Lost Wads

Exploring Lost Wads is this ongoing series I've been watching for a while now, it's a series about this dude who's GZDoom (fan-made modern port for classic DOOM and its mods) became haunted by an AI that causes strange occurrences at times while playing, sometimes displaying weird text on screen, changing a random texture or spawning a fully black figure that stalks the player before disappearing in a split second.

The series I believe may be partially inspired by the INTERLOPER ARG by Anomidae by that it has become more interesting over time rather than scary. This series is criminally underrated and I strongly advise to set aside some time and watch everything the channel has to offer as the story goes on.

The channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ExploringLostWads

u/undeaddawg — 12 days ago

(The last gas station) Business sim with an eerie mystery.

I found this indie game called The Last Gas Station. It's a cozy management sim with a creepy, UFO/supernatural mystery playing out as you interact with the local eccentrics and have brief strange encounters. The game is wonderfully atmospheric.

u/OlleyatPurdue — 11 days ago
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Here’s the audio for the sounds in the cave.

Ok so I have NO idea what they even are. I swear to god I hear footsteps in that cave but I already killed everyone in their. It’s so spooky😭. I only hear those sounds in that one cave and no other. What do yall make of this. Am I just completely missing something.

u/Direct_Snow_5065 — 13 days ago