What Are Your LEAST Favourite Analog Horror Series And Tropes?

What are your LEAST favourite analog horror series and tropes?

I can’t stand EAS scenarios, sticking to one format and synthetic voices.

They can be used well, sure.

But only if done well or sparingly

Thank you for the ask.

There’s one big thing that always irritates me in analog horror, and it’s when they throw in some random awful event just to try to make it creepier. It doesn’t advance the story, it doesn’t add to the lore, it’s not something well made or interesting or unique. They just add something awful to make you uncomfortable because they can’t make real horror.

It’s why I could never really get into the painter. It’s just kinda dull. It’s the same format over and over with a few weird pictures and some text thats like “this person was alive when they got stabbed in the face. That would suck huh” like ok, cool, I guess it would.

There’s no element of real story, it’s not building up to anything. I’m not watching the next video thinking it’s going to be even better than the last one. The only thing keeping you watching is the hope that eventually they’ll show you something weird. I can’t get into an analog horror series where the only point of interest is “hey, isn’t this fucked up?”.

They really just spoon feed you the horror. Urban spook has never heard of show don’t tell.

Reading this back I guess that’s more two things.

My least favourite tropes in analog horror are shock for the sake of shock and explaining why something is scary.

Other than that I’d say I like most of the other tropes, even if they might be overused. Things like synthetic voices and EAS scenarios were always things I myself liked, although I get why they’d get annoying over time.

As for my least favourite series, I think you could figure it out from what I already wrote lol.

Man cave, but not like a cave for men, rather, a cave of men. A bunch of guys sitting on each other’s shoulders with their arms linked together forming a large dome. They sleep in shifts so there’s always enough men awake to keep the dome supported. Perhaps one day they could even form a man sphere and roll around. Imagine the places they’d go.

Trying to make up for a severe lack of memes in the analog horror community.

Succumbing to propoganda, re-entering my Kirby era, designing new gijinkas.

After some careful consideration, I’ve decided that yes, it is time to be cringe on main.

What kind of art do you like??

Thank you for the ask!

I consider myself someone with a pretty wide range when it comes to my taste in art. There’s something to be appreciated in every piece of art work. That being said I do have certain things I enjoy more in art.

I’m a huge fan of anything super stylized or unrealistic. Things like cartoons, surrealist art or abstract paintings. I also love colour, the more eyestrain the better.

In terms of the subject of the art, I like weird things. Floating eyeballs and spirals and bugs and body horror. Horror art and pieces with super cryptic messages or weird symbolism are high on my list.

Sculptures, paintings, digital art and traditional art are probably my favourite mediums of art. Oil pastels are something I am especially fond of, both in art I make and art I look at.

I think that about covers everything. I love art just in general, its rare I find a style I genuinely dislike, but those are my favourite qualities in art.

i really love the nuance and bleeding of lines between the fears in tma and i don't think people talk enough about it. like, the vast and the buried can't exist without eachother, which you might think would make them opposites, but they are so close to eachother, the prime example being the ocean. and the similarities between the spiral, web, and stranger are fun to think about, like, the way they fuck with your reality and perception and everything. then we obviously have the similarities of the eye and the web with information gathering. the vast and the lonely are actually pretty connected because if you think about it, you feel the most lonely in a big open space with no one around. the corruption and the buried, bugs live underground. corruption and web, connectedness. there's so many connections you can draw it's great! and let's not forget about the one that presides over most of the others, the end. it looms over almost every fear, it's so cool!!

It really is so cool. I love the idea of all these other worldly fear powers that are so incredibly different being so alike. I love that they all need each other to exist, and no matter how different they all are.