Our own Mangetout has recently started uploading a new series of videos to his YouTube channel where he posts under the name “Atomic Shrimp”. In the past he’s posted mostly videos about scambaiting, food, and other miscellany.
Recently he began posting some very strange “Slaughter Valley public service announcements”. The man is a creative genius.
Here’s the playlist:
These are brilliant! Thanks for posting, and thanks to @Mangetout for creating!
Great stuff.
Should make a terrific serial TV drama.
Thanks for the kind words! Questions are unnecessary. Remain where you are.
“Mormality” is one of the fimest shot films I’ve seem fo a log time. All the othews wewe excellent as well.
Excellent!
Goodby to us!
I love this! It reminds me a little bit of The Peter Serafinowicz Show, but it’s more subtle.
Brilliant!
You’re welcome. I greatly enjoy all of your videos!
One little bother, with due respect. The narrator’s whistling S’s make it difficult to listen to.
I don’t hear that.
These are great!
Incidentally – I didn’t know until today that Mangetout had a YouTube channel at all. But for weeks and months now, the video “OK - Let’s Tell The Scammer I Already Have The Money” has been appearing in my Suggested column near the top. I’d never before today, as far as I know, seen one of Mangetout’s videos, and I’m wondering if YouTube somehow knew to recommend me a video by a Doper. Bit scary. (Oh, and: wow, 13M views! Hope you are making bank.)
Johns Warosa and Barosa must live in the Slaughter Valley area. This shall be my new head canon.
His scambaiting videos are very entertaining. He does mostly email scammers, as opposed to real-time conversations such as the ones done by Kitboga.
I also like his “weird stuff in a can” videos.
Stuff like Poison Sockets, and The Helvetica Scenario were amongst the sort of mood board of inspiration.
As well as the old TV series The Prisoner, Sapphire & Steel, 1984, and others
“The Prisoner” was what I thought of when watching them.
I think you used a clip from “The Prisoner” in the screaming contest announcement. Did you?
No - all of the footage is either free stock from pexels.com, or stuff I recorded myself.
The sort of weird thing about this series - people often think it’s world building for an ARG or sometimes that it’s oblique social commentary on the pandemic or some government or other, etc. Really, it’s just me messing around. Some of the episodes came about simply because, while I was searching for suitable stock footage for one episode, I tripped over a weird bit of footage that inspired a different theme (some of the stock footage on Pexels is just super weird - like people putting buckets on their heads in otherwise completely normal settings).
It actually started with just a throwaway line by a scammer - who wanted me to stop emailing them and so said “I will have to say goodbye to us” - I created a the Hurdle Slaughter skit in that scambaiting video, and people asked for more.
The world that developed out of this is one where nearly everyone in Slaughter Valley is both victim and abuser. Nearly everyone works in some form of public service, and in that service, they are subjected to brutal, obscure and frightening discipline, but they also inflict strange control on those who they have power over. It’s a power struggle in which the entire populace is competing.
Slaughter Valley itself has almost certainly undergone some sort of supernatural or anomalous physics event, perhaps more than once, but it is never completely made certain whether the monsters that encroach from the edges are real, or just another fiction of the brutal regime, or have been created by the regime, or are real, but simply invited to consume the citizens, for some reason or other.