Honestly, Slenderman isn’t really a terrible character. Its just that the internet mostly hate indie media that became popular, mainstream, or "old" for some reason. If the internet hate media that becomes popular, then that would’ve applied to basically everything else that becomes popular, like Mario, Grand Theft Auto, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and so on, and so fourth. Everyone be hypocritical nowadays..Let everyone enjoy what they want.
he lives with a really annoying grey alien that constantly quips in his presence, and joel DESPISES him, so whenever he sees him in-game, he shrieks like a little gorl
@Braxton B. We have them. Every European Country has them, it's a Law and was especially important during the Cold War. We are just unphased People i guess. Here you can read about every Countries Sirens: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_defense_siren Just last year one of Sweden's Emergency Siren went off accidentally, causing a ton of Confusion, was all over the News all over the World. Just search for it and you find Articles. And here in Germany we have a ton, because Germany was basically the "Frontline" of the Cold War. East Germany had countless of Soviet Military and West Germany countless of US Bases and Soldiers. The Sirens here now after the Cold War are mostly used for two Reasons: To test them regulary to see that they work as they should, so if they're needed they are available And when a World War 2 Bomb is found during Construction Work in a City for example, which btw happens all the time, where i live they're found every other Week, people get evacuated if they live in the Radius of the Bomb when it gets blown up in a Controlled Explosion. In this case the Siren is also used before the Explosion happens. Prost from Bavaria, Germany
I'm kind of sad for the actual artist that created Siren Head. He's a genuinelly really cool guy, and it's kinda shitty to see his most popular creation turning into the new Slenderman.
Commented the exact same thing, poor Siren Head he became the new decade Slenderman "OHHHH SIREN HEAD CROEPYPASTE REAL SO SPOKI" b*llshit, why all the good internet things has to be ruined to death
Went down a rabbit hole few weeks ago, Cause the guy who created Sirenhead is really big into Horror movies, and he likes to post what he watched/rewatched on Twitter. So ontop on lookin' through his various artworks, I was also lookin' through these recommendations for Horror movies I've both heard and never heard of. (With some -peaking- piquing my interest.)
@@g0rdonfreeman1 2 that caught my eye that day was: a 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead with Tony Todd, (Of "Candyman" fame) And "CURE" from 1997
The creator of the monster, ”slimyswampghost” makes very cool art of other creatures as well. So if anyone is into that sort of thing, please check them out :)
I used to be terrified of Slenderman as a kid, watching the Sirenhead meme spread is like watching the same thing happen from a different perspective. Someone comes up with a cool monster idea and children on the internet convince themselves he's real, then make shitty fanart of him. Facinating.
Except the creator is actually trying to keep control of the character instead of letting people on the internet basically take it for their own gain this time.
Big Bratch won’t deny that one bit. Obviously when everyones making content about something there’s gonna be a handful of gold nuggets in that mountain of garbage.
Gotta admit, don't find sirenhead scary, but the US alert sounds make me crawl in my skin. I always assumed they specifically made the emergency alert sound as unpleasant as possible. Character design itself is kinda goofy.
idk I think they're much more interesting than a lot of "scary" horror designs. Feels more like a weird animal or something that adapted to an urban environment which I enjoy.
Marco Esposito Some kid tried to frame a game company for stealing from Trevor Henderson (the creator of siren head). And then he makes a twitter account claiming to be Trevor and started making very borderline racist tweets.
Like Joel said, guns kind of ruin horror games. When I see one I think "I can fight and kill whatever horror attacks me" which takes away a lot of the tension, I wish there was a game with a red herring gun...there's a gun and the regular ammo pickups but it does nothing to the monster. Like a security blanket being torn away, use it for puzzle solving or something else instead of directly fighting.
Horror games without any guns at all are even worse. Every encounter boils down to the same actions, running away and hiding. The old RE games do guns in horror perfectly, you should have a way to fight back, but it isn't be a braindead response of "oh, i'll just shoot it", it's more like "can i afford using the ammo? can i get past the zombie without using my resources?". Horror is at it's finest when you're managing your resources, when you actually need to think of what to do in regards to whatever is in front of you.
Proper horror games give you a means to fight back, but make that a genuine struggle to do, through resource management, the player character simply being ineffective with their means of offense, etc. That's just my opinion though. I never cared for the "just run away down the hallway or forest" type of games.
From what I understood, the gun here was also a mere deterrent, like _Isolation's_ flamethrower - Joel expended all of the ammunition given without missing and the loudmouth still shredded him, but he did do a lengthy stagger animation and fled after the first shot. It seems like that game has a somewhat legthy chain of objectives and a way to chase off the lanky mofo would help escape situations where you run yourself into a corner or need to do something before fleeing - at least a number of times it would.
A horror game called "Faith" did the weapon thing just right imo, depending how you decide to use your weapon the game answers with a different ending/interaction
Not to be one of those guys, but I miss when Siren Head was just an artwork Trevor Henderson made for twitter instead of this watered down baldis basics five nights at Freddy’s meme shit. I just hope the same doesn’t happen to Long Horse.
Sirenhead is an original creation by Trevor Henderson. I've followed him on Instagram for probably over a year and I'm happy he's attracting the attention he deserves. His art is phenomenal
i love Trevor Henderson and all his artwork so much, and on one hand its cool that his creations are becoming more popular, because he really is a very talented character artist who should be more recognized but the amount of fan content that doesnt credit him is unsettling. first the fallout mod (i dont remember if the creator credited him later, but Trevor mentioned on instagram at that time that he wasnt aware of the mod neither did he give any permission for people to use his characters), then the allegedly uncredited games and fanart. this is a very grey situation to be honest
once you put something on the internet prepare for major death of the artist. You can't control what people do with your IP anymore. It's just impossible.
@@voidofspaceandtime4684 What kind of brainless take is this? Exposure is something an artist wants so they can keep getting support for their work. most artists arent as petty and sensitive to poularity as some of you lot are
@@Bellitchi My point is you have to take the internet in stride. Once you post something and it blows up, you are no longer in control of it, and people may do with it what they wish.
Am i the only one that thinks Sirenhead _isn’t_ ruined by how popular it’s become? Sure there’s some low-quality or crappy stuff out there about it, and people are memeing about it, but the same could be said for pretty much anything of any degree of popularity. Also, i have a feeling the first “game” was just someone trying to scam people into downloading it. Like how there’s bootleg versions of popular movies-
Haven’t seen much of it and never really cared/knew about it in the first place so eh. Doesn’t seem like it has much substance to it past creepy art tbh (which is what it’s intended to be).
All of the charm from the artwork has been stripped away by the people on the internet trying to milk it for popularity. I do agree that a lot of things get memed the same way. But in this case there’s a much larger amount of people contributing to it than other “creepypastas” since it’s mainstream. I wish it just stayed as a cool piece of art and just one game but sadly I don’t think we’ll get that quality back.
@@oddwill4960 it really hasn't, just because someone made a mockery of the original idea and design doesn't ruin the actual official character, just say "fuck them" and move on.
hαyᗪEη I get what you mean, but it’s the amount of it that concerns me. With what the artist has given us compared to what the internet has made it’s apparent that the “new” stuff dwarfes the original. And not all of it is bad. I think the memes are funny from time to time. And a few stories might be good here or there. But overall I feel like it was better as artwork.
Siren Head is a really cool idea and creature, but i really get mad when people compared siren head to slenderman, and also when he is called a creepypasta or in my eyes shittypasta and average anime fan man trevor the guy who made siren head said Siren Head isnt a Creepypasta or an SCP. and jesus that wavy joel thing is making me dizzy
wasn't that what happened to slenderman too? dude makes a creepy photoshop for a contest, then the internet takes over and 10 years later we have a shitty movie
I think if the SCP community had gotten to it first it would have been a bit better than what it is now. But it’s best form was just the artwork. And as an SCP fan allow me to say that even if it was made into an SCP it wouldn’t be much to see. Just some “oooo spooky” stuff and that’s it.
The emergency broadcast system noise terrifies the fuck out of me. When I fell asleep watching tv and that shit came on. Oh fuck I did not go back to sleep
I loved trevor since I found him in 2018, hope he doesnt get shit because the algorythm decided that he's now popular. Also, the third game used a soundclip from the Prowler's theme in Spiderverse.
Monster that makes siren sounds and chases you? Ruined opportunity. Monster that makes fake announcements to lure people in remote locations out of their homes? That's good shit.
For a game, I think this creature works best as a background object the player can't directly interact with. When it starts chasing you around it just gets goofy as hell
Yeah as usual these things boil down to "oooo he's chasing you, run awaaay!" This thing would've been perfect to set only set an eerie atmosphere, even if it never does become an actual threat to the player. It should be in the background while you do other stuff, just wandering around far off in the distance making noise wherever you go, constantly reminding you it's there. It knows you're there too, taunting you, toying with you, ever increasing paranoia driving you into insanity. That's infinitely better than shitty jump scares and ice cream van music what the fuck is this.
@@moose8846 As if most AAA horror is ever quality. It's all mostly jumpscares because that's what works with test audiences and it's ingrained at this point.
Btw the artist who created the sirenhead creature is named Trevor Henderson and he goes by SlimySwampGhost on twitter and Insta. He’s drawn other interesting monsters as well!
3:53 OH MY GOD ITS BLOOD OH MY GOD Edit: This really is slender again, though. I’m literally having the same experience. Saw a few images, thought the design was cool and creepy, and then it became a meme and it sucks now Edit 2: Honestly, the idea of Sirenhead playing a little news thing about someone they have killed is equally silly and really cool. Edit 3: That moment when the titans of the video game horror market gives the player fire arms.
You're a park service ranger, it's dark and you really don't wanna be out there alone. But there was an emergency call over the radio, a lost child. The trees hang over menacingly, and a branch scratching at your neck scares you way more than it should. You hear a siren and hope for an update that lets you go somewhere that's definitely not here. Your hope turns to horror as you hear, "Do u know de way?"
You're lost in the woods, lonely and Terrified. Then you hear it. "Two bros, chillin in a hot tub" You scream, blocking your ears and running away. But you can still hear it. "5 feet apart cuz they're not gay"
Funny thing about the creepy sounding one where it alternates hi and low tones up and down, that's just what the tornado sirens sound like in downtown Chicago. Rather eerie, but not terrifying to me at all.
22:16 That's windows smartscreen. It just means not many people have ran that executable, nothing more nothing less. It doesn't say it detected a virus, it just says it doesn't get run often. You can just run them anyway. The idea of smartscreen is that it just keeps a database of stuff people have ran a lot. If a lot of people ran it safely, it's probably safe. If not many people have used it before then you rely completely on the virus scanner.
During the second actual game, when Joel was talking about a game that he thought was shitty but spooked him, anyone know what he was on about? Wanna see the Swedish meatball get spooped.
42:40 wasn't that his reoccuring nightmare? The one he explained on the Half Life 2 Episode 1 Live in the Half-Life Marathon? The one that scared the shit out of his dad?
To all the people getting mad at this basically becoming the next slenderman should calm down; You can’t stop it from getting popular. You should look at the bright side instead: Trevor is getting noticed. If this does becomes the next slenderman, then Trevor gets to reap the benefits from its popularity. All you should try and do is to make sure that Trevor gets properly referenced and linked. Let it pass naturally.
I've been a fan of Trevor Henderson for years now and it makes me feel so bad that as soon as his art makes it to the forefront (i.e. markipliers channel) he becomes a laughing stock. And despite the countless other monsters he's created, now he's just going to be "siren head guy." It's a fuckin shame how the internet just ruins shit.
Oh Markiplier was his signal boost? This all makes sense now. I think Mark's a cool enough guy, but his fanbase is like every shitty 8-15 year old on the platform, no wonder Trevor's getting hammered with garbage.
I dunno if its intentional, but the trees in that last one all have tall, split trunks and slender branches, giving them a similar silhouette to the monster. that's kind of cool, it got me a couple times.
Being the a canadian you hear amber alert sirens allought because the contry issues amber allerts to your phone, TV and radio whenover someone goes missing. So they are more annoying than creepy.
I agree with you on having a grey alien game about escaping abduction, those games are nonexistent, the hum was the best option we had and sadly it got cancelled. Scorn will be hype, but we need grey alien based survival horror games, the market is severely lacking for it...
Hey Joel! It'd be really cool if you could pop a link to Trevor's twitter (slimyswampghost) in the video description it'd be a small step towards making sure he gets proper recognition and credit for inspiring all these games :) And for everyone else here's some important things to remember: The creator of Siren Head, Trevor Henderson, has had little to no control over how Siren Head's popularity has blown up online. A lot of people have been treating the character as if it were public domain and using it for both free and paid content without consulting or getting permission from Trevor. - Siren Head is not an SCP; Trevor has stated many times that it is not part of the SCP canon despite many people trying to incorporate it against his wishes. Luckily the wiki managers have been good about respecting him on this. - Siren Head is not free to use just because it's popular on the internet. A lot of content being put out is essentially swapping out Slenderman for Siren Head to capitalize on the sudden popularity. It's important to remember that this is one regular person's IP and so far I don't think he's seeing any compensation from people who are making money off games or videos on his creation. - Trevor is a super sweet person and if you like Siren Head you should support his work! trevorhenderson.bigcartel.com/ www.patreon.com/TrevorHenderson
Chills wil make a video on anything if it's scary and popular. I could make a character called peepee poopoo scaryhead and if it takes off I'll guarantee you he'll make a f****ng video in hours.
I've been following the dude who made Sirenhead for a fucking long time, and seeing him blow up all at once like Slenderman is really kinda crazy, and I can only imagine that Trevor has mixed feelings to say the least.
the guy who created sirenhead is a cool dude, i hope he doesn't attract hate because people are memeing up one of his creations
Hopefully the internet behaves this time.
I can only wonder how the creator of Slenderman felt if he ever knew about that one incident with the girls.
@@tricksterzyro3230 As if it will
@@bossmansal67 oh dont make me think about that..
Honestly, Slenderman isn’t really a terrible character. Its just that the internet mostly hate indie media that became popular, mainstream, or "old" for some reason.
If the internet hate media that becomes popular, then that would’ve applied to basically everything else that becomes popular, like Mario, Grand Theft Auto, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and so on, and so fourth.
Everyone be hypocritical nowadays..Let everyone enjoy what they want.
The one Joel played that had the creator's name on the title screen is the only one that worked directly with the creator, if I remember right
Pretty much, yeah.
The guy behind siren-head is pretty cool, He's indirectly shown me the Horror Side of Twitter.
Also CBT
The Man Behind The Slaughter = The Guy Behind Siren-Head
Every user who has signed up to Twitter has already seen the horror side of Twitter.
@@hedged-valley1148 FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA
WHICH SIDE LOL
Crazy how Joel gets unfazed by creepypasta monsters but goes apeshit when he sees a funny little alien
He actually had a first encounter
he lives with a really annoying grey alien that constantly quips in his presence, and joel DESPISES him, so whenever he sees him in-game, he shrieks like a little gorl
You can tell Joel isn’t from America because he’s unphased by those Emergency Alert System sounds
@The man in the line I don't even think my country has one, if we were about to get nuked nobody would know about the incoming nukes.
I live in America, I thought the emergency system alert noises were kind of hilarious
@The man in the line yeah, especially when you are driving and they decide to test when it looks like it is about storm
to be fair, how many people are frightened by the sound of digital alarms, fax machines, and ice cream music
@Braxton B. We have them. Every European Country has them, it's a Law and was especially important during the Cold War. We are just unphased People i guess.
Here you can read about every Countries Sirens: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_defense_siren
Just last year one of Sweden's Emergency Siren went off accidentally, causing a ton of Confusion, was all over the News all over the World. Just search for it and you find Articles. And here in Germany we have a ton, because Germany was basically the "Frontline" of the Cold War. East Germany had countless of Soviet Military and West Germany countless of US Bases and Soldiers.
The Sirens here now after the Cold War are mostly used for two Reasons:
To test them regulary to see that they work as they should, so if they're needed they are available
And when a World War 2 Bomb is found during Construction Work in a City for example, which btw happens all the time, where i live they're found every other Week, people get evacuated if they live in the Radius of the Bomb when it gets blown up in a Controlled Explosion.
In this case the Siren is also used before the Explosion happens.
Prost from Bavaria, Germany
I'm kind of sad for the actual artist that created Siren Head. He's a genuinelly really cool guy, and it's kinda shitty to see his most popular creation turning into the new Slenderman.
It kinda wasn’t Victor Surge’s fault, that Slenderman became what he became..I guess.
ultra gamer20 it was genuinely better when it was a drawing
@@oddwill4960 those were actually really cool
Let us hope and pray the creepypasta Reddit brainlets never get their grubby hands on the likes of Local 58 or Gemini Home Entertainment.
Commented the exact same thing, poor Siren Head he became the new decade Slenderman
"OHHHH SIREN HEAD CROEPYPASTE REAL SO SPOKI" b*llshit, why all the good internet things has to be ruined to death
Went down a rabbit hole few weeks ago,
Cause the guy who created Sirenhead is really big into Horror movies, and he likes to post what he watched/rewatched on Twitter.
So ontop on lookin' through his various artworks, I was also lookin' through these recommendations for Horror movies I've both heard and never heard of. (With some -peaking- piquing my interest.)
Find any that stick out?
@@g0rdonfreeman1
2 that caught my eye that day was:
a 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead with Tony Todd, (Of "Candyman" fame)
And "CURE" from 1997
*piquing
The creator of the monster, ”slimyswampghost” makes very cool art of other creatures as well. So if anyone is into that sort of thing, please check them out :)
if someone told me that first game was made by a neural network AI or smth I'd absolutely believe them
I used to be terrified of Slenderman as a kid, watching the Sirenhead meme spread is like watching the same thing happen from a different perspective. Someone comes up with a cool monster idea and children on the internet convince themselves he's real, then make shitty fanart of him. Facinating.
Here's hoping it doesn't lead to crimes and or murder because nobody can be trusted with internet ghost stories apparently. Jesus fucking christ
@@malikoniousjoe Breaking news: children sacrifice their peer by tossing them off of a tornado siren.
@@voidofspaceandtime4684
Breaking news: Two men and a woman found making love to a tornado siren, more at ten.
Duddridge1 I don't support it, but I'd prefer that headline to Void's on a moral and ethics regard
@@malikoniousjoe just wait 10 years, im sure someone will get stabbed over this.
Ok what if Sirenhead but replace the Sirens with Slide Whistles
Ok what if siren head but PERKELE
whoooop wheee
Okay, it's time to open unity up.
Vuvuzelas? It'd sound like a swarm of bees chasing you and that's pretty fuckin scary
That is a dangerous idea.
So at 19:34 the person who made that decided to play the prowlers theme and combine it with a ice cream truck theme
Thank you for noticing
HOLY SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT LMAOOO
I hope that in another few years a new tall spooky forest man will get famous on the internet.
Slinkyman
Radio tower man
powerline man
Slender Man Jr
Dreadstilt
person who make the game: This is the scariest game to ever exist. The game: 19:48
I love how Sirenhead is a creature with sirens for heads but it makes National Weather Service radio noises.
The man in the line Fuck that' I'd dance
The Slender epidemic all over again, history does repeat itself
Except the creator is actually trying to keep control of the character instead of letting people on the internet basically take it for their own gain this time.
History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
@@abyssmo8692 Trying to control the Internet isn't really a good idea either, especially when it comes to a mediocre creepypasta character.
Abyssmo say what you want, but ya gotta admit Marble Hornets was fucking great.
Big Bratch won’t deny that one bit. Obviously when everyones making content about something there’s gonna be a handful of gold nuggets in that mountain of garbage.
Gotta admit, don't find sirenhead scary, but the US alert sounds make me crawl in my skin. I always assumed they specifically made the emergency alert sound as unpleasant as possible. Character design itself is kinda goofy.
Emergency alerts are designed to be unsettling, to sort-of rush people.
The sound is actually a Data burst, similar to dial-up.
There are a lot of data encoding schemes that have unsettling sounds. Spend some time on a WebSDR and you're bound to find a few
idk I think they're much more interesting than a lot of "scary" horror designs. Feels more like a weird animal or something that adapted to an urban environment which I enjoy.
The tones mostly associated with siren head actually is just the tornado siren for Downtown Chicago
Wait is this game from the guy that was all "I'm stealing the sirenhead IP and you can't do anything about it" and shit?
You mean this guy?
czcams.com/video/ICSWw9lf87o/video.html
No.
Yes, I spent 2 weeks investigating with a team to reveal that little shit
What?
Marco Esposito Some kid tried to frame a game company for stealing from Trevor Henderson (the creator of siren head). And then he makes a twitter account claiming to be Trevor and started making very borderline racist tweets.
Like Joel said, guns kind of ruin horror games. When I see one I think "I can fight and kill whatever horror attacks me" which takes away a lot of the tension, I wish there was a game with a red herring gun...there's a gun and the regular ammo pickups but it does nothing to the monster. Like a security blanket being torn away, use it for puzzle solving or something else instead of directly fighting.
Alien Isolation did that right. The pistol did nothing to the Xenomorph and the flamethrower is more of a deterrent than a weapon.
Horror games without any guns at all are even worse. Every encounter boils down to the same actions, running away and hiding. The old RE games do guns in horror perfectly, you should have a way to fight back, but it isn't be a braindead response of "oh, i'll just shoot it", it's more like "can i afford using the ammo? can i get past the zombie without using my resources?". Horror is at it's finest when you're managing your resources, when you actually need to think of what to do in regards to whatever is in front of you.
Proper horror games give you a means to fight back, but make that a genuine struggle to do, through resource management, the player character simply being ineffective with their means of offense, etc.
That's just my opinion though. I never cared for the "just run away down the hallway or forest" type of games.
From what I understood, the gun here was also a mere deterrent, like _Isolation's_ flamethrower - Joel expended all of the ammunition given without missing and the loudmouth still shredded him, but he did do a lengthy stagger animation and fled after the first shot.
It seems like that game has a somewhat legthy chain of objectives and a way to chase off the lanky mofo would help escape situations where you run yourself into a corner or need to do something before fleeing - at least a number of times it would.
A horror game called "Faith" did the weapon thing just right imo, depending how you decide to use your weapon the game answers with a different ending/interaction
Not to be one of those guys, but I miss when Siren Head was just an artwork Trevor Henderson made for twitter instead of this watered down baldis basics five nights at Freddy’s meme shit.
I just hope the same doesn’t happen to Long Horse.
They better not! He is precious, long, creeky boi.
@@Dragonemperess that smells like cinnamon
I love long horse so much
Trevor henderson :D
Horror cryptic
Joel: I laugh
Aliens
Joel: I scream
Sorry. I'm waiting for a game about a tall forest gumby that makes alarm clock noises. This just isn't the same.
Most people: "OH Look, another slanderman clone. Uh oh, Scary! Haha Spoopy."
Me: **Having flashbacks of Local58 videos from the sirens it makes**
God forbid the people who made these find that
There are no faces
That's an internet horror classic right there.
Oh fuck, not local58
Local58 was amazing.
Sirenhead is an original creation by Trevor Henderson. I've followed him on Instagram for probably over a year and I'm happy he's attracting the attention he deserves. His art is phenomenal
i love Trevor Henderson and all his artwork so much, and on one hand its cool that his creations are becoming more popular, because he really is a very talented character artist who should be more recognized but the amount of fan content that doesnt credit him is unsettling. first the fallout mod (i dont remember if the creator credited him later, but Trevor mentioned on instagram at that time that he wasnt aware of the mod neither did he give any permission for people to use his characters), then the allegedly uncredited games and fanart. this is a very grey situation to be honest
once you put something on the internet prepare for major death of the artist. You can't control what people do with your IP anymore. It's just impossible.
Nice name
@@SabnockAlive thanks i have broken several stream comment sections with it and google wont let me change it
@@voidofspaceandtime4684 What kind of brainless take is this? Exposure is something an artist wants so they can keep getting support for their work. most artists arent as petty and sensitive to poularity as some of you lot are
@@Bellitchi My point is you have to take the internet in stride. Once you post something and it blows up, you are no longer in control of it, and people may do with it what they wish.
Joel mocking how the monsters AI works gives such a security aura
Am i the only one that thinks Sirenhead _isn’t_ ruined by how popular it’s become? Sure there’s some low-quality or crappy stuff out there about it, and people are memeing about it, but the same could be said for pretty much anything of any degree of popularity.
Also, i have a feeling the first “game” was just someone trying to scam people into downloading it. Like how there’s bootleg versions of popular movies-
It's just annoying and not interesting anymore
Haven’t seen much of it and never really cared/knew about it in the first place so eh. Doesn’t seem like it has much substance to it past creepy art tbh (which is what it’s intended to be).
All of the charm from the artwork has been stripped away by the people on the internet trying to milk it for popularity.
I do agree that a lot of things get memed the same way. But in this case there’s a much larger amount of people contributing to it than other “creepypastas” since it’s mainstream.
I wish it just stayed as a cool piece of art and just one game but sadly I don’t think we’ll get that quality back.
@@oddwill4960 it really hasn't, just because someone made a mockery of the original idea and design doesn't ruin the actual official character, just say "fuck them" and move on.
hαyᗪEη I get what you mean, but it’s the amount of it that concerns me. With what the artist has given us compared to what the internet has made it’s apparent that the “new” stuff dwarfes the original.
And not all of it is bad. I think the memes are funny from time to time. And a few stories might be good here or there. But overall I feel like it was better as artwork.
"Keep playing? No-" *video ends*
I love abrupt cuts in comedy
Siren Head is a really cool idea and creature, but i really get mad when people compared siren head to slenderman, and also when he is called a creepypasta or in my eyes
shittypasta and average anime fan man
trevor the guy who made siren head said Siren Head isnt a Creepypasta or an SCP.
and jesus that wavy joel thing is making me dizzy
haha sandbox goes write
wasn't that what happened to slenderman too? dude makes a creepy photoshop for a contest, then the internet takes over and 10 years later we have a shitty movie
@@Naivuren There are actually four shitty movies.
I think if the SCP community had gotten to it first it would have been a bit better than what it is now. But it’s best form was just the artwork.
And as an SCP fan allow me to say that even if it was made into an SCP it wouldn’t be much to see. Just some “oooo spooky” stuff and that’s it.
@@oddwill4960 The SCP Community tried to make him an SCP, but trevor stepped in saying he isnt an SCP and wont ever be
49:00 man you missed the best part of this game (the siren head(s) calling the protagonist out; telling him to give up, lay down & die)
i get scared by everything in these games except siren head, a single tree branch comes up too close to the screen and i lose it
18:00
Joel: "I see you."
Sirenhead: "nuh-uh. i'm a tree."
18:37
"I WAS THERE ALL ALONG FOOLISH HUMAN, YOUR FEEBLE EYES DECEIVED YOU"
"OBSERVE MY TERRIFYING FLOATING ABILITIES"
19:47
I don't know about you guys but I'm fucking terrified.
Only 12 more years til the siren head movie boys!
It's funny about how much people care about Siren's own head, but not one thing...
*feet*
*pee pee*
Sirens don't have feet you silly willy
"just because the English is bad doesn't mean the game is"
3 seconds later Joel eats his words
snuskhead
I'm really upset that Joel didn't get the absolute shit scared out of him by getting to the ending if the second to last game...
The emergency broadcast system noise terrifies the fuck out of me. When I fell asleep watching tv and that shit came on. Oh fuck I did not go back to sleep
I'm on a meme house withdrawal, help
I'm sorry, but there is no cure
I loved trevor since I found him in 2018, hope he doesnt get shit because the algorythm decided that he's now popular.
Also, the third game used a soundclip from the Prowler's theme in Spiderverse.
Monster that makes siren sounds and chases you? Ruined opportunity.
Monster that makes fake announcements to lure people in remote locations out of their homes? That's good shit.
That’s what it was until the internet popularized it.
For a game, I think this creature works best as a background object the player can't directly interact with. When it starts chasing you around it just gets goofy as hell
Yeah as usual these things boil down to "oooo he's chasing you, run awaaay!"
This thing would've been perfect to set only set an eerie atmosphere, even if it never does become an actual threat to the player. It should be in the background while you do other stuff, just wandering around far off in the distance making noise wherever you go, constantly reminding you it's there. It knows you're there too, taunting you, toying with you, ever increasing paranoia driving you into insanity. That's infinitely better than shitty jump scares and ice cream van music what the fuck is this.
I feel like it's just the lack of quality of the game that makes it goofy. Remember that it's just an indie game and not a AAA horror release
@@moose8846 As if most AAA horror is ever quality. It's all mostly jumpscares because that's what works with test audiences and it's ingrained at this point.
So,
Any of the Bipedaled Colossi from Shadow of the Colossus, cept it's a Horror game?
Me: "2020 is going to be great!"
2020: 10Ghead
34:31 how did I never notice that the creator seems to think having a flashlight shown at you too long irradiates you
I enjoy the Vargshroom .gif
Joel, I have 3 animations waiting.
When the ice cream music played I died
What's next? Ronaldinho-Man?
Ronaldinho Socser except it's a horror game
Btw the artist who created the sirenhead creature is named Trevor Henderson and he goes by SlimySwampGhost on twitter and Insta. He’s drawn other interesting monsters as well!
3:53
OH MY GOD ITS BLOOD OH MY GOD
Edit: This really is slender again, though. I’m literally having the same experience. Saw a few images, thought the design was cool and creepy, and then it became a meme and it sucks now
Edit 2: Honestly, the idea of Sirenhead playing a little news thing about someone they have killed is equally silly and really cool.
Edit 3: That moment when the titans of the video game horror market gives the player fire arms.
why does it suddenly suck? i feel like it's great that sirenhead is gaining attention considering there's some pretty cool games
In ZANE
I guess that because of how much Sirenhead has been on the internet it’s just not as spooky anymore? I don’t know how to explain it.
Check out Trevors other creations, you might have a good spook and rattle in your bones, with shivers down your spine.
Theres gonna be shit games of everything, idk why a couple of unheard ones here instantly makes the entire character shitty to this comment section
@@muqatil4224 people ruin things man
Trevor is real famous now
it him 😳
Joel, Flat earth isn't a Joke, its a meme designed to make you think all conspiracies are absurd
The sounds coming out of Sirenhead in the first game is what tornado alerts on the tv sound like where I live.
Hear me out, it’s Siren Head, but he just plays outdated and unfunny memes.
You're a park service ranger, it's dark and you really don't wanna be out there alone. But there was an emergency call over the radio, a lost child. The trees hang over menacingly, and a branch scratching at your neck scares you way more than it should. You hear a siren and hope for an update that lets you go somewhere that's definitely not here. Your hope turns to horror as you hear, "Do u know de way?"
Siren Head: (Peaks out from behind a tree)
*Hey what's up guys it's Scarce here*
(Sees park ranger eating)
"Can i haz cheezburger?"
You're lost in the woods, lonely and Terrified. Then you hear it. "Two bros, chillin in a hot tub"
You scream, blocking your ears and running away. But you can still hear it. "5 feet apart cuz they're not gay"
_You can faintly hear in the distance Sirenhead playing The Nutshack's theme on repeat_
Guy that creams his pants for every new animal crossing, complains about asset flipping.
Joel is doofus sometimes
Funny thing about the creepy sounding one where it alternates hi and low tones up and down, that's just what the tornado sirens sound like in downtown Chicago. Rather eerie, but not terrifying to me at all.
keep playing!
nO-
At 19:34 it plays the fuckin Prowler noise from into the spider verse and I’ve never been more ashamed at recognizing a sound so fast
22:16 That's windows smartscreen. It just means not many people have ran that executable, nothing more nothing less. It doesn't say it detected a virus, it just says it doesn't get run often. You can just run them anyway. The idea of smartscreen is that it just keeps a database of stuff people have ran a lot. If a lot of people ran it safely, it's probably safe. If not many people have used it before then you rely completely on the virus scanner.
44:00 I live in an RV! Haha. My living room is nice and compy. I have a TV and all that just like everyone else.
thats what a robot would say! EXECUTE EM
SR212787 this sounds like an algorithm generated response.
@@doorway51 yeah
During the second actual game, when Joel was talking about a game that he thought was shitty but spooked him, anyone know what he was on about? Wanna see the Swedish meatball get spooped.
Video with timestamp: czcams.com/video/iuJMd4eeMAc/video.html (not even kidding)
Failed Abortion King
SIRENHEAD IS A SENTIENT 5G TOWER CONFIRMED
19:47 Im amaging siren head driveing a ice cream truck
Sirenhead started as a good internet meme, now it's the fucking new Slenderman with 8000 fangames monthly
How can I set that opening animation as my wallpaper, I could stare at that for a while.
I hate that sirenhead is just becoming a fucking Slenderman 2.
42:40 wasn't that his reoccuring nightmare?
The one he explained on the Half Life 2 Episode 1 Live in the Half-Life Marathon?
The one that scared the shit out of his dad?
19:34 This is like if you get watched a clip of The Thing and then put on a meme compilation midway through.
To all the people getting mad at this basically becoming the next slenderman should calm down; You can’t stop it from getting popular.
You should look at the bright side instead: Trevor is getting noticed. If this does becomes the next slenderman, then Trevor gets to reap the benefits from its popularity.
All you should try and do is to make sure that Trevor gets properly referenced and linked. Let it pass naturally.
I like how he was only scared by the crappy one
Ahh, everyone uses the emergency alert sound for Siren Head games lol good old midwest nostalgia
I've been a fan of Trevor Henderson for years now and it makes me feel so bad that as soon as his art makes it to the forefront (i.e. markipliers channel) he becomes a laughing stock. And despite the countless other monsters he's created, now he's just going to be "siren head guy." It's a fuckin shame how the internet just ruins shit.
Oh Markiplier was his signal boost? This all makes sense now. I think Mark's a cool enough guy, but his fanbase is like every shitty 8-15 year old on the platform, no wonder Trevor's getting hammered with garbage.
I was watching this and chuckling at these subpar games until actual sirens and horns were going off in my neighborhood and I got startled. :(
I dunno if its intentional, but the trees in that last one all have tall, split trunks and slender branches, giving them a similar silhouette to the monster. that's kind of cool, it got me a couple times.
This is the spiritual successor to the Bad Slender Fangames stream
bro legit i was looking for that
what
Siren Head: 🎵🎶
Joel: 🕺
AT 19:33 THE SPIDERMAN PROWLER NOISE LAMOO
I’ve looked up Trevor like three times and he only has like four drawings up on his Twitter. None of them are Sirenhead.
He posts mainly on Instagram to my knowledge.
look back further. Most of his stuff are similar creepy drawings, sirenhead among them.
You were looking at the wrong account probably
Holy shit, that intro
*Sireno HEAD*
Slenderman... but more goofy looking.
look at bridge worm, hes a goofy boi
@@tricksterzyro3230 I did. Very goofy. Almost cute.
@@Lakyoliah false
Rip to the attempt at DOSert bus
trevor henderson/slimyswampghost, the artist who designed sirenhead is a fuckin king
Nut
Being the a canadian you hear amber alert sirens allought because the contry issues amber allerts to your phone, TV and radio whenover someone goes missing. So they are more annoying than creepy.
i wanna see siren head do the torture dance from jojo
I feel like that dating sim was definitely made by Strong Bad
Comedy Contest
I agree with you on having a grey alien game about escaping abduction, those games are nonexistent, the hum was the best option we had and sadly it got cancelled. Scorn will be hype, but we need grey alien based survival horror games, the market is severely lacking for it...
There's a crappy one called Visitors on Steam. From what I remember it's unintentionally funny
Hey Joel!
It'd be really cool if you could pop a link to Trevor's twitter (slimyswampghost) in the video description it'd be a small step towards making sure he gets proper recognition and credit for inspiring all these games :)
And for everyone else here's some important things to remember:
The creator of Siren Head, Trevor Henderson, has had little to no control over how Siren Head's popularity has blown up online. A lot of people have been treating the character as if it were public domain and using it for both free and paid content without consulting or getting permission from Trevor.
- Siren Head is not an SCP; Trevor has stated many times that it is not part of the SCP canon despite many people trying to incorporate it against his wishes. Luckily the wiki managers have been good about respecting him on this.
- Siren Head is not free to use just because it's popular on the internet. A lot of content being put out is essentially swapping out Slenderman for Siren Head to capitalize on the sudden popularity. It's important to remember that this is one regular person's IP and so far I don't think he's seeing any compensation from people who are making money off games or videos on his creation.
- Trevor is a super sweet person and if you like Siren Head you should support his work!
trevorhenderson.bigcartel.com/
www.patreon.com/TrevorHenderson
With apologies to Mr Henderson, I do hope to see Poison games' take on Sirenhead.
I love how half of these games destroyed the players view with chromatic aberration.
Chills did a video on 10 Sirenhead sightings. Thought you should know...
Just looking at that channel makes me want to puke... Jesus
Chills wil make a video on anything if it's scary and popular. I could make a character called peepee poopoo scaryhead and if it takes off I'll guarantee you he'll make a f****ng video in hours.
coum
Oh man I absolutely love all of Trevor's designs
I like how everyone uses the prowler's theme from into the spiderverse for shit now and somehow people dont notice or recognize is
I've been following the dude who made Sirenhead for a fucking long time, and seeing him blow up all at once like Slenderman is really kinda crazy, and I can only imagine that Trevor has mixed feelings to say the least.
*Lanky speaker boi roaming the woods*
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