Lol.

Ah, performance artists... type of "special" people who think they are very special.

@damyr Do they, though? Or do we just have the temptation to tell people who don’t act or think like us “you’re not special”

@@kevindube7096 people always look for a way to stand out in a crowd, to make themselves feel special, it is only reasonable for other people to think so when things like this happens

@@damyr They're technically special if they stand out tbf

Yes! Throw in Elder's Vault too

And Atrocity Guide , theyve already collabed with Nexpo, I believe?

@@fadeuhhway I love atrocity guide! And yes, I think she collaborated with nexpo.

And then there was the all-star collab with nexpo, elder, reignbot, and scare theater. Possibly a fifth one.

nice channel :3

Pretty much, there are barely any internet mysteries that aren’t fake

Could someone explain Args to me please with an example of one and what separates Args from the stuff barelysociable posts? Safe

@@actionjaxon7570 ARG stands for alternate reality game. It is basically a sort of game/story where the creator uses several different mediums (images, videos, coordinates, cryptic messages, etc.) to make the game itself. When first discovered, these games seem like rabbit holes until it is proven that they are args. A good example is the "AshVlogs rabbit hole." Nexpo made a good video on it.

@@marcusbordeaux7548 there's surprisingly more than you'd think.

at least they should try to create a good one, not one so fake you can see it coming right from the beginning...

right? like what is the actual THESIS

@@forrestswanson2242 Honestly, probably marketing research. Manipulation of people and seeing what you can make them do. How much info they are willing to share with you.

@@DickDickstein @Forrest Swanson it seems to be a thesis in performance art, so not only would his teachers and opponents be somewhat versed in the concept of participatory culture and public art, but the "thesis" itself isn't as strictly defined as in other fields of study. His statement had to do with the drive in people to participate in a mysterious society. Market research 1. Doesn't seem to be the case, especially as he doesn't seem to be funded by any particular brand or market research org. 2. Is a very cynical theory.

@@forrestswanson2242 "The main objective of the research is to examine the theoretical questions generated by this project-is it art? Where does authorship reside? Is it a hoax? What kinds of relationships does it construct?" and "1. Interactive performance artworks where direct interaction with an audience is integral to the creation of the work. 2. The role of the hoax: comparisons between Crop Circles and Neurocam. 3. Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics: is Neurocam an example of Relational Art? 4. Flash Mobs and Smart Mobs: the use of new communication technologies to create self-perpetuating social structures. 5. The social implications of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) and their similarities and differences to Project Neurocam." It says this on the screen. He is exploring the boundaries of what constitutes art and who the author of an artwork is when the artwork is actually, in part, developed and created by the audience participating in the artists work, which is what happened in this case. He is saying, is this art? Who created it? Why is it art if the audience creates it as much as the artist? Is a hoax art or not? Is art created using new multimedia technology as much art as any other type of art when it is not something obviously "art" (like a painting or sculpture for example.) Personally, while I have reservations about making people do thing that are verging on illegal or even illegal for art, I find the rest of it to be fantastic, and very clever. It is art, as far as I am concerned, but it blurs the lines. It is not like looking at a painting in a gallery, which is a very passive art, it is an interactive artform, where the participants actions form part of the artwork itself, and the creation of things like the online communities and blogs by the participants are as much part of the artwork as anything the artist did. Props to the guy, this is genius. It reminds me of Andy Warhol in a way - a lot of his paintings he just came up with the design and made one, and then other people made the others. He made Brillo boxes, and even went so far as to ring Brillo and find out who their cardboard supplier was, and then used that exact same cardboard. Heck, he even called his studio "The Factory." So is it art if it is a Brillo box, the same design as a Brillo box, the same cardboard, but made by Warhol and sat in an art gallery?

This would be a brilliant thesis in pretty much any social science field, and it almost feels like a waste that it focuses on the artistic aspects. It is a social experiment with quantifiable results, that promoted interactions under strange rules between individuals who might otherwise have never met, and perpetuated itself. Tons of other aspects of this you could focus on depending on the field to have a superb thesis. How did those interactions go? How many people broke protocol? How many times did the cycle self-perpetuate? What were individual reactions to the experiment? What are the implications of people feeling like they are being manipulated and yet still engaging in explicitly risky behavior because they were instructed to? The answer to any of these would tell us something very novel about human behavior that would certainly quantify as independent research.

Good observation, makes one feel enlightened and sick at the same time. PS. Thank you for that.

I myself was thinking this was one massive social experiment for the same reasons. It's always a great question to ask "Why?" and in this case, why would someone go to all these lengths to create something that for the participants, had no explicit payoff whatsoever throughout the entire journey, no money was given out or taken. On this scale, with this many people involved and my studies into psychology, this seemed to me to be a open/shut case for it being one large social experiment.

My immediate thoughts as well. It's grant money.

I was screaming "GRANT GRANT GRANT" lol

@@TheGryfonclaw what's "grant" money

They're too good for the number 4

is that a jojo reference?

@@leoplays7235 mista runs neurocam confirmed

@@leoplays7235 How can anyone skip DiU? It's the best part

Like he said, the responses to different people weren’t cookie cutter. It could he that he intentionally made mistakes in everyone’s email, so if it got leaked he could pinpoint who did it. Maybe I’m reading into it too far idk 😂

That's just how secret organizations hire their cooking staff

Yeah

Yes, exactly! I mean, I haven't seen that specific Brown thing, but I'm aware of his work in pointing out how we can be manipulated. I was a bit disappointed to learn that this experience wasn't actually genuine, but just "as imagined by the artist". I would've loved to hear about examples of confirmation bias by real people. Quite fed up with how little satisfaction is to be found anywhere here, he wouldn't even give us actual peoples' experiences 😁

Could you tell me a little more about it? What do you mean about reporting coincidental things

@@Aglaesia Brown, a mentalist, convinced people a hidden camera show with hidden actors would make things happen like manipulate small situations or coincidentally give them things or say something to them. There was no show. But people still reported when strangers talked to them or they felt watched or thought something had been arranged. They were psychologically primed to believe coincidences were intentional.

@@gabriellavedier9650 thats very interesting, thank you!

Anywhere I can watch that in particular? Sounds pretty interesting.

Saaaame

Same here. Lake City was recommended.

same

Same here. I just watched all of his videos in a row (I don’t do much lmao). I couldn’t stop.

Robert Beare Same here!

The meta-ness of it sure should have sold the "original contribution" aspect of the dissertation. Did they say what "field" this PhD was in? Art Theory? Theater? Psych? Did I just miss it?

Didnt read the study but in video he says "he made a fake interview with himself". If that interview is in the study then he kinda faked a phd. But maybe you dont talk about the published study

@@Trollificusv2 Around 29:50, the thesis cover reads "Department of Multimedia and Digital Art"

Not really lol

@@Trollificusv2 get a cup o'joe or tea, or whatever tickles your fancy. It's about 2.7 MB, or 206 pages: Project neurocam: an investigation monash.figshare.com/articles/Project_neurocam_an_investigation/4702039

Was about to say the same thing. Good God, that part scared me

What does she say?

@@St.Ivory_ "come and let us sing, let us sing, we all must sing, la la la" roughly translated And the fact that it sounds like a nursery rhyme from my childhood is not helping

There's nothing more beautiful than a child's laughter or singing. Unless it's 3 AM and you don't have a child

I didn't react to her singing in Swedish at first but when I realized what I almost thought I was just imagining things, I had to look through the comments and see if anyone els heard it.

Agreed!

yes daddy

big moob

Same

Who gives a monkey's toss if they're "going to blow up" or not? It's great content and I hope that they do, y'know blow up (not literally), but at the end of the day I just want to be entertained and this is one of many who is doing that for me. Gordon Bennet, that makes me sound like the selfish asshat that I am...

modern people will think anything is and "art piece". Maybe we are so fucked that we may even think a bit of dog shit is art.

It’s always fun when the ARG analysis/solving video ends with “...and nothing happened”

"Pan Troglodytes versus primates"...uh? These dumb asses dont even know science. All those listed are primates, including Homo sapiens.

@@sameggenton1077 yeah. After I stoped believing in the paranormal, most of those things lost their interest.

whats with the overuse of bold characters lol

Meanwhile Nexpo loves that stupid bullshit

These studies aren’t done for good reasons. Manipulation and control. People just line up.

I don't think that's what this was about; it was about human curiosity plain and simple. People did this because they wanted to know the truth, not because neurocam was in a perceived position of power.

@@lurksnitchtongue8986 I agree. If I saw that billboard I know I'd be curious af as to what it was right away

"Curiosity killed the cat"

Kye Talks "But satisfaction brought it back."

Second. I guess there are others who are covering either the same material or more popular material but I haven't seen them, nor do I have any interest. I am entertained by YOUR videos much in the same way I'm entertained by some guy who talks about 80s computers and games - Like I give a shit about 80s computers and games but I'll be damned if I'm not watching his stuff because he's got IT.

you mean the first video

please use punctuation

no

what fucked me up is the end screen where "Robert Henley" talks about the creator of Neurocam having some sort of involvement in Cicada 3301.... what if it was this guy lol

the thing that blows my mind about this is the fact that he created an arg that was almost entirely self sufficient, meaning he had essentially become a god in a sense. This man is/was extremely intelligent and charismatic, imagine what he could've done if he wasn't an artist/author.

@@I_Hate_KZfaq_Handles Intelligent for sure, but I wouldn't necessarily call this charisma. Basically the subjects never met him personally. Based on this video they only get messages/tasks in written form. There was little to no effect of personal charm. In reality just a bunch of extremely curious person mislead each other unknowingly, while 'fearing'/'adoring' a mysterious company they know about nearly nothing... I rather use the word manipulative and cunning. Or could the faceless, shadowy secretive organization have some kind of 'charisma'? Which made the ordinary subjects feel chosen, elite, 'better'... and they liked it.

@Weeblackie thank you you?

@Weeblackie I always have enough :)

No one cares

Kom och låt oss sjunga, låt oss sjunga, alla ska vi sjunga, la la la.... Creapy.

What is the dance track that plays after the swedish girl??

:o

Is this shit allowed in Australia? This NEVER would have been sanctioned where I went to college let alone be someone’s PhD.

@@artificialavocado9652 yeah its fine. They didn't actually do anything illegal. And as far as I know it's not illegal to tell someone to do something.

Yeah but just being not illegal isn’t good enough. Before anyone could do a study like this it would have to be OKed by an ethics review board. I can’t see them being allowing something like this. At least not where I went, which is a big northeast school you probably heard of.

@@artificialavocado9652 and I'm guessing that it was all ok'ed as it was funded by the University of Melbourne. And I've probably never heard of it as I doubt I'm from the same country as you haha :P

Australians hate pronouncing vowels haha. Just know that Melbourne comes from a British name that was actually originally pronounce bourn/burn according to its etymology. So really Australians and Americans say it wrong.

@@frightenedsoul everything here is named after some British person

@@frightenedsoul even if it does come from a British name it is no longer THE British name but The Australian name that is being referred to, so it is not wrong, just deviated from the original British name.

@@sadmermaid and every major town has an Elizabeth street

@@j00500hall And Queen lol

Kitty Scheetz how old were you?

@@skeletonman1126 Early teens.

I applied back in the day too. Nothing came of it. I was about 17-18 and in the middle of nowhere.

Conspiracy: What if he actually made numerous channels prior, trying out different means of production, terminating each channel as they slowly garnered more views then made this one (the result of his trial and errors)?

@@ARCGrayist that would make the most sense because honestly I've never seen anyone with so much quality right out of the gate

If he has this much attention to detail in his research it's not a stretch to say he noticed enough mistakes in others videos to know what to avoid.

Hi I like your username

ARCGrayist i SWEAR I remember this guys EXACT voice on another channel that did videos just like this. Am i straight up hallucinating? Lmao

is there a source for that? :0

@@nhilz I'm not saying that it's definitive, just that it's a possibility; and probably the best resolution we currently have

Can you please link the thesis? I can't find it Thanks!

@@kay2-5-3 Lucky for you I forgot to turn off notifications for a 3 year old post. Technically, no I can't. I believe it is still covered under Copyright - Don't ask me how I found it at first I was in a mad data-harvesting binge for my own studies. I remember I used to trip over it everywhere but it seems harder to find these days. The title of the PhD is "Project Neurocam: An Investigation" by Robin Hely published in November 2012 for Monash University. I'm sure you can find a copy on your own somewhere - worst case you could ask the University for a copy?

Cubic Apocalypse is aperture science from HL Alyx

@@gtjack9 Portal

They promised me cake. I never got any.

LMAOO

Well I thought they just found people sleeping on benches late at night and kidnapped them

i’m seeing oliver tree in november i fr can’t wait 🥺😭🥺🤪😭🤪🥺

Same amount of time for a PhD... Just cheaper I assume

Honestly it’s super smart

@@sicko033 i don't get it. Robert henly paid $10000 for the billboard himself?

Joseph O'yek I assume?

clown meat

Im too pussy and just lower the volume down instantly

Well, the guy legit got a PhD for being a troll, so...

Late to the party here but your comment made me think of Eroda and how it was a huge marketing scheme by harry styles to bring attention to his new album. What a bastardly genius thing to do haha

Jesus is the biggest troll ever and no one so far surpassed his skills and I doubt it ever will.

@@DJGodaryD86 well, like mother like son!...

You’re a fucking idiot for thinking he is a genius for literally putting hundreds of people into unhealthy situations

I think that part was also a clever and subtle reinforcement that while the whole thing was ominous and a bit scary, violence and conflict was not to be part of it.

Cool Ass Dudeman no we don’t

We call the dollareenios

Reference to MCM 2wisted video

Tobias!

I am Australian

Of course not deaddrops

Kinda like "No One Speaks About Project Mayhem..."

SativaUser Did you just break the first rule of Fight Club? 😡

That seemed clearly a "dramatized recreation" for the documentary.

You’re late Operative CDE, did you bury the body?

I'll say it's better than most contemporary art out there.

Are u talking about an ARG ( Alternate Reality Game ) ?

@@moxyqorhp1044 nope, art as in art. Turned out to be the right guess, didn't it.

As someone who went to art school, this sounded like performance art to me, too.

The first video’s music had me dancing i’ll admit

Katana Katz same 😂

I always thought they just pulled kids out of their homes for training

srg forge2 only for certain SCPs, like The Protector.

srg forge2 No that’s the Spartans 😂

What is that ?? SCp foundation?

Jack C - Some of us do still exist...

we have the same name

ayla lmao that killed me too

Mista confirmed.

There was 4 comments on this post, until I ruined it

Sturdy Potato okay?

I mean, it isn't actively harmful, just weird, and weirdness shouldn't be unethical.

Nah, makes sense - its not "scored 7/10", its "you had 7 of a possible 10 traits we look for in any combination".

Part of what makes this not totally unethical is that it is pretty open about it being manipulation. It is performance art in the same way stage magic is. People know they are being lied to and it is their curiousity that drives the whole project. It is really interesting given this that people completed the self perpetuating cycle multiple times anyways.

Super high security company: let's stuck a cheap safe that anyone can find full of paper envelopes somewhere. 😎

Natalie M what’s amazing is , he’s only going to get better !

I'm so happy that this is something other people do, and not just a result of me being the only shallow person alive. I don't fully shut off the video, but I can absolutely relate to feeling uncomfortable watching an old video due to its visual/audio quality, even if I would have accepted it in the past.

It's rare when a KZfaqr that's been around for years has a back catalog that remains entirely watchable. Even someone as prolific as Vsauce's early videos are... well, it took him a lot of time to hit his stride. Barely Sociable is lightning in a bottle and I pray he's not gonna be one of those channels that vanishes a year from now.

@@ohnoitschris same

From his previous work, I'd say he's not been much concerned with monetization. So...rich kid? Notthattheresanythingwrongwiththat. I usually hate perfomance art (and most "installations" are self-indulgent bollocks too), but this was clever. Of course, the whole thing is an ARG precursor, and there's incredible creativity and novelty in that genre...can't wait for Disney to buy in to it. /barf

​@@Trollificusv2 PhD research projects usually get funding in some way or another, student loands, scholarships, sponsors etc (in the UK, post doctoral loans can be up to £25k). Possibly funded, possibly rich kid

Not to say that is negative, but what an over achiever

Thanks for ruining the video asshole

@@JTTTTT850 yw bby. This is why you don't read comments until the videos over.

That was based on blackmail though - Neurocam was based purely human curiosity.

Off topic but if thats your dog in your pfp, it’s so cute 💕

HeyItsRin haha yeah she and her sister are pretty photogenic :) Thank you!

I was thinking the same damn thing before I even read your comment man that's so weird lol

Lemmino is still a thing, lol. He's still there. You don't become the 'next somebody' when that somebody is still there. Barely Sociable is p unique.

@@solar9610 You can still be the next _____ even if the person is still active. It can mean many things.

maybe its just me but it feels lowkey insulting to say that someone is gonna be the next someone, because theyre their own person. this guy is gonna be his own person but with the attention and love he deserves~ just my opinion tho, dont fight me

It just means you are the next big thing. It is not an insult to recognize upcoming talent. Btw, channel is being hit with plagiarism claims. So hold judgment people

@@milowolfface9392 what for???

Fuck that! Netflix would ruin this in a heartbeat. Never understand why great KZfaqrs feel the need to leave the platform. Content always goes down hill.

Zombie go boom, kick undead ass

Same story for me

GONE SEXUAAAAAAL

Reman IN THE HOOD

@@Windwalker88 it was sexual wasnt it

Windwalker88 Wack

AND THEN THIS HAPPENED!

Nexpo does sound like AI.

it was 2004 though flip phones were damn near high tech

Same

Ok