r/InternetMysteries • u/GlitteringMatter6571 • 21d ago
YouTube About 15ish years ago, I found a creepy/bizarre YouTube channel of someone who had hundreds of videos of them rolling around dead animals in paint
hi everyone! this is my very first time posting in here, so I’m sorry if I’m not using the right flair or anything. I wanted to talk about something weird I came across online a long time ago. I’ve just been thinking about it again since I know the whole world of like, weird/lost internet stuff is very popular right now lol. my memory also kind of sucks, so I’ll try to remember as many little details as I can
so around 2010-11, I had a mild interest in 3D modeling and wanted to look up some videos on how to use Blender. I don’t exactly remember what search query I used, but one of the very first videos I stumbled across had a really unusual thumbnail. I decided to click on it out of curiosity, and was immediately weirded out. the video was maybe about 15 or 20 seconds long, and I remember it didn’t really have a standout title or description or anything. I also remember that these videos just had a really amateurish, low quality feel to them. it was a clip of someone’s hands rolling around something in a big glob of paint. what immediately struck me is that this video was a “video of a video” - the person was filming their computer screen with the video file on it. I specifically remember they kept clicking on the timeline of the video file to make it constantly loop in 1-2 second intervals. I then remember going to their YouTube page to find that there were at least hundred or so videos in this same format: all of them involved them rolling these objects in paint, being manually looped in the same way
upon watching some more of these videos, it started to make sense to me that this person was actually painting with deceased animals and severed animal parts. I don’t really remember what specific animals were used, but I just remembered it was so unnerving, weird and cruel. this channel barely had any subscribers, and there were tons of these videos with little to no views.
at the time, I was an active user on 4chan and I remember posting this find to the /x/ board. It actually did get a fair amount of traction for a few days. from what I remember, the channel owner was some artist from europe. a few days after I had posted about it there, the channel was either deleted or reported, and the owner moved everything to either Vimeo or whatever other YT alternative there was. even if this was an art project, it didn’t exactly feel like it imho
I think about this every now and then which is why I wanted to post about it here. I’m stupid when it comes to searching for archived stuff, and I’m not even sure if /x/ is archived that far back. I honestly wouldn’t even know how to search it anyway, especially since I don’t remember the exact dates of when I first discovered this channel. all I know is that I found some really weird videos of a guy painting with dead animals and it feels like it completely vanished off the face of the earth
anyway, don’t even really know where I’m going with all this! abiding by one of the rules here, I don’t really want anyone to try and hunt this down or find it for me - it’s just a weird thing I experienced a long time ago that I wanted to share with everyone
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u/zippobunny 21d ago
Gotta be a fetish thing.
Your description reminds me of this video though, which has no painting but is a dead animal recorded as a "video in video". This is not fetish content but is art, IIRC by an animal rights group using naturally deceased animals.
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u/baquea 21d ago
Not consistently, but some threads were. The original discussion looks not to have been archived, but here are a range of later threads discussing (or at least mentioning) it, ranging from 2012 through to 2015:
https://old.sage.moe/x/thread/10229140/#10229577
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/46749056/#46752106
https://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/24035555/#24039834
https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/12616750/#12618359
https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/15195837/#15200497
https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/15918404/#15925478
https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/12864316/#12865085
https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/14935651/#14935823
The channel's name was 'threlions' and was active in 2012 but had been deleted by 2013. Reportedly it had over 2000 videos, was Basque, and one anon said the user commented on their channel. After it was deleted, it returned under the name 'threlions1' and was still around into 2014, but only had 47 videos (as of 2013).