It's wild to think how much YouTube has become a part of our lives over the last two decades.

Now, it's where we go for our workout videos, our how-to videos, our podcasts.

I know I go there for all my recipe videos.

And then you send them to me.

And then I definitely send them to you.

It's how so many people exclusively stream all of their content.

But YouTube also has a very dark side.

And it has since the very beginning.

There's a lot of content that is incredibly disturbing.

It's weird, even supernatural.

It's one place on the internet where we can go to question the boundaries of our reality,

where we can watch videos that challenge our beliefs, what we, you know, truly know about the world. It's also one of the few

corners of the internet where anything is possible. Take a series of clips collectively known

as blank room soup. The first video was posted on YouTube in the year 2005. I didn't even know that YouTube

existed in 2005. But anyway, shortly after YouTube launched is when Blank Room Soup was posted.

And several follow-up videos went viral online afterwards. They're mostly famous because nobody's entirely

sure what the heck is going on. They might be a snuff film depicting a person's final moments

before they're killed. They might be aliens performing some kind of murderous ritual, which, of course, aliens.

We have to talk about aliens, right?

Or they might be something even darker, like a glimpse of hell itself.

The most fascinating part is the questions are still unanswered to this day over 20 years later.

I'm Rasha Pecorero.

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