TikTok's most terrifying horror creator has invaded YouTube with a series all about the demons you can find online.

But these aren't just internet trolls or hate farmers.

No, there's something darker going on here.

And the most important thing you need to remember?

Don't follow that voice downstairs.

Hello, Internet, welcome to Film Theory, the show that's not scared of commitment.

And welcome back to the final week of Romance Month.

Yeah, in honor of Valentine's Day, I wanted to do a bunch of videos celebrating the season of love.

We've gone through the evil exes of Scott Pilgrim, the secret romance in the book of Bill, and last week predicting the plot of Fantastic Four First Steps. But today,

I wanted to go back to film theory's roots and dig into some true analog horror with the work

of Spencer Lackey. If you don't know Spencer Lackey, you may have still seen some of the horror

films in his huge body of work before.

Yeah, he's actually an incredibly prolific creator of short horror and has amassed millions of

followers on both TikTok and Instagram, and it's easy to see why. Spencer's work is terrifying and

eye-catching, relying on horrific imagery and uncanny effects to really give you the spooops.

Like for real, this stuff hits all of the right notes.

But while these shorts are incredible, what I really wanted to look at today was Spencer's first take on a true long-form analog horror series, a story he calls ASL. If you don't know, outside of American

sign language, ASL was a common acronym used in chat rooms like AIM and Skype way, way back

in the day. And I'm not realizing that I have to explain what that is. Basically, AIM and Skype were

like old-school versions of Discord. Anyway, the acronym stood for age, sex, location,

and was shorthand for immediately getting to know the basic facts about the stranger you were

talking to and what was, um, appropriate for the conversation. Yeah, if you think the anonymity

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