Paranoia.com: An Internet Mystery

CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Answering the Call
5:57 - Into the Abyss
12:01 - Back to '98
15:05 - A Mystery of Minor Discourse
17:08 - Intermission
18:44 - To The Source
27:03 - A Last Ditch Effort
32:18 - Closing Remarks

The following content is for educational, documentary, and artistic purposes only.

[Nexpo]

Bit of a different one this time, but I hope you guys like it!
I've got a laundry list of peculiar Internet oddities just like this that I've put off for a while, however if you guys liked this style, I'd love to bring them outta the vault.
Let me know what you think! I'm trying to get a video out every month this year to make up for the slowdown we had last year, so any feedback helps.

Love ya'll. See you next month.

[ilikechamomile]

Nexpo has the ability to make me feel like ima get murdered by the cia for watching his video but then the resolution is “just look it up on google “ 😭😭😭😂

[phoebus]

It is crazy how back then, every website was made by some dude, now every site is pretty much backed by a corporation

[Cypher]

I love how everyone who talks about Y2K ignore all the work companies went through to make sure their databases were setup to handle it.

[VVenm]

I love how this guy acts like he's uncovering a cult even when he's just learning that a website used to be asociated with a game show lol

[FredLootLlama]

It’s always a good day when Nexpo uploads

[SakiMcGee]

That shot of the fantasia website is such pure distilled 2000's design, seeing it was a gut punch of nostalgia

[Rgoiwnes]

Bro turned a 7 minute video into 36 minutes. Truly content brained individual.

[kotozaki-p]

This isn't related to the paranoia site but that "we'll be right back" screen brought me way back like holy shit. As someone who grew up watching disney vhs tapes and early dvds, I was always so excited to see that screen and the previews. Thanks for giving me thar feeling again, Nexpo!

[Olivia-nrqp]

The Y2K fear wasn't just paranoia, though. And it wasn't just that "everything turned out fine". There was a massive effort of tons of people working non-stop to make sure that what everyone said was going to happen (and it was going to happen) didn't happen. Sure it wouldn't have been the end of the world, but it would have caused insane damage. And I guess everybody who put in all that work did that work perfectly, to the extent that nobody even believes that it was a serious concern anymore.

[azure-mist]

I will say — Y2K wasn’t just a paranoia (ironically). It was a real bug. The reason why it never came to be was because programmers worked tirelessly to prevent it. We owe the lack of that Y2K crash to those programmers!

[forestings]

tldr: disney bought a domain. the end. ending is anticlimactic.

[BrokenFingerParadise]

Or perhaps to cover their tracks when taking over the operations borderline illegal website they created a game show in case people ever went looking for the true reason.

The true reason being they wanted to be the number one website about The Simpsons available! That wasn't enough for them in the end though, that's why they ended up buying 20th Century Fox, they couldn't just have all web based Simpsons' domains, they needed to own The Simpsons themselves.

Checkmate.

[ThrashedDenim]

I like nexpo and I’ve had this video in my watch later for awhile now but this is a half an hour video that could’ve easily been a 10 minute or less video 😭💀

[TiPitSgtBuddy]

*in response to your closing lines* The reason that old internet has such a charm is because it was a time when we believed in possibilites and where people where allowed to be themselves before the algorithms began optimizing for addiction.

There was a beauty and hope that has now transformed into attention content addiction.

Also, nostalgia

Edit: We used to make content for the art and fun of it. Now its all about growing a business and brand. But its not people's fault either because ifyou dont pander to the algorithms, your content will be invisible.

For those who arn't sure about the difference between addictive and fun, mobile games are optimized for addiction. You feel the need to play but not the desire. There is no deep fulfillment or satisfaction.
On the other end, you know that something is fun when you want to do it without any pressure

[nickg.]

Not going to lie this video kinda sucked... Unnecessarily slow at times and never reaching any real point or conclusion. Would've been much more interesting if you focused on the website itself who cares about a domain name.

[dreffon]

I feel like it is the first time that I do not share your excitement about a mistery. All along the video, I was just thinking "why should I care?"

[victoryiamjay]

Mysteries dont have to be creepy, or dark, or unnatural.

Sometimes they just have to be odd. This is one of those times, an odd mystery of the old internet from the 90's/00's.

[hendrihendri]

can we appreciate Nexpo's editing desk? Thats one helluva clean setup.

[monmonmon]

TLDW: paranoia was a show on fox and fox was bought by disney