Petscop: A Cryptic Family Mystery

Petscop decided to deliver a full basket of videos this past Easter, and it's time to see what answers we're finally able to glean.

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[NightMind]

inb4 "next update when nick?!?!?"

[MCOmegaX]

And finally: Petscop, from the very beginning, has *not* been about 'us solving the mystery'. It's been about *Paul* solving the mystery, we're just along for the ride. You were 100% right when you said it's not an ARG. It's *not* an ARG, it's a narrative video series.

[kellyzaldana]

the large chunks of repeated reading of Rainer’s messages threw me for a loop cause i was like “wait didn’t we hear this whole thing already?”

[qwertyqeys]

I think you might have rose tinted glasses when it comes to Marble Hornets, because I remember there being REALLY long stretches of time where instead of feeling like we were getting more information, we were actually being told "here's even more gaps, time to play catch up with the timeline"

[NatsumenoKage]

Petscop is not playing out like an ARG it's running like a let's play.

[ArtForSwans]

"You're the only visitor to 'Even Care.'"


Petscop seems to be a story about child neglect. Paul helped Care ("Carrie") early on in the series.


Paul is the only visitor to even care.

[Flecksey]

The moment Nick asked about the button presses forming words is the moment it became very clear that he hadn't done his research.

[KeeveBlanco]

Pyrocynical: Doesn't release Petscop 2
Night Mind: "Well someone's gotta do it."

[conflictt]

I feel like im having a bit of a stroke here, theres a lot of re-re-re-reading lines over and over.

[SpazamsTV]

Night Mind made a part 2 before Pyrocynical!

[azalago]

I never thought I would say "Nick got it completely wrong." And now I have to. I'm not trying to be insulting or anything, but there are a lot more clues and evidence presented than you included in this video. Some of them are absolutely confirmations.

I'm sorry but I really think you let negative feelings you have for this series or creator effect your judgement... and that really isn't like you at all.

[EhrenCG]

I feel like you watched a different Petscop than me. With Petscop I actually feel like I'm understanding it a lot better than I ever did with Marble Hornets... Yeah, the answers lead to more questions, but I still feel like I am getting good answers and besides the wait between videos it doesn't feel like it's dragging on too long to me.

[deebee]

Night Mind: "I didn't make videos about Petscop because all I would be doing is summarizing, without evidence to make conclusions."
Petscop: *uploads 5 videos in a single day with tons of clarifying information to work with*
Night Mind: *Spends 30 minutes summarizing the videos without theorizing, and 13 minutes complaining about how slow and cryptic it is.*

I usually like your videos a lot (your House of Leaves series was fantastic), but this is the first one I've watched where it felt like you were wasting my time.

[NoFairMrBear]

Paul didn't censor the items, the people who took control of the channel did. Also it's pretty much accepted that Daniel is Rainer. I know you put this out pretty soon after but you missed a lot...

[Pancakesk]

I am by no means an expert with online horror/ARGs/whatever, but I have been watching this channel for a long time. In my opinion, this is one of the best ARG-type stories I've seen for one point alone; The immersion. When you watch the Petscop videos, you shouldn't look at them like an ARG. This whole story deserves to be watched as if it were an actual game that was given to Paul and you're experiencing and easter egg hunting through the game with him. When I first came across Petscop, I didn't know it was going to be an ARG, and it really got me as a generic story of just another weird, lost game that nobody has played before or was unfinished. It's refreshing and new for the format and feels more realistic than any other online horror story I've seen, including the ones covered on this channel.


TL;DR: Looking at the video like an ARG just hurts the experience the creators wanted the viewers to have. Look at it like a let's play of an obscure game.

[thunderkojote]

Wait, did we watch the same webseries?? I absolutely ADORE the pacing of petscop. Sure, it gives you a bunch of questions, but as you go on, with each episode, you realize all the questions are interconnected. You dont get many answers but that doesnt change my enjoyment of the series, and I'm suprised you didnt get as much out of it as I did.

[imachuckster]

me 43 minutes ago: oh no, why are there so many dislikes? don't people like petscop? :(
me now: ah

[LosoaII]

"The only visitor to even care"


Why did that only now click to me?

[allansantos]

I appreciate the video and understand your feelings towards the pace of the story, but I feel like you are ignoring a huge chunk of evidence by not addressing the rebirthing stuff which seem to be the main theme of the series, which was there from the start.
Newmaker, rebirth, "quitter", Care supposedly being Lina reborn (and Marvin being excited about that, with Rainer saying to him "I have a guess at which child you'll pick next"), Paul saying that "he bears a strong resemblance" to Care, someone trying to use a machine to make Belle become Tiara (and Pink Tool mentioning a machine "beyond the school basement stairway", where Care was), etc.

[doodleydooo]

Night Mind: "all I would've bern able to do making a video would have amounted to summarizing what happened in the uploads and then shrugging my shoulders"

Also Night Mind: _summarizes what the majority of the fanbase knew before the Easter uploads and then shrugs his shoulders_