Tutorial Videos

The Midnight Article "Take. Part. Happy. Since. Yourselves." was written by u/3103113162 (Ed Dead The Only One) and posted to r/MidnightPaper

The text of the Article was as follows:

'''TAKE. PART. HAPPY. SINCE. YOURSELVES''' Those who have witnessed this phenomenon advise others to ignore it completely. It can have serious consequences in the short term and in the worst case in the very long term, affecting your entire life. It is known as “Take. Part. Happy. Since. Yourselves ”, and it is a series of videos that are scattered on different YouTube channels, videos that people who have seen them tell; They come from beyond from a dimension parallel to ours.

While videos are not very easy to find, anyone with a great ambition to find them will find them, at least one. The videos are tutorial type, on all subjects, from how to cook, to how to create an artifact, to how to train your pet, etc.

However, what is really special about these videos is that they all have morbid and gloomy environments, not exactly dark, but strange. It is not known how many videos there are, each video is published on a different channel, and each video has a different presenter, although always, in each tutorial, the presenter is as or more mysterious than the environment. Each video in this series is titled “Take. Part. Happy. Since. Yourselves ”and a number after that changes from video to video. Going into detail, the presenters never speak and only texts are displayed on the screen, and the appearances of the presenters is very strange. A person who saw one of these videos says that the presenter was completely white and appeared to be naked, was quite thin and had two very small points for eyes, a non-existent nose and a rhombus for a mouth.

Here we come to the part where it is discouraged to search for these videos and watch them. Each video lasts 20 minutes and after two minutes watching it your environment and reality begins to change. For example, while once you watch a video in your room, you notice that your room begins to warp and change in color, texture and even material. Obviously the longer you keep watching a tutorial, the more it will warp around you, and by the time you decide to stop watching the video, from that moment on, you will see the world in a strange and distorted way. Although they say that after watching the video the hallucinations go away and depending on your luck, from that moment you will notice surreal things wherever you go, they can be small and harmless, or they can be horrible and overwhelming things.

Finally, it is recommended that you do not watch a tutorial, since the consequences can extend for years and can make you enter the world of a schizophrenic.

Description:

"Tutorial Videos" are Object-Type Oddities that appear on the most popular video sharing website on the internet, YouTube. They are scattered across countless different YouTube channels, but always share the same strange title, "Take. Part. Happy. Since. Yourselves."

Each video shows a tutorial of some kind, ranging widely in subjects, including cooking, making arts and crafts, and training household animals. The videos all show a similar background, showing gloomy and morbid environments, it is known exactly what kind of environments the Article makes reference to, but it's evident that there is an obvious clash between the subject matter of each video and the place they have been shot in.

Each video has a "host" or "presenter" who stands in front of the camera and goes through each step of the tutorial for his or her audience, without ever speaking.

Format:

Each video shares the same format. They are titled the same way, "Take. Part. Happy. Since. Yourselves." followed by a number that indicated the order that they have been uploaded in. This order remains consistent even across multiple YouTube channels, so that if one account posted part 1, another posts part 2.

The "presenters" or "hosts" will then demonstrate how to perform an action that is the subject of that video, like cooking a specific meal, for example. However, they will not speak. Instead, text explaining each step of the subject in question.

Just as no two videos share the same filming location, each video has a different host...but they are all unusual in appearance. One witness described the host of the video he or she watched as being extremely pale, appearing to be completely naked, and having only "two very small holes for eyes," "a nonexistent nose," and "a rhombus for a mouth."

Each video is exactly 20 minutes in length. Upon watching two minutes of the video, a subject will begin to experience distortions in how they perceive reality. Watching a video in a bedroom, for example, will cause the color of the walls to appear to change color, the "texture" and materials of each object in that room to warp and change.

Symptoms:

The effects of watching the videos worsen the longer a subject's eyes are exposed to the video's contents. How long they last after the runtime of the video is over depends on how long a subject watched it. However, it appears that not all individuals are affected equally, with some subjects who have watched only a short amount of time having longer-lasting symptoms than others subjects who have watched longer. It is not known exactly why the effects vary as much as they do, but it is possible that this is due to the differences in biology and psychology between subject to subject.

The effects of watching the Tutorial Videos seem to replicate the hallucinations that individuals that suffer from schizophrenia experience.

Origins:

The origins of the Tutorial Videos is a complete mystery as is many aspects of their production. It is not known who, or what, is behind the production, editing, acting, and uploading of each video. However, given the strange appearance of the hosts of each video, it is possible that the people, or entities, behind the production of the videos are not entirely human.

The title of each video, too, is a complete mystery. Indeed, the words are hard to decipher. "Take. Part." seems to refer to the tutorial nature of each video, inviting viewers to "take part" in the subject of the video and follow along with each host or presenter. "Happy. Since. Yourselves." is harder to understand.

Taking the tutorial and participatory aspect of each video into consideration, however, the entire phrase may be something along the lines of: "Take part! You'll be happy since you're doing it yourselves!" This is, however, only a theory.