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• Creator Backlash: In a rare appearance in the comments section of Weather Service, Kris Straub has expressed disappointment over the last part of the video not being as popular as he hoped.
• Distanced from Current Events: A pandemic themed video was planned and in production right before the COVID-19 health crisis hit. It's slipped into limbo, since it was felt releasing the video would be in bad taste when an actual global pandemic was happening.
• Follow the Leader: Local58, as well as one of its forerunners The Wyoming Incident, have spawned an entire genre of Analog Horror videos on YouTube. While many of these attempts never managed to replicate what made Local 58 acclaimed and popular, some of these attempts have become series in their own right, such as Channel 7 (now cancelled) and their successors Analog Archives and Eventide Media Center, the more Found Footage-focused The Minerva Alliance and Gemini Home Entertainment, and plenty of one-shots like Winter of '83 and DON'T LOOK UP, the latter of which serves as taking a stab at trying out an extended version of "Weather Report."
• Trolling Creator: When asked for a temporary name for HIS THRONE, Kris Straub responded with "Steve."
• Word of Dante: The debunked alien theory (see below) was so widespread that at some point, the main article was written with that in mind.
• Word of God:
  • When asked what the 51st state is, Kris responded with "death".
  • Kris has publicly debunked the alien theory, saying that whatever is attacking the humans is "alien to our existence" and that he is more interested in "the concept of something utterly foreign and unmappable to human consciousness".
  • According to Kris, because the "hoax apology card" that bled through the station's apology slide at the end of Contingency is in the same format as the preceding film just identified as a "hoax," that means the station's apology is itself a hoax.
  • It has been confirmed that Candle Cove aired on Local58.

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