Trivia / Night Mind

• Approval of God: Nick will occasionally get some sort of feedback from the creators he has discussed.
  • Alan Resnick himself left a comment on his This House Has People in It video, giving him and fans a hint surrounding the ARG.
  • CryptTV loved Nick's video on them so much that they offered an official partnership with them, which Nick obviously accepted. Although Crypt TV staff say they partnered with Nick before his first positive review.
  • Mark Z. Danielewski who wrote House of Leaves was blown away by not only Nick's upcoming analysis of the book, but the fact Nick challenged his fans to read the book first.
  • Clown Illustrations, the creator of Welcome Home (Clown Illustrations), was ecstatic to hear about Night Mind's analysis, and was amazed by how quickly he and his fanbase solved the prologue portion.
• Ascended Fanon: The form of Nick's Author Avatar — an anthropomorphic four-eyed black cat — was chosen by fans. By 2019, Nick had become (or at least made it known that he was) a full-fledged furry with a custom fursuit, and that he is also dating a furry.
• Colbert Bump: The entire point of his series is showcasing other peoples' works, and so this effect works even more noticeably with the more obscure channels he investigates. Nick also frequently collaborates with and plugs fellow analyst Nyx Fears (or at least he did prior to the two having a severe falling-out).
  • Surprisingly enough, Nick caused this when he announced not only his planned three-part analysis of House of Leaves, but his challenge to fans to read the book to the lead up of the videos. The result lead to House of Leaves becoming talked about once more, which was noticed by Mark Z. Danielewski himself as well.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: A rather jarring one, given how in-depth an analysis the video is: during the House of Leaves analysis, he mistakenly says that when Navidson and Reston come across the remnants of the Holloway Team, Wax is dead but Jed is alive, and goes on to describe Jed's immediate demise. Except Wax was merely injured, not dead; even though his role in the story is severely limited afterwards, a later scene shows him very much alive asking Chad and Daisy for water. He's also listed later in the book as suffering from inexplicable ailments, which vanish when Navidson returns to the house. Even worse, he later brings up the latter section to focus on Will's issues, but even though Wax's survival is detailed right there, it's not corrected or brought up again.
• Creator Backlash: While he doesn't seem to dislike them in of themselves, Nick isn't fond of the fact that his earlier videos were split into multiple parts, now instead preferring to summarize all major points in single videos.
• Dear Negative Reader: During his September 2023 update video, "So Here's the Plan", Nick really let loose against those who reacted towards his then-recent experimentation with posting VODs of live-reaction videos with hostility, telling those who felt entitled to personally-targeted vitriol to get out of his viewership. Nick explained he understood why his live-reaction videos weren't the most ideal content (elaborating that they were done to hold his audience over as he was dealing with chronic burnout and other personal issues — seeing the mixed reception, he would be making changes to shift content back to more traditional scripted videos), and thanked his audience members who understood what he was doing and approached their feedback with civility, with his anger only directed towards more unconstructive, toxic viewers who felt they were entitled to treating him and other content creators like garbage.
• Fan Art: Nick gets a surprising amount of fanart which he regularly shares and replies back to on his social media accounts, especially his Tumblr. The end of his Black Mirror episode also features a showcase during the end credits.
• Fandom Nod: Night Mind's investigations of ongoing series have sometimes been noticed by its creators:
  • Within days of posting "CAMDROME: The Vanishing Webcam Killer Game," his video initiated a new series of events continuing the ARG, with fans directly interacting with it. The entire update video summarizes all the major developments as a direct consequence of the video.
  • Camdrome later had an update wherein someone used video URLs to various songs or subjects to communicate to avoid drawing the attention of Camdrome. The primary video used to communicate the name of it was Nick's first video on it, the implications of which didn't go unnoticed by Nick.
  • In one of the creepiest examples of this trope, after making his video on the mysterious "Hey Kids" channel, a fan pointed out that whoever was operating the channel changed their video tags, referencing Night Mind and its video by name. Considering how the tags aren't even visible without third-party plugins, it seems it was done just to specifically creep the more elusive investigators out.
  • Dad not only commented on Nick's video on his channel, but also made a video specifically "thanking" all the new subscribers he gained from the channel, titled "Dad Feels Loved". Nick would appear in a few of Dad's livestream VODs alongside other commentators like Nexpo and Inside a Mind.
  • 2h32's video "Libretto" uses an audio collage of coverage of the series up to that point, and Nick's voice can clearly be heard, even through all the audio manipulation.
• Missing Episode: The episode "Black Mirror: Darkness by Device," discussing Black Mirror, was uploaded during December 2016, but was suddenly taken down, presumably from a copyright takedown. A mirror of the episode on Vimeo can be found here.
  • The collab video between him and Nyx Fears for their review of A Christmas Horror Story isn't on either of their channels due to his and Nyx having a severe falling out, which was made worse when former creepypasta writer Slimebeast was inexplicably name dropped in Nick's Tumblr post about the issue.
  • Some of the series covered on the channel also fall into this; a particularly unfortunate example is HOOH, where an episode that Nick greatly hyped up during his review (but did not describe, not wanting to spoil the surprise for the viewers) has since utterly disappeared from the Internet.
  • Double-subverted with Nick's Donnie Darko review. The original upload did get taken down, but Nick made another version that took all of the offending material, leaving just the barebones explanation of what's happening without a lead-in, and a Take That! to the companies who took the original down, telling them to get crushed to death by a jet engine.
• Reality Subtext: Mikey the Microphone's Breaking Speech in "DHMIS: Explained" was confirmed by Word of God to reflect the worries Nick had while working on the video.
• Referenced by...: Nick Nocturne seems to have been referenced by — of all things — DuckTales (2017), featuring a character (ironically a dog) in "McMystery at McDuck McManor" named Nik Nocturne.
• Schedule Slip: Due to some outside factors, such as Nick adopting a cat that quite desperately needed a home, he was unable to finish the last episode of "How To Make A Webseries" before his September 2nd deadline. After a fan vote, he uploaded the videos a week later with the finished fourth.
• What Could Have Been:
  • A video on Meatsleep and an update on Poppy were planned, but were ultimately cancelled; Nick confirmed that both of these fall under what he termed a "Code: Meatsleep".
  • For his April 2017 "Cabin Fever Dreams" series, he was originally planning to have two additional episodes, both of which fell through. He feared that one of the works would lead to a Sonichu situation with the creator being mocked, and the other had the creator suddenly start taking down the videos, albeit with good reason. Needless to say, Nick wasn't happy about it, and has vowed to do all special projects months ahead of time from now on.

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