History YMMV / NightMind

** After his DareToBeBadass speech in the Lasagna Cat video, telling people to aim to do something better than the original, Nick has reviewed two pieces that fit the bill: WebVideo/{{Petscop}} and WebOriginal/{{CatGhost}}.

** Nick's friendship with Nyx Fears becomes this when the two had a ''massive'' falling out following Nyx confirming on a tumblr post that Nick made her uncomfortable during her visit to see him (see Tear Jerker below.) Nick has made it clear he regrets the decision, but most people (Nyx especially and Slimebeast) saw it more as Nick attempting to save face. Fortunately this has since abated somewhat, with Nyx releasing a Tumblr post confirming that she and Nick have since reconciled at least somewhat.

* MemeticMutation: "That's a damn good margarita." [[note]] During his analysis of ''WebVideo/MyDadsTapes'', Nick had trouble containing his amusement and sarcasm when the protagonist and the serial killer sat down together for strawberry margaritas. Since then it has become a running joke with his fans. [[/note]]

** The Jack Torrance ARG, and specifically how [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Nick himself, as well as his viewers, ended up becoming integral parts of the experience]]. Special mention must go to the final USB folder, which includes [[spoiler:a series of screenshots from Google Street View showing ''the street addresses of everyone who sent Jack Torrance mail as part of the ARG'']]. As Nick himself says in his recap video, [[spoiler:[[ParanoiaFuel "He knows where you live."]]]]

** After his DareToBeBadass speech in the Lasagna Cat video, telling people to aim for BetterThanCanon and to do something better than the original, Nick has reviewed two pieces that fit the bill: WebVideo/{{Petscop}} and WebOriginal/{{CatGhost}}.

--->'''Nick:''' Be as original, unique, creative, intelligent, and entertaining as possible. Do something that means something, that has a message, that actually qualifies as art, that says "Hey, I can be just as creative [[BetterThanCanon and maybe even more creative than the property I'm standing on for my project."]] (...) Originality is hard, but the pain is worth it. Nothing in this world that's worth doing is easy. Don't ask how you can copy ''WebVideo/BenDrowned,'' [[DareToBeBadass ask how you can do something even better that was inspired by what the project did.]]

** In "How To Make A Web Series: The Yellow Path", Nick comes up with a terrifying tale as an example of how to recreate the feelings that ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID'' evokes in the viewer, specifically how [[spoiler:Evan's possession by HABIT and subsequent murder spree in his body still manages to make the viewer feel betrayed even though they know Evan isn't in control of himself]], while also show how to [[spoiler:write a character who is ''like'' HABIT but not a complete carbon copy]]: A family of six lives off the grid in Alaska, mainly by raising chickens, growing produce and hunting for game. The family consists of a mother and father, their two kids, and their two nephews. Their daughter Emily is the main character and an aspiring chef, and uses [=YouTube=] to connect to the outside world by posting cooking tutorials and vlogs. Aside from Emily's friend Nathan and his grandfather, the family is completely alone in an Alaskan forest. One day, one of the cousins claims that he found strange tracks in the forest that didn't look like any animal he'd ever seen before. Then her father disappears on a hunting trip. Then one of her cousins. Then her mother. All the while Emily makes more cooking videos and less vlogs in an attempt to cope with the situation. After her mother disappears, Emily becomes paranoid that her remaining cousin is somehow behind it, and sets up cameras to catch him doing ''something.'' However, Emily hears her cousin in distress, and rushes to find nothing but broken glass and a puddle of blood, with him nowhere in sight. Emily grabs her little brother and heads to Nathan's, worried something may have happened to him. Nathan's fine, but his grandfather also disappeared, leading him to lock down the house to protect himself. The two move in with Nathan, but then her brother goes missing, having seemingly gone into the woods to look for everyone. Nathan and Emily spend the day searching for him before deciding to go to town to get help. A week passes before another video is suddenly uploaded. The formatting of the title and description are notably different than usual, suggesting that whoever uploaded this was ''not'' Emily. It shows Emily getting ready to go to town with Nathan and searching the house for him. She finds a frying pan on his bed, with a note saying to "meet me for breakfast," and heads downstairs to the kitchen. She finds meat cooking in another frying pan, a meatloaf cooking in the oven, and another note suggesting she "watch a show" while the food cooks. She goes into the living room and finds her cousin's laptop on the coffee table with a video player opened. Emily sets her camera down so that it's pointed at the laptop screen and apprehensively clicks the play button. [[spoiler:The video shows Nathan in Emily's kitchen, doing a parody of her cooking show. He announces that this episode is about how to make meatloaf, and that you're going to need meat from several different sources. He gives tutorials on how to acquire, prepare, and store the meat over footage of him stalking and abducting each of Emily's family members, "tenderizing" them with various weapons and torture tools, cutting up their meat, packing it, and storing it in Emily's freezer next to the wild game, which it looks indistinguishable from. After a comment about how "if you do it right, any amateur will be able to cook with it", clips from some of Emily's previous cooking videos are shown, specifically ones uploaded right after one of her family members went missing, revealing to both the viewer and to Emily herself [[FamilialCannibalismSurprise that she had been cooking and eating her own family on-camera without knowing it]]. Nathan then cracks a joke which makes someone offscreen laugh, and it sounds like Emily's remaining cousin, revealing that he was in fact helping Nathan all along. Another video is soon uploaded, showing Emily suffering the same fate as the rest of her family, pleading for mercy and begging her captors not to upload the video]]. Nick then calls himself a sick son of a bitch for thinking up this story on the spot.

* CriticalResearchFailure: A rather jarring one, given how in-depth an analysis the video is: during the ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' analysis, he mistakenly says that when Navidson and Reston come across the remnants of [[spoiler: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 [[EldritchLocation 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.]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: A rather jarring one, given how in-depth an analysis the video is: during the ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' analysis, he mistakenly says that when Navidson and Reston come across the remnants of [[spoiler: 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 [[EldritchLocation 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.]]
* HarsherInHindsight:

** While he thinks ''WebVideo/TheHumanPet'' is largely solid with a legitimately intriguing plot line, he considers the last upload to be this on account of pulling out [[ClicheStorm several cliches]] in one video, namely [[spoiler:a CreepyChild who laughs evilly during an poorly set-up {{Jumpscare}}.]] This isn't helped by the fact that [[OrphanedSeries the series likely won't be updated soon]].

** Many of the works looked at contain healthy doses of this, but one coming directly from Night Mind itself comes from "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: Explained," where true to the series' fashion, Mikey the Microphone starts pushing Nick's [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]] through insults; by the time Nick gets to Episode 5, he sounds genuinely ''pissed.'' Considering said insults are based on [[RealitySubtext real criticisms Nick was worried about receiving for making the video,]] many viewers became genuinely worried for Nick's well being.

* {{TearJerker}}:

* UnintentonalUncannyValley: While many viewers find Nick's voice pleasing to listen to, there's also a significant amount of others who find it somewhat ''off'' and unnerving, as if coming from a text-to-speech program. It doesn't really help that [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in earlier videos,]] his voice tended to slightly warp and distort at times. Although the reason it did that is actually somewhat funny: he was afraid the videos would be too long for anyone to bother watching, so he sped up the recording of his voice to save on time, causing the distortion.

** In the intro to "''VideoGame/{{SIMULACRA}}'': [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel Superior Sequel]] to ''VideoGame/SaraIsMissing''", Nick relays how he got a direct email from Kaigen Games about how they saw his video of ''VideoGame/SaraIsMissing'' and took much of his criticism to heart, offering him a Steam Key of its SpiritualSuccessor and even specifically asked him to "please apply the same critical thought you did for our last game." Sure enough, despite some criticisms, Nick considered ''VideoGame/{{SIMULACRA}}'' a very welcome and enjoyable improvement, and thanked Kaigen Games for their positive reception and acceptance of his critique.

* UncannyValley: While many viewers find Nick's voice pleasing to listen to, there's also a significant amount of others who find it somewhat ''off'' and unnerving, as if coming from a text-to-speech program. It doesn't really help that [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in earlier videos,]] his voice tended to slightly warp and distort at times. Although the reason it did that is actually somewhat funny: he was afraid the videos would be too long for anyone to bother watching, so he sped up the recording of his voice to save on time, causing the distortion.

--> That's a damn good margarita.

* UncannyValley: While many viewers find Nick's voice pleasing to listen to, there's also a significant amount of others who find it somewhat ''off'' and unnerving, as if coming from a text-to-speech program. It doesn't really help that [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in earlier videos,]] his voice tended to slightly warp and distort at times. Although the reason it did that is actually somewhat funny: he was afraid the videos would be too long for anyone to bother watching, so he sped up the recording of his voice to save on time, causing the distortion.

** Nick's friendship with Nyx Fears becomes this when the two had a ''massive'' falling out following Nyx confirming on a tumblr post that Nyx made her uncomfortable during her visit to see him, which ''was seen on a stream at that''. Nick has made it clear he regrets the decision, but most people (Nyx especially and Slimebeast) saw it more as Nick attempting to save face. Fortunately this has since abated somewhat, with Nyx releasing a Tumblr post confirming that she and Nick have since reconciled at least somewhat.

** Nick's falling out with Nyx Fears. The two were arguably good friends especially when they collabed twice and especially when Nyx went out to see him, but their friendship ended ''hard'' when Nick did something that made Nyx incredibly uncomfortable. What's worse is ''it was on a livestream'', which everyone saw as a joke and not something that made Nyx uncomfortable. While Nick has attempted to apologize for the situation, most people (Nyx especially) have made it clear the damage is done. It is a bit mediated when you later on find Nyx's tumblr post explaining that she and Nick ''did'' make peace with one another.

** After his DareToBeBadass speech in the Lasagna Cat video, telling people to aim for BetterThanCanon and to do something better than the original, Nick has reviewed two pieces that fit the bill: WebVideo/{{Petscop}} and [=CatGhost=].

** The videos where Nick covers and / or praises WebVideo/TribeTwelve are much more uncomfortable to watch after series creator Adam Rosner was revealed to be a serial child groomer in early September 2020.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Albeit delivered with his warm, soothing voice:
** The music video "Mono", created by the [=CatGhost=] crew and premiered in Candy Bowl 2017: [[spoiler:a crush on someone who sends signals that they aren't interested is not healthy. It's also not cute, regardless of gender; the rabbit girl gives silent refusals to the cat girl, who eventually skins the rabbit girl to wear her face.]]
** "How to Make A Web Series": You can't create content just for the money or the fame. For one, not every project will get that level of success, especially if you have high competition. For another, viewers will know if you're just creating a web series for the success and not for the passion of creating it. There has to be a genuine desire to create good content.

** Nick's complete genuine love and praise of Music/{{Poppy}} becomes this when he later on reiterated on Twitter that he was denouncing his support of Poppy and Titanic Sinclair following the lawsuit between Sinclair's old partner/ex girlfriend Mars Argo, who revealed that not only did Sinclair and Poppy steal ideas planned for Mars, but that Sinclair had psychologically and emotionally abused her.

** In the intro to "''VideoGame/{{SIMULACRA}}'': [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel Superior Sequel]] to ''VideoGame/SaraIsMissing''", Nick relays how he got a direct email from Kaigen Games about how they saw his video of ''VideoGame/SaraIsMissing'' and took much of his criticism to heart, offering him a Steam Key of its SpiritualSuccessor and even specifically asking him to "please apply the same critical thought you did for our last game." Sure enough, despite some criticisms, Nick considered ''VideoGame/{{SIMULACRA}}'' a very welcome and enjoyable improvement, and thanked Kaigen Games for their positive reception and acceptance of his critique.

* SnarkBait: For Nick himself, he's made it very clear that he doesn't like cheap internet horror clickbait that poorly stuffs together "creepy" footage for ad revenue and making it onto Youtube countdown lists, with the "Jack Torrance" channel he's covered being a borderline example. The same can be said possibly even more so with most SubvertedKidsShow {{CreepyPasta}}.
** The latter half of ''WebVideo/MyDadsTapes'' also earns quite a bit of snark from him, done almost entirely wordlessly through editing.
---> That's a damn good margarita

** In "How To Make A Web Series: The Yellow Path", Nick comes up with a terrifying tale as an example to recreate the feelings that ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID'' evokes in the viewer, specifically how [[spoiler:Evan's possession by HABIT and subsequent murder spree still manages to make the viewer feel betrayed even though they know Evan isn't in control of himself]]: A family of six lives off the grid in Alaska, mainly by raising chickens, growing produce and hunting for game. The family consists of a mother and father, their two kids, and their two nephews. Their daughter Emily is the main character and an aspiring chef, and uses [=YouTube=] to connect to the outside world by posting cooking tutorials and vlogs. Aside from Emily's friend Nathan and his grandfather, the family is completely alone in an Alaskan forest. One day, one of the cousins claims that they found tracks in the forest that looked... off. Then her father disappears on a hunting trip. Then one of her cousins. Then her mother. All the while Emily makes more cooking videos and less vlogs in an attempt to cope with the situation. After her mother disappears, Emily becomes paranoid that her remaining cousin is somehow behind it, and sets up cameras to catch him doing ''something.'' However, Emily hears her cousin in distress, and rushes to find nothing but broken glass and a puddle of blood, with him nowhere in sight. Emily grabs her little brother and heads to Nathan's, worried something may have happened to him. Nathan's fine, but his grandfather also disappeared, leading him to lock down the house to protect himself. The two move in with Nathan, but then her brother goes missing, having seemingly gone into the woods to look for everyone. Nathan and Emily spend the day searching for him before deciding to go to town to get help. A week passes before another video is suddenly uploaded, and by the formatting of the title and description, it's clear somebody ''other'' than Emily uploaded it. It shows Emily getting ready to go to town, and, upon finding a frying pan on her bed, heads downstairs to look for Nathan. She instead finds meat cooking in another frying pan, a meatloaf cooking in the oven, and her cousin's laptop on the table with a video player already opened. Emily apprehensively clicks the play button. [[spoiler:The video shows Nathan in Emily's kitchen, doing a parody of her cooking show. He announces that this episode is about how to make meatloaf, and that you're going to need meat from several different sources. He gives tutorials on how to acquire, prepare, and store the meat over footage of him stalking and abducting each of Emily's family members, "tenderizing" them with various weapons and torture tools, cutting up their meat, packing it, and storing it in Emily's freezer next to the wild game, which it looks indistinguishable from. After a comment about how "if you do it right, any amateur will be able to cook with it", clips from some of Emily's previous cooking videos are shown, specifically ones uploaded soon after one of her family members went missing, revealing to both the viewer and to Emily herself [[FamilialCannibalismSurprise that she had been cooking and eating her own family on-camera without knowing it]]. Nathan then cracks a joke which makes someone offscreen laugh, and it sounds like Emily's remaining cousin, revealing that he was in fact helping Nathan all along. Another video is soon uploaded, showing Emily suffering the same fate as the rest of her family, pleading for mercy and begging her captors not to upload the video]]. Nick then calls himself a sick son of a bitch for thinking up this story on the spot.

** In the ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'' video, despite making [[BerserkButton his distaste]] for lazy, uninspired {{Creepypasta}} about how already-existing works like ''[[FanFic/SquidwardsSuicide Spongebob Squarepants]]'' or ''[[WebOriginal/TheRugratsTheory Rugrats]]'' [[SubvertedKidsShow really have pointlessly dark and edgy secrets underneath them]] ''[[AuthorTract very]]'' [[AuthorTract clear,]] by the end after explaining all the crazy intricacies of ''Lasagna Cat'' that actually make it ''[[Administrivia/TropesAreTools work,]]'' Nick explains how he's gotten asked by viewers if it's okay to pursue making derivative works like ''WebVideo/BenDrowned'' despite falling under this category, and offers this [[DareToBeBadass very inspiring and hopeful advice]] for any creator:
---> '''Nick:''' Be as original, unique, creative, intelligent, and entertaining as possible. Do something that means something, that has a message, that actually qualifies as art, that says "Hey, I can be just as creative [[BetterThanCanon and maybe even more creative than the property I'm standing on for my project."]] (...) Originality is hard, but the pain is worth it. Nothing in this world that's worth doing is easy. Don't ask how you can copy ''WebVideo/BenDrowned,'' [[DareToBeBadass ask how you can do something even better that was inspired by what the project did.]]

** In the ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'' video, despite making [[BerserkButton his distaste]] for lazy, uninspired {{Creepypasta}} about how already-existing works like ''[[FanFic/SquidwardsSuicide Spongebob Squarepants]]'' or ''[[WebOriginal/TheRugratsTheory Rugrats]]'' [[SubvertedKidsShow really have pointlessly dark and edgy secrets underneath them]] ''[[AuthorTract very]]'' [[AuthorTract clear,]] by the end after explaining all the crazy intricacies of ''Lasagna Cat'' that actually make it ''[[TropesAreTools work,]]'' Nick explains how he's gotten asked by viewers if it's okay to pursue making derivative works like ''WebVideo/BenDrowned'' despite falling under this category, and offers this [[DareToBeBadass very inspiring and hopeful advice]] for any creator:

** In "How To Make A Web Series: The Yellow Path", Nick comes up with a terrifying tale as an example to recreate the feelings that ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID'' evokes in the viewer, specifically the feelings evoked by the HABIT arc while writing a HABIT-like character: A family of six lives off the grid in Alaska, mainly by raising chickens, growing produce and hunting for game. The family consists of a mother and father, their two kids, and their two nephews. Their daughter Emily is the main character and an aspiring chef, and uses [=YouTube=] to connect to the outside world by posting cooking tutorials and vlogs. Aside from Emily's friend Nathan and his grandfather, the family is completely alone in an Alaskan forest. One day, one of the cousins claims that they found tracks in the forest that looked... Off. Then her father disappears on a hunting trip. Then one of the cousins. Then her mother. All the while Emily makes more cooking videos and less vlogs in an attempt to deal with the situation. After her mother disappears, Emily becomes paranoid that her remaining cousin is somehow behind it, and sets up cameras to catch him doing ''something.'' However, Emily hears her cousin in distress, and rushes to find broken glass and a puddle of blood, with him nowhere in sight. Emily grabs her little brother and heads to Nathan's, worried something may have happened to him. Nathan's fine, but his grandfather also disappeared, leading him to lock down the house to protect himself. The two move in with Nathan, but then her brother goes missing, having seemingly gone into the woods to look for everyone. Nathan and Emily spend the day searching for him before deciding to go to town to get help. A week passes before another video is suddenly uploaded, and by the formatting of the title and description, it's clear Emily didn't upload it. It shows Emily getting ready to go to town, and, upon finding a frying pan on her bed, heads downstairs to look for Nathan. She instead finds meat cooking in another frying pan, a meatloaf cooking in the oven, and her cousin's laptop on the table with a video player opened and a video ready to play. Emily apprehensively clicks the play button. [[spoiler:The video shows Nathan in Emily's kitchen, doing a parody of her cooking show. He announces that this episode is about how to make meatloaf, and that you're going to need meat from several different sources. He gives tutorials on how to acquire, prepare, and store the meat over footage of him stalking and abducting each of Emily's family members, "tenderizing" them with various weapons and torture tools, cutting up their meat, packing it, and storing it in Emily's freezer next to the wild game, which it looks indistinguishable from. After a comment about how "if you do it right, any amateur will be able to cook with it", clips from some of Emily's previous cooking videos are shown, specifically ones uploaded soon after one of her family members went missing, revealing to both the viewer and to Emily herself [[IAteWhat that she had been cooking and eating her own family on-camera without knowing it]]. Nathan then cracks a joke which makes someone offscreen laugh, and it sounds like Emily's remaining cousin, revealing that he was in fact helping Nathan all along. Another video is soon uploaded, showing Emily suffering the same fate as the rest of her family, pleading for mercy and begging her captors not to upload the video]]. Nick then calls himself a sick son of a bitch for thinking up this story on the spot.

--> That's a damn good margarita

* UncannyValley: While many viewers find Nick's voice pleasing to listen to, there's also a significant amount of others who find it somewhat ''off'' and unnerving, as if coming from a text-to-speech program. It doesn't really help that [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in earlier videos,]] his voice tended to slightly warp and distort at times.

* CriticalResearchFailure: A rather jarring one, given how in-depth an analysis the video is: during the ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'' analysis, he mistakenly says that when Navidson and Reston come across the remnants of [[spoiler: 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 [[EldritchLocation house.]]]]

** While he thinks ''WebVideo/TheHumanPet'' is largely solid with a legitimately intriguing plot line, he considers the last upload to be this on account of pulling out [[ClicheStorm several cliches]] in one video, namely [[spoiler:a CreepyChild who laughs evilly during an poorly set-up {{Jumpscare}}.]] He even seems to consider it a [[JumpingTheShark shark-jump moment]], which isn't helped by the fact that [[OrphanedSeries the series likely won't be updated soon]].

** Nick's friendship with Nyx Fears becomes this when the two had a ''massive'' falling out following Nyx confirming on a tumblr post that Nyx made her uncomfortable during her visit to see him, which ''was seen on a stream at that''. Nick has made it clear he regrets the decision, but most people (Nyx especially and Slimebeast) saw it more as Nick attempting to save face.

** Nick's falling out with Nyx Fears. The two were arguably good friends especially when they collabed twice and especially when Nyx went out to see him, but their friendship ended ''hard'' when Nick did something that made Nyx incredibly uncomfortable. What's worse is ''it was on a livestream'', which everyone saw as a joke and not something that made Nyx uncomfortable. While Nick has attempted to apologize for the situation, most people (Nyx especially) have made it clear the damage is done.

** In "How To Make A Web Series: The Yellow Path", Nick comes up with a terrifying tale as an example to recreate the feelings that ''WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID'' evokes in the viewer, particularly how [[spoiler:Evan's DemonicPossession by HABIT and HABIT's subsequent killings of Jeff, Stephanie, and Evan and Stephanie's newborn baby still feels like being betrayed by a friend even though Evan isn't in control of himself]]. A family of six lives off the grid in Alaska, mainly by raising chickens, growing produce and hunting for game. The family consists of a mother and father, their two kids, and their two nephews. Their daughter Emily is the main character and an aspiring chef, and uses [=YouTube=] to connect to the outside world by posting cooking tutorials and vlogs. Aside from Emily's friend Nathan and his grandfather, the family is completely alone in an Alaskan forest. One day, one of the cousins claims that they found tracks in the forest that looked... Off. Then her father disappears on a hunting trip. Then one of the cousins. Then her mother. All the while Emily makes more cooking videos and less vlogs in an attempt to deal with the situation. After her mother disappears, Emily becomes paranoid that her remaining cousin is somehow behind it, and sets up cameras to catch him doing ''something.'' However, Emily hears her cousin in distress, and rushes to find broken glass and a puddle of blood, with him nowhere in sight. Emily grabs her little brother and heads to Nathan's, worried something may have happened to him. Nathan's fine, but his grandfather also disappeared, leading him to lock down the house to protect himself. The two move in with Nathan, but then her brother goes missing, having seemingly gone into the woods to look for everyone. Nathan and Emily spend the day searching for him before deciding to go to town to get help. A week passes before another video is suddenly uploaded, from someone that's not Emily. It shows Emily getting ready to go to town, and, upon finding a frying pan on her bed, heads downstairs to look for Nathan. She instead finds meat cooking in another frying pan, a meatloaf cooking in the oven, and her cousin's laptop on the table with a video player opened and a video ready to play. Emily apprehensively clicks the play button. [[spoiler:The video shows Nathan in Emily's kitchen, doing a parody of her cooking show. He gives an explanation on the proper way to prepare and store freshly killed game over footage of him stalking and abducting each of Emily's family members, "tenderizing" them with various weapons and torture tools, cutting up their meat, packing it, and storing it in Emily's freezer next to the game, which it looks indistinguishable from. After a comment about how "if you do it right, any amateur will be able to cook with it", clips from some of Emily's previous cooking videos are shown, specifically ones uploaded soon after one of her family members went missing, revealing to both the viewer and to Emily herself [[IAteWhat that she had been cooking and eating her own family without knowing it]]. Nathan then cracks a joke which makes someone offscreen laugh, and it sounds like Emily's remaining cousin, revealing that he was in fact helping Nathan all along. Another video is soon uploaded, showing Emily suffering the same fate as the rest of her family, pleading for mercy and begging her captors not to upload the video]]. Nick then calls himself a sick son of a bitch for thinking up this story on the spot.