History WebVideo / WinterOf83

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: The snow creatures show to have this [[spoiler: as they hijack ''Medicine Lake Campgrounds Informercial'' showing the corpse of of their victims llike it was all part of the commercial.]]

->''In January of 1983, most of the people living in the town of Fawn Circle, Minnesota disappeared.\\

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:All the named characters are either killed or missing, along with most of the rest of Fawn Circle. The only evidence of what happened are human remains discovered when the snow melts and surviving tapes that rescue workers and law enforcement encounter; the few survivors found are only able to corroborate the severity of the storm and are ultimately forced to leave the town due to severe damage; and it's revealed in a TV lineup for another network that it's going to happen all over again in another town.]]
* DyingTown: According to Sheriff Douglas, Fawn Circle has been struggling with a budget crisis for well over a decade. [[spoiler:Segment 7 implies, and Segment 11 confirms outright, that the town was counting on the funding from the experiments going on in Scott's Manor before the monsters attacked.]]

* ForegoneConclusion: The series ''outright'' opens with a text message from the compiler, stating that the majority of the residents of Fawn Circle had disappeared. [[spoiler:So when the blizzard hitting the town proceeds to get worse, and the presence of the {{Snowlems}} increases, one can already put the pieces together on how that transpired.]]

* HauntedHouse: Scott's Manor. From what Sheriff Chris Douglas explains, the mansion used to be the mayor's home until 1968, when renovations were needed. However, budget crisis struck Fawn Circle and delayed the renovation for over a decade until the University of Minnesota stepped in, renting the mansion out so the city can use the money to kickstart the renovation. [[spoiler:It doesn't become this trope until the bacteria escapes]].

'''Deputy Blair:''' (agitated) Where have they been? (audibly approaches Daniels) Where have ''they'' been?! (grabs Daniels) [[spoiler:THEY'RE AT SCOTT'S FUCKING MANOR, ''WHERE '''YOU''' TOLD THEM TO GO!'']]\\

'''Deputy Blair:''' [[spoiler:''They never came back!'' Their cars are still fucking out there! I found Sheriff Douglas' badge in a snowbank covered in blood! '''YOU FUCKING SENT THEM OUT THERE TO DIE!''']]

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: While we know Fawn Circle is in Minnesota, the exact location isn't known. The sign-off segment implies that it is in Redwood County, but the first interview says it's weak transmitter signal only serves their community, but can reach Chaska "on a good day." Chaska is roughly 90 miles from the edge of Redwood County.

The episodes were gradually uploaded onto Website/YouTube on April 1, 2022. It can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxCy3y2-ZD2Em9C-8pG3IDvpliemt_FmU here]] as a playlist of videos and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCwQ6XkBeak here]] as a singular video.

** Apparently, "Sid's Electronic Boutique" has been having a shoplifting problem. As such, Sid's method of making sure his lone employee isn't part of said problem... is to give him an expensive camera, and force him to film himself ''locking up the store during a blizzard''. And as the employee notes, if he ''was'' stealing things, he'd hardly be filming himself while he was doing it.

* EldritchAbomination: Taking inspiration from [[spoiler:''Film/TheThing'' (even being lampshaded by the TV lineup) the creature is actually a colony of sentient space bacteria that can manipulate snow and UHF signals. It isn't revealed exactly why the monster is killing people, aside from the fact that it seems to believe it's doing us a favor, but it has enough awareness to [[AGodAmI view itself as God]].]]

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Mayor Daniels is a downplayed example, believing that [=K83FC=] doesn’t need the stimulus to make things better due to his view on their programming, [[JerkassHasAPoint not to mention said stimulus being an enormous sum of money the city simply doesn't have]]. [[spoiler:Segment 11 reveals that he's relying on the funding from the scientists working at Scott's Manor, though he seems to be unaware of the nature of their experiments.]] He is, however, ''not'' an UngratefulBastard. When [=K83FC=] offers one of their personal snowplows to help with the sudden burial of city hall [[spoiler:by the snow monsters]], he thanks them for their help and is more willing to negotiate. [[spoiler:Shame the monsters come in and kill everyone before he can do so.]]

* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: Played for horror during the emergency weather broadcast (see DeadlineNews above).

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: The employee of Sid's Electronic Boutique who goes to help out someone asking "Hey, can you help me with this?", and gets kills for his trouble]].

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:All the named characters are either killed or missing, along with most of the rest of Fawn Circle. The only evidence of what happened are human remains discovered when the snow melts and surviving tapes that rescue workers and law enforcement encounter; the few survivors found are only able to collaborate the severity of the storm and are ultimately forced to leave the town due to severe damage; and it's revealed in a TV lineup for another network that it's going to happen all over again in another town.]]

** [[spoiler:Segment 9, where Carl Denby starts going through the mini-cassettes he acquired from Scott's Manor comes to an abrupt end when, after he notes the sound of a tree branch scraping against a nearby window, it abruptly shatters. It would appear he was in actuality attacked... until Segment 11 picks up shortly after that incident, where it turns out it ''was'' a branch, and that it broke through said window.]]

** While Dr. Chandra is discussing how [[spoiler:the creature has been affecting magnetic tape and UHF frequencies]] in the 12/27/82 tape, he is interrupted [[spoiler:[[OhCrap by the utterance of "Hey, can you help me with this?"]]... [[NotSoDire except, as it turns out,]] we have just heard ''the origin'' of that saying: Dr. Matthews requesting help moving an unknown item in the lab at the time of recording.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler:The snow bacteria seem to operate under this principle, genuinely believing that humanity would be better off becoming part of them, referring to themselves in the collective sense, akin to a cult. Dr. Chandra, for his part, assumes that they want to become like humanity with their godhood delusions, but they correct him that they want humanity to be like them, and see no problem with killing people and converting their cells into more of them, thinking it to be for the best.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:All the named characters are either killed or missing. The only evidence of the events are human remains and surviving tapes that rescue workers and law enforcement encounter, the survivors found are only able to collaborate the severity of the storm and are ultimately forced to leave the town due to severe damage, and it's revealed in a TV lineup for another network that it's going to happen all over again.]]

* CreatorCameo: Lewis Lovhaug himself voices Deputy Blair.

** Apparently, "Sid's Electronic Boutique" has been having a shoplifting problem. As such, Sid's method of making sure his lone employee isn't part of said problem... is to give him an expensive camera, and force him to film himself ''locking up the store during a blizzard''.

* CaptainObvious: [[spoiler:"LOOK AT HIS ARMS, THEY'RE MADE OF SNOW!"]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: it's somewhat justified, as it's not so obvious to the person this is being told to, because she's too beside herself with relief to see who she thinks is her brother alive to notice the snow arms, with fatal consquences]]. Averted in the compilation, which mutes said line.

* EldritchAbomination: Taking inspiration from [[spoiler: ''Film/TheThing'' (even being lampshaded by the TV lineup) the creature is actually a colony of sentient space bacteria that can manipulate snow and UHF signals. It isn't revealed exactly why the monster is killing people, aside from the fact that it seems to believe it's doing us a favor, but it has enough awareness to [[AGodAmI view itself as God]].]]

* HellIsThatNoise: [[spoiler: Whenever one of the snowmen are nearby, a blaring sound akin to a radio signal begins going off. The frequency buzzing get worse when they open their mouths to kill their victims]].
* ItCanThink: At first, [[spoiler: the scientists at Scott's Manor are delighted that they've made contact with a colony of sentient space bacteria. They find out too late how bad this actually was, as it eventually adapts and breaks out of the facility, even learning how to mimic voices.]]

** [[spoiler: The ArcWords "Hey, can you help me with this?" are the biggest example, the colony having taken the words from a scientist that was studying it before it broke out. It uses this to lure people in, as they think it's only a person asking for help.]]
** [[spoiler: In the broadcasts by [=K83FC=], various haunting messages are inserted into paid programming and council meetings, as well as images of the murders the monster has committed. It even says to go searching for Steven Millbanks, even though the bacteria has already killed him, to try and get people to go outside.]]
** [[spoiler: In the Sid's Electronics, Late Night Movie and Winter Storm Warning segments, the footage from the victims final moments are inserted in the middle of commercials and movie premieres in the two former. The monster even blatantly kills the weatherman on air in the latter. After the victims in the latter two are killed, the creature edits their voices with stilted sentence mixing, having them say things to entice people into the snow.]]

* MoodWhiplash: After fifteen videos of horror and TheStinger which suggests TheEndOrIsIt, we're greeted with [[spoiler: a polka rendition of ''Atop The Fourth Wall''[='s=] theme with a card reading APRIL FOOLS!]]. This was removed in the compilation.

* OhCrap: Carl Denby has two moments of exclaiming "Shit!" at the end of each of his two last analogs. The first is when [[spoiler: he realizes that it's not Darcy who entered his office, shooting at it and fleeing into the snow]]. This leads to the second moment where [[spoiler: he comes face to face with another one with his own face on it, repeating it in terror. It ends up being his last words.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, the police refuse to look for Steven Millbanks, believing that he has simply eloped with his girlfriend, which Darcy is more than certain isn't the case, owing to her personal knowledge of her brother, and Denby later on can't contact them. This, however, is because they disappeared into Scott's Manor [[spoiler: where they all became victims of the monsters and thus ''can't'' help]]. The OnlySaneMan of the group is Deputy Blair, but Sheriff Douglas is also very reasonable and courteous when investigating the manor with the [=K83FC=] news crew.

-->'''Dr. Chandra:''' Yes, damn it! I'm saying that these things want to be us!
-->[[spoiler:'''The Bacteria:''' NO, DR. CHANDRA. YOU WILL BE '''[[AssimilationPlot LIKE]]''' US.]]

-->'''Mayor Daniels''': We've been trying to get in touch with the police department for ''days'', where the hell has everyone been?!
-->'''Deputy Blair''': (agitated) Where have they been? (audibly approaches Daniels) Where have ''they'' been?! (grabs Daniels) [[spoiler:THEY'RE AT SCOTT'S FUCKING MANOR, ''WHERE '''YOU''' TOLD THEM TO GO!'']]
-->'''Mayor Daniels''': (taken aback) Da- I- That was ''days'' ago!
-->'''Deputy Blair''': [[spoiler:''They never came back!'' Their cars are still fucking out there! I found Sheriff Douglas' badge in a snowbank covered in blood! '''YOU FUCKING SENT THEM OUT THERE TO DIE!''']]

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: While we know Fawn Circle is in Minnesota, the exact location isn’t known. The sign-off segment implies that it is in Redwood County, but the first interview says it's weak transmitter signal only serves their community, but can reach Chaska "on a good day." Chaska is roughly 90 miles from the edge of Redwood County.

* At the beginning of Segment 2, Vivian reminds Greg if the mic is on, as it wasn't the last time during an interview. [[SelfDeprecation No doubt Lewis poking fun]] at the time that [[EpicFail he forgot to turn on the mic during a PO Unboxing]], so he and Viga had to do the whole thing over again, a NeverLiveItDown moment that's become a RunningGag since.

-->'''Dr. Chandra:''' I'm saying these creatures want to be us!

* MoodWhiplash: After fifteen videos of horror and TheStinger which suggests TheEndOrIsIt, we're greeted with [[spoiler: a polka rendition of ''Atop The Fourth Wall''[='s=] theme with a card reading APRIL FOOLS!]]

''Winter of '83'' is a AnalogHorror web series produced by Creator/LewisLovhaug of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''. The series, which is composed of FoundFootage and audio recordings, tell the story of a mysterious event which took place in the town of Fawn's Circle, Minnesota, during a severe snowstorm in January 1983. Many of the entries involve local station [=K83FC=], the logo of which is used for the series logo.