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Collinlock16 started a new Minecraft survival world and it's EXTREMELY haunted. Honestly, he's beginning to find it annoying. Here are some clips.
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The Collinlock16 continuity, or "Minecraft ARGs but", is a series of Alternate Reality Game parody videos by YouTuber Oneshef, with a simple premise: What if creepy things were happening in someone's Minecraft game, but the protagonist was... different?

It begins with "Minecraft ARG but the protagonist is tired", starring the titular Collinlock16 as he begrudgingly puts up with impostors, red skies, a portal to an abandoned facility, and other bizarre occurrences in his singleplayer world. Currently, the series continues after that with:

  • MINECRAFT CREEPYPASTA: Gridworld
  • [REUPLOAD] ZanderX400's Herobrine Sighting EXPOSED
  • Minecraft ARG but the protagonist is tired 2
  • Wacky Footage of a Minecraft Player Who Went Missing
  • Minecraft ARG but the main character has gun mods
  • Weird Video on Minecraft Gameband
  • Minecraft ARGs but they call Kevin
  • Minecraft Ransomware Edition
  • Minecraft ARG but the "protagonist" is fatigued
  • Minecraft ARG but the protagonist is a speedrunner


Minecraft ARG but the protagonist is obsessed with TV Tropes:

  • Action Girl: Vitriolic_Red is the first girl to be shown in the series, and the first character shown to thoroughly kick an entity's ass. As opposed to the other characters shown before But the main character has gun mods, who either avoid or get killed by the entities, Vitriolic_Red actively hunts down the entity haunting her world with a shotgun and manages to kill it.
  • A Day in the Limelight: "Minecraft ARG but the "protagonist" is fatigued" focuses on the fake Collinlock16 interacting with the other entities.
  • Allegorical Character: A rather bizarre, In-Universe example: in "Minecraft ARGs but they call Kevin," Kevin says that the second entity was "either a world eater or metaphor for nostalgia," implying that metaphors in this setting are actually capable becoming autonomous beings in their own right and tangibly affecting reality (or at least virtual worlds).
  • April Fools' Day: For April Fools 2025, an episode was uploaded that focuses on the fake Collinlock16.
  • Art Shift: The series frequently goes into hand-drawn animated sequences, sometimes with different aesthetics like one where the characters are outlines drawn on newspaper clippings.
  • Batman Gambit: Collin tricks Collinlock19, a clone of Collin trying to copy him, into falling down a hole by simply saying he wants to jump down.
  • Chekhov's Gag: During the third case of "Minecraft ARGs but they call Kevin", Kevin calls for some offscreen grinding, and his footage cuts from him having nothing but dirt, wood, cobblestone, and gifted iron armor to full enchanted diamond gear. While it comes across as a joke referencing a meme about Let's Players, it turns out he also used this offscreen grinding time to set up a redstone trap in Casey's Cave.
  • Cruel Twist Ending: The ENTIRETY of Minecraft ARG but the protagonist is a speedrunner's ending is this. See Downer Ending below.
  • Devil Complex: The first case of "Minecraft ARGs but they call Kevin", fittingly titled "Digital Satan", features an entity warping the '666' seed with hellish imagery and violently screaming "I AM SATAN" when it appears in person. Kevin's post-action report concludes it was probably just an AI that gained sentience by accident.
  • The Devil Is a Loser: The entities Vitriolic_Red has to deal with spend most of the fight dealing pitiful amounts of damage- unable to bypass her diamond armor. One even falls off the cliff near her house and is unable to get back up, after which she drops down there herself and kills it in about 10 seconds.
  • Downer Ending: But the protagonist is a speedrunner ends with Assimilation being killed by the admins after being betrayed by Andre, who fully committed to his programmed goal of completing the run at all costs, rendering their hard work All for Nothing.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Kevin, who also goes by "Big Kevin", is the original creator of "[REUPLOAD] ZanderX400's Herobrine Sighting EXPOSED". The description credits one BigKVids as the original uploader before his channel was deleted. He makes a proper debut in "Minecraft ARGs but they call Kevin", as does Souler, the entity seen behind the fake Herobrine at the very end of the former video, and Kevin confirms he's BigKVids by noting that he recognizes Souler.
  • Enemy Mine: Assimilation starts out Minecraft ARG but the protagonist is a speedrunner attacking Andre, but when they both escape Andre's simulation and realize they're in danger of being killed by the admin, they team up to defeat him.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: Since Andre is more interested in speedrunning the game than dealing with whatever's going on with Gridworld, he speeds past any and all signs and text, forcing the viewer to go through the video frame by frame in order to read them.
  • Just Ignore It: The entities in Collin's world (Hungry in particular) seem unable to actually affect Collin unless he actively engages with them, which he rarely chooses to do unless they force him. They can still make modifications to his world, though.
  • Lampshade Hanging: In "but they call Kevin", Kevin goes out of his way to point out how the Casey's Cave creepypasta was concerned with the old Xbox 360 version of Minecraft and had to do with Casey removing the player's downloaded skin, "killing" the character their ingame avatar appeared to be and making it impossible to use that skin again; but now the events of the creepypasta seem to be happening on a PC server and Casey is stealing accounts.
  • Loose Canon: "Minecraft Ransomware Edition" is this, according to the video description. It fits into the canon of the Collinlock16 continuity, but it has no bearing on the main story, nor do you need to see anything that came before it to have context.
  • Lovecraft Lite: The entities and anomalies are genuinely as dangerous as those found in more "serious" ARGs and will kill you or worse if you're not careful, but if you know what you're doing, bring a sufficient amount of firepower, or simply just don't give a shit, you can not only survive but potentially kill them.
  • Meaningful Background Event: Or rather, it's the lack of an event that's meaningful. At the end of "but the protagonist is a speedrunner", Andre and Assimilation appear back in the Overworld after Andre enters the exit portal and triggers the game's credits...and there's no rain, even though they were in Collin's world, which is always raining, before warping to the End. This is Five-Second Foreshadowing that they are back in Gridworld's domain before Admins arrive and kill Assimilation.
  • Mundane Made Awesome: Kevin makes an impromptu DDoS attack look cool by virtue of using it to thwart Souler in an instant just when the situation seems to be getting dire.
  • No-Sell: Kevin's game client includes a Data Buffer and Rollback (DBAR) function that detects when his game will crash and forcibly ignores the data that causes the crash, letting him pull this off on any entity that tries to cause a crash as a display of its power.
  • Number of the Beast: The first case of "But They Call Kevin" involves a player having used the seed 666 to see what would happen. What happens is his world gets hijacked by a rogue AI with a Devil Complex. Kevin even lampshades how he was really just tempting fate with that one.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The third case of "but they call Kevin" has an animated sequence of Kevin, his client, and the server owner approaching an actual ghost that's haunting the server, taking people's accounts and burying them. The sequence fades to black, and gameplay fades back in with the ghost lying in the memetic Family Guy death pose while the server owner investigates the pit where it left those it had taken.
  • Red Sky, Take Warning: One time, Collin emerges from his shed he built to store the blocks he found in Gridworld only to find the sky completely red. Given the amount of entities in his world, it's likely that something bad was about to happen.
  • Scooby-Dooby Doors: "but they call Kevin" has one during the third case, with Kevin, his client Xx_LetsGoGambling_xX, and the ghostly "Casey" entity from the Casey's Cave creepypasta. There are no actual doors, just holes in cave walls.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here!:
    • At one point, Collin finds a pretty bad copy of himself. When it starts walking towards him, possibly about to Kill and Replace him, Collin instantly closes Minecraft.
    • When Andre gets ambushed by a ton of Assimilations, he just closes the world and opens up a new one.
  • Shoo Out the Clowns: Morbius, the comedic narrator of Wacky Footage of a Minecraft Player Who Went Missing, stops editing or commentating during the final part of the video since he's already gotten it to be long enough. This also happens to be the climax of the video as well as the scariest part, so if he was still around for it, it would've made the ending have a lot less of an impact.
  • Shout-Out: The style and presentation of the slideshow interludes in "but they call Kevin", especially the "Special Presentation!" intro, is an unmistakable reference to SKY//BOX (2022).
  • Soul Eating: Kevin runs into a classic creepypasta/ARG take on this trope in the final case of "but they call Kevin". According to the subtitles, its name is Souler, natch.
  • Spoofy-Doo: The entire third case of "but they call Kevin" turns out to be one. They think the Casey's Cave creepypasta, originally about the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, has somehow manifested in a PC server, only for it to turn out "Casey" was the server owner in disguise. There's even a Scooby-Dooby Doors sequence and a You Meddling Kids line! After all that, it's subverted with the revelation that there really was a manifestation of the ghostly Casey.
  • Unspoken Plan Guarantee: The third case in "but they call Kevin" seems to be handled by Kevin and his client blindly walking into Casey's Cave without any actual plan of action, then thinking twice when they get near Casey and running for the exit. As the ghost draws near, Kevin activates a sticky piston trap that was set up during his "offscreen grinding" mentioned earlier, dropping Casey into an inescapable glass chamber suspended over a pit of lava, with another pair of sticky pistons ready to remove the floor of the chamber and drop it into the pit at a moment's notice.
  • Unsportsmanlike Gloating: After Kevin, Rebar and Gambling kill Casey, Rebar starts teabagging her corpse and shouting "You're BAAAAD! You're BAAAAD!" after he finishes searching the pit with all her victims in it.
  • Weirdness Magnet: For some reason, Collin's world is a hotbed for freaky monsters and digital anomalies.
  • Wham Line: In Minecraft ARG but the protagonist is a speedrunner, a terminal after Andre escapes the simulation reveals that he's an AI being trained by the same people running Gridworld instead of the normal player he first appeared to be. The end of the video also reveals that this wasn't a public livestream at all and that we've actually been watching a recording made by the Gridworld admins of Andre's escape attempt. This also reveals that the chat members in the top left corner were also AI.

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