1. History
     Speculation  

2. Content

3. Creator of the 4chan version of the game

4. References

5. External links

History

In an interview with Kotaku, the channel's owner claims to have downloaded the game from a Tor hidden service after receiving a tip from an anonymous subscriber. The subscriber in turn claims to have found the link via a deep web internet forum, from a user only known as "ZK".^[7] Initially, some followers were skeptical of the game, fearing it may contain gore or child pornography (as both are common staples of media traded throughout the deep web). However, the owner of Obscure Horror Corner shared that, so far in his playthroughs, the game had not contained any such material.^[8]{{Unreliable source|date=January 2017}}

Following the Kotaku interview, the subreddit "/r/sadsatan" was formed on the website Reddit to discuss the game, quickly realising the .onion address provided by Obscure Horror Corner contained invalid characters. 3 days later, another interview with the Obscure Horror Corner owner appeared on Kotaku, claiming that the link was purposefully given in error since the game itself did in fact contain such graphic material and the Obscure Horror Corner channel owner did not want to be responsible for disseminating such material. In an update to the Kotaku article, Patricia Hernandez states:

Minutes before the update, a new version of the game was posted to 4chan by someone claiming to be ZK, claiming that Obscure Horror Corner had not been showing their viewers the "true" Sad Satan.^[9]{{Unreliable source|date=January 2017}} Members of the 4chan community downloaded this version of the game and attempted to play it. Some users complained that their computers began running sluggishly, and a few even reported that their computers became completely unresponsive while trying to run the game. A few users even reported that their computer would not turn on anymore after running this version of the game.^[9]{{Unreliable source|date=January 2017}} One Reddit user attempted to play the game from a Live USB instead of their computer's main hard drive. Later, when they tried to boot into their computer as normal, the computer failed to load.^[10]{{Unreliable source|date=January 2017}} This version, dubbed the "clone" by most of the /r/sadsatan community, contained images of violent gore and some child pornography, some of which was accessible right from the Title Screen of the game. A version of the game with the pornography removed, often called the "clean" version was created by Redditors and subsequently redistributed in hopes that people who went out to download the game would download it instead of the "clone", which contained the graphic imagery.

Speculation

Sad Satan was the last game covered by Obscure Horror Corner, and since then, the YouTube channel was abandoned for unknown reasons. There has been speculation that the game was in fact created by the owner of the Obscure Horror Corner in an effort to increase viewer subscription count, and that the Deep Web story was a complete fabrication to give the whole account more intrigue.

^[11] Some believe that Obscure Horror Corner created the clone as well in an attempt to lend credibility to the claim that there was actually gore and child pornography in the game. This is an obvious concern since the content is in fact illegal.

^[12]{{Unreliable source|date=January 2017}}

It is also possible that Sad Satan was not created by the owner of Obscure Horror Corner, and that in truth, the owner of the channel decided to go into hiding because of all the controversy after the malware version of Sad Satan was released.

Content

The original game posted by Obscure Horror Corner features walking down monochromatic corridors while various audio samples are played and looped over each other. Audio in the game leans heavily on recordings of interviews with various murderers, such as Charles Manson. The game also depends heavily on distorted or reversed audio of such interviews or musical clips, such as "Wo Ai Beijing Tiananmen", played in the beginning. Reversed clips from the Swedish Rhapsody numbers station can also be heard. While the player controls their character through the hallways, images may intermittently display, taking up the entire screen and preventing the player from progressing any further until the image automatically closes a few seconds later. Most of the images seem to reference child abuse, especially people indicted in Operation Yewtree, such as images of Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris. Other images revolve around crime, and include people convicted or accused of murder, such as Japanese murderer Tsutomu Miyazaki, photographs of Lady Justice statues, and political figures such as former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Images of accident victims and murder victims are also shown, including the aftermath of a person struck by a truck, and a beheading. The only other "characters" in the game are children who simply stand in one place and do not move or interact with the player at all. In the final video posted by Obscure Horror Corner, one of these children does begin to follow the player, causing "contact damage". Since the player has no means of self-defense or any ability to heal damage, the player will inevitably die at this point in the game.

Creator of the 4chan version of the game

Around the month of January, Reddit user named "GageDaRemixer" reported in the subreddit of "r/sadsatan" that he [https://www.reddit.com/r/sadsatan/comments/a9ry5g/about_scarebere_and_his_mysterious_sad_sad_satan/ found] out to who was the creator of the game. According to him, he dug up research saying that he discovered a hidden person (under the name of "ScarebereZK") inside some posts trolling other users by giving out clues on whether he developed the original version of the game or not. His account was made before his clone was developed on the paranormal board forums of 4chan. The user tried discovering more to who this person was, only finding a YouTube account under the name, "Scarebere" with a video called, "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqc8RScoWdk Sad Sad Satan]". The video that Jamie supposedly claimed in the Kotaku article said that it was unrelated but it connects to some murder mysteries and other dark meanings just like in the game. Discovering this person in some people lookup search engines, it is said that the person who created the YouTube profile is a 32-year old man named Gary Graves. Adding on, he used to live in the city of Lubbock, Texas; after searching his name and the following location on Google, many articles show that Graves got into prison around the year of 2017 for distributing alleged child pornography photos on his mobile device. It has been said that after his girlfriend saw it, she called the police and Graves' trial was set to August at the time.

The mystery of the YouTube user, "Obscure Horror Corner" still remains unsolved, but in some posts [https://www.reddit.com/r/sadsatan/comments/6j0jwd/jamie_from_ohc_could_or_is_the_creator_of_sad/ determine] that the clone version had an error output log stuffed in the data files revealing the owner's name of the PC as "Jamie", as if he added more details to this version before uploading four-part gameplay recordings or they were probably the same people in order to do a publicity stunt.

References

External links

• [https://www.reddit.com/r/sadsatan Sad Satan on Reddit]
• Scarebere's YouTube
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqc8RScoWdk Sad Sad Satan]

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