Revisiting Minecraft's Darkest ARG: Don't Look At The Moon

its so much easier to see from the outside

I love how realistic the unnamed friend is, like if my friend was like, “Imma go out in the forest to look for a rabbit, wanna come?” I might come.

I still unironically love how this went from horror ARG to a man going to therapy over the moon in Minecraft

This actually reminded me of a friend of mine who got obsessed with a mathematical equation. I dont remember what it was off the top of my head but I remember getting a week of really insane and progressively wild messages as he was having panic attacks every time he recognized the number out in every day life. Then he got hit by a car and was in a coma for a month. They were about to pull the plug on him when his brain started showing signs of activity again. When he finally woke up, he had no clue what any of us were talking about regarding the mat thing and he's been totally normal ever since.

This was one of the best, most intricate metaphors for addiction I've ever seen!

The fact that you can go on the moon in the April fools update of Minecraft with moon cows is just crazy

“Don’t look at the moon” The hermits in hermitcraft season 8: doesnt sleep for a while because the moon is getting progressively bigger

Damn what a story, this felt so surreal. Im glad it had a happy ending and that It reminded us of how scary addiction Is.

That's the thing I love about ARGs. People make them so believable that sometimes idk if what's going on in them is real or fake. It's very well made! Especially with the king being now 19 going on 20. Not bad at all

I visited that place. They got lots of cheese. But seriously, this sounds almost exactly like what happened to a friend who developed schizophrenia. Ended up moving out to rural Idaho to live off the land. A farmer found him starving and cold in his fields. Now he lives in a group home, gets the care he needs, and seems more or less content with his life.

I never had to battle any kind of drug addiction, but I did develop a form of psychotic delusions of grandeur when I was about 14, and I can relate to Legend so bad here. I actually had similar delusions about aliens communicating with me and watching me, and it slowly became an obsession. I slowly started losing myself in a lot of ways and began to drift away from the people in my life. I behaved and thought in a very similar way to Legend as I slowly began to spiral as my obsession with these delusions got worse and worse. The thing with these kinds of delusions is that, no matter what, they always feel extremely real, like your mind is hardwired to believe it. It can slowly become your whole world, your reality, and if your reality is just all in your head, what do you even do with yourself? Even after I partially realized that my delusions where all in my head, they still FELT real. I had the KNOWLEDGE that they were fake, but it was hard to actively, emotionally BELIEVE it. Getting help was one of the most terrifying things I'd ever done, but I eventually got it. But I still vividly remember the feelings, the obsessiveness of it all. That's why I can easily empathize with Legend in this ARG. It's impossibly hard to get out of that mindset alone, and you need so much support to do it. Even though it would be clear to everyone else that the moon stuff wasn't real, it always feels so obviously true to the one trapped in the delusion.

3:15 ah yes the scariest things you can encounter in Minecraft: Ghosts, Herobrine, Aliens, and femboys

they need to add "Dont stare at the moon" as a splash text

Holy hell the ARG turning out to be all about addiction is not something I expected

My favourite thing about this is that there is little to no supernatural occurrences. It was the story of a man who wanted answer and lost everything trying to find them, and after realizing what he’s done, is still willing to fix his life. That’s a fantastic story to me. It encapsulates the horror of insanity and the human nature of doing anything possible to find answers to their questions.

As soon as you mentioned the pills I knew they had to have played part in his madness; there is no way an ungoogleable pill that he was taking wasn't doing anything to his mental health. Combined with the implications of the wiki, I can confindently say that this is some really smart symbolism and awareness stuff or that this was a very well thought out ARG. Props to Legendfinder, he was The Legend.

Honestly I can't even tell if this is an ARG anymore it's such a good story

Definitely an accurate representation of how it is for a person to endure the psychological effects of both addiction and schizophrenia. Even though an ARG, hit close to home on this one.

I actually had a similar independant situation, where I for 3 years, thought/hallucinated that the moon at some points expanded, after I stared at it for some time, at each instance. I grew an irrational paranoia and phobia towards the moon. It went away after I started to fear a much more rational thing, black holes

This ARG is actually incredible because it's such an unexpected twist, yet the theme is something that almost every single one of us has had experience with, addiction. Addiction is something that consistently affects our day to day lives and as you said, many may not even realize they are. From illegal substances to adult entertainment, from gambling to video games, from technology to high speeds, almost anything and everything can be an addiction and almost every single one of us have or have had an addiction to something at some point. The fact this ARG plays into that while showing what it does to your life and your relationships while also encouraging those that suffer to get help and affirming that they are a victim in this is both genius and incredible. Sometimes all we need is that one person to reach out and give us the push to get that help we need, a luxury that a surprising ammount of addicts unfortunately don't have. This is hands down one of the best ARGs ever, I have such an utmost respect to this guy for creating this and sending such a strong and beautiful message along with it.