In 2015, the YouTube channel Obscure Horror Corner published a series of gameplay videos featuring a game called "Sad Satan." The channel owner claimed that a subscriber sent him a link to the game found on a Tor hidden service (the Deep Web). The gameplay was jarring and surreal:
Files like "G5.jpg" in archived zip files of the game often contained these out-of-context, high-contrast photos meant to pop up and startle the player. 3. The Dark Web "Screamers" Sad Satan G5.jpg
Shortly after the videos went viral, internet sleuths on Reddit and 4chan wanted to play the game themselves. Because the original link was dead or hidden, a user on 4chan claimed to have found the "original" clone of the game and posted a download link. In 2015, the YouTube channel Obscure Horror Corner