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-'''''The Monument Mythos''''' is a [[YouTube]] [[analog horror]] webseries created by Alex Casanas under the pseudonyms Mister Manticore<ref name="Heath-2024" /> and Alexkansas.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wehs |first1=Garet |title=Analog horror: The bizarre and the unsettling |url=https://georgiastatesignal.com/analog-horror-the-bizarre-and-the-unsettling/ |website=[[The Signal (college newspaper)|The Signal]] |access-date=April 13, 2024 |date=February 22, 2022 |type=Student newspaper}}</ref> It is based on multiple different [[alternate histories]] of the United states, that include [[James Dean]] serving as President and [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] avoiding his assassination. The episodes are in the [[found footage (film technique)|found footage]] and [[mockumentary]] format and revolve around American national monuments being depicted in relation to unusual incidents, involving fictional conspiracy theory narratives, such as disappearances of immigrants near the Statue of Liberty and a mysterious infection affecting individuals near Mount Rushmore.<ref name="Heath-2024">{{cite web |last=Heath |first=David |date=January 24, 2023 |title=12 Scariest Analog Horror Series |url=https://gamerant.com/best-analog-horror-series/ |access-date=January 26, 2023 |website=[[Screen Rant|Game Rant]] |publisher=}}</ref><ref name="Saab-2024">{{Cite web |last=Saab |first=Hannah |last2=Cabezas |first2=Nikolas |date=October 24, 2022 |title=12 Creepiest Analog Horror Series on YouTube |url=https://collider.com/best-creepiest-analog-horror-youtube-series-channels/ |access-date=December 7, 2023 |website=Collider |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Kok-2024">{{Cite web |last=Kok |first=Nestor |date=January 21, 2022 |title=Ghosts in the Machine: The Star-Spangled Monsters of Mister Manticore’s "The Monument Mythos" |url=https://fnewsmagazine.com/2022/01/ghosts-in-the-machine-the-star-spangled-monsters-of-mister-manticores-the-monument-mythos/ |access-date=March 20, 2024 |website=F Newsmagazine |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Armstrong |first1=Jenna Claire |title=What Is Monument Mythos? |url=https://dctribalmedia.com/5346/entertainment/what-is-monument-mythos/ |website=DC Tribal Media |access-date=April 13, 2024 |date=March 3, 2022 |type=Student newspaper}}</ref> [[Lovecraftian]] motifs are also present.<ref name="Heath-2024" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Szczesniak |first1=Alicia |title=A look into analog horror |url=https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2022/01/analog-horror-internet-reddit-series-episodes |website=[[The Post (Ohio student newspaper)|The Post]] |publisher=[[Ohio University]] |access-date=13 April 2024 |date=January 13, 2022 |type=Student newspaper}}</ref> Three seasons were produced, each consisting of 11 episodes.<ref name="Heath-2024" /> The series ran from August 26, 2020,<ref group="video" name="Casanas-2020a">{{cite AV media |people=Casanas, Alex |date=August 26, 2020 |title=CORNERFOLK {{!}} The Monument Mythos |type=Video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzSMHFFRi8I |access-date=April 14, 2024 |publisher=MISTER MANTICORE |via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> to April 30, 2023.<ref group="video" name="Casanas-2023a">{{cite AV media |people=Casanas, Alex |date=April 30, 2023 |title=FREEDOMFOREVER {{!}} The Monument Mythos |type=Video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP4A4dIUJzo |access-date=April 14, 2024 |publisher=MISTER MANTICORE |via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>
-A spin-off show, ''The Nixonverse'', is set in the timeline in which [[Richard Nixon]] was elected as president instead. It ran from May 14<ref group="video" name="Casanas-2022a">{{cite AV media |people=Casanas, Alex |date=May 14, 2022 |title=THE LAST SON OF ALCATRAZ {{!}} The Nixonverse |type=Video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdcCQmMEKtk |access-date=April 14, 2024 |publisher=MISTER MANTICORE |via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> to August 13, 2022.<ref group="video" name="Casanas-2022b">{{cite AV media |people=Casanas, Alex |date=August 14, 2022 |title=THE ED DWIGHT PARADOX {{!}} The Nixonverse |type=Video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmi3ENEOMXQ |access-date=April 14, 2024 |publisher=MISTER MANTICORE |via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> A compilation film, ''The Absolute Nixonverse'', which added new sections and removed certain sections from the original series, was released on October 1, 2023, on the Dwight Comics YouTube channel.<ref group="video" name="Casanas-2023b">{{cite AV media |people=Casanas, Alex |date=October 1, 2023 |title=THE ABSOLUTE NIXONVERSE |type=Video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUbsgWa2CXY |access-date=April 14, 2024 |publisher=Dwight Comics |via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>
-Casanas, at the time a [[Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts]] student,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Northerner |first1=Kenneth |title=FSU-based YouTuber ALEXKANSAS creates online content |url=https://www.fsunews.com/story/entertainment/2022/01/18/fsu-based-youtuber-alexkansas-creates-online-content/6548277001/ |website=[[FSView & Florida Flambeau]] |access-date=April 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706020525/https://www.fsunews.com/story/entertainment/2022/01/18/fsu-based-youtuber-alexkansas-creates-online-content/6548277001/ |archive-date=July 6, 2022 |date=January 18, 2022 |url-status=dead |type=Student newspaper}}</ref> had written the series in its entirety before it was released, although he began to make substantial rewrites beginning in May 2021.<ref name="Kok-2024" /> Original music for the series was composed by Andrew Wilson, a childhood friend of Casanas.<ref name="Kok-2024" /> The series' production included [[voice acting]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Galante |first1=Gerardo |title=¿Qué es el Analog Horror? Descubre el nuevo terror de Internet |trans-title=What is analog horror? Discover the new terror of the Internet |url=https://elgeneracionalpost.com/cultura/cine/2022/0417/50125/que-es-el-analog-horror-descubre-el-nuevo-terror-de-internet.html |website=El Generacional |access-date=13 April 2024 |language=es |date=17 April 2022 |type=Student newspaper}}</ref>
-Nestor Kok of ''[[F Newsmagazine]]'' described the series in positive terms in 2022, writing: "There is nary an analog horror series, let alone a YouTube web series of any genre, that comes close to matching the scope and ambition of "The Monument Mythos"."<ref name="Kok-2024" /> According to Joe Hoeffner of ''[[Collider (website)|Collider]]'' in 2023, the series was among the most popular entries into the genre, alongside ''[[Local 58]]'', ''[[Gemini Home Entertainment]]'', and ''[[The Mandela Catalogue]]'', all of which have "increasingly elaborate backstories and mythologies, usually parceled out one cryptic piece at a time"; however, he singled out ''The Monument Mythos'' as being particularly engaging for its narrative puzzles. At the same time he commented that the approach risks becoming clichéd.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hoeffner |first1=Joe |title=How 'Skinamarink' Uses - and Expands Upon - the Tropes of Analog Horror |url=https://collider.com/skinamarink-analog-horror/ |website=Collider |access-date=13 April 2024 |language=en |date=14 January 2023}}</ref> Tilly Lawton of ''Pocket Tactics'' classified the series as a type of an [[alternate reality game]], albeit one with a "[narrative] that [doesn't] alter regardless of player participation" (using the novel term "unfiction").<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lawton |first1=Tilly |title=A beginner’s guide to the world of ARGs and Unfiction |url=https://www.pockettactics.com/args-for-beginners |website=Pocket Tactics |access-date=13 April 2024 |date=30 December 2022}}</ref> According to Casanas in 2022, a community of followers was gathering in the series' [[Discord]] server, where various thematic events were organized.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Northerner |first1=Kenneth |title=Catching up with student YouTuber Alex Casanas |url=https://www.fsunews.com/story/life/2022/02/13/catching-up-student-youtuber-alex-casanas/6766408001/ |website=[[FSView & Florida Flambeau]] |access-date=April 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517131953/https://www.fsunews.com/story/life/2022/02/13/catching-up-student-youtuber-alex-casanas/6766408001/ |archive-date=May 17, 2022 |date=February 13, 2022 |url-status=dead |type=Student newspaper}}</ref>
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