History WebVideo / AlanTutorial

* DropTheHammer: Alan is delivered a box full of small wooden mallets in "ARM tutorial".

[[caption-width-right:350:[[CatchPhrase Hey YouTube!]]]]

''alantutorial'' is a [[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]] SurrealHorror[-/-]SurrealHumor[[note]](at first)[[/note]] WebVideo series about an [[AmbiguousDisorder ambiguously mentally-handicapped]] man named Alan who is seemingly obsessed with creating tutorials, and loves teaching his viewers how to accomplish various things. His tutorials vary wildly in topic, from things like creating paper airplanes, [[YouHaveResearchedBreathing eating chips]], and finding wood. As the series progresses, the viewer begins to realize that [[DisguisedHorrorStory something is very wrong]].

* CatchPhrase: "Hey [=YouTube=]!", "Hey tutorialheads!", "My name is Alantutorial!" and later on a simple "tutorial". Also, "Don't forget to comment and subscribe", usually with some sort of variation, like Alan promising that you can "like it" (the video) or that, if you do subscribe, you can add a picture of yourself to his Bluetooth page.

* DaylightHorror: All of the [[spoiler:tutorials that take place in the woods besides "how to change"]], and Alan seems to have [[spoiler:been kidnapped during the day]].

** Red is also sporadically introduced here and there, namely in the points in a few tutorials where [[SurpriseCreepy he suddenly starts bleeding for no apparent reason]]. As it would be later explored following [[spoiler:his induction into the white room]], red eventually comes to represent antagonistic forces trying to challenge or exploit his naïveté, appearing when something is seemingly trying to force him into doing tutorials against his individual will.

* SurpriseCreepy: The series begins with a bumbling, tutorial-obsessed man making tutorials and asking for likes and subscriptions in what seems to be a parody of typical [=YouTube=] tutorials. Things go downhill when Alan is locked out of his room, creating tutorials that make even less sense than before, and [[spoiler:seems to live as a recluse in the woods before being kidnapped and stuck into a small white room by an unknown person or people. Alan's room gets progressively filthier and freakier (and he [[CompanionCube creates a man out of dollars to keep him company]]) until he is apparently abandoned, the lights go out, and he breaks out of the white room by smashing through a wall with the money man in tow]].

''alantutorial'' is a [[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]] SurrealHorror[-/-]SurrealHumor[[note]](at first)[[/note]] WebVideo series about an [[AmbiguousDisorder ambiguously mentally-handicapped]] man named Alan who is seemingly obsessed with creating tutorials, and loves teaching his viewers how to accomplish various things. His tutorials vary wildly in topic, from things like creating paper airplanes, [[YouHaveResearchedBreathing eating chips]], and finding wood. As the series progresses, the viewer begins to realize that [[SurpriseCreepy something is very wrong]].

* DropTheHammer: Alan is delivered a box full of small wooden mallets in ARM tutorial.

** Things really seem bad in ARM tutorial, in which Alan really shows off the [[spoiler:state of the white room. The place is generally filthy with unidentifiable debris; piss bottles litter the floors, a few of which are knocked over; scribbles cover the walls; and where the blue chair was painted, there seems to be a splatter of feces in its place.]] Additionally, Alan [[spoiler:goes silent for a few moments as he sidetracks into a brief rampage with a hammer, smacking everything in sight before he is seemingly pacified by the money man. He then pans the camera around the white room as though he's contemplating what he's done]].

** Things really seem bad in ARM tutorial, in which Alan really shows off the [[spoiler:state of the white room. The place is generally filthy with unidentifiable debris; piss bottles litter the floors, a few of which are knocked over; scribbles cover the walls; and where the blue chair was painted, there seems to be a splatter of feces in its place.]] Additionally, Alan [[spoiler:goes silent for a few moments as he detracts into a brief rampage with a hammer, smacking everything in sight before he is seemingly pacified by the money man. He then pans the camera around the white room as though he's contemplating what he's done]].

* TalkativeLoon: Alan is typically very talkative, particularly as his videos progress, eager to guide viewers through his tutorials. He also becomes harder and harder to follow as the series progresses.

* SurpriseCreepy: The series begins with a bumbling, tutorial-obsessed man making tutorials and asking for likes and subscriptions in what seems to be a parody of typical [=YouTube=] tutorials. Things go downhill when Alan is locked out of his room, creating tutorials that make even less sense than before, and [[spoiler:seems to live in recluse in the woods before being kidnapped and stuck into a small white room by an unknown person or people. Alan's room gets progressively filthier and freakier (and he [[CompanionCube creates a man out of dollars to keep him company]]) until he is apparently abandoned, the lights go out, and he breaks out of the white room by smashing through a wall with the money man in tow]].

* NothingIsScarier: Alan's [=YouTube=] and Twitter avatars are both mostly black with subtle, blurry, and indecipherable shapes.

* HellIsThatNoise: The sounds heard while Alan is [[spoiler:trapped in the white room]] are particularly ominous, though they reach their peak in spook factor when Alan is [[spoiler:initially kidnapped and in the back of the truck in his disk tutorial]].

* TheGhost: Almost every single person except for Alan and his [[CompanionCube Companion Cubes]] end up being this. In fact, there is only one other person ever seen in any of Alan's videos, and they are only ever seen once. However, when they are seen, Alan appears to be [[HiddenDepths afraid of them]].

* TheGhost: Almost every single person except for Alan and his [[CompanionCube Companion Cubes]] end up being this. In fact, there is only one other person ever seen in any of Alan's videos, and they are only ever seen once.
** However, when they are seen, Alan appears to be [[HiddenDepths afraid of them]].

* DrivenToSuicide: Thankfully averted, but early in his [=YouTube=] career, Alan stated on Twitter that if he didn't gain more followers, he would [[https://twitter.com/alantutorial/status/247354838483075072 "just die"]].