"Let's just talk about this, sonnymom."
I don't know if any of this is going to get through to anyone. If it does, it's probably because they wanted it to, in which case, I'm really sorry. Maybe they just don't even care; maybe it doesn't matter because there's nothing we can do.
Burgrr Entries is a multi-chapter creepypasta by Bogleech originally published to the defunct website burgrr.com, beginning in 2013. It's a first person account of how one man was bewildered to discover a supernatural fast food chain that seemed to emerge from another dimension and had a mind-altering, deadly effect on humanity. Despite the hopelessness of the situation, he follows one bizarre creature caused by the invasion, and into the surreal, horrific origin point for Burgrr.
Can be read here
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Tropes demonstrated:
- Anthropomorphic Food: The protagonist confronts a humanoid hamburger being, and finds the notion as uncanny and creepy as such a being would be if contronted by a person in real life.
- Apocalyptic Log: Humanity will gradually be destroyed by Burgrr unless there is a massive change, but people unaffected by its brainwashing who could offer resistance seem vanishingly rare as far as the protagonist can tell. So the journal is more about the protagonist trying to maintain their sanity than to get the word out.
- Black Comedy: The outlook for humanity in the story is bleak, but the nature of it so bizarre all the reader can do is chuckle. Even the protagonist snarks about it when describing situations of mortal danger.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Whatever force is behind Burgrr seems to be so alien that it's hard to tell if its acting out of malice. While its actions are overriding people's free will and killing them, it's hard to tell what the motive is, if there is one. When the protagonist crosses over into their world, the entities he confronts are initially willing to deal amicably with him (though this is potentially them being Faux Affably Evil). There's also no observable sense of hierarchy to the aliens and little sense of rhyme or reason to what the aliens have to do with each other.
- Downer Ending: The protagonist succumbs to the same brainwashed behavior patterns everyone else has, as shown by him enjoying Burgrr-altered food to a point where he likes eating a steak he found in an incongruent place because it screams. Not just Downer Ending, but downer the hatch, as it were.
- Egg Folk: Eating enough Burgrr food turns people into these.
- Elective Broken Language: Because whatever forces that function behind Burgrr are so dissimilar to humans, their attempts at slogans and other communication include nonsense statements like "IT CAN DREAM A GREAT FLAVOR!" or the caption text in the thumbnail image.
- Hope Spot: Late in the story the protagonist has his first violent confrontation with entities that seem associated with Burgrr and is able to kill them with a shovel with relative ease. It gives him confidence that Burgrr will be beatable, and that he'll be a hero with a significant role to play in besting them. Then he confronts something that seems much less vulnerable to a shovel. Then It Got Worse.
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Squick: Early in the story Burgrr causes people to ravenously eat or even fight over food that normally would be considered revolting. It only gets worse from there. Many readers have commented that the story put them off meat for awhile. - The Stoic: The protagonist doesn't seem to particularly care about humanity succumbing to a bizarre alien influence, so much as just feel detached curiosity that he investigates. This could more be just feeling jaded from an inability described early in the story to get any authorities or other people in general to even acknowledge the bizarreness of Burgrr.
