Trivia / Everyman HYBRID

• Acting for Two:
  • As seen in a behind the scenes video uploaded by Evan's girlfriend, Jeff portrays both himself, and the Slender Man in "Finding Fairmount". He's also the "cameramen" that HABIT summons to film everything at various points in the series, at least in the last few videos.
  • Evan Jennings plays both Evan/HABIT and the Rake in the series, which is why the two of them are never seen in the same shot.
• Actor-Inspired Element: Much of Doctor Corenthal's appearance in the series consisted of creative choices Kevin Jennings made up as he was preparing for the role, which included his iconic leather jacket and his "shit-kicking boots". The boys decided to roll with it because it made sense given what Corenthal's role in the story was, and because it looked cool.
• Creator Backlash:
  • Evan Jennings doesn't seem too fond of the early EverymanHYBRID material. While watching Night Mind's explanation of the series, he comments on the quality with this:
    "Jesus Christ. Fuck. Is this what it was? EverymanHYBRID sucks monkey ass!
  • On a more serious note, Evan affirmed on Twitter that he detests the crossover videos with Tribe Twelve, due to series creator Adam Rosner having been outed as a sexual predator years after their release. He further condemned Adam's actions, and stated that he regrets ever working with him.
  • During their first Q&A video on beyondEMH, Jeff and Vincent indicated that they regret involving so much of Can You See the Words in their story, as they realized that it made wrapping up the story as a whole much more difficult than intended. It's telling that Stephanie was killed the minute HABIT showed up, and was never referenced in the series again afterwards.
  • Jeff had also previously stated that he regrets many of the early crossovers in the series, as they were difficult to coordinate and slowed the flow of the story.
• Creator Cameo: Tim Sutton provides the voice of Roger, Princeton!Vinny's friend heard on the tapes in Box 7.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: Vincent mentions in a now-deleted Instagram story that he considers "Jim Thorpe" to be one of his favorite episodes to film, as he and Jeff enjoyed going up to the mountains, and the scenes shot were supposedly very fun to film.
• The Danza: All three main characters (Jeff, Evan, and Vincent) and a few smaller characters are named after their actors. Word of God confirms that they don't share the same last names as their real life counterparts, however. (Evan's character canonically has the last name "Myers".)
• Irony as She Is Cast: "The day the world ended" shows that HABIT has an affinity for Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. Earlier episodes also show that Jeff owns a copy, and seems to have read it thoroughly. Evan Jennings made it clear in the first EMH Q&A that he and Jeff absolutely hate the book (although Vinny loves it).
• Missing Episode:
  • As of 2015, Alex's YouTube channel and all of the videos on it no longer exist. This is because OOG Alex deleted it due to getting a job in the U.S government; he didn't want his employer to believe the videos were a real-life representation of him.
  • On the main channel, "In which I assume the role of a 13 year old MySpace girl" was taken down in 2018 due to a copyright claim from WMG. Previously, the audio was forcibly muted in 2015 due to an earlier claim, before being restored in September 2017. "Next" would eventually be blocked worldwide in July 2019 as well.
• Real-Life Relative:
  • James Corenthal is portrayed by Kevin Jennings, who is Evan Jennings's father in real life.
  • Though it probably doesn't need to be stated (due to the striking resemblance between the two), Alex is Jeff's actual brother. Their parents in the series, as seen in an old family photo and overheard on an answering machine, were also their real parents.
  • While Daniel has no relation to the main trio in the series itself, his actor is Vincent's real-life brother.
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • Stephanie was killed off in "Next", and deliberately not brought up or involved in any future videos posthumously, due to her actress leaving the project sometime after that episode was released.
  • The series finale was planned to take place at the abandoned house seen in "The property", since it was heavily implied to be Dr. Corenthal's home in previous iterations. Unfortunately, the house had been torn down sometime before 2018, so it was relocated to taking place at the tree on the hill instead. The house's absence was actually written into the script, with Doctor Corenthal noting how the Candleverse had "shifted" the area, which results in him calling Vincent straightaway.
• Reality Subtext: The scenes Dr. Corenthal shares with Evan in the final episodes of the series have a lot of familial affection between them, as their actors really are father-and-son in real life.
• Reclusive Artist:
  • When the series was ongoing, the creators initially tried to avoid reaching out to fans to preserve the ARG elements of EverymanHYBRID. After someone found Jeff's OOG Instagram account by accident, however, he decided to expand upon his social media presence to communicate with fans.
  • At first, Evan was the most reclusive of the group when it came to fan interactions, as he shared his character's lack of familiarity with technology in real life, making it difficult for him to communicate with them. He has since come out of this, and is now one of the most social of the HYBRIDs. (Or was, until 2023, when he stepped away from social media.)
  • Like Jeff and Evan, Vincent also once had social media, which he used to talk with fans and share a bit about EMH's creation. From 2019 onwards however, Vincent would completely disappear from the internet for personal reasons. More is detailed on this in Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things.
• Romance on the Set:
  • Jeff and Jessa's actress were actually dating at the time the series began.
  • Vincent's actor also dated the (heard but unseen) actress who played Lexi for a time.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: "In which I assume the role of a 13-year old Myspace girl" is almost impossible to view on the main channel due to the song's use of "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie triggering copyright claims. Some of the other videos that contain music also are often taken down, due to the gratuitous use of Frank Sinatra.
• Throw It In!:
  • Doctor Corenthal's actual appearance in "The Corenthal Connection" was a very last-minute addition, with Evan's dad briefly showing up at the end after finishing work for the day (hence why he's wearing a dapper business suit rather than his usual leather jacket).
  • In "A Summoning", the repetition of the line "Because you're going to die" (which is seemingly spoken by HABIT without using his mouth) was an audio glitch. The boys decided to leave it in, because it added to HABIT's "otherworldly" vibe.
  • The series finale being uploaded exactly at midnight wasn't planned. Jeff was having issues with uploading the video, and it just so happened to go up at that exact time.
• Torch the Franchise and Run: An unusual case in that this doesn't apply to the series itself, but rather the series' that it crossed over with:
  • Can You See the Words was originally an independent project before becoming integrated with EverymanHYBRID's story. After Evan becomes inHABITED in "Next", he kills both Stephanie and her child conceived with Evan, so as to free her actress from having to be involved with EMH as a whole.
  • A similar thing occurs in with MLAnderson0, where HABIT kills Shawn in "GOODBYE", and tortures Michael offscreen, due to Dylan and Austin getting jobs in different parts of the country; this was intended to allow the series to conclude independent of EMH. Unfortunately, Dylan lost the footage of the intended final episode, forcing the creators of EMH to scramble to film a replacement — sans the series' actors — before they vacated the rental property.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The series was originally intended to run for one season, with most of the content filmed over the summer of 2010 (hence why events move much faster in the beginning of the series). This changed when Jeff suggested turning the series into an ARG, giving the audience the potential to unlock several ongoing subplots; at that point, the story became too large to properly film in one year on a small budget.
  • "All good things" (which initially would have taken place at the end of Season 1) was originally to end with Evan/HABIT killing Jeff, Vinnie shooting HABIT immediately afterwards, then Vinnie being forced by Slender Man to swallow/shove the North Star’s knife down his throat (in fulfillment of the passage from the EVERYMAN play about the Guardian "swallow[ing] justice's sword"). It was changed due to bad weather and other hindrances that prevented the creators from pulling this effect off practically.
    • The final shot of the last entry — the main trio, reunited, walking off together — was conceived years in advance. However, the original concept began with a montage of clips showing the boys in happier times, and ended with the trio (sans Corenthal) walking down a street and into the sunset, rather than across the Baldpate field in broad daylight.
  • On his (now deleted) Tumblr, Evan stated that HABIT began as an independent monster concept, unrelated to the series; he decided that it would be better incorporated into EMH.
  • Doctor Corenthal's role in the story was initially much smaller in earlier drafts of the series, which had the boys only ever doing a few webcam-style chats with him on the internet. After Evan's dad got the role however, his role was expanded considerably due to him being capable of appearing in person.
  • Before Corenthal's role was expanded, the creators had approached Robert Englund to portray the Doc. Despite expressing his admiration and support for the series, he politely declined.
    • According to Jeff and Vincent, they had also considered casting a local college instructor in the role. He expressed interest in the project, but it never panned out, due to his eccentric and noncommittal behavior.
  • Evan wanted to use "The Thing that Should Not Be" by Metallica at some point in the series, but he was shot down by Jeff and Vinnie, due to the latter disliking the band, and the former being worried that YouTube would copyright claim the videos, similar to the videos that were taken down for using Frank Sinatra in them.
  • There was another scene filmed for MLAnderson0 where HABIT tortured Michael Andersen after the events of "GOODBYE", in which Michael was being drowned in a bathtub. During the scene, HABIT acted more animalistic than normal, and Michael/Patrick apparently mocked HABIT by telling him that there was no way he would be able to stop Doctor Corenthal. This caused HABIT to go nuts and try to kill Michael instantly. The scene was unfortunately never released, due to Dylan Sindelar (the creator of MLandersen0 and Michael/Patrick's actor) losing the footage.
  • The crossover with Stan Frederick was initially planned to have HABIT appear in it and presumably meet Stan for the first time. Unfortunately, this ended up being scrapped due to creative differences between Evan and Valeria.
  • There were plans for more connections with Tribe Twelve to happen, including HABIT appearing in one of Sebastian Kraus's journal entries (which would've been penned by Evan himself), as well as a scene where HABIT would teach Firebrand how to use his new abilities. This all came crashing down in September 2020, when it was revealed that series creator Adam Rosner was a sexual predator who attempted to groom underage fangirls over the course of the 2010s and sexually assaulted an adult female friend. (However, Jeff has stated that these planned crossovers were written when both series' were young, and likely wouldn't have panned out anyway—especially since EMH concluded in 2018.)
  • An in-universe example: Jeff reveals in "HospitalFire.wav" that while they were planning the series, the guys flirted with using an audio-only podcast format, which was dropped, because a fitness series without video is a bit pointless. This implies that the guys originally planned for nothing but a fitness series, and that the fake Slender Man easter eggs were a last-minute-shits-and-giggles addition to the final version of the series they decided on, since there'd be nearly no way for the Slender Man's presence to be demonstrated in pure audio if he wasn't visually introduced first. You've probably guessed by now that there are audio distortions on the file.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: As of 2023, the three main creators of the series have largely deserted social media and all but sworn off interacting with fans, for a variety of reasons:
  • Due to the popularity of their characters, the three male leads have had to contend with fans drawing graphic artwork^note  of both the sexual and violent varieties of their characters, and incorporating their full names, OOG photos, and personal information for roleplay. In Evan's case, this resulted in RP accounts—some with offensive or NSFW content—showing up when potential employers did background checks. Eventually, Evan cast a Twitter poll to give his character an official last name, in order to differentiate himself from his fictional counterpart. (His followers settled on "Myers".)
    • For these same reasons, Evan ceased live streaming OOG content, and has stated that he will automatically block any account that harasses him or his friends, uses photos of them ^note barring images from the series, or looks suspicious.
      "I understand im a fun internet guy to y'all but im also a *real person* with a life, a pretty busy one, and I [don't] have time to deal with [your] dumb shit. Think how [you'd] feel if a total fucking stranger did to you what y'all have done to me over the years."
  • The creators have also had to deal with enamored fans trying to strongarm their way into a romantic relationship. Vincent deleted or privatized all of his social media accounts circa 2019, after an underage fangirl stalked him online, sending him NSFW photos and claiming that the two of them were "soul mates" (and, after he broke off contact, that he had sexually groomed her). Vince has since stated that he will only be using social media for career-related purposes from now on, and no longer has any desire to allow fans access to his private life.