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"Hello guys and gals, welcome back to another episode of TV Tropes."

A web series hosted by a man by the name of Mutahar Anasnote . True to its name, the channel primarily focuses on video games, though a popular (now former) feature of the show centered around the reading of Video Game related Creepypastas. Usually, Mutahar would first do a summary of the creepypasta in subject (he'd do it word-for-word if it was short enough, or if the experience required it, such as a fanfic). Then he'd give his opinion on it and explain whether it can exist or not, an obvious cue if he liked it it whether or not it was labeled as a Shitpasta. While he originally read a lot of creepypastas primarily from the Creepypasta Wiki, he eventually started to read almost exclusively from his own, with the occasional trollpasta thrown in for variety, with friends. Mutahar has also talked about cancelled games.

The channel has shifted features and focus over the years due to Mutahar's shifting interests and him wanting to keep the content fresh for both himself and the viewers. He has been exploring the deep web and has talked a lot about malwares too. He has also done videos highlighting problematic parts of YouTube, including (but not limited to) the "ElsaGate" scandal and certain content creators performing contemptible actions. Gaming videos remain prevalent, however. He also occasionally livestreams, and though he now does this exclusively on YouTube, he used to stream on Twitch. Full playthroughs are also now seemingly limited to the streams.

His YouTube channel can be found here, and an entire archive of his older videos can also be found here. There is a SomeOrdinaryGamers Wiki which is host to creepypastas, and ended up being the only place from where he would read creepypastas. His short-lived SomeOrdinaryPodcast was revived in 2021, with fellow youtubers Nux Taku and oompaville as his co-hosts.

Current and former features of the channel:

  • Deep Web Browsing — Mutahar explores The Deep Web and looks at all the bizarre, twisted, and sometimes amusing websites that aren't indexed by web crawlers.
  • Virus Investigations — Mutahar takes a look at a single virus or virus family and explores the payloads and removal methods.
  • Haunted Gaming (former) — This name has been used for both the reading of video-game creepypastas and the playthroughs of games considered scary or unsettling.
  • Nostalgic Web Surfing (former) — Mutahar uses the Wayback Machine to check out the look and feel of various websites from many years ago and see how they have changed over time. For example, in one notable instance, he found out that zelda.com, which is now the official website for Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda games, was formerly a porn site.
  • Shitpastas/Sh*tpastas (former) — This series takes a look at poorly-written creepypastas that were written with serious intent and were trying to be good, but fell short in one way or another.
  • Trollpastas (former) — Mutahar, sometimes with his friends, takes a look at creepypastas that were written solely to make fun of the genre.
  • WTF Gaming (former) — This feature takes a look at the weird side of gaming. Notably, Kuro Oni is on this series despite the fact its demo, Ao Oni 3D, was on Haunted Gaming.note 

    Games Mutahar has done videos on: 

This channel exhibits examples of:

  • Abandoned Info Page: Since he's stopped covering Creepypastas, his entire wiki became this. His character page now reads:
    Note: this wiki, is dead.exe
  • Aborted Arc: Mutahar had began a Let's Play of Five Nights at Freddy's on his channel, but had since expressed disinterest in the series.
  • Author Appeal: Mutahar loves bringing up the infamous goatse shock image whenever he can in his videos.
  • Bait-and-Switch: The Creepypastas "Zorax", "The Man In Red", "The Scariest Video Game Ever", "The Cosmic Destroyer", "Revolution" and "The Murder Triangle" do this.
  • Berserk Button: Mutahar has many:
    • Facebook games and invites.
    • Stability Updates
    • Destiny.
    • DarksydePhil.
    • Jaystation's Etika video
    • Konami.
    • The Emoji Movie
    • Undercooked chicken.
    • The term "Hyper-realistic" in Creepypastas. One can actually chart the evolution of his rage. In the earliest videos, it's not that hated. Over time, he got more and more angry about it, because it kept appearing and kept being shit. In the later creepypasta videos, expect a pause and an annoyed sigh if he has to say the word, and a rant about it when he's done.
    • Basically anything regarding misinformation on network security, computer security, or The Deep Web. He had a field day with a UK government advisory claiming that Discord was a communications platform solely for hackers, and took a stab at Deep Web fearmongering while he was at it, citing a then-recent example of "worse shit" he's found on the clear web. It wasn't until a later video when he elaborates on the "worse shit" - hate murders, kartel wars, and kids doing the floss. He also adds that he's not too fond of people who mirror these videos onto a dark web like Tor with the intent to smear dark webs as a whole.
    • He hates online games that skimp on network security and/or working anti-cheat, especially for big budget games like Grand Theft Auto Online and Rainbow Six Siege.
  • Bilingual Bonus: He sometimes starts some videos in Hindi.
  • Captain Obvious:
    • From Zelda II: The Lost Level:
    Mutahar: However, the inclusion of an Indian burial ground really had really intrigued me. And I searched up "Green tree cemetery" to see if something existed. I searched it up and it actually exists in Montgomery, PA in the United States. note 
    • This bit from Sonic X: Jungle Trap Revenge, which causes Mutahar and his friends to abruptly burst into laughter midway through reading the second sentence:
    "When she boarded a train, the train announcer said "Next stop: Grieving Park". For some reason, "Grieving Park" happens to be a sad park."
  • Chain Game:
    • The episode "Slap Happy" contains this in the creepypasta.
    • An interesting example in "QUEST" occurs where the eponymous game would download itself on one's computer after the previous player finishes it. It doesn't harm the player, but starts to emotionally disturb them with personal questions after the Arc Words "Are you feeling lonely?"
  • Catchphrase:
    • "Hello guys and gals and welcome to another episode of x" is how he tends to start his videos off. And, at the end, "This is me, Mutahar, and I am out."
    • "(Now,) ladies and gentlemen..." is also something that he says a lot, mostly preceding something that he finds exceptionally stupid.
    • "But Muta!" When he's pre-emptively shooting down an argument in the comments section relating to the topic at hand before anyone has the chance to pick a fight with him in the comments.
  • Christmas Episode: Played the Christmas-themed pseudo-sequel to the Megaman Sprite Game in 2015.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: Mutahar tends to overuse the word "fuck" in Let's Plays or Creepypasta reviews. One prime example of his Cluster F-Bombs can be found in "Lost Trollsodes - Charlie Brown's First Kiss", after riffing on how the story gives conflicting information at one point:
    Mutahar: It's fucking Zelda, now; we got two different fucking timelines, alright, so pick your fucking poison: do you want to take the Wind Waker route, or do you want the fucking Majora's Mask crap?
  • Couch Gag: The description of the video usually has a reminder-like notice, having to do with the creepypasta. For example, in "The Legend of Zelda Bootleg" it reads "make sure to bring extra heart containers!".
  • Crapsaccharine World: His outlook on the "clear web" is this. Despite not sharing The Deep Web's infamy as a Wretched Hive, Mutahar argues that there is "worse shit" on the clear web, that is more easily accessible by virtue of the platform. In contrast, the Urban Legends surrounding the Deep Web (specifically the Dark Web) are just that: scary, but mostly unfounded.
  • Creepy Doll: Present in "Pokemon Dead Channel", "Sonic.exe" and "Tails Doll Curse" among others. Mutahar isn't fond of this trope, as he finds one popping at the end of the story to kill the immersion.
  • Crossover: In his reading of Godzilla NES Mutahar is joined by Mullet Mike of the sticky paddle!
    • His Trollpasta readings feature him and fellow Youtubers "Imaru Setsu", "Aceagon", and Kyle "Extreme Elixer". They also joined him for the reading of My Immortal. They also read cringy product reviews and explored the Miiverse cringe.
  • Cult: Mutahar stumbled upon a relatively benevolent one dedicated to him.
  • Defictionalizationinvoked: In most of his early creepypasta videos, he'll take time to go over how "real" the story can be. Though this has long since abandoned for saving more time for reviewing the story instead, especially when he had spread out beyond just gaming creepypastas. If the creepypasta has a corresponding fan game, he often plays that as well.
  • Driven to Suicide: How some of the creepypastas end. Present in Squidward's Suicide, suicidemouse.avi, "Just a 'Nightmare'", and "Never Stop Running".
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: When he first started to read creepypastas, he would only give a summary instead of reading the full thing. He eventually started to read each word for word, for the most part.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus:
    • In the Polybius review, when Mutahar says that players saw things appear in the corner of their eyes, a picture quickly appears.
    • In the version 4.0 of the Sonic.exe Let's Play, when Mutahar says "because I love you guys", text quickly appears.
  • Foreign-Language Tirade: Mutahar's been known to fall back on Hindi when he's particularly upset, such as facing the blatant obviousness of certain malware tricks people still fell for.
    Mutahar: I'm switching languages already, I'm getting a little tilted...
  • Foreshadowing:
    • From "Noodles"
    Mutahar: It reminds me of another creepypasta called Pokemon Dead Channel. Which I'll be doing soon.
    • And what do you know, he does this in the next episode.
    • Many "Mindfucks" tend to drop subtle hints to the end reveal.
  • Formula-Breaking Episode: Sometimes Mutahar will do non-gaming creepypastas every once in a while. The first episode to do this was on the infamous Squidward's Suicide creepypasta.
  • Game-Breaking Bug: In Ray: Part 2, Mutahar encounters a glitch during the shootout minigame in which an enemy freezes in place after being killed and doesn't disappear. Despite this, he still takes damage and eventually dies, forcing him to skip the minigame.
  • Genre Savvy:
    • In "The Legend of Zelda: The Dark Rites", the protagonist turns off the game at a certain point when he realizes that Failure Is the Only Option. Mutahar praises this direction.
    • In "Xenophilia", the protagonist is very genre savvy, which has the opposite effect on Mutahar.
  • "Groundhog Day" Loop: "Just a 'Nightmare'" and "The Strangest Security Tape I've Ever Seen".
  • I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: Deconstruction to horrifying extents in "Revolution", including literal eggs and ham. Granted, because it IS revealed to be about the Trope Namer.
  • Interrupted Suicide: Belief in Oneself. Word of God for "I Won't Leave You" confirmed that the reason why Lonliness was at the lake was to drown himself before Tyrin showed up.
  • Large Ham:
    • Mutahar displays many instances of this. Don't undercook his chicken if you want to avoid a rant!
    • Zahid gives a heart-wrenching performance in episode 4 of Minecraft Mondays when danmick101 spills lava in the bedroom:
    Zahid: Daniel, you're burning the beds, man, the beds! The beds!
    • His performance in the next scene is even more over the top:
    Zahid: Oh Daniel! The saddest song in the world is playing right now and I have an arrow in my knee!
  • Live Episode: Nostalgic Web Surfing and some of the Lets Plays are done live on Twitch TV. Most of the Let's Plays and all of the Nostalgia Web Surfing episodes are archived on YouTube later.
  • Leet Speak: In "Zelda II The Lost Level", he brings up that the original sticker was torn off, and replaced with "ZE3LD@ TW0 [2]" written in black marker. This translates to "Zelda Two (2)".
  • Mind Screw:
    • This happens to Mutahar when he finds out about Hamburger University in Nostalgic Web surfing episode 2.
  • Sometimes he reads creepypastas that are seemingly original stories, until it is revealed to actually be about a particular character or game. He calls this breed of creepypastas "mindfucks", and his wiki continues to do the same.
  • "Deep Web Exploration", as expected, has him come across a lot of bizarre websites and pages with no explanation behind them.
  • The Namesake: In "My Reddit Has Been Taken Over By Insane People...", Mutahar explains that the reason why "SomeOrdinaryGamers" is plural is because it's meant to reflect everyone involved with the channel, not just Mutahar himself but his viewership.
  • Narm Charm:invoked In "YouTube Chain Letters Still Creep Me Out..." (which is a lie), Mutahar admits the Chain Letters of early Youtube were wholesome in retrospect. While they were Nightmare Retardant even at the time, he nonetheless considers them representative of the time when the platform (specifically its comments section) was still innocent, before Flame Wars became a regular occurrence.
  • Network Decay: Admits in "Everyone's Channel is 'Dying'..." that he's shifted the content of his channel from Creepypasta readings and deep web videos to technology-based commentaries a la ReviewTechUSA, and that he's been "happier because of it".
  • Nothing Is Scarier:
    • The videos showcased in the "Deep Web Exploration" series. Many of them lack sound, and almost none of them have any solid explanation to them; considering what goes on in The Deep Web, this leaves Mutahar to expect the worst.
    • The supposed ROM hack of Pokemon Fire Red from the deep web (actually an .exe file). It has no Random Encounters, no Non-Player Characters, and (until the end) no music. Unlike other creepypasta games, it has no backstory and very little buildup before the player stumbles into the graveyard of dead girls. While the game itself is considered sloppily made even for a creepypasta game, it's lack of backstory leaves viewers wondering what it could possibly be used for. The kanji in the graveyard, which reads "victims", implies that the "game" is in some way related to a child murderer.
  • Oh Crap! There Are Creepypastas Of Us...: His Reading of hauntedgaming.exe, but this is mostly subverted as he is amused and laughing along the entire video.
  • Pet-Peeve Trope: Mutahar has a number of creepypasta cliches as pet peeves.
    • A creepypasta starting out with "I used to love (game name) as a kid!" or similar.
    • Buying a game off of eBay. He'll avert this when its a classic game, as stores no longer take used copies of older games.
    • Gorn, averted if it adds to the creepiness of the story.
    • Creepy Doll appearing at the end.
    • An old man giving the main character a game.
    • The original sticker torn off and replaced with a piece of tape with something written on it (of course, this only applies to cartridge based games).
    • "Hyperrealistic", coming to the point where Mutahar will give an exhausted sigh at any mention of the word in a story he is reading.
  • Police Are Useless: "Tails Doll Curse", "Sonic.exe 2" and "Action Man: Mission Extreme".
  • Prison Rape: At the beginning of most "Deep Web Exploration" episodes, a disclaimer warns the viewer to refrain from committing crime on the deep web unless they want to become "Bubba's new cell mate".
  • Profiling: Discussed on a video about emergency alert systems when he start going on a tangent about ICBMs:
    Mutahar: Well, it takes about 30 minutes for an entire missile to fly across the entire world. I didn't really know this because I don't really Google ICBM stuff all the time, that's not really my forte. Because uh... you know, I'm "pigmentally challenged" and uh... if the feds were to raid me and that's what's on my computer search history without a valid reason — that's actually one of the reasons why I'm making this video, just purely for research purposes — yeah, I'd be getting my ass beaten and waterboarded, okay? Not surprisingly.
  • Random Events Plot: The creepypasta about a rough cut of "It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown" has quite a few surreal plot changes, with Charlie Brown's crush on a girl being the only somewhat consistent plot element throughout the story. As Mutahar himself puts it at two separate points:
    Mutahar: What kind of a lost episode is this?
    Mutahar: Come on, man...what is this story about?
  • Running Gag:
    • There are pictures that slide in the top left of the videos sometimes. Some common ones that count as running gags are "seems legit", and "i ♥ cliches"(this gag has died out only reappearing in an occasional episode.) Another recurring joke is "Bootman Bill", from a Call of Duty shitpasta.
    • In the "Deep Web Exploration" series Mutahar advises the viewer not to commit crime, or they may have to meet "Bubba" in prison!
  • Samus Is a Girl?: In his group reading of My Immortal: Professor Mcgonagall.
    Mutahar: I never watched Harry Potter is that a chick character or a guy character?
    Kyle: Wait, what?
    Mutahar: Professor Mcgonagall!
    Kyle: That's a chick.
    Mutahar: ok (continues reading)
  • Self-Deprecation: Mutahar doesn't engage in it often, but he stops in the middle of analyzing a Twitter hack to bash his own attempt at pretending he also got hacked, calling himself a "chubby Indian loser".
  • Screams Like a Little Girl: It takes Mutahar a while to actually see the Slender Man in his video of Slender, but when he finally does...
  • Shout-Out:
    • In "LOST TROLLSODES - Sonic X: Jungle Trap Revenge", Mutahar delivers this line, with the same inflection as Tommy Wiseau's "I did not hit her!" rant from The Room (2003):
    Mutahar: (reading the creepypasta) "We did not know. We did not." (mockingly) We did not take that! We did not film it! We did nawt...
    • Later during the same reading, Mutahar makes a joke about 4Kids' phone lines being filled with complaints about Jackie Chan Adventures' cancellation, and proceeds to talk about how the show was the only good thing from them.
    • In another reference to The Room, at one point during his group reading of "Metal Gear Solid: Solid's Fate..." Mutahar ad-libs "Why, Lisa, why?!".
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Mutahar loves dropping f-bombs during his Let's Plays and rants.
  • Straight Man: The gist of his videos is "what if an ordinary gamer reads creepypastas and explores the Deep Web".
  • Suspiciously Similar Song invoked: From the Sonic.exe Let's Play
    Mutahar: Oh dude! That's the Giygas music from EarthBound 2! Man, I've got a keen ear there!
    • The show itself sometimes uses a remix of the infamous Lavender Town music as background music.
  • Tears of Blood: Considered cliche, but Mutahar doesn't seem to mind it if the story is well-written otherwise.
  • That Came Out Wrong: The first minute or two of Deep Web Browsing 92 has Muta saying "I'm a big fan of nukes"note  before backing up a bit and lampshading the statement by saying he's now probably on an FBI watchlist.
  • Time Machine: Sort of. Mutahar uses The WayBack Machine for nostalgic web surfing.
  • Troll: Anarchist guides in the "Deep Web Exploration" series give advice on how to troll people in various public spaces.
"This is me Mutahar from SomeOrdinaryGamers, and I'm out!"

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