I like to imagine that the Prince himself didn't literally create the vita carnis species out of thin air, but rather just introduced them to earth from seeds, spores, or polyps.

The cheesy crawl penne is the scariest thing in this series. Didn't wash the cutting board, didn't mix in the meat with the pasta, didn't even melt the fucking cheese and left everything as like one of those sediment layer diagrams you'd see in a science textbook. I think even without the Host spores that are clearly in that flavor enhancer that this food would give you some kind of booty demon.
Edit: I had to pause on 39:30 because I was laughing so goddamn hard at the one(1) slice of white bread being coated in the powder. It feels like part of a Tim and Eric skit.

I have another more minor theory: trimmings are failed mimics. Both trimmings and mimics have similar early stages, just that a trimming is rounder and more docile. What if by taking care of a trimming you activate it’s metamorphosis stage and make it turn into a full blown mimic? Or what if instead of treating it like a good trimming you mistreat it and fail to feed it, making it go from plump ball to malnourished skinned creature with a spiteful hatred of humanity.

I swear, I wouldn't be caught dead with a noisy pet in a world where we have an advanced predator species.

The Species Anomaly Report is the most terrifying. That video makes the Harversters even more of a deadly threat than a Mimic. The authorities didn't deal with the Harvester, instead they put up danger signs and simply told the public to "pay better attention"

The closet mimic scene is something I didn't need in my life. It's so well done and fear inducing

33:48 Are we not just gonna talk about how mimics are swift enough to kill him completely SILENT?

My thought is that the critters are what became Vita Carnis. If the Prince wanted to help humans it wouldn’t make sense for them to create creatures that would directly place them in danger. My current theory is that the critters’ environment was being taken over by humans, which is why some of the more terrifying meats target humans.

My idea for why the mimic defense info is different is probably because the government doesn't want to make the population seem helpless. By saying you're able to fight back in a way allows there to be less panic and anxiety over "your only hope is to buy time and defend yourself or run", regardless of if that information is actually usable or not.

It also is a way of making the population think that mimics aren't really that big a problem and that the government has everything under control.

Imagen if you will, if that's what a single trimming sounds like, and a pet one at that, the wild trimmings being a pest because of "excessive noise" from the documentary is an understatement

Fun fact: the non-documentary videos are done in the same order as the documentary. Crawl>Trimming>Mimic>etc.
The last video on the channel was about the Monoliths, so the next video should be about the Singularity.

I don’t know if I missed you mentioning this but I’m pretty sure the flavor enhancer tape purposefully lines up with the Host video— the flavor enhancer is probably made of its spores

"They don't reproduce like you and I" Because you and I don't reproduce, we're all maidenless...

something i think you missed is that on the Canada map, that island that's so important actually doesn't exist irl, there's no big island on the centre of Hudson bay, also there's a theory going around that may help understand why stuff like the mimics and hosts exists, and that's that on said island the critters lived and these critters are not human and are asking for help against humans

I like to think the little round dudes- the ones you keep as pets- are going to come in and play a bigger part then we realize- either

1. They’re going to protect their owners and the screaming will drive away it’s harmful kin

Or

2. They will eventually grow into something like a mimic and given how many people have these little dudes, will cause a type of mass murder

I like seeing someone who doesn’t take these lost media series’s as incredibly seriously as most do. “Henceforth, you shall be known as Angelica” was hilarious to me

Hey Nasxeen!

At 38:14, you ask what the squiggly line in the y-axis of the graph is. That's called a break! It's when you want to skip a certain portion of the y-axis. This condenses the graph and makes it easier to read. For example, lets say a graph shows measurements in increments of 10. Therefore, the y-axis would increase by 10 each time you go to a new line (10,20,30,40,...etc.). With a break, you can skip to larger numbers (10, (break), 500, 510, 520, 530). This is usually done when the line on the graph increases at a rate that is real fast. It makes the sudden increase more readable.

It makes sense those critters are humans. At 34:45, I think when the critter says "The forest struggles to provide for us critters and we are facing disaster" They are referencing the Great depression, the 'Forest' being the global economy that recently crashed in 1929.

My headcanon (which will probably get proven wrong but oh well) on mimics is that they're actually fragile as crap. Not like, glass statue fragile, but closer to humans than bears in terms of ability to survive punishment.
They are very lanky and skinny, and all of the normal-ish-sized Vita Carnis species are either explicitly noted to kind of suck at life, or have vines/psychic powers to snipe other beings from afar. Their hunting behaviour is also very suspect; they creep up on individual humans, apparently don't even bother if humans show up in groups, or leave if their designated prey gets backup or isn't sufficiently cornered. If they're truly weapon-proof, clever and don't need food too often, it would make more sense for them to just suddenly snatch up dark-alleyway-lurkers every so often, or hell, just walk into a crowd, grab the nearest rando, and leave.
My take is that these videos are at least somewhat influenced by the settings cultists, for whom mimics (thanks to their intelligence and humanoid appearance) would probably be a highly respected Carnis type. The "weapons are useless" tapes are older and meant to prevent people from using weapons on them (cuz they'd fold like a twig), and the later addendum is an attempt to grant them some safety after their lack of weapon-immunity has become apparent (alleged weak points making people aim for specific spots, making it more likely that the mimic notices that they're in danger and leaves, and making it less likely that people would attack currently not-aggressive mimics as readily).

I like my interpretation in large parts because it would explain the inconsistency in mimic portrayals between entries, give them a small extra spice of character, and automatically make every single death we see them cause all the more tragic; cuz we know that characters were just a couple different choices away from safety. I guess the currently canon(?) version of mimics whole dealio of more or less just toying with their victims can be used for something too, but is also like. Aggressively common in horror.

Edit: So in retrospect obviously; I wrote this before watching the whole video, f. I like your timeline, despite how incompatible with my headcanon it is, whoops!

I'd like to point out a few things:
- The red triangle in a black circle symbol: It's seen on the "flavor enhancer", the last page of the storybook, and as a medal in the military person photograph. Now, it might be the "flag" of the alien prince that the cult reused after seeing it, or a representation of the singularity, both exlpaining why the symbol is on the last storybook page.
- I think the reason why the second video about mimics gives contradictory informations is either that the cult infiltrating society wants people to fall victim to the mimics, or even that the fully human-like mimics mentioned in the documentary were able to get in positions of power and use it to spread false informations about how to defend from mimics, and be sure that their kin can more easily secure prey.