Go watch the original Brandon Works series first.







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Yes, this is a web-series. It was filmed from 2021 to 2023, and didn't actually take place in the late 2000s. This video contains my own thoughts on the series and shouldn't be taken as the end-all-be-all bible (lol) of all things Brandon Works
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☆ 1)  Thinking about it now, I shouldn't have glossed over the "SpawnLocation" symbol being plastered around the house. Especially with the sentences talking about a "next life" at the latest points in the series, the symbol's "respawn" meaning comes into play.

☆ 2)  At about 28:33, I call Ozolog "Brandon" by accident, and "please forgive me" is actually in the safe chat. Why did Roblox even put that in the safe-chat options

this is quite possibly one of the most disturbing depictions of child abuse i've seen. because its pretty close to how it is in real life. its very easy to overlook signs of child abuse and just pass it off while truly terrible things are happening just beneath the surface. I thankfully have amazing parents but i feel so bad for all the children around the world who dont even have their home as a safe space.

The "FUCK" at the end, you can just tell how mentally destroyed he is after realizing what happened

One of the best aspects of Brandon Works is how realistically grounded it all is.

There's no otherworldly beings, no sentient world-ending parasite, or killer animatronics.

Just a story about a guy and how he tries to find out just what has happened to his online friend.

what everyone is neglecting to mention is how ozolog is essentially an unreliable narrator. he can't really handle whats going on with his friend or even understand what's going on beyond "my friend went missing and he had some really weird stuff in his place". seeing it through the lens of a kid who can't entirely grasp the implications until later is so refreshing in terms of horror web series in general tbh, you don't see much of this at all. props to whoever worked on this

edit: just reached the end, amazing.

It’s surreal to see Ozolog’s change throughout the videos. He goes from a kid who doesn’t notice anything wrong to someone who develops narcissistic traits and tries to dig deep in Brandon’s situation.

Some cults have hierarchies based on loyalty and levels of indoctrination so each "raise" would mean rising through those ranks. This would also explain why he says he "got to the high level for next life with the last raise" meaning this is what the cult promises, it's a suicide cult where you are promised a better life afterwards depending on how loyal you are.

It took me so long to make sure that this is just an ARG - it's just.. too well-made. The way Ozo slowly changes, and the way he reacts after realizing his friend is dead. I can't even express how much it hit my heart, just the way it's so realistic. No ghosts or paranormal stuff, no extreme things, just child abuse and.. a cult. I thought this video wouldn't even make me sad, when in reality the story progressions literally brought me to tears.

oh my god.
during the finale, when brandon puts ozologs response under "feeling good/playing video games" genuinely made me so sad. brandon was so naive and innocent he assumed brandon was feeling happy, like when they used to be together as kids, as if brandon also had never let go of ozo and their memories, thats actually so heartbreaking.

This series reminded me of one of my old online friends I knew as a young child. It was around ten years ago, and we met through Animal Crossing New Leaf. We played all the time together and became extremely close. Eventually she told me she was having issues with her current living situation. Apparently her father was in prison and her mother was on her deathbed due to cancer. At some point she was adopted by her aunt, and everything was going well. However, one day she went offline for the last time. I had no idea why. Everything seemed to be going fine in her life, yet she just went missing. I spent hours trying to figure out what could have happened, with no success.

One day, around a year after she had gone offline, suddenly I saw her come online again on my 3DS friends list. However, her Mii and name were quickly changed to be completely different. It turned into what appeared to be a young boy. He only played Mario Kart 7, until eventually even he went offline for the last time.

I've had a lot of time to think about what happened. My best guess was her 3DS was either lost or sold to a used game store, and the young boy who replaced her got her 3DS. I still sometimes wonder what happened to her. It honestly really hurt seeing someone who I was such close friends with completely disappear like that. I believe it was the main cause of my depression, which I'm still battling to this day.

Layla, if somehow you've ended up here and you're reading this for some reason, I hope you're doing well.

Another sad thing about this ARG is the fact that Roblox was probably the only place for Brandon to make friends and interact with other people outside of his abusive family

it's horrifying what cults like these can do to a man, not to mention a child

the last video on that account always gets me dude its fucking soul crushing

One thing that really sticks out to me is that Ozolog's final message  of realisation and grief is a cuss word. Something that brandon has been showed to never allow people to say. It is also something that wouldn't have been in Ozolog's vocabulary when they used to play with brandon all the time.

A tragic reminder of how far brandon and ozo have grown apart..

What honestly stuck with me in this ARG wasn't even the cult Brandon was a part of but more the descent Ozo goes through. In the videos just before the end, I couldn't help but think to myself "you poor child" with how possessive and obviously paranoid Ozo had become at that point, likely to the overall detriment of his life. And to have this likely years long obsession all be for nothing too was surprisingly emotional.

Something I noticed is that Ozo gets more and more confused and obsessed with finding out what happened to Brandon as time goes on. This started from a "lets remember some old memories I have" to "what happened to brandon, when will I meet him"

31:55 the unanchored parts being fixed and anchored can mean something, i might be wrong but, he started fixing and updating his map prior to his deаth, which remembers me of a phrase: "a star always shine brighter before it explodes" basically, people with su1cid4l thoughts act happy and better before they end their own lives, i think that the unanchored parts simbolized how his life was falling apart, and how it was a mess, and the anchored parts were an warning...

it's incredibly depressing how the first thing ozolog tries to do with the brandon NPC is to express how real bradons death upsets him only for it to be revealed that there's only generic replies,he was searching for some conformation that brandon knew that in some miniscule way what was happening to him was wrong as he prepared for his death

I know it's all fiction but Ozolog's final typed message feels so genuine and I feel so bad that he thought Brandon was still alive, no matter how bad his attitude became towards his friends

For me the worst part is thinking about what Ozo had to do after the "fuck".
Dude needed to check on that website to finally know what happened whit his friend, found about the cult or group and then decided to censor it and upload the video. Maybe as a warning to other people to not "fall for it". The dot and "no words" show how much this affected him.