Shortly after the launch of Youtube in 2005, a mysterious and unsettling video was uploaded to the site. It featured a man, eating soup, in what appeared to be a form of torture carried out by people in masks. The video became a series that sparked a lot of controversy. In this episode Rasha and Yvette are joined by Brit Prawat to ask – Was Blank Room Soup a hoax, or the precursor to something very real and very sinister?
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WEB/SOCIAL MEDIA/MESSAGE BOARDS
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- Design history of YouTube.com. (website).
- Blank Room Soup 4 (YouTube video.)
- Freaky soup guy. (YouTube video).
- Blank Room Soup. (website).
- SuperHorrorBro. (YouTube profile).