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Focusing on titles such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Slender: The Eight Pages, and Five Nights at Freddy’s, the study connects horror tropes and gameplay mechanics with persona narration practices. 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The games are strongly focused on horror tropes including jump scares and defenceless protagonists, which lend them to displays of overemphasised emotional reactions by YouTubers, who use them to build their online personas in a certain way. This paper retraces the evolution of the relationship between horror games and YouTube personas, with attention to in-game characters and gameplay mechanics on the one hand and the practices of prominent YouTube personas on the other. It will show how the horror game genre and related media, including “Let’s play” videos, animated fanvids, and“creepypasta” stories have influenced prominent YouTuber personas and resulted in some changes in the common processes of persona formation on the platform.  \nKEY WORDS  \nSurvival Horror; Video Game; YouTube; Creepypasta; Fanvid; Let’s Play  \nINTRODUCTION  \nMarshall & Barbour (2015, p. 7) argue that “Game culture consciously moves the individual into a zone of production and constitution of public identity”. Similarly, scholars have studied – with different foci and levels of analysis – the relationships between gamers and avatars in digital worlds or in tabletop games by using the concept of “persona”(McMahan 2003; Waskul & Lust 2004; Isbister 2006; Frank 2012) . Often, these scholars were concerned with online videogames such as World of Warcraft (Filiciak 2003; Milik 2017) or famous video game icons like Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider series (McMahan 2008). The list can be extended by including those scholars who have studied similar issues yet without relying on the concept of persona (such as Nephew 2006; Lebowitz & Klug 2011; Burn 2013; Papale and Fazio 2018) . With some exceptions (such as Milik 2017; Werning 2017), the notion of persona appears vague (Zagal and Deterding 2018), due to the complexity of its conceptual origin (Marshall et al. 2019) . Moreover, the relationship between YouTubers or streamers and video games has been sometimes analysed in performative terms (Glas 2015; Newman 2016; Nguyen 2016; Burwell and Miller 2016) or included into broader analyses of online personas and micro-celebrities (Cocker and Cronin 2017). Nonetheless, ample space is still available for investigating the construction of YouTubers’ and streamers’ personas in relation to the video games they play.  \nEven the most followed YouTubers remain micro-celebrities with micro-publics:  \nPersonas can tap into a potentially massive audience and can feature tens,  \nhundreds, thousands and even millions of individual followers, who are all  \nnodes in a massively personal network. Micro-publics are micro, not in terms  \nof scale, but with regards to the nature of the network that is regularly and  \nprivately updated by a central identity. (Moore et al. 2017)  \nMicro-celebrities are still celebrities, and an important object of analysis for studies about personas:  \n…how we read celebrity from the position of Persona Studies is that celebrity  \nrepresents a powerfully visible exemplification of persona: celebrities are  \npublic presentations ofthe self and they inhabit the active negotiation of the  \nindividual defined and reconfigured as social phenomenon. (Marshall &  \nBarbour 2015, p. 9)  \nGaming YouTubers are among the most followed micro-celebrities on the platform and, therefore, it is useful to study the evolution of their online personas with particular attention to the evolution of their personas’ narrations (Holler and Klepper 2013) diachronically and in three different types of YouTube video categories: the “Let’s play”, animated fanvids, and“creepypa","cbCaitI4T2Qg8tQJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitI4T2Qg8tQJ","pdf",258198,15,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Persona and public identity in game culture\n## Micro-celebrities and persona studies\n## YouTube video categories linked to survival horror\n## Diachronic change in authenticity perception\n# Research approach","[{\"question\":\"What relationship does the paper examine between survival horror games and YouTube personas?\",\"answer\":\"It retraces how horror games and related media influence YouTubers’ persona narration, including changes in common persona-formation processes on the platform.\"},{\"question\":\"Which survival horror games are highlighted as examples?\",\"answer\":\"The paper mentions Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Slender: The Eight Pages, and Five Nights at Freddy’s as prominent titles used for discussion.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the study categorize the relevant YouTube video types?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on three YouTube categories featuring survival horror: “Let’s play” videos, animated fanvids, and “creepypasta” stories.\"}]","EVOLUTION OF THE YOUTUBE PERSONAS RELATED TO SURVIVAL HORROR GAMES | PDF",38]