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Markiplier guards a gate in "Stroke-on-Trent," then the torches arrive

Evenin' Shift starts as paperwork in a broad British accent, with docked pay and a roadside gift shop, before something gathers beyond the booth's blinds.

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Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 761,783 views.

SECURITY BOOTH SIMULATOR | Evenin' Shift

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0:00Markiplier opens Evenin' Shift and starts reading the dialogue in an exaggerated British accent.
1:06His boss calls to brief him on the shift and on who may pass the gate.
2:20Day 1 pays $40, spent at a roadside shop on a brooch and an egg pendulum.
5:30He admits Joan Meddleton after missing an instruction, and his pay is docked.
12:30Playing with the booth's blinds, he notices ominous silhouettes gathering outside.
15:06Hooded figures with torches, led by Richard Head, demand entry; what Mark does comes at 16:02.

Markiplier has spent a good part of his career in security booths. His 2014 Five Nights at Freddy's video, in which he sat through a night shift at a haunted pizzeria, is still among the most watched on his channel. Evenin' Shift gives him another booth, a gate to a wealthy neighborhood and, from the first line, a broad British accent.

The game is a short indie horror simulator set in a version of England where a missing-person poster comes from the police of "Stroke-on-Trent" and the local councillor is called Richard Head. A boss on the phone tells the guard whom to let in. When he is told off, Mark's answer sets the tone: "I don't apologize to anybody! I'm doing the best I can, just like you are!"

For most of the week the job is paperwork. He lets Joan Meddleton through after missing an instruction and loses pay for it, turns away an unauthorized visitor, waves in an inspector, and spends his $40 day's wage at a roadside shop on a brooch, an egg pendulum and, later, a bobblehead for the booth. Around the twelve-minute mark, silhouettes start gathering beyond the blinds. On the fifth day, hooded figures with torches are at the gate, and what Mark decides to do about them sets off the finale.

The video drew about 760,000 views in its first twelve hours. In the comments, one viewer cheerfully admits to watching Mark play a guard for the fiftieth time, a real night-shift guard recognizes how angry people get when asked for ID, and British viewers confirm that "on your bike" does mean "leave." Theater fans have also spotted the number in the guard's name, Jack-24601.

It lands in a busy horror stretch for the channel, a day after the first part of REANIMAL, which Mark bills as the spiritual successor to Little Nightmares. His own verdict at the end of the shift is about the craft: "What a cool game. What a well put together game."

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What viewers say

yes i'll watch mark be some sort of guard for the 50th time, and yes I'll enjoy it
@dronix6624See it on YouTube
I do night shift security and the way people get all mad when you need to verify who they are is so real 😆
@mantiscore90See it on YouTube
"on your bike" is a very British way of saying "leave", so yes mark you are correct
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As a theatre kid, Jack-24601 activated me like a sleeper agent.
@weaponizedtomato1920See it on YouTube
Imagine if Freddy Fazbear pulls up in one of those cars.
@JlipperSee it on YouTube
This is Mark's casting call for Hot Fuzz 2.
@the_zensSee it on YouTube
Them: British Mark can’t hurt you
British Mark:
@Ash_Simp123See it on YouTube
We ALL are evenin' our shifts to this one
@prO_OrangeSee it on YouTube
"I feel like Ethan" that was diabolically funny.
@SecretNinja007See it on YouTube
Jack 24601 you say. Bet you stole some bread 😂
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