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It's been a minute lol, so here's a word vomit update on what I've been up to!
I've been obsessing over The Magnus Archives to the point that I did in fact restart it and am taking written notes. Although I'm just re reading the transcripts of episodes I already watched because I process writing better than audio. It's been great! Once I get through the 80 episodes I already watched, I'm gonna listen to a few episodes all the way through then go and read and take notes on the transcripts. I know all the lore is probably on the Wiki already, but I wanna try and figure some of it out on my own lol. I like making things harder for myself :']
I am however realizing just how addicted to TikTok I am. I got involved with that whole Children of the Waning Stars "cult" thing, because I thought it had some good ARG potential and I thought it would be cool to build on that. Then it all blew up in everyone's faces. It started out with people taking jokes/roleplay as something serious, then some people got offended, then a ton of rumors got absolutely out of control with no proof. It became a huge mess and as a (now) adult with a job and somewhat a life I just didn't wanna deal with it. Especially because people are sending death threats to people over emojis in their usernames. I think people took it to seriously. Especially because a lot of former "members" are now calling themselves cult survivors even though nothing really happened. How does this relate to my TikTok addiction though? Well, after all that I told myself I was gonna take a break for a few days until I could change my user name back and hopefully ts would all blow over. But I just couldn't help myself. I kept going back to it and getting involved. I didn't say anything bad, just clearing up some of the rumors, but still. The plan was to do/say NOTHING and not even touch the app. After I change my user name back (Possibly adding some TMA related stuff to my bio and/or user) I'm gonna lock the app for awhile. Hopefully it'll do me some good.
Moving on from the depressing stuff, I've also been rewatching some of my favorite web series'. I watched Don't Hug Me I'm Scared again. The different art styles used in some episodes is super cool and I love to see it. Seeing the behind the scenes stuff for the show is also hilarious. I'm so glad they got an actual show, even if they had to tone it down a bit, and I can't wait for the next season! I also loved Patricia Taxxons video, The Autistic Horror Of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (season 1), that analyzes season 1 DHMIS through an autistic lens when i first watched it and I found that it made me love the series even more. I also rewatched Salad Fingers. I was happily surprised that Salad Fingers has more episodes, I originally watched it freshman year of high school and didn't realize the creator was actively working on it. 1-2 new episodes come out every year and this years episode is due to come out soon according to the twitter page :]. I also LOVE when you can see how an artist improves throughout their series, and Salad Fingers is one of those series'. It's so cool to see the animation become more fluid and the art style get subtly more detailed! I also kinda forgot just how unsettling it was, but I love it. Definitely feel so bad for Salad Fingers though, poor guy :[. Probably gonna rewatch Llamas With Hats again next. If anyone has any web series suggestions PLEASE SHARE!
Anyways, that's what has been up with me.
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kiko!
I was rarely on TikTok over the summer, what the heck does any of this mean? I keep up with the drama on TikTok on YouTube commentary channels when I feel like going back but I never?? idk idk what this means
Basically a girl on TikTok called Gigi Jarvis made a post saying "I wanna start a cult with my followers" as a joke. I bunch of people joined and she would make videos addressing the "cult" with everyone coming up with stuff to do like what to name the "cult" and an emoji combo for user names. I "joined" around day 3 when she posted the emoji combo vid. Then she introduced The Entity and wanted people to come up with a cool backstory for it and that's when things went to shit. People were posting edits and doing fake rituals with candle's and crystals FOR THE BIT! Everyone was pretty transparent about it not being real! Like I said, to me it looked like ARG potential and it seemed like a fun internet world building project. But then a bunch of people started freaking out and saying it was a real cult, even though it wasn't. There were allegations of people sacrificing animals and hurting themselves (Like cutting the emoji's into their skin) but none of it was able to be proven. All the "proof" and "evidence" people were spreading was from ragebait accounts. The only thing that held any backing was that some actual cult survivors got offended. So, because of the backlash from offended cult survivors, Gigi changed it to a community. But then people freaked out and accused her of covering up the fact that it was a cult, even though it wasn't and she changed it because people were offended. But yeah, people were getting death threats for having the combo in their name and people were blocking others just because of an emoji combo. There was even talk about mass reporting people for it. It was crazy.
by Crimson_CreepXX; ; Report
Wow. Like no hate to you but I don’t understand why people glorify cults like that :,) it’s not a silly fun thing to mock, people die from those things. Sigh idk glad you saw the faults in it though
by kiko!; ; Report
Yeah, as soon as actual cult survivor started speaking up about how it was offensive I was like "Oh, ok. Not cool then." It just pmo that so many people were freaking out and spreading misinfo around and acting like it was fr a cult when it was just a creative project for most of us. I don't get why people couldn't just stick with "Hey this is insensitive" and had to go around creating mass panic and blow things way out of proportion instead. I just didn't wanna engage with any of it anymore.
by Crimson_CreepXX; ; Report