Hell Is The Same Except Only The Bad Bits

I found an anomalous Fandom wiki that has confused me to my very core and I need to talk about it with SOMEONE or else I will implode

Okay so the wiki is about a ficticious adult comedy show made in GoAnimate called Burngoberrie that "aired" on MTV and Comedy Central; It's the kind of unexplainable thing that children who have had unrestricted internet access from an extremely young age make and it makes me supremely confused.

I found it out from MegaFrog's video on Weird Touhou Wikis and I already knew it was strange just from the video, but just a bit ago someone in a Discord Server I'm in discovered a weird channel made by a kid that reminded me of this, so I decided to check it out, and it is so much weirder than I thought.

Okay so, this "show" has a mishmash of characters from a ton of different other properties (mostly kids' shows) and, of course, Touhou Characters. Mix this with the fact that the plots of the "episodes" of this show include such things as a machine that turns people Gay and Daphne being a Porn Star, and you get perhaps the most bizzare ficticious cross-over show to ever exist.

Strangely enough the way the episodes' plots are summed up in the List of Episodes page is similar to how Wikipedia would do it; This, alongside the clearly not child-friendly things detailed in the episode plots (Like Porn Stars, Sex and 'Cana-syphil-AIDS') leads me to believe someone older, likely a Teenager, made this, which just confuses me more, but that's beside the point.

No, what I wanna talk about here is the pages about Touhou, because they confuse me. First off, they make pages about Touhou Games, except the names are mispelled (or maybe they're changing them on purpose, I'm not sure) and they're using fake cover art they probably made in paint, but that's the least baffling thing here, no, the most baffling thing is the character pages for said games.

For some fucking reason, instead of putting the actual characters of the games in the pages, they put a ton of random characters that have nothing to do with Touhou, and, for some reason, in every page for the characters of the games, Reimu and Marisa are replaced with 'Eleanor Little' and 'Dr. Marisa Kendall' respectively, and I'm extremely confused. Also the Seihou Games are called 'Auntgoberrie' games instead for some reason.

The only character page I have seen which actually contains a Touhou character is the page for the cast of a ficticious game called 'Touhou V.S Burngoberrie,' where you play as, get this, Konngara from Touhou 1, whose page on the wiki contains ship art for some reason.

I am so confused.

I feel like the Hbomberguy plagiarism video has a lot of really good lessons about building an argument. Like, the thesis of the video isn't just "Plagiarism is rife on Youtube", although that point was certainly well made, it was specifically about James Somerton, who isn't mentioned until about halfway through the video. Before then, Hbomb goes through several creators who are already widely discredited as plagiarists, and in each section he introduces concepts that are later incorporated into the final takedown of Somerton, but each section also stands on it's own. Like, he starts with Filip, the game reviewer, which he uses to introduce the format of how he will discuss and expose plagiarists. Specifically, the graphic of displaying the source material while the plagiarist's voice plays, and marking up said source material every time the plagiarist changes some wording slightly. This is the method that Hbomb uses across the entire video. With Illuminaughtii, Hbomb introduces a few major concepts 1) The idea of Insufficient citation. Illuminaughtii "Cites" her sources by putting a plaintext pastebin link in her video descriptions with no indication of how each source was used. Technically, her source is CITED, but not in any relevant or useful way. She has a big list of stuff she read, and a random youtube link in there happens to be the source that she stole 90% of the video from. 2) He introduces the profit motive behind this approach. Putting out a lot of content very quickly is how one builds an audience, and therefore an income, out of making stuff on youtube. Plagiarism of this sort is a way to produce content very quickly and build a following. The Internet Historian section introduces two new concepts:

1) The behavior of an exposed plagiarist, taking down and reuploading videos with minor changes, awkwardly trying to insert credit without admitting guilt. 2) That the plagiarists are stealing not just research, but STYLE. Previous sections go over how the plagiarists are reusing the same words, but this section oozes over how much of the final product's quality was the result of how well the source material was written. TIH didn't just crib the notes from the Mentalfloss article, he created a video heavily dependent on the original author's skill as a writer. When TIH tried his own hand at presenting the same set of facts, it came out much worse. So that when the time comes for the Somerton takedown, Hbomb has already laid the groundwork to bring these concepts back. Somerton takes down and reuploads videos when he's caught, he declares this his video is "based on" work by somebody else without providing proper citation. He's not just stealing research done by somebody else, he's taking their insights and talent as a writer and regurgitating it as his own, and he's doing so to churn out a vast wall of content that he can financially benefit from, and he doesn't need to tell you why this is important, because he's already done so. He already convinced you that Illuminaughtii hiding a line in a pastebin didn't excuse her plagiarism, so you don't need to be told why Somerton saying his video is "Based On" somebody else's book doesn't excuse it.

Gaza will never fall it's going to win but its children will never be the same

What was it about internet basilisks/and or old creepypastas that inspired you to make chainmail chasers?

ChaCha actually started due to a conversation I had with a few friends back in '20 about old Slenderverse webseries. I expressed disappointment that so many just focused on Slendy, and if you were lucky they'd include the Rake as well but not really flesh him out or use him properly. There were exceptions obviously, but you get what I mean.

I've always been fascinated by Smile Dog specifically out of the pastas, and I felt a webseries about it could have a lot of potential. You don't need to do a lot of traveling for filming since it's a mostly digital and mental phenomenon, and the pasta as-is keeps an aura of mystery over just what the image is.

This wasn't enough to pursue a series- it was just a discussion, and at the time I was very very very unconfident in my artistic ability for a whole rabbit hole of reasons. But it got me thinking, and I tend to have a lot of eureka moment with connecting disconnected thematic bits.

There were three things that always fascinated me about the original pasta. One was the idea that it wasn't even a dog- it was said to originally be a photo of the devil, and that over time it changed. If you really dig back into my twitter, around late 2020 (I remember because I reposted it when Heaven Stairway blew up) I posted my own take on Smile Dog. It's the same one that's used in the ParanormalPrickheads page, and there I took the idea of that evolution but extrapolated it, reasoning that after over a decade since the original pasta, the image would've degraded almost to the point of illegibility due to JPEG loss.

That idea basically evolved into the whole "metamorphosis" idea.

The second thing was built up off of that- if the image changed so much, there was no telling if any remakes could be the real deal or not. Or how different they could be from what was described. As a kid I knew the main two images were fake, but I reasoned that they could just be fakes for the sake of safety- the real ones could still be out there. That keeps you on your toes, and definitely leads to a creep factor on finding an "older version" as lost media.

But these were, again, just factors that kept me interested in Smile Dog. Cognitohazards in general interested me, and you had my frequent consumption of YouTube horror analysis content that lead into the setup of ChaCha- a way to initially ground it, develop an audience of people who already like cheesy internet horror, and bait actual Youtubers into covering the channel after they find it during research.

No, none of this is what caused ChaCha directly to happen.

That moment where it all clicked, back in 2020, was an idea for an ending. I have no idea if I can even pull it off. But I need to make it.

But I can't tell you what that is. Not yet.

Spreading the word for a spoiler seems like something only a very pathetic demon would do.

tumblr's ceo is pro isreal. like openly so on his twitter. thats why a lot of the palestine tags and posts are being censored

Checked @photomatt likes on twitter:

and whatever the fuck this retweet is supposed to mean:

He also retweeted this weird essay, I'll only give an excerpt:

https://href.li/?https://x.com/lessin/status/1718810964060156243?s=20

so.....? is it plausible to make the case that tumblr is willingly censoring Palestine advocates? by somehow also saying Palestinians around the globe who have been organizing for the past 75+ are actually super secret terrorists who want to blow up the whole world and have no reason to be advocating for their Land Back? Nefarious underground league of people who secretly are controlling your content to ruin your precious democracy that you've built to benefit yourselves? How offensive can you possible get?

I almost think it's useless to post this because I'll probably get nuked, but I still want to call it out when I see it because I refuse to allow the delusion that this platform is anything more than for the ultrarich techbros to make money. Corporations do not have your best interests in mind, and that goes for the people running those corporations too.

You all cry for free speech but when the speech is running freely you say it's against your better interests and shoot it in the back midstride.

If I get nuked it'll probably be because of this post. Mutuals feel free to ask for my discord or something.

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kind of obsessed with this seemingly innocuous blog about fish that told me to kill myself and then immediately deactivated when i told them no

Anyone else see this clown