Ah I remember these days when I was a kid and believed creepy pastas and SCPs were real
Now I mod a SCP community how the times have changed
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The number of people that bought the marketing for The Blair Witch Project is what finally made me realize that people are stupid.
take this with a grain of salt since it was before I was born, but the marketing was apparently very good, including fake missing posters for the actors. A lot of modern analog horror/creepypasta/SCP stuff is so over the top that no one should believe it (especially the Russian Sleep Experiment!) but I'm a lot more understanding of those who were fooled by The Blair Witch Project
They certainly did pave the way with novel new methods of multimedia marketing, but it seemed so obviously hokey to me.
I'm my defense, I was a teenager at the time. But I fully believed that it was actually found footage due to the marketing. That infomercial disguised as a documentary got me.
I was also a teenager. It was also quite obvious that neither the families of the victims nor law enforcement would allow such footage to be released as a film, not to mention the fact that magic isn't real.
The trailers weren't that specific. They talked about some students investigating an urban legend who disappeared before their footage was later found. There was nothing about how they died because of magic.
The word "witch" kinda gives it away.
An urban legend could have a real human as the end of it.
That was, like, 97% of Scooby Doo, man.
A brand new one, though?
I'll admit that Fourth Kind got me. I barely saw much promo material, didn't see any reviews, just saw a small blurb about the premise, watched it super drunk and high and thought the "real documentary" parts were in fact real and got scared by a dude just slightly levitating off a couch.
Again, I was super drunk and high when I watched it. So I was, in fact, incapable of anything but stupidity.
I don't miss getting so wasted that I believe in magic.
Ahem
It wasn't magic, it was aliens. 😤
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The phrase "anarchist phase" struck me because I would assume they mean in the teenage "chaos is cool" way. Which I had as a kid, too. But then I find that my ideals are literally anarchistic on the political compass so... Was it really a phase? 🤔
Political compass doesn't describe any actual political realities; a society where every oligarch is a totalitarian dictator is considered more "free" than a dictatorship of the proletariat where the capitalist class is less free to exploit the working class, a racist who supports a welfare state is somehow in the same quadrant as communists.
Who do you organize with?
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