As human have begun to walk the earth, there has been frauds and hoaxes.
Internet just made it more fun.
And so today... sorry, I won’t write like this anytime soon.
Anyways, Hoaxes. They’re on the internet. And people fall for them, but I don’t because I have this banana.
Sorry, I was definitely ripping off frigginboom that time. Sorry, again. (He’s just great, you know. There’s so much to discover on YouTube.)
Okay... To talk about hoaxes on the internet, you must talk about two things.
First is Lonelygirl15. It was first narrative phenomena on YouTube and basically set up what web show will look like on YouTube.
It had some clever plots and the slow unravelling truth behind the production was fantastic and it added the aura that was LG15. Show made us realize something of importance of web as beyond the box and that production can play with the settings to create some meanings.
Second is The Beast. First ARG, the only good thing that came out of AI, basically. I mean I seriously think Kubrick just died at the right time. Every great movie director must go downhill somehow and Kubrick defied that by dying. Best way to leave a situation, obviously.
Spielberg took the fall, also clashing of Spielberg and Kubrick made a little cushion. (Oh, it was just Spielberg trying to be Kubrick, it could never work... that kind of a thing.)
I just think that ARG in part is fascinating and fun to follow. The puzzle are hard to solve and people behind it is so admiring to me, trying keep this in bay.
But, that’s outside of YouTube... third type of hoax are not-hoaxes, programs that uses the tropes of hoaxes, which more like sexynerdgirl or MyMusic...
Anyway, a short episode, just talking a little break.
Tomorrow will be something completely different.
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