Pacrat173 54 points a year ago

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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SpaceNoodle 42 points a year ago

The number of people that bought the marketing for The Blair Witch Project is what finally made me realize that people are stupid.

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JandroDelSol 9 points a year ago

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

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SpaceNoodle 4 points a year ago

They certainly did pave the way with novel new methods of multimedia marketing, but it seemed so obviously hokey to me.

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chunkystyles 5 points a year ago

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.

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SpaceNoodle 2 points a year ago

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.

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tigeruppercut 2 points a year ago

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.

https://youtu.be/MBZ-POVsrlI

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Kolanaki 5 points a year ago

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.

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SpaceNoodle 3 points a year ago

I don't miss getting so wasted that I believe in magic.

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Kolanaki 7 points a year ago

Ahem

It wasn't magic, it was aliens. 😤

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QueenHawlSera 2 points a year ago

Eh the internet was in its early days back then. Wasn't as easy to look stuff up

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SpaceNoodle 0 points a year ago

It was just as easy to smell bullshit.

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QueenHawlSera 4 points a year ago

No it wasn't. This was back when people still believed ESP had science backing it and Uri Gellar could really bend spoons.

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Kolanaki 22 points a year ago

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? 🤔

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Alcoholicorn 3 points a year ago

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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Kolanaki 5 points a year ago