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Well hello there, Jon.

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How did you get into TMA? If you can recall, what was the moment you knew the brainrot had caught you?

Alright, strap in for this tbh quite uninteresting incredible tale.

(I apologize in advance for the length of this)

'tis was a dark and gloomy evening on the 14th of March 2021 and my dumbass forgot to get groceries at a reasonable time.

Now usually I would've listened to music while completing this task, but on this day something probably a higher power compelled me to take a look into my episodes on spotify.

I've had the trailer for TMA on there for a while due to tumblr basically shoving it in my face multiple times. And hey, even though I'm not usually one for horror, it sounded interesting.

So I made the wonderful unfortunate decision to download a couple of episodes and listen to them.

Now, I am not above admitting that I go feral for voices I like. And hoo boi does Jonny deliver in that department.

And I suppose it was the combination of the voice and the second episode that made me want to continue it. I was completely unspoiled and knew basically nothing about the plot at this point, mind you.

I said before that I'm not usually interested in horror. That's not completely true.

I love the aesthetic of it, but could never get into hollywood horror and slasher stuff, it just didn't interest me. So I was quite happy to figure out that TMA didn't really rely on those tropes usually used for that.

For the hook line and sinker, I think it was a combination of recurring characters in the statements and Jon just being the biggest stick in the mud after reading one.

I always got a little !!! moment whenever someone from a previous statement was mentioned because it felt like putting together a bigger picture.

And there's just something hilarious about Jon finding the most outlandish reasons for declaring a statement as false.

Oh! Now that I think about it, two other things played into it to, actually!

The recurring characters outside of the statements interested me too, I wanted to get to know them.

Another selling point was Jon's reaction to the statement of Jane Prentiss. It was a crack in the facade that I've grown to know. And I just live for shit like that.

Then the heart to heart happened and all the cues that point to a bigger story have been left and if I wasn't hooked by then which I was it would've started when Martin found the body.

Cue me finding out about the fast approaching end of the podcast and going into overdrive apparently.

Turns out it is entirely possible to listen to 199 podcast episodes in less than two weeks, especially since I wasn't able to listen to it on two days of those.

I was done with it exactly one day before the finale and my brain could not think of anything else anymore. Still barely can tbh.

I actually managed to stay spoiler free th entire time, even though I absolutely went through content on tumblr in those two weeks.

Fun Fact: You know that one "AO3 year in review" website? Turns out you can look at the content you've read in a specific timeframe. And I basically read nothing but TMA fanfics for the last two months. So I looked it up.

Turns out I've consumed about 13.2 million words of TMA fics in that time frame.

I don't know if I should be proud or concerned.

Anyway, I'm sorry that this answer got so long, my inner dramatic bitch came out apparently.

I hope that answers your question adequately though!

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