i'm so confused rn, can you explain the goncharov thing?? i get off tumblr for five minutes
Nah I getchu. So this post has been circulating for like a year:
But yesterday, it had inspired someone to do this:
Next thing I knew there were fake Letterboxed reviews.
Goncharov moodboards. Really good ones.
Meta analysis. So many fake meta essays. Disturbingly good ones. And of course the memes.
As you can see, the myth just started to grow, characters and ships and tropes being added one after the other, almost bizzarely without contradiction, until there was enough of shape to the whole thing for people to start posting fanfic about it on AO3. "Ice-pick Joe" has already become a meme tag.
It was hilarious in the beginning, but the way it's developed within less than a day, kind of like it's being willed into existence, is freaking me out a bit. We're toying with powers beyond our comprehension. 😂😂😂
Of course, there could be an ulterior motive as well.
Link to post (tags mine).
Edit: guys, please tag these posts "unreality" so people with disassociation issues can filter them out (not this one, this is an explainer). <3
Edit 2: Aparently the boots in the original post are actually referring to a movie called Gomorrah that came out in 2008, directed by Mateo Garrone, based on The Scampia Feud. And other people had also been making posts about the fake movie for a while before the poster took off.
Edit 3: Now with links to the screenshotted post except the very first one. I can't find it. EDIT: PATIENT ZERO FOUND AND LINKED.
Edit 4: Alt text added courtesy of @valentineish the wonderful ❤️
Edit 5: Turns out tumblr has done this kind of thing before. Nine years in this hell place and I had to have "Squiddles" and penis smp explained in the replies.
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