Ngl, when I first joined the Bloodymary fandom, I fully was thinking a majority of them were like me in that they were followers of Markiplier who saw Iron Lung to support him.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that there's actually a lot of fandom members who had never really followed Mark, or even watched him, before getting into this fandom.
On the one hand, this kinda makes sense, right? Mark is merely the actor and filmmaker in this context. You don't need to have engaged with the filmmaker/actor closely to watch a movie he did and engage with a crossover fandom regarding a fictional character he wrote/portrayed. But it does make the fandom's reaction to stuff Mark does (like his reveal of how he knew about Bloodymary) so funny to me and how y'all probably don't know how absolutely Unhinged this man is (/affectionate).
So, to my Bloodymary creators who don't know the Markiplier lore, here are the highlights:
Mark is known to have gone to the hospital Numerous Times, to the point where there's an entire twitter account dedicated to counting the days since his previous hospital visit.
Mark has a bit with fans where he claims he's not a masochist, he just wants to know how much his body can take it, and then he'll turn around and willingly put himself through something he knows is going to cause him a lot of pain.
Not including the hospital visits (some more serious than others), Mark has: gotten tased, gotten pepper-sprayed, broken his nose while doing stunts on an aerial hoop, broken his hand after punching it through dry wall, gotten shot with a paintball gun, and probably various others I'm forgetting. These all happened on camera, by the way.
Mark drank his own pee through his brita filter. Twice.
EDIT: Following up the last point, he at one point experimented with a sauna tent by putting in different liquids other than water to steam in. Yes. One of these was his own piss. Pee sauna it was called.
EDIT 2: Mark actually has, what fans like to call, "egos", which are characters that he's portrayed that either he created or that fans created and he then ran away with. These include: himself if he was an egocentric sociopathic murderer; twins stuck in a single body who's whole schtick is to be vague and deliver the most based villain-sounding monologues; Google; a TV entertainer who breaks the fourth wall and is a mass murderer and was seen as the saddest character he probably ever created until Simon came along; a theater kid who loves prison; Indiana Jones; Jim; and more.
Mark actually cannot drink alcohol because his body can't process it correctly. The last time he got drunk, he had to go to a hospital for a heart attack. (This made the choice he made to have Simon drink rubbing alcohol VERY funny to me)
Mark made a tasteful nudes calendar and (I think?) fucked up his hand because he signed thousands of them over the course of a weekend.
Mark made a video announcing that he would create an Only Fans if the podcast he does with his best friends got to number one streaming on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Needless to say, it became number one in just a few days and he made the Only Fans.
Mark repeatedly has said how badly he wants to be launched into space. Meanwhile, he has massive thalassophobia (fear of the ocean) and also a fear of mannequins.
Mark (affectionately) bullying his fans is actually quite common. Lots of posts said it already, but him mentioning Bloodymary was not a matter of "if" but "when". Because he ALWAYS pokes fun at memes and fandom stuff we create with his work. He also is the BIGGEST enabler of this too. He tells people to pick apart his projects for secrets he put in, and if we get something wrong or we don't find something he'll tease us about it. Fans will then, affectionately, bully him back. Recently, he's had the habit of dying in Subnautica 2 because he forgets to gain more oxygen and like half the comments are making fun of him for this.
I will say that if you try to go looking for some of these clips, a fair amount are from Unus Annus, a channel he co-created with his friend Ethan Nestor and has since been deleted. But people have made a Many compilation edits so they can be found, they'll just be a bit of a challenge lol.
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
Noah Wyle go on Hot Ones. I know u love visibly suffering on camera and I enjoy it as well. Go on the dumb YouTube show and eat the chicken wings. Do it for me and the other sick children.
some of the discourse around noah wyle really demonstrates how people treat jewishness as simultaneously invisible and hypervisible depending on what rhetorical purpose they need it to serve
let me elaborate even though i didn’t want to: when the point is privilege, he’s just a rich white man. his jewishness disappears into whiteness, because acknowledging it would require people to think with a little more nuance about how jewish people can be perceived differently in different contexts. but the second people want to turn him into some kind of uniquely sinister figure, suddenly the language starts looking very familiar to me and to other jewish fans.
he’s “demonic”, he looks “satanic”, he’s secretly controlling everything behind the scenes. he’s allegedly harming actors he doesn’t like. he has this hidden power over the workplace, over the show, over people’s careers, over the rest of the writers, over the SHOWRUNNER. he will fire fellow cast members that piss him off or are “too progressive” to his liking. and whether people intend it or not, that is not neutral language when it is being aimed at a jewish man, because this is the thing: antisemitism is not just slurs and swastikas, and a lot of the time it works through older narrative patterns. the jew as secretly powerful, the jew as manipulative, the jew as corrupting, the jew as physically marked by evil. the jew as someone who tries to appear respectable in public while supposedly pulling the strings in private. those ideas have been around for a very long time, and they do not suddenly become harmless because the people saying them are in a fandom space and think they are just “criticizing a celebrity.”
and to be clear, this doesn’t mean ashkenazi jews are never white, or that jewish celebrities can’t have white privilege, class privilege, or industry power. the point is that jewishness does not always fit neatly into the sometimes flattened american white/non-white framework we’re all familiar with. ashkenazi jews can be perceived as white, move through the world with many of the advantages of whiteness, and still be racialized through antisemitism when the context shifts. that conditional quality matters. jewishness can be treated as irrelevant when people want to talk about privilege, then suddenly become legible through conspiratorial or dehumanizing tropes when people want to construct a jewish person as dangerous.
just like with every other minority, you do not have to personally believe you are being bigoted for the shape of your argument to fall into harmful patterns. and if your criticism of a jewish public figure keeps circling around secret control, behind-the-scenes manipulation, career destruction, satanic/demonic appearance, and moral contamination, then you should take another good fucking look at yourself.
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