#AND I LEGIT SCROLLED DOWN

[designernishiki]

ladies and gentlemen. we got em

[titsthedamnseason]

i never wish for leaks okay NEVER!!!! i am a believer in listening to something for the first time in real time of the release when the artist intended for it to come out. i am a patient person. but i would be lying if i said that i didn’t hope that “fortnight” audio going around is a leak and not ai. maybe taylor should just release that song early as the first single so that we can know for sure 👍

[coffee-bat]

i hate to say this but i need comfort rn

[cookietastic]

My clown nose is honking my queue post I made for 9am today was actually put for 9pm 🤡

[absolutebloodychaos]

DOES ANYONE HAVE VIDEOS OF KRIS NGVOT CAUSE I'M SORRY I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED IT SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[the-fandom-crossroads]

9:27pm *scrolling through my dash like normal*

9:28pm *reaches bottom and scrolls back to top*

9:29pm *clicks home button but dash doesn't reload*

Me: Huh, that's weird. It says there are new posts tho.

9:30pm *RELOADS WEB PAGE*

Me: . . . why is everything on the left now? I guess that's the new update everyone's fussing about

*Start's scrolling*

. . . wait

*scrolls some more*

WHY IS IT FOLLOWING ME?!?!

[neverendingford]

sequel to my last piece because my mood did its swing back again.

[prozach27]

Morrowind really took a few days to get comfortable with but honestly it’s so fun once you do?? I can see why people enjoy it. It has so much just straight up weirdness and a million factions to join and stuff. You can tell Bethesda or whoever embraced the weird with this game, and then oblivion sorta streamlined it and made it more lord of the rings, then skyrim made it fully unstoppable. Morrowind’s really alien and rough around the edges but once you get used to the mechanics it’s low key so addictive lol

[yukinyaminyato]

when you're reading a fic and it's been perfect so far but then you're at the smut part in the end & the kinks in it don't match your tastes at all so you're just reading it like :|

[hedge-rambles]

Far be it from me to deny anyone their fun but I'm in the sad position of just not really finding Goncharov that funny. Which like, it's happened before, sometimes tumblr goes apeshit over something that you're just like, meh about. I mind when everyone lost their fucking minds about Uptown Funk and I was just like, it's ok? Don't particularly like it but whatevs.

But this is just endless. I'm talking like 60%+ of my dash 🙃. I'm glad aabody's having a blast with it, god I wish that were me etc., but wow I'm so looking forward to that one fading from view. And to be clear, I respect how fucking unhinged everyone is, I respect the flex of all those long posts, but good lord, just not getting into it is making my dash a slog.

Either way, keep up the fucking insane work guys, it's top quality nonsense, I just wanted to whinge about it, while I await that flame guttering and dying, burning like a completely fucking clown-shoes supernova.

[anominous-user]

I completely did not expect Aponia's gear to get a re-run this version. I have only 3k xtals TwT. Maybe I'll get lucky...

honestly i had lost all hope when i found out they weren't running the expa select (i was just gonna spend the crystals i had (at the time, 19k + 10 focus cards) until i got star of eden and sushang's weapon… so now im left w/ around 80-ish pulls… i'll be happy if i can pull at least aponia and her weapon

[antmarco]

Since the theyfab tweet situation, I've seen a few people assert that afab trans people are centred in conversations and given opportunities and so on that trans women aren't, and I have no idea what they're talking about. It might be a UK vs US thing idk, but before I came out and started seeking out transmasc stuff, all media I saw that included transness was about trans women, the book that made me face that I'm not cis was by a trans woman, about trans women. I mistook my affinity with the trans part of trans women's stories for womanly comradery and lesbianism, because I rarely heard/saw a trans guy's perspective. I have no idea what circles the people saying trans guys get everything and trans women are left out of the conversation are moving in, they're certainly not in the North of England. And if there is some great glut of trans guy representation in tv and film out there, can someone link me? Give me some titles? I've seen Work in Progress and it bummed me out, and I refuse to ever watch Boys Don't Cry

I have come across some very terfy nonbinary people who really cling on to being afab, and have tried to lord it over me, as tho they get to have Special Oppression Points that I gave up by "giving in" to my dude-ness. That is an issue and it needs to be talked about. It isn't helping to lash out at all trans/nb people who were assigned female. As though it's not a weird little minority who are pulling that shit, and as though the ones behaving like that aren't horrible and terfy to the rest of us as well as towards transfemmes and nbs assigned male

[ktempestbradford]

I have been on a Willy Wonkified journey today and I need y'all to come with me

It started so innocently. Scrolling Google News I come across this article on Ars Technica:

At first glance I thought what happened was parents saw AI-generated images of an event their kids were at and became concerned, then realized it was fake. The reality? Oh so much better.

On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based "Willy's Chocolate Experience" after customers complained that the unofficial Wonka-inspired event, which took place in a sparsely decorated venue, did not match the lush AI-generated images listed on its official website.... According to Sky News, police were called to the event, and "advice was given."

Thing is, the people who paid to go were obviously not expecting exactly this:

But I can see how they'd be a bit pissed upon arriving to this:

It gets worse.

"Tempest, how could it possibly--"

source of this video that also includes this charming description:

Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'

There is already a meme.

Oh yes, the Wish.com Oompa Loompa:

Who has already done an interview!

As bad (and hilarious) as this all is, I got curious about the company that put on this event. Did they somehow overreach? Did the actors they hired back out at the last minute? (Or after they saw the script...) Oddly enough, it doesn't seem so!

Given what I found when poking around I'm legit surprised there was an event at all. Cuz this outfit seems to be 100% a scam.

The website for this specific event is here and it has many AI generated images on it, as stated. I don't think anyone who bought tickets looked very closely at these images, otherwise they might have been concerned about how much Catgacating their children would be exposed to.

Yes, Catgacating. You know, CATgacating!

I personally don't think anyone should serve exarserdray flavored lollipops in public spaces given how many people are allergic to it. And the sweet teats might not have been age appropriate.

Though the Twilight Tunnel looks pretty cool:

I'm not sure that Dim Tight Twdrding is safe. I've also been warned that Vivue Sounds are in that weird frequency range that makes you poop your pants upon hearing them.

Yes, Virginia, these folks used an AI image generator for everything on the website and used Chat GPT for some of the text! From the FAQ:

Q: I cannot go on the available days. Will you have more dates in the future? A: Should there be capacity when you arrive, then you will be able to enter without any problems. In the event that this is not the case, we may ask you to wait a bit.

Fear not, for this question is asked again a few lines down and the answer makes more sense.

Curious about the events company behind this disaster, I took myself over to the homepage of House of Illuminati and I was not disappointed.

I would 100% trust these people to plan my wedding.

This abomination of a website is a badly edited WordPress blog filled with AI art and just enough blog posts to make the casual viewer think that it's a legit business for about 0.0004 seconds.

Their attention to detail is stunning, from how they left up the default first post every WP blog gets to how they didn't bother changing the name on several images, thus revealing where they came from. Like this one:

With the lovely and compact filename "DALL·E-2024-01-30-09.50.54-Imagine-a-scene-where-fantasy-and-reality-merge-seamlessly.-In-the-foreground-a-grand-interactive-gala-is-taking-place-filled-with-elegant-guests-i.png"

"Concept.png" came from the same AI generator that gets text almost, but not quiiiiiite right:

There are a suspicious number of .webp images in the uploads, which makes me think they either stole them from other sites where AI "art" was uploaded or they didn't want to pay for the hi-res versions of some and just grabbed the preview image.

The real fun came when I noticed this filename: Before-and-After-Eventologists-Transformation-Edgbaston-Cricket-Ground-1024x1024-1.jpg and decided to do a Google image search. Friends, you will be shocked to hear that the image in question, found on this post touting how they can transform a boring warehouse into a fun event space, was stolen from this actual event planner.

Even better, this weirdly grainy image?

From a post that claims to be about the preparations for a "Willy Wonka" experience (we'll get to this in a minute), is not only NOT an actual image of anyone preparing anything for Illuminati's event, it is stolen from a YouTube thumbnail that's been chopped to remove the name of the company that actually made this. Here's the video.

If you actually read the blog posts they're all copypasta or some AI generated crap. To the point where this seems like not a real business at all. There's very specific business information at the bottom, but nothing else seems real.

As I said, I'm kinda surprised they put on an event at all. This has, "And then they ran off with all our money!" written all over it. I'm perplexed.

And also wondering when the copyright lawyers are gonna start calling, because...

This post explicitly says they're putting together a "Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Experience" complete with golden tickets.

Somewhere along the line someone must have wised up, because the actual event was called "Willys Chocolate Experience" (note the lack of apostrophe) and the script they handed to the actors about 10 minutes before they were supposed to "perform" was about a "Willy McDuff" and his chocolate factory.

As I was going through this madness with friends in a chat, one pointed out that it took very little prompting to get the free Chat GPT to spit out an event description and such very similar to all this while avoiding copyrighted phrases. But he couldn't figure out where the McDuff came from since it wasn't the type of thing GPT would usually spit out...

Until he altered the prompt to include it would be happening in Glasgow, Scotland.

You cannot make this stuff up.

But truly, honestly, I do not even understand why they didn't take the money and run. Clearly this was all set up to be a scam. A lazy, AI generated scam.

Everything from the website to the event images to the copy to the "script" to the names of things was either stolen or AI generated (aka stolen). Hell, I'd be looking for some poor Japanese visitor wandering the streets of Glasgow, confused, after being jacked for his mascot costume.

HE LIVES IN THE WALLS, Y'ALL.

[drag0nalias0]

Earlier today at like half 3-4 (as in like 8-9 hours ago) i was walking to a stall at this market i was at(the lady running that particuar stall had some rabbit hide on her table, unrelat

ed to what she was selling, and i had to ask her where she got it from)

And as i was walking there, this guy wearing a green shirt who i didnt recognise stopped me, pointed at the sky which was dark and cloudy but not quite raining, and told me "Hey look whats happened to the weather, its because youve stopped smiling! Smile! Great!" something like that. It wasnt condesending or rude and it did actually make me smile.

I generally dont smile, i think, and today was a really bad day due to my period starting that morning and i had a horrible and almost constant cramp. Not bad enough to stop me walking or talking but it wasnt nice. I also dont take painkillers and such so the most i had was some chocolate a few hours before. I was walking around all the stalls for a good while as i had gotten there just before 1. And i had gone to a smaller craft fair in a different village beforehand, but it was in a very small village hall so there wasnt much walking.

I did sit down once whilst at the market to drink hot choclate, so hot that i can still feel the tingling heat on my tongue from the first sip i had. I had to wait for it to cool down for a bit so i got a nice little rest.

Anyway i hope that guy had a good day as he seems quite kind and like he actually wanted to cheer me up. Good luck to time

Oh also i won two raffel prizes at the end. I was praying to Hualian so i could win. I was praying to hua cheng and xie lian and the kingdom of xian le ( which i bow know how to pronounce properly thanks to thw donghua) as i done it the first time i got distracted by a really nice table one of the stalls was selling and i didnt win anything untill the second tine i done it (admittedly the first one i won was a fifty-fifty. However i think the second one was quite popular)

Anyway thanks to you randon stranger

[hussyknee]

i'm so confused rn, can you explain the goncharov thing?? i get off tumblr for five minutes

(Edits closed as of 28 Nov.)

Lmaoooo

Nah I getchu. So this post has been circulating for like two years:

Link to post.

But yesterday, it had inspired someone to do this:

Link to post.

Next thing I knew there were fake Letterboxed reviews.

Goncharov moodboards. Really good ones.

Link to post.

Meta analysis. So many fake meta essays. Disturbingly good ones. And of course the memes. (Edit: HAVE I SAID THIS SHIT IS DISTURBING)

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. "No beta we die like ice-pick Joe" is already a tag.

Link to post.

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. 😂😂😂

Link to post.

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

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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.

found by @thepotch

Edit 3: Explainer: why did those boots have this movie on them anyway?

Edit 4: Alt text added to all images courtesy of @valentineish ❤️

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.

Edit 6: This post collects the Lore so far.

Edit 7: Lynda Carter (real one)/ earns more/ Tumblr cred.

Edit 8: Holy shit y'all we have the theme music. With sheet music. And it's on Spotify!

Edit 9: THERE IS A TRAILER WITH THE THEME MUSIC

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I made this post 18 hours after the movie poster went up. Closed edits 27 hours after first posting. So all of the above happened within 45 hours of the movie poster going up.

Edit 10: Google document live-compiling all the lore so far (Day 3)

Edit 11: Masterpost of Goncharov soundtracks (Day 3)

Edit 12: Entertainment news articles covering the Gonch-posting (real) (Contd from yday)

Edit 13: The music from the masterpost all compiled into a 31-minute original score with video edits on YouTube (edit: unfortunately taken down)

Edit 14: Staff's Goncharov art showcase for Tumblr Tuesday

As of closing on Day 3 there are 371 works in the AO3 tag.

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Updating with Day 3 shenanigans I missed yesterday:

Edit 15: Goncharov TV Tropes page

Edit 16: Ethics of Gonchposting

Important PSA 1 (how to reduce harm to Tumblr's neurodivergents)

Important PSA 2 (reality affirmation, anti-bullying)

Important PSA 3 (why you should stop trying to vandalise legit information sites)

Edit 17: Character lore from beezlebub whose poster they originated from

Edit 18: What we know about/ Director Matteo JWHJ0715 (#unreality)

Edit 19: Link to post with screenshotted and described NYT article (scroll down) and this golden exerpt from BuzzFeed: 💀

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End of Day 4 there are now 485 works in the Goncharov tag on AO3

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Didn't get to update this on Day 5, so these are the Day 5 doings:

More trailers!

Trailer 1 (My favourite)

Trailer 2

Trailer 3

Trailer 4

I also just found out about the Goncharov Game Jam.

It appears this opened a day after after the meme took off.

Goncharov was first entered into Wikipedia between Day 4 and 5 (attempts to vandalise it with fake info don't count, incidentally – please knock that shit off) under List of Internet Phenomena. This was then expanded into its own Wikipedia page at the end of Day 5 because, according to the talk history: "the topic now meets the notability threshold for its own artice due to significant coverage in The New York Times and other sources cited." We're on Wikipedia, people!

And then we made The Guardian half a day later. So while the meme is definitely dying down to embers by now, it still stays winning.

YouTube channels with episodes on the meme:

InformOverlord (4:30)

Lessons in Meme Culture (2:43)

End of Day of 5 there were 511 works on AO3, and End of Day 6 (today) there are 556.

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🚨BREAKING 🚨 from Martin Scorsese's daughter's TikTok (real actual)

tw: unreality:

We did it you guys!

Clarification: Francesca Scorcese asked her Dad about the meme and Martin played along. Please reblog this PSA to help Tumblr people with psychosis. Thanks.

Final edit: Day 8. Media reactions to Scorcese's TikTok (everyone from Forbes to Vulture). That one Tumblr user who said they'd do a screenplay if their post got notes has promised to shoot a single scene, but please don't be dicks just because you reblogged it; leave them alone until they get around to it themselves. As of end of Day 8 there are 609 works in the AO3 tag. I love all you lunatics. Peace! ❤️

[cosmocove]

hi quastion is anyone else suddenly just at the top of their dash randomly