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Post by Chaosky on Feb 23, 2010 23:30:21 GMT -5
When I searched "the ring" in the tags section from P&P 2 I found this: www.imdb.com/title/tt0298130/plotsummaryThese are all the tags for the second videoTags: poochy poochee pansy creepy wtf slender man 333 wyoming incident ufo roswell /x/ sanctuary the ring cursed video I suggest we take a closer look at the tags.
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Post by Foxfiend on Feb 24, 2010 12:15:25 GMT -5
I noticed "The Ring" tag under it too. I find it really weird... I am absolutely have no idea why is that putted as tag for it. Maybe later it can come usefull...
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Post by John Cyrus McCloud on Feb 27, 2010 5:50:50 GMT -5
Odd... I think there might be something with these videos related to the plot from The Ring.
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Post by hitsofrage on Feb 27, 2010 18:01:26 GMT -5
Mentioning the Wyoming incident makes this even more strange.
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Post by eebster on Feb 27, 2010 23:57:09 GMT -5
For those unfamiliar with any of the references in these tags, I decided to briefly go through each one and what I think of it.
"poochy" is there to help direct people who misspell the show name, and "poochee" and "pansy" are obvious, because the name of the show is "Poochee and Pansy."
"Creepy" and "wtf" are pretty self-explanatory.
"Slender Man," for those who don't know, is a meme from the Something Awful forums about a very tall, thin, mysterious man with many arms or tentacles and no face who always wears a black suit. He is usually seen near trees or water, and usually where children are present. Even if children are not present, children's music or children's voices are often heard around him, and he is sometimes associated with dolls. He kidnaps children, but it is not known what he does with them, as they are never found. Many speculate that he eats them. As far as I can tell, the gangadiddle (whom I will call G) seems to have nothing to do with SM. It is possible that the tag is just there to attract more people to the hunt, or there may be some association not revealed yet. The hoody guy is vaguely reminiscent of Masky, a character from Marble Hornets, of which SM is a character. EDIT: I am pretty sure I was wrong. If you watch the latest video on the channel "totheark," you will find its style is almost identical to the gangadiddle videos. It's hard to believe the two are not connected.
"333" is obviously very important, judging by how often we have seen it in the videos, but nobody seems to have worked out what it means yet. The problem is that "333" can mean so damn many things. The number three is associated with just about anything you could think of, so it isn't clear where to start. I think we will need more clues on this one.
The " Wyoming Incident" is another meme spawned by the SA forums, or perhaps more like a rumor. They claimed that somebody had hijacked some local Wyoming news station and aired a series of pictures of cadaver heads in various poses, with a "Special Announcement" in the middle. This announcement is a video that can easily be found online. Of course, such a thing never happened, but that doesn't make it less significant here. The "Special Presentation" Includes "333-333-333," which relates it pretty clearly to G. There are several text phrases, including "You will see such pretty things," and some very disturbing music along with the heads. I really don't know what to make of it. I don't think there is any "hidden message" or anything, and this is much older than G. Perhaps G will piggyback on some of the hype surrounding the Wyoming Incident.
A "UFO" is literally an "Unidentified Flying Object," but is now usually taken to be an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Reports of UFO sightings are too common and varied to mean anything alone. "Roswell" refers to Roswell, New Mexico, a town in the desert near Area 51 and connected with various stories of a UFO crash and a government cover-up. This is still too broad a subject to take much from, except that perhaps G is an alien, and perhaps his existence is being covered up. This does not seem unlikely given what we have seen so far from dolst.
/x/ is the creepy board on 4chan (and probably other chans? I can't confirm this). Most people who found Poochee and Pansy probably did so through /x/ (although I personally found it through /b/). It is obvious why this tag is there.
"Sanctuary" could perhaps be referring to the Canadian SciFi series based on a web series by the same name. I have never seen it, but from what I can gather by glancing at Wikipedia, it is a show about aliens called "Abnormals" and a group of scientists trying to protect them. The scientists set up a sanctuary to protect the Abnormals from a secret government "Cabal" that sees them as a threat to humanity. The relation here is a bit clearer. G should not be destroyed, but it must be kept in check. If my interpretation is correct, G is an extraterrestrial, not a robot. Further, some people are trying to destroy G (organizations like Dolst Family Entertainment perhaps?), while at least one person (the maintainer of the "gangadiddle" Youtube channel, sometimes called the "Gangatamer") is trying to protect it, while also keeping it in check.
"The Ring" is a horror movie which features a "Cursed video." I have never seen "The Ring," but I gather that the video is a tape that contains very disturbing footage and the warning "Seven days!" Whoever watches the video is doomed to die seven days after seeing it. The most obvious relations I can see to G are the idea of the "cursed video" and the confusion of reality and fantasy. In "The Ring," characters seen on the screen can quickly become quite real. Remember, what you see on TV is real. What you see when you go outside, that's what's make believe!
The one thing to take away from this is that there are a LOT of potential themes at play in G. I expect this to last a while, meaning March 15 is probably only the beginning. Also, while I explained the plots of those tags, we should not realistically expect G to actually conform all that closely to the plots of any of those stories. We CAN, however, expect some of the themes to be present.
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