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15 Years Of My Immortal Conspiracies 

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@arachnidlupus7625
@arachnidlupus7625 Год назад
"My Immortal" walked so "The Bible" could run
@GA_131
@GA_131 Год назад
My immortal 🙏
@arachnidlupus7625
@arachnidlupus7625 Год назад
@@GA_131 An American classic
@arachnidlupus7625
@arachnidlupus7625 Год назад
Mommy has pinned me against a wall. Grateful. Thankful. Blessed. Nourished. Thriving. Living. Crying. Pissing.
@kaix-df9kt
@kaix-df9kt Год назад
Amen
@arachnidlupus7625
@arachnidlupus7625 Год назад
@@kaix-df9kt Spreading the gospel
@iatecielssoulsorrysebastian
Men will literally admit they wrote My Immortal rather than go to therapy
@bruisedviolets
@bruisedviolets Год назад
omg💀
@TheRaychenator
@TheRaychenator Год назад
THIS COMMENT IS VIOLENTLY UNDERRATED
@maddieb.4282
@maddieb.4282 Год назад
I love your mind
@makeshiftdoves
@makeshiftdoves Год назад
this is the best comment
@gungnir3926
@gungnir3926 29 дней назад
talk theraphy is not as effective for men
@Sonyash26
@Sonyash26 Год назад
"i wrote my immortal" is the modern equivalent of claiming to be princess anastasia 💀
@annettehernandez3985
@annettehernandez3985 Год назад
LOl maybe they do a cartoon movie about it in the futur
@genevarh
@genevarh Год назад
💀
@Savannah_Simpson
@Savannah_Simpson Год назад
…Except Anastasia really was dead whereas SOMEONE out there really did write my immortal.
@Brootnoot
@Brootnoot Год назад
@@Savannah_Simpson I'd like to add onto this, it wasn't even Anastasia's body that was misplaced. Iirc it was Grand Duchess Maria's
@mmmaria1249
@mmmaria1249 Год назад
this is SUCH a funny thing to say
@Skeksistential-crisis
@Skeksistential-crisis Год назад
The fact that there’s *someone* out there who just goes about their day to day life knowing that they wrote my immortal and that nobody knows it was them is just completely mindboggling to me
@dottiet6688
@dottiet6688 Год назад
they must feel like god.
@danielgysi5729
@danielgysi5729 Год назад
I mean there's always the chance they died years ago
@kirbysthiccthighs
@kirbysthiccthighs Год назад
they probably wake up in a cold sweat every night after a nightmare of ebony dark’ness dementia raven way calling them a prep and a poser
@snakezase2998
@snakezase2998 6 месяцев назад
They could be anybody they could be me or you
@RozehKakes
@RozehKakes 6 месяцев назад
​​@@snakezase2998maybe the author is all of us ✨ we all wrote my immortal and we all stick our middle fingers up at preps and are goffik
@SS-xr7jf
@SS-xr7jf Год назад
I love how a couple of completely unrelated girls parodying a cringy phase of their teen life did a better job at mimicking my immortal than all these slightly obsessed intentional schemer types. Iconic.
@k3y_sm4sh
@k3y_sm4sh 9 месяцев назад
One thing I didn't see mentioned tho is that the account name is the "Slytherin password" from one of the old fics (can't remember if it raven or Tara's). This doesn't mean I actually think the youtube girls are the fanfic girls. In fact, I think the youtube girls just lied about not knowing about the fanfic.
@SS-xr7jf
@SS-xr7jf 9 месяцев назад
@@k3y_sm4sh what is the word in question?
@k3y_sm4sh
@k3y_sm4sh 9 месяцев назад
@@SS-xr7jf "bloody kiss" is the channel name, "bloody kisses" was the password in the fic (I'm pretty sure it was Raven's original fic not Tara's My Immortal). That on top of their names being the same is personally too much of a coincidence for me to believe is an accident. But still we should definitely leave that channel alone considering the woman is a SW'er at high risk of being harmed by doxxing, no internet conspiracy is worth real world harm.
@SS-xr7jf
@SS-xr7jf 9 месяцев назад
@@k3y_sm4sh I would honestly just assume coincidence on that. The girls were clearly going for gothic/emo “no one understands my tortured beautiful soul”, edgy teenager vibes and “bloody kiss/es” very much fit the edgy, romantic goth aesthetic. Its so stereotypically that vibe that I would expect to find both bloody/ blood and kiss/kisses in, like, random generators around the topic. It’s even the name of a gothic metal album prior to all of this.
@SS-xr7jf
@SS-xr7jf 9 месяцев назад
@@k3y_sm4sh I think more likely they were just parodying the same thing my immortal was, and that’s why they hit so much of the same things. There wouldn’t be any point in lying about being inspired by the fanfic, so that doesn’t really make sense to me. Though, yeah. People should absolutely leave them alone.
@bichiAllen
@bichiAllen Год назад
"Who is the real writer of my immortal" is probably modern day true cinderella story, with everyone looking for who fits the black, heavy, gothic heeled leather boot.
@faithhunter7588
@faithhunter7588 Год назад
Hi my name is Cinderella Pumpkin Ma’gic Mickey Mouse Disney and I have short curly blond hair that reaches my shoulders and I have to clean the fireplace and I get cinder all over me (that’s how I got my name) and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Helene Stanley (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Walt Disney but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a rich girl but my step-family makes me do all the household chores. I have pale white skin. I can also talk to animals, and I have a magic fairy godmother who’s going to help me go to the prince’s ball tonight (but I have to be back by midnight). I’m a maid (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly rags. I love my fairy godmother because she gave me new clothes. For example today I was wearing a blue ball gown with puffy sleeves and a black choker, pearls and glass slippers. I was wearing pink lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and nude eye shadow. I was walking into the ball. It was nighttime so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. My evil stepsisters stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.
@Thundernugget
@Thundernugget Год назад
@@faithhunter7588 this is awesome
@Cerracrossing
@Cerracrossing Год назад
*Goffik
@duckysguidetoshipping8930
@duckysguidetoshipping8930 Год назад
And black corset
@duckysguidetoshipping8930
@duckysguidetoshipping8930 Год назад
@@faithhunter7588 I love this too muvh
@oliveoil8736
@oliveoil8736 Год назад
Well. As an Australian with Indigenous heritage who aged out of the foster system, I'm very dissapointed in myself for not writing the worst fanfic ever and getting a book deal.
@salem-01
@salem-01 4 месяца назад
I agree, it’s not too late
@Nobodyimportant85
@Nobodyimportant85 3 месяца назад
Indigenous Australian?
@oliveoil8736
@oliveoil8736 3 месяца назад
@@Nobodyimportant85 Yup, I worded it weird back then I know
@mallarieluvsgirls
@mallarieluvsgirls 3 месяца назад
hopefully you’re not a pretendian either lol
@GoodyBadApple
@GoodyBadApple Год назад
Todd is 15 puppets in a trenchcoat and they're all pulling each other's strings.
@maddieb.4282
@maddieb.4282 Год назад
THIS IS SO FUNNY
@kirbysthiccthighs
@kirbysthiccthighs Год назад
STOP THIS IS FUCKIGN HILARIOUS
@AlexAnIdiot_
@AlexAnIdiot_ 9 месяцев назад
So accurate
@mjr_schneider
@mjr_schneider Год назад
Whoever Raven and Tara are, I'd like to think they're just going about their ordinary millennial lives having completely forgotten about this fanfiction they wrote when they were in their tweens, completely unaware of how much it's blown up and how many people have claimed to be them.
@jbone877
@jbone877 Год назад
There's no way they could live "ordinary millennial lives" and also be unaware of the impact of My Immortal on internet culture - these are mutually exclusive
@monkeyball3088
@monkeyball3088 Год назад
i feel like they must know and are taking it to their graves
@phoebehrones2297
@phoebehrones2297 Год назад
@@jbone877 I’m 22 and have never heard about any of this until this video was suggested to me 😂 i just had to go on a deep dive to figure out what my immortal was lmao. It’s possible (not a millennial but I feel like Gen Z is even more chronically online)
@trapadvisor
@trapadvisor Год назад
@@phoebehrones2297 at the same time I’m gen z and have known it about it for years. Also if they were the type to write fanfic as a kid they’d probably at least still have some passing interest in it
@Wraiven22
@Wraiven22 Год назад
@@jbone877 idk you have to be pretty into Internet culture to know about this. I wouldn’t know if I wasn’t so into RU-vid that I watch all of Strange Aeons’ videos lol
@Amandanumnum
@Amandanumnum Год назад
I think you’ve earned a PhD in My Immortal studies by this point
@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494
@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 Год назад
It could almost qualify for a scientific research paper, but where could you find peers to review it?
@jbone877
@jbone877 Год назад
I'm sure one could use this material for a PhD in many disciplines: psychology, anthropology, sociology, communications, history, English lit; and lots more, I'm sure
@Gwel_
@Gwel_ Год назад
@@jbone877 Exactly, I have a teacher in uni finishing her PhD and her thesis is about fanwork surrounding tv shows. Her corpus seems to include Reddit and Tumblr posts, RU-vid roleplays and soundscape and fanfics. She even showed us a typology of fanfictions last class.
@ashmorehouse8016
@ashmorehouse8016 Год назад
Dr Strange?
@dirtbagdeacon
@dirtbagdeacon Год назад
SA and Sarah Z could be the co-chairs of RU-vid University's Department of My Immortal Studies.
@daltongibson1033
@daltongibson1033 Год назад
We talk about November 5th being the day that broke Tumblr but if we ever ACTUALLY learn who Tara and Raven are, THAT will be the point of no return. I hope I live to see that day.
@misscrouch
@misscrouch Год назад
The thing is, how could they prove that they are indeed Tara and Raven? It's been some months since I read all the available info about My Immortal, so I'm not sure, but maybe an old email adress?
@UshioKiss
@UshioKiss Год назад
@@misscrouch It seems likely that they could be locked out of the email too, unfortunately.
@misscrouch
@misscrouch Год назад
@@UshioKiss Yes, that's what I honestly thought too, I can't think of any way they could actually prove their claim :/
@edgytoucan3444
@edgytoucan3444 Год назад
I pray we live to see it
@explodingegg123
@explodingegg123 Год назад
that day will be glorious
@NowakiStar
@NowakiStar Год назад
Self shame: I wrote cringy goth HP fanfic in my head when I was 12. That’s why I know in my heart of hearts that My Immortal is not a troll fic. I am not Tara but I would have unironically enjoyed My Immortal then as I do now. It just feels so nostalgic.
@MarquisLeary34
@MarquisLeary34 Год назад
It didn't BEGIN as a troll-fic, but I still insist that it shifted authors at a certain point and did become a troll fic.
@NowakiStar
@NowakiStar Год назад
@@MarquisLeary34 you’re probably right. There are a lot of clever spelling “mistakes” that would point to it being/becoming a troll. Either way, I love it!
@valkyrie-randgris
@valkyrie-randgris Год назад
@@MarquisLeary34 See now that's an explanation that I could at least somewhat buy.
@notanotherhimbo5060
@notanotherhimbo5060 Год назад
"I am not Tara" sounds like something Tara would say
@Hastur876
@Hastur876 Год назад
cringy goth Hewlett Packard fanfic is a great achievement oh wait nevermind
@Pystoria
@Pystoria Год назад
I genuinely don’t understand how people could possibly believe the “I wrote MI to find my brother” thing. It makes NO sense
@jazzycat8917
@jazzycat8917 Год назад
Literally. But its so insane that people just wanted it to be true because of COURSE the most famous fanfic ever would have an equally nuts backstory. Its a ridiculous lie that wouldn't have worked anywhere else but Tumblr and for no other topic than this
@malachiroberts6198
@malachiroberts6198 Год назад
Did anyone ever believe this?
@youtubeuserremainsanonymou9022
It was a super clunky ruse. I would sooner buy that someone wrote it when they had weed and being a teen quit when they ran out of money/joints so couldn't get in the zone.
@SpookyDeerArt
@SpookyDeerArt Год назад
it was tumblr, drip feed them a story like hamsters and they'll take it and run with it in their little wheel.
@penina8438
@penina8438 Год назад
I don’t know that she was saying that from the absolute beginning, I think she sort of led in to it? Firs it was like “yep I wrote it and I’m gay”
@lillykeim6741
@lillykeim6741 Год назад
The biggest plot twist would be if Strange Aeons actually wrote My Immortal and this video was a front Or maybe the real Tara was the friends we made along the way.
@bogwife7942
@bogwife7942 Год назад
I don't know...tara and teya are pretty similar...🤔
@DieAlteistwiederda
@DieAlteistwiederda Год назад
She is a bit too young but then again that could explain the horrible grammar and spelling. I seriously don't know a 14 year old who writes like that unless they have some kind of learning disability or something else going on. Or they are much younger and just say they are 14/15.
@F66x
@F66x Год назад
@@DieAlteistwiederda It's pretty consistent with "teh penguin of dewm randomness!!!" style of the time.
@will-love-lvx
@will-love-lvx Год назад
I think she IS the author, honestly. She's also a genius.
@asuka_the_void_witch
@asuka_the_void_witch Год назад
@@F66x someone please take me back to 2005 i swear i will do better this time 😭😭😭😭
@thebadshave503
@thebadshave503 Год назад
Tommy Talarico wrote My Immortal in 1998 and has 3 world records for it.
@rosalinecapulet
@rosalinecapulet Год назад
His mother is very proud
@marceline3771
@marceline3771 Год назад
You made me laugh so fucking hard. Such a niche joke, but I love it sm 😭😭😭
@thewingedporpoise
@thewingedporpoise Год назад
THANK YOU SO MUCH... God that was a video wasn't it
@alilordoftheskies5079
@alilordoftheskies5079 Год назад
Oh wow! Is his mother very proud???
@DesolatedChild018
@DesolatedChild018 Год назад
The problem with My Immortal is that in the middle of the night you have to pee - A fanfic racist
@duckydae
@duckydae Год назад
the funniest part is when they say that “my immortal” was autobiographical ‘minus the emo shit and being a girl’ as if the hogwarts stuff was totally legit 😂
@therealjohnrenzi1817
@therealjohnrenzi1817 2 месяца назад
Late reply but literally what is left if you take out "the emo shit"
@MagicalGirlFia
@MagicalGirlFia Год назад
Funniest thing is that the real author might’ve very well come out already. They might’ve just gotten drowned out over all the other sensationalized stories. I wonder how bizarre it must be to see your fanfic so ironically beloved that people lie about creating it. Probably really weird.
@petergriffin4609
@petergriffin4609 Год назад
that’s something i’ve been thinking is that the real author could be out there but with no proper proof because all of her accounts were nuked
@yelena86
@yelena86 Год назад
They’re probably an indie writer with books out already and we just don’t know it!
@hkazu63
@hkazu63 Год назад
I’m certain that they have. In some far flung corner of the net, the true author has come out and I dare think they’ve written something since. But no one’s going to know for sure bc I feel like it’s become part of the mythos. It’s everyone standing up in the cafeteria to say “I wrote My Immortal.” The mystery is part of the magic.
@thomasw4422
@thomasw4422 Год назад
There's this one Tumblr account I've been wanting My Immortal people to investigate for ages now Becuase of exactly this. I can't debunk it because I don't have the needed expertise. But is it real? Who knows.
@genericname2747
@genericname2747 Год назад
The real author is me. I inhaled an entire cup of weed then wrote My Immortal in a drug fueled rampage
@dastitone4044
@dastitone4044 Год назад
After I broke up with my ex of many years he went off the deep end and started telling the internet and Tumblr that I wrote My Immortal. I guess he just latched onto my favorite band being MCR, liking Harry Potter, and enjoying writing. And completely forgot that I was *eight* when My Immortal was written. Or that I didn't have internet until I was 15. You think someone would know you after so many years but people will believe *anything* they want for the hype.
@Spidertheidiot
@Spidertheidiot Год назад
That is probably the most hilarious break up revenge I've ever heard of.
@maightandmagic
@maightandmagic Год назад
damn you wrote my immortal so hard it just manifested on the internet, what an icon
@dastitone4044
@dastitone4044 Год назад
@@Spidertheidiot I haven't logged onto Tumblr since lol. I still can't tell if it was 100% an act of revenge or just apart of the psychosis.
@boogerparty
@boogerparty Год назад
A likely story, Ms. Gilesbie.
@dastitone4044
@dastitone4044 Год назад
@@maightandmagic Yeah it was actually telepathically transmitted from my developing child brain. Which explains both the absurdity, and poor spelling.
@unknown_limes
@unknown_limes Год назад
I hope that where ever the real Tara is nowadays, she's living her best life working in fashion and successfully ignoring the insane popularity of something cringy she made at 13
@liliesstarlight
@liliesstarlight 7 месяцев назад
I like to think that Tara is deep into her passion and is somewhat unaware that My Immortal is still a phenomenon to this day. like she may once in a while remember her fanfic, but thinks that people have forgotten about it and is just living her happy life. she does have social media, but is either rarely active or she is deep into a niche culture and is just oblivious to whatever is going on in the other parts of the internet. I know it is highly unlikely but I like to think that she just doesn't know about the hunt for her because of what an icon she is.
@TheAdarkerglow
@TheAdarkerglow Год назад
I just feel like 'My Immortal' is too unabashedly 'teenaged' that I can't imagine it being anything but earnest. Like, 'The Room' can't be made by someone trying to make a bad movie, you need passionate but incompetent direction and acting. There is a voice from the author in 'My Immortal', and it's excited to go to hot topic.
@panqueque445
@panqueque445 Год назад
If the author of My Immortal came out, that'd be a before and after moment on the internet. The BT (Before Tara) and PT (Post Tara) eras. Nay, human history. Move over Jesus, the new Messiah has appeared.
@jazzycat8917
@jazzycat8917 Год назад
Don't tell Todd, he'll write more bible fiction about it
@panqueque445
@panqueque445 Год назад
@@jazzycat8917 "Jesus was wearing a blood red robe..."
@ReptilianTeaDrinker
@ReptilianTeaDrinker Год назад
@@panqueque445 Oh no.... It has begun. lol
@sagecolvard9644
@sagecolvard9644 Год назад
Yeah, I'll incorporate that into my belief system, sure.
@maryn7097
@maryn7097 Год назад
My children, please, heed this elder millennial- Raven and Terra were characters on Teen Titans (and I guess still are on TTG), which was huge on Cartoon Network in the early-mid 2000s. I always assumed the actual My Immortal girls got their names from that and assume that other folks who use “Raven and Terra/Tara” are also pairing them together as an extension of that.
@mmgei5649
@mmgei5649 Год назад
Oh shit, that’s a good theory
@LilyoftheLake14
@LilyoftheLake14 Год назад
THANK YOU! I thought this, too! Lol. Also an elder millennial. Like, I was 16 when My Immortal came out in 2006 and was a self identified goth (though really more emo) since 2002, MCR replaced Linkin Park as my favorite band in 2005 which still hasn't changed to this day. I was also super into Harry Potter and LOTR, and other nerdy stuff. For all you know, I wrote My Immortal lmao. (I didn't tho... or did I? 🤷‍♀️)
@teethcoat4274
@teethcoat4274 Год назад
Don't worry, Teen Titans GO has both characters and that show is going to continue past the heat-death of the universe, so all future generations will know about Terra and Raven
@maryn7097
@maryn7097 Год назад
@@LilyoftheLake14 I wrote a lot of fanfiction circa 2003-2007, and it was primarily Harry Potter and Teen Titans crack fics, so of course My Immortal was entertaining to me. It wasn't the only one, but is the most iconic of that genre of fics characterized by self-inserts, absurdist humor, and intentional crappiness for the sake of comedy. There used to be a tons of fics of self-insert villains trapping the Teen Titans in their Tower and making them play truth or dare based on reader suggestions and shit like that and fics of that flavor occurred in other fandoms as well.
@missybarbour6885
@missybarbour6885 Год назад
I'm just surprised there wasn't a third friend named Starfire lol
@LiebeAixa
@LiebeAixa Год назад
as someone who posted cringe on quizilla in 2007 i can tell you spelling and typing weird was a huge part of having an emo/goth online persona (i think it was a myspace thing?) and you had to commit to it otherwise people might think you were a poser, which is why i'm not convinced by any of the fake authors covered in this video. if i still can't type normally after 15 years, someone like tara would definitely still have a distinctive typing style
@SixxIsTheMagicNumber
@SixxIsTheMagicNumber Год назад
this is a very important tidbit, because same
@manifestationsofasort
@manifestationsofasort Год назад
I'm an ex-emo and I still write like that lol. I still use lower case Is whenever I type without autocorrect.
@_Kuma_
@_Kuma_ Год назад
Yeah, exactly. Like the usernames, clothes mentions and everything… those were staples in emo/scene/goth culture in the early 2000s. I had several xXx____xXx usernames at the time lol
@EdenNeedsAYoutubeHandle
@EdenNeedsAYoutubeHandle Год назад
Any of y'all remember Vampire Freaks? It was a blogging/social media site that was all the rage for teen goths and emos circa 2005-2007. The lingo of that entire website was identical to My Immortal, down to a T. Source: I was a 13 year old emo kid with a Vampire Freaks profile in 2007
@simplysavyyy
@simplysavyyy Год назад
This my sisters texts still make no sense after all this time
@BinturongGirl
@BinturongGirl Год назад
I watched Sarah Z slowly lose her mind as every rock had Toby/Todd underneath it. It's almost nostalgic seeing Aeons experiencing the same thing.
@memoriam.victoriam
@memoriam.victoriam Год назад
i like to imagine that in the future someone laying on their deathbed will pull their loved one close and whisper in their ear ‘my darling, it was me. I am terra. gerard 4eva’ and then immediately die
@Jacob-Sophia
@Jacob-Sophia Год назад
Fake. It’s spelled gerrd.
@daman7805
@daman7805 Год назад
Every time I think I can be a great author I stop and remember my immortal, and realize it’s impossible, Tara is an impossible author to measure up to
@melleblanc9537
@melleblanc9537 Год назад
Shakespeare reincarnated
@yann6109
@yann6109 Год назад
The thing that always makes me suspicious about this "My Immortal confessions" is that everyone lean more into trollfic theory. Even if they say they were emo, it's always "bad on purpose" or "the worst fanfic" mastermind plan. I was never really active early on the internet but I saw it with my own eyes. I saw people uNiRoNiCaLlY WrItInG LiKe tHiS, using "fff" instead of "th" (or "w" in my language), 1337, roleplaying edgy characters using fancy fonts that often didn't work well with websites. I was friend with an author of written very seriously (and very poorly) fanfic, HP-Twilight crossover, which was changing plot from chapter to chapter, depending on her current interests (IIRC g0ff :* Hermione was the protagonist). Ofc I can't know for sure, but the idea of My Immortal feels very genuine for me and people claiming to write it, yet completely degrading it, don't gain my trust.
@jasminv8653
@jasminv8653 Год назад
Yeah it's honestly such a hilariously lame way to try and get clout - the reason for the mystery IS THAT IT IS BELIEVABLY GENUINE. You lot can't even commit to someone else's cringe and you expect us to find your fake confessionals funny? Smh.
@LocalTorchwoodIntern
@LocalTorchwoodIntern Год назад
It genuinely felt like an honest effort up until the hackings, and I will always believe at least the hackings part was true and the hackers either wrote or edited the drafts or just posted the messy drafts as a whole. And even if the real author did try to prove themselves I feel like they got disproved due to not being able to get back on the account cause of the hacking/ been so long that they don't have any of the recovery emails to try to get it back. Some of the weird oddities like Tom Bombadil or using Crookshanks as a spell couldve been from the author not knowing THAT much about HP (and either her or Raven caught it while editing) or the hackers doing. I just hope that both Tara and Raven are safe out there, no matter what alias their under now.
@sollumi3014
@sollumi3014 Год назад
wait ppl seriously wrote that way? i did the whole "random roleplay to friends" thing, where i out of nowhere was roleplaying as a character, and i did use weird quirky writing when i was into homestuck in 2nd grade in highschool... but i never would imagine writing in the weird way constantly and actually in serious tone. ofc i am not judging its just so weird to me
@sewerrat8096
@sewerrat8096 10 месяцев назад
@@sollumi3014 some of this "rawr XD" speak was still around in 2014-15 and I witnessed it first hand!! I remember when I was below the age of 13 I would also type in that style because I thought it was funny and quirky 🧍 it was very common on the pastel anime chibi art side of deviantart and yes people would consistently type like that. a sentence that evokes a primal fear in me is "i liek wafflez XD"
@squarefrog7932
@squarefrog7932 6 месяцев назад
@@sewerrat8096 you can still find people talking like that in some corners of the internet
@420Crows
@420Crows Год назад
i pray to the queer weird kid gods that teya is the first to fully find and confirm who raven and tara are (in a legal way that wouldn't break anyones privacy of course) and can be the first to be able to interview them both and ask the questions everyone wants the answers too
@gayoverlord2346
@gayoverlord2346 Год назад
Anyone who poses as terra and says: ‘I want to thank the fans for keeping this fic alive’ I immediately call bs on. I too wrote bad fanfic in that era, bad harry potter fanfic (despite only having seen like one movie and it wasnt the first one), and the idea of any of that work being “kept alive” is horrific.
@VincentMariethe4th
@VincentMariethe4th Год назад
I do hope Raven the Acidbath Princess & Tara are doing okay. They did NOT deserve to be harassed & threatened merely for fartin' around on the Tube. My own Gothy alias back in the day was "Thorn." On the surface it sounded cool & poetic, but secretly I was a huge fan of "Bone" by Jeff Smith. I've been recording a comedic reading of "Handbook for Mortals," & I can safely say it is the female answer to "Ready Player One." Yeah, I said it!
@cleothehermetichermeticist8391
Raven the Acidbath Princess is actually a professional dominatrix now based out of Dallas. Which is… a thing.
@VincentMariethe4th
@VincentMariethe4th Год назад
@@cleothehermetichermeticist8391 Really? Well, good for her!👍
@thequeenofcringe1585
@thequeenofcringe1585 Год назад
@@cleothehermetichermeticist8391that was not a sentence i expected to ever read but here we are i guess
@thewingedporpoise
@thewingedporpoise Год назад
Bone was really good and Thorn was absolutely awesome to be fair, so I get it
@DivinityFallen
@DivinityFallen Год назад
In 2013 I dated a guy who went by Krow online I don’t think he grew out of his cringe emo girl on the internet phase 😂
@jumpatrain245
@jumpatrain245 Год назад
Just as a side note, many of Tara's mispellings are also consistent with intentional, sort of coded, mispellings seen in pre-teen and teen texts at the time. Sort of a weird predecessor to emojis and gifs. This and the fact that Raven's work is distinct from hers in this manner adds to the argument that this was probably sincere and not just a troll.
@junoeclipse7715
@junoeclipse7715 Год назад
Raven and Tara are both Teen Titans characters, which anyone who was a teen in that era would know. I have to imagine that explains the parallel thought of my immortal and the yt videos
@Mantraheim
@Mantraheim Год назад
This was actually something that DawnDusk (Rose Christo’s brother) brought up, though it’s not mentioned in the video. Rose’s real first name was Terry, and she fucking LOVED Teen Titans.
@sophieanderson5555
@sophieanderson5555 Год назад
This and I'm pretty sure the "Dementia" middle name is a reference to the end of Addams Family Values where uncle fester meets the creepy love interest nanny and she explains her name Dementia means madness.
@ScarletRose1994
@ScarletRose1994 Год назад
My partner pointed this out to me while we were watching this and it blew my mind that I’d never noticed it before. I don’t know where exactly it fits on the My Immortal conspiracy board but I’m adding it.
@jasminv8653
@jasminv8653 Год назад
I was a tween then and definitely didnt know that lol
@emma-di5ly
@emma-di5ly Год назад
It would be such a power move if the real Tara releases a fashion line of all of Ebony's outfits. I would pay good money lol
@fossilfighters101
@fossilfighters101 10 месяцев назад
+
@AnneliesDeroy
@AnneliesDeroy 8 месяцев назад
Collab with Hot Topic when? lol
@emma-di5ly
@emma-di5ly 8 месяцев назад
@@AnneliesDeroy So true
@bashbashfulsson4540
@bashbashfulsson4540 Год назад
I can't believe Tommy Tallarico worked hand-in-hand with Tara Gillespie for five years to create My Immortal. Raven is very proud.
@alilordoftheskies5079
@alilordoftheskies5079 5 месяцев назад
I wonder if he reads it in his My Immortal themed room in his house (which was on MTV cribs BTW)
@MJTRadio
@MJTRadio Год назад
I remain irritated that damn Christo book wasn't able to be released for free or hasn't been leaked or something. Because among all these mysteries, a proofreader or someone DOES know the answer to, "How would this fan fic have helped find a kid in the foster system?" And I'd be entertained to know the answer to that at the very least.
@asuka_the_void_witch
@asuka_the_void_witch Год назад
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
@chrismorris6865
@chrismorris6865 Год назад
I've always wondered that too. I'm also curious as to why she didn't expect people would ask that exact question.
@MJTRadio
@MJTRadio Год назад
@@chrismorris6865 I imagine the proper explanation, however outlandish, was going to be in the memoir and she was just going to keep deflecting, "You'll learn the details in the book." Well, now there's no book and we still don't know the details. Ugh.
@aacsmiles
@aacsmiles Год назад
That was the question that made me call bullshit early on.
@friday13thirteen
@friday13thirteen 10 месяцев назад
and a super young kid too!! it would have been more believable if the brother was a tween when they were separated, and they used to love reading cringey fan fiction together or some other backstory where she could plausibly believe that if my immortal gained enough notoriety, the brother himself would find it and recognize their inside jokes or something. how does a bad fan fic help you track down a five year old??
@pagesofcameron
@pagesofcameron Год назад
My husband and I have a black friday tradition of watching the internet historians dramatic readings of my immortal before putting up Christmas decorations. I got him the published version for Christmas a few years back and he regularly refers to it as "the good book".
@dirtbagdeacon
@dirtbagdeacon Год назад
This legit made me LOL
@ao9688
@ao9688 10 месяцев назад
You two sound adorable. Love that for you both!
@andyb.3938
@andyb.3938 Месяц назад
I want this
@dylanholm1509
@dylanholm1509 Год назад
As an ex HP fanfic writer, I wouldn’t be surprised if one of both of them are more active in different fandom circles on ao3. Whether earnest or trolling, they clearly loved the fanfic world and most HP writers have splintered into other fandoms as they’ve grown as writers.
@fallenwarlock2418
@fallenwarlock2418 Год назад
20:23 Another detail: Toby/Todd allegedly doxxed Tara when he shared those emails. He didn’t censored anything when he posted them for the first time, so some subreddit users were able to trace the owner of Tara’s email address and posted their informations. If the emails were true, Toby/Todd was not only a weird guy, but also straight up violated Tara’s privacy
@PhoenyxV
@PhoenyxV Год назад
I've always kind of believed that My Immortal was an earnest effort, because I was around the same age, on the same website, at the same time (though in different fandom). I VIVIDLY remember author notes interacting with comments, arguing with flamers, ridiculously bad and poorly written stories that nonetheless received a lot of positive attention (mostly because a lot of us were overactive kids feeding on each others ridiculousness). Fanfiction in 2004 was a very different thing and I think a lot of what "discredits" it as a troll these days is the ffn purge itself. A lot of stores similar to this one were mass reported for poor spelling/grammar/lack of structure and removed, so there isn't a lot of comparable media. As much as we say "cringe is dead, embrace your weird" I can't think of anyone who would happily unearth their fanfic from 2003-2007 to repost if it was taken down for being so poorly written. Also I saw a comment in the previous video speculating that Raven and Tara were actually sisters (with Raven being maybe 2-3 years older, like 15 to Tara's 12) and now that idea is haunting me because it really seems so plausible on so many levels.
@valkyrie-randgris
@valkyrie-randgris Год назад
I mean, I was 13 in 2005, and Harry Potter fandom was how I learned about fanfiction. (Before quickly moving on to the YGO fandom.) and there has never NEVER been ANY doubt in my mind that "My Immortal" was a troll. Fanfiction WAS very different back then. Primarily it was even more looked down on then it is now, and shit teen girls enjoy was also quite possibly even more whined about then it is now. There is zero doubt in my mind that it wasn't a semi-malicious troll trying to take the piss out of fanfic, and the fact that there's still folks who thing "Oh well, of COURSE there could be a fic this bad" is just sad. C'mon now. Like the poster earlier said about the "Crookshanks" spell if the author was really as knowledgeless about HP as they tried to portray, we wouldn't have got moments like that. It's just all too neat? Conventions like authors notes and other weird relics might have died out, and there were definitely more intentionally wacky "I wrote this at 4am, uwu XD so RANDOM! Crack FIC!"'s back then perhaps, but honestly, from someone who's been reading fanfic since like 2003/4? It's not that disparate. (Especially when we take Wattpad into account, or hell almost EVERY creepy pasta for that matter, if we're willing to jumps genres and usual author's a bit.) Like, you can TELL a bad but genuine fic, and you can tell a troll. And My Immortal was absolutely a troll. Full stop. (Probably by a teen girl who was working through an "I'm not like other girls" complex if I had to guess. Maybe with an ex-friend who got into emo subculture or something. Just as a personal guess.) It's kind of absurd. People did not ever genuinely write or speak like that. Not even close. The best you could hope for if you're a "genuine My Immortal" truther is that it was an intentional cutesy convention / speech and writing pattern. That would have still been very before it's time/without peers even if that were the case. It would have been a really weird outlier, and one that was clearly/specifically meant to be mocking/parody of the subculture it was supposed to be a part of. Even if some parts of the story were genuine, the grammar and voice simply could. not. have. been. Online cadence was different then, sure, but it at no point looked like My Immortal does. There's a VERY good reason that My Immortal doesn't have a slew of contemporaries with similar "funny bad" writing. It didn't fit the pattern back then, and it's silly that it's been long enough that some folk have started to think it might somehow have been genuine.
@LocalTorchwoodIntern
@LocalTorchwoodIntern Год назад
@@valkyrie-randgris Ive read fics since maybe 2009 to now and can agree. I remember reading past authors notes and funny time skip messages brought to you by something random or the author 4th wall breaking into the story with their own commentary and the characters confused. And that was its charm, now getting into more professional style writing and finding your footing you just gotta go back and read your roots. If the author is still out there writing improved fanfics or books with a new name or account or is truly off the face of the internet or got disproved cause they got hacked and that part of the entire story was true and those new updates were from hackers. I just hope their okay lol. And if its just a trollfic or something the author doesnt want to own up with I dont mind that conclusion as well.
@allyli1718
@allyli1718 Год назад
I DISAGREE VEHEMENTLY. I was part of the YGO fandom during that time. My Immortal has all the conventions of those fics, but IT’S WAY TOO NEAT. I go back and read the types of fics I liked as a kid, and they’re bad or lol random but in a way that’s very amateur. There’s a messiness that gets VERY exhausting to read, hence why most Fanfiction from that time is just “so bad” instead of “so bad it’s good.” I think My Immortal’s charm is that it successfully copies the conventions of the time (flame wars, author’s notes, lolrandom humor, edginess, children writing) to parody them. Like, it has punchlines and comedically timed typos. It’s self-aware where 13 year olds aren’t. You’re being fooled by how accurate it is to the conventions, but that’s just a sign of a clever writer who understood the conventions they were parodying. It’s why all the bajillion of fake My Immortal wannabe authors sequels fail to gain an audience-My Immortal is genuinely a clever, campy piece of writing, even if it’s a parody of bad fanfiction. The wannabes don’t understand that and assume that what made it infamous was how iconically bad it was, so they just make really shitty fanfiction that copy the conventions with a bajillion typos and assume that it’ll get just as big. They don’t work because it’s genuinely hard to make fiction that captures the public as an amateur. It’s the difference between absurd typos and comedically timed absurd typos. For example, Tara would consistently write “Ta Ebony.” It looks like her misspelling her main character’s name by first writing her own name before remembering, which is hilarious because it reminds us how she’s writing a thinly veiled self-insert, like we’re looking behind the curtain and laughing at her. The misspelling creates a whole ass joke. But in real life, if someone were to write this, they’d be more likely to just write Tara, not catch it, and fail to edit it out with Ebony. Or, they’d start writing Tara, realize it should be Ebony, backspace, and rewrite it. It’s actually pretty implausible to catch yourself writing the wrong thing halfway through and replace it without deleting the wrong part. This hilarious “Ta Ebony” typo is unlikely in real life because that’s just not how typos work IRL, but it’s made anyway because it’s an intentionally absurd joke on the author’s part to parody self-inserts and fanfiction’s frequent typos. The fake my Immortal author wannabes don’t understand that it’s not just a typo, it’s a typo making a joke. It’s genuinely hard to consistently do that sort of thing on accident, so they fail
@thecatlurking
@thecatlurking Год назад
"I am agonized by this BORING-ass man" is a phrase I intend to use frequently for the rest of my life.
@-..A_Duck..-
@-..A_Duck..- Год назад
OKAY BUT: Did you find out which demon you should work with?
@jbone877
@jbone877 Год назад
Don't ask Peter
@IonIsFalling7217
@IonIsFalling7217 Год назад
Tara Gilesbie, clearly
@harpress
@harpress Год назад
inquiring minds want to know!
@wren1024
@wren1024 Год назад
I still need to know!
@VRiderB
@VRiderB Год назад
Probably the same demon working on chaotic lesbian nun merch I'm on hold with
@stapler942
@stapler942 Год назад
During his emo phase, Beethoven wrote his infamous "My Immortal Beloved" letter to Raven.
@michaela6040
@michaela6040 Год назад
I hate how well this pun works 😭💀
@emp6591
@emp6591 Год назад
Todd: "I'm a compulsive liar lol" Also Todd, 2 seconds later: "I did talk to the MI author I knew her!!!"
@pr0ntab
@pr0ntab Год назад
Either he knew one of them or he knew someone who had hacked their accounts and shared the password with him. He knows something but it sucks we can never trust any details that can't be independently corroborated.
@jordancasssandra
@jordancasssandra Год назад
I'm glad Tara wants to be a fashion designer! You can totally see her passion for it in her long descriptions of Ebony's outfits each chapter!
@diegodankquixote-wry3242
@diegodankquixote-wry3242 Год назад
If any of these fakers could just write a compelling and gothix ending to My Immortal, I would might consider it for a nanosecond. However They never do! How hard would it be for them to channel their gothic side from their teenage years?
@danigirii
@danigirii Год назад
is my immortal still in the internet? because i might... i kinda want to
@Nikkishops2022
@Nikkishops2022 Год назад
Maybe they're prepz now!
@yeah5895
@yeah5895 Год назад
@@danigirii the My Immortal wiki has all of the chapters.
@diegodankquixote-wry3242
@diegodankquixote-wry3242 Год назад
@@danigirii the full thing is on the lolpasta wiki
@dustyboialex
@dustyboialex Год назад
idk I mean I write nothing like when I was a 7th grader and I'm a freshman in college now! idk I agree tho
@notlurking2128
@notlurking2128 Год назад
The one thing that has always convinced me that it's a troll is when (I think) Ebony uses 'Crookshanks!' as a spell. That is such a weirdly specific bastardisation of stuff in Harry Potter. How would a person who knows base level HP lore even know about Crookshanks? And if you assume that it is serious, then what could have lead Tara to using 'Crookshanks!' as a spell? Did she just zone out for most of Prisoner of Azkaban and latch on that that word specifically? And if Raven was editing and actually read/ liked HP, then surely she would have picked it up? idk maybe It slipped by her, but for me it's the kind of thing that points to an intent to annoy fans 🤷
@LeylaKaratas
@LeylaKaratas Год назад
Totally agree! There's also this one part where she calls one of the HP characters (I think it was Tom Riddle) Tom Bombadil. That's a Lord of the Rings character and he didn't appear in any of the LotR movies. I find it kinda hard to believe that this goth tween read LotR (which is not an easy read by any means) but not HP, memorized the name and accidentally confused Riddle with Bombadil. I mean, that's such a niche character and casual fans or normies most likely wouldn't know about him. In my personal opinion the fic was written by someone who was genuinely interested in fantasy books/movies and wrote MI as a joke.
@notlurking2128
@notlurking2128 Год назад
@@LeylaKaratas YES! That was another example of it that escaped my memory lol. It's another weirdly specific example. It's like, the author sprinkles in these references to the art their parodying, but in a warped way that will just make most fans mad, but for someone who doesn't know the reference it just goes over their heads.
@lilyhatesgoogle
@lilyhatesgoogle Год назад
ok as someone who went through a phase like Tara did, my personal belief when it comes to parts like that is that she just thought it was funny. I don't think Tara really had any great love for Harry Potter and she probably just felt like saying something wrong for no reason, just bc it's funny.
@lilyhatesgoogle
@lilyhatesgoogle Год назад
@@LeylaKaratas ok ok with this one, I don't think Tara's life existed in a goffik vacuum, and I think that she probably just heard the name somewhere. Maybe from a dad or a brother? And then just decided to get it wrong on purpose, just because the sloppiness is fun and nobody can stop you. idk if I'm projecting but like these r things a kid going through this phase does, like just being strange and wrong about things on purpose just to get attention or a rise out of someone
@notlurking2128
@notlurking2128 Год назад
@@lilyhatesgoogle not trying to argue, but how would she even know about it? I can see a person putting in a "wrong" spell for comedic effect, but if she was disinterested in HP lore then why would she reference such a niche character? It would be like saying "I've only seen the star wars movies once!" And then referencing Plo Koon in the next sentence. It just doesn't track for me.
@Agoraphoboy
@Agoraphoboy Год назад
You reminded me of how every emo was forbidden to call themselves emo and denied it with their whole heart xD It was like fight club for labels. The first rule of being emo is to never admit you're emo
@aneisleeper5515
@aneisleeper5515 Год назад
YES before the hipsters did it
@asuka_the_void_witch
@asuka_the_void_witch Год назад
hmmm that sounds familiar..... where can i read up on this? "scene" was totally a word they used tho
@Shirumoon
@Shirumoon 11 месяцев назад
​@@asuka_the_void_witch Scene was okay to use because that term wasn't known in the wider population and was rather associated with the "popular kids" of myspace aka scene queens. Meanwhile emo quickly became a derogatory word to insult (sometimes gender non conforming) teens who wore alt fashion. Unfortunately I don't have any sources on this, we definitely need millenial youtubers dissecting emo culture from back in the day more.
@asuka_the_void_witch
@asuka_the_void_witch 11 месяцев назад
@@Shirumoon hmmm. i see. i'll trust your word on it
@friday13thirteen
@friday13thirteen 10 месяцев назад
@@Shirumoon hilariously, in my recollection "scene" became the new derogatory term once emo grew into the dominant alt subculture and lost its punch as an insult. people would get really mad if you called them scene because scene kids were perceived as coopting the aesthetics/music style of emo without being depressed enough to qualify lmao.
@ionlydressthatway
@ionlydressthatway Год назад
Whoever the real authors of My Immortal are, I hope that they have been enjoying the MCR return tour
@princembat
@princembat Год назад
i like to think that the writer has known about everyone searching for them basically the whole time but they were so embarassed by their crappy writing that they just dont dare let the world know who they are because itll follow them for the rest of their life, not to mention the hate theyd get. i hope tara and, if raven is a real seperate person, raven are living their best lives out there in the world, not having to deal with the stress of people knowing they wrote an infamous fanfic 16 years ago. with that said im gonna die so sad if we never find out one way or another lol
@LocalTorchwoodIntern
@LocalTorchwoodIntern Год назад
or my favorite is they did try to put out that they wrote it but was deemed fake by researchers cause they didnt remember the passwords or that they were genuinely hacked at that time or the FFNet purge was the OG creator trying to delete it before it got recovered.
@ZedaZ80
@ZedaZ80 Год назад
Oh gods, my partner's username in a lot of places was "bloodykisses" and they wrote fanfic around that time and they had a lot of common interests with Raven and Tara. I just asked if they wrote My Immortal, and they've denied it, but hot damn I was spooked for several minutes 🤣
@drewingyourdad
@drewingyourdad Год назад
it’s so much more magical to just believe raven and tara are real people
@ashetrash9534
@ashetrash9534 Год назад
Hey, just wanted to bring this up because I'm genuinely surprised no one has mentioned it as an alternate theory to Tara and Jennie living in Dubai, my first thought when trying to figure out 'dubya' based on pronunciation was 'W,' which led me to think that she may have lived in Washington state. Their interests are so in line in North American emo culture during that time and Hot Topic style, that I just feel like its more believable than a group of IRL friends whose interest in these things were *entirely* online as personas.
@asuka_the_void_witch
@asuka_the_void_witch Год назад
yeah this was talked about in the earlier vids =D
@ashetrash9534
@ashetrash9534 Год назад
@@asuka_the_void_witch I watched that one too though and she was more finding reasons it could be Dubai, and that Raven was more an online persona than we thought
@asuka_the_void_witch
@asuka_the_void_witch Год назад
@@ashetrash9534 sorry i mean the comments
@ashetrash9534
@ashetrash9534 Год назад
@@asuka_the_void_witch ohh interesting, thanks for clarifying
@WinterPains
@WinterPains Год назад
The mere possibility that I could've lived in the same state as the writers of My Immortal is terrifying.
@Pushing_Daisies
@Pushing_Daisies Год назад
The fact my immortal has its own Wikipedia article is horrifying
@EvenTheEevee
@EvenTheEevee Год назад
wait it has???? omg
@Spidertheidiot
@Spidertheidiot Год назад
@RobotBlue ... How did you fall down that rabbit hole?
@kaemincha
@kaemincha Год назад
it's cultural relevance is unparalleled
@irradiated_woman8016
@irradiated_woman8016 Год назад
Every thing and everyone with the _slightest_ significance has a wikipedia article, and, love or hate it, My Immortal is a hugely influential piece of internet culture! Yes that DOES feel weird to say, but as "internet culture" becomes more and more entwined with the society at large, these internet "artifacts" take on meaning akin to, well, any other cultural artifact...
@xXAcidBathXx
@xXAcidBathXx Год назад
You mean wonderful =)
@Margar02
@Margar02 Год назад
"I'm gonna fucking bite someone!" Is my new favorite exasperated exclamation!
@alyssasimon3310
@alyssasimon3310 Год назад
Raven and Tara are both the names of Teen Titans characters (Tara is Terra's real name in the comics) and Azar is the goddess Raven believes in, who gets mentioned a few times in the show. There's no way that didn't influence Raven and Tara the youtube channel
@ingrydjorgensen8110
@ingrydjorgensen8110 Год назад
I have a theory that My Immortal was written by a girl I went to high school with, because we had creative writing class together and she unironically writes like that
@LocalTorchwoodIntern
@LocalTorchwoodIntern Год назад
my gf's best friend has a theory that it was Stephine Meyer (yes, the author for Twilight) wrote it lol
@BiratesoftheCaribbean
@BiratesoftheCaribbean Год назад
@@LocalTorchwoodIntern i choose to believe
@arrow_of_ravenclaw5155
@arrow_of_ravenclaw5155 Год назад
I love my immortal. It’s an important piece of fanfic history. As a consumer and writer, I respect it
@squeemdweem
@squeemdweem Год назад
But what you don't know is that his name is actually Strange Aeons
@veesaos8316
@veesaos8316 Год назад
father strange mispronouncing undyne reminds me that despite feeling like a tight knit community, tumblr is multifaceted. we do not frequent the same sides of tumblr. teya doesn't know what undertale is
@karhu7581
@karhu7581 2 месяца назад
No, no way she hasn't heard of Undertale. She may not know anything about it except maybe funny sans skeleton man, but there is no way she isn't at least aware Undertale exists and is a video game.
@PatheticApathetic
@PatheticApathetic Год назад
At this point, there are 2 possibilities: 1. The real Raven and/or Tara is dead. Or, 2. The real Raven and Tara have actual lives now, and aren’t online often enough to even know that there’s this big online manhunt to find them lol Either way, we’ll never know
@user-mx2zp4qp2u
@user-mx2zp4qp2u Год назад
6:12 translation: “The next day, my band started to play. Draco decided to quit the band because of what we did last night. I was wearing a black Good Charlotte top which was ripped and a short leather skirt, which was also ripped. I had black lipstick on and white foundation and black eyeliner. I had a pentagram necklace around my neck and I had pointy high heeled boots on. My hair was all messed up. I wore black eye contacts. We (band) decided to write some new songs. One of them was called “Break Free of the System”. We played it.” It’s somewhat eligible if you add vowels and some grammar corrections.
@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494
@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 Год назад
*legible Sorry, the irony was distracting lol. But great work nonetheless. Thank you. 🙂
@ikeohno9767
@ikeohno9767 Год назад
The real reason we should've known that one was a fake sequel was because Tara would never have described an outfit that boringly
@answeringanemoia
@answeringanemoia Год назад
YES SPOON FEED US MORE MY IMMORTAL CONTENT STRANGE
@HeroOfLegend115
@HeroOfLegend115 5 месяцев назад
“Were you serious when writing this email???” is too good, please it must be real
@orgixvi3
@orgixvi3 Год назад
The My Immortal rabbit hole goes deep and gets very convoluted, very quickly. I feel like the true author will never reveal herself, because 1. The harassment she got as a child because of it and 2. There's been so many fakers that no one would probably believe her anyway.
@Anna-hb4uy
@Anna-hb4uy Год назад
The MCR tank. The safety pins. The internet lore. I needed this today, thank you Strange 🙏🏻
@wf00
@wf00 Год назад
My favorite theory pertaining to the author of my immortal is that it was written by Niel Cicierega. I think it had something to do with Potter puppet pals. Never struck me as his sense of humor though tbh
@maimtubeTV
@maimtubeTV Год назад
this is genuinely so funny to me bc like no imagine if it's true. imagine if neil confessed to being the author of my immortal in the year of our lord 2022. like what if he could prove it? imagine, neil cicierega, the potter puppet pals guy, the lemon demon guy, the touch tone telephone guy, having written my immortal. like, let it sink in. that would be such an off the walls thing to happen that it almost feels plausible, and it makes me wish we lived in that reality.
@wf00
@wf00 Год назад
@@maimtubeTV oh it is definitely best case scenario imo. I would trust nobody else as highly as I would him if it was genuinely his God-given duty to write my immortal back in the day... But I think if it was really him it would've been even more off the walls crazy and surreal which is what makes me doubt it among other things
@sydliminal
@sydliminal Год назад
I meeean, maybe it was actually emmy, his younger sister. not that I seriously believe that, but it'd be funny, tho
@thewingedporpoise
@thewingedporpoise Год назад
I mean it obviously wasn't but it's so funny to think about yet another massive Internet phenomenon actually being Neil Cicierega
@Jaxident
@Jaxident Год назад
The "bloody kiss" Raven and Tara may have come up with the name "Tara" since Teen Titans was pretty popular at the time, and the character Terra...well, she really hit home with a lot of emo kids in the early-mid 00s.
@Jaxident
@Jaxident Год назад
Also I can't stop laughing at the Ashley Tisdale "Never Gonna Give You Up," I didn't even know that existed
@bagofrazors2934
@bagofrazors2934 Год назад
I initially thought their name was a reference to the Type O Negative album.
@parrotenthusiast1181
@parrotenthusiast1181 Год назад
from the emails todd exchanged with tara i definitly believe she was a real teenager. my own personal thoughts on my immortal is that it started out as serious, but when tara and raven realized that people actually hated what they were writing they hammed it up, either to "stick it to the preps" even more or because they maybe hoped it would lessen the hate? idk, but i definitly think that behind the tara and raven personas were real teenage girls who genuinly enjoyed their work also i think things like the obvious troll cues were just jokes that they put in because they thought it would be funny
@pinkiepielunagirls4541
@pinkiepielunagirls4541 Месяц назад
that's my theory too, the fic starts off with decent grammar/spelling and has a relatively restrained plot. the true insanity comes later
@jelly_user9982
@jelly_user9982 Год назад
Don’t you think it’s weird how time is relative? 15 years ago teya was reading my immortal and twilight and I was being born.
@WolfmanBrown
@WolfmanBrown Год назад
I’m glad to see young people care about this stupid fanfic. It feels like it was published only yesterday.
@666kittycat666
@666kittycat666 Год назад
Linin Prak is definitely an all time classic
@heather2503
@heather2503 Год назад
Nub is shuc a great sonh
@asuka_the_void_witch
@asuka_the_void_witch Год назад
blink183 gets me EVERY SINGLE TIME tho
@bagofrazors2934
@bagofrazors2934 Год назад
@@asuka_the_void_witch “all the molecular specimen” is my personal favorite song by them
@asuka_the_void_witch
@asuka_the_void_witch Год назад
@@bagofrazors2934 wheeze
@henrygink
@henrygink 8 месяцев назад
The true millenial mysteries are "Who Wrote My Immortal?" and "What happened to Bella Goth?", just next to "how the fuck am I going to afford a house?"
@MalcolmCooks
@MalcolmCooks 8 месяцев назад
Tara is actually a fantastic goth name when you consider that americans pronounce it exactly how british people pronounce terror
@WhyAllTheGoodNamesTaken
@WhyAllTheGoodNamesTaken Год назад
My lesbian queen did you feel through the parasocial network that I was in a My Immortal mood? Outstanding! Blessings on you, your crops, and your hairless children!
@jgamer2228
@jgamer2228 9 месяцев назад
“Wait, it’s all Todd?” “Always has been.”
@salthal
@salthal 7 месяцев назад
I love how this fanfic indirectly got a bunch of random liars profiles to explode
@Nobody-hr4gt
@Nobody-hr4gt Год назад
I wrote my immortal. At the ripe old age of 1 years old I had been given access to the internet, and Harry Potter. After watching 2 movies, I considered myself an avid Harry Potter fan. I was in love with draco, and he surely with me. Although it could never be, not only because he is not in our universe, but mostly because despite wearing my favorite black eyeliner and red eyeshadow, and my most cursed corset, with red and purple in my hair, I unfortunately am an orange cat, who hates Mondays, and can't resist bloody lasagna, and draco could not see past my cat form, into my corpse green eyes. I also killed raven and drank her blood to absorb her goth powers (spelling and grammar). I have used these powers to pull draco out of Harry Potter and get married and have children with him. Our children's names are Gerard, Shadow, Raven, and Nightshade, and we love them very much. Draco is unemployed, and I got us super rich by selling clothes. I had no idea I was so popular. I really would've come back sooner if I knew. I appreciate every single one of you, as a battery for my gothic power. Fangs evry1!!!
@painslut
@painslut Год назад
The most realistic and flawless confession out there...Go home guys, we found 'em !
@catboymiles7224
@catboymiles7224 Год назад
lmao i think part of the reason why people use toby more often as a name for that person is because it could imply to someone who knows less about this that the man the myth himself, Toby Fox, made My Immortal
@LocalTorchwoodIntern
@LocalTorchwoodIntern Год назад
I hate that my second choice of someone making My Immortal as a trollfic was Neil Cicerga
@dr.archaeopteryx5512
@dr.archaeopteryx5512 Год назад
You wrote my Immortal, she wrote my immortal, I wrote my Immortal! Are there any more my Immortal writers I should know about?!? Meow
@witchywoman2008
@witchywoman2008 Год назад
The Rose Cristo thing was one of the wildest things I’ve ever heard. I was glad when she was exposed because I really didn’t want that to be the true story of My Immortal hahahah
@JadeCryptOfWonders
@JadeCryptOfWonders Год назад
Strange Aeons' coverage of My Immortal fakery is up there with Hbomberguy's expose of Tommy Tallerico claiming he made the OOF sound, I never got to the bottom of the memoir drama until now.
@owenrichmond2
@owenrichmond2 Год назад
wasn’t the real author of my immortal the friends we made along the way though?
@EmissaryofWind
@EmissaryofWind Год назад
"Todd the Confessor" is right, dude loves confessing
@translarrybutz
@translarrybutz Год назад
The beginning of the Christo section of the video reawakened so many memories of being on Tumblr at the time of the "a native american lesbian wrote my immortal" saga People drew fanart of her and Raven, and wished her well, and generally found the whole situation of a seemingly cool person having wrote my immortal and is on tumblr (I also remember "any one of us could be the my immortal author" or "i cant believe that the my immortal author has a tumblr" type posts before the blog was revealed) The opinion of the masses very quickly changed after the kiwifarms thing, but my memory is less clear on what people posted about at the time It was a whole ass time to be on the site
@jojol.2630
@jojol.2630 Год назад
Yo I was just thinking the same
@nickalexander3755
@nickalexander3755 Год назад
The thing about Todd is that, like, yeah. It's funny that it's just all him. It's like the Spider-Man meme where they're all pointing at each other. But it's also like...really sad? This guy feels so worthless that he has to bully *himself* to get attention. It's a form of self-harm and it's...really pitiful.
@uh_logan
@uh_logan Год назад
I feel like at this point if the original author ever did come out, nobody would believe them lol
@LocalTorchwoodIntern
@LocalTorchwoodIntern Год назад
felt that too, that maybe the hackings were real on her end and cause she couldnt get on the account to confess or confirm it was her, people didnt believe her and went on with the research
@keywashere
@keywashere 7 месяцев назад
The Dubai thing feels like Tara was told about internet safety and Raven or some parent in her life was like ‘oh; don’t use ur real name or say where ur from!’ And so she put a random country in there lmao (it’s just a theory I’ve never seen before)
@TheGrinningViking
@TheGrinningViking Год назад
One day we'll find out that a girl named Tara Galespe was hit by a train right when my immortal stopped updating and it will be very sad.
@mileswolfers
@mileswolfers Год назад
I hope Tara designs clothes for Hot Topic. Imagine if they released a whole My Immortal line...
@VaatiOfDarkness
@VaatiOfDarkness 5 месяцев назад
I want those boots with Joel all over them. And the ones with Billie Joe Armstrong on them. And the Greenday shirt with Billy Joel with blonde hair.
@teatonix3470
@teatonix3470 Год назад
i knew you wrote my immortal all along. this is so cool
@0nebulae0
@0nebulae0 Год назад
i believe with all my heart that the real author will never come clean and she's snickering in a corner watching all this unravel
@TheLovettes118
@TheLovettes118 Год назад
as a former Girl Writing Cringe Fanfic Online during the late 2000s and early 2010s i've never been that convinced by the troll theories because it seems too much like the very earnest and genuine fics my friends and i used to write around that time, even down to the specific style of bad grammar
@asuka_the_void_witch
@asuka_the_void_witch Год назад
i could see myself having done this if i was 2-3 years younger at that time, definitely.
@marcgrafgregorio8751
@marcgrafgregorio8751 Год назад
For me, Knowing who *✨actually✨* wrote MI is the Tumblr related equivalent = RPDR related “Knowing what Willam *actually* did on Season 4” And I want to know both so so so bad 😭
@camx3316
@camx3316 Год назад
Willam was letting people in the hotel when you're not supposed to have outside influence right? Or was it banging the producer?
@shawnalynn5198
@shawnalynn5198 Год назад
Fucking production, letting his bf come to the hotel when they were supposed to be sequestered, and to a lesser extent getting the queens drunk and high the whole time.
@notanotherhimbo5060
@notanotherhimbo5060 Год назад
@@camx3316 Willam's story changes depending on the day, but they came up with the husband going to the hotel room thing for the finale
@np8041
@np8041 Год назад
If I was a hacky, totally-not-nutso, fanfic obsessed guy named Todd. I, too, would attempt to take credit for the chef's kiss that is My Immortal.
@rfrolicarts
@rfrolicarts Год назад
Thank you for giving me something to entertain my brain while I do some mind numbing chores for an hour. I would have been a shitty pioneer.
@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494
@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 Год назад
A lot of them talked to God while working. Apparently He frequently talked back, which is inspiring, concerning or entertaining, depending on your perspective.
@emilyrln
@emilyrln Год назад
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 Omg lol "So then Hiram hitched ol' Bessie to-" *YOU MISSED A SPOT.* "Thank you, Jesus! So he hitched her to…" 😂
@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494
@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 Год назад
@@emilyrln LOL This is brilliant 😀
@elizabethb4168
@elizabethb4168 Год назад
I mean, a lot of them would actually talk to each other and tell stories while working to pass the time, so you're just doing the modern equivalent
@fusetunes
@fusetunes Год назад
When I was like 12 I wrote a story about how an obvious self-insert went on vacation and, all in one day, stayed at a custom-built hotel with Jhonen Vasquez murals on the walls, went to a private screening of Invader Zim episodes in a custom-built Zim themed theater, and toured the Nickelodeon Studios building that used to be in Universal, all while comic relief versions of the show's voice actors tagged along. Even though I think My Immortal has some pieces that seem to 100% have been made for comedy, there was definitely some real interest in emo and goth culture in there too. Never underestimate young girls having unlimited power to write whatever they want!
@noraunhappy
@noraunhappy Год назад
Regardless of original intention, Tara gave us a truly amazing narrative with My Immortal. And, even more interestingly, managed to give us another decade and a half of amazing content entirely out of her control with all these wild conspiracies. And from the looks of it we’ll probably have a years and years more of this kind of content because we’re no closer to Tara’s identity than we ever were.
@dani.5087
@dani.5087 Год назад
I forgot how connected Handbook for Mortals was to the 2017 My Immortal scandal and the mention of it did unexpected psychic damage oh my god
@jas1769
@jas1769 Год назад
the way we are so close to stranges complete reading of my immortal
@kaix-df9kt
@kaix-df9kt Год назад
I literally cannot wait
@mxknifefight
@mxknifefight Год назад
*'THEY'RE ALL TODD !'* is like the antithesis hbomberguy's *'IT'S ALWAYS JOEY !'* what compels people to lie so incessantly on the internet for niche fame is beyond me lol
@LateNightTableCo
@LateNightTableCo 11 месяцев назад
52:08 "WHAT THE FUCK IS UP DENNY'S?!?" "WE'RE HERE TO DEBATE THE GENDER OF MY IMMORTAL'S AUTHOR!"
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