#I wake up and think about gl!Charlie and gl!Ranboo

[caesurah-tblr]

I’m not ready for the hype to fade… Im still brainrotting as hard as I was when the first episode released.

[sathellio]

for the genloss ep 1 anniversary I'm rewatching the first vod and I have MORE THOUGHTS?? who knew this was even possible

1. hearing the music and watching the Showfall logo appear at the very beginning has me in my feels. this moment a year ago literally changed my life

2. yes, the Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde reference is very good, but Right After that Ranboo goes "ow, my head" AND I- we already know they wake up with their arms still in the crucified position so we know this is a time loop thing and the box ending has happened before, but I haven't heard anyone notice that line?? did we just never pick up on that or am I late to the party?? either way ouch

3. if I had a nickel for every time gl!Ranboo dug into something's/someone's guts for a key I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice (bats in ep 1 and Charlie in ep 2)

4. BOO BITCH

5. during the bat cpr moment I never noticed that after Charlie said "to the rough beat of staying alive" he says "I didn't" lmao

6. Charlie's dead stare then the slow pan over to the broken urn is so funny

7. "there's, there's Nothing In the Fridge!" "goo goobie!!"

8. "es splaghebbi"

9. god there's so many good quotes

10. Squiggles says "I can't take any more Loss of these characters" and I know that's just silly goofy referencing the title, but also, all of them were doomed from the start. we know this, and Showfall knows this, but they really told us in the very beginning and we just didn't understand

11. I quote "it's an 8 hour flight" so often

12. I love the soundtrack so much oh my god

13. I also love Sneeg's sass this is fantastic

14. the lights flickering when Charlie pops out of the box is a nice touch

15. why did Ranboo blind himself with a flashlight two (2) separate times

16. *Bat*

17. why does Charlie's room have jello on the shelves

18. the way Ranboo says "I'm gonna go to bed" scratches my brain

19. also how Sneeg says "you would've known ~had you been awake~"

20. do you think gl!Ranboo was confused about finding an exact replica of his jacket in the basement box

21. I love Charlie's fighting idle motions they're so good

22. "what the fuck" *falls off tricycle*

23. man Ranboo really has a record for missing their towel throws (iykyk)

24. ugh seeing the ending of ep 1 for the first time was INSANE

I'll probably do this for ep 2 and 3 on their respective anniversaries! live laugh goo goobie

[kalcifers-blog]

[CW for talking about/descriptions of scars and gore]

Currently thinking about. GL! Charlie "waking up" from Showfalls control in the third episode and discovers an array of different scars all over him at varying stages of healing. The most concerning of which being fresh surgical stitching on his torso- and two small hard lumps on the opposite sides of his scalp, only barely being covered by his hair.

They don't hurt him physically- but there's a deep seated wrongness about their presence. He has barely any memory on how they got there, but the longer he stays awake, the more he starts to remember the absolute horror this company forced him to go through for the sake of "entertainment".

(I personally feel like the green horns are actually horns, like Showfall physically made Charlie grow fucking horns out for the one episode- they appear to look like slime because they're still covered in blood and gore from being forced through his fucking scalp)

Good God Ranboo needs to fucking pay for my Therapy bills because thinking about this shit has been eating away at my brain (/POS LMAO)

[just-little-confused]

Generation Loss final spoilers

This is so chaotic, and I'm so sorry for that, but I need to put my thoughts into words.

Gl!Ranboo is such a fucking tragic character he wakes up in the cabin and has no idea where he is and what is going on and his only possibility of taking his fate in his hands gets taken away in the matter of minutes. Then, they are just being mind control, fully stripped away from their consciousness. He's forced to do horrible things that end up having even worse consequences and all of this is for a fucking entertainment! In the third episode he not only gets fully manipulate by who turns out to be the bad guy and not the savior that he claims to be but we also find out that Ranboo and Charlie are no longer themselves. They don't have their memories, their own personalities, fuck knows how long have they been stuck like this and then there is no possibility for a good ending it's either death or never ending suffering that Gl!Charlie already experiences because he seems to be recasted/repurposed for the needs of showfall media. He's never going to be free unless he becomes useless to them. And Gl!Sneeg is just another player in their fucking game he may have been stuck in this show since childhood maybe he just got there who knows?! What's worse when Ranboo finds him he's in a fucking cage with a corpse of his friend and when he gets a chance to get his own consciousness back after the hat gets put on his head and tries to save himself not only does he have to experience the horror of awareness about how bad his situation is but soon his chance is taken away from him and just like everyone in the show goes back to being fully controlled. Literally all of those characters have such a heartbreaking stories and what is even more tragic is the fact that there is no happy ending for neither of them there is only death or the constant recasting. And at the end it turns out it's already a recorded tape, so there was no choice it was just a fucking illusion of a choice. I don't think I can even dive into thinking about the rest of the cast they're just pawnsin showfall's fucking show. I love Generation Loss so fucking much it's such a good story but fuck it makes me do mad and sad.

[subaerial-dweller]

Hello there! I've woken back up, I'm going to post more funny silly little Generation Loss thingies. Yesterday we evolved from theories to ideas to headcanons, it was wild. Anyway! More Generation Loss things I thought of when I was rewatching.

PART FIVE: LIVE OR DIE

By far my favourite/most painful part of the series to watch was when we had to choose whether GL!Ranboo lived or died. I chose Live, I don't know if I regret that now, because obviously if he had lived he would be, uh, recycled, and just made to perform over and over again. But something that I really find interesting is this choice is the only choice we make that has a huge impact on the story. Everything else was insignificant, really. It impacted the details, the character's words, but nothing else. It doesn't matter if the monster was part pickle, it always would have dragged GL!Sneeg away like that. It doesn't matter what goes into the slime dish, the Slime Demon would have approved either way. Or maybe he wouldn't have. Obviously GL!Sneeg failed the slime challenge, he was put in that cage for a while, so maybe it did all matter. But out of universe, we were always going to have three episodes.

When it came to Episode 2, I got all twisted up in the choosing who to live or die on the merry-go-round, but I think that's just my delightful overthinking morally panicked brain. And either way, everyone there died. Well, "died". Or maybe actually died. OK I have a lot of thoughts right now this could be the topic of another time.

But the point is, Live or Die in the third episode directly affected our person here, and it altered the storyline irreversibly. Ranboo would live on, or he would die. It felt like it mattered.

And obviously we chose Die. At the time, I was swearing under my breath (it was super late and I couldn't wake anyone up, so it was quiet) and crying just a little. But now I think, that's a cool ending. It's a good ending.

SO. Onto the actual theory part of this. What happens when a character is chosen to live or die?

I think if they live, they go right back to the beginning. They might get repurposed as another character, like I was talking about in my other rants, and they might have to step aside to being in a supporting role. Like how Slimecicle in Episode 2 had clearly played Mousetrap before, but now he's the body to be sliced open. And GL!Sneeg had done the slime thing before, but then he was the support character locked up with Frank.

So if they had lived, GL!Ranboo would be dragged off to have another run of it, maybe. I'm only going with the "multiple repetitions of the same show" because the other characters look like they've done it before, and it's a cool concept.

But if he dies?

I reckon he's just gone. They're dead. This isn't revolutionary, given that the option chosen was "die", but I think he's just gone. I don't know about what people are saying about he's going to be the Heart, but I do like the idea of GL!Ranboo becoming the TV monster thingy we see kill Charlie in episode 3. I don't know how I'm going to fit it in my head yet, but it sounds great! So yeah, there you go.

Adding onto that, I think there are two types of death that Showfall Media creates in their shows. One is when the character is dead, but not the actor. Like GL!Niki, for example, I think she's alive, but not her character. She'll be repurposed next round, probably. She's not dead dead, same with Vinesauce, same with Ethan, same with Austin, same with Sneeg, same with Charlie (maybe, I don't actually know on this one. His other deaths, as the Slime Demon and Patient Slime, seemed like this first type of death: the character, not the actor. But the last one was pretty gory, full on. So I don't know). But they're not dead, they're going to return in the next run of The Social Experiments. Not as themselves, and not for us.

The second type of death is the actual death death. Like, this guy is dead and gone and never coming back. This is GL!Ranboo, Frank, maybe GL!Charlie in Episode 3. Like, they're gone gone. Frank, I'm assuming he died in an accident, Showfall didn't mean for that to happen. Charlie, I don't know about, really. I'll have to rewatch Episode 3 again, just to see. Ranboo, they're gone. We chose die, and they died. Dead and gone and never to return.

Of course, I could be absolutely wrong. Because there are a bunch of contradictions with the whole this-is-a-loop theory and two-types-of-dead theory. Why didn't any of the other protagonists who took their turn (Sneeg, Charlie, Vinesauce), why didn't they die? At the very end, when the audience had to vote, why did every single time, they chose live for these characters, but Ranboo died? Well, Ranboo begged to die, and after that the vote swung drastically to the die option. So nobody else begged? But they also might have not gotten past the other episodes. Sneeg was trapped in the basement, he didn't make it past the cooking challenge, and Patient Slime swallowed the Mousetrap piece because he was going to lose. So maybe they just didn't make it.

As an argument against this theory not making sense (while still agreeing that it may very well be completely wrong), maybe everyone else who got all the way through to the end and the audience chose Die, maybe they all actually died. Now obviously people can't return from the second type of death, so we just don't know about them. They existed, and then they didn't, and now we live in ignorance.

OK! Glad to see some people like these. Thanks for reading, if you got this far!