#Internet rabbithole

[georgetheferret]

I actually have no clue if it's a fixation or a spin but yeah I'm doing this idc if this post is from like 5 years ago

I also might have got sum things wrong so please correct me kindly if that happens

prepare for a long yapping session.

📃 it doesn't really have a plot whatsoever and half of the content is just nonsense from like 2015 on scratch (yes, the coding website with the damn cat)

📌 I found it during like early October 2023 while I was on picsart looking for content of a OLD hyperfixation I had called "fluvsies" and then I found this sticker of the Main character named "aarex" and I thought "who is this character????" So I decided to look him up on google lens then boom 15+ months later now I've been thinking about the characters

✨ what's so interesting about it is that it's a unique internet rabbithole that's KINDA similar to multiple other rabbitholes (e.g the closing logo community, goanimate/Vyond community and greeny phatom) and if you like obscure weird internet stuff then I highly recommend you to fall down this rabbithole (just be mindful that it's mostly full of inflation deviantart slop tho so if that irritates you then ignore that stuff)

💕 it's aarex because it's aarex, he is aarex. I don't have anything to say he's just aarex.

🍀 aarex because it's aarex!!!

💎 1. the FORMER creator of it is no longer on scratch cuz he got banished due to him making like 7-8 (?) alt accounts and now he works on Googlogy (study of large numbers) and game development at the moment of writing this

2. All of the characters are the same with different colors (regular show reference lmao)

3. I genuinely don't know of what to put here

💢 please stop with the fifa world Cup mascot fart inflation vore feet deviantart slop, I just wanna look at the funni blue cyborg without being forced to look at SLOP on deviantart. Just please. Please.

media hyperfixation ask game!

this can also be applied to special interests! if you have multiple, put them in the tags so people who send asks can specify which hyperfixation/spin they’re asking about. 📃 what is the plot of your hyperfixation? and is it a movie, game, show, etc? 📌 how did you find your hyperfixation? ✨ what draws you towards your hyperfixation? what is interesting about it? 🎥 do you have any favorite scenes from your hyperfixation? 🎶 if your hyperfixation has songs/an ost, what is your favorite song from it? 💕 tell us about one of your favorite characters and why you like them! 💔 tell us about one of your LEAST favorite characters and why you dislike them. 🏳‍🌈 do you have any headcanons (lgbt, race, neuro, etc) that are important to you? 🍀 do you have any kins or comfort characters from your hyperfixation? 💎 are there any fun facts or trivia that you would like to share? 💢 what do you NOT like about your hyperfixation? is there something you would want to change about it?

[meeda]

creepy tinkerbell - a spotify mystery

A few weeks ago I stumbled across a weird Spotify mystery. I was listening to music and decided to let the algorithm take over, which means I let the app find me similar music to the one I searched up, in this case it was the song Hollow by Björk.

I listened to a couple songs, which were nice. Then the third song played. It was titled Creepy Tinkerbell by Marigold Sweat. Unusual names, but then again I was looking for unusual music. It was an uplifting, energetic, but jarring tune. But there was nothing about it that really stood out to me and I forgot it as soon as it ended.

A few other songs played, which were more or less kinda weird. Then a familiar sound came up. It was Creepy Tinkerbell again, but repackaged as a different song by a different artist. This time it was called Momkukr by Xecritirians. It was literally the same song, with a slight variation. I was confused, but I skipped it.

A few songs later and I hear Creepy Tinkerbell once again. But this time it was called Pharaoh by Halsey Sutherland.

Now I was getting curious. So I looked at the artists profiles and found some interesting things.

Each artist has only three songs on their profile and this one is always one of them.

The other songs are less jarring than Creepy Tinkerbell but all sound very generic.

Their album covers, profile pictures, and headers are always these weird, stock image type photos.

All their songs were uploaded December 2022, have thousands of listens, and the artists have 50-250 monthly listeners.

And now I have a ton of questions. Is this a glitch or is it all intentional? Who the hell is behind this? Are they bot accounts? What even is this song and why does it sound like that? Who wrote it? And why does this song come up three times under different artists when I searched up Björk?

I tried doing some research on this strange occurrence. I found some people on Reddit talking about similar experiences, but none mentioned this particular song. Some possible explanations I came across ranged from ai generated music to crime gangs using the app for money laundering. Regardless of the reason it’s shitty that Spotify has so many of these fake songs/accounts on their platform, and it’s wild how easy it was for me to stumble across them.

[arizonaadjacent]

I have never been accustomed to not caring about information. I care about a lot of things, constantly researching random things, multi-disciplinarily, at the drop of a whim; I’m like an ADHD stereotype 💡

But, this time, I don’t care; I genuinely don’t care, and it has nothing to do with a lack of dopamine; it is fundamentally, paradigmatically, out of my range of caring.

[dandelionsandderivatives]

While I was languishing on the bed of illness last week, I spent a lot of time reading up on American Girl Doll lore. Dear followers, you may see a lot of American Girl content in the following weeks. I say this not to apologize, but to entice.

[sad-eyed-lady-of-the-paperbacks]

I don’t know how I never discovered Petscop before. I guess looking at the dates, it came out during a time I wasn’t online as much. If it had come out a few years earlier I would have been all over it.

But instead, I just stumbled across the completed series yesterday, and damn. It resonated so deeply with me. I have very little idea of what the hell is going on in terms of any kind of coherent linear narrative, but the raw emotions and themes? Haunting.

I’m going to ramble a bit under the cut, and this is going to go into some really dark themes. Trauma, violence, child abuse, lots of dark implications. Also spoilers for a webseries that is over 5 years old and probably everyone but me has seen at this point.

One part of dialogue in particular, or rather a note, is just playing over and over in my head. It’s one of the most chilling things I’ve ever read, and what makes it so effective is how much it leaves to cryptic, horrifying, but very poetic implication.

Your wife says, “Care isn’t growing eyebrows.” You say, “That’s a puzzle.” You’re secretly very excited to hear this news. You’re in the bathtub thinking about her. I have a guess at which child you’ll pick next. When you find her room, the passage to my right will lead to her. She’ll appear from the darkness, limping, and I’ll shoot her in the head. Tiara says young people can be psychologically damaged “beyond rebirthing.” A young person walks into your school building. They walk in with you. You’re holding their hands. They come out crying into their hands, because nobody will love them. Not ever again. “Nobody loves me!” They wander the Newmaker Plane.

This is a note from Rainer to, presumably, Marvin. Later, in Toneth’s description, Rainer begins to rant about his dog getting hit by a car and surviving, and him being the only one who still wanted to put it down, because “A dog is an innocent” and he believed that even when the dog wagged its tail after that, it wasn’t real. This immediately made my mind go back to the quote: “She’ll appear from the darkness, limping, and I’ll shoot her in the head.”

And it made me reflect on the A, B, and NLM states that Rainer assigns to Care before, during, and after her abduction. Later, in the “Care A” description, Rainer expands on this, applying it also to his brother, Michael.

When the emergency began, you were all looking for Care A. I told you all, we would never find Care A. When Care A goes missing, she goes missing forever. My brother didn’t want us to find him, because he knew we were all looking for Michael A.[…] If you think they’re worth any effort, see if you can save Care B, or Care NLM. Care B is in the school, of course.

For Rainer, this A/B/NLM divide is absolute, and there is no recovery possible, which is also implied in the quote he attributes to Tiara. Once the dog has been hit by a car, it should be put down. Once Care emerges from the darkness, limping, she should be shot in the head. He refuses to entertain the possibility that someone can come back from a traumatic experience and be happy again. You can try to salvage what’s left of them in their B or NLM states, if you think it’s worth the effort, but they’ll never be A ever again. That is what Rainer believes.

Interestingly, I think it’s possible that Rainer himself was abused by Marvin (“I’m back. This is my Christmas gift to you” implies that he himself was also missing, wandering “the Newmaker Plane.”) But he does not seem to place himself into the category of victim. Above, he refers to Marvin’s victims as “they”, “them.” Not “we.” Rather, he seems to categorise himself as being culpable together with the adults in the family (“Fuck you all, and fuck me as well.”) Paul says that Rainer (Daniel) was older than the other kids, so it’s very possible that he might blame himself for “failing” to protect the others. Or worse, he might have even been pulled into playing a role in abuse, or otherwise perpetuated it.

I believe that from the description ending on the ominous note of “Merry Christmas. Check your bathroom now.” we are to assume that Rainer killed himself. This would certainly feel like the inevitable conclusion of the nihilistic, hopeless, wounded perspective we have been given glimpses into through his various notes and through the design of his game itself.

But rather than support Rainer’s tragic outlook, the series gives me hope in how it ends. Paul rebelling against what Marvin tries to make him participate in, “closing the loop” and putting Care in the safest place he can think of really got to me. And that last scene between Paul and Belle/Tiara at the end of the soundtrack… Oh my God. The gentle blueish dawn on the Newmaker Plane. “Boss” (Lina??) “waiting for her son.” !!!!!! And this. Oh my God.

Belle: Do You Remember Being Born? Smuggled Away Driving Too Your New House

Boss In Driver Seat

Me In Back

I Could Not Wait Too Be Your Friend

Paul: Family

Belle: We Can Investigate This Together

This made me actually cry. It’s so utterly beautiful and hopeful. They did it.

I don’t pretend to fully understand everything that’s going on here or who all the characters are, but I kind of think that’s not the point. I know when this was coming out people were treating it as an ARG to be solved, but I don’t see it that way. I think it’s just a piece of art to be interpreted, and resonates beyond any one literal narrative or meaning.

Also, the other part that made me cry was watching Care’s dancing video synced up to “The Sign” by Ace of Base. It just struck all the right chords: a song straight from my own childhood, the fact that making a video game avatar dance to a popular song is absolutely something I did as a kid and just imbues the character of Care with so much humanity, the fact that the literal meaning of the lyrics is so cathartic after all that Care is implied to have gone through… God it just got to me.

[julesnichols]

My great uncle randomly found my mom's recipe for turkey gravy and emailed it to me??

[scrambleseggy]

I do like the “touch grass” mantra not in literal touch grass sense but in a “my mom is a QAnon conspiracy theorist because of facebook” sense

[grinchheadsincorporated]

my dearest grinchheads, we have returned. We have not returned emptyhanded, as we have a significant lead in our search. Before disclosing said lead, we find it important to emphasize that in our absence, we did not grow bored of this search. It has been a trying few years, and this search has taken us to some wild places, some of which we weren't able to update on here on this blog. Without further ado, we have found the active youtube account of who we believe to be the original artist and creator behind the blenda character. We have requested an interview with the suspected artist that we would no doubt post here, for you grinchheads to sink your teeth into. If we do not update again, presume us dead, or still in search of the elusive blenda. Until then stay strong, stay vigilant my grinchheads.

-hoops and J,

grinchheads inc.

[take-me-to-valhalla]

I like to read an author's blog where he talks about productivity and all the kind of gadgets he uses to get better at it.

I love the sentiment, but.

From my experience, you don't need a special $$$ typewriter or monthly apps or anything to get things done when, like me, you have trouble focusing when the Whole Internet is Out There.

Just get a shitty, 200€ computer. Or even less. Like the one I use.

The poor thing can't handle three mozilla tabs at the same time. It cannot read Youtube videos without lagging like crazy.

So what I do is go to a café (if I want to pretend I'm Hemingway) or to the library (since I'm not made of money) to write. I share my phone's data to access my Scribbook account and I use Spotify to blast some white/pink/green/whatever noise to block out the outside world. Using my phone's data means that if I want to use it to scroll tumblr, it will make my Scribbook page crash. I do not want that, so I keep off tumblr. And since I cannot open too many tabs at once, all I can do is write/look up some word or wikipedia page.

10/10 method, I recommend it to everyone, adapt it as you wish, together we will Focus and Write

[snekdood]

anyways i think ive posted this before but the ADL and whatever "rational wiki" is (heard something negative abt it once idk what its about but) both have good index's on dogwhistles to look out for, of course for some things its hard to tell but take context clues and if they use a bunch of other dogwhistles into consideration if you suspect someone is alt right, also consider that some people are essentially taught this stuff w/o context of what it really means sometimes and might just use dogwhistles bc they dont know any better (thinking of minors here mostly). either way gauge for yourself if its safe enough to stick around to find out.

[kangaracharacha]

it really is so funny, every night, 10pm on the dot, no matter where i am or what i'm doing, out like a light

i'm on the couch hustling nano sprints thinking about eating dinner and 9:55, straight up, my eyes just cannot focus on words anymore. go and get dinner and go straight to bed clown. you thought doing nothing all day would keep you up? c l o w n

[emilnikos]

had some of my kiind of sus family visiting today n I went out of my room to say goodbye and the door was wide open i forgot you can see the trans pride flag hung up on my wall from the hallway if the doors are open... one of them quietly went "oh." n I was like ohhhh fuck

[snailobituaries]

Anyone have the link to the tumblr meta-story from like 2016ish about the girl who was sick and ran this tumblr blog about her guardian angel and you could click through for more clues about the plot? Looking for this and other multimedia web-narratives like 17776 and Homestuck

[tengwar]

I don't understand the stigma behind eating insects. I literally do not understand why people find it gross. It's pretty much the same as eating shellfish. What's the problem?

[faerociousbeast]

i'm feeling a bit sad over the drink guys they'll never have a player mc to hang out with ever again.... their dynamics and stories and development are lost to time.... i can only do so much

[metal-lobster]

there should be a way to also block all of someone's followers when you block them