Back when i was watching breaking bad i would photoshop random video game guys into screenshots i’d take like sol badguy in walter’s house and diluc genshin impact at los pollos hermanos and I’d write dialogue underneath them like if they were in that scene and i never showed anyone i just kept it in my private discord server for myself
i think the foundational tumblr experience for me was seeing a gifset getting reblogged all over the place around 2012-2013 of a girl in her underwear running toward the viewer and her boobs were like jiggling around. jopping about. and all the comments were like, whoa anime boob jiggle actually is realistic! weaboos you win this one! anyway she was wearing a bra that was too small. because the gifset was from a porn vid
“Jumpy, have you ever heard the name, [Goncharov]?”
-Goncharov… Can’t say it rings a bell. Is that some sort of scientist?
“It’s a movie, actually. About the Italian mob. Goncharov is the eponymous protagonist.”
-Hang on a second, Italian? I thought Goncharov was a Russian name.
“Well, yes. But the movie takes place in Italy. That’s not important right now. What’s strange about this movie is, although it was supposedly released in 1973, it only gained attention in 2022.”
-Almost five decades later… marketing really flubbed that one, huh?
“That’s not it. The movie doesn’t exist.”
-Wait, what? What do you mean it doesn’t exist?
“It never did. There was never a movie called Goncharov. Only one day in 2022 the internet started talking about it as if it was real. As if everyone had already seen it.”
-That… that has to be a prank, right? I mean it wouldn’t be the first time the internet took a liking to spreading lies, would it?
“That’s true. Especially on tumblr, where the phenomenon originated. But what if there’s more to it? What if the knowledge of that movie was "plucked” from some alternative timeline where the movie was critically acclaimed, and “transmitted” to our timeline through fields invisible to the naked eye?“
-C'mon. That’s insane. Isn’t it way more likely that tumblr was, y'know, being tumblr?
"Maybe. But isn’t it strange that the name of the movie, its director, its cast of characters, the actors playing them, and the year of its release was unanimously agreed upon by one of the most inconsistent and chaotic blogging websites out there?”
-Th… that’s…
“I’m not done yet. Not only that, but the events of story, the relationships between the characters, interviews with the cast, audio recordings of the movie score, fandom discourse, and multiple gifsets of the movie footage started appearing on everyone’s dashboards. And none of the information contradicted each other.”
-!
-(Could that really be? A movie that was transmitted to the public consciousness from another timeline…?)
