it's really fucking hilarious how many fake faggy popblast ripoff accounts keep popping up.
https://twitter.com/resedavanowen/status/951916958756278272
- resedavanowen
Backtracking a bit, this twitter thread covers the description of the original accusation video and how to get to it. It doesn't add that much, but as a rare fragment of "lore" that actually came from the original Pop Blast it's quite worth archiving.
It gives a bit more context and sets up the supposed frame of mind the accusation was made under. Most notably it frames the video as a reaction to something Shane uploaded just the day before(?), which has some interesting implications for how this might have been planned out...
realpopblast's yt account keeps getting taken down (at least once for... impersonation, because that's the real problem here) but this fine fellow captured one of the videos:
archive of the twitter- https://archive.is/kZWOp
Some posts have been deleted since this was taken. At one point the account also threatened to release Shane's address, giving the city as though to prove they actually had the information, but it seems that tweet was deleted rather quickly.
As you can see there they have a second video that was only ever posted to their Twitter which no one has ever bothered to look into as far as I know (I sure can't be bothered myself). At a glance it includes a bloodied photoshopped dead-looking Shane (which was also used in a five-second video titled "I'M SORRY" that I have no idea which Pop Blast imitator it came from originally), satanic shit, nature documentary animal clips (?????), "Matthew 8:28-34", static (both audio and visual), codes and edgy video corruption effects.
- a third video has pictures of shane's family. so that's fucked up
What catches me up with both videos is that, despite them being fairly typical spooky video effects bullshit, they actually do look like they've had some effort put into them. Like, if you were going to create a generic ARG-spooks video but make it actually look good, this is what it would be like. I can't imagine someone being able to throw this together in less than a day. If this wasn't pre-made, then the person behind it... well, at least makes shit like this often enough to have a good library of spooky shit source clips.
https://twitter.com/blastnpop
meanwhile, this silly cunt
speaking of twitter, there's shit to the point there's drama between the accounts. they all keep bitching at each other and being like "nuh uh ur fake i'm the real boy!!!" except more cryptic. it's great
what i really love best, somehow, is the constant use of the ASCII code format. it's like it's become the defining trope of the Pop Blast gamejacking genre.
No, really, I find it kind of interesting. The ASCII code is just about as braindead and yet obscure-looking as a lot of other commonly used codes (base 64 being the main one I can think of; "hex", which is just ASCII but in hexadecimal format rather than decimal, is also common) but I've never seen it used on this scale before. It's like its experiencing its own little Renaissance. I wonder if it'll continue to see use once the PopBlast fad blows over.
... And just as I'm typing this, RealPopBlast came out saying they just did it for the followers and to take the heat off Logan Paul (never mind that, as I said before, that's a shit strategy). But their "proof" (seen here https://archive.is/8XuZX) is apparently faked and has since been deleted. Though even if the screenshot is real, it could easily have been any of the other fake faggot Popblast accounts that went up and got nuked. Fun shit.
They've now deleted everything except a retweet of an article about how fake the allegations are and the three videos, so I really don't know what they're trying to say anymore.