i'm so confused rn, can you explain the goncharov thing?? i get off tumblr for five minutes
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Lmaoooo
Nah I getchu. So this post has been circulating for like a year:
But yesterday, it had inspired someone to do this:
Meta analysis. So many fake meta essays. Disturbingly good ones. And of course the memes. (Edit: HAVE I SAID THIS SHIT IS DISTURBING)
As you can see, the myth just started to grow, characters and ships and tropes being added one after the other, almost bizzarely without contradiction, until there was enough of shape to the whole thing for people to start posting fanfic about it on AO3. "No beta we die like ice-pick Joe" is already a tag.
It was hilarious in the beginning, but the way it's developed within less than a day, kind of like it's being willed into existence, is freaking me out a bit. We're toying with powers beyond our comprehension. 😂😂😂
Of course, there could be an ulterior motive as well.
Edit: guys, please tag these posts "unreality" so people with disassociation issues can filter them out (not this one, this is an explainer). <3
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Edit 2: Aparently the boots in the original post are actually referring to a movie called Gomorrah that came out in 2008, directed by Mateo Garrone, based on the Scampia Feud. And other people had also been making posts about the fake movie for a while before the poster took off.
found by @thepotch
Edit 4: Alt text added to all images courtesy of @valentineish ❤️
Edit 5: Turns out tumblr has done this kind of thing before. Nine years in this hell place and I had to have "Squiddles" and penis smp explained in the replies.
Edit 6: This post collects the Lore so far.
Edit 7: Lynda Carter (real one)/ earns more/ Tumblr cred.
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I made this post 18 hours after the movie poster went up. Closed edits 27 hours after first posting. So all of the above happened within 45 hours of the movie poster going up.
Edit 10: Google document live-compiling all the lore so far (Day 3)
Edit 11: Masterpost of Goncharov soundtracks (Day 3)
Edit 12: Entertainment news articles covering the Gonch-posting (real) (Contd from yday)
Edit 13: The music from the masterpost all compiled into a 31-minute original score with video edits on YouTube (edit: unfortunately taken down)
As of closing on Day 3 there are 371 works in the AO3 tag.
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Updating with Day 3 shenanigans I missed yesterday:
Edit 15: Goncharov TV Tropes page
Edit 16: Ethics of Gonchposting
- Important PSA 1 (how to reduce harm to Tumblr's neurodivergents)
- Important PSA 2 (reality affirmation, anti-bullying)
- Important PSA 3 (why you should stop trying to vandalise legit information sites)
Edit 18: What we know about/ Director Matteo JWHJ0715 (#unreality)
Edit 19: Link to post with screenshotted and described NYT article (scroll down) and this golden exerpt from BuzzFeed: 💀
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End of Day 4 there are now 485 works in the Goncharov tag on AO3
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Didn't get to update this on Day 5, so these are the Day 5 doings:
More trailers!
I also just found out about the Goncharov Game Jam.
It appears this opened a day after after the meme took off.
Goncharov was first entered into Wikipedia between Day 4 and 5 (attempts to vandalise it with fake info don't count, incidentally – please knock that shit off) under List of Internet Phenomena. This was then expanded into its own Wikipedia page at the end of Day 5 because, according to the talk history: "the topic now meets the notability threshold for its own artice due to significant coverage in The New York Times and other sources cited." We're on Wikipedia, people!
And then we made The Guardian half a day later. So while the meme is definitely dying down to embers by now, it still stays winning.
YouTube channels with episodes on the meme:
End of Day of 5 there were 511 works on AO3, and End of Day 6 (today) there are 556.
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🚨BREAKING 🚨 from Martin Scorsese's daughter's TikTok (real actual)
tw: unreality:
We did it you guys!
Clarification: Francesca Scorcese asked her Dad about the meme and Martin played along. Please reblog this PSA to help Tumblr people with psychosis. Thanks.
Hey, I’d just like to add a link to a really insightful and informative piece written by someone who both personally and professionally understands psychosis, which hopefully will help explain why some parts of this post don’t sit well with some of us who experience being untethered to reality on a regular basis. (:
So @hussyknee tagged me in on responding to this reblog because I happen to also have a degree in psychology - a terminal one, in fact, I got my PhD a couple of years ago.
I generally do agree with the OP of the post linked above. The grand old Tumblr tradition of internet peer pressure for a "good cause" can be immensely and horrendously damaging to people who are mentally ill and traumatised. It is genuinely imperative to extend all possible grace to other people on this clownsite. Because most of us are at least a little bit fucked up and the impact we can have is often disproportionate to the actual words we say on here.
It is my understanding that the "tag as unreality" request comes directly from people who have psychosis who have been triggered and distressed by the Goncharovia that has taken hold of Tumblr. When people who suffer from a debilitating and immensely distressing psychiatric disorder ask to be accommodated, it is deeply unkind to refuse to do it. I generally don't tag my posts and I have zero interest in Goncharovia so I haven't needed to think about the tagging, but if I did reblog something I would, because it's just the kind thing to do.
It is also deeply unkind to harass folks who have not tagged their posts as the Great Tumblr Consensus has decreed they must, for whatever reason. At most drop people a kind reminder, and then let them be. You do not need to amplify them or get on their case or tell the entire internet they are an ableist asshole - which they probably aren't! most people are ableist out of ignorance/lack of critical reflection! - because they didn't use the specific tag you saw someone else whose post they may not have even seen request.
And with all due respect to the OP's education and lived experience - their experiences and their understanding of their disorder do not negate the needs and requests of other people who also have the same disorder. They make some very valid points, and tagging or not tagging is an individual choice, but let's not dismiss other people's needs because their requests for accomodation do not fit with our own experience or understanding.