• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          18
          ·
          1 month ago

          If you read the top comment of the youtube it suggests that there is lore here and it was actually a real thing

          It could be someone just fucking around writing a like 2 page youtube comment but I want to believe that this was actually supposed to be a straight to vhs movie about a kid with a congenital defect who chooses to wear cross shaped prosthesis (to bear the cross, get it) and is relentlessly bullied.

          Apparently a workprint/screener exists and that’s where the meme came from. I love the idea of some disillusioned kid being forced to watch a horrible indoctrination film, seeing right through it, and turning it into a shitty meme that outlives the memory of the actual movie itself. Of course that could all just be made up

          • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceOP
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            7
            ·
            edit-2
            1 month ago

            I think that’s a creative writing bit, kind of like Tumblr Goncharov meme. I went down a rabbit hole a few years back when I first found it and ended up on a art commission forumn where somebody was requesting the image described. I can’t link it though because trying to find it on the new-and-improved google results wasteland seems impossible. But there is a knowyourmeme entry for it now. Knowyourmeme claims it has a different origin, so maybe that forum post I found was a hallucination.

            Either way, notice that you can’t find any other angles of the case. I actually wanted to try recreating it to give to my cousin as a wedding gift but I would have had to make something to put on the reverse side of the box. and the plot synopsis is right there on the front

            I was really stoked when the lore comment mentioned Adventures in Odessy though. 90’s Christian media is a fever dream

          • andros_rex@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 month ago

            The only results I can find for “Jeff Raskin” or “evangelical video alliance” seem to bring up the same text on Reddit, where it’s been claimed to be a copy pasta.

            Gaither’s Pond and the Dorbees are real though.

  • BenVimes@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    31
    ·
    1 month ago

    This is one of my favourite shitposts. Growing up with things like The Donut Man and Psalty the Singing Songbook makes this almost feel real, like it was some half-forgotten fever dream.

  • ramble81@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 month ago

    I never noticed this before but it looks like they blurred out a quote by Daldo at the bottom under the first quote.