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Cyan507
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The Totem wrote:
Off topic, but this is why I stopped going on the THAC Forums. It used to begin but then it slowly devolved into self-righteous teens, over sensitive adult-children, etc. and the posts slowly became more biased in favor of the so-called celebrities of the fandom.


no that's very on-topic, and very on point.

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[quote="420Goku"][quote="Luno"]I wonder what Noah makes of it all.[/quote]

It's no big wonder to me he's been silent and avoided the thread so far. It probably doesn't feel all that great to be in such a shitty role here, since he was basically brought into a group where two-thirds of the people didn't want him, a lot of the fans didn't want him and have probably made that clear to him, and became one of the reasons for destroying the group (and thus the hearts of countless fans). [/quote]

Noah is the Yoko Ono in this breakup. So sad.
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420Goku
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Cyan507 wrote:
THAC fanbase has grown into that of a mediocre emo-rock band, choc full of teenage girls who obsess over the members rather than the substance of their actual content and will argue profusely about how good the work is without actually backing it up or consulting any form of track record.


I just had a weird/disturbing thought, but what if Noah has been instrumental in making a fanbase like you described, and even consciously manipulated it into such?

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420Goku wrote:
Cyan507 wrote:
THAC fanbase has grown into that of a mediocre emo-rock band, choc full of teenage girls who obsess over the members rather than the substance of their actual content and will argue profusely about how good the work is without actually backing it up or consulting any form of track record.


I just had a weird/disturbing thought, but what if Noah has been instrumental in making a fanbase like you described, and even consciously manipulated it into such?


nah, it was those pesky creepypasta kids who came with with their Masky and Eyeless Jack fanfics, or the Jay and Tim yaoi or just leading their friends into the woods to stab them several times. Either way, I think the MH fandom was deteriorating long before Noah came in.

Notice how in 2009 - 2011 the MH fandom on UF used to be grown men and women trying to remedy their insomnia with ARGs and online puzzles. And from 2012 onwards a bunch of high-schoolers came in asking which video Slender was in and if Masky was Jessica.

Also refer to the convention Q&As of both respective timelines, with the former consisting of MH's influences coming from Lovecraft, Danielewski and lonelygirl15 and the latter we have the recent ones where kiddies are queuing up to ask if Levitating Dog Torso will ever go on tour. Welcum 2 THAC xD

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And on that note...
http://forums.thac.tv/forum/news-and-updates/160446-thac-update

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And Noah is gone. He must've come into this thinking his reputation/hype would increase, but I feel like he's mostly just coming out of it with a mark of disgrace.

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Cyan507 wrote:
nah, it was those pesky creepypasta kids who came with with their Masky and Eyeless Jack fanfics, or the Jay and Tim yaoi or just leading their friends into the woods to stab them several times. Either way, I think the MH fandom was deteriorating long before Noah came in.

Notice how in 2009 - 2011 the MH fandom on UF used to be grown men and women trying to remedy their insomnia with ARGs and online puzzles. And from 2012 onwards a bunch of high-schoolers came in asking which video Slender was in and if Masky was Jessica.

Also refer to the convention Q&As of both respective timelines, with the former consisting of MH's influences coming from Lovecraft, Danielewski and lonelygirl15 and the latter we have the recent ones where kiddies are queuing up to ask if Levitating Dog Torso will ever go on tour. Welcum 2 THAC xD


This sounds accurate, though I guess it might be ironic/hypocritical for me to agree with you here since when I first started watching MH/browsing this forum back in 2009 I was 14 and definitely found it through creepypasta memes, lol.

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Well, that's it - CL44 is done. Given that Troy now has no collaborators left and is changing gears from running THAC as a full-time job to operating it as a hobby he gets a bit of pay for but isn't held to any particular production schedule, I can't see how any "CL44 2.0" Troy produces could be even slightly as ambitious as the series originally planned. And I wouldn't be surprised if he never gets around to doing more CL44 - consider the following:

- He's said in the past he's less into horror than comedy.
- Standalone comedy videos are way easier than ongoing horror series to produce on an occasional when-I-feel-like-it basis.
- All the hard feelings surrounding CL44 that Troy must have probably aren't doing much for his enthusiasm for the project.
- The CL44 idea has already been contaminated for much of the potential audience by this initial run.

There's loads of really strong factors pushing Troy away from doing more CL44 and not much nudging him to follow through on making more, so far as I can tell.

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So I guess there's really no reason to keep this part of unfiction open, considering THAC has imploded on itself. I had a fun time here.

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Cyan507
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Tim's official statement
http://forums.thac.tv/forum/main-forum/thac-channel/160303-my-reply-to-the-why-tim-and-joseph-left-thac-thread-since-it-s-closed

well that's that.

*breaks out violin and starts playing Nearer My God To Thee*

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The Slender Man wrote:
So I guess there's really no reason to keep this part of unfiction open, considering THAC has imploded on itself. I had a fun time here.


Well, if we're to take Troy's word, there will be a new CL44 series... eventually. Just don't get your hopes up.

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Troy really did some mean shit to Joseph and Tim, the THAC channel has been so uninteresting to watch after Tim and Joseph's departure and one thing that killed the channel that they weren't sticking to is the "1 video a week" formula that they promised

It's all Troy's fault, i could write a big wall of text of why he is 100% responsible for what happened and i really hate people on the THAC forums being all like "He apologized, therefore it's ok!", these people clearly were never part of a serious project before in their life

Some say that THAC started just with Troy, and i completely disagree with that, but, i gotta love poetic justice when it happens, because now THAC is ending with Troy alone

I wish admins of this site would get their shit right and give TT and EMH their own sub-forums already, they have way more production value than MH ever did and they are the only relevant Slenderseries left

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Cyan507
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420Goku wrote:
The Slender Man wrote:
So I guess there's really no reason to keep this part of unfiction open, considering THAC has imploded on itself. I had a fun time here.


Well, if we're to take Troy's word, there will be a new CL44 series... eventually. Just don't get your hopes up.


you're assuming it will be any good. with a one man crew.

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It's great to have everyone's take out there now, and to know what happened. But man, what a fucking bummer. Troy being at best a shitty business owner and bad friend, Tim and Joseph's departure, cancelling CL44, Noah being a shitheel. The whole thing is just depressing. I miss the glory days of MH with 100-page threads within the first week an entry was out, and THAC sketches being occasional little gifts instead of the focal point of their creative output.

But those days are years behind us. Everything has to end, and sometimes it ends with a fucking whimper.

What a bummer.

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LiefWolfsbane
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I havent posted here in what feels like forever.

I don't know if I will ever find myself back on this site after this.
I'll be checking back periodically to check up on TT and that...

I can relate to these guys, I've had close friendships implode like this. All 4 of them must be going through hell.

I hope for the best for them.
I will miss the days of watching and waiting for new entries... Speculating and code breaking with you all.
Thanks for the fun guys.
And thanks to THAC as well.

I agree with the above. What a bummer.
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