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[paperfaces]

Oh no! People saying positive things! It must be the series creators! (If you go on other websites you'll see that there is an actual audience for this series other than tails who genuinely like it).

And yes, many of us who are saying positive things are just joining this forum, but that doesn't make us sock puppets. Maybe we weren't into the Slender Man mythos prior to PS, or were lurkers on this site because we had little involvement in ARGs (I myself have been lurking here for Keratin Garden for a while, but just didn't feel like making an account). Some people prefer series where they identify with the main characters. I got bored with MH halfway through. I thought the shot-for-shots that PS did were much more interesting to me because it was refreshing to see how women would react to the same situation. Then again, MH isn't doing anything new. Found footage has been around for quite a while and they didn't even invent Slender Man. Film remakes themselves have been around since the Silent Era (and remakes in general...well...Romeo and Juliet isn't exactly original).

So, like, I'm not saying ya'll shouldn't critique PS, that's your right, but I also have the right to critique the critiques (lolz). Thanks for helping me fill out my hipster bingo card though.

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[Felloffalot]

Just gonna input my two cents here.

I would be fine with if the creators got a basis off of Marble Hornets and then worked from there, which is what one of the great Slenderseries of all time, Tribe Twelve, did, but when you get literally so unoriginal that you just copy the Marble Hornets entries, word for word, shot for shot, and try to make it "original" by blatantly shoehorning in female characters and LGBT characters, then you haven't created something worth watching. You've just created something that everybody has already seen, except now you're playing minority bingo with your series. You're not going to amass an audience if you only try to appeal to people who have never seen so much as an episode of Marble Hornets. You're just going to end up flopping on your ass because a majority of the people who had even half of an interest in it tuned out before you even got into anything original.

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But (from what I recall from watching the beginning of MH) the latest entry isn't a shot-for-shot remake, so, pending the next entries, maybe it'll be original for here-on out. I kind of detest the phrase "minority bingo" too. Implies "this show doesn't have enough [majority group] so it's not normal." As long as there is no basis in stereotyping and offensiveness, I don't see anything wrong with going out of one's way to represent the generally unrepresented. Leveling the uneven playing field, if you will. I'm all for breaking down male/white/straight/cis as default. Keratin has a female protag, features non-white characters, and doesn't feature many dudes and it's a pretty awesome series (Before you say anything, that last sentence is in reference to KG not being about white dudes and it including non-white characters. I know it deviated from MH from the start and is an original work).

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[diamondwasp]

Are any of you aware that Porcelain Spiders already has a fanbase? You keep saying "If they want people to like their series they have to ____" but the truth is people already like it. I think what you mean to say is "If they want ME to like their series they have to ____" but trust me no one wants that.

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[ACID_pixel]

Oh god...Unfiction is being invaded with Porcelain Spiders fans...I think it's time to take a break because I don't wanna read all of the rants that just occurred from the #1 fans of the show...seriously it's terrible, I don't care about the gender swap. That means nothings, it's just bad. I have no further comments.

[Ztakk]

A-are you actually watching this like it's not just a spoof of Marble Hornets? Like seriously? It's even in the freakin name! If it deviates from that now the now, it's just bullshit. They're piggybacking on something much bigger than themselves to get attention.

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[Tails]

Slowly i think that the concentration from some of the people on here focuses way too much on the surface of the videos to see that there are already ongoing bigger differences between MH and PS.

The biggest difference so far is clearly the IG Tumblr Blog of the main protagonist, which allows her to be way more interactive with the viewers, so she can discuss occurences in the videos and viewer sugestions more directly with them, answer questions and give out more background-information. And she already uses it exactly for that. This is already a BIG change, since Jay very rarely reacted to messages and tweets to him on twitter.

Also the characters are already starting to act differently to certain situations than the ones in MH. (look at "Entry #7" for instance or the already several different reactions of Alexa throughout the videos)

And lastly: The "sidechannelcharacter" acts already very different than TTA would act. (While TTA did encourage Jay to look further and go deeper already from the beginning, Latro directly wants that the main protagonist stays out of it and warns her that digging deeper is maybe not a good idea. Also Latro is clearly more straightforward than TTA)

You see?
Just because the videos seem to be close to the ones of MH it does not mean that it´s just a "blatant copy". There is way more to it than you might see when you only look at the surface.

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