Demystifying My Immortal

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  • @marlowmorbid8531
    @marlowmorbid8531 4 роки тому +9676

    My Immortal is officially old enough to have written My Immortal

    • @darklord884
      @darklord884 4 роки тому +228

      Cue Inception base.

    • @jeremypedersen6894
      @jeremypedersen6894 4 роки тому +137

      Oh no. GOTH SKYNET. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

    • @og-goji6613
      @og-goji6613 4 роки тому +40

      I legit forgot this fanfic existed.

    • @imshook6565
      @imshook6565 4 роки тому +46

      @@darklord884 My inception

    • @darklord884
      @darklord884 4 роки тому +28

      @@imshook6565 My immortion.

  • @mirthfulArtist
    @mirthfulArtist 4 роки тому +6778

    Tara is the 21st century equivalent of all the women who came forward claiming to be the lost duchess Anastasia Romanov.

    • @mirandabee2323
      @mirandabee2323 4 роки тому +657

      Does that mean there's going to be an animated feature film about Tara that is adapted into a Broadway musical?

    • @Goldman200
      @Goldman200 4 роки тому +265

      @@mirandabee2323 I hope so

    • @mirthfulArtist
      @mirthfulArtist 4 роки тому +192

      @@mirandabee2323 God I hope so.

    • @theleagueofsupermushrooms5323
      @theleagueofsupermushrooms5323 4 роки тому +126

      @@mirandabee2323 that would be the dream

    • @wareforcoin5780
      @wareforcoin5780 4 роки тому +80

      Only less money was involved, and it was trying to take credit for something shitty.

  • @gravitygrace8585
    @gravitygrace8585 4 роки тому +4700

    I think the author of My Immortal was actually so ahead of her time that she ascended astral planes and began living in a dimension where she was friends with Shrek and was dating the entire MCR band. Iconic, if you ask me.

    • @venor2612
      @venor2612 4 роки тому +41

      Lmao

    • @SovietArmyGuy
      @SovietArmyGuy 3 роки тому +62

      Plot twist, jk aknowlrdge it and make it cannon

    • @pixelpudding3914
      @pixelpudding3914 3 роки тому +12

      @@SovietArmyGuy *oh wait-*

    • @yeeyee6529
      @yeeyee6529 3 роки тому

      Why did I think that they were saying ncr the entire time

    • @MaddieDeux
      @MaddieDeux 3 роки тому +1

      Your likes are at a perfect 666

  • @UltraThunderSurge
    @UltraThunderSurge 4 роки тому +4743

    You know, there's a kind of comfort in knowing that the author of "My Immortal" maintained anonymity after so many years, a symbol of a long dead era of the internet immortalized through a piece of fiction.

    • @Mirro18
      @Mirro18 4 роки тому +360

      It is kinda funny and also contradictory to what usually happens. When something gets famous that usually makes people find you. But because they kinda hide themselves decently well through it's peak and had that weird finish, they kinda spawned people trying to be imposters. And through all those imposters it kinda helped basically make it impossible to prove that you are the original author.

    • @minhkhangtran6948
      @minhkhangtran6948 4 роки тому +112

      @@Mirro18 Which prove that the best way to hide information, is to obscure the fact itself lol

    • @zeddy2284
      @zeddy2284 4 роки тому +4

    • @thatoneguy9582
      @thatoneguy9582 4 роки тому +66

      hehe immortalized

    • @sokkvabekkr5973
      @sokkvabekkr5973 4 роки тому +9

      "long dead"

  • @imasupastar11
    @imasupastar11 4 роки тому +6726

    Can you imagine being the author of My Immortal and just silently watching the internet lose their shit trying to figure out who you are and throwing all these wild accusations everywhere.

    • @tatiana2696
      @tatiana2696 4 роки тому +713

      Entertainment at It's finest. If I was in "Tara"'s shoes I'd be literally rolling on the floor from laughter and a little bit of nostalgia. I'm definitely proud of her though.

    • @azazel6342
      @azazel6342 4 роки тому +281

      I wrote some fanfic when I was younger. It garnered some attention in the community it was directed at... I've since separated from that internet identity and cringe any time I hear my works names whispered. I.. I'm so happy I didn't write My Immortal I'd die from the cringe today xD

    • @coffee_person938
      @coffee_person938 4 роки тому +43

      @@azazel6342 what's the name of your work, if you don't mind me asking?

    • @azazel6342
      @azazel6342 4 роки тому +181

      @@coffee_person938 I do mind actually. I've done a lot to get away from it lol

    • @Joghurt2499
      @Joghurt2499 4 роки тому +162

      I fucking bet you that she's in this comment section, watching.

  • @casper3105
    @casper3105 4 роки тому +6284

    Honestly Huge respect to the original author who managed to keep her identity completely hidden on the internet for so many years, i hope she's having a good life and sits on a comfy throne like an absolute queen she is.

    • @dhsf5937
      @dhsf5937 3 роки тому +149

      Maybe the author died some time after finish write,what explain that he never said who he is until now,we don't know who is,so is possible that we wouldn't know that he died.

    • @myhannah99
      @myhannah99 3 роки тому +417

      Okay but let’s be really honest here if someone came out and said i wrote my immortal do you really think anyone would believe them without proof?

    • @Marisu_Prada
      @Marisu_Prada 3 роки тому +93

      I mean for all we know it very well could've been a guy, anyone really

    • @InternetDweller009
      @InternetDweller009 3 роки тому +109

      @@Marisu_Prada maybe it could be the author of the harry potter book series...hahahaha it can't be..right?

    • @hexogramd8430
      @hexogramd8430 3 роки тому +19

      If this was done today, people would’ve doxxed her. Modern internet sucks.

  • @captainhowdy726
    @captainhowdy726 4 роки тому +5774

    "Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way"
    I mean who are we to tell her she's not

    • @noname768397
      @noname768397 4 роки тому +113

      Im gonna quote this religiously

    • @imperialfist2304
      @imperialfist2304 4 роки тому +70

      That quite literally is the worst name I have ever heard in my life.

    • @TheBUCfifty
      @TheBUCfifty 4 роки тому +137

      "Oh we are using our made up names, I'm Spiderman."

    • @TubeHeader
      @TubeHeader 4 роки тому +52

      Oh, I'm in no position do deny that the person that named her is stupid and a bit insane. Because no reasonable parent looks at their child and says "let's name her after darkness, the disease that kills you by making you slowly lose everything that you are and know, and that road sign over there!" And no reasonable writer gives their character 6 names, all of which are immensely idiotic.

    • @generalwashingtoad6516
      @generalwashingtoad6516 4 роки тому +11

      Are you an Alt of Scott the Woz? Just asking, cause that fells like a Scoot the Woz joke.

  • @grappleberrycorn
    @grappleberrycorn 4 роки тому +4442

    maybe the real author of my immortal was the friends we made along the way

  • @amayanekonya
    @amayanekonya 4 роки тому +4188

    "Why can't I have the fruit?"
    "It's for Biden"

  • @Saturnfanboy
    @Saturnfanboy 4 роки тому +5089

    Maybe, in a way, the real author was inside of us all along.

    • @johnseymore4774
      @johnseymore4774 4 роки тому +191

      Well if the real author is inside me, I want it out.

    • @somerandomidioticnerd9769
      @somerandomidioticnerd9769 4 роки тому +59

      but you can't! It's to make sure all the disgusting preps don't get near you

    • @YouW00t
      @YouW00t 4 роки тому +151

      Maybe the real author were the friends we met along the way.

    • @turkur4738
      @turkur4738 4 роки тому +25

      The author's treasure was knowledge. Knowledge was their treasure.

    • @connorbeith3232
      @connorbeith3232 4 роки тому +19

      as well as the friends we made along the way

  • @UniGya
    @UniGya 4 роки тому +2881

    My theory is that I’m Not Okay started as legitimate, then got after she got so much poor feedback she decided to go even more over the top to vent her frustration. After seeing how fun it was to write intentionally poorly she decided to lean heavily into it and had her fun.

    • @drenandtarb
      @drenandtarb 4 роки тому +85

      I felt this way too!

    • @chiqa2448
      @chiqa2448 4 роки тому +112

      Yup she became the most iconic troll

    • @NA-AN
      @NA-AN 4 роки тому +50

      That sounds pretty wholesome.

    • @mekaylaowo1928
      @mekaylaowo1928 4 роки тому +10

      okay yeah this is my theory too

    • @emeraldkoala2
      @emeraldkoala2 3 роки тому +42

      Sort of like how Scott Cawthon got a lot of criticism that characters in his game "Chipper & Son's Lumber Company" looked like creepy animatronics, leading to him making Five Nights at Freddy's.

  • @FireBirdTheEpic
    @FireBirdTheEpic 4 роки тому +4452

    Another thing that points to it being a satire is that the author definitely did read the HP books. Professor Sinistra basically doesn't exist in the movie adaptations and yet she's a character in My Immortal

    • @Nova-il8qe
      @Nova-il8qe 4 роки тому +130

      My theory is that it was written by an adult man

    • @kupotenshi
      @kupotenshi 3 роки тому +765

      @@Nova-il8qe nah my immortal nailed how teenage girls from that time period behaved too much for an adult man to have written it

    • @pamelavergara3771
      @pamelavergara3771 3 роки тому +134

      @@Nova-il8qe why not an adult woman?

    • @lobeliaowl2482
      @lobeliaowl2482 3 роки тому +349

      Well, just to play devils advocate, there's always the possibility that the author read other fanfics which mentioned a character like her and adapted it from there. Quite unlikely, but still a possibility, I think.

    • @lazymansload520
      @lazymansload520 3 роки тому +36

      Likely. Though I suppose the author could have learned about the character from someone else.

  • @pajamapantsjack5874
    @pajamapantsjack5874 4 роки тому +2511

    If 50 shades can get a live action movie, so can my immortal. Make it happen people

    • @alestrius
      @alestrius 4 роки тому +157

      I imagine there would be a problem of rights, since a) the author of My Immortal is unknown and b) it's heavily based on Harry Potter, so you may then also need JK Rowling's permission, and I *HIGHLY* doubt she would want to have My Immortal gain even wider notoriety than it already has.

    • @mr.squiggles
      @mr.squiggles 4 роки тому +26

      internet historian covered it 😂

    • @sakimiyu4604
      @sakimiyu4604 4 роки тому +52

      @@alestrius there's an off-broadway show that was wildly popular and VERY obviously set in the HP universe and they survived, so there's potential for my immortal to do something similar

    • @Vladix93
      @Vladix93 4 роки тому +1

      shhhh dong give them ideas

    • @og-goji6613
      @og-goji6613 4 роки тому

      Hey Pajamapants Jack how are you?

  • @hkazu63
    @hkazu63 4 роки тому +4016

    My Immortal was just J.K. Rowling’s first draft of Harry Potter that she posted to spite her publishers. You cannot change my mind. I’ll not let you. Never.

    • @kalyteroo6179
      @kalyteroo6179 4 роки тому +90

      I totally agree. No mind changing here.

    • @uselessshroob
      @uselessshroob 4 роки тому +39

      🔫 Your mind, change it.

    • @megib901
      @megib901 4 роки тому +66

      @@uselessshroob you mean "Your mind 💞😍🌸🧚‍♀️ change it 🔫"

    • @TheDrexxus
      @TheDrexxus 4 роки тому +103

      You really think JK Rowling would've been able to stop herself from adding to the canon of My Immortal on twitter?
      My poor, sweet summer child...

    • @ziweiyuan
      @ziweiyuan 4 роки тому +99

      You're wrong. The "Harry Potter" books are fanfic written after JK Rollins or whatever she's called read My Immortal. My Immortal is the original.
      Also, Evanescence named a song after the story.

  • @emmawaters8380
    @emmawaters8380 4 роки тому +3013

    At this point the real author of My Immortal could come forward and no one would believe them lol.

    • @XvXHaruhiSuzumiyaXvX
      @XvXHaruhiSuzumiyaXvX 4 роки тому +389

      my best guess is the real author did try, but got buried under the fakes so we'll never know

    • @ChronicNOTAG
      @ChronicNOTAG 3 роки тому +292

      "Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?" Fifteen men of varying ethnicities stand up. "I said the REAL Slim Shady".

    • @kenzieduckmoo
      @kenzieduckmoo 3 роки тому +65

      @@XvXHaruhiSuzumiyaXvX see, people thought the same thing of Boxxy, until she popped up on youtube, now everyone knows who she is (Catie Wayne)

    • @MJTRadio
      @MJTRadio 3 роки тому +50

      That sounds like something the real author would say...

    • @hya2in8
      @hya2in8 Рік тому +8

      I mean they would be able to stand out among all the others if they answered all the possible questions

  • @vinx3078
    @vinx3078 4 роки тому +2558

    "I cried sexily"

    • @itsclemtime2357
      @itsclemtime2357 4 роки тому +191

      “I jumped in front of the bullet SEXILY”

    • @hiiragii
      @hiiragii 4 роки тому +119

      “I changed my clothes sexily”

    • @CharissaJordan
      @CharissaJordan 4 роки тому +122

      "I ate macaroni sexily"

    • @chikari123
      @chikari123 4 роки тому +31

      Me when I cry tbh

    • @vaguelyexhausted
      @vaguelyexhausted 4 роки тому +12

      @@chikari123 tbh me too lol

  • @rogercheetoofficial
    @rogercheetoofficial 4 роки тому +4194

    My immortal, much like the Bible, is going to be remembered forever while the authors will never be found

    • @Sleepiestsheepy
      @Sleepiestsheepy 4 роки тому +100

      But out of curiosity, what would the conversion ritual look like?

    • @rogercheetoofficial
      @rogercheetoofficial 4 роки тому +328

      @@Sleepiestsheepy evanescence mosh pit at the hot topic

    • @shonenbag6478
      @shonenbag6478 4 роки тому +70

      ...
      We actually know a lot of the authors of the bible, but y'know whatever

    • @thanatoast
      @thanatoast 4 роки тому +58

      The authors' names are literally the title of most of the books fucking what?

    • @rogercheetoofficial
      @rogercheetoofficial 4 роки тому +32

      @@thanatoast yeah, I probably should've assumed that instead of just thinking they all put fake names on the books, that was genuinely my bad

  • @amelialee9702
    @amelialee9702 4 роки тому +1817

    I’m usually not one to nitpick, but she’s definitely introduced as Enoby, not Ebony.
    I cannot stress that enough.
    ENOBY.

  • @samwatson-tayler2805
    @samwatson-tayler2805 4 роки тому +2278

    "These 14-year-old questions" The questions about My Immortal are now the target demographic of My Immortal.

    • @ericlarson3133
      @ericlarson3133 4 роки тому +50

      magnitude 7 bruh moment

    • @fey0217
      @fey0217 4 роки тому +51

      the target demographic is *immortal*

    • @apotheosis21
      @apotheosis21 4 роки тому +12

      Wtf, why did you do this to me.

    • @thegreattotemaster
      @thegreattotemaster 4 роки тому +14

      It's like... poetry.

    • @silvercandra4275
      @silvercandra4275 4 роки тому +3

      I want to like this comment but it's at 666 likes and I'm not going to destroy this.

  • @-THE_META
    @-THE_META 4 роки тому +3135

    Plot twist: Red Bard wrote My Immortal.

  • @autrinaes
    @autrinaes 4 роки тому +687

    I feel like "Getting hacked" was Tara or whatever her name was looking back at the hellfire she created and thinking to herself "What the bloody hell did I write and why?" but I also know the more likely possibility is just _she got bored of it_

  • @merkules6
    @merkules6 4 роки тому +1764

    I want "I wrote My Immortal" to be the new "No, I'm Spartacus".

    • @pyxella6020
      @pyxella6020 4 роки тому +37

      I do think of Tara Gilesbie whenever I see that scene, ngl.

    • @devin5201
      @devin5201 4 роки тому +22

      No, I'm the real Santa Claus!

    • @FlyingBunnycorn
      @FlyingBunnycorn 4 роки тому +50

      Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?

    • @bugznbuttons
      @bugznbuttons 4 роки тому +49

      i'M rAdiO rEbeL

    • @dogmotel
      @dogmotel 4 роки тому +15

      no, I'M radio rebel

  • @SuperButterBuns
    @SuperButterBuns 4 роки тому +2680

    mmmm that voice sounds familiar .......

    • @liz_violet
      @liz_violet 4 роки тому +80

      why must dumbledoor spook me so?

    • @sarahheart7856
      @sarahheart7856 4 роки тому +52

      I knew that was your voice.

    • @SapphireDragonDX
      @SapphireDragonDX 4 роки тому +39

      I can't believe that I never heard of the dramatic readings you were a part of until now. Man, it's a joy!
      **EDIT**
      Oh wait, never mind. Those readings were originals for this video in particular. Still, I'd love to hear ya do more dramatic reads in the future if ever you get the time. I'm betting the results would be hilarious. ^_^

    • @barbatosistheone4581
      @barbatosistheone4581 4 роки тому +14

      Read some stories for us. Please!

    • @JohannahFaythe
      @JohannahFaythe 4 роки тому +17

      I need all of you guys to do a full dramatic reading of My Immortal. I never knew how much I needed that in my life until now.

  • @nbewarwe
    @nbewarwe 3 роки тому +947

    How you can tell Wake Me Up Inside is a fake: The descriptions of the clothes are misspelled. In Tara's original fic, the only thing that was immune to spelling errors and grammar mistakes is her paragraph long descriptions of the character's clothes.

    • @spaghettisauce1104
      @spaghettisauce1104 2 роки тому +77

      Now you're onto something

    • @coffeewolfproductions9113
      @coffeewolfproductions9113 2 роки тому +80

      Do you think she copied and pasted the names and or descriptions of the clothes and that's why they're not horribly misspelled?

    • @YOSSARIAN313
      @YOSSARIAN313 2 роки тому +14

      That's not true there was plenty of spelling mistakes in those too. I read the whole thing after watching this video a couple months ago

    • @VaatiOfDarkness
      @VaatiOfDarkness Рік тому +20

      actually, a lot of typoes come up even for clothes. I.e. 'stilton bo-ots' (stiletto boots), leather facets or jacksons, shirts being misspelt as 'shit' more than once, 'panamas' instead of pajamas...

    • @Gugunet26
      @Gugunet26 Рік тому +9

      The black leather bar tho

  • @mayac69
    @mayac69 4 роки тому +2506

    I like to imagine that Ms. Scribe was Tara's mom. She got grounded for fan-fiction crimes.

  • @jackaufenhand5710
    @jackaufenhand5710 4 роки тому +3959

    As a former child of that era, I can safely say that it is definitely not outside the realm of possibility that this was an earnest piece of writing that, eventually, became satire. Back then, us goth kids would:
    - Type like that without any irony
    - Have attention spans about as long as an ant's nasty
    - Rebel against the preps (normies by today's nomenclature)
    - Write terrible fanfiction because we all thought we were special edgy artists that thought we could write
    I don't think it's accurate to call it full-blown satire, because I don't think the author(s) had a plan that concrete, but I don't think it's entirely earnest because there's no way the negative attention went unnoticed. Again, I can guarantee you there was no plan here. Just a couple of goth kids (or possibly just one) with an internet connection, microsoft word, and a whole lot of time to waste.

    • @Conoert
      @Conoert 4 роки тому +77

      The tom bodil thing tho

    • @21lizra
      @21lizra 4 роки тому +188

      The negative attention definitely didn't go unnoticed, she references the bad reviews and negative comments throughout. I think she would put it something like "stop flaming my story, preps!" Lmao. Hard to tell if that's just part of the character though

    • @mksabourinable
      @mksabourinable 4 роки тому +5

      @@Conoert
      Could have been just a coincidence

    • @Conoert
      @Conoert 4 роки тому +36

      @@mksabourinable I mean I guess but the chances are lower to be honest. I dont see what train of thought someone like the writer could possibly have to type tom bodil besides it being a joke.

    • @wordart_guian
      @wordart_guian 4 роки тому +7

      @@Conoert didn't she mention liking LOTR in one of her profiles?

  • @sofiaa1616
    @sofiaa1616 4 роки тому +1208

    As someone who was goth in middle school/high school, lemme tell you that we all had our preppy guilty pleasures. I, for one, LOVED the Lizzie McGuire movie. So I wouldn't necessarily take Tara's love of Mean Girls and Cinderella Story as on inconsistency with her character. If anything, I consider it to be evidence in favor of her being genuine when she wrote it. The Tom Bombadil thing, however, is pretty damning.....

    • @sofiaa1616
      @sofiaa1616 3 роки тому +78

      @Stuff She did. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that comes off as her being embarrassed of her guilty pleasures by doubling down on calling Hillary Duff a "prep". Again, this does all feel like something I would have done as a goth in MS/HS who secretly loved Lizzie McGuire.

    • @tribalbabymum
      @tribalbabymum 2 роки тому +6

      A parent could have read it to them?

    • @BarkertheScrunkly
      @BarkertheScrunkly 2 роки тому +31

      She could have got the name from LOTR fanfiction. She didn't necessarily have to have read Tolkien.

    • @biiianciii888
      @biiianciii888 Рік тому +14

      maybe she just had a friend who was a lotr nerd who mentioned tom bombadil and she confused the two because honestly she doesn't seem knowledgable on harry potter anyways so it would have been plausible for her to just misremember the name

    • @blueeyedwitch9840
      @blueeyedwitch9840 Рік тому +6

      Confessions of a teenage drama queen was my preppy pleasure lol

  • @asterlyons8564
    @asterlyons8564 4 роки тому +1709

    I took psychic damage when I heard you say "biblical fan fiction"

    • @mizuamia827
      @mizuamia827 4 роки тому +86

      I think my brain short circuited but unfortunately it didn’t erase “biblical fan fiction” from my mind

    • @bananasinfrench
      @bananasinfrench 4 роки тому +141

      I mean.... Dante

    • @RalinaPerene
      @RalinaPerene 4 роки тому +94

      Also C.S. Lewis, whose Narnia books are AU Jesus fan fiction.

    • @mizuamia827
      @mizuamia827 4 роки тому +9

      AtThatDaniels Really? I’ve never read the Narnia books so I wouldn’t know haha

    • @LoneWanderer-by6tv
      @LoneWanderer-by6tv 4 роки тому +43

      @@mizuamia827 Yeah Aslan is pretty much Lion Jesus

  • @Iridescence93
    @Iridescence93 4 роки тому +883

    "He took off my *cloves* sexily" is actually pretty goth lmao

    • @Xehanort10
      @Xehanort10 4 роки тому +55

      With that she's basically saying she had garlic on her body when they had sex so they both probably stunk after.

    • @Iridescence93
      @Iridescence93 4 роки тому +45

      @@Xehanort10 I was thinking of clove cigarettes but...TY for that image : :)

    • @PeakeyTheBard
      @PeakeyTheBard 4 роки тому +3

      No my cloves

    • @siriuslyconfused1
      @siriuslyconfused1 4 роки тому +11

      But what if he takes OF your cloves, is it still goffik?

    • @khatunamezvrishvili6211
      @khatunamezvrishvili6211 4 роки тому +3

      Wait isnt she a vampire? Why does she have garlic on her body

  • @mksabourinable
    @mksabourinable 4 роки тому +583

    As someone who was an early 2000s emo..... Some of those "spelling errors" aren't.... Errors. They're just..... That's how we wrote back then. I'm not proud.
    (Not talking about the "sequel" tbc)

    • @omgnoi
      @omgnoi 3 роки тому +19

      Same, I was this dumb lol

    • @HotCoco_
      @HotCoco_ 2 роки тому +88

      It gives me the same energy as early late 2000's to early 2010's "le epic memes" culture with all the people who would type as if they were in a lolcats image. "im in ur house, stealin ur foodz" and stuff like that.

    • @BarkertheScrunkly
      @BarkertheScrunkly 2 роки тому +82

      @@HotCoco_ That's what I was thinking. Even stuff like Tom Bombadil and the part about Voldemort being called Darth Vader reek of the "Lol random" humor that was prevalent back then. Hell, Tara could have simply got Tom Bombadil from LOTR fanfiction, which was also popular at the time. She didn't even have to read the books.

    • @AwesomeYena
      @AwesomeYena 2 роки тому +11

      Lolspeak?

    • @methamphetamineaddict5217
      @methamphetamineaddict5217 2 роки тому +2

      BUT I AM PROUD

  • @eastull
    @eastull 4 роки тому +1515

    God Dumbledore in My Immortal is the role SuperButterBuns was born to play

    • @Circ00mspice
      @Circ00mspice 4 роки тому +21

      Don't you mean Red Bard?
      (They sound the same, hint, hint.)

    • @daltykun2577
      @daltykun2577 4 роки тому +7

      HONESTLY THOOO

    • @pinkflametheepic
      @pinkflametheepic 4 роки тому +25

      @@Circ00mspice this is now my new conspiracy theory even though we know what they both look like and they look nothing a like

    • @thanatoast
      @thanatoast 4 роки тому +34

      We stan the Butter queen

    • @starnight8819
      @starnight8819 4 роки тому

      Hands of Asclepius indeed my friend indeed.

  • @ruileite2634
    @ruileite2634 4 роки тому +1501

    My favorite part is when she calls Sirius Black, Harry's "dogfather".

  • @graysonelliott6115
    @graysonelliott6115 4 роки тому +505

    *frantically scribbles notes to make my “coming out as Tara” post as believable as possible*

  • @SilentTrip
    @SilentTrip 4 роки тому +758

    I wonder how the real author feels creating the most legendary masterpiece in the history of the internet?

    • @pyxella6020
      @pyxella6020 4 роки тому +65

      Probably terrified, is my guess. Imagine you were the author of a fanfiction like this...

    • @magicarp79
      @magicarp79 4 роки тому +21

      Mission accomplished.

    • @wspann1967
      @wspann1967 4 роки тому +35

      But does it even compare to that smash bros fanfic that happens to be the longest piece of literature ever written

    • @studytube1266
      @studytube1266 4 роки тому +1

      No one really cares about the real author

    • @SakuraChai
      @SakuraChai 4 роки тому +19

      In my opinion, I feel like the original author would be terrified to come forward and in a very weird way it reminds me of the story behind The Eye of Argon, one of the worst written books in a lot of people’s eyes. Perhaps it’s dissuaded her from writing ever again because she would forever be known as the author of My Immortal. Who knows for sure though.

  • @kingikizu
    @kingikizu 4 роки тому +1735

    As someone who has written TONS of purposefully bad fanfiction i can guarantee that it's definitely NOT "too much effort" to write troll fics with multiple chapters. Hell, when you're purposefully writing badly, it doesn't take nearly as much time as trying to write something that actually has quality. Especially if you've thought of the plot beforehand, you can absolutely write multiple chapters of typo-filled bs with no real effort or thought

    • @Reepicheepchan
      @Reepicheepchan 4 роки тому +158

      Yeah, I had this same experience. Bad fanfic is insanely easy to churn out. If I had posted an intentionally bad fic and it got the traction My Immortal got I would gleefully pump out 50+ chapters lol

    • @moviefilmstudios9828
      @moviefilmstudios9828 4 роки тому +29

      Do you have any advice on writing purposely bad fan fic? I'm currently writing a script for a short film that plays out kind of like one. I think I'm doing pretty good with the "aesthetic" but I don't know where to take the plot.

    • @Reepicheepchan
      @Reepicheepchan 4 роки тому +94

      @@moviefilmstudios9828 The thing that makes badfic so easy is that plot flow doesn't really matter. Basically you can just string together a bunch of scenes without caring about where they're leading or how they contribute. Whenever I wasn't sure how to end a scene I had the protag dramatically pass out. It's sooooo much easier than seeing a scene through to it's logical conclusion lol

    • @extremelylargecat
      @extremelylargecat 4 роки тому +42

      They could have even been writing multiple chapters at one time and just staggering the releases. I used to write troll badfic, and you really can churn out like 10 chapters of that kind of stuff in a night. As well, many of the earlier chapters were very short. I feel like the author/s would probably sit down and write a few at a time then release them over the course of a month or two. Not a ton of work at all.

    • @coatimundi69
      @coatimundi69 4 роки тому +4

      link the fics

  • @doxiekitten6526
    @doxiekitten6526 4 роки тому +652

    Imagine being the writer of My Immortal, you're a young teen and your cringy fanfic through your Emo/Goth phase got sensationalized over the internet and now you're just never allowed to live it down

    • @LocalTorchwoodIntern
      @LocalTorchwoodIntern 4 роки тому +64

      I could only imagine her kids finding this video or the fic itself and go ask her about it. Kinda like MCR fans joke about Bandit finding all of the videos of Gerard on stage..doing things...

  • @BowserTheSecond
    @BowserTheSecond 4 роки тому +1496

    My favourite quote from My Immortal will always be:
    “I luv u TaEbory.” he whispred sexily and den we fel aspleep lol.
    Yes, Tara half-typed her own name before her Mary Sue self-insert and forgot to delete it.

    • @B-lockdown
      @B-lockdown 4 роки тому +240

      I love at one point she spells Dumbledore correctly and then immediately spells it dumblydore

    • @iam16bits
      @iam16bits 4 роки тому +192

      My favorite is "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!".

    • @fuckinghelenlikewhatthehel2629
      @fuckinghelenlikewhatthehel2629 4 роки тому +187

      “Snape gave me a gun”

    • @Pallastronomy
      @Pallastronomy 4 роки тому +110

      “It was..... Vlodemort and da deth deelers!

    • @RedBardIsCool
      @RedBardIsCool  4 роки тому +261

      I have a lot of fav quotes, but my underrated fav is probably ""Snaketail what art thou doing?" called Voldemort. Then... he started coming! We could hear his high heels clacking to us."

  • @Cocosama
    @Cocosama 4 роки тому +4159

    Everyone saying they were trolls have never met a teenage girl from 2006. This could have be written by any girl I went to middle school with.

    • @ilexdiapason
      @ilexdiapason 4 роки тому +148

      even "lonken prak"?

    • @WolfCoder
      @WolfCoder 4 роки тому +293

      Or a really good writer. A lot of writers will create entire characters to play online, especially on sites like Reddit. I wouldn't call it trolling if the intent is to entertain the audience instead of anger them.

    • @citrinestone
      @citrinestone 4 роки тому +323

      Literally every time I look at my immortal I think about a friend from middle school that wrote an (entirely unironic) fic where Harry and voldemort were both twins AND lovers. It began with Harry deciding not to take anyone's shit because he got an emo makeover at the mall. I think it mostly got positive reviews too

    • @Belgand
      @Belgand 4 роки тому +68

      I see that as the problem with claiming that Forbiden Fruit is related. Part of the reason it's hard to determine whether or not it's satire is because of how common these elements already are. Particularly in fan fiction, but even outside of it.

    • @dunnotck1
      @dunnotck1 4 роки тому +107

      Back in 2006 me and my friends used to make horrible horrible sketches for class. They were absolutely cringey but we did it to make people laugh. They turned out to be nonsensical because we would all write bits without really bothering to read what the others wrote. So I can totally believe My immortal might have been a group troll project.

  • @PhileasLiebmann
    @PhileasLiebmann 4 роки тому +402

    But seriously: the Tumblr My Immortal discourse is fucking prizeworthy. I specifically remember a thread that began after the emergence of the alleged second Tara account, where some seven or so people were all... idk accusing (I guess?) each other of having written it.
    Basically a Mexican standoff, but with goths/ex-goths on Tumblr. Fucking amazing.

    • @dontpreorder2783
      @dontpreorder2783 4 роки тому +50

      Absolutely golden
      It’s like killing someone and then framing all the police officers that show up for the murder

    • @Corviidei
      @Corviidei 4 роки тому +10

      There is one impostor among us.

    • @hanyuukawaiinanodesu
      @hanyuukawaiinanodesu 3 роки тому

      latin standoff* :)

    • @PhileasLiebmann
      @PhileasLiebmann 3 роки тому +6

      @@hanyuukawaiinanodesu No

    • @YOSSARIAN313
      @YOSSARIAN313 2 роки тому +2

      According to Sarah z it was all one guy who argued with himself to create fake drama. Funny thing is he's the best candidate to have written my immortal as he's the only one with real connections to the original account.

  • @johnmcdaniels9231
    @johnmcdaniels9231 4 роки тому +473

    "My immortal is equivalent to the Canterbury tales" is THE hottest take i have heard in a while

    • @najpotenicewolf934
      @najpotenicewolf934 4 роки тому +27

      I like to imagine that centuries later kids in school will analyze things like My Immortal and wonder what kind of language is it. :')

    • @pussthepupanddonkeythedog5135
      @pussthepupanddonkeythedog5135 4 роки тому +2

      Well Chaucer was a poor speller

    • @johnmcdaniels9231
      @johnmcdaniels9231 4 роки тому +10

      @@pussthepupanddonkeythedog5135 To be fair so was everyone

    • @roosh5149
      @roosh5149 4 роки тому +2

      Can you please drop a timestamp? I think i missed it

  • @melodytheatre2887
    @melodytheatre2887 4 роки тому +616

    This is becoming a season of Gravity Falls, except it’s not “who wrote the journals,” it’s “who wrote the Harry Potter goth fic”

    • @satsfallingdown
      @satsfallingdown 4 роки тому +34

      If that means Red Bard is Dipper I'm absolutely here for it

    • @mundanespecter4970
      @mundanespecter4970 4 роки тому +9

      Journal 4 contains the answer

    • @Bighomie39
      @Bighomie39 4 роки тому +4

      @@satsfallingdown Then who's Mabel?

    • @melodytheatre2887
      @melodytheatre2887 4 роки тому +4

      @@Bighomie39 Sarah probably, since they’re working together on this

  • @ghosttrain9022
    @ghosttrain9022 4 роки тому +566

    Things from My Immortal that will never go out of print:
    "Fangz Raven 4 da hlep"
    "Stop fleming prepz"
    "I cried tears of b'lood"
    "The next morning I woke up in my coffin"
    The clothing descriptions
    Professor Sinatra
    "She opened her red eyes"
    Everything else

    • @gabrielavega1114
      @gabrielavega1114 3 роки тому +72

      "I gasp"
      "I said angrily"
      "Voldemort gave me a gun"

    • @sammywxnchester
      @sammywxnchester 3 роки тому +44

      "His red whites"
      ""You f*cking bastard!" i moaned"
      and
      (I couldnt find the exact writing sorry)
      Something along the lines "I ran suicidally"

    • @mcdonaldsadmincourtney
      @mcdonaldsadmincourtney 3 роки тому +24

      "voldemort gave me a gun"

    • @nymphaea22
      @nymphaea22 3 роки тому +16

      don’t forget “a blak lonken prak t-shrit”

    • @boiwhathellboi2724
      @boiwhathellboi2724 3 роки тому +19

      "I hath Telekinesis!"

  • @ShaunCloudSwain
    @ShaunCloudSwain 4 роки тому +1388

    I've said this before and I'll say it again: "My Immortal" is "Catcher in the Rye" if it were written by Vladimir Nabokov. Tara (character or not) is relentless in reminding you that you are reading a self-insert fanfic. However, despite how much it describes her feelings, her thoughts, her opinions, her interests, her outfit down to a thread, it takes great joy in the fact that you do not know a single thing about the author(s?) and never will. It's a modern-day "Pale Fire" that deftly lampoons early 2000's zeitgeist, goth counter-cultures, and rabid fan culture. The question of "is this real or is this satire?" is integral to the reading experience.

    • @WardNightstone
      @WardNightstone 4 роки тому +101

      i read catcher in the rye in HS MAN was i pissed off i finished it in a couple days went to class and asked my teacher "why the hell was this banned the worst thing he does is hire a hooker and talk to her?"
      "oh poor me i got kicked out of another boarding school so i bought a hunters cap and bitched for 2 days" THAT'S THE WHOLE BOOK

    • @lizziecastricum4382
      @lizziecastricum4382 4 роки тому +35

      Shaun Swain Oh god I really want to believe that but I'm not sure that I can, I mean, having been pretty much the exact demographic for it at that time, there's a certain level of cynicism I have, but at the same time, that's pretty much the best take I've ever heard. In fact, my cynicism is likely just evidence for it, so once again this fanfic accomplishes its cosmic purpose and gives me an existential crisis.

    • @manuolive
      @manuolive 4 роки тому +9

      dude...

    • @universalperson
      @universalperson 4 роки тому +21

      @@WardNightstone Some adults are uncomfortable around edgy teenagers. Or possibly they don't understand the altered slang. "Saddler was sexy!" (IIRC)

    • @tommenno
      @tommenno 4 роки тому +42

      I got introduced to Catcher at the wrong point in life and when that happens, instead of loving the book, it hits like sitting on a damp towel. I've given up on trying to understand how people find it a good book and just sort of nod along, pretending it's this cornerstone of an experience, when all I want to do is scream "Green Day did the entire point of this book in a three and a half min song!"

  • @solentsquared6719
    @solentsquared6719 4 роки тому +5165

    Cringe culture is dead and we should all just write our self-indulgent mary-sue fanfics

    • @musict4379
      @musict4379 4 роки тому +199

      Hell yeah

    • @W.H.V.
      @W.H.V. 4 роки тому +122

      I agree with this statement.

    • @r_tten
      @r_tten 4 роки тому +375

      a fanfiction website but its just self indulgent mary sue fanfics

    • @solsticechase8079
      @solsticechase8079 4 роки тому +144

      You can pry my self-indulgent SIOC reincarnation fics from my cold dead hands

    • @Grandpa-insect
      @Grandpa-insect 4 роки тому +39

      Fuck yeah,

  • @caliscool_
    @caliscool_ 2 роки тому +336

    I feel like L trying to figure out Kira’s identity

    • @janesullivan692
      @janesullivan692 2 роки тому +32

      Hmm... I think there's a 5 percent chance that you are xxBloodyTearz666xx.

    • @Trollgaming1987
      @Trollgaming1987 Рік тому +13

      L, Do you know mary sues of edgy fanfics hate preps

  • @patrickracer43
    @patrickracer43 4 роки тому +703

    I have a theory: members of Hot Topic's marketing team wrote My Immortal and I'm Not Okay... especially since basically every canonical character got described as basically being powerbombed through a Hot Topic

    • @callofkarrenboomerops3262
      @callofkarrenboomerops3262 4 роки тому +13

      Did it work though is the question.

    • @patrickracer43
      @patrickracer43 4 роки тому +13

      @@callofkarrenboomerops3262 I went into a hot Topic a couple times before the virus

    • @jbennett5634
      @jbennett5634 4 роки тому +11

      This is my new head canon

    • @pixelpudding3914
      @pixelpudding3914 4 роки тому +1

      Hol up-

    • @wannabehistorian371
      @wannabehistorian371 4 роки тому +3

      I’ve went to Hot Topic before; I was shocked to find the merch wasn’t as edgy as I thought. I brought a Sonic wallet there.

  • @ememem2952
    @ememem2952 4 роки тому +745

    I still think that the most hilarious thing about My Immortal is that Enoby's middle name is Dementia, it is just so ridiculous

    • @ezrastardust3124
      @ezrastardust3124 3 роки тому +100

      One line of dialogue states that Dumbledore has Alzheimer’s as well
      Coincidence? I think not!

    • @littlepip4014
      @littlepip4014 2 роки тому +24

      Haha 😂 I think they meant demented but fricked it up. I fully believe this was a parody tho. At least…. I think 🤔 😅

    • @greciabarraza4986
      @greciabarraza4986 2 роки тому +17

      @@ezrastardust3124 that is the best part of the whole fan fic, that and Ebony asking why satan had to make her so beautiful.

    • @TomorrowWeLive
      @TomorrowWeLive Рік тому +1

      And reason number 1 why it could not possibly be anything other than satire

  • @DiegoAlvarezBeltran1993.
    @DiegoAlvarezBeltran1993. 3 роки тому +389

    The fact that this is a genuinely wonderful use of Schrodinger's cat philosophy is marvelous.
    Anyone could have written My Immortal but also /no one/ could have written it; it could have been a primitive word document AI for all we know -- the only way to know is to open the box but we can't because the box is locked and no one knows where the goddamn key is.

    • @coffeewolfproductions9113
      @coffeewolfproductions9113 2 роки тому +40

      Multiple people claim to have the key but none tried have worked on the box.

    • @SephTheHuntress
      @SephTheHuntress Рік тому +13

      Maybe the real My Immortal is the friends we made along the way

    • @DiegoAlvarezBeltran1993.
      @DiegoAlvarezBeltran1993. Рік тому +9

      @@SephTheHuntress
      The real My Immortal was the dead body out by the creek.

    • @ParadigmRiki
      @ParadigmRiki Рік тому +9

      And honestly, at this point, if the real "Tara" or whoever was playing her character came out, the key wouldn't work on the box because of how many fake keys have worn the locking mechanism
      This is totally how locks work do not fact check me

    • @DiegoAlvarezBeltran1993.
      @DiegoAlvarezBeltran1993. Рік тому +3

      @@ParadigmRiki
      Hmmm....
      That does sound right.

  • @DezzyDuggs
    @DezzyDuggs 4 роки тому +1062

    Plot twist: Red Bard wrote My immortal and made this video to throw us off her trail

    • @vogonp4287
      @vogonp4287 4 роки тому +90

      You may be joking, but that is actually a legitimate possibility.

    • @hopscotch1049
      @hopscotch1049 3 роки тому +37

      I mean yeah at this point anyone could've written My Immortal

    • @kenzieduckmoo
      @kenzieduckmoo 3 роки тому +33

      the people who wrote my immortal, later cleaned it up, reformatted some of the things, and published it as The Cursed Child

    • @sifangwuhai
      @sifangwuhai Рік тому

      ​​@@kenzieduckmoothe cursed child has the same reputation as the pjo movies

    • @notworethite4835
      @notworethite4835 Рік тому +1

      😂

  • @Erin-io3fv
    @Erin-io3fv 4 роки тому +1337

    Tara Gilesbie is the Zodiac Killer of fanfiction

    • @firefox5133
      @firefox5133 4 роки тому +107

      ted cruz wrote my immortal

    • @juliepowersbbyg
      @juliepowersbbyg 3 роки тому +16

      oh the irony

    • @Mobysimo
      @Mobysimo 3 роки тому +41

      I think we know about the Zodiac than we know about Tara honestly

    • @smartstudyingdoggo9031
      @smartstudyingdoggo9031 3 роки тому +29

      Except some Aussie dude worked out who the zodiac killer is, so we’ll wait another 200 years for some random Aussie dude to just find it out

    • @seamusmckeon9109
      @seamusmckeon9109 3 роки тому +3

      We found the zodiac killer.

  • @RedBardIsCool
    @RedBardIsCool  4 роки тому +1125

    A few recent updates to this saga:
    1. Todd reached out to Sarah Z (another UA-camr who made a video on MI in 2019) not too long after this video was posted. I reached out to Sarah, and upon learning that it was Todd who reached out to her, told her about how I believed that Todd was (secretly) operating several sockpuppet/alt accounts--including the one used for making the "BatMan" confession. We dug deeper down this rabbit hole together, and she posted a (fantastic!) video about our findings. Honestly, it's a story that's at least equally wild to MI's. Here's the video:
    ua-cam.com/video/MWEgD1PVFNg/v-deo.html
    2. Almost 2 weeks after the aforementioned video was posted, Todd reached out to me, and confessed that he didn't write My Immortal. You can see the email he sent me here:
    twitter.com/RedBardIsCool/status/1314944151050506241
    3. Under the username of RavenIsAPoser, Raven, the Acid Bath Princess of Darkness, returned on January 2, 2021 to confirm to the internet that the bloodykiss videos were just trolling, and yet again, that she and Tara didn't write My Immortal. Raven is currently working as a professional dominatrix, Tara doesn't have an online presence, and Azer (NeutralOneder on Instagram) is a musician and uses they/them pronouns.
    ua-cam.com/video/Q_qKwSiN4Uw/v-deo.html

    • @FlorenceDays
      @FlorenceDays 4 роки тому +89

      At this point, the whole Toby/Todd drama should be made into a film

    • @Cassiel75
      @Cassiel75 4 роки тому +17

      I am trying to search out what this "My Immortal" is
      /-My only reference being
      The pop-goth song my immortal..

    • @Cassiel75
      @Cassiel75 4 роки тому +6

      Re:
      I am not ok with this
      /-I f**ing love the soundtrack

    • @thisisnotphysics1857
      @thisisnotphysics1857 4 роки тому +12

      This story is wild...

    • @ikarikid
      @ikarikid 4 роки тому +5

      @@FlorenceDays they have. It was Secret Window.

  • @DanniBiersack
    @DanniBiersack 4 роки тому +181

    if this IS a satire imagine being the absolute legend behind this all. over a decade and people still talk about it, all the fancfics it spawned and re-tellings etc. it's honestly quite the accomplishment lool

  • @landoflogic107
    @landoflogic107 4 роки тому +560

    I am mildly impressed with the fact that the author actually knew Billie Joe Armstrong had dyed blonde hair in 1989-1990. Could it be unintentional, most likely, but I give her the benefit of the doubt.

    • @LocalTorchwoodIntern
      @LocalTorchwoodIntern 4 роки тому +39

      I could just imagine her googling (or whatever was the times search engine) and just finding a pic of blonde Billie and running with it intentionally or not

    • @veepersjeepers
      @veepersjeepers 4 роки тому +8

      Tweek Tweak google was deffo the times search engine. yahoo was a close second.

    • @MrSmithers
      @MrSmithers 4 роки тому +8

      Billy Joel Armstrong*

  • @_-insertname-_
    @_-insertname-_ 4 роки тому +93

    Honestly I’m thinking that my immortal was never intended to be “truly” concluded, and that the unfinished cliffhanger as well as the authors inactivity is the actual real ending. It would fit into the idea of this story being a fanfiction-parody, since many fan stories abruptly end in the middle of the plot or shortly before the ending, usually without any warning or after the author says they’re on a small break and will write again later, only to be never seen again. Which is exactly what happened here.

  • @zombiesun44
    @zombiesun44 4 роки тому +748

    It brings me peace knowing that the author of this fic will go down in history as an unnamed god of a dead religion

    • @coffeewolfproductions9113
      @coffeewolfproductions9113 2 роки тому +45

      "An unnamed god of a dead religion" is a sentence that is way to metal to be in a discussion about My Immortal and I love it

  • @voivodadracula1936
    @voivodadracula1936 4 роки тому +811

    Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way is the ultimate Big Tiddy Goth Gf

  • @TerrorofDeathDGX
    @TerrorofDeathDGX 4 роки тому +190

    Did I wake up today thinking "let's go get the deep lore on My Immortal?"
    No.
    Yet here I am. Excellent video.

  • @nachgeben
    @nachgeben 4 роки тому +1055

    Counter-point: As someone who was actually writing fanfiction back then, yeah, there was an unbelievable amount of teen writers that lacked self-awareness. I was constantly getting messaged and requested to write people fics of their terrible ass Mary Sues and Gary Stus. Spelling errors and ridiculous descriptions abounded. It was honestly something I was constantly laughing over. Also, it's not unfathomable to see two friends having similar, if not identical, writing styles at that age. You'll typically see it in one mimicking the other. I had a friend who would mimic my style to a point it was shocking. The only difference was she would literally pull a thesaurus to write because she wanted to sound more intelligent. Because obviously using words like "golden-red hair" is better if you say "hair that was flaxen yet as auburn as the setting sun" and not just pretentious af.
    So yeah, don't set today's standards of visibility and writing to that time period. Generally, Mary Sue writers of today know they have a lot to prove, so even though that doesn't dissuade them, they will typically try to know how to string a grammatically correct sentence together, or get beta readers to help them. Back then, beta readers were very rarely used, and more people would 'round robin' fanfics if they were going to involve someone in it at all. Meaning, for those who don't know what that is, where you would write some, then pass it to the other person and they would write some, then pass it back or pass it to a third person, and the whole goal was to make it look seamless while still ensuring your own little flare was in there.

    • @Reepicheepchan
      @Reepicheepchan 4 роки тому +76

      Eh, IDK dude, I spent entirely too much time on forums dedicated to finding and making fun of bad fanfic and I just don't buy it. Many of the elements are believable (the mall goth Mary-Sue, the clothing descriptions, the general poor quality, etc), but the little things like the Tom Bombadil reference and the weird way she goes out of her way to describe Hagrid as being a student are just gilding the lily, you know? Like, I get that she is supposed to have not read much less understood the books, but no other character repeatedly describes themselves as being a student so why would Hagrid?
      I agree that there are genuine works of fanfic from that time that are just as bad, but the funny details that made the fic entertaining feel fake to me.

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 4 роки тому +40

      Yep--I've read/encountered a lot of fanfic of that era and slightly earlier, and...what all you said is why I STILL think there's a chance that "My Immortal" could in fact be real.
      This video is very well-written, but...if you haven't spent time on old MSTing sites like "Web Site Number Nine", you don't KNOW how bad it could be.

    • @azazel6342
      @azazel6342 4 роки тому +14

      I was paid to write bad smut fanfic. Shits wild.

    • @koyolionblaze3255
      @koyolionblaze3255 4 роки тому +6

      i've seen my share of terrible fanfics, but i think it has to be satire when you look at I'm Not Okay, which sounds more like a bad fanfic than a satire.

    • @youraveragemusicperson2176
      @youraveragemusicperson2176 4 роки тому +4

      I legitimately got flashbacks when you talked about round robin fics- I was in my fair share of those and boy do I cringe at some of that stuff that I wrote as a 10-13 year old

  • @slevingarganera8375
    @slevingarganera8375 4 роки тому +2207

    Anyone in the comment section could be the author of “My Immortal”.

    • @MarsoftheStars01
      @MarsoftheStars01 4 роки тому +241

      thinking about stuff like that is fun, like "you could walk right past a murderer on the streets and never notice"

    • @nickelakon5369
      @nickelakon5369 4 роки тому +121

      @@MarsoftheStars01 still get chills down my spine that a guy who drove me home from my first day of work murdered someone a few months later (allegedly I think).

    • @that_dam_baka
      @that_dam_baka 4 роки тому +28

      Me! I wrote it. I forgot what I wrote though 😂

    • @MeansofIntrigue
      @MeansofIntrigue 4 роки тому +5

      Hello.

    • @MrSmithers
      @MrSmithers 4 роки тому +25

      It was actually my boss and lover *Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns.*

  • @adrienbroditore
    @adrienbroditore 4 роки тому +266

    I honestly don't want it to be satire, there's this weird part of me that loves the bizarre insane concept of this being real. I've had some amazing times with this fic with my friends, I'm just not sure I'm ready to let this weird hope it's real go away cause man, what a ride.

    • @adamdawson6700
      @adamdawson6700 3 роки тому +27

      Yeah, and at the very least I have to believe the writer was a teenage girl that had a fanfic and goth phase and not just like a man in his 30s that hates anything that appeals to young people

    • @amoureux6502
      @amoureux6502 2 роки тому +8

      @@adamdawson6700 it strikes me as being similar to the sort of phase a lot of young teens online go through, where they recently realized their OCs and stories were cliché, "cringe," nonsensical, etc, and then they flip and start making fun of the tropes they loved literally last month.
      Also adds to why the Acidbath sisters seemed like such a plausible candidate, they were doing the exact same thing.

    • @CErra310
      @CErra310 4 місяці тому +1

      @@adamdawson6700 you can't write parody on this level if you hate the thing you're writing about. regardless of this was earnest or not, it was made by someone who was in the scene

  • @ZILtoid1991
    @ZILtoid1991 4 роки тому +3336

    This made me want to write a Joe Biden fanfic, called For-Biden Fruit.

  • @thecuza9716
    @thecuza9716 4 роки тому +401

    My Immortal is actually a sentient cosmic entity that possesses writers in order to physically manifest in our reality as mind-bending pieces of literature.
    It's most recent known incarnation is the backstory of Old Man Henderson.

    • @twinkiesmaster69
      @twinkiesmaster69 4 роки тому +7

      Im stealing this

    • @dionyxian2116
      @dionyxian2116 4 роки тому +34

      I cant believe that my immortal is an scp

    • @FireofGia111
      @FireofGia111 4 роки тому +2

      This is just Hermaeus Mora's books in Skyrim but irl

    • @apollyon772
      @apollyon772 4 роки тому +7

      can this be an scp please, forget all the others. this one tops them all

    • @tahunuva4254
      @tahunuva4254 4 роки тому +3

      HASTUR HASTUR HASTUR

  • @mizuamia827
    @mizuamia827 4 роки тому +219

    Man, got hit with some nostalgia here. Back in high school, a friend of mine would read sections and chapters of My Immortal to me and another friend during our first period Entomology class lab time because cringe was way more interesting than bugs at 8 am.

    • @shadowoftheday5736
      @shadowoftheday5736 3 роки тому +13

      Those sound like really good days...come to think of it, My Immortal brought light to a lot of us, when I felt sad I used to read some lines of it and they immediately made me feel better. So grateful to the author

    • @asmrtpop2676
      @asmrtpop2676 2 роки тому +4

      Said no one ever!! Bugs are awesome! Like why take entomology then!

    • @vainpiers
      @vainpiers Рік тому

      I did this with friends, but in history

  • @christopherauzenne5023
    @christopherauzenne5023 4 роки тому +313

    “Because I love the taste of human blood”- Harry Potter

    • @Mobysimo
      @Mobysimo 3 роки тому +28

      I just picture him saying with the chirpiness a ten year old uses to talk about candy

    • @KryingKermit
      @KryingKermit Рік тому +2

      *vampire

  • @cradleofchaos4923
    @cradleofchaos4923 4 роки тому +217

    the giggle after "throbbing lavender man-fruit thing." gets me so bad

  • @xJackDarkStonex
    @xJackDarkStonex 4 роки тому +341

    I think you underestimate preteens. The whole "diz is da laif" speak is absolutely something I would have written like on forums and stuff lol. And the bits of referencing Lord of the rings, ik I would often reference obscure shit I've never personally read bc I either knew someone who did, ran into a teacher that taught it to me or something else.
    Odds are, it was written like a story I wrote with my friends. Sitting around a laptop, narrating out loud, laughing at our own jokes but with a level of seriousness of like "this is *actually* cool. Badass and my comic relief is sooo gud"
    So not exactly self aware parody, but I can totally see someone writing this with mixed ideas of what the purpose is (funny or serious?). Objectives of what the tone of a story is likely a foreign concept for many people, and I could see this happening here.
    As for the "hacker", probably an attention seeking moment (like this whole thing was).
    This is my belief of the story.
    Maybe with time they started making it funnier after the attention it got, out of spite or because they thought it was "AWESOME".
    SO i think it's real.

    • @firefancy9928
      @firefancy9928 4 роки тому +24

      I can attest; when I was young, I was on the internet scene between 2011 and 2013, and old meme culture and "derp speak" was common with kids around 12 and 15 years old, to try and be funny or to try and be a troll. There were users who were intentionally trying to roleplay as kids who only posted in "baby talk" too. Kids liked to have fun and be silly back in the day.

    • @kupotenshi
      @kupotenshi 3 роки тому +28

      That shorthand way of typing was the norm during AIM/MSN messenger days. The fic sounds exactly like how you described it, two teenagers typing out a story together on a computer for laughs without any concern for plot or grammar. The attention they got would have been incentive enough to keep going, and then they got bored and stopped. The internet really made it bigger than it probably was to them.

  • @emoyak8795
    @emoyak8795 4 роки тому +635

    Game Theory: Was My Immortal written by Tera and Raven from Teen Titans?

    • @universalperson
      @universalperson 4 роки тому +14

      As long as it's not anywhere near the TT Go versions.

    • @johnbuscher
      @johnbuscher 4 роки тому +8

      Teraven

    • @playererror4044
      @playererror4044 4 роки тому +16

      Shouldnt that be Film Theory for teen titans.
      (Guess whos pedantic)

    • @bamshablam5977
      @bamshablam5977 4 роки тому +2

      More like hornet is void lolx

    • @JTSquirrel
      @JTSquirrel 4 роки тому

      Valen ayyyy mossbag reference

  • @sugarfrosted2005
    @sugarfrosted2005 4 роки тому +534

    I seem to recall Dumbledore being spelled a different way each time, seems unlikely to be an accident.

    • @fangsfrthmmrs
      @fangsfrthmmrs 4 роки тому +102

      My favorite misspelling of Dumbledore from my immortal would probably have to be Dumblydore. If I remember correctly, Mcgonagall's name was similarly butchered in a number of different ways.

    • @zqfmgb4335
      @zqfmgb4335 4 роки тому +68

      On the last page he seems to be called "Dumbledark". DUMBLEDARK.
      I haven't read this thing though, so maybe it's not him. Could be a mirror universe edgy clone or something, you never know with fanfics. But still, DUMBLEDARK.

    • @calemr
      @calemr 4 роки тому +70

      And that's part of why I say it's got to be parody. The sheer Consistency of failure.
      She doesn't make the same mistake over and over.
      She doesn't get it right from time to time.
      She Always gets it wrong, in new and unique ways.

    • @warcraftfan5
      @warcraftfan5 4 роки тому +15

      Reminds me of another great fic, 30 H's (if you don't know, its basically the polar opposite of My Immortal, having better grammar, more competent writing and seemingly being written by a testosterone-poisoned teenage boy), same thing happens there to Scrumblegort's name being different every time.

    • @TheMadTurtle
      @TheMadTurtle 4 роки тому +5

      @@fangsfrthmmrs It reminded me of how my mom used to call him Dumbledoriss... I miss her T~T

  • @Kelly_C
    @Kelly_C 4 роки тому +35

    if you pause around 41:53 the post is claiming that even the lamest 16-17 y/o has better things to do than write my immortal but during my senior year me and my friends wrote a scooby doo/dragon tales crossover epyllion about an child oracle named äb̈s̈ïn̈ẗḧe all in dactylic hexameter _and_ we were relatively cool

  • @somegirl4631
    @somegirl4631 4 роки тому +122

    my favourite live is still _"and than Voldemort give me a gun."_ to this day.
    though Dumbledore with a goth phase who flaw on a broom to save the day with his Avril lavigne clout really came in close behind.

    • @somegirl4631
      @somegirl4631 4 роки тому

      @Mullerornis 😂😂😂

    • @robinchesterfield42
      @robinchesterfield42 4 роки тому +5

      "Snap and Loopin were doing it...and Dobby was watching!"
      I saw a Sims 3 animation of (an abridged version of) the story first and as soon as it got to THAT part, my brain snapped and I knew I had to look up the original. XD

  • @pootoobaby738
    @pootoobaby738 4 роки тому +476

    the greatest mysteries of all time:
    What was lost from the Library of Alexandria fire
    What happened to Jimmy Hoffa
    Did Atlantis actually exist
    Who wrote My Immortal

    • @zangetsuCBA
      @zangetsuCBA 4 роки тому +46

      My Immortal is a transcription of atlantian scrolls, previously stored in the Library of Alexandria, made by Jimmy Hoffa. (?

    • @ConscriptDavid
      @ConscriptDavid 4 роки тому +14

      Atlantis did not exist. Even Plato says it's an allegory. It's the platonic ideal of an... ideal society, essentially.

    • @pootoobaby738
      @pootoobaby738 4 роки тому +8

      ConscriptDavid issa joke kid

    • @ConscriptDavid
      @ConscriptDavid 4 роки тому +13

      @@pootoobaby738 shhh lemme have my fun

    • @tommenno
      @tommenno 4 роки тому +2

      We got Hoffa figured out already too.

  • @myettechase
    @myettechase 4 роки тому +31

    It’s my 3rd rewatch and I just now noticed the subtle brilliance of the phrasing at 9:06 ......she’s goffik, so “a pentagram between” rather than “a cross between”

    • @amoureux6502
      @amoureux6502 2 роки тому +2

      The writer of My Immortal was a comedic genius

  • @strippinheat
    @strippinheat 4 роки тому +171

    It's so consistent in its utter absurdity that it's clearly a product of a genius mastermind, but the REAL truth is that it was a viral marketing campaign for Count Chocula cereal.

  • @RockmanX47
    @RockmanX47 4 роки тому +254

    It is honestly astonishing how almost accidentally the author of the My Immortal fanfic has managed to avoid the spotlight for nearly 15 years just thanks to the, "Boy Who Cried Wolf" factor that has plagued the mystery of the identity of this person/people as one unreliable source after one claim to be the writer. At this point, I highly doubt their identity will be revealed for certain due to how many oddballs have already tried to take the position of author that the masses will likely not accept a simple answer at the end.

    • @MegaKaitouKID1412
      @MegaKaitouKID1412 4 роки тому +8

      I think thats why Rose Christo tried to make it seem like people found her rather than just plain old coming out as the writer.

  • @vogonp4287
    @vogonp4287 4 роки тому +88

    Honestly, if I wrote it, I would never tell anyone. I would just sit back and laugh at the internet's obsession of it.

  • @merrittanimation7721
    @merrittanimation7721 4 роки тому +496

    "Why has it taken so long for Red Bard to release a new video?"
    "Oh wow."

    • @lulu1997master
      @lulu1997master 4 роки тому +22

      Actually she was also having some MASSIVE issues uploading the video. She talked quite a bit about it on Twitter; her internet reception was horrible, and only managed to upload it yesterday. The video had been done for over a week.

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 4 роки тому +2

      @@lulu1997master Still.

  • @0hate9
    @0hate9 4 роки тому +196

    Somehow "she looked exactly like Hillary Duff" is the funniest line in any of the readings shown in this video

  • @ja-vishaara
    @ja-vishaara 4 роки тому +306

    Whenever I see my girlfriend, my heart beats like a subway train

  • @ethansloan
    @ethansloan 4 роки тому +782

    My theory: My Immortal was written by JD Salinger when he finally got an internet connection.

    • @shalonanwar6882
      @shalonanwar6882 4 роки тому +51

      Tabitha Monaco no, the author of Catcher in the Rye.

    • @epicremarc
      @epicremarc 4 роки тому +60

      So it’s a precursor to Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let’s Find Out!

    • @Pilapuzzles
      @Pilapuzzles 4 роки тому +18

      I mean, he was the author of Catcher in the Rye and “others”

    • @jeaddhist
      @jeaddhist 4 роки тому +3

      @Tabitha Monaco This is me when people mention JD from Scrubs. I immediately think of Heathers.

    • @wormdoodles
      @wormdoodles 4 роки тому

      ​@@Pilapuzzles Tbh, his short stories are actually pretty good. Check out A Girl I Knew, which probably makes my top ten favorite short stories of all time. And this is from someone who fucking hated The Catcher in the Rye.

  • @gothtarrare
    @gothtarrare 4 роки тому +258

    Can I just say, as a goth on world goth day, that I love the timing of this upload.

    • @9intheaftern00n100
      @9intheaftern00n100 4 роки тому +13

      I honestly thought it was planned for a second lmao. Too coincidental

    • @webcores
      @webcores 4 роки тому +2

      @9intheaftern00n100 I like to think it was intentional

  • @MJTRadio
    @MJTRadio 2 роки тому +31

    That Rose Christo book seriously needs to be released, leaked, something. I just have to, HAVE TO know how the hell My Immortal was secretly a code to find her brother in the foster system. That mystery is nearly as worth being solved, and someone actually has that damn manuscript.

  • @taekawa6177
    @taekawa6177 4 роки тому +135

    i just hope that wherever the author is she felt happy when mcr came back

  • @austins9795
    @austins9795 4 роки тому +75

    Honestly, the author being a complete enigma is great because i feel like the “magic” of this fanfic would be lost if we knew who they were and where they are right now.

  • @NeoN-PeoN
    @NeoN-PeoN 2 роки тому +34

    Best part of My Immortal is when Enoby shoots Voldermort off of his broom. He starts crying and begging for mercy and she goes "I felt bad for him. Even though I'm a sadist and I stopped."
    That part had me laughing for a while.

  • @sadvec6328
    @sadvec6328 4 роки тому +179

    This remind me when I was at Hot Topic with my friends back on 2008, I was wearing a skimpy black top with the MCR logo stamped on it on top of a black coweb bra, a teared skirt and high heels with red splatters that looked like blood and some knee high stripped black and purple socks, I used white foundation and black mascara, and my hair was dyed black with a red streak in it, I had pentagram shaped earings and an Invader Zim phone case for my motorola, that I just purchased on Hot Topic, ofcourse.
    And if you think that I'm being a weirdo, you're just a PREP

    • @andrejg4136
      @andrejg4136 4 роки тому +10

      I can hear the My Chemical Romance from here

    • @Goldenglare_thewindeater
      @Goldenglare_thewindeater 4 роки тому +5

      Andre Jg as well as evanescence, simple plan, and green day

    • @shiny9690
      @shiny9690 4 роки тому +3

      All I heard was Invader Zim phone case
      YAY

  • @MushroomReaper
    @MushroomReaper 4 роки тому +360

    “I went into the common room thinking of Satan.” As one does.
    I knew nothing about this Harry Potter fanfic and it hurts.

    • @Crosshill
      @Crosshill 4 роки тому +27

      you can enjoy a dramatic reading on internet historians channel

    • @MariaThePotterNut
      @MariaThePotterNut 4 роки тому +12

      Read it. Do it. It's so worth it. It's painful but not even dramatic readings can fully encapsulate the experience.

    • @incognitoburrito6020
      @incognitoburrito6020 4 роки тому +1

      I actually recommend dramatic readings over reading it with your own two eyes. Reading it normally just leads to your brain eventually shutting down out of self defense, which means you miss out on some of the glory. So stay up late, gather some friends, find an unabridged reading that pronounces the misspellings, and buckle up for the ride, my friend.

  • @CloaksCosplays
    @CloaksCosplays 4 роки тому +111

    "Too much effort for a troll." That's like the bare minimum hours you have to put in for an obscure ARG. That's the community service hours of trolling.

  • @HeckinBigBoi
    @HeckinBigBoi 4 роки тому +125

    It's weird how this fanfic pops in and out of my life every 3-4 years ever since I found out about it. Like, just the other day, I was trying to tell some of my friends about this, and I couldn't remember the title, two days later this video shows up in my recommended, and tonight i'll be listening to some dramatic readings. After all that, it'll then fade right back into obscurity.
    Anyway, I'll see you guys in about 4 years.

  • @Inhisnowhereland
    @Inhisnowhereland 4 роки тому +220

    I like to think the person who wrote my immortal is now some successful business person who wants to erase this from the internet

    • @lolathecat-0946
      @lolathecat-0946 4 роки тому +42

      this made me laugh, imagine if your cringey social media page from when you were 13 was immortalized like this 😂

    • @OttoVonGarfield
      @OttoVonGarfield 4 роки тому +10

      @@lolathecat-0946 *Sweats profusely...*

    • @kirbyfanprime
      @kirbyfanprime 4 роки тому +24

      In this age of people digging into decade-old social media posts to discredit somebody, that's oddly one of the least far-fetched reasons I've heard so far.

  • @nugget8967
    @nugget8967 5 місяців тому +5

    Honestly, I hope beyond hope that this was just 2 friends having fun, whether it was trolling or genuine

  • @coolspider295
    @coolspider295 4 роки тому +110

    It is kinda weird that we will likely never know the true author of "My Immortal". Humanity will grow to unveil the secrets of the universe, yet, will be denied this. The author will have seen the desperate scramble for this shred of knowledge, yet deny it from the world.

  • @SupaDupa97
    @SupaDupa97 4 роки тому +179

    It was mcr's marketing team that wrote my immortal.

  • @gravitygrace8585
    @gravitygrace8585 4 роки тому +77

    The first person I'll ask to meet when I get to the afterlife is the author of My Immortal.

  • @lupessreturns
    @lupessreturns 4 роки тому +471

    The biggest reason I had to doubt the idea that it wasn't genuine is...because I used to have friends and routinely write with people who had very similar writing styles and interests and...they were completely serious. Kinda tosses a big old monkey wrench into my brain interpreting these as anything but genuine.

    • @maartje176
      @maartje176 4 роки тому +26

      I own some self published booklet thingys written in a similar way, I bought them at a con several years back. It’s a very strange thing for me as well, when I talked to the authors again after I read them they were like genuine about it? It was a strange experience, but they’re great when I want to have a laugh😶

    • @galtenoble
      @galtenoble 4 роки тому +32

      If it were genuine, then I'm surprised someone who was clearly pretty young was so resilient against all the hate they received. I know it probably wasn't current-day social media levels of hate messaging, but even one bad comment among dozens of positive ones can really bring your mood down for the rest of the day. Admittedly, I've never read My Immortal, so maybe she regularly expressed her frustrations in the author's notes, idk.

    • @no-man_baugh
      @no-man_baugh 4 роки тому +35

      @Galtenoble Two things
      1: As soon as the third chapter, each chapter would start with an author’s note regarding the negative attention the fic was getting (e.g. “AN: stop flassing ok! if u do den u r a prep!”) so you ‘re on the money on that guess.
      2: You owe it to yourself to at the very least watch Internet Historian & SorrowTV’s adaptation of My Immortal, even if it doesn’t include the time travel bit.

    • @artsyscrub3226
      @artsyscrub3226 4 роки тому +11

      Idk i had a pretty bad edgy stage but it a part of me thinks at least some of it is genuine.
      Of course there's a leaked interview saying the author was genuine

    • @galtenoble
      @galtenoble 4 роки тому +4

      @@no-man_baugh I don't find 'so bad it's good' media enjoyable, so I will pass. But thank you.

  • @angxldust3328
    @angxldust3328 4 роки тому +158

    It's definitely satire. They put so much effort into this because it was worth it, their fanfiction got very popular and writing new chapters was probably very fun. Whoever wrote My Immortal is a GENIUS.

  • @for.tax.reasons
    @for.tax.reasons 3 роки тому +78

    "Her real name was Jenny" oh my god Jenny Nicholson is not only horse famous, she is the author of my immortal

  • @ReapTheWhirlwind
    @ReapTheWhirlwind 4 роки тому +62

    Hilary Duff tidbit: I was in LA in 2003 for a Buffy convention and across the hall from the Buffy event was an Lizzie McGuire Movie event. Hilary Duff got more excitement and energy than pretty much the entire casts of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly combined. It was a weird and amazing experience! I have no doubt that many Raven and Tara types were at the Buffy con!

  • @Arcademan09
    @Arcademan09 4 роки тому +639

    The best version of My Immortal is hands down Internet Historian's

    • @tiffany-chan1235
      @tiffany-chan1235 4 роки тому +16

      YES!! I love that version!

    • @izzyraimi
      @izzyraimi 4 роки тому +7

      Oddly enough, my go to was LRMReading's readthrough, while also taking the piss out of it in an MST3K fashion.
      Check that out if you haven't!

    • @ojshrimpson9184
      @ojshrimpson9184 4 роки тому +21

      Ebony was waring a black laced crisscrossed mesh bra. Over that she was waring a black t shirt with Metallica over it. Along with a black blazer with a raven embroidered logo. She was waring black jeans that were cut off at the bottom...

    • @beckc101ify
      @beckc101ify 4 роки тому +5

      You should check out Brendaniel's when you get the chance. He reads the entire thing!

    • @geoleo965
      @geoleo965 4 роки тому +1

      Preach.

  • @esper6119
    @esper6119 4 роки тому +22

    "... We were at Hollister."
    god the delivery is amazing, theyr'e comedy geniuses and i respect and fear them

  • @jupita551
    @jupita551 4 роки тому +746

    "...they completely disregard the harry potter canon"
    well.. JK rowling does the same thing now....

    • @Galvion1980
      @Galvion1980 4 роки тому +40

      ...plus every and any moral lesson to be learnt from that series. JKR is cancelled, the fandom says TRANS RIGHTS!

    • @panicontheargo7034
      @panicontheargo7034 4 роки тому +2

      Shots fireddd

    • @jessec.3069
      @jessec.3069 4 роки тому +1

      "Now"? What do you mean "now"? I don't think she ever particularly cared for consistency, she just ran out of good ideas.

    • @SEELE-ONE
      @SEELE-ONE 4 роки тому

      Oh snap!