The "Red Mist" Spongebob episode

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  1. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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  3. AlexG Like nailing Jello to a tree Valued Senior Member

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    Having watched it, the supposed story about it was far more interesting than the crappy video.
     
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  5. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    A Hoax Most Morbid

    I would suggest that the story is fake, a twisted form of fan fiction.

    The alleged copies shown on the internet differ from one another, and none show what is described in the story. Close, on some points, but no.

    Indeed, one of the "bodies" shown might well be a genuine photograph of a dead child, but it does not match up with the description of "an eight year-old girl in the forest laying on her stomach in a pool of blood, with her back cut open and entrails piled on top".

    Additionally, the video clip posted at YouTube for the Creepypasta article, the only one that purports to show certain footage—"as Squidward walks back to his home with his head in his tentacles", albeit without the his tentacles to his head—is no longer available. It should also be noted that the stillshot of Squidward walking home does not appear to match the description—"with nothing happening in the background"—although without the video of that part, we cannot tell whether the background in the frame is moving, or Squidward animated over a static background.

    While the image of the dead girl doesn't match the description, the images of the dead boy are simply not there.

    There are also details in the video that are not included in the description, including two multiframe subliminal cards that display long enough to capture; they contain written messages:

    • "Squidward is dead. Miss him. Miss him."

    • "Squidward Will Fucking DESTROY YOUR PLANET"​

    Additionally, the only only available reference to anyone named Andrew Skinner, living in Fife, Scotland, having to do with murder appears to be a 2002 newspaper blotter article, all of four sentences long, regarding a forty year-old man charged with attempted murder. That is to say, there is nothing pointing to a Scottish killer named Andrew Skinner arrested and imprisoned for nine murders, including two children.

    Nothing.

    I'll post some frames later, omitting the one allegedly of a dead female child. It is slightly unsettling in and of itself, independent of its alleged context. It deviates from the description. It might still be a real photograph of a real, dead child, so ... right.

    But the bottom line is that there is nothing pointing toward this story being true, and at least a few circumstantial suggestions toward it being fiction, a hoax, or something similar.

    Even as a fake, though, the idea that someone would put together this video is slightly disturbing. Of course, I tend to view art as a reflection of the psyche. If I played a behavioral analyst in a television crime drama, I would say we're looking at an aspiring serial killer who has not yet evolved out of fantasy.

    Which, of course, is why we really shouldn't put too much faith in crime dramas. After all, there is another perfectly viable explanation, that the artist is simply a self-obsessed prig of cyclopaean magnitude.
     
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  7. Magical Realist Valued Senior Member

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    I concur with your analysis, especially in light of the online sparcity of anything about this Andrew Skinner and his alleged atrocious crimes. If this had been anything even approaching true, these crimes would be all over the media. So maybe it's an instance of these online perpetrated urban legends. I hope so as I certainly feel better thinking it never happened. But still, as a cultural fact in itself, it remains intriguing. What does believing stuff like this feed in people?
     
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  9. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    This is like the joke story of Pinky Pie systematically murdering the other ponies by skinning them alive and then eating them.

    I think all of this has to do with the concept that taking something innocent and pure and then savagely transforming it into something horrible is rather funny.
     
  10. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    This and That

    Well, it can be funny. That's the weird thing here. I mean, sure, we've come a long way since Bambi vs. Godzilla. And, indeed, I have long entertained a joke about making a pornographic parody of Dora the Explorer. (Can you say, 'va-jay-jay'?)

    God only knows what she has in that backpack.

    To the other, while the idea makes me laugh, it's not something I'm ever going to devote any effort to.

    The idea of the grotesque fan fiction doesn't bother me at all. What strikes me oddly, though, is that someone has put this much effort into escalating the product.

    To the other, Fifty Shades of Gray came from fan fiction for Twilight. The movie is slated for August 1, 2014.

    So ... yeah. Sickness abounds, I guess.

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    A lot of people don't, actually. It's a really dumb word. Worse than the "-punk" genres (cyber-, splatter-, steam-).

    And if they don't look around at the CP site, instead just focusing on the story put in front of them, they might not see the cues. Additionally, the story is widely circulated, outside CP, as true.

    As such, we might as well offer a more detailed consideration.

    To the one, the thought of something like this really existing fascinated me; a glimpse inside the mind of a psychopath, especially in such a bizarre testament, is nearly priceless. To the other, as soon as I was able to suspect that I was reading fan fiction—approximately the same point at which I went to the CP front page—I felt much, much better. Priceless insight, to be certain, but I'd rather there not be nine dead people. It all works out in the end.
     
  11. ElectricFetus Sanity going, going, gone Valued Senior Member

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    Rule34 Dora the Explorer and you will found that many other had that idea nad did in fact dedicate some time and artistic talent (or lack of) to that depraved task.
     
  12. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    D'oh!

    Well, phuck. I did forget Rule 34.

    Well-pointed, sir.
     
  13. Boo88 Registered Member

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    There was a creepypasta story where there was a lost episode of the Simpsons where Bart died. It was supposedly the end of series one. Bart's fooling around on a plane, accidentally breaks a window and gets sucked out. But when they see his body, he looks more realistic and human, because, according to the rumor, Groening theorized that cartoon characters don't die because they don't look real. Bart dying changes that. The rest of the episode is taken up with the family crying.

    Read it, knowing that it was a fake, but it still freaked me the hell out.
     

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