The Rise & Fall Of Fantastic Daily - Inside A Mind
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2020
- Fantastic Daily was a top 10 RUclips channel giving a daily dose of paranormal videos found online. The problem though... Everything mentioned within his videos were completely fabricated by himself.
To make matters worse, he decided to tell a story of monsters haunting his family. But once the community watching found out what he was doing... It went downhill fast!
Today I share an interview I had with Fantastic Daily telling us how he got into the RUclips space and how it all collapsed rather quickly.
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Plot twist: Fantastic Daily never existed and his whole story was a fabricated arg about a fabricated arg
What if the real fantastic daily were the friends we made along the way?
bigger plot twist: everything that was fabricated was real, except for fantastic daily himself
I was legit about to comment this! 😂 When he said people don't really fact check YT videos I was like "Yeah, and I ain't about to fact check this one either" 😅
Ngl at this point I'd be disappointed if this ISN'T the case. Some truly post-post-modern shit.
so you're saying he's a dude, playing a dude, disguised as another dude?
Well, at least he got confirmation that he's a good actor and filmmaker, considering he fooled so many people.
I mean
These pepole fall for granny UFO and bigfoot videos
the fact they were outraged that black eyed kids wasnt real :D
Ikr
@@jesterssketchbook But still, that's a really good legend... As scary as it is, it might even be one of my favourites.
Well, considering the people he fooled were sub 50 iq manchildren it's not that impressive. (I'm exaggerating, but still).
i’m sorry but “black eyed kids getting arrested” is the funniest possible direction you could take a black eyed kids story.
police: HANDS UP YOU'RE UNDER ARREST
black eyed children: * screams *
police: _WHAT THE FUCK_
@@jabby6709 pft
It's like having Slenderman get arrested. Or that one comic panel with Thanos getting shoved into a police car...
oi mate, you got a loicense for those eyes?
Siren Head, hands cuffed behind his back, leaned up against the hood of a police car.
"THIS IS AN EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A _RACIST COP WARNING_ IN YOUR AREA"
So, basically, the lesson I learned from this was: Don't make fake paranormal stuff _specifically_ for people who actually take paranormal stuff totally seriously. Because they'll get upset. Because cognitive dissonance is an actual thing.
Good to know.
nah fuck that i'm gonna make an arg to fool the paranormal community now cause it seems like fun
@@jabby6709 I would enjoy seeing that, just because I like ARGs and paranormal stuff, it wouldn't fool me, but I would be wholly entertained lol
I didn't believe in the paranormal aspects, and was genuinely concerned for his family and their well being. It's insanely shitty how bad he is lying in this video and playing the victim. Imagine watching a channel about a guy so obsessed with the paranormal that his pregnant wife has to leave the property because he's playing weird noises on a loudspeaker for 4 days straight. That is what we all watched, but he didn't mention any of that. He kept spinning this narrative that he was so obsessed that he didn't care if it caused his wife to have a miscarriage, and a lot of people including myself were concerned with that and not the paranormal aspect, and to make things worse he only came clean about faking the videos, but never said anything about his families well being. The guys a piece of sh!t and I am almost certain he did make money off of this
@@jabby6709 well don't get upset when you have crazy people threatening your life, because if you play stupid games you win stupid prizes. Let me know so I can tune in and watch
...you were genuinely worried about his safety and the safety of his wife and children, but when you found out they weren't ever in danger, you're perfectly fine with his safety and the safety and his wife and children being actually put in danger?
Like "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"? You know the "prizes" here were the potential safety of small children yeah? I don't believe for a second you were legit worried for his wife and little kuds safety if you found out it was a lie and immediately thought their safety was an appropriate price for his lie.
Those people who vandalized his wife's business really have a special place in hell waiting for them.
It’s just stupid that people would get that upset that they would try to dox him online and mess with their business’.
It’s that sort of stuff that makes me want to hunt each people that did such terrible things to him and give them a heavy gut punch and a knee to the jaw. And i’m a pasifist, so you know something’s wrong with the world when the friendly peaceful guy wants to sock someone in the jaw.
We dont want him
The SPECIAL hell!
Imagine doing that over a fucking webseries
That is so sad that his wife also become a victim ;-;
Fake "top X" lists channel that goes off the rails is such a brilliant premise. I love this.
I mean Everyman Hybrid started out as a work out and healthy living channel
Like HtB.
how did you get 2 top comments lmfao 👏👏
@@frankskabapolis3504 Thanks but honestly idk. I caught the vid early in my feed and just commented with the three major thoughts that came to mind. Two of my comments went to the top but one of my comments has only a single upvote from myself, lol, and I still think that one is the best. :-P
i know!!! i am sophie pulled off the "fake youtube channel" thing wonderfully
i lost a braincell trying to figure out how people actually believed that children with no eyes would magically appear on your doorstep
yeah people back then were dumber, man
@@goddessofstealth2417 "back then"...it's not that old, people are still dumb😂
@@zirus5191 well yeah you have a point
Not just that but believing that “supernatural” beings can get arrested by a middle aged cop and think that’s real 😂😂 (mostly laughing because imagine kids with no eyes get handcuffed and read their Miranda Rights from a cop) 😂
@@goddessofstealth2417 "Back then"
2020 anti corona and people who think earth is flat but its a Pokémon ball...
Imagine ruining someone's life for making entertaining content on RUclips
The man constantly went on live stream and belittled his fans and talked shit on other people. I was there for most of it and the dude was an entirely bitter manbaby who thought too highly of himself. He would insult anyone that believed anything paranormal could be real and would then begin to chastise them in a livestream in front of hundreds of people for it. FD was 100% an example of someone who had a toxic mindset from the get go.
@@foolycool5420 Source: Trust me bro
@@foolycool5420 thats still no reason to ruining a life my god a freand acsidentaly almost drowned me when i was joung and im still freands with him. I see no diverence. You always have to give people a second or third chance and try to see how it was/is from ther view point
Who cares everyone knew it was fake
@@foolycool5420 where the source mate
Maybe the real black-eyed kids were the friends we made along the way
id cry if thats the case
@@pakdhenar Lmao
I'm done seeing this comment literally killed my lungs🤣
ROFLMFAO!!!!
LOL!
"WHY DID YOU TAKE DOWN THAT GUY'S SITE?!" ... because he was illegally sharing personal information and promoting violence?
well yeah,but it was funny
James Romano ah yes, being doxxed and be potentiomally kidnapped or worse murdered is very funny, haha.
It’s not illegal to dox someone. It is when you encourage harm or promote it
@@carcharchin_rs people who are doxed are usually never harmed.
@@damienthonk1506 You are a troll
Replace every single instance of “kids” with “peas” and this video becomes 100x funnier
The mystery of the black eyed peas
@@ChaS4m those adobos.. those god damn adobos...
XD
DAY 5: THE BLACK EYES PEAS ARE ON MY FRONT PORCH AND THEY WON'T LEAVE
Black eyed peas mysteriously appeared on my door step at 3:00?!?1!?1!11?1!1?1!
Anyways to all the people who think it’s justified because these people wanted to believe it was real: These are adults who committed crime, yes crime, because they believed in a story that was fake. Which wasn’t really supported by anything. There were RUclips videos and one article that only references the RUclips channel. No reports from the police who supposedly arrested black eyed children, not a huge archive of people with videos of the same thing in other locations. Adults. Who. Committed. A. CRIME. for THAT.
Fantastic Daily is one of them technically. He kept talking about his wife possibly losing her baby because of his actions, but he left that out conveniently. There's a whole other side to this story he isn't telling, and it's messed up of him because a lot of people including myself were more concerned for his family, and I never even believed in the paranormal aspect of it
@@the-engneer yes, Fantastic Daily was wrong for introducing a plot to his series. Let's dox him.
@@the-engneer ? The video went over how he talked about that and how it was his biggest mistake that antagonized the most people when it was revealed and that's the line he realized he crossed? Nobody left that out? Also in what universe is that a crime? By that notion all movies with that plot point are committing a crime.
It may have been in somewhat poor taste, and it definitely triggered a lot of people. It would certainly make me uncomfortable if I was a fan, even knowing it was fiction at the time, but that in no way justifies the reaction he received. Defending death threats and doxxing over that makes you a somewhat disgusting person.
im going to argue that anyone that wholeheartedly believed in it, enough to commit crimes, were probably suffering from delusions (and paranoia and a host of other mental illness symptoms). they would not have believed any proof to the contrary as proof at all. if you asked them why there is no police report if it really happened, theyd wave that logic away with "of course theres no record, its a coverup". an unwell mind will make any reason to not admit its wrong.
@@serenity1378 not even somewhat. death threats are never justified. people who defend it are completely disgusting people.
I get that he didn't choose his audience well, and the missteps. But Jesus Christ, releasing someone's home address and threatening to kill someone and their family because they made you think monsters were real is appalling. Being angry about being taken for a ride, sure. But I have no sympathy for people who threaten to kill.
They’re just looking for someone to blame for their own stupidity for falling for shit like this haha
@@isaiahromero9861 thats literally whats happening, lower IQ results in having difficulty distinguishing fiction from reality
@@isaiahromero9861 I feel bad for people who really believe this hard because they probably are not right in the head. Not condoning what some did at all just feel like that's the only way people can fall for it so hard and become so invested and end up lashing out in a very dangerous way. in the end It's sad, it was a great ARG, one where no one knew they were playing. I dont think theres been any others like that?
@@isaiahromero9861
Exactly!
The smarter they think they are the angrier they're likely to get.
Some folk hate being hoisted by their own petard and rather than deal with their gullibility honestly and even laugh it off, their hurt, foolish and phoney pride indulges in blame transference.
@@tajuspikturna8097
Incorrect.
IQ has little to do with it and you are merely trying to reinforce your own incorrect belief and prejudice.
Religion is another perfect example of people from all walks of life sharing a common delusion that has been programmed into them from birth.
That's why I've always preferred research over rumour, hearsay or wishful thinking.
Imagine midlle age adults being angry and doxxing a family because they we're fooled into believing ghosts are real
BrUh
I was working on a video and now I'm watching this
eat your cereal
@@user-js6db5ne8r bruh the talentless cult is in every corner of the internet
plus sending death threats. my brain can barely fathom this. the gullibility and PRIDE of these people is through the roof.
Wait, children with no eyes that magically appear and disappear aren’t real?
Huh.
Don’t forget this is a community that lives fully within the “supernatural exists.” They are people that when watching these videos fully believe that the person posting is doing so for the want to spread the truth, and the want to keep people safe. They aren’t thinking this as fiction built for the sake of fiction, but rather fiction built for the sake of duping people because they as a community have had that happen to them constantly.
They also think bigfoot, ghosts, and the tooth fairy is real.
You can invent some universe consuming dyson singularity and they will believe it.
@@euclideanspace2573 what do vacuum cleaners have to do with this? 😉
@@tkmiller_author The dyson here refers to a "dyson sphere", and the word dyson basically means suction, yeah I know a company took it for their expensive hairdryers and vacuum cleaners. Just like Tesla, he is a person, and there's various apparatuses named after him (Tesla Coil), however some drug user took it and branded his expensive electric vehicles under it.
@@euclideanspace2573 The thing is, I (somewhat) believe in Cryptids and ghosts. Not a firm "they're real and it's a fact," but completely open to the possibility.
I even want to become a paranormal investigator just to see if I could get any sort of huge evidence for *myself, in real life, not over the internet,* to determine my internal questions.
However, no matter what evidence and experience I might ever go through, I'll still always be a huge skeptic.
I'd say these are the type of people who would immediately believe the plate that fell off of their table is a ghost. Not try to put any scientific logic behind it at all at first, just jump to the "it's a ghost" conclusion. No questions asked.
We all have our own beliefs, and obviously, people need to respect that. However, there's a line to be crossed. In my opinion, there's a huge difference between simply having a certain spiritual belief, and being completely gullible.
These people not only *immediately* bought into FD's story, they also spread his private information that could have gotten him in real danger just because they were angry. *That's* fucked up, irresponsible, and blatantly idiotic.
From what I understand, their *actions* were the problem, not their beliefs in the paranormal. Just because somebody believes in something you don't, doesn't automatically mean they're a shitty human being who make stupid and hurtful decisions like the people who doxxed FD. You could firmly believe in the paranormal, yet still be way different from those people who *easily* bought into this story and were angry that it ended up to be fake.
That doxxing could have seriously gotten him in real danger, and many people (no matter their beliefs), seem to get off on putting others in danger for the smallest of reasons.
As soon as he said he didn't want to go to the ARG community I was like 'OH GOD THIS ISNT GOING TO END WELL'
"I can't believe the videos about ghost children with no eyes magically appearing on my porch was faked! I'm gonna dox this guy!"
I mean he also copied videos and used people's stories without their permission but go off I guess.
@@vabvaab yeah, like that makes doxxing him any more justified.
And yet we aren't allowed to make fun of the idea that some guy with a beard made people out of clay. Question: where do we draw the line?
Edit: I get the picture you guys can shut up
@@toiletboy69
He never said that it justified the doxxing. Learn to read well.
Lawls!!! 😂😂😂
@@whiteemerald_6802 he said i mean if you ever atleast went to highschool you do know how to get data from missing evidence soo
It heavily inplies it
If it was children thinking it was real, you could forgive them, as kids are “dumb”; but it was grown ass adults who should’ve known better.
I agree to a certain threshold, in that the way the adults reacted was beyond infantile.
I don't blame them for wanting to believe, I blame them for wanting to hurt a storyteller who ultimately did very little wrong.
@@redtukeguy4263 and that's wrong?
@@somedesertdude1308 i guess hes saying that the existance of him Is close to none.
I feel like there Is a god,Just not any that are in todays religion.
Or that has been in any religion
I especially liked the "scientist". Ah yes, the scientific dicipline of studying monsters and making doohickeyes to destroy them. I bet this guy thought that Ghostbusters was a documentary.
I’m 37 and have worked alongside people aged 19-63.. I’ve found some 20-somethings are very mature, responsible and have great common sense while some 40-60’s can be immature, insecure and naive. It amazed me. I had assumed that you have common sense/ are responsible and secure by 30/40’s. It depends on the person, experiences, personality type.
For example, I have seen a true crime channel run by a man in his 60’s, lie about facts on a case, say that he’s uncovered some “never before seen evidence”, openly ridicule the victims families and law enforcement and accuse innocent people of a SOLVED crime - and many not only believe it- they reach out to the district attorney and law enforcement with said “evidence”, harass the victims family and even threaten the innocent person’s life! All they’d have to do is look up the discovery for the facts on the case. But these adults take this one man’s word, stand behind him and take up for him. He doesn’t even live in the same country as the crime, admits he hasn’t read the discovery and doesn’t know U.S laws. It’s as if it’s a social experiment.. it would be interesting if the victim’s families weren’t being re-victimized over and over.
Jeez this whole thing is genuinely upsetting. I was subscribed to FD and this whole thing played out when I was like...13 or 14 and even I knew it was a story. FD and creepypastas were my gateway into loving ARGs and unreality stories as a whole. I'm sad to see he got ruined by adults who didn't even take their own "don't believe everything you see on the internet" speech as solid advice.
“The only difference between him and other list channels was that every single thing he mentioned in his videos were completely fabricated by himself”
Nah I’m pretty sure they all do that
I would have absolutely thought Fantastic Daily was a genuine channel, because so many of those channels that ARE genuine use known false materials like stolen art pieces and such.
This is a shame, this guy would kick ass in the SCP community.
Right? If there was a list on how to make a good scp story this dude would fill out all the boxes. Damn shame. That community would of adored him.
He could have. He acknowledge the ARG community, which was taking off at that time. He behaved in an unethical manner and paid for it because he wanted exposure. The narrative sounded interesting but he crossed a line trying to find an audience and lost those who should have been his real base.
He chose poorly.
You are so right
agreed
@@UlshaRS Yes, well, I guess we can all agree that marketing your ARG to batshit insane conspiracy nutjobs is a bad idea. Unethical, though? Maybe. I just can't help but feel like it's their own fault for believing it.
In my opinion ARG communities are super boring. Everyone knows it's a game and most often it's just a bunch of math nerds solving some encryption algorithm. Not this one. This one was real and raw. I doubt I would have believed this story though. Don't know, too bad I never caught it before.
I can't imagine how the IMDB vandalizing could look like. "He sucks because he's too good at acting!"
"He was so good that I thought it was real! How dare he?!"
@@ssfbob456 well I am a believer of the paranormal, and yeah it kinda sucks that he lied but I would never in my life, go to someone else's house hold just to ruin that person's life. Like I can understand stand the betrayal in it all and the hurt of being lied to, I use to have friends that would tell me all stories that sound to good to be true but only the learn that it was bull sh*t , so yeah let's just say there are some friends that will be getting a call back but as for the lying ones no call backs.
@@evenintx3vanneel670 ok look any logical person should be able to figure out that there is no paranormal stuff and it was obviously acting.
@@umcThunder72 Any logical person should be able to figure out that if you come to true believers with proof you claim to be real and get them invested in it they're not gonna applaud your genius when you reveal you faked it all for youtube fame. He's lucky he picked black eyed kids, if he'd done this with a major religion his life might have actually been in danger.
@@gentlemanvaultboy8671 or you know people could just be smart about shit and figure out the intentions behind it before getting all pissed over a fucking web series
what the actual hell is wrong with people.
“There was no merch-“
IAM: **puts IAM merch on screen**
You smooth bastard.
i'm literally heartbroken about that rebrand failing-- i would DIE for a channel that just discusses the anatomy of hoaxes and how they were pulled off and modern art installations. i would have eaten that UP
There are multiple channels doing that, for scams to, if you want to know about how scams work n such, go to Jim Browning, hoaxes... I dont know, sadly, but honestly, I would defo do the same
Honestly, I think the Night Mind/Inside a Mind/ReignBot style channels have the exact audiences that would totally enjoy something like that. In a way, it’s sort of what they do.
@@trey6883 Yeah I am hearing this and ready to go check out his channel then remembered it doesnt exist
Me too, I am big sad
Captain dissolution does this....
First: this was an excellent video. Absolutely top notch!
Second: the funny thing is, Muto was right--this entire project WAS The Best Damn Thing to me and entirely in the line of projects I would praise... and was going to. It was on my scope for coverage consideration.
... but then the cannonballs from the paranormal community struck the side of that ship and nearly drowned Muto and real innocent people involved in FD, generating an actual horror show that any further publicity at the time would've made worse. This video by Inside A Mind is arriving well after the smoke cleared, which is exactly the time it needed. (And he's done a slam-dunk job!)
Muto always does a great job. The problem with FD was that he did his job TOO well for an audience that had no idea this was even a form of storytelling, as Jamie pointed out. They weren't people who wanted to suspend their disbelief, they NEEDED to believe, period. When they found out FD was covert material from our realm, they got more than just a little mad and tried to burn an artist for one of the best modern performances on this platform to date. His mindset about what our crowd would think of this was on the mark, and he totally anticipated how much I'd have a ball celebrating the achievement of FD. What happened instead was a lesson that reminds us we're not all enlightened about this material on the internet, despite how much bigger the realm has become.
The goal of unfiction and ARG is always to tell a damn good story while walking the tightrope between reality and the lie. But if we don't have small cases of "fiction flags" in our midst, we can get wrecked.
Muto shouldn't have needed any fiction flags, because the entire premise was so ARG, so wonderfully, absurdly narrative that to buy it hook, line, and sinker, you'd have to be an idi--PARANORMAL ENTHUSIAST, YEAH, THERE WE GO! You'd have to be an unwavering paranormal enthusiast.
Our crowd, we could see the strings on the puppets from a mile away. The Facebook conspiracy nuts? Not so much.
It's been awhile since I've spoken to Muto, but all love to him and his family. And equally to you, Jamie, for a wonderful video!
And to the rest of ya--remember the lessons learned here, and bear in mind that we're still a growing art form. One day, this will be well-known enough for people to get it and not try to burn down our lives for achievements, but until then, plan accordingly and think about any audience you might be broadcasting to.
I love you night mind
Or you'd just have to be an adult from the 60's 70's or 80's who simply doesn't have the awareness of just how easy it can be for any random person to fake things these days with only a camera and a few tricks, practical or special, let alone someone like FD. We're quite privileged, having grown up with most of these things (computers, internet, youtube, ARG, etc) in our laps.
Also, you're not necessarily an idiot to believe in the paranormal which is most certainly what the implication of your comment was. Before you say "I was calling them idiots for believing in the ARG" while also simultaneously acknowledging that these people likely had no idea what an ARG even was and that they wanted something real? Something FD deliberately set out to deliver in spectacular fashion? They believed in his believable paranormal story but people believe in unverifiable and often outlandish things all the time, that doesn't make them an idiot. We cant even directly study or observe consciousness but we all just assume we're having a conscious experience. As far as observation and study goes our conscious experience is just as paranormal as ghosts or other widely experienced and unverifiable phenomena. All we can do is study individual parts that seem to lead to an emergent property that we all share.
Before anyone suggests my last statement was proof that we are conscious, then I suppose all the people who congregate who have had paranormal experiences and can show evidence from numerous individual methods also have proof simply because they all share that experience? Wrong.
Regardless, what makes them an idiot is the extent of their response. While justifiable, it was disproportionate, and I can see why even if you're an avid believer you ought to have at least some skepticism, FD was too good though, he drew them in. Its easy to see why they might view it as manipulative but personally I would have just been disappointed. I would have been able to easily understand what he was doing and why though but apparently these people weren't able to do that which is a shame since I also enjoyed FD's videos.
@@monmon0946 I want to second what Dysnomia of ruin is saying. I'm only 26 and have seen so many people my age and younger fall for this clear and obvious bullshit despite growing up with the internet. We should ALL know better, regardless of age. Thinking you are immune to modern methods of manipulation just because you are below a certain age is exactly how you end up being manipulated. You view yourself as invincible so you never realize when you're being duped.
Remember what Garfield taught us, kids! You are not immune to propaganda!
❤️love this
@@monmon0946 maybe we should educate people properly and fund our educational systems so when someone comes across something like this they'd be able to understand that it's fictional. Fuck it why not also throw in free healthcare and free housing... Let's see what happens then...
This whole story...shows how people are literally just stupid beyond belief.
HoW cOUlD YoU eVen sAY tHAt to YoUr FeLlOw HumAnS iM cAlLiNG tHe PoLicE fOr bUlLyInG
Like 40 seconds
ESPECIALLY the paranormal community!!!! I sub to a few ufo channels and the people there are THE CRAZIEST, INSANE, OVER THE TOP people I've EVER seen!!! it is literally unbelievable how crazy they are. they call you names if you even slightly doubt or question the video your seeing. they are SUCH NASTY PEOPLE!!!
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Both him and the viewers are pretty dumb
I was a huge fan when he was around. Finding out it was fake (I was a dumb, gullible kid who liked creepy stuff) actually made me appreciate the effort in it more and learned to, as he would say at the end of his videos, "Stay skeptical." Never knew that he did an interview with you, and it's so nostalgic to hear his voice again.
This reminded me of what happened to the director of Cannibal Holocaust, where the audience were so convinced that what they were watching was real that the director went to court on murder charges and had to bring out the actors to show he hadn't actually killed anyone
Honestly, he should have been charged for animal abuse since they showed the characters killing a live turtle and eating it on camera.
At least five animals were really killed for the production. Still a fucked film.
didn’t he abuse his actors though?? i can’t remember exactly but honestly even if he did actually murder the actors, that wouldn’t have been the worst thing to have happened on that set.
@@pineconerudy1519 welcome to the world of 70s-80s Italian Exploitation movies
@@SirAsdf lets cancel him! (kidding)
"But now that he reached out, [the children] won't leave him alone"
Ah yes, parenthood, the real horror
@your average Jojofan back in the basement timmy. Your sunlight time is out
@Plague Doctor listen to your papa timmy
@Mono With Drip timmy ill go get some milk
@Pringle *timmy I need to go get some milk see you in [REDACTED] years!*
Imagine doxing a man for making web series so he could entertain others
He taught these people a VERY important lesson that CLEARLY they needed to learn. Don't believe everything you see on the internet, BE SKEPTICAL!
Plot Twist: Black eyed kids forced him to make this video in order to hide their identity.
They got him :/
if only you can go back in time and type this on their channel you might be his saviour :O
ooh yes I like it 💛💚💙
Sad how "Rational Thinker" couldn't rationalize the implications of sending death threats.
*_B R U H_*
BROH
No, that's just how they made that dude anonymous. The screenshots aren't the real screenshots dude.
@@medes5597 Oh really? I had no idea, thank you for informing us all of something we already knew :)
@@jarofarts6040 Clearly Kai De Guzman didn't.
I remember following his story and I loved it. It was crazy to me that anyone thought it was real. It’s really a shame that the story ended before its conclusion.
Tbh I think he should have advertised this to the horror community as a dramatic story instead of to the paranormal community as an arg
The horror community would have loved it
basically nosleep but the comenters were not roleplaying
Don't stay safe OP
Wait? I should be do rp at nosleep?
@@kennyyuliandrika7162 i think they mean more of playing along, giving advice to the storytellers and whatnot
@@nopenopenope8844 Yeah, that's basically it. Everyone knows that they're just stories too so it's fun.
@@_silience If only /r/nosleep's quality could be considered fun.
“He fell out of love with the art” that makes me SO sad :(( I don’t ever want to stop loving the art that I’m making :///
right? Nothing scarier than mentally ill right-wing conspiracy theorists.
I doubt it, he uses that excuse because he was outed and everyone would recognise his voice.
@@Chelsea1991FC I think that fear turned to a lack of love for what he did. Posting something could have felt dangerous because of these past experiences.
you will
@@piss7610 way to make it political, you loon.
its really sad these adults got mad that these creepypasta children didnt exist that they resulted to doxxing someone, thats as pathetic as the people who get mad at actors for acting,and people say to "grow up" when the grown up aint that grown up.
This guy inspires me so fricken much. The way he got people to interact with a story they didn't know he was building, it's amazing-
Even if it ultimately blew up in his face, I really wish I could have seen this to it's end
Just saying, "Fantastic Daily and the Black Eyed Kids" can almost work for a sweet band name..!
Almost
@@brianisme6498 not quite, but almost
well seems like the wrong generation to name a band that
@@madcircle7311 ill go back in time and do it
Madcircle why???
I hate that when people started realizing his videos were a hoax, they just get all mad and start threatening him. All he was doing was entertaining people by making his videos seem so believable, he didn’t deserve all that. Honestly, how thick-headed does someone have to be if they find out they were innocently pranked and their first reaction is to want to slit the guys throat!
Edit: there i fixed it!
*thick-headed
@@evol5765 asshole move, but you made me laugh
@@evol5765 fucking beat me to it lol
True
imagine beliving it at 50 y/o lol
Wasnt fantastic daily the guy who reported on that "the sun is gone" stuff from a few years ago? Cool stuff
brooo i remember the The sun vanished guy and the binary moon project dude
i never watched the black eye kid videos cause i thought it was boring
Oh fuck he was? Thats cool
If any aspiring ARG/unfiction creators are to take a single thing away from this video, it should be that a very *very* *VERY* important part of making this sort of content is knowing your target audience beforehand, and being certain that they'll respond well to your stuff before trying to cater to them.
While Muto obviously didn't deserve to get doxxed and isn't to blame for that whole situation, I think it was a pretty severe lapse in judgement to court the audience that he did while putting as much effort into immersion as he did. At the risk of sounding a bit harsh, I think it's kind of self evident that a bunch of grown adults who believe in real-life monster attacks might not have the most well-adjusted response to feeling as though they've been lied to.
In my opinion this channel's content was better suited fro a general audience, who'd be captivated by the immersion enough to suspend their disbelief, but would ultimately get that the whole thing was just a bit meant as s fun horror take on RUclips clickbait channels.
I agree that he didn't deserve to get doxxed, however I disagree that it isn't all his fault. Literally none of this would have happened if he didn't go out of his way to find a community that he knew would fully buy into it. The only reasons I can think of for doing such is profit, or because hes a pretentious filmmaker who thinks the feeling of being lied to is something audiences love. Either way, its his fault, in my opinion.
As someone who used to be part of the “paranormal community” it sucks how they treated the idea. Honestly the idea of a fake top ten and the ‘black eyed kids’ is a really awesome idea I would’ve loved to have seen more of. I’m very skeptical of the paranormal, I’ve not seen or felt anything to make me believe it yet, however the idea of the paranormal is fun. Like, I know all ‘ghost hunting’ reality tv is fake as fuck, but I like the history and the entertainment of watching grown ass adults get scared from a ‘whisper’.
I’m sad he fell out of love with his work as it was a really fun idea, hopefully he finds something else to craft his ideas.
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I agree!!!!!
Like honestly I wanna bidge this is so entertaining and not believe a thing.
Lmao gullible
I enjoy things like that even if i know its fake
@@animarblemarblerace9232 yeah exactly
i remember his black eyed kids stuff and for about 5 minutes he had me, then I watched the video again and the skeptic in me as I rewatched said. "he just gave a neighborhood kid 20 bucks."
I like to think that the kid tried bargaining for more
More?? Shit 20 was too much, all the kid did was stand on his porch for like 30 seconds. I figured 10 tops.
Jeremy Hughes You must be extremely proud.
Same thing but i just thought he paid his nephews to act creepy.
I used to watch him religiously, I always knew it was fake but it was damn entertaining, especially the sun vanished, I miss him, I stopped watching him around a year ago, I'm sad to see him go and hope he comes around somehow again, truly hurts
the intro music always gets me so hyped every time with no fail
The sad thing is that the crowd he was looking for WAS the ARG community, they're always thirsty for a drama about monsters and terror. I think that might be partially what turned people off from the channel is that since he didn't market it to the actual target audience, it gives off the vibe of wanting to shock and trick an unsuspecting audience.
I research conspiracies in my free time, and when I go through periods of burnout after looking into heavy or unsettling topics, I like to delve into paranormal channels. I believe in the supernatural, but I'm aware that most of the 'evidence' on sites like this is phoney, and that I would have no way of verifying the more convincing video clips anyway. I enjoyed a few of Fantastic Daily's videos for what they were, and moved on.
The types of people that comment on videos like Fantastic Daily's are generally well-meaning enthusiasts. The trouble is, they feed off of each others' enthusiasm in echo chambers, which leads to confirmation bias, and attention seeking. When reality comes crashing in - in this case a film maker looking to exploit their intense enthusiasm - the reaction is a lot of hurt fee-fees, and lots of fragile egos that want to deflect their embarrassment by putting all the blame on Fantastic Daily.
Personally, I think Fantastic Daily probably had to have some idea that he was playing with fire, but he did it anyway - and in a way, I'm glad that he did it. The people he took for a ride certainly needed a dose of reality, and if a few of them learnt not to trust strangers on the internet, that's a good thing.
Yeah, i mean, any functioning adult would see a monster attack as a red flag that what they are watching is fake... Sadly these babies aren't that, the moment he saw that they actually beleive all that, he could've preempted it with a disclaimer or something, but then again hindsight is always 20/20
You know who learned from this? The people who created the Iamsophie ARG. They targeted the commentary channel community and struck notoriety gold.
Too well. The most disturbing thing about that series was how easily commentary community viewers were swayed into harassing who they thought was a real person. Great marketing by the Sophie team.
Args are sick
@@fruitygarlic3601 I remember a few commentary channels acknowledging where it was going and playing along and that was great
Your name the "Fruity Garlic" name, does it relate to the story of the woman from California who was some form of like "Biological Bomb"? If I am remembering correctly, it had something to do with the nurses and doctors attempting to treat her all falling to some mysterious illness, stating that the only thing that was common amongst their experiences was that there was a smell of like "Fruity Garlic"?
@@josephmother386 sometimes- /sometimes/
I remember having my comment featured in one of his videos about The Sun Vanished and it was the first time I appeared on a big channel. This reminded me of that. Thanks!
I remember FD! His content was really good. Fuck that guy who doxxed him, though. It's essentially an ARG why would you illegally dox someone and put their life in jeopardy over an ARG?
Typically not illegal to dox people, as long as you haven’t used illegal means to get that information, it’s typically available publicly anyway, doxing just makes it more accessible. Shitty thing to do regardless, and it usually is.
@@SkigBiggler doxing is publishing private info which is illegal
Same! loved when he covered TheSunVanished ARG story, his video’s were always looked forward too.. it’s a shame it had to end this way
@@SkigBiggler No, Doxxing is illegle, Whatever you have in that thick skull of yours is incorrect, there are lawsuits and courtcases hundreds related to doxxing but, you're just like the paranormal community in this video: Unable to do any research yourself nor fact-check shit.
@@SkigBiggler mate its still illegal
It's funny how dumb people are people are really giving death threats to a guy who just wanted to make a story people should have known it was fake from the beginning
I remember I came across this channel awhile ago and even I saw it was fake. I enjoyed watching the effort put into it though. It was enjoyable. I hate how people took this though. He didn't deserve this to fall the way it did
If it was ARG community, people would not be that mad since people know it's based in fake story but act like it's real to enjoy the story.
But in paranormal community there are some people who really believe ghosts are real, like inside a mind told in video.
Kinda sad it went like this though.
_It really is. Still in disbelief on how stupid some people are..._
@@criticastrike I remember in his TSV videos
He CONSTANTLY had to remind pepole what an ARG was, since alot of his viewers tougth it was real in amoter dimenssion
I watch his video and I know it fake because I know about fake monsters but I enjoyed it
This guy is not just a talented film maker but he's also a talented writer
He should produce a whole movie
This will follow him around forever
@@jwp999999 might aswell take advantage of it, he probably can make an immersive story out of this
Imagine if he teamed up with Local 58 / Kris Straub. The stories!
Right? If he had marketed his story normally instead of taking advantadge of 'weak' journalists, he'd be a big name in the genre right now.
What a beautiful, absolute madlad!
I'm far too late to the party, it must have been a great series. Much respect to him
BRO I SEARCHED FOR THIS VIDEO FOR LIKE AN HOUR YESSSS IDK WHY BUT ITS SO GOOD
Man gets bullied out of doing what he loves by easily fooled adult children.
Aduaby adult + baby = aduaby
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@@theredacted2383 bruh, stop promoting your channel you seven year old
@@secretcommenter5720 he can promote his channel you seven year old lol
@@justsomemonkeymanwithlongh3188 Well yes but actually no, promoting your channel IS ALLOWED, but it will just bring hate mobs to your channel
this is why I never encourage people to self promote
Imagine trying to ruin a mans life because he made you think that some children had black eyes
There are black eyed children.............
In homes and schools. Abuse is very real and ruins lives.
Harrison Westphall fr one time I got into a fight when I was in school and had a black eye for 2 weeks
@@harrisonwestphall2381 not that type of black eyes
He deserved it if he wanted to play this little game
@@bungiecrimes7247 no
Can’t get over your intros.. great work man
Thanks Inside a Mind for making it clear and seeing it in a broad perspective...♥️
Honestly, if he ever decides to make more and doing a bit of research, he could easily become one of the legends in the ARG community
The guys a dirtbag. He lied about an insane amount in this video. There are a lot of aspects to this he didn't mention because he knows the horrible things he did. He asked for what he got believe me. I saw it myself
@@the-engneer? What kind of stuff?
@@the-engneer
Take it you ate his onion
@@randomuser5443 If you think it's okay to lie about having a pregnant wife giving a miss carriage, and it's your fault than hey good for you. You're a shotty person like Fantastic Daily
@@the-engneer u ever heard of fictions or films told from the first person view?
"Maybe one day Fantastic Daily will return to us"
"But when the world needed him the most , he Vanished"
So many crazy things to witness in our world, he took the easy way out and tried to crook people.
@@HowlitzerPaul
So many crazy people, _they_ took the easy way out and didn't think to research, until it was too late!
He pranked them and they're sore about it, because they thought they were clever people.
I've never heard of the channel *FD.*
For all I know the *FD* channel story is a prank by the guy that owns _this_ channel, doing a double bluff on me and everyone else in the comments!
They were mostly angry, if the story is true, at themselves for being so gullible, but rather than laugh it off or just chalk it down to experience, they indulged in blame transference.
As the story said, he didn't charge an entry fee, he didn't even have a patreon, so all they lost was pride and they only have their own foolishness to blame for that!
😜😂😂
And took the sun with him ooooo
@@billyandrew The channel is real. I was around to see it. In fact, the creator of the channel rebooted it three times with Fantastic Daily being the second iteration, and I was constantly annoyed at how he kept deleting his videos instead of archiving them and seemed to intentionally ignore the few comments (including my own), who were genuinely concerned about his older videos in the third version of his channel during the introduction video where he didn't give a straight answer as to why things are happening (all I ask from him is transparency. I'm also pissed that I never got to finish the Night: Sleepwalking Journal found footage series from the first version of his channel before they were deleted and it became Fantastic Daily. I had no idea it would eventually be gone and now it's lost media and no one even knows about it).
Best part was his statement of his realization that his needs to made because HE enjoys it. That's the plight of a true artist of any genre.
I remember when this happened! Really cool hearing the backstory from Fantastic Daily’s perspective!
*sees free film*
"I want a refund!"
now , to be fair , and I'm gonna do the devil's advocate here , some people might have spend some times building gadgets and weird sound things thinking all of this was real , and maybe they feel now that they've wasted their time making those things , but yeah , they are SHITTY ! and doxing the poor guy ? and ruining the buisness of the poor guy and his wife ? that's awfull
THE FAKE PIE yeah
Sounds like somethinga Karen would say! xD
@@thefakepie1126 they deserve to have their time wasted if they're making gadgets to stop ghost iids
@@illogicalgarage8641 they deserve to have their time wasted for believing in different things than you?
he should've shared it with the creepypasta community there is enough balance of real and fake for that to have gone down well
Yeah,I can think of Marble Hornets and Ben Drowned as similar examples to this story that actually went well
@@HeliosimWorld Yeah, from what I know (I'm not really a creepypasta person) they're pretty similar
@@HeliosimWorld I would put them among the ARG community but I'm not sure
@@elizabethratcliffe3859 They are. The black eyed kids sounds like something taken straight out of a creepy pasta with just a bit more thought and talent put behind it.
@@bibbobella yeah they are
Whatever you think of the situation, I think the entire channel is a case study on how gullible the internet is.
Your intro is just so awesome, it makes me interested!
“No they were not kids there were full grown adults ages 30-50”
I’m sorry that caught me off Guard
I mean he's not wrong.
I met a guy who actually believed this, he was so immature I don't even think he took himself seriously. Safe to say I don't speak to him anymore...
Which means they were born in the 60, 70 or 80's. Their gullibleness comes from their generational lack of awareness. I was born in 1998, grew up with computers and the internet. I understand special and practical effects and how easy it can be done these days compared to a few decades ago.
Its no surprise then, that people who didnt even have the internet as young or middle aged adults might be more gullible and of course, most adults hate being made a fool of, its a natural response. The death threats were a bit much though :o
If a grown woman can sit on the floor and cry/whine in public because she has to wear a mask, I believe it, lol.
I would've liked to have seen this play out as a more 'serious' ARG, but he truly misjudged the outcome and expected praise more than anything, not that their actions are excused either. Just saying. A missed opportunity since it sounds like he could have been good, imo.
I have an ex who's mom was SUPER into pseudoscience, the paranormal, essential oils, tarrot cards, etc etc. Very easy to convince her of a ghost, EXTREMELY hard to convince her of real science. A lot of people like that are middle aged. Very set in their beliefs, not super aware of the internet or ARGs.
Lol same
Meanwhile 30 years ago...
"Son, Santa Claus isnt real."
"YOURE GOING TO JAIL FOR FRAUD!"
You jest but the lawsuit is in the mail.
"Meanwhile 30 years ago" is a brilliant oxymoron.
@@alansmithee419 time is a flat circle
@@mammon_is_god Wibbly wobbly...timey-wimey...stuff...
Wait im pretty sure I saw this comment on another video.
darn, I would love to see this have continued
This is absolutely disgusting. People really doxed a man because he made an ARG. I really don’t know what to say. I can’t believe people actually did that.
He didn't make an ARG. He deceived them.
@@archimidiz he made fake videos on youtube, deceived WHO? Grown men?
@@Mqstodon HIs audience didn't know they were fake. You might think that videos about ghosts are obviously fake, but they aren't so obvious to people who believe in them. Whether or not its logical to believe in ghosts is irrelevant. Purposefully making "fake" videos and presenting them as real to a vulnerable audience is deception.
@@archimidiz still an arg even if he deceived kinda stupid ppl ngl
@@archimidiz The entire point of ARGs, and Unfiction in general, is to present itself under the illusion that its real, Like, he frequently compared himself to Blair Witch Project, which was fictional movie who's core premise hinged on you forgetting its a fictional movie for the alotted run time.
Moral of this story- The predictability of stupidity: do not underestimate it.
He overestimated how mature people would be
Right? FD was so stupid not to realize what audience he had.
@@monmon0946 he had an audience of grown adults.
@@bananabreaker3441 I think he was being sarcastic?
I'm sorry, but shouldn't we all know that the people watching and "believing" these things are mentally unstable? I'm really not sure why he is surprised that he got the hate that he did. Either you're going to have crazy people that believe it, or you're going to have people that that watch it as a show but know you're fucking with crazy people.
I don’t think this guy did anything wrong, if a character lost a child in a film you wouldn’t hate the film maker, so why would you hate this man for his story. Awesome plot man, 👏
I think it's the difference of people knowing it's fake beforehand versus one of those social experiment pranks that used to be very popular if you see somebody out in the park kidnapping a child and throwing them into a white van driving off you would be terrified
@@klaykid117 Does the van being white have significance? Why is it always a white van!? WHY WHIIIIIIITE-
Windowless would be terrifying but for some reason everyone says it's white... Bestow me with your wisdom, stranger!
@@wegner7036 not really sure about this but I think it's the fact that the van is almost always a white van in stories
Because you weren't meant to believe it was real, this is no better than the shitty prank channels or people pretending to have some terminal illness. These are people who in an age groups whose most likely dealt with miscarriages and fully belived what he was saying and while I'm not excusing their actions can you imagine someone doing this with fake suicide or rape then being like "oh I just wanted to tell a story" to millennials?
the entire problem is because he was performing to a community that was 100% convinced it was real. If someone I knew told me they'd lost a child, I'd have a very visceral reaction that I would not have to a fictional character (although, obviously, someone you know in your personal life is still different from a youtuber). If I then found out this person had been doing some sort of online story or experiment I'd feel utterly betrayed.
When a fictional character dies or loses someone, it's sad, yes, but it's only sad within the story - you know that this person isn't real and therefore isn't actually going through this. Reality is a whole other ball game, and the emotions are much more intense.
There could be a mild argument about how these grown as adults should've known it was fake but honestly FD /chose/ to promote to them. In a way, he wasn't writing a story, he was tricking people and scaring people for no reason.
If he'd done it in an ARG community, or perhaps even just thrust it out into the internet randomly, it could've been fantastic, but he was purposefully fooling gullible people, and that's the issue. Just because they're stupid doesn't mean you get to punish them for it.
I had no idea about this channel but heard of the black eyed kids story which I thought was a creepy pasta. You can tell that the man behind it all had a great passion for the project so it's a shame that it went down this way.
Thank you, this story was very inspiring and help my deal with similar problems I've got.
Kinda sad this happened. Not all args say they are args at the beginning, so what's the difference with this one?
It wasn't promoted to the ARG community, it was promoted to people who genuinely believe in Slenderman, etc. It's the difference releasing a fiction book as fiction or non-fiction.
@@tziirkq Like any of that stuff is real anyway.
@@tziirkq if he promoted it to the arg community, people will know right on that it's fake
People knowing its fake won’t be genuine anymore
The difference is a bunch of folk took themselves too seriously and when they realised they'd been pranked weren't mentally balanced enough to see the funny side, so got angry at the guy for pointing out how gullible they were.
Naturally, there are psychos in any large group, who want to kill anyone that points out how stupid they are, then there are those like the 'expert' that dislike folk pointing out they aren't half as clever as they like to think they are.
Crowds are hard work. 😜😂😂😂
The kind of people who fell for FD’s content are also the kind of people who actually attempt to do the things in 5 Minute Crafts videos.
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@@numberyellow his name is Tom now
@@yodagaming5905 lol, i totally popped that comment into the wrong comment chain. I have no idea how in the hell i managed that.
this made me chuckle lol
@@numberyellow You know you could've just deleted that right?
Okay that piano and drum intro was super lit! That really got me!
RUclips recommended this channel and I am hooked.
Wish someone archived those videos. They sound really interesting, and something I'd watch. I mean, a Top 10 channel that's completely made up, and has several arcs going on at once? That's something I can get behind.
There's a channel called Fantastic Daily Archive which reuploaded Fantastic Daily videos, ruclips.net/channel/UCHtokD7XKS3sCiEIb0yUA5Q
Someone just recently started doing just that
It was a fantastic thing he created, very entertaining
@@theemeraldcrown1 Brilliant. Thanks.
Does anyone have the links? The videos are unlisted :(
The fact that, that many people didn't accept the fact that it wasn't legit blows my mind. I give insane amounts of credit to the film makers that do this stuff well. Sucks that people take it too seriously and can't move on from it. Like it would be crazy if TSV or Daisy Brown were legit things, but I can live knowing that they aren't. 😂
like some people still believe Blair Witch is real lmfao
People: we going to attack you!!!!
Me leasing to this: wow they are f#cked up in the head.....😑😑😑😑😑
Why does your pfp say New York when rangers is Scottish
My father was probably gonna believe this. He watches Ancient Aliens.
WAIT YOURE TELLING ME THAT THE ANCIENT ALIENS SHOW THAT AIRS AT 3:00AM SO THE GOVERNMENT CANT TRACK US THEOUGH OUR CREDIT CARDS ISNT REAL1?1!1?1!?1!1?1!
Ancient Aliens talk about things that don't sense but it make sense, if you watched it
I subscribed earlier than I intend to because of the intro. I love it!
This man singlehandedly vibe checked the whole paranormal community
And then they doxxed him...
@@cosmicyoutubeoof they didnt pass the vibe check
tbf, that whole miscarriage thing does kinda creep me out a bit..... theres some honestly weird vibes about that.
@स्वदेशीय पुरौकस् Sociopath is a strong word
It’s really unfortunate that people took things too far. You could really tell he put a lot of thought and passion into the black eyed children story, there could be so many more amazing stories the creator had in mind that we’ll never be able to see.
ive just discovered your channel a few hours ago and im loving it
new sub!!
This is a good interview man.
Funny thing is black eye is an actual eye disorder.
"There's an eye disorder known as aniridia which makes the eye appear to have “no iris.” In truth, there is a small ring of iris tissue but it is so small and the pupil is so large that it can look like the eyes are completely black. It is due to a chromosome mutation."
You also get a black eye if someone punches you. But that’s more of a darkish ring around your eyes than a actual black eye. 🙂
Not to be all Um AcKsHuAlLY but I think black eyed kids are supposed to also have fully black eyes, including the sclera.
My friend has it
I guess their eyes must be very sensitive to light.
i happen to have a freind with that condition and the poor guys been called demon on sevrel occasions
wow... i haven't heard FD's voice for quite a while
Same. Miss him. In a odd way.
I was working on a video and now I'm watching this
His post-black eyed kid content was so good
@@nathan.cremsiffino stop
Nathaniel Asis nobody cares stop spamming
I remember watching his Black Eyed Kids videos and being mad at first but then realizing how cool it was. The way it was put together made me subscribe.
I was a big fan of the channel and unintentionally got sucked into the drama after he was doxed. I made a few videos about "the signal" before he was doxed and a lot of people assumed I knew it was all fake from the beginning. I do miss his livestreams, after the ARG was over, his channel was a fun community and a few of his old subs still comment on my videos. Great video and interview.
The only good thing to result of the Top 10 trend was LEMMiNO.
Yes yes yes
Don’t forget Burger King Foot Lettuce
10 Top Fortnit Funnies
Chip Man number 10 : skull trooper fucking dies
just lemmino
It’s crazy what superstitious folk are willing to believe.
Ikr.
Superstition leads to gullibility.
All of this isn't surprising.
@@Somerandomegamer true
@@sipherys1961 ʘ‿ʘ
you're all funny
It's almost fanatical really
this is still to this day one of my favorite videos on this platform right next to disrupts first worlds deadliest virus video that was deleted years ago
Fantastic video! Subscribed!
Honestly, I can't be mad. Its an ARG in a place where people didn't expect an ARG. In a sense, its ARG at it's finest- a story so ingrained into what feels safe and normal that it's hard to tell whether or not it's just a story. It's what makes ARGs so cool and interesting to begin with.
The buttwipe lied about his child dying, to grift the sympathies of grieving parents that had lost their children. He's something much worse than a simple ARG. He's a grifter, the likes of Secureteam10, making up fake stuff about their lives to make people want to give them money.
@@JinzoCrash He openly stated that he did not ask his viewers to give him anything. Moreover, I'm sure lots of other people who create ARGs don't immediately state that the story is fake and sometimes have similar plotlines like them murdering someone or something similar. Honestly, it serves his viewers right for not being able to think clearly and not realizing that a normal person would never share such a thing in such a way. Some people just need to learn the hard way.
@@JinzoCrash I agree he crossed a line, but then so does he. He lied about a child dying in the midst of a story about hunting monsters though, in his big monster fiction. When you read a story on nosleep or the creepypasta wiki with a dead kid, do you assume the OP is "grifting"? I doubt it. Also you said "making up fake stuff about their lives to make people want to give them money" do you have some kind of evidence that this guy took money from his audience?
@@anywherebuthere91 He probably had ad revenue and the popularity alone can be seen as a beneficial gain, whether for profit or fame the way in which he did it was manipulative and deceitful. That's where the comparison of scammer/fraud comes from.
The difference with FD is that he at no point made it apparent he was joking. He deliberately presented it as something real because he knew that's what people wanted, he admits this himself. He expertly exploited a communities vulnerability by deceiving them for gain, including touchy elements such as a dead kid. Their emotional response makes sense and is justifiable, although that doesnt make it right.
Moon Horse I honestly think it was a giant misstep in judgement from FD's part. I don't quite agree on the fact that he did for personal gain, whether it being popularity or ad revenue with malicious intent. Of course he wanted his story to get out there, but I don't think he was “expertly manipulating” the paranormal community. Many such ARG's have been made with very disturbing content, with different levels of success without letting the audience know it was an ARG. It was just very wrong to advertise it to the paranormal community, and as stated in the video, he didn't realize the gullibility (for the lack of a better word) of the paranormal community, and thus got such a visceral reaction when they found out it was fake. I mean, the paranormal community has been ridiculed for the longest time for exactly believing in this sort of stuff, so when they found out it was fake, it probably even hit their ego, or it was another way the world was going against them.
I think FD had really bad judgement in this whole situation overall. It doesn't seem like he was trying to dig deep into the paranormal community and mess with them for gain, I think he just kinda rolled with it and it got way out of hand. And when dealing with a community such as that I think it warrants way more carefullness (thats probably not a word but ok) than what FD exercised.
Edit: formatting and yikes i wrote paranormal community a bunch
My god, a ARG that was used as a list channel, now that would be a incredible concept!!
Its a shame it ended in that way, maybe someday someone can do something similar
This guy should make SCP-related stuff. I think it's perfect for what he want to do.
He doesn't seem interested in that audience for some reason
As an avid paranormal fan who loves the stories and evidence sides both, I would have loved to see the Fantastic Daily channel when it was up and running. I think it would've been fascinating and loved it regardless of it being a story or not.