Fave Moments from RYC #66
Bless
Never use someone’s illness to make yourself seem superior
😊😊😊😊
jiminy cricket kinkshaming various disney characters on the house of mouse
this was an actual episode
I have cosplayed a cosplayer
This all started with this:
And thus I was talked into cosplaying @asktheboywholived….I have regrets….I am sorry
TT:
Me:
(( OOC: OH MY GOD!!!!! ))
Holy Cheezits
O_O sweet Merlin there’s two of them
THEYRE MULTIPLYING
(ooc: WHY ARE THERE TWO???)
you know what they say there are 8 people who look like you in the world we just discoverd a tt clone
I don’t get why some people don’t like barbie movies!!!
Like
seriously
this
shit
is
AMAZING
AnD
so
FuCKinG
IMPORTANT!!!!
Don’t
even
trY
tO
Convince
mE
OTHERWISE!
THIS WAS A BARBIE APPRECIATION POST!!!
Red Herrings, News Reports, and Memes: The Purpose of the Jim Twins in the Overall Narrative
Out of all the things that I’ve been wondering about in the overall Who Killed Markiplier continuity, the Jim twins were the biggest things on my radar. Nothing about what they were doing made any sense in relation to the overall mystery. Initially, I was assuming that they were to serve as opposite to our PoV, allowing them to wander around places that the episode didn’t show us in order to give us more clues toward the killer. They seemed to do that fine during the first two chapters, where they were able to get a good look at the crime scene and show us just how close the detective Benjamin was to his former partners…in both sense of the word.
But come the third and fourth Jim-casts, and…they’re really just joke casts. One big lead up to a subscriber joke, and mumbling nonsense about how Jim thinks the murder occurred. No contribution to the overall statement. Isn’t that weird, especially when the original cast had enough jokes to hold itself!
…wait a minute.
How many jokes were in each chapter, really?
That’s when it hit me. The very first episode threw us a red herring in terms of the chef, whom it tried to show off as the potential killer. Everything seemed to be a red herring, huh? But what if the Jims were red herrings as well?
What if they were atmospheric red herrings?
Couldn’t find a better term for it, sorry.
Up until this series, all of Markiplier’s skits would always end with a joke. Each one, no fail. All of his work with Cyndago ends with a joke. Google IRL ends with a joke. Five Nights at Freddy’s: The Interview ends with a joke. A Date with Markiplier ends with a joke. Hell, Darkiplier vs Antisepticeye (something we all thought could be serious) was just one big glorified shitpost. We’ve been trained to think that everything Mark will do will just lead up to one big punchline. So tell me that this wasn’t what you were thinking about the minute you saw the thumbnail. “Oh boy, another skit. Let’s see where this ends up.”
And hell yeah, the first episode feeds on that expectation. We’re in a goddamn murder mystery noir thing, and the first joke we get is how they end up partying in the manor. Come on, the first chapter even ends on a dick joke.
Were we not just assuming that this was going to lead up to something hilarious? I remember seeing it everywhere. “Oh, the murderer is Chica, isn’t it?!” We were all expecting a punchline.
Until the jokes stopped coming.
Chapter Two had some jokes sprinkled in it, but it didn’t end on one. Chapter Three had two, max, and Chapter Four? None at all. It actually kept to its serious tone all the way to the end. Forget the fact that this was an origin story, THAT was the big twist ending that no one was expecting. How in the world did we buy this? How did no one realize that this was going to be a series that is going to keep itself straight?
Enter the Jims.
They are the ones that are going to be heavily memed to hell and back. They are the ones making the funny jokes, with the weird walks and the endless Jims and whatever else they decide to make them do. Sure, they’re not part of the main story, but they’re still there for people to go and watch. Hell, the hashtag is now swarmed with Jim memes for levity.
And this is how Mark fools us into thinking that this series is something it’s not.
Sure, those of us who only watch the main series will probably not be surprised by how dark the ending gets, but for those of us who did watch these, we were all probably thinking that this was all going to lead to a big joke. Wouldn’t it be funny if Markiplier actually died because one of the Jims did something stupid or something? Besides, if we watched the Jimcasts after we watched the main chapters, then they really did end on jokes. The theme of the Markiplier skit has been maintained. Since the Jims are waddling around in an otherwise serious environment, the whole thing has to end on a joke, right?
And then the twist comes in. There will not be a joke at the end of this train. Everything is being played 100% seriously.
I’m just in love with this GIF, my god.
What started out with the death of one man ended up being the shattering of a closely knit group of friends that can never be fixed. One goes insane, while the other becomes hellbent on revenge. There is no joke here. There’s nothing the Jims can do to alleviate the situation.
And what better way to show this meta change, to show that this is something that must be taken 100% seriously, that there will be no laughs coming from this manor,
than to end it on the wanderings of a man searching desperately for a punchline?
This is brilliant.
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