[ SECRET POST #4629 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4629 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 30 secrets from Secret Submission Post #663.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: What is some of the most ridiculous fandom drama you have watched?

[(Anonymous)]

The Phantom of the Opera “hidden plot.”

Re: What is some of the most ridiculous fandom drama you have watched?

[(Anonymous)]

...do tell :D!

Re: What is some of the most ridiculous fandom drama you have watched?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—I didn’t vet any of these links for, er, “accuracy,” but...

https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Phantom_of_the_Opera

http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/the-phantom-of-the-opera/links/7695761/title/scene-summaries-hidden-plot

https://phantom-media.tumblr.com/post/22743843179/hidden-plot

Basically, a bunch of fans of the 2004 Phantom of the Opera movie decided that there was a secret plot, as evinced by lens flares, continuity errors, scene design, and I don’t know what all that proved that the Phantom and Christine had got secret-married and had some kind of Jesus-baby or some bullshit. Picture one of those conspiracy diagrams made of bits of string and pushpins and red marker, only all the photos are candles, camera shadows, and closeups of Gerard Butler’s chest hair.

Since the movie is what lead to me stepping away from Phantom of the Opera fandom as a whole for a good few years, I’m not quite sure of the details, just that whenever a particularly whackadoo fanfic or bit of meta crossed my eye, the hidden plot was a likely source.

Re: What is some of the most ridiculous fandom drama you have watched?

[(Anonymous)]

*Is torn between sheer confusion and dying of laughter at "Jesus-baby"*

Wow. Yeah. That sounds...wonderfully bonkers indeed. Thanks for the links, I know how I'm spending the next few hours, then :D!

Re: What is some of the most ridiculous fandom drama you have watched?

[(Anonymous)]

Wait! Wait! Is this that the 'ten years later in 1907 the Phantom faked his own death and moved to Coney Island' joke about Love Never Dies? Because that was amazing.

Re: What is some of the most ridiculous fandom drama you have watched?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—man, I wish LND had stayed ALW’s nutty fan theory, it felt so cringey to see his self-insert fanfic about how Sarah Brightman secretly still loved him become an actual show.

Re: What is some of the most ridiculous fandom drama you have watched?

[(Anonymous)]

So much of me wishes that too, but the other part is just dying laughing at the comedy gold that it is. He couldn't even get the year right, let alone make sense of opening an amusement park or whatever. I won't even get started on the who's my daddy child, and the rest of it, I'm laughing too hard as it is. I'm trying to refresh my knowledge on the wiki, but I really don't think I can make it. Let alone through the 'love never dies as a sequel to other things' post that introduced me to this trainwreck in the first place.