[ SECRET POST #6356 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6356 ⌋

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


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07. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia/JKR/the usual]




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Comments

[meadowphoenix]

I just want to know where it came from! I didn't hear any lead up to it, but people have been decidedly into or not into it since day 1. was there some previous content?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, apparently it's a whole-ass thing. Back in 2019 the "pilot" for it was uploaded onto youtube, and it blew up. It currently has 109M views. I'm not totally clear on the process that led the creator to making the pilot, but I'm pretty sure the gist is that she (Vivienne Medrano, a.k.a Vivziepop) was a small, independent creator who managed to rally enough interest and support for her concept that she was able to actually bring a 30-minute pilot into being as sort of a pitch/proof of concept.

It was popular and had quite a few fans, who were all very excited in a "The dream's really happening!" kind of way when it was announced that Hazbin Hotel was going to be a series.

And then several years later Hazbin Hotel the series was released on Amazon.

But between 2019 and 2024, the creator continued to feed fans of the pilot with a fairly constant stream of universe lore, character backstory, concept art, etc. It's all very inside baseball, and even the diehard fans who know the fandom wiki inside and out can't really know or agree on whether any of it is canon or not, since most of it is word of god but has yet to be established in the text itself, and may not even be current word of god anyway.

Also, in the interim between the Hazbin pilot being posted and the show being released, Vivziepop and her production company SpindleHorse released two seasons of a separate show with a separate cast of characters, called Helluva Boss, and it's apparently set in the same universe as Hazbin. So naturally there's quite a bit of cross-over in fanbase between fans of one and fans of the other.

It seems like Helluva Boss was released purely on Youtube, which explains why the whole endeavor remained pretty niche until Hazbin broke out into the mainstream with its release on Amazon Prime.

[meadowphoenix]

ooh, that actually is a lot of build-up, thank you for the rundown! and honestly that's pretty amazing for vivziepop to manage marketing that way.