the deep web is extremely dangerous – it contains everything from hit men for hire to child pornography to horrific human and animal abuse, often disguised as links to innocent pages, and is used by a lot of people with excellent hacking and doxxing skills and very troubling morals
in fact, even if you disregard points 1 – 3, there is absolutely no way that the bbc or any of its affiliates would ever encourage young people, especially children under 18, to go to such a dangerous part of the internet – that would be asking for a lawsuit which the bbc would never risk or be able to afford (they’re tax funded, after all)
i am telling you right now that there is no chance whatsoever that any coded messages encouraging you to go to the deep web are in any way related to the bbc – i promise you that this is the work of an anti who doesn’t like this community and may actually mean you actual harm
if there is an arg (which honestly i find hard to believe at this stage, but this point stands regardless), i promise you this isn’t part of it
too late.. …. …. i’m sinking here
i’m telling you without any shadow of a doubt that anyone leading you to the deep web has nothing to do with the bbc and means you harm, this isn’t an opinion, there is absolutely no way the bbc would ever do anything like this and the evidence corroborates this being the work of an anti, please be sensible for your own sake
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COME WITH ME DOWN THE WORMHOLE OF FUCKERY. My crew (shoutout to the
UNFUXKblws) have been heavily researching their little hearts out and this website is… uh. Well, it’s fucky, there’s no other word for it.
The website was created in 2013, but it could have been bought from another company as the company claiming to have bought it was created in 2016. (I’m going to touch on that email later
2. Why does a website that supposedly is for a service to send creepy posthumous messages end its domain on my birthday this year? GRANTED it’s probably just a contract end date (like I own a domain and it’s a yearly contract), so nothing really to take much from it here, it’s just interesting that a service that is supposed to be like a pre-order site for your death that you have no idea how many years you will be around, you’d think they would have a more… lengthy contract. It’s just really interesting to me.
3. (Okay I lied). Like the OP posted…. don’t.u.forget email address. Any PROFESSIONAL SERVICE WOULD HAVE A DOMAIN EMAIL to contact them at. Just. wow.
One very imprtant thing. I live one hour from Kraków. I know this city like my own and company like this doesn’t even existe in Kraków especial no to at this adress. I check. This is serious shit.
I try to be skeptical but I honestly can’t see how ShrewdLiving.com could be anything other than part of an ARG. Why would a website which has no visible means of generating revenue (no actual advertising except for a single banner ad for Red Cross donations, no “promoted” product mentions even in the articles that do exist on its website, no store), no articles that couldn’t have been generated by one of those “publish your own ‘journalism’” websites, no contributor credits on its articles, no corporate name (”Shrewd Media LLC” etc.) attached to it, and no content dated after 2014 be spending money to advertise specifically to Sherlock fans on Tumblr in the year 2017, especially when the website itself has nothing to do with TV, video streaming, or entertainment in general?
Also known as: someone is having a laugh, used to own a website, and had a few bucks lying around to keep seeing you guys dance.
*sighs*
One year ago, it cost 25 000 $ to advertise on Tumblr. I don’t think it has dropped to 25 $ in 2017 so… who would hate us this much, really ?
Even if the 25k commitment is still true, it still could easily be explained by someone who already has an ad contract (because they own or work for a company) and just ran those ads in a one day slot.
The BBC literally told us to shove it up our asses, they don’t give a shit about us. Unfortunate, but true.
Why would someone who had an existing, hugely expensive Tumblr ad contract run ads directing Sherlock fans to an obviously fake website which has no noticeable links to any company or organization with an existing ad contract
Are you actually suggesting that this thing that has all the hallmarks of one of the actual viral-marketing ARGs that have been run by PR teams for movies, video games, and even a Nine Inch Nails album is not an ARG, and is actually the owner or high-ranking advertising/marketing officer of a company with a large advertising budget (and who is presumably answerable to no one about spending that budget?) who has chosen to use that budget to fuck with a small group of Sherlock fans on Tumblr by directing them to a fake website that they created in 2012 and updated while S4 was airing
yet if you switch up THIS url to end in “-series-4” (the variant suggested by the latest update at http://thelostspecial.com/bbc-hartswood-sherlock-series-4/) you don’t get the error page, but an “unfinished” page for series 4, what lol
an “unfinished” page for series 4
Can you believe it? wow this keeps getting weirder and weirder and i love it!
Maybe they started making the page for season 4, but a different person had to finish the website. The second person didn’t know about the first, unfinished page, and so made an entirely new one with the strange URL.
I’ve done minor website design myself, and in my experience its possible to lose track of what pages you have, especially if you have a ton of them. Add to that an entirely new person trying to play catch up and learn how to manage the site that they previously knew nothing about–I’d say it makes sense.
So, yeah, the thing that ultimately shook
me out of my “I can’t believe this is the real episode 😭” reaction and got me back on the It’s Fake bandwagon was the irregularities with setlock. When the episode first leaked, it was described to me by more than one person who watched it (I did not watch the Russian leak myself) as looking like it could have been filmed in a few days. The actual airing of the episode rattled me for a day or two, but ultimately, seeing the episode with my own eyes didn’t change my opinion that it could have been filmed in less time than was allotted for it. I even told a friend who works on film sets and has watched the whole show that TFP filmed from late June to early August and she responded by laughing and saying “okay, yeah, something is fucked up.”
There are also a LOT of missing scenes from setlock. Some of them appear to have been alternate versions of scenes which actually made it into S4 (different versions of the birth-in-the-car scene, for example) but some of them were quite elaborate. The scene with all the extras ducking/flinching and running away from 221B Baker Street, which people speculated was in response to gunfire or explosion sounds and/or special effects which would be filled in later, required A) the closure of North Gower Street, B) a production set-up on North Gower Street, and C) the hiring of those extras. It would have cost money and required careful advance planning. And yet that scene is missing. There is no “people run away from the building” shot when 221B “explodes” in TFP. We have fan-made video of the very realistic “passersby react to a sudden calamity” scene being filmed. And yet the scene is
missing.
Is it possible they ended up with footage they just couldn’t use? Maybe they couldn’t get the CGI/special effects to work, so they scrapped an exterior reaction shot that they’d set up and paid people to enact just for that purpose? Maybe, but…LOL. Nah. In TGG they blew up 221B from the outside in, and they blew up the Houses of Parliament in TEH. They also transitioned from the Victorian era to the modern era through the window in TAB. There are not many sensible reasons I can think of why they’d scrap that entire scene.
And that’s just ONE scene. It’s not even the only one that’s missing! Though it is all the more conspicuous in its absence because of the expense involved and because we didn’t even get an alternate version of it.
I can’t predict specifics and I can’t say with certainty that they’re going to Beyoncé the “lost special” right into iPlayer or whatever, but I do absolutely believe that it is neither silly nor illogical to suspect based on the evidence that there could have been enough footage produced during setlock – particularly during the “TFP” block – to produce another episode of at least 60 minutes’ length, if not the full 90.
This is the bedrock of my participation in
the “fourth episode” theory. Moffat’s quip to Radio Times about the “lost special” certainly adds a lot of strength to the force of the belief, but setlock itself is quite enough to be going on with, in my opinion.
Either they’ve got another ace up their sleeves, or they are going to break some kind of record for the most wasted resources /“deleted scenes” generated by a single TV production.
BBC Sherlock has always integrated every platform I can imagine, including real world stunts, blogs, extraneous websites, and even a mobile game with the actual actors involved (they’re not cheap) to promote this show and imo has been an intricate game from the start.
We’ve progressed into a new phase of this game in s4 where the ‘alternate reality’ part is becoming more and more apparent. I consider this the boss level of the BBC Sherlock ARG.
Things I consider related/possibly related to the game include but are not limited too:
the obvious fakeness/wrongness of TFP
the potential existence of The Lost Special/secret fourth ep
thelostspecial.com
tons of new blogs popping up around here and pushing us in certain meta directions
the clues and codes we all keep getting sent
the asks some of us get with 🙂 or a decidedly moriarty-eqsue tone
the Dec. 29 incident in which a blog with the url ‘dymm’ appeared and followed a bunch of us and sent messages that only said 🙂
the supposed Sherlock RP twitter accounts that all start with “contact” (which were denounced as being unofficial by joe lidster)
the BBC’s responses to the complaints about s4
the almost complete radio silence from the cast and crew about s4 being over or about the problems with it
Here’a an article about other massive ARGs that have been carried off in the past, and if you click the link at the top of this post you can read the wikipedia article about the.
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