Mr.Cumberbatch went to America to…. urm I made this just because I thought it looked like President Obama wasy saying “Your ass”….
Okay , I’ll stop here. It started getting out of my hands slowly…
The last one was requested by amazing @3bino3. Not my fault at all.
YES! I was waiting for that last one!
Everything I never knew I wanted.
oh my lord
why
me: hello tunbgler
dash: kink discourse, ace discourse , “people who no longer believe in the conspiracy are Just Not Intelligent Enough to play the game”
me: goodbye tungler
I know I probably shouldn’t fan the flames of this, and you probably won’t see this post. But I’m making it anyways.
I’ve read over the message on your website.
Oh boy.
I don’t know exactly what you were trying to get at with all of this.
Maybe, like, 02% of the TJLC fandom + others genuinely believed that your site meant something. I know that percentage is completely pulled out of the air…and I’m not about to do an actual calculation here. BUT I see quite a bit of fandom traffic everyday being an archive. I know and see what people are talking about. What they agree with and what they don’t.
You’ve made something out of nothing just like you say TJLC did. (Oh the tangled webs we weave for ourselves).
That 20 minutes a week you say that work on your site? Yeah, no.
There is no way to 1) design and code pages 2) read through all of our theories 3) come up with codes and clues 4) mange a website, Twitter AND your regular tumblr account with 20 minutes a week. IT’S NOT POSSIBLE. Even if you are a web designer of some sort.
I spend an hour day (AT LEAST) reading through theory posts. And some of them I even skim. There’s just too much posted everyday. And that’s not even taking into account reading though posts about your site! Honestly!
And with the website comes paying for bandwidth and the domain name. I’m not a IT person by any means, but there’s probably other things that cost money to run a website (besides your time). We sure has heck didn’t lose any sleep or money over this.
Regardless…thank you. I mean it! You gave the fandom one last BBC Sherlock hoora! Most of us didn’t get that with s4. We played your game, had some fun together before we all start going our separate ways over the coming months and years.
I was never TJLC. I read the theories just like any semi/regular academic essay in college. I joined the fandom years ago to stretch my theory muscle. And to learn what I could from those who posted metas and ideas into the tumblrsphere. If anything, you showed me the fandom that I came to know over the last 4 years. They are smart, able to write academic length essays with sources and quotes quickly. They are funny, taking PR goofs to the extreme and making memes that make me cry with laughter. They are kind, being considerate of those who decided not to stay in the fandom after s4. They are all those things and more. And if this is the end of BBC Sherlock, or at least the end of an era of fandom, I thank you.
Because your website gave everyone the opportunity to be so amazing, smart, funny and wonderful one more time.
Even if you aren’t the nicest person for thinking that the fandom needed to learn a lesson.
Here is the text, with my first thought comments in bold:
I was going to draw this out longer but the truth is, I’m
bored.
OK
There is no Lost Special. There never was, and there never
will be.
And you know this
objectively?
Once again, in their need to keep this midnight train going,
TJLC fans created something out of nothing.
Even if that is that
case, why do you care?
Seeing this obsession with “The Lost Special,” even though
series 4 was clearly over, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to run a
sociological experiment with a vicious fandom in denial.
Steven brought it up,
not us. Also, even if the series is
over, that doesn’t mean it’s over. They’ve
repeatedly said they have through series 5 mapped out. It was only in December
2016 they started hinting at “we don’t know, this could be it.” Sure Jan.
My poorly assembled website took not more than twenty
minutes to cobble together (as some people rightly pointed out) and very little
effort to maintain.
This is a lie.
“By the pricking of my thumbs (something wicked this way
comes)”- I edited an ominous message into the code and title, referencing the
Macbeth quote used in The Six Thatchers. It was strange to see how many people
didn’t recognise the “pricking” quote and even criticised the website because
it allegedly didn’t call back to Sherlock in any way- except that I was
directly quoting a series 4 episode.
Except most of us did
recognize this? What about your dancing
man code reference to Unto the Breach?
Watching fans defend how shoddy the website is, in their
need for thelostspecial to be real was especially funny. It was also funny to
see the people who guessed the website was fake and said as much, but didn’t
even care because they desperately needed something to hold onto, with Sherlock
over.
Whichever, why do you
care? Why would it be funny to you?
Then there’s the people who clocked that thelostspecial.com
wasn’t “real”… and yet never question their own dedication to TJLC and/or the
existence of a fourth episode of series 4, concepts entirely created by Tumblr.
The lost special site
was only one of hundreds of indications something is fucky.
Anyhow. Next, I threw a random bunch of numbers and photos
out there to see how people would scramble and react, and you didn’t let me
down. Mostly I chose the first photo I found of a character that I liked the
look of, in Google; there wasn’t real logic. I re-used some images out of
laziness. I used an online generator to make the Dancing Men/Henry V code post.
So the meanings we
found in everything, tying it somehow back to Sherlock, or ACD canon, or anything
else were all coincidences?
What do we say about
coincidences?
40, 27, kra, the various “hints” you think you found on the
website and found countless possible meanings of, they were chosen at random.
Even the elephant photo was chosen at random. It wasn’t until after I edited it
into the main website photo that I discovered the poor thing was named Mary and
had been shot and executed for killing a man (on 9.13.16. Everyone overthought that
one too much.) So I used that info
because it was serendipitous. “The universe is rarely so lazy?” Friends, the
universe is often lazy.
“They were chosen at
random.” “The universe is rarely so
lazy?
Sure Jan.
When I added a black image with five pixels of colour to the
website, you did not let me down. People played with the image until they
became convinced it was QR code spelling something out. It was just five
meaningless pixels of nothing, created in MS Paint.
Yet you did the whole
thing in 20 minutes.
The static gif was taken from a YouTube video of TV static
from some movie, with an old Moriarty close-up thrown in.
We know, 28 days
later. With Moriarty loaded in. Again, whole thing in 20 minutes.
The photo of John and Sherlock sitting in the watery 221B, I
got it from Farfarawaysite.com, and scaled it down a little because the photo
was large. That’s it. I didn’t change the proportions in any way, or alter the
colours, or add anything to the photo. Anything you saw in it, you imagined. I
left the big black header on the website as a hint to keep your eye on those,
since the thing I changed on 2/11 was in the similar Twitter header.
”That’s it. I didn’t
change the proportions in any way, or alter the colours, or add anything to the
photo. Anything you saw in it, you imagined.”
I changed the plain black header of the Twitter to a black
one with a word embedded in it. The profile photo was changed to a plain black
photo with XX hidden in it. No one bothered checking it, though clearly the
account was active again, so I changed the profile photo to show the Xs, as a
hint to look deeper. Finally people found the “clue” today, not that it
matters. The word spelled out there is another blind alley that leads nowhere.
Then accept all our
follow requests.
MMTE: The source code message was a hint toward Murderous
Mary the Elephant, which some of you guessed but no one looked for it.
murderousmarytheelephant.tumblr.com
(Don’t bother trying to access it, there’s nothing in
there.)
DON’T LOOK NOTHING TO
SEE HERE, EVEN THOUGH THERE’S A PASSWORD.
There was no set schedule for changes to thelostspecial. I
used intermittent reinforcement to keep people frustrated but coming back for
more. That’s why I added and removed things at unexpected times. There is no
pattern.
Ok?
For people wondering, wow, why would anyone take so much
time to do this? Well, I didn’t. Creating the plain black squares with a few
letters, throwing a message into the source coding, and uploading the new website photo of John
and Sherlock took maybe 5 minutes. Creating a side blog with no posts and
keeping it private takes one minute.
Except the
photoshopping you DID do as established would have taken more. Even searching for the first image you found
would have taken time.
Overall, it takes less than twenty minutes a week to do
this, once it was set up, because really? You do all the work for me. You all
did what TJLCers do best- you took a bunch of random data, inflated it into
something much more complicated than it really was, and created your own
narrative out of it. Even knowing it might be nothing, and was probably just a
fan-made site, you’ve still allowed yourselves to get worked up over it and
allowed yourselves to hope. You’re reading into nonsense and finding clues
where there are none, and naturally most of those “clues” pointed exactly where
you wanted them to point to. Confirmation bias at its finest.
Well all I get from
this is that we’re smarter than you are.
Learn from this.
Stop falling into conspiracies. Trust yourself when you can
see that something isn’t real or likely. Alternately, find something that
doesn’t make you feel sad or heartbroken.
Seriously? “Trust yourself when you can see that
something isn’t real or likely.”
Instincts are to be
trusted, John.
Also, my instincts
have gotten me into a pretty good place.
I’ll keep trusting them, thanks, and they tell me something is
fucky. We’ve seen this episode before.
Goddamn you’re
arrogant.
A few final notes:
“And in conclusion
*jerk off motion*
I was somewhat entertained by the several dozen times people
attempted to reset the password for the website and access the control panel.
If I was petty, I would’ve logged your IPs and reported you to your ISP. (Don’t
worry, I didn’t. I don’t care that much.)’
You cared enough to
look.
I didn’t send the “mole” anons or any other messages on
Tumblr. I think other fans decided to join the game. I imagine they’ll continue
until they get bored, too.
Read: I can’t say why
everything else is fucky too. Must be
more people like me.
The only twitter account connected to thelostspecial.com is
twitter.com/thelostspecial. I have no idea who runs the “contact” twitters but
I’m positive they’re fan accounts. (If you think BBC-sanctioned accounts would
post like that, I have a bridge to sell you.)
As for my twitter, I set up the thelostspecial twitter account, followed
some BBC-related accounts and left it alone for a week while TJLC fans went
wild trying to suss out who I was following. That’s all I did with it.
Then accept my follow
request. Seriously, YOU’RE SO CLEVER I
need to follow you to learn your secrets.
I didn’t start thelostspecial Instagram account. Someone
else did that, I don’t know who.
Nobody asked. Actually, I didn’t even know there was an
instragram account. Did anyone else
know?
And if you enjoyed hunting, try a legitimate online riddle
game, such as Amnesya.com for a challenge! All the fun, none of the TJLC and
fandom “fucky” business.
Well, since you
brought up “fucky business,” why are they screenshots of the Shrewd Living
posts in the “Museum?” Did you do that too?
Wow. In charge of a scam
website. Oh, you don’t know about
that? Then why put it in there? Why, John?
Nah.
Sherlock Series 4 is over. This is the end.
Thanks for playing TheLostSpecial! Goodbye and God bless.
And the creator? They’re a massive arse. What the????? This was a really nice game. They could’ve thanked us, explained and left us alone. But nooooooooooo. They needed to mock us in a two-page essay. Fuck this whole thing .-. it was fun playing this, but getting mocked like this is just bad. @the-7-percent-solution
Thank you? For what? For proving that TJLC is just a whirlwind of confirmation bias and herd mentality?
They weren’t mocking you. They were explaining how easy it is for people to buy into false information because it helps fuel their theory. They simply explained confirmation bias and how it is prevalent within the TJLC community.
If you read that as mocking, it shows just how far gone you already are.
^ Well said.
^ I think this fear contagious user is the anti behind this wreckage. They’re literally too involved and responded to many asks in the tag. Look how angry they are at seeing people not crumbling down crying over the fact that tls website is fake. Lol Also it was mocking, as a person that’s not into tjcl I can still recognise a condescending tone, thank you very much. Also, yall antis are so desperate to depict Johnlockers as crazy that yo literally can’t see the reality of things…
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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.
Thanks for getting in touch about ‘Sherlock’ episode The Final Problem
recently.
We note your concerns regarding the portrayal of the character Eurus and the
subject of mental illness as featured in this show’s storyline.
While we appreciate your feedback, it’s important to recognise that this is
a fictional drama. Our characters aren’t intended to be representative of all
people with similar conditions, and any individual characteristics and
personality traits are specific to the particular characters and storyline. Although we don’t always condone the things our fictional characters do or say,
it’s important for the sake of the drama that they be allowed to express these
behaviours.
That said, we’re sorry if you were unhappy with the portrayal here and thank
you again for your comments. We’ve put your complaint on a report that’s made available
to all members of the BBC, including the production team of ‘Sherlock’ and
senior BBC management. This ensures your comments and others we receive are
considered across the BBC.
Kind regards
BBC Complaints Team
Ah, so when one complains about the portrayal of mental illness it at least gets taken a Bit more seriously. Of course they Defend their Show, but at least they acknowledge that some people find it difficult. This is a way more proper Response than the others concerning queerbaiting. Quite telling…
I’m concerned that they think some of us may be unaware this is… a fictional drama? No shit there Sherlock (writers), our critiques are that representation matters and strangely enough mental illness doesn’t get the best representation in television. Or LGBT people for that matter.
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