Iris Sparks off a CiW Speculation on the Cove!

Iris appears to have touched a nerve over in Anchor Cove resulting in a fascinating discussion of who was behind Cassieiswatching.

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hyemew said...

If thesis students 50 years from now look back and research LG15, CiW would indeed be seen as a watershed moment which changed it forever. With just a simple little tantalizing video, 1000 ships were launched into a frenzy of unimaginable proportions. A thread about the video hit like 75 pages long within like 12 hours, it was absurd. This was the same time as the reveal, but the spotlight and even the entire show was actually being eclipsed by this little video about a (head) being dropped into the swimming hole.

As CiW took a darker turn (perhaps too dark) various people including us decided for the safety of all we should drop it, because things were getting too insane (and frankly annoying). The Creators denied all knowledge of who CiW was, but suspicious still persists amongst those who remember or care.
For example much later we found that I believe it was Greg Goodfried's sister who wrote on Alli Danziger's wall something about a severed head in a bag... this of course matched speculation surrounding what fans thought was in the bag (wasn't it AC who first came up with that hilarious theory?) The message seemed to implicate they were involved... and as we know Alli D's friend Amanda Goodfried turned her into a spin-off star herself post-Cassie. Amanda has done a whole lot of the side-stuff with LG15, and I would not be surprised one bit if it was she who did CiW (the Creators themselves denied involvement... but Amanda isn't a Creator. NikkiB denied being canon or connected to the LG15 project long after the actress was revealed to be Amanda Goodfried's real-life good friend. If NikkiB was not considered as being involved with the Creators by the Creators, then perhaps that explains their claim that CiW was not connected either despite possibly being orchestrated by one of their wives or other friends?
They've been known to twist the truth in the past to save face) and frankly I don't see how a totally random unrelated fan could possibly have found the exact spot of the swimming hole without any help at all. Some have said that some people know those parks very well and could have recognized it, however as we know more recent LA fan gatherings have barely drawn anyone- to assert that a fan who also happens to have a deep knowledge of LA area parks took this initiative and did all that themselves.

I could talk in circles about CiW speculation so I better stop, but basically the moral of the story is while the world has been silent on the disavowed CiW, I don't see how anyone except friends/spouses of the Creators could have possibly pulled that off, unless they had a stalker (which they didn't seem too concerned about). If it was a random fan, don't you think they might have eventually come forward with such an explosive secret after it was long ended? I mean itscassie revealed herself once the show was over, why not CiW? It could be because those same CiW people are involved with the series to this day and keep their secrets close. Also Glenn, famous for 'bringing down Cassie', still has some secrets of his own ( Tachyon uploading a video around the same time LG15 first started? How?). If I really wanted to speculate wildly, I might even suggest he was enlisted by the Creators to 'kill Cassie', so to speak, since she had gotten so out of hand. I mean hacking someone's phone... without their permission... is illegal... yet nobody seemed to mind, and as it just so happened that his own OpAphid took off and was 'canonized' thanks to her death. Makes you wonder if this canonization occured long before it actually went public...

glenn said...

Maybe the truth is stranger than fiction, in this case. The day there's a market for it, I'll be writing a "tell all." LOL.

But really, you give me (and others) far too much credit, HyeMew--at least as far as foresight is concerned.

However, the person behind CiW really did change the rules of the game. If anything, it tapped into much of the speculation around LG15 at a time when a large portion of the fanbase was receptive to its darker take on creepy religions.

It also showed that a grass roots series could be marketed through an implied "tangental" connection to another online series (which LG15 did themselves at the beginning with Bree "shouting out" other vloggers).

As for me...well, I had a story from a screenplay outline I'd written back in 2001 about a secret religious society and its "black ops" department vs. a secret agent investigating them. I also had some of the YouTube and domain names in place when I'd thought about telling that story online in January of 2006.

So when I finally had the lightbulb go off to position it as a form of tangental/non-contradictory original fiction, I tested the waters...and after the establishing videos to set things up, you can see that my original storyline was getting started with "The Action of An Enemy" video. And of course...LG15 came knocking a good 3-4 days after that posting, completely throwing things into a state of disarray I've still yet to recover from. LOL.

And I have my own theories RE: CIW, but I know enough to know that no one knows and apparently the PM wants it that way. But it definitely wasn't me or Miles/Mesh/Greg/Amanda


Note: a minor edit was made to the original Hyemew post.

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