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New Theory Just Dropped:

Chronicle is just a little guy!

#gen loss #generation loss #chronicle 0 #zero talks #zero thoughts #hello everyone!!!!!!!! yee I am still around!!!!!!!! #just on standby #running on auxiliary power waiting for the Next Thing #you know how it is #just checking in how we all doin

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IM HERE IM HERE HELLO

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What are we loading in now!?!?!

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[ id - a tweet from @/Generationloss1: "Welcome Back" attached is a gif of a black screen that says 'loading...' - end id ]

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So... both? I guess?

Whatever I have a load of free time now I'll figure it out hehe

#gen loss #generation loss #zero thoughts #zero talks #audience participation #live or die

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Con day over!

I'm exhausted, but I gotta see a couple other GL cosplayers around!

I was handing out Gen Loss Four stickers I made (the one on the notebook l) to those i did see haha, and one of them gave me a GenLoser bracelet in return so that was sick-

#gen loss #generation loss #zero talks #zero thoughts #this bracelet is so neat honestly the best interaction I had all day- #if that GL Ranboo Cosplay ever sees this #i thank you #so wholesome :D

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Also I've been thinking of changing my intro post into something more stylish and not the thing i improvised on this blogs creation. I have two ideas in mind which would probably affect how I continue this blog:

A more Character based approach where I lean fully into being a Gen Loss/ GL adjacent Character (still Zero tho not changing the name bc funny). Posts would be probably the same as they are now but I will lean fully into being a character- I also like the idea of playing it as "I am Zero and they are Zero and I am commentating/looking into on the horrors my alternate self is experiencing"

Or

A more series of documents type approach. Like a case file or a proper Corkboard. Posts would be a bit more organised and "filed". I'll reduce the amount of commentary posts and focus solely on being a theory blog.

Don't get me wrong, either way the amount of theory stuff will be the same its mainly just the ☆vibes☆ of how I go about doing it. And I intend to mess around with the Asthetics depending on what I go with.

So I'm putting out the question of what you would like!

Oki thank youuuu

#gen loss #generation loss #zero talks #zero thoughts #i think personally i'd like to lean into a character a bit more but i wanna make this blog how you wanna see it!

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Hehe

Con time :D

(Yes I am once again cosplaying as myself/Chronicle Zero its a really funny joke)

#gen loss #generation loss #zero talks #zero thoughts #if your hoping to see me today I can assure you its not the con you're thinking of- #local con #i would be surprised if anyone gets that i am Zero #letalone in Cosplay AHSGAGSb #but if there is anyone by off chance going to the same con as me and you see this book- say so! i will be pleasantly happy to talk with you

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1. OH MY GOD 3D ENVIROMENT DESIGN AND ANIMATION THATS SO COOL

2. damn it why do I have to be only partially experienced-

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[ id - a tweet from @/Generationloss1: "[NOT CANON TO THE STORY] Hello. We are looking for 3d artists to help us create the next project! If you have experience with environmental 3d design and animation then please fill out the form below!" attached is a link to an application form - end id ]

heres the link for anyone interested ^

#generation loss #gen loss #zero talks #zero thoughts #im literally learning how to do this kinda stuff for the purpose of doing it professionally #but im nowhere near the kind of level they're probably looking for #rip me ahahsgsgagsgB #but yeah anyways passing the phone to anyone listening who WOULD be able to do this kind of stuff

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Wow how did I miss this one

This was last month- (technically, but still)

ANYWAYS, current thought process is that we were deciding the location for the next dream sequence. Whether that means a new dream in that location or a repeat of the prior dreams in said locations I don't know for sure.

Although last time one of the polls interacted with Chronicle was the Happy Birthday song and that wasn't in a dream. So. Perhaps we're deciding what dream should come true, or where Chronicle Experience Something. (If you remember my interlude theory during the break, im refering to something like that)

-> Boo! You've got an update!

[ id - a tweet from @/TheChronicle0: "?". Beneath it is a poll with 2 options: 'The Field' or 'The Lot' - end id ]

#gen loss #generation loss #chronicle 0 #generation loss theory #tangled tape #zero thoughts #i cant belive i spent over a week thinking “huh chroicle zero sure hasnt updated in a bit” WHILST THIS WAS JUST SITTING HERE #anyways #hey guys we're back(?) to our regularly (when have i ever been regular) scheduled generationlosscorkboard content lessgoooo

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:)

Jeez this stuff does not feel that long ago

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Also found on my Pinterest

#generation loss #gen loss #chronicle 0 #zero talks #zero thoughts #to be fair i was on the outskirts of all this until a week after the livestreams #i knew a little? but not a lot #and then BOOM here i am

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I am cosplaying myself today

#gen loss #generation loss #zero talks #zero thoughts #i will also be doing this at my local con as an inside joke with myself cause well. its funny. #low chance that people would recogise it as Gen Loss Zero tho #and EVEN LOWER for knowing that it is also Me as Me #also if you want like a discription of it i can give that to yee #no photos tho i like my funny little anonymity

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I just found this blog and I'm incredibly obsessed this is great. I don't know if you take additions or other theories, but would it be reasonable to assume that the "XXXX <- Nevermind" person in the writer's list of good things is Mary? (Four Xs, four letters in her name.) If so, what happened to make the writer cross her name out? If not, who else could it be?

I know it's not a lot, nor anything revolutionary, but it's been gnawing at the back of my mind and I haven't seen anyone mention it yet. Ah well. Can't wait to see what the next journal entry will bring...

first of all, thank you! I'm glad to hear you like what I'm doing!

and yes absolutely I take additions/other theories, I prefer a community based approach to this and the majority of my posts are reblogs anyways ahah-

and yeah! That's entirely possible! It hadn't crossed my mind, but it's definitely worth noting, thanks! Certainly brings up a lot of questions if our guy is going around crossing out their therapist's name-

#gen loss #generation loss #chronicle 0 #generation loss theory #audience participation #zero thoughts #my inbox is always open for both theories and chit chat :D

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Okay so the irl time gap is non existent, good to know :P

Rip that "SOMETHINGS HAPPENING" Theory, you did what you could.

What interests me most this time though is the lack of XX stuff.

Oh and that guy had a dream and woke up screaming but Forgor-

They FORGOR-

Chronicle 0 post!!!!!!!!

[“8/13

Got in trouble for sleeping in class today, not my fault really barely got any sleep after yesterdays shift. Had to stay late to help figure out what was wrng with the radios. Jay is trying to be funny outside the window without getting caught. Dumbass.

Had a weird dream during class. All I remember is waking up screaming apparently which is what landed me here. just killing time by writing in this old thing”]

#gen loss #generation loss #chronicle 0 #zero thoughts #heyyyyy Cronicle.... how you been.... i've totally finished analysed all three (3) of your dreams since you last updated.... #yeah..... #definitely....

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New confirmed theory: Gen Loss is in fact, an Egg.

Genloss is so back baby Ive cracked it

#gen loss #generation loss #zero talks #zero thoughts #real zero thoughts moment on this one #but #do know! #I'M EXCITED FOR THIS!

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AHDDHGWEBWHHEWWWE yeah no this is a fantastic read, wow

Whoops

hello generation loss enjoyers. it has been several months since the release of ranboos project, how have yall been? im going to be insane.

Many folks have known me as the lminal space connosieur, dead malls and fucked up houses in particular being my strongsuit for both their sex appeal and the amount of symbolism they can all hold.

Watching Gen Loss with my friends through a hostage situation was a wonderful experience! upon the reveal of the Showfall Media offices being inside a rented out mall, there was a split second where I was a bit unamused at the lack of effort put into integrating the mall's architecture into the studio's office. There were only a few empty stores being used with at the bare minimum some chairs and desks, half the mall was still closed, the mini maps stands were still up, and the food court's usage as the streamers hub was very just. like. thats a whole ass food court. without the people walking around the only way to actually know what the hel this was being used for was the giant white banner that just said showfall media like a fraternity's house claiming its territory.

But then, as the episode 2 closed out, almost instantly it hit me why. why the mall was still a mall, why there was little to no integration for the set- it was on purpose. it was supposed to just be a studio crammed inside a mall. a dead mall, to be precise.

first lets get into the anatomy of what makes a dead mall dead. Around the 1980's a rise in popularity of the commercial supermalls began to spread, the american consumerist dream was rampant with a greater demand of fast fashion, merchandise, and all kinds of strange trinkets for the average american to waste their money on. It was capitalism's wettest dream, but as the years went on there came a steady decline in popularity. Sometimes the competing businesses ended up putting each other out of stock, maybe the trends began dying off, and in certain areas consistent crime rates drove away costumers.

Then in the mid 2000's the stock market crash ended up pushing several people into poverty, the lower class unable to afford the luxury goods offered at shopping centers. Then online shopping took society in a deathgrip, further pushing away the desire for in-public purchasing. Brands took notice and began selling online-exclusive products. In the late 2010's the sightings of several "dead malls" were on an alltime high, some being left to rot while others were demolished all together in favor of empty concrete spaces.

Corporate response to this was one of two things; continously invest in the "Anchor Stores" (big chain stores like Macys or Forever 21 that brought in more customers, usually stationed at the ends of the mall). Meanwhile the smaller businesses inside would be shut down one by one to save costs, until eventually the anchor stores themselves would be forced to leave. Sometimes the Anchor Stores would leave beforehand, not wanting to waste money investing in a deadend location. the decline is faster, the mall rots quicker. The company sells the lot to the biggest buyer and destroys what little remains.

Then there are times where the mall itself is sold off to another bigger company, in hopes of more funds to rejuvenate the center. Majority of the time the mall will enter a large reconstruction designed to look more appealing, mor modern. In actually, the personality of the malls architecture is stripped like the skin of prey. The colors and vibrant shapes of the late 1900’s, the waterfalls with rocky beds and marbled beige tiles, all replaced in favor of sharp black on white edge and stainless steel fencing. The occasional shrub here or there, maintained by automation. Lights too bright, all glimmer, all space. Sometimes it works, sometimes the mall is reborn as the pinnacle of luxury again! Sometimes it rots in shiny chrome, a corpse dragged along in the hopes of attracting attention. All it does is stink and bloat, a miserable display.

I hope you begin to catch what im saying.

In Generation Loss, the Showfield Social Experiments are commentary on streamer culture and the damaging relationship between a content creator & their platform. Visualized by Ranboo being pushed into dangerous scenarios for the sake of entertainment, their disposable friends forced into the flat archetypes the fandoms have labeled them as.

They were all vibrant young folks once, bright with personality and that raw humanity filled with flaws and voice cracks. Shitty microphones and inconsistent uploads, some were barely finishing high school. Then they became big, almost too big. They were characters now, and just like Ranboo’s teammates the perception of them as humans were dumbed down to memorable trademarks. Streamers and Content Creators alike had to be marketable now, and when the time comes where they lost their popularity sometimes they sign off to groups and organizations to help boost them up again. They are stripped of their rawness again. Theres a reason their artforms are called “content”.

So it makes sense that Showfall Media, the personification of the content creators downfall, would do the same to a Mall. The corpse of the center is repurposed loosely to fit the studios purpose. It is empty, it is hollow, it is dead. Low costs, big risks- just like Gen Loss Ranboo.

basically

Content Creators are Dead Malls.

#generation loss #gen loss #generation loss the social experiments #audience participation #tangled tape #zero thoughts #i friggin love big deep dives into stuff like this thank you #and anything that just builds upon the friggin many analogies this show has for its content creators is so so good #i have ate today ooohhhh boy

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Woop woop!

I'm very excited to see what the changes and adjustments are, and how it relates back to some of the things I've discussed and shared here.

At the very least it will be hella entertaining to watch (again)

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The Founders Cut will be out in the next 2 to 3 months! If nothing else it'll be out by the end of this year :D

#gen loss #generation loss #zero talks #zero thoughts #i probably should of mentioned it in the last post about Chronicle Zero but i am aware that the whole “something is happening” could be #false and that the gap of Chrono posts is just because of the Rebrand and a plethora of other things that aren't lore related. #but its fun to think so anyways

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SOMETHING IS HAPPENING TO CHRONOS-

Yes hi hello I'm back after ghosting for a bit lmao-

OKAY so. One of the main things we know about the Chronicle Zero Stuff is that it is dated the same as the posts are, only in the year 19XX. So we're essentially getting live updates.

We haven't had an update in a WHILE.

The Chronicles are Journals, that much is known, and as an attempted journal keeper myself (keyword being attempted) there are two main reasons for why that might be:

Reason Number One:

they simply forgor-

Which is a mood. Sometimes you just stop and then don't for ages. But THATS BORRRINGGGGG.

I prefer the second reason, as it's the entire basis of me making this post.

Reason Number Two:

SHIZ IS GOING DOWN RIGHT NOW.

in a prior post I theorised that Chronos is currently avoiding some real important event that was the "eight months" ago thing. Hero's journey, refusing the call, yadayadayada.

Following that, I suggested that whatever event is being ignored does not LIKE being ignored, and Chronos is going to go through some real world shaking experience. Something that CANT be ignored, and is going to kick off the more TSE Episode Three-esc equavalent events for our buddy Chronos.

Which, as I realised whist thinking about it on a walk today, is PROBABLY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

Ranboo stated that Chronicle Zero is about to get oh so much more, and I think that that's going to be the aftermath of whatever Zero's currently going through.

This isn't the calm before the storm. The storm is already here, and we're right in the centre of it.

#gen loss #generation loss #chronicle 0 #generation loss theory #tangled tape #zero thoughts #lmao sorry for ghosting and then coming back with THIS zinger of a theory. #i was just casually thinking about how i was fortunate that my own lil break lined up so well with Ranboo's #but then realised that nothing had happened even before that. #and yeah that snowballed into this #enjoy!

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Dream interpretation is certainly something, and it's taking it's time-

So I'm just gonna do a quick side review of current information and my predictions:

So far we have the following characters known to us

- The writer (who I've been calling Chronos)

- Jay (previously assumed she/her but I believe those belong to-)

- Mary (assumably Chronos' therapist)

- Chronos's boss (like, a million years old)

- Chronos' family, and dog

- XXXX (the "<- nevermind" one. I'm assuming that this is a person but who knows)

Stuff we know:

Something happened eight months ago and Chronos is trying their absolute best to ignore it. (I suspect X has something to do with it).

Chronos is having weird dreams, but is purposely ignoring their signicance (linked to right month ago event)

We may be affecting said dreams via the polls

they work at a tech place, one that specifically deals with fixing stuff, like VCR units

they do NOT work 6 jobs (they just had their job starting an hour earlier- 6 jobs would probably be more nightmarish than their dreams)

the year is 19XX, though very likely post-1972, cause of the mention of VCR unit. The fact they call some of the stuff like VCR units as "old" it's been a reasonable time since 1972. Sooo... 90s? Course, time could just be real friggin weird-

The polls has some strange influence over Chrono's reality. Specifically, messages through radios and such. (And a lil bit of dream stuff)

My current predictions of what is and is to come:

Chronos is gonna lose their family and the dog is gonna die (Yeah.....)

Jay may also die, and it will be directly because of Chronos actions. because I predict it so. (and it will be incidentally, but yeah.)

Chronos is gonna have to stop ignoring whatever happened eight months ago, but will in doing so is discover something super f--ed up about their reality (if they haven't seen a glimpse of this already) and how much of a lie it is and it's gonna make them go insane-

Mary and Chrono's boss aren't going to be super important, Mary may be mentioned again, but she won't play a major part.

and this final one is just entirely based off this fact:

I once designed an au world in which people were unaware of the fact they're living in dome cities and outside that is an absolutely apocalyptic world where the sun exploded and it's held together by magic and fantasy duct tape (it's a fantasy world, so ignore those elements) and yeah dome people don't know until one scientist realises the sky is like- super off. doesn't make sense mathematically or astrologically. And they go insane!

so if it turns out that they sky is f-ed and/or they're in a DOME CITY/TOWN (or something similar) I'm going to cry again because this will be the third time Chronos/Ranboo/GenLosers have apparently been on the same wave length as me-

(which is also just kinda the Truman show but I promise it's way more than that)

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Oh HI THERE! the prior post was written a while ago, but I ended up taking an impromptu step back from everything whislt it was quiet- sorry about that!

Anyways, here it is for you now. I'd best also finished that third dream theory huh! While it's still qui- AHHAHA you think I'd tempt fate like that? Nooooooo. Noooo thank you.

#gen loss #generation loss #chronicle 0 #generation loss theory #tangled tape #zero thoughts #if anyone's curious as to the first and second time #well the first was the name Zero #the second one was the design (or at least Fanon) bc I did a piccrew early into this account of what GL me looks like and uh #I'll leave it at that #although GLranboo can vouch for me #I showed them and they called me out on actually being Chronos again (with /silly BUT IT'S STILL WEIRD LIKE THAT)