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Charlie never commented on the fact that Ranboo just had a guy with a camera following him, even after having multiple points where it kind of hit him harder and harder that this wasn't real. He was still part of the show oh my fucking god 😭
anyone else love the behind the scenes and building processes of things like generation loss just as much as the actual product like i love to see the effort and the thinking behind each detail and how that was carried out and then being able to watch the vods and know funny and cool things like ranboo being sprayed in the face by fake blood when the box closed, or the fact nikis scream was genuine when she got shot by the puzzler because she genuinely didnt know whereabouts jerma was, or the fact one of the alarms during ep 3 was the fire alarm and they had to stop the fire people from crashing generation loss live LIKE ITS SO COOL
i also cant wait for the founders cut and all the little extra pieces and the extra scenes. and hopefully indepth streams of the behind the scenes and details of each episode and the process for everything. aaaa the crew that worked on generation loss are so talented and incredible and enthusiastic I LOVE IT!!!
I absolutely love how those few seconds without the filter has made us question everything
All the slime in the first episode, was it really slime? Or was it gore? What about Frank? Is he a prop? Is he a real skeleton or a rotting corpse? That slime-spaghetti Charlie ate, what it really spaghetti? Or was it more gore?
What can we trust? Who can we trust?
We have to be on guard about everything we’ve seen. We don’t know if what we see is real. We don’t know what’s been filtered. We can guess, but we aren’t sure.
I realized something about Generation Loss that made me love it even more. Someone else has undoubtedly already thought of something like this but I’ve seen no other posts about it so I’m just gonna imagine that I’m clever okay here we go✨
During the finale when Ranboo was tied up to his crucifix, Hetch told him that when the mask had been off during the events leading up to that point, Ranboo had been fully in control of himself. Ranboo protested, saying it had been Showfall making the fatal decisions, that he was being controlled by them and had no choice. It was true that Ranboo, even while in control when the mask was off, didn’t realize exactly what was happening. It’s not like those moments of lucidity were ever long enough for them to figure out how to change anything. But they were still moments of lucidity. Tiny scraps of free will that Ranboo was given. And the choices made in those moments didn’t save anyone, but who knows? Maybe they could have, if Ranboo had played his cards differently. Ranboo argued that he didn’t have a choice, that there was nothing else that could have been done; he was horrified by the blood on his hands but denied that he could have changed the outcomes.
The day after the finale, CC!Ranboo told us on stream that there had indeed been an ending planned for if the majority had voted live, and they told us what it was, debunking the theories that the ending was always going to be death no matter what. They confirmed that the votes hadn’t been rigged, that the outcome was 100% true to viewer votes. After all, their goal, the very experiment that gave this Generation its name, was to see if we as a collective would actually vote to kill somebody. And just as they’d been hoping, we did. If you really want to see whether the majority would vote for death, you wouldn’t rig the vote because you’d never get your answer. That final vote was a test of our human psychology; we were the subjects of the social experiment. And yet there were still posts being made weeks later about how the ending was predetermined, about how our votes never really mattered, about how no matter what we did that box would have closed on his head.
At the core of this whole experiment, CC!Ranboo did to us exactly what Showfall did to GL!Ranboo. They gave us just enough free will that we were able to argue that we never had any at all.
I love how they named generation one “The Social Experiments” because that can have so many different meanings based on how you look at it.
On one hand, it was as CC!Ranboo mentioned in a stream after TSE had ended: it was a test to see if we, as a collective when faced with a moral dilemma, would make the active choice to kill someone. It was—in the truest sense—a social experiment for the audience.
But then you get to the other side of it. Showfall’s side.
They were looking for someone to stay there, being part of their shows and entertaining the audience forever. Someone who the audience would love, who we’d stay attached to, who we’d try to help in any circumstance, in any way.
And they found it.
GL!Ranboo was exactly what Showfall needed, because they BEGGED US to kill them and we did. Showfall found their perfect protagonist—their perfect Hero—that the audience would sympathize with.
Showfall conducted their own social experiments to see how we’d react to someone we love getting thrown into these situations and how popular they’d get and they couldn’t have done it better
I KNOW ITS BEEN ALMOST A YEAR SINCE GENLOSS CAME OUT BUT IM REWATCHING IT AND GAHH I LOVE THE FIRESHADOWING IN EPISODE ONE I NOTICE NEW BITS EVERY TIME ANF IVE JUST NOTICED HOW RAN SAYS "IM BAD AT DIRECTIONS" (or smth along the lines) AND THEÑ AND THEN AT THE ENÐ THEY GO THE WRONG DIRECTIOKS TO WHERE THE EXIT SYMBOL SAYS GAHHH!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS HOW SO MUUUCHHHH
One of my favourite things about Generation Loss are the accidents, the last minute thoughts. Frank, a beloved character, ended up being Charlie wanting Sneeg to have a friend while he was stuck in the cage for so long. Frank, who then went on to have disturbing lore in the set design of episode three (there's a deceased employee(?) poster in the office). The green to red filter in episode two accidentally had horrific implications for the slime demon in episode one (and evil Sneeg, yuck), which was again brought back in the set design of episode three (bucket of blood and guts labelled slime). Charlie involving himself in the carousel act of episode two during dress rehearsals, leading to theories of Sneeg seeing him with his guts hanging out when the hat is on his head. Also Charlie mentioned that he decided to portray the patient as a “dude” character so the filter switch was more jarring, rather than being panicked like the rest of the saw victims. I’m trying to think of more.