Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7424710-20160711000753

hey ho whatcha gonna do, the internet persona idea had been accepted, and now it can-

Oh dios mio, it backfired.

So it seems a lot you guys who wanted to contribute to the newly accepted allowance of Internet Personas must've misread what I stated previously or just flat out didn't understand what Internet Personas were at all. Now for an in-depth look for what went wrong, I suggest using Bon's blog since it gives more light on what exactly went wrong.

Now am I saying we all fucked up? No, definitely not. Thetmartens made JonTron vs. Nostalgia Critic in commemoration of the passing, and he used safe and reasonable choices that go along the guidelines. But then there are the ones that didn't go as planned. People thought it was alright to use people like KEEMSTAR, Stomedy and even LeafyIsHere. Not only do they not have any Persona, they're practically featless. And any given feats would most likely derive from memes, and we all know that we can't use memes here.

Something I also became recently aware of is that there's a small gray area of other people, most likely ones like the three I'm about to list below:

- Egoraptor

- iDubbbz

- Sammyclassicsonicfan

Now can you spot any similarities between these three? It's that while yes, they are from the Internet and contain feats, they are missing the second half of the entire phrase "Internet Persona", that being the "Persona" part. You see, they have no real different character outside of their regular old selves. Filthy Frank is easily physically and behaviorally different from Joji, even having his own god damn lore. Same with JonTron, though the behavioral differences can be spotty, he still has his own lore with stuff like StarCade. AVGN, Nostalgia Critic, and NSP are also no different.

In other words, those that I listed that were going against the Persona rule is that they're not really playing a separate character, more just themselves, even when Arin collabs with Jon and edups collabs with Frank, those abiding by the guidelines are still in character while the latter party is mostly playing themselves.

So, in conclusion, the list of who can be used as Internet Personas is pretty small, hell I pretty much used all I could think of who abided by the rule two paragraphs back. But still, we all need to realize who is and who is not an Internet Persona. They need both feats and their own character that differentiates from their actors. They're not just news hosts, guys.

Daniel Keem = DJ KEEMSTAR

George Miller =/= Filthy Frank

I hope we have an understanding on the situation. If you don't, feel free to ask questions and I can try my best at answering them. 