The image attached is ironic, read to find out why!

CHAPTER 1: PRELUDE

An observer of internet culture from the years will have no doubt prototypised the phenomenon that will be referred to as the "Satanic Fandom Process." This is the process upon which "media" with a certain set of traits will tend to attract the "archetypical fandom" and the necessary consequences of such a development. An astute observer will easily be capable of listing examples such media entities, including: Rwby, Steven Universe, Homestuck, Undertale, Five Nights at Freddy's as well as many examples of foreign and especially Japanese media entities, that will follow a very similar "life cycle", the aforementioned SFP.

Before, however, we chart the SFP, we must discuss the shared traits of these media entities. The major shared traits, that any fandom will have likely a significant amount of, but will not necessarily have all of, can be defined as follows:

The series must be exciting and watchable on the surface level, with big moments that can stick in popular perception and attract new fans, This trait is always present. It should also be easy to find, on a platform such as youtube for instance, this trait is often present.

The characters do not have specific depth or complexity, they do not stray far from the archetypes they are based on, or at least this should be the image presented to the fandom. A series of shallow archetypes as main characters is easy to relate to and project on, which will attract the casual viewer, but crucially, this is necessary to appeal to a key fandom growth group, the "fanfiction writers." and will allow plenty of freedom to transform the original media. This is commonly done by putting the characters in foreign situations, the shallowness will aid in accurately determining their actions without going "out of character". Especially crucial to this is the characters being "cute" or "angsty", as this provides for compelling fan created drama, especially when the two traits are two sides of a dialectical process.

The entity is likely a visual medium, and will have a aesthetically easy art style. This ties into the "watchability factor" discussed earlier but also appeals to another key fandom growth group, the fanartists. An aesthetically pleasing and easy art style will make it easy to create eye catching fan pieces which will appeal to the casual audience, especially considering...

Vaguely socially liberal political undertone. Liberal ideas about race, sexuality and economic hierarchy is likely to be present throughout the series. This will make it easy for a typical young person to project themselves on the shells of characters. The liberal ideas about sexuality are the most crucial here, as the aforementioned fan artists will feel comfortable creating pornography. It goes without saying that pornography is almost always the single biggest driver of fandom growth and especially fandom retention.

On a meta level, a strong level of communication between the fan base and the creators. This will inevitably create a parasocial relationship between the two, with a high chance of overt worship of the creators.

Once, these traits of the media entity have been determined, we can outline the "Satanic fandom process" in a vague chronology

Step one: The media entity will be created

Step two: The earliest fandom will be attracted. They will stick around due to the promise and begin creating fanworks to attract more fans.

Step three: The creation of subreddits and groomercord communities creates a sense of community amongst complete strangers

the following events are not guaranteed and may occur in any order

a major figure in the fandom is outed for sexual predation which destabilizes the fandom, especially if the response proves to be inadequate

the creator makes a "misstep" in their supposed liberal values (this could also be the figure outed) and thousands of people send death threats due to the loss of faith in their "hero"

as a consequence of the previous two or not, video essayists and other miscellaneous critics jump on perceived flaws in the writing quality and create drama and groomercord

if these contradictions are resolved or avoided, the series can end with minimal issue

if not, the creator is run off the platform, either chased or tired of the "harassment" and "stress" the process of creation has fostered in them.

This concludes the archetypical example of the Satanic Fandom Process

Chapter 2: OBSERVATIONS

Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning is a series that has "archetypal fandom" traits that has, to my admittedly limited knowledge, suffered only a mild to negligible dose of the "Satanic Fandom Process." It is not the focus of this post. What is important is a piece of fan work that was created for it.

Namely, a music video intended as tribute.

What is important to our story is that this music video was, itself, parodied.

this parody would become what is now known as "Fundamental Paper Education" was a reanimation of the video with original characters, created by a very young, obviously mentally unstable child

(Kid doesn't even know a planet with the Lehman Brothers on it 😭🙏)

The video is now deleted, but amassed tens of millions of views while it was still up. The unexpected popularity of the series caused the bewildered child to make wild promises about creating a full series.

Now, you see the inherent problem. A person 15, 16 years old making wild promises of a full series based of a series of funny drawings they made to a baldis basic tribute music video.

The pressure built up, and on november 24th 2024, they unlisted the original video (THE ONE SINGLE SINGLE PIECE OF CONTENT THE FANDOM WAS OPERATING OFF) released a statement relaying the idea that they were already burned out from the sudden surge in popularity but remained hopeful this would resolve. This was identified as a "misstep in liberal values" and she was summarily sent threats and harassment, with defenders and detractors also coming under fire.

On january 27th, every FPE related post on the creators twitter page was removed without notice. They changed their bio to "I just want to start over again" and shortly after removed that as well

On February 11th, the entire twitter page was summarily purged and she deleted every community post on her youtube channel

On February 14th, has made all of her videos private and also hid her last post on her YouTube channel, as well as changing her bio to "Fall is my favorite season🍁". Before erasing this as well.

The Satanic Fandom Process, though accelerated, has reached it's inevitable conclusion.

This is where the project currently stands. completely scuttled before it even left the harbour. Throughout all this there was never a single official episode.

Chapter 3: SATIRISM

But here is the promised subversion. Throughout this entire process, the fandom has been almost completely unreactive. The subreddit has been posting fanart of the characters without missing a SINGLE BEAT. They literally don't even care there is ZERO official content, the fandom has become the content.

https://old.reddit.com/r/FundamentalPaperEdu/comments/1iqpami/art_tips/

https://old.reddit.com/r/FundamentalPaperEdu/comments/1iqkebd/amalgamation_mx/

https://old.reddit.com/r/FundamentalPaperEdu/comments/1iqorvz/nothing_much_today_just_oliver/

https://old.reddit.com/r/FundamentalPaperEdu/comments/1iqjm8n/since_i_liked_the_last_one_lets_give_them/

https://old.reddit.com/r/FundamentalPaperEdu/comments/1iqejbr/if_fpe_fandom_make_fpe_movie/

The mods has banned talking about the fact that, y'know, THERE IS LITERALLY NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT.

And look at this

The redditors want to build a fandom off NOTHING. That was the irony of this post's image, the IMDB page is for a tv show that DOES NOT EXIST AND HAS NEVER EXISTED.

This is the punchline of the whole living joke. It's a vicious parody of earth by the world itself. There is NO content for there to be a fandom of and the cycle repeated ANYWAYS. The Satanic Fandom Process occurred to NOTHING. People were threatened over NOTHING, people were harassed over NOTHING. The reaction has BECOME THE OBJECT. It is a living, breathing, pulsating SATIRE of the entire fandom process.