![]() Attempting to go to either blog results in Tumblr's error page with the words, "There's nothing here." HBO And by Tuesday evening, that second link was dead, too, the blog seemingly deleted or deactivated. By early Tuesday afternoon, the blog title and URL had changed from thunder-kit-kat to its-nott-thatt-serious. On Tuesday morning, Twitter users began sharing the realization that the blog existed and had been pretending to be a typical fan for a long time. ![]() Here's where things started getting messy. The "kit-kat" Tumblr behaved like a normal Tumblr in that regard, posting the occasional snippet of original content along with sharing content "she" liked - meaning that content created by other bloggers was used in official HBO marketing without their knowledge or consent. Tumblr blogs are largely curated, meaning that a large amount of content (fan fic, artwork, GIFs, meta analysis, and so on) on a given blog did not originate with the blogger but with someone else from whom they reblogged it. Tumblr is unusual in that its platform mainly consists of sharing the work of others through a "reblog" feature. In this case, however, the Tumblr blog interacted with real users for several months under the guise of being just an average, real-life teenage fan, with fandoms matching those of the fictional Kat (most notably One Direction, as shown in Euphoria itself). And while some shows have "character" social media accounts, they're always clearly labelled as such and typically don't launch until right around the show's debut, so that fans can enjoy them as bonus materials but always clearly know they're fictional. Perceptive viewers took note of Kat's blog URL during the episode, thunder-kit-kat, and realized that it was actually the name of a real blog on Tumblr, purporting to belong to "Kat, 16." Here's the catch: the blog began posting in October 2018, nearly nine months before Euphoria aired. ![]() But, as it turns out, there was a lot more reality to Kat's internet past than viewers realized at the time. In the most recent episode, we learn that Kat has a history on the internet as a "Tumblr-famous" fanfic writer. HBO's Euphoria makes no qualms about being a gritty, darkly realistic telling of what teenage life can be like.
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