Granite Moths Explained

Okay, so a few of my coursemates (in particular one Chris Devey) have been asking me what the hell Granite Moths is all about. Understandably they have no idea what on Earth goes on in any of the videos I share to Facebook that aren't this blog. So here is my guide to understanding Granite Moths.

First off, we need to know exactly what Granite Moths is. It's a direct parody of the popular American webseries, Marble Hornets. Now we're going to have to go one level deeper and find out what the hell Marble Hornets is about.

Marble Hornets is centralised around the Slender Man conspiracy, if you know of it. If you don't, here's where it spawned from in today's popular culture:

See that tall bloke with no face in the background? That's Slender Man.

Apparently (although is probably only a Chinese whisper) this is the last known picture of these kids before they disappeared. People say the figure in the background snatched them.

In fact, the entire Slender Man mystery spawned from the idea of a tall man with no face snatching children in the middle of the night.

Anyway, that's the Slender Man conspiracy. Now back to Marble Hornets. Marble Hornets is a series following a character called Jay, who starts off by searching through the tapes of his old best friend, Alex Kralie. Jay soon discovers that this "Slender Man" (or "Operator" as they call him in the series) is stalking Alex, and then slowly starts to unravel the mystery.

Jay spots Alex doing strange things like filming himself constantly, in order to try and spot the Slender Man on tape. Jay then gets a bit more involved in everything, and finds himself at old shooting locations. A masked figure then starts to stalk Jay, and soon after Jay starts recording himself doing all of the things that Alex used to do. Even to the point where he starts losing memory and getting headaches, much like Alex did. Jay then decides to track down Alex and find out exactly what has been happening.

So, now we can get back to Granite Moths. As I said, it is a direct parody. The series follows a character called P, who is watching back the footage that his old best friend Alec Krayfish burned to lots of DVDs. P soon learns that Alec was being stalked by Slender Man, who in this series is portrayed by the Pink Panther.

And that's the joke. P is a mockery of J, Alec is a mockery of Alex, Masky is a mockery of the Masked Man, and so on.

Marble Hornets also has a parallel channel called totheark, which posts replies to the Marble Hornets uploads every once in a while. In response, Granite Moths has a parallel channel as well called totheRC. Why totheRC? Because RC is the acronym for RichChief, which is the company that produces Granite Moths. So it's kind of like divine influence or whatever.

So in order to completely understand Granite Moths and totheRC, you must first watch the entire three or four hours that makes up the Marble Hornets series so far.

Good.

Pete out.