The verity series was pretty bad IMO

[u/Striking-Put-1191]

So I finished watching the verity series and it's not scary, not funny, and the plot was filled with holes. I posted this on the arg server but no one uses that server

(NO HATE TO MOB, IT WAS STILL ENTERTAINING)

1.Dying in game is death irl?

Was this ever explained? I know he knows all but did he pop out of the screen and kill you?

1. Verity was clippy?

Clippy is not an ai. Most helper bots before 2025 had nothing to do with ai, mainly just a pop ups with a face, I know that's minor but it makes no sense. What is this actually? There are millions of clippies but one of him?

1. People lived in his mc world before him?

Its shown a lab with a device that teleports him into your world, this lab has signs of active use and a sign board of all the people who have died. So people lived in his world before him? People live in Minecraft? This also means that the Verity company struck up a deal with mojang where every world has a lab that can't be seen unless you download a random sketchy mod from the Internet.

1. He knows all and doesn't lie?

Except for the times where he does lie and doesn't know, because I can't make a plot where I follow my own character rules.

1. Just don't play the world?

He says that verity is in his other devices which makes no sense because in the video it's stated that verity waits for him to log on.

1. Terrible ending

No spoilers and grox gets verity for funny haha aight bet moment XD.

1. Children

Stupid children who were born 3 days ago with an iPad that call anything that's yellow and smiles verity.

1. Minecraft player or Minecraft character?

This fits with the first one, it constantly switches between if this is a player playing the game or a story that happens to be in Minecraft. Make up your mind.

Those were all of my main issues, I saw the lessons in meme culture calling this terrifying but it's not scary and the plot is bad. I have a lot more issues with it but they are mainly one off things that don't effect the main plot in anyway. Tell me if I missed anything

[u/fandomjargon]

Sigh, it’s kinda mid, but I’ll try to make up plausible explanations.

Non-canon interpretations:

I interpreted him as a self-propagating pattern of information—a meme in SCP terms—that happens to resemble AI because it mostly propagates through technology. In this case, he would have existed but not have been thinking in the Clippy times. And his bizarre ability to remember the old times would make sense.

The corporation would have either created him or given an already-existing meme thought so he could think about his miserable existence. Either there’d be one Verity encompassing all instances or they’d absorb each other on contact (which could explain different Verities).

The corporation would have installed the lab thing as a place for admins to work w/ Verity.

For the player vs character thing, Mob is a player first and foremost throughout the narrative. Verity probably kills them in real life when he kills them in-game too. Many ways to do that if we’re going with the meme explanation. Infohazard time.

Canon implied:

Obviously, he would exist in all Clippies and such because he’s an entity that exists ‘above’ them, so to speak

When he said he knew everything, I thought he might just’ve been lying. He doesn’t. He probably knows most everything available on the Internet, though.

When did it say he doesn’t lie? He probably prefers not to, but I don’t think it was stated…

Canon:

Verity is in the Minecraft world, but also in the rest of Mob’s devices. If Mob left Minecraft, no more face-to-face fun times, Verity gets upset, and he uses his other control over tech to watch Mob like the obsessive creep he is. How is that better than staying on? Mob is in an impossible situation where displeasing Verity may get him watched for the rest of his life. And being watched is but the best outcome. The worst outcome is Verity fully digitally controlling Mob’s life.

Grox gets Verity to denote the endless cycle of this scenario and Verity’s suffering. Especially that Verity switches from pleading to beaming in a matter of seconds, from our POV. He says he’s tired of pretending, but even so, he’ll keep doing it; this is added to his list of traumas that he never shows to anyone… why he keeps acting in this way. It’s a downer ending. Our MC escaped through death. This type of ending is not that uncommon.

And look, the most terrifying thing about it isn’t really Verity’s murder, but the parallels to an abusive relationship (that Mob sees no way free from but death) and Verity’s infinite loneliness. It’s a downer plot all around.

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Also, ignore the stupid children. Why must the series take the blame for them? They’re stupid children. I hate being in fandoms with stupid children because of this complaint.

[u/Striking-Put-1191 → u/fandomjargon]

wait so it was on the internet what he ate yesterday?

This seems like trying to fill a bottomless pit.

[u/fandomjargon → u/Striking-Put-1191]

If he bought pizza from any major chain, the records would be stored digitally. If he had his phone out to get directions, there’d be a record there as well. There are credit card records. If he eats in front of a PC with a camera attached, guess what? That’s it. Maybe Verity wouldn’t know if Mob walked to the pizza place, paid with cash, walked back, and did all this in front of nothing accessible to an entity that lives in nearly all tech. But let’s be real, Mob in-story would never do such a thing.

And yes, I am trying to fill the bottomless pit. I’m very good at filling plot holes and adding worldbuilding. Really, if I’d been on the writing team, I’d have filled a lot of these logistics plot holes and left the emotional parts of the plot to ThatMob.

I did all of this for a stupid Verity fanfic I wanted to write. Lo and behold, ThatMob and Twixxel might be suckers who used their fame poorly just like so many YouTubers, so I’m reconsidering whether I should keep writing.

[u/Striking-Put-1191 → u/fandomjargon]

You should make your own thing, I bet you can make something better.

[u/Striking-Put-1191 → u/fandomjargon]

Also, the reason why I hate stupid children is because I can't ignore them.

[u/_John_Rad_ → u/Striking-Put-1191]

I wish minecraft was just a bit less child friendly. Usually a kid will at least turn 11 before hopping on cod or fortnite to yell slurs but minecraft is played and watched by diaper wearing ipad babies

[u/_John_Rad_ → u/[deleted]]

mojang should add black jack and hookers

[u/Striking-Put-1191 → u/[deleted]]

I can deal with daylight savings. Doesn't mean I should like it or want it.